We are winning the meme wars, but losing politics. Trump has fucked up big time with Iran, and seems more interested in trolling people than ending wars, but it's not just that. And frankly, doc Malone, I can't believe some of your friends are serious about the 5K check. Human gullibility has no boundaries.
Don't you just love it when Trump dangles a shiny object or trolls the other side? they are gimmicks made to send the left into a tizzy and should be thought of as such. Entertainment. Pure entertainment.
I’m not a sunshine patriot. I’m just a 70 year old woman who has been lied to. I’ve been told we have won this war 30 or more times in the last 6 months but obviously no one told the Iranians this. Once again, where was our exit strategy. I was told that we’d have transparency on the JFK, RFK, MLK and most importantly Epstein files. This will (unfortunately) tell us a great deal about how the sausage has been made in DC over the decades. Somehow we have got to get to a place where the most narcissist and machiavellian among us don’t run or get elected to office. Both sides. Full stop. I want people who are going to go back and be farmers, shopkeepers etc….after their term. No million dollar book deals, no positions on defense contractor et al boards…. No more💩ing on the citizens of the United States of America.
What others pointed out this week...“Human Dignity Is Intangible”
The philosophical concept of human dignity is the foundation of today’s Western civilization—everything is subordinate to it.
"Western societies certainly do not lack writings, explanations, books, or films—nor do they lack schools, universities, and other institutions of higher learning. Paradoxically, however, our societies still lack education, courage, and living role models. They lack intellectuals and genuine personalities—role models whose character and actions the masses can use as a guide, and indeed to draw strength from in difficult times."
"Since they are virtually nonexistent, democracy is inevitably compromised. In Western society, however, democracy is exclusively understood and interpreted as a concept of party rule. The sad result: The parties control society and, consequently, themselves. No one controls the parties."
"Kant’s ideas on human dignity were the result of the intellectual movement of that era, which we call the Enlightenment. They would have been impossible without the painful experiences of one of the bloodiest wars in history, which had taken place 200 years earlier."
"Goethe’s “Faust”, one of the most philosophically debated literary works of all time—and not just in the German-speaking world—was published at virtually the same time. When the character in the “Easter Walk” says, “Here I am human; here I am free to be.”, this brief sentence takes on a significance that extends far beyond literature."
I object to blundering into a foreign country, into another unwinnable war, wasting our resources and people, earning opprobrium abroad... what happened to no more foreign adventures, what happened to putting America first? What happened to ending the war in Ukraine?
Do you seriously prefer that we allow a radical, fanatic theocracy, that has already maimed or killed thousands of Americans, to proceed to complete and launch their nuclear weapons? That is absurd.
We've been messing with the world for a long time. Has it made it better? Honestly. When I visit central Europe, my old country, they all hate America now. All the stupid color revolutions. All the economic meddling. All the grandstanding. Meanwhile, America is falling apart.
Do you seriously believe we are the policeman of the world? That we have moral superiority? I find it absurd that we claim the right to tell other countries what is acceptable. Hegemony is never a positive, and yet many Americans, apparently like yourself, have embraced it.
When was the last time you successfully prosecuted any war or armed conflict? Or even observed one. It needed to be done. Which successfully prosecuted war experienced Dem would you rather have. Especially since there is no such person. Did you like the fact that Dem presidents micromanage wars for politics? Even against their military commander's advice? Or Trump who talks to all his advisors and then tells the experts at war, here's the mission, go accomplish it. And stays the hell out of the way.
Our first and greatest President, George Washington, in his own time witnessed the millennia old problem of Europeans and Asians warring amongst themselves. With this first hand knowledge Washington in his farewell address advised all future generation of Americans to treat all other nations with benevolence and to avoid foreign entanglements. Trump, who aspires to be the greatest, needs to be so wise! With the rise of petroleum as a prime energy source, the British through British Petroleum discovered and developed Iran’s oil industry. With the assistance of the United States the people of Iran have not benefitted as they should from their natural resources of oil. For this and other reasons they have good reason to greatly dislike the United States. To claim it's just 47 years of atrocities committed by Iran is very short sighted. We need to heed George Washington's sage advice and stop meddling in other countries’ affairs. The list of United States’ meddling with deleterious outcomes is very lengthy. A recent example is how we instigated the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While I like many of Trump’s accomplishments, I had hoped he would be as wise as our first President and acted to end all foreign entanglements, bring our troops home out of harm's way, particularly from the Middle East, end giving away money to other countries and pay-off our debt.
Erin, please read "Atomic Iran" by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. It's available at World of Books for $3.68. If Iran attains nuclear capabilities, they will make the twin towers look like small potatoes.
As for the war in Ukraine, I don't believe we can control that situation. God Himself has to strike Putin to Hell. I am of Ukrainian and Russian heritage, and the Ukrainians are Cossacks. We will not give up! There is no way for Trump to intervene, other than to send arms and try to hurt Putin economically. Tough call, that one.
We should have normalized relations with Russia when the wall came down. I've no doubt the average person here in the USA would get along very well with the average Russian. There's lots to be mutually gained. Instead we demonize Russia and went back on our agreement to keep Ukraine as a neutral country and then we instigated a coup to overthrow Ukraine's popularly elected President and installed a comedian in his place. We need to stop meddling in all other countries' affairs.
Netanyahu has been claiming since 1992 that the Iranians “are just months away from having a nuclear bomb capabilities”. But like a 2 year old, if you keep crying and pestering enough someone will finally give you the sucker🍭. Bibi sold Trump a story that Iran was primed for an insurgency…strike while the coals are hot…won’t have another chance like this…(and of course stroke his ego with “you’ll be a hero”) and voila a middle eastern war. Iran has already said that they will just wait it out until Trump leaves office in 2029. They’re now just going to make things miserable for our allies in the region by bombing our bases in their countries and making them think twice about their relationships. And this is not just little Iran. China and Russia are involved in the background. This has much bigger implications.
I was under the impression that he was for military action at that time because the Iranians had 52 American hostages. To my knowledge that is not the case presently. He said, “No new wars” and especially after his 1st term, I believed him. He said, “I don’t like death. I don’t want anyone dying “. He was talking about deaths in Russia and Ukraine. I was elated. He was the first president who really seemed to understand the concept of death. Got that it had a whole ripple effect. Family, friends…I was an RN in open heart surgery for 45 years. It’s a privilege to be present when someone comes into or goes out of the world but I always wished they had been with their family. I wish this for our troops too.
Really did not mind a nuclear Iran or both Shia and Sunni proxy terrorist groups running amok? Do you think a a theocratic Islamist regime that would happily kill 40,000 of its own citizens would hesitate to use a nuke or a dirty bomb on any enemy within reach of their now proven 5000 mile ICBM. How much would gas prices be if Rome, Paris, Tel-aviv or Riyadh were struck?
No nukes, vastly degraded missle and drone capability, no air force , air defense or navy. Economic devastation, no significant oil revenue and complete isolation from their allies Russia and the CCP.
They had no nukes before, but secret nuke shenanigans. Same now. I don't know about the drones, but they seem to be still able to rain devastation on American bases and Gulf allies. Economic devastation, yes. How does that help anything? Just hurts regular Iranians, the elites still do ok. Complete isolation? Not so far.
It doesn't get fixed in a few months. So with all your vast successful war prosecutions, what does your experience tell you should be done? The one point that needs to made, the left can never argue successfully that Trump didn't give them every chance to settle this through diplomacy.
I really don't think any Ayatollah is going to set loose a nuclear weapon and bring destruction on themselves, which is exactly what would happen if they launched a nuclear weapon.
And you have that luxury. But those who take the IRGC threats seriously don’t share your sentiment. When they say death to America, I believe them. A theocratic regime that would kill 40,000 protesters and has a bomb is a scary prospect.
It is thinking like that, where you believe you know more about what the radicals will do, and completely ignore their stated intentions that they have followed time after time after time to our detriment. You need to think like them, believe what they say, becasue they don't think or believe anything like you!
I know they are human beings who understand they nuclear destruction for others is destruction for themselves. You think they don't have an inherent desire to survive?
The Dems, especially the socialists, have proven your last sentence to be so true. I wonder though. Are you impressed with the Iranian military? I am. For 47 years the world has ignored them and funded them, during which time they built proxies, tens of thousands of advanced drones missiles and rockets etc. And deployed their military for survival. Advanced nuclear parts and how to produce them. Just what do you think Iran would have developed if Trump ignored them too? How hard is it to imagine out of millions of illegals crossing the border un or poorly vetted many are fighting Iranians just waiting for the word to attack. They could even already have a nuke in this country because they wouldn't send one by rocket but smuggle it in. A much more secure way to do so. Of course we could end the war the way we ended WWII. Would you like that better. Nuclear bombs and carpet bombing?
The problem with Westerners is, they always want to reinterpret the words of the terrorist to fit our neat little way of life. That is how ISIS went from JV to a caliphate. Just one of many such examples. It's time to wake up. The West has mishandled this world for a long time. And it got us the disaster prior to Trump. The mess left to Trump to clean up wasn't going to take a few months. And so far, Trump has spent more time cleaning up the mess' after biden and his world, than doing much else. So I always like to ask, who would you like instead from the left?
The word govern hasn't been said by the left/Dems for years. They have no idea how to or where to start. And people want them in charge. Human gullibility and stupidity equal disaster.
Underestimating the resolve of theocratic lunatics is a blunder. But ,the regimen will likely falter not because of future bombing or boots on the ground but because of the complete isolation and economic devastation that the IRGC Is now facing.
Because Erin has all the expertise he would have needed to end it in a week. Like I said Erin, biden said Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine. I guess that fact is just a slip of your mind.
The Ukraine war started February 24, 2022. biden was in office until January 20, 2025, 3 years Erin.
What do you want leaders to say, well, I might end it in 5 years or it could take a lot longer. How would that go over with then populace?
Why don't you drop your hate and actually apply yourself to real thinking and not just partisan gibberish.
He may have been wrong. But then again, didn't biden say Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine? This isn't Trump's war to stop. It is biden's. If he did great, If not, it's Biden's to eat. Heaven forbid you blame the one who deserves it.
I'm sick and tired of EVERYONE repeating the LEFT'S talking points instead of focusing of ALL that MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT has done‼️‼️
ALL I SEE IS SO MUCH OPPOSITION AND I SEE HOW THE LEFT IS ALREADY CELEBRATING THEIR MIDTERM VICTORIES.
The fact that the left has successfully turned many of the sunshine patriots away is MORE THAN I CAN STAND FROM A SUBSTACK GROUP THAT I THOUGHT WAS MORE RATIONAL AND NOT SUSCEPTIBLE TO BEING MANIPULATED ⁉️‼️⁉️
I NEED TO STOP MY DEALINGS WITH THESE PEOPLE OF LITTLE FAITH BEFORE MY BP BLOWS THROUGH THE ROOF‼️
If you want wall to wall celebration of what Trump has done, follow Jeff Childers. He does a great job of that.
Here, we talk more broadly, and I am not gonna be a sycophant for anyone. Loyal people criticize, because they want to see improvement. Sycophants just cheer no matter what.
Upon seeing more of your replies on this Substack, I want to know if the good doctors Malone died and put you in charge of dictating what a person should respond on this substack‼️‼️
Maybe because you didn't grow up in this country, you just aren't aware that most of us in this culture live by the axiom: If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all‼️‼️‼️
Where did pallets of cash diplomacy get us or the billions from lifted oil sanctions get us? The situation demanded immediate action. The strategy has evolved as it does in every complicated action.When in history was every hurdle is foreseen?
I don’t know. He had a lot of baggage that made him a liability (drifting toward the USSR) and remember we weren’t the only actors on the stage at that time. The Brits and French all played likely regrettable roles.
Everything in those days was about the Soviet American rivalry, and screw the actual people. I have a feeling that the meddling led directly to the Ayatollahs. Through an idiot shah who thought you could just force modernity on his people.
It's really agonizing to think of what if. The Democrats were on the run. Their moneybag, the USAID, was going to get defunded. The Department of Education was about to get abolished. The border was getting closed. There was a real hope of turning the country around. Then Trump decided to become Netanyahu's boy toy and it all fell apart. He stabbed his actual supporters in the back and courted the favor of sworn never-Trumpers like Lindsay Graham. The only hope we have now is that President AOC's Woke 2.0 will be not quite as crazy as Woke 1.0.
Washington Is Dismantling Its Own Empire One War at a Time — Robert Barnes
"Attorney and political commentator Robert Barnes joins former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to examine how the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the weaponization of the dollar and a succession of strategic miscalculations are reshaping the international order. From the growing alignment of Russia, China and Iran to mounting pressure on U.S. markets and domestic politics, they ask whether the system built to preserve American primacy has begun to work against itself."
Feedstock Is Not Fuel: Why Venezuelan Crude Cannot Fix the Diesel and Jet Shortage
"The shortage that bites right now is in product — diesel and jet fuel — and extra-heavy Venezuelan crude is not product. It is refinery feedstock. You cannot relieve a middle-distillate shortage with a barrel that still has to be diluted, blended, upgraded, coked, and hydroprocessed before it yields a usable gallon of anything."
"Independent trade analysts have reached the identical diagnosis the correspondents did: the world is not short of crude in the traditional sense; it is short of the capacity to refine crude into diesel and jet."
"The global crisis originated in the loss of tradable middle-distillate supply and refining margin; the United States suffered no national collapse in crude availability or refinery output; its highly utilized system became the world’s principal balancing supplier; and record export pull is transmitting global scarcity into falling domestic inventories, higher replacement costs, and squeezed regional margins. Heavy-sour re-sourcing and SPR exchanges kept the refineries running — but they did nothing to restore the missing global product-balancing capacity."
Downplaying Osama bin Laden: In interviews around that time, including with PBS Frontline, Johnson argued that U.S. officials over-hyped Osama bin Laden as an omnipotent "superman". He maintained that Bin Laden lacked the reach or financial resources to run a highly sophisticated global network and functioned strictly as an ideological figurehead rather than an operational mastermind.
Osama bin Laden was a smoke screen, 911 was the result of the One world Government efforts to pass things like the Patriot Act Surveillance state and to change the Middle East conditions, the Airplanes were smoke screens and along with some squid explosive. Everything was needed to draw attention away from Molecular Dissociation Energy weapon. 911 was needed like FDR needed Pearl Harbor, etc.
See:
What really happen on 9-11 by Dr. Judy Wood: See videos
S O N A R also stands for “The Son of the New American Revolution.” Larry’s American ancestry began well before the war for independence, and includes a number of illustrious freedom-loving individuals active in that founding era.
Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor, he has provided training for the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years.
Since its founding in 1998, Larry has been managing partner of BERG (Business Exposure Reduction Group) Associates LLC, which specializes in investigating money laundering and counterfeit products, as well as providing financial analysis and counter terror strategy.
Larry was a frequent guest on all major US networks from the 1990s to the late 2000s, but made the “mistake” of consistently offering candid insights and honest assessments, without deferring to establishment bias. As waging “Forever Wars” became the singular policy objective of 90% of the nation’s elected officials, and of the entire media, those voices offering independent and unbiased analysis were relegated to the wilderness, Larry’s along with them.
Vilified by the establishment right, left and center, Larry must be doing something right. His take on global security, intelligence and geopolitics is regularly sought by businesses, by non-mainstream media, and by an organic and growing online cooperative of non-partisan dissident journalism and commentary.
In 2024, Larry addressed the United Nations Security Council, and attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). He appears regularly on various news sites, video blogs and independent online channels, including Sputnik, RT, Judging Freedom, Redacted and The Duran, among many others.
You and I don’t know what we don’t know on the nuke discussion we can either trust or distrust based on our own biases. If we destroyed hypothetically 80-90% of their capabilities ,drone or missile, then they’d still have a significant number to deploy. The hurting Iranian population at some point will say no more, the case in point is the highly active Kurdish militias in the mountainous North of Iran. Unless one diligently searches, they will fine no discussion of the kinetic activity directed against the IRGC.
He has NOT failed in Iran, you are just not patient enough or informed enough to see the big picture. Probably why this splintering is occurring. People want everything fed to them off a silver platter. A meeting of die hard conservatives that cant even agree that perhaps as a human being that Trump is becoming desperate enough to appeal to the lazy conservative to get off their caboose and REALIZE that we are voting for the survival of the world. Can ANYONE here imagine what the world might be like with the City of London and its proxies controlling the world (Iran, DSA, et.al)? What us happening in Iran is a systematic destruction of a regime bent on controlling the world and wiping out Western Civilization. Trump is dismantling a system that has been built over 47 years of stockpiling munitions. Nothing is "fucked up" in Iran, everyone who believes that in their heart wants the world on the leash of the globalists. BEWARE. See Prometheanaction.com if you have the courage to put the pieces together.
It used to be a chicken in every pot! Bribery at its worst! Sound fiscal policy does not exist! Every body should buy a wheelbarrow to carry the fiat paper of little value!
Sanctuary; a holy or sacred place; or a place where protection and shelter are provided.
One thing over the years I’ve learned there are certain things we just can not accomplish on our own. For so many reasons we need each other. We can be good by ourselves but we can’t be great by ourselves. When we come together as a body of believers, united in faith, there’s something that happens that you can’t get on your own. We draw strength from each other. It’s good to worship on your own, it’s important to pray by yourself, but something happens corporately that doesn’t happen individually. This is why David said “let us magnify the Lord together”. There is power in connectivity. Your faith mixed with everybody else’s faith creates something powerful. I would argue the same power happens in the political realm. And be assured, people notice when people of faith join together and become one. The enemy, and many who have a lust for power, fear groups of faith.
There is power in connectivity. Your faith makes me stronger. Your praise is helping fight my battles. Your smile brings me joy. When we come together it’s not only refueling you but it’s helping others. Don’t think “I don’t need to come”, “I’m doing fine”. Maybe you should come to help others. We all need to be around a community of faith.
I can’t tell you how many times someone has said thanks for helping me, thanks for listening. I think how many times people have listened to me. How many times people helped me through a tough time. How many positive connections I’ve made because of others.
We are living in a time where almost every week there’s a terrible tragedy. School shootings, people driving cars into innocent people, viruses that are hard to contain, floods, hurricanes. By ourselves we’re strong but together we’re unstoppable. By ourselves we’ll get through the difficulty but together we’ll come out better. When we’re in unity, connected with other believers, you will see unexpected favor. You’ll see sudden turn arounds.
Notice a tree that stands alone in a field gets ravaged by the storm, but in a forest the trees protect one another. In the forest, the roots interlock beneath the surface which creates an unbreakable, invisible shield. So when the wind blows it’s not blowing against one tree it’s blowing against thousands of trees. A tree in the forest has the strength of the whole forest.
When you’re planted in the house of the Lord your roots get connected to my roots and their roots. Before long you have a support system that cannot be shaken. When the storms come, what would’ve normally blown you over by yourself, can not, because you’re connected to others. We’re all here to stabilize you, to steady you, to encourage you. For that storm to take you out it would have to take all of us out, and that’s not possible. When we’re all connected together we can’t be defeated, together we’re powerful. Stay connected and know together in unity we are the majority, together we can’t be defeated.
Amen. There will be a nationwide rosary on Sunday October 4 at 4pm ET (also a rally in Washington DC). If you aren’t Catholic, say your own prayer for the delivery of this nation from evil if you prefer. Let’s get all Christians (and even agnostics) to join together. In 1571 Christian joined with Pope Pius V in saying the rosary and defeating the invading Turkish forces that greatly outnumbered the Christians. We can do this again.
Greetings from the Thumb Coast of Michigan! Yesterday, I enjoyed the privilege and the pleasure of attending a five-hour planning meeting of the church of which I am a member.
We b broke into five groups, each representing a component of our internal structure. Our assignment: determine the strengths and weaknesses of our assigned area. When we re-assembled, following three hours of discussions and identifying goals, we discovered that each group independently had arrived at the same goal, and had listed the objectives/necessary steps to reach the goal: OUTREACH to the community in which we are sited! Talk about "sharing the spirit!" The excitement of going forward, I pray, will become contagious throughout the congregation as the results of yesterday's work are shared and our walk forward will bear the fruits to enlarge our ministry and family of faith. Rath De Ort!
I often ask Leftists who are enamored of the DEI virus (which came directly from Lenin and especially Stalin) to articulate the sinews of that communitarian model more completely and beautifully than St. Paul did - especially in Corinthians - in his metaphor of “The Body of Christ”.
If they haven’t run away, I ask them how their top-down, forceful, heart-avoiding approach worked when they successfully applied it on a small-scale such as family or faculty. Now they run.
Amen 🙏 Connection to other believers is KEY to staying grounded! Trusting in the Lord and listening to the Holy Spirit guides us! Praying 🙏 for our world 🌎
I like to think of Trump Dividend as alternative to Dem’s bribes which will cost American people much more than $5000! Vote for Republicans like your life as you know it depends on it.
I had a discussion with a 3 time Trump voter like myself recently. My friend said he’s pissed at Trump for the Iranian conflict. I responded that I don’t have the same intelligence as the Commander in Chief, so I must trust the man we voted for to clean up the Obama Biden worldwide fiasco. I asked if he preferred the Obama Biden agreement to allow Iran a nuclear weapon and agree it’s ok Biden broke his oath to defend and protect our borders? Are you ok that Biden allowed China to navigate a spy balloon across our nation? I certainly support our President and his cabinet and fear the day the DSA has more squad members in Congress. They will tie up valuable time attempting to impeach him again. He only has 2 more years in office.
He said well, you’re right, Trump was put through hell in his first term, again when they attempted to jail him, so he’s the strongest president in my lifetime.
Will you campaign for him he asked? I will and I’ll volunteer to be a poll watcher again this year. What have you done to support our president? Just bitch about things that don’t really matter or things the president can’t actually decree? Our national security is number one! Let’s talk about his accomplishments.
Let's win the elections in November and hold off the crazy commies for 2 more years. People have short memories and have forgotten how bad it was just 2 short years ago under the demoncrats.
When I heard about the $5,000 I involuntarily did an eye roll. To me, it broadcasted the level of desperation Trump must be experiencing - which gives a whiff of failure. I will vote in November, not to support Trump, but to vote against open borders, wealth taxes (even if I'm not wealthy), and the Democrats' unified obstructionist behavior (which if they win, would start with impeachment).
I would call it a $5,000 gift, made possible (according to today's mailing from the White House) "by the trillions of dollars in economic development, investment, and new manufacturing activity flowing into the United States" under Trump's second term. The announcement framed the dividend as the direct return to the American people of the wealth being created by the America First economic agenda.
A dose of reality. The polls don't show that Republicans will vote for Democrats in the midterms. They show the frustration of campaign promises kept and not kept. People saying the are not MAGA now is also an expression of that. I think people are trying to tune up President Trump and the whole administration. We all know that the Socialist Democrats of America is a soft term for Communists, and a return to the Biden years of Idiocracy, theft, and open borders.
Everyone would love an extra 5 grand, in hard times and that may stimulate the economy for a while, but, will it pay down credit card debt, mortgages, car loans. student loans??? The Covid money sent out didn't. I guess I would like to see it pull back the national debt by a Trillion and a half, and set a precedent toward reversing and eliminating as much national debt as possible. That will do more to save our economy, our future generations, and really Make America Great Again.
Got one of the scare ads from the Republicans telling me that marxism is on the ballot. Actually, it has been there in every election to some degree since the election of fdr.
Agree to a point. Wilson stereotype progressive, i.e. socialist. Fdrwent much further. We now know his administration was riddled with Soviet agents and at Malta sold out e. europe to uncle joe. So safe to say he took. progressivism to new heights
An extra $5000 to each adult will increase the national debt at a time when we need to be pulling in the reins. To promise money to everyone if the Republicans win at the midterms is just showing how idiotic Trump can be when he doesn't think before he speaks. For an intelligent man, he does some pretty stupid things.
Trump's ego has always been a problem. His staff have to work on reigning it in (if they can). I think a lot of his assessments about what needs to be done about securing our future have been excellent. He jeopardizes that when he speaks from his ego and his disdain for the fake media that is always trying to bring him down and at best praise him with faint damn. As this Sunday strip notes, we need to hold the republican seats to not flip the house as so often happens during midterms, even though we will be holding our noses while we vote for some of them. God help us!
Trump cannot be serious about these $5,000 checks. It is a galactically stupid idea. We are already getting crushed by inflation slapping trillions in fresh liquidity directly onto a overheated money supply is economic arson.
Is it the wrong movie, wrong century? I feel like i am living in the wrong era! It is insane two self-serving promoters, a bartender and a rapper running things in NYC. My free newsletter today barbaracharis.substack.com ... "A world Gone Crazy."; and no one is asking why? I have given it a great deal of thought and come up with some answers.
Anger and resentment.. being tired and lots of work to do as farmers, journalists, medical specialists.. yet helping millions of Americans through the pandemic is a wonderful service and very much appreciated and admired..
While we might not agree on his approach on the economy.. I would rather give a businessman and 2 years to continue the efforts that’s been started..
Listing Trump’s accomplishments since January 2025 could fill a room.. From Venezuela, to reducing crime, closing borders and fighting world terrorism mostly alone.. DOGE, waste, fraud.. corruption.. Things we never would have known if Trump weren’t our President..
He ain’t perfect.. he’s egotistical and self promoting.. but without him we are dead in the water right now..
"Difficult things are never easy." (yogi berra I think) I like the idea of a $5,000 dividend. Just because something hasn't yet happened doesn't mean it won't. Remember he conditioned it upon the House and the Senate winning majorities...Because his agenda will have (hopefully) an easier time getting through Congress. IMHO, President Trump truly intends on giving some sort of monetary something to the working class who have been so screwed over by previous administrations including the recent and worst of all, the Biden admin. The reason we haven't yet had the tariff dividend is because The Supreme Court didn't allow the administration's choice of how to begin tariffs, we had to pay all the gains back. Fortunately Kavanaugh laid out other ways which are being implemented now. Big things take big time. I may be wrong, and I cant find the info now (scowl) and I'm in a hurry, but I've heard three different reports that US CITIZEN TAXPAYER MONEY WILL NOT BE USED for the dividend: (1) new tariff income, 2) money recovered from Fraud, 3) someplace that will end up being the "Sovereign Wealth Fund. I am reminded of Habakkuk 2.3, "For the vision is a witness for the appointed time, a testimony to the end; it will not disappoint. If it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late."
I don’t recall Trump promising a DOGE or tariff refund check to each person. We all receive a refund via massive cuts in waste, fraud and abuse. That’s more money in the Treasury, less tax we have to pay. Same with the tariffs, filling our coffers with funds we did not have previously. I think most of working America deserves the $5000 check. People have been working their butts off, paying taxes for decades, only to learn that most most of it has been going to “learing” centers, Medicare and Medicaid scams, and to purchase high-end luxury vehicles for SNAP recipients. I hear a lot of ungrateful sniping and complaining about Trump, but no solutions that would yield better results.
Spot on. This is not a bribe if it applies to everyone. The only stipulation I would enforce is that it goes to only people who have filed a tax return.
I think the $5,000 is/was ill advised. If someone suggested it, they should immediately be dispatched. Should the Ds prevail, I can just see them gleefully approving it.
Among my fav memes
Canuk geese converted
The wlf with her Rwf labeling
As for the LC decenting juror -
having seen the report LC is MAGA and the juror has been doxed -
I'm glad to see DeSantis has offered him safe harbor. Its hard to imagine how the islamocrats could be more despicable.
One other observation - I am more than sick and tired of the legion of solicitations I'm getting under the guises of wanting my opinion and whether I will get the various payouts. Liars all!
Keeping Rush L's advice in mind - many/most of the polls at this point aim to influence public sentiment. He'd often dig down into the particulars to illustrate his points.
We are winning the meme wars, but losing politics. Trump has fucked up big time with Iran, and seems more interested in trolling people than ending wars, but it's not just that. And frankly, doc Malone, I can't believe some of your friends are serious about the 5K check. Human gullibility has no boundaries.
Actually - just one at the party. The rest of us weren't buying it.
Don't you just love it when Trump dangles a shiny object or trolls the other side? they are gimmicks made to send the left into a tizzy and should be thought of as such. Entertainment. Pure entertainment.
You get it.
Sadly 😥 the others are sunshine patriots.
I’m not a sunshine patriot. I’m just a 70 year old woman who has been lied to. I’ve been told we have won this war 30 or more times in the last 6 months but obviously no one told the Iranians this. Once again, where was our exit strategy. I was told that we’d have transparency on the JFK, RFK, MLK and most importantly Epstein files. This will (unfortunately) tell us a great deal about how the sausage has been made in DC over the decades. Somehow we have got to get to a place where the most narcissist and machiavellian among us don’t run or get elected to office. Both sides. Full stop. I want people who are going to go back and be farmers, shopkeepers etc….after their term. No million dollar book deals, no positions on defense contractor et al boards…. No more💩ing on the citizens of the United States of America.
What others pointed out this week...“Human Dignity Is Intangible”
The philosophical concept of human dignity is the foundation of today’s Western civilization—everything is subordinate to it.
"Western societies certainly do not lack writings, explanations, books, or films—nor do they lack schools, universities, and other institutions of higher learning. Paradoxically, however, our societies still lack education, courage, and living role models. They lack intellectuals and genuine personalities—role models whose character and actions the masses can use as a guide, and indeed to draw strength from in difficult times."
"Since they are virtually nonexistent, democracy is inevitably compromised. In Western society, however, democracy is exclusively understood and interpreted as a concept of party rule. The sad result: The parties control society and, consequently, themselves. No one controls the parties."
"Kant’s ideas on human dignity were the result of the intellectual movement of that era, which we call the Enlightenment. They would have been impossible without the painful experiences of one of the bloodiest wars in history, which had taken place 200 years earlier."
"Goethe’s “Faust”, one of the most philosophically debated literary works of all time—and not just in the German-speaking world—was published at virtually the same time. When the character in the “Easter Walk” says, “Here I am human; here I am free to be.”, this brief sentence takes on a significance that extends far beyond literature."
https://sonar21.com/human-dignity-is-intangible-really/
I know... but still. Shocking. Being one of yours.
I think you are wrong on Iran - the nuclear problem is real.
Maybe so. How is this fixing it?
I object to blundering into a foreign country, into another unwinnable war, wasting our resources and people, earning opprobrium abroad... what happened to no more foreign adventures, what happened to putting America first? What happened to ending the war in Ukraine?
Do you seriously prefer that we allow a radical, fanatic theocracy, that has already maimed or killed thousands of Americans, to proceed to complete and launch their nuclear weapons? That is absurd.
We've been messing with the world for a long time. Has it made it better? Honestly. When I visit central Europe, my old country, they all hate America now. All the stupid color revolutions. All the economic meddling. All the grandstanding. Meanwhile, America is falling apart.
Nuclear protection we can all get behind. But Trump needed to get in and get out fast. He must have gotten some very bad militaryadvice.
Do you seriously believe we are the policeman of the world? That we have moral superiority? I find it absurd that we claim the right to tell other countries what is acceptable. Hegemony is never a positive, and yet many Americans, apparently like yourself, have embraced it.
When was the last time you successfully prosecuted any war or armed conflict? Or even observed one. It needed to be done. Which successfully prosecuted war experienced Dem would you rather have. Especially since there is no such person. Did you like the fact that Dem presidents micromanage wars for politics? Even against their military commander's advice? Or Trump who talks to all his advisors and then tells the experts at war, here's the mission, go accomplish it. And stays the hell out of the way.
EXACTLY ‼️‼️‼️
Our first and greatest President, George Washington, in his own time witnessed the millennia old problem of Europeans and Asians warring amongst themselves. With this first hand knowledge Washington in his farewell address advised all future generation of Americans to treat all other nations with benevolence and to avoid foreign entanglements. Trump, who aspires to be the greatest, needs to be so wise! With the rise of petroleum as a prime energy source, the British through British Petroleum discovered and developed Iran’s oil industry. With the assistance of the United States the people of Iran have not benefitted as they should from their natural resources of oil. For this and other reasons they have good reason to greatly dislike the United States. To claim it's just 47 years of atrocities committed by Iran is very short sighted. We need to heed George Washington's sage advice and stop meddling in other countries’ affairs. The list of United States’ meddling with deleterious outcomes is very lengthy. A recent example is how we instigated the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While I like many of Trump’s accomplishments, I had hoped he would be as wise as our first President and acted to end all foreign entanglements, bring our troops home out of harm's way, particularly from the Middle East, end giving away money to other countries and pay-off our debt.
Erin, please read "Atomic Iran" by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. It's available at World of Books for $3.68. If Iran attains nuclear capabilities, they will make the twin towers look like small potatoes.
As for the war in Ukraine, I don't believe we can control that situation. God Himself has to strike Putin to Hell. I am of Ukrainian and Russian heritage, and the Ukrainians are Cossacks. We will not give up! There is no way for Trump to intervene, other than to send arms and try to hurt Putin economically. Tough call, that one.
We should have normalized relations with Russia when the wall came down. I've no doubt the average person here in the USA would get along very well with the average Russian. There's lots to be mutually gained. Instead we demonize Russia and went back on our agreement to keep Ukraine as a neutral country and then we instigated a coup to overthrow Ukraine's popularly elected President and installed a comedian in his place. We need to stop meddling in all other countries' affairs.
Cain't see the forest for the trees...
Netanyahu has been claiming since 1992 that the Iranians “are just months away from having a nuclear bomb capabilities”. But like a 2 year old, if you keep crying and pestering enough someone will finally give you the sucker🍭. Bibi sold Trump a story that Iran was primed for an insurgency…strike while the coals are hot…won’t have another chance like this…(and of course stroke his ego with “you’ll be a hero”) and voila a middle eastern war. Iran has already said that they will just wait it out until Trump leaves office in 2029. They’re now just going to make things miserable for our allies in the region by bombing our bases in their countries and making them think twice about their relationships. And this is not just little Iran. China and Russia are involved in the background. This has much bigger implications.
If I'm not mistaken, Trump’s stance on Iran has remained the same since 1980 before Bibi.
I was under the impression that he was for military action at that time because the Iranians had 52 American hostages. To my knowledge that is not the case presently. He said, “No new wars” and especially after his 1st term, I believed him. He said, “I don’t like death. I don’t want anyone dying “. He was talking about deaths in Russia and Ukraine. I was elated. He was the first president who really seemed to understand the concept of death. Got that it had a whole ripple effect. Family, friends…I was an RN in open heart surgery for 45 years. It’s a privilege to be present when someone comes into or goes out of the world but I always wished they had been with their family. I wish this for our troops too.
The “like” isn’t responding.
?? It worked?!?
Really did not mind a nuclear Iran or both Shia and Sunni proxy terrorist groups running amok? Do you think a a theocratic Islamist regime that would happily kill 40,000 of its own citizens would hesitate to use a nuke or a dirty bomb on any enemy within reach of their now proven 5000 mile ICBM. How much would gas prices be if Rome, Paris, Tel-aviv or Riyadh were struck?
Ok. Now tell me how Trump has fixed that.
No nukes, vastly degraded missle and drone capability, no air force , air defense or navy. Economic devastation, no significant oil revenue and complete isolation from their allies Russia and the CCP.
They had no nukes before, but secret nuke shenanigans. Same now. I don't know about the drones, but they seem to be still able to rain devastation on American bases and Gulf allies. Economic devastation, yes. How does that help anything? Just hurts regular Iranians, the elites still do ok. Complete isolation? Not so far.
And the theocracy is intact.
Economic devastation is a fix? Tell that to all the Iranians who just want to live their lives.
It doesn't get fixed in a few months. So with all your vast successful war prosecutions, what does your experience tell you should be done? The one point that needs to made, the left can never argue successfully that Trump didn't give them every chance to settle this through diplomacy.
No vast experience. History has to be the teacher. Don’t repeat the mistakes of the past as is our habit.
I really don't think any Ayatollah is going to set loose a nuclear weapon and bring destruction on themselves, which is exactly what would happen if they launched a nuclear weapon.
And you have that luxury. But those who take the IRGC threats seriously don’t share your sentiment. When they say death to America, I believe them. A theocratic regime that would kill 40,000 protesters and has a bomb is a scary prospect.
Islam is a death cult. Lots of folks don't understand that part...
It is thinking like that, where you believe you know more about what the radicals will do, and completely ignore their stated intentions that they have followed time after time after time to our detriment. You need to think like them, believe what they say, becasue they don't think or believe anything like you!
I know they are human beings who understand they nuclear destruction for others is destruction for themselves. You think they don't have an inherent desire to survive?
That's spoken from your own common sense, Joy--a quality mostly lacking among the Ayatollahs.
How do you know that? It's what we've been spoon fed for decades but that doesn't make it true.
The Dems, especially the socialists, have proven your last sentence to be so true. I wonder though. Are you impressed with the Iranian military? I am. For 47 years the world has ignored them and funded them, during which time they built proxies, tens of thousands of advanced drones missiles and rockets etc. And deployed their military for survival. Advanced nuclear parts and how to produce them. Just what do you think Iran would have developed if Trump ignored them too? How hard is it to imagine out of millions of illegals crossing the border un or poorly vetted many are fighting Iranians just waiting for the word to attack. They could even already have a nuke in this country because they wouldn't send one by rocket but smuggle it in. A much more secure way to do so. Of course we could end the war the way we ended WWII. Would you like that better. Nuclear bombs and carpet bombing?
The problem with Westerners is, they always want to reinterpret the words of the terrorist to fit our neat little way of life. That is how ISIS went from JV to a caliphate. Just one of many such examples. It's time to wake up. The West has mishandled this world for a long time. And it got us the disaster prior to Trump. The mess left to Trump to clean up wasn't going to take a few months. And so far, Trump has spent more time cleaning up the mess' after biden and his world, than doing much else. So I always like to ask, who would you like instead from the left?
The word govern hasn't been said by the left/Dems for years. They have no idea how to or where to start. And people want them in charge. Human gullibility and stupidity equal disaster.
The Dems can’t even govern a city without letting it fall apart…
Yeah, Iran has done better than I would have predicted. But then, what do I know….
You don't.
Promised he'd end the Ukraine War. Didn't.
Promised he'd avoid engaging in protracted Middle East conflicts. Did.
Well, he said he'd end it overnight. Remember?
Bluster and bullshit is fun when you are campaigning, but not when you are president.
Underestimating the resolve of theocratic lunatics is a blunder. But ,the regimen will likely falter not because of future bombing or boots on the ground but because of the complete isolation and economic devastation that the IRGC Is now facing.
Could be. But I am not holding my breath. The age of gunboat diplomacy is long over.
Because Erin has all the expertise he would have needed to end it in a week. Like I said Erin, biden said Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine. I guess that fact is just a slip of your mind.
The Ukraine war started February 24, 2022. biden was in office until January 20, 2025, 3 years Erin.
What do you want leaders to say, well, I might end it in 5 years or it could take a lot longer. How would that go over with then populace?
Why don't you drop your hate and actually apply yourself to real thinking and not just partisan gibberish.
He may have been wrong. But then again, didn't biden say Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine? This isn't Trump's war to stop. It is biden's. If he did great, If not, it's Biden's to eat. Heaven forbid you blame the one who deserves it.
Of course it is. And Obama’s. But that’s last year’s snow. Gotta stop it. Slavs wholesale killing Slavs and people get rich off it.
Obama was a perfect example to disprove your ideas. Quit ducking and pay attention. You seem smart enough to drop the partisan gibberish
I'm sick and tired of EVERYONE repeating the LEFT'S talking points instead of focusing of ALL that MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT has done‼️‼️
ALL I SEE IS SO MUCH OPPOSITION AND I SEE HOW THE LEFT IS ALREADY CELEBRATING THEIR MIDTERM VICTORIES.
The fact that the left has successfully turned many of the sunshine patriots away is MORE THAN I CAN STAND FROM A SUBSTACK GROUP THAT I THOUGHT WAS MORE RATIONAL AND NOT SUSCEPTIBLE TO BEING MANIPULATED ⁉️‼️⁉️
I NEED TO STOP MY DEALINGS WITH THESE PEOPLE OF LITTLE FAITH BEFORE MY BP BLOWS THROUGH THE ROOF‼️
Please stop shouting.
If you want wall to wall celebration of what Trump has done, follow Jeff Childers. He does a great job of that.
Here, we talk more broadly, and I am not gonna be a sycophant for anyone. Loyal people criticize, because they want to see improvement. Sycophants just cheer no matter what.
Upon seeing more of your replies on this Substack, I want to know if the good doctors Malone died and put you in charge of dictating what a person should respond on this substack‼️‼️
Maybe because you didn't grow up in this country, you just aren't aware that most of us in this culture live by the axiom: If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all‼️‼️‼️
There is a BIG difference between CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and DISRUPTIVE criticism ‼️‼️‼️
I USE CAPITALIZED TEXT FOR EMPHASIS‼️‼️
I know that you sycophants have bought into the narrative about capitalization is SHOUTING‼️‼️‼️
Where did pallets of cash diplomacy get us or the billions from lifted oil sanctions get us? The situation demanded immediate action. The strategy has evolved as it does in every complicated action.When in history was every hurdle is foreseen?
You figure we shoulda left them alone when they elected Mosaddegh?
How about the UN taking action. That is what they were made for!
I have NO trust in the UN, support our pulling out and having them relocate elsewhere!
My stepmother used to work for them. She said they were thouroughtly corrupt and pretty useless even back then.
I don’t know. He had a lot of baggage that made him a liability (drifting toward the USSR) and remember we weren’t the only actors on the stage at that time. The Brits and French all played likely regrettable roles.
It’s good to have spirited dialogue that doesn’t devolve to inflammatory aspersions. Well done.
Everything in those days was about the Soviet American rivalry, and screw the actual people. I have a feeling that the meddling led directly to the Ayatollahs. Through an idiot shah who thought you could just force modernity on his people.
It's really agonizing to think of what if. The Democrats were on the run. Their moneybag, the USAID, was going to get defunded. The Department of Education was about to get abolished. The border was getting closed. There was a real hope of turning the country around. Then Trump decided to become Netanyahu's boy toy and it all fell apart. He stabbed his actual supporters in the back and courted the favor of sworn never-Trumpers like Lindsay Graham. The only hope we have now is that President AOC's Woke 2.0 will be not quite as crazy as Woke 1.0.
Sure looks that way, doesn’t it? And now we are going to midterms with prices of everything skyrocketing. Like covid did not do enough damage.
Washington Is Dismantling Its Own Empire One War at a Time — Robert Barnes
"Attorney and political commentator Robert Barnes joins former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to examine how the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the weaponization of the dollar and a succession of strategic miscalculations are reshaping the international order. From the growing alignment of Russia, China and Iran to mounting pressure on U.S. markets and domestic politics, they ask whether the system built to preserve American primacy has begun to work against itself."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71wcFAAVa0Q
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Feedstock Is Not Fuel: Why Venezuelan Crude Cannot Fix the Diesel and Jet Shortage
"The shortage that bites right now is in product — diesel and jet fuel — and extra-heavy Venezuelan crude is not product. It is refinery feedstock. You cannot relieve a middle-distillate shortage with a barrel that still has to be diluted, blended, upgraded, coked, and hydroprocessed before it yields a usable gallon of anything."
"Independent trade analysts have reached the identical diagnosis the correspondents did: the world is not short of crude in the traditional sense; it is short of the capacity to refine crude into diesel and jet."
"The global crisis originated in the loss of tradable middle-distillate supply and refining margin; the United States suffered no national collapse in crude availability or refinery output; its highly utilized system became the world’s principal balancing supplier; and record export pull is transmitting global scarcity into falling domestic inventories, higher replacement costs, and squeezed regional margins. Heavy-sour re-sourcing and SPR exchanges kept the refineries running — but they did nothing to restore the missing global product-balancing capacity."
https://sonar21.com/americas-diesel-paradox-a-shortage-it-is-supplying-not-suffering/
States then guy who worked for one of the major intelligence agencies that missed all the Red flags for 9/11.
Downplaying Osama bin Laden: In interviews around that time, including with PBS Frontline, Johnson argued that U.S. officials over-hyped Osama bin Laden as an omnipotent "superman". He maintained that Bin Laden lacked the reach or financial resources to run a highly sophisticated global network and functioned strictly as an ideological figurehead rather than an operational mastermind.
Osama bin Laden was a smoke screen, 911 was the result of the One world Government efforts to pass things like the Patriot Act Surveillance state and to change the Middle East conditions, the Airplanes were smoke screens and along with some squid explosive. Everything was needed to draw attention away from Molecular Dissociation Energy weapon. 911 was needed like FDR needed Pearl Harbor, etc.
See:
What really happen on 9-11 by Dr. Judy Wood: See videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NFKJKFZX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZJZRxBrS4I
At 9-11:
1400 Toasted Cars “Located blocks from the WTC buildings, with door
handles missing, engine blocks missing, blistering on some parts of
the car finish, strange rust patterns on the bodies of the cars.”
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/newjohnson.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/johnson.html
S O N A R also stands for “The Son of the New American Revolution.” Larry’s American ancestry began well before the war for independence, and includes a number of illustrious freedom-loving individuals active in that founding era.
Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor, he has provided training for the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years.
Since its founding in 1998, Larry has been managing partner of BERG (Business Exposure Reduction Group) Associates LLC, which specializes in investigating money laundering and counterfeit products, as well as providing financial analysis and counter terror strategy.
Larry was a frequent guest on all major US networks from the 1990s to the late 2000s, but made the “mistake” of consistently offering candid insights and honest assessments, without deferring to establishment bias. As waging “Forever Wars” became the singular policy objective of 90% of the nation’s elected officials, and of the entire media, those voices offering independent and unbiased analysis were relegated to the wilderness, Larry’s along with them.
Vilified by the establishment right, left and center, Larry must be doing something right. His take on global security, intelligence and geopolitics is regularly sought by businesses, by non-mainstream media, and by an organic and growing online cooperative of non-partisan dissident journalism and commentary.
In 2024, Larry addressed the United Nations Security Council, and attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). He appears regularly on various news sites, video blogs and independent online channels, including Sputnik, RT, Judging Freedom, Redacted and The Duran, among many others.
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You and I don’t know what we don’t know on the nuke discussion we can either trust or distrust based on our own biases. If we destroyed hypothetically 80-90% of their capabilities ,drone or missile, then they’d still have a significant number to deploy. The hurting Iranian population at some point will say no more, the case in point is the highly active Kurdish militias in the mountainous North of Iran. Unless one diligently searches, they will fine no discussion of the kinetic activity directed against the IRGC.
He has NOT failed in Iran, you are just not patient enough or informed enough to see the big picture. Probably why this splintering is occurring. People want everything fed to them off a silver platter. A meeting of die hard conservatives that cant even agree that perhaps as a human being that Trump is becoming desperate enough to appeal to the lazy conservative to get off their caboose and REALIZE that we are voting for the survival of the world. Can ANYONE here imagine what the world might be like with the City of London and its proxies controlling the world (Iran, DSA, et.al)? What us happening in Iran is a systematic destruction of a regime bent on controlling the world and wiping out Western Civilization. Trump is dismantling a system that has been built over 47 years of stockpiling munitions. Nothing is "fucked up" in Iran, everyone who believes that in their heart wants the world on the leash of the globalists. BEWARE. See Prometheanaction.com if you have the courage to put the pieces together.
It used to be a chicken in every pot! Bribery at its worst! Sound fiscal policy does not exist! Every body should buy a wheelbarrow to carry the fiat paper of little value!
FAITHFULL OPTIMISM
Sanctuary; a holy or sacred place; or a place where protection and shelter are provided.
One thing over the years I’ve learned there are certain things we just can not accomplish on our own. For so many reasons we need each other. We can be good by ourselves but we can’t be great by ourselves. When we come together as a body of believers, united in faith, there’s something that happens that you can’t get on your own. We draw strength from each other. It’s good to worship on your own, it’s important to pray by yourself, but something happens corporately that doesn’t happen individually. This is why David said “let us magnify the Lord together”. There is power in connectivity. Your faith mixed with everybody else’s faith creates something powerful. I would argue the same power happens in the political realm. And be assured, people notice when people of faith join together and become one. The enemy, and many who have a lust for power, fear groups of faith.
There is power in connectivity. Your faith makes me stronger. Your praise is helping fight my battles. Your smile brings me joy. When we come together it’s not only refueling you but it’s helping others. Don’t think “I don’t need to come”, “I’m doing fine”. Maybe you should come to help others. We all need to be around a community of faith.
I can’t tell you how many times someone has said thanks for helping me, thanks for listening. I think how many times people have listened to me. How many times people helped me through a tough time. How many positive connections I’ve made because of others.
We are living in a time where almost every week there’s a terrible tragedy. School shootings, people driving cars into innocent people, viruses that are hard to contain, floods, hurricanes. By ourselves we’re strong but together we’re unstoppable. By ourselves we’ll get through the difficulty but together we’ll come out better. When we’re in unity, connected with other believers, you will see unexpected favor. You’ll see sudden turn arounds.
Notice a tree that stands alone in a field gets ravaged by the storm, but in a forest the trees protect one another. In the forest, the roots interlock beneath the surface which creates an unbreakable, invisible shield. So when the wind blows it’s not blowing against one tree it’s blowing against thousands of trees. A tree in the forest has the strength of the whole forest.
When you’re planted in the house of the Lord your roots get connected to my roots and their roots. Before long you have a support system that cannot be shaken. When the storms come, what would’ve normally blown you over by yourself, can not, because you’re connected to others. We’re all here to stabilize you, to steady you, to encourage you. For that storm to take you out it would have to take all of us out, and that’s not possible. When we’re all connected together we can’t be defeated, together we’re powerful. Stay connected and know together in unity we are the majority, together we can’t be defeated.
Happy Sunday!
J.Goodrich
Amen. There will be a nationwide rosary on Sunday October 4 at 4pm ET (also a rally in Washington DC). If you aren’t Catholic, say your own prayer for the delivery of this nation from evil if you prefer. Let’s get all Christians (and even agnostics) to join together. In 1571 Christian joined with Pope Pius V in saying the rosary and defeating the invading Turkish forces that greatly outnumbered the Christians. We can do this again.
Christian sailors.
Greetings from the Thumb Coast of Michigan! Yesterday, I enjoyed the privilege and the pleasure of attending a five-hour planning meeting of the church of which I am a member.
We b broke into five groups, each representing a component of our internal structure. Our assignment: determine the strengths and weaknesses of our assigned area. When we re-assembled, following three hours of discussions and identifying goals, we discovered that each group independently had arrived at the same goal, and had listed the objectives/necessary steps to reach the goal: OUTREACH to the community in which we are sited! Talk about "sharing the spirit!" The excitement of going forward, I pray, will become contagious throughout the congregation as the results of yesterday's work are shared and our walk forward will bear the fruits to enlarge our ministry and family of faith. Rath De Ort!
Bullseye Brudda!
I often ask Leftists who are enamored of the DEI virus (which came directly from Lenin and especially Stalin) to articulate the sinews of that communitarian model more completely and beautifully than St. Paul did - especially in Corinthians - in his metaphor of “The Body of Christ”.
If they haven’t run away, I ask them how their top-down, forceful, heart-avoiding approach worked when they successfully applied it on a small-scale such as family or faculty. Now they run.
Yes, and amen
This is so profound. One of the best things I have read recently!💓
Thank You Elisa Parker!
Amen 🙏 Connection to other believers is KEY to staying grounded! Trusting in the Lord and listening to the Holy Spirit guides us! Praying 🙏 for our world 🌎
And to you, especially on this Sunday of worship, I say Amen!
I like to think of Trump Dividend as alternative to Dem’s bribes which will cost American people much more than $5000! Vote for Republicans like your life as you know it depends on it.
I had a discussion with a 3 time Trump voter like myself recently. My friend said he’s pissed at Trump for the Iranian conflict. I responded that I don’t have the same intelligence as the Commander in Chief, so I must trust the man we voted for to clean up the Obama Biden worldwide fiasco. I asked if he preferred the Obama Biden agreement to allow Iran a nuclear weapon and agree it’s ok Biden broke his oath to defend and protect our borders? Are you ok that Biden allowed China to navigate a spy balloon across our nation? I certainly support our President and his cabinet and fear the day the DSA has more squad members in Congress. They will tie up valuable time attempting to impeach him again. He only has 2 more years in office.
He said well, you’re right, Trump was put through hell in his first term, again when they attempted to jail him, so he’s the strongest president in my lifetime.
Will you campaign for him he asked? I will and I’ll volunteer to be a poll watcher again this year. What have you done to support our president? Just bitch about things that don’t really matter or things the president can’t actually decree? Our national security is number one! Let’s talk about his accomplishments.
He said I see what you mean!
Totally Agree!
Thank you for making some good points! We all need to rally for the Republicans I'm to old to go to war.
I'm not, and I'm 80. We're all in the war right now.
Let's win the elections in November and hold off the crazy commies for 2 more years. People have short memories and have forgotten how bad it was just 2 short years ago under the demoncrats.
The Marxist Islamists have declared war on our Constitution. We must stop them.
When I heard about the $5,000 I involuntarily did an eye roll. To me, it broadcasted the level of desperation Trump must be experiencing - which gives a whiff of failure. I will vote in November, not to support Trump, but to vote against open borders, wealth taxes (even if I'm not wealthy), and the Democrats' unified obstructionist behavior (which if they win, would start with impeachment).
I see no desperation in our President. He's smart and he's methodical.
Then why is a $5000 bribe needed? Hardly seems smart or methodical.
I would call it a $5,000 gift, made possible (according to today's mailing from the White House) "by the trillions of dollars in economic development, investment, and new manufacturing activity flowing into the United States" under Trump's second term. The announcement framed the dividend as the direct return to the American people of the wealth being created by the America First economic agenda.
Started with a winner...again
A dose of reality. The polls don't show that Republicans will vote for Democrats in the midterms. They show the frustration of campaign promises kept and not kept. People saying the are not MAGA now is also an expression of that. I think people are trying to tune up President Trump and the whole administration. We all know that the Socialist Democrats of America is a soft term for Communists, and a return to the Biden years of Idiocracy, theft, and open borders.
Everyone would love an extra 5 grand, in hard times and that may stimulate the economy for a while, but, will it pay down credit card debt, mortgages, car loans. student loans??? The Covid money sent out didn't. I guess I would like to see it pull back the national debt by a Trillion and a half, and set a precedent toward reversing and eliminating as much national debt as possible. That will do more to save our economy, our future generations, and really Make America Great Again.
Got one of the scare ads from the Republicans telling me that marxism is on the ballot. Actually, it has been there in every election to some degree since the election of fdr.
Since Wilson. FDR's policies were really just Wilson's put into action.
Agree to a point. Wilson stereotype progressive, i.e. socialist. Fdrwent much further. We now know his administration was riddled with Soviet agents and at Malta sold out e. europe to uncle joe. So safe to say he took. progressivism to new heights
So true 👍, however it now has openly socialist candidates in many of our offices of government. 😢
An extra $5000 to each adult will increase the national debt at a time when we need to be pulling in the reins. To promise money to everyone if the Republicans win at the midterms is just showing how idiotic Trump can be when he doesn't think before he speaks. For an intelligent man, he does some pretty stupid things.
Trump's ego has always been a problem. His staff have to work on reigning it in (if they can). I think a lot of his assessments about what needs to be done about securing our future have been excellent. He jeopardizes that when he speaks from his ego and his disdain for the fake media that is always trying to bring him down and at best praise him with faint damn. As this Sunday strip notes, we need to hold the republican seats to not flip the house as so often happens during midterms, even though we will be holding our noses while we vote for some of them. God help us!
The man is a businessman, not a professional politician and he is acting like the businessman we elected. The 2 species have different warts
Trump cannot be serious about these $5,000 checks. It is a galactically stupid idea. We are already getting crushed by inflation slapping trillions in fresh liquidity directly onto a overheated money supply is economic arson.
The money won't be spent, as the midterms will be indefinitely paused in favor of honest elections.
Is it the wrong movie, wrong century? I feel like i am living in the wrong era! It is insane two self-serving promoters, a bartender and a rapper running things in NYC. My free newsletter today barbaracharis.substack.com ... "A world Gone Crazy."; and no one is asking why? I have given it a great deal of thought and come up with some answers.
LOL - Raw Meat: A bartender, a rapper and a _______ walked into a bar:...
Anger and resentment.. being tired and lots of work to do as farmers, journalists, medical specialists.. yet helping millions of Americans through the pandemic is a wonderful service and very much appreciated and admired..
While we might not agree on his approach on the economy.. I would rather give a businessman and 2 years to continue the efforts that’s been started..
Listing Trump’s accomplishments since January 2025 could fill a room.. From Venezuela, to reducing crime, closing borders and fighting world terrorism mostly alone.. DOGE, waste, fraud.. corruption.. Things we never would have known if Trump weren’t our President..
He ain’t perfect.. he’s egotistical and self promoting.. but without him we are dead in the water right now..
"Difficult things are never easy." (yogi berra I think) I like the idea of a $5,000 dividend. Just because something hasn't yet happened doesn't mean it won't. Remember he conditioned it upon the House and the Senate winning majorities...Because his agenda will have (hopefully) an easier time getting through Congress. IMHO, President Trump truly intends on giving some sort of monetary something to the working class who have been so screwed over by previous administrations including the recent and worst of all, the Biden admin. The reason we haven't yet had the tariff dividend is because The Supreme Court didn't allow the administration's choice of how to begin tariffs, we had to pay all the gains back. Fortunately Kavanaugh laid out other ways which are being implemented now. Big things take big time. I may be wrong, and I cant find the info now (scowl) and I'm in a hurry, but I've heard three different reports that US CITIZEN TAXPAYER MONEY WILL NOT BE USED for the dividend: (1) new tariff income, 2) money recovered from Fraud, 3) someplace that will end up being the "Sovereign Wealth Fund. I am reminded of Habakkuk 2.3, "For the vision is a witness for the appointed time, a testimony to the end; it will not disappoint. If it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late."
Thank you, Robert, for pointing out the idiocy of the $5,000
Trump is no idiot. We need to look beneath the surface of everything he says and does.
I don’t recall Trump promising a DOGE or tariff refund check to each person. We all receive a refund via massive cuts in waste, fraud and abuse. That’s more money in the Treasury, less tax we have to pay. Same with the tariffs, filling our coffers with funds we did not have previously. I think most of working America deserves the $5000 check. People have been working their butts off, paying taxes for decades, only to learn that most most of it has been going to “learing” centers, Medicare and Medicaid scams, and to purchase high-end luxury vehicles for SNAP recipients. I hear a lot of ungrateful sniping and complaining about Trump, but no solutions that would yield better results.
Spot on. This is not a bribe if it applies to everyone. The only stipulation I would enforce is that it goes to only people who have filed a tax return.
I keep suggesting Blazing Saddles for our monthly community movie night. People are aghast.
It's a litmus test.
One of Mel Brooks's best.
Thank you for the brain food and relevant humors.
I think the $5,000 is/was ill advised. If someone suggested it, they should immediately be dispatched. Should the Ds prevail, I can just see them gleefully approving it.
Among my fav memes
Canuk geese converted
The wlf with her Rwf labeling
As for the LC decenting juror -
having seen the report LC is MAGA and the juror has been doxed -
I'm glad to see DeSantis has offered him safe harbor. Its hard to imagine how the islamocrats could be more despicable.
One other observation - I am more than sick and tired of the legion of solicitations I'm getting under the guises of wanting my opinion and whether I will get the various payouts. Liars all!
Still, planning to early vote.
Have a good one!
Keeping Rush L's advice in mind - many/most of the polls at this point aim to influence public sentiment. He'd often dig down into the particulars to illustrate his points.
MABA - Make Alexandria Bartend Again.