The media is going to get Donald Trump one way or the other.  He releases the Epstein files and doesn’t break a sweat. The media is trying to make us think he’s involved in pedophilia.   

There’s lots of noise about the Democrats wanting ICE reforms or they’ll shutdown the DHS ( which oversees ICE, FEMA, TSA, etc.)  I’ll admit that the pre-boarding experience is a little humiliating. I remember my Dad having to take his belt off before boarding a flight to Australia. He was happy to do it. We almost got into an argument, which I wouldn’t have won. But I’m all about law and order now, even if most of these TSA people couldn’t get a job anywhere else.

Suddenly these trans people are causing trouble. That alone should convince anybody that these weirdos have nothing else.  They’re so consumed.  Don’t they have any other way of getting attention?  I’m convinced that’s what it’s all about.

The trannies have gone crazy.  They’re shooting up everything, like what just happened in Canada.  They can’t go in public without the stares, and I’m sure they’re miserable.  We don’t need to say a thing. They don’t want to kill themselves so they’re shooting up the public.  They think that normal thinking is a crime.  They go to the public and see that everybody isn’t like them, so they want to kill everybody that doesn’t stand up for them.  We’ll see how that goes.

Don Lemon needed a little attention after getting fired from CNN.  He apparently orchestrated the trouble at a church.  Who needs it?  They view our beliefs as beneath them.  I hope they throw the book at the interlopers.  Even though we don’t agree with anything that went on in those churches.  The underlying tenet of our Constitution is freedom.  Who invited these freaks?   Nobody.

If we learned anything from the Covid scare, it’s that you can’t trust what the news tells you. Online articles tell us that the administration is barely over 30 percent approval.  Not here in Texas!  They’re trying to tell us that everybody hates our President. It’s supposed to be a battleground state, but I think they’re in for a surprise.

Big Pharma and the networks are trying to convince us that we’re all crazy.  They thought they’d established the ground rules for how we’re supposed to think.  But we didn’t buy it.  They’re still carrying on about the jab.  I’m glad I didn’t take one, even under pressure from my friends.  

People are in the streets in Iran.  The regime is loosing control, and they better hope they didn’t murder or torture anybody.  We’ve got aircraft carriers on the way amid nuclear talks.   

Mark

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Things are starting to get dangerous.  The Left hates Donald Trump so much, the news reporters and their hangers on, you wonder if another assassination plot is afoot.  He’s trying to transform this nation into what it should have been.  We’re tired of bailing out the rest of the world, and Europe in particular.  The news is trying to shame us for bailing on their false narratives.

Minnesota is ground zero, but a lot of other states may get caught up in the mix.  I don’t know what would happen if they sent EVERYBODY home.  We may find out.  

Don Lemon got arrested with a bunch of protesters.  It’s starting to look as if the media is on the side of the protesters.  ICE has been on the job in Minnesota, and everybody’s outraged.  They’ve been engaging in unbelievable fraud up there, and are living better than us, at our expense.  

ICE agents are reportedly leaving Minnesota, given all the claims and counter claims.  Maybe you’ve seen some of the undercover videos at Learning Centers.  I could have told them, Muslims don’t send their children anywhere.  All these Learning Centers are empty?  What did they expect?  It’s simply a scam to get us to support their lavish lifestyles.  Send them back to where they came from.

The news is pumping this narrative that everybody’s equal but these people couldn’t play a hand of Bridge without being at each other’s throats. Our forefathers civilized this nation, but they’ve got a million claims of why nothing is fair.  

The war goes on in Ukraine, despite all measures to the contrary.  People are being killed daily and Trump wants it stopped, no matter what.  But that’s not the end of it.  Trump is threatening to unleash the hounds if somebody wants to keep fighting.

Iran may be where we need to be concerned.  Well, not concerned, it is way over there.  But it looks like the last time they had a revolution.  Only this time they want the Ayatollahs and the military police disbanded.  It’s a recipe for disaster.

We’ve got ships off-shore Venezuela, Maduro is in custody, claiming innocence, and everything is coming up roses.

And what about Greenland?  They’re about to make a deal.              

Mark

P.S. Gold and silver are fluctuating wildly with a record breaking boom to bust in a month. But what’s new?

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So many things are happening all at once, we can hardly keep up. Israel took out a couple of terrorist commanders, and now it’s on. Iran is signaling that they’re going to respond in a big way, but anybody knows they’re braggarts. They better hope they don’t do anything rash, or …

Not to ruin your day, but little children have been stabbed to death in an English park. What are these murderous so-and-so’s doing in England? For years we’ve been seeing Europe invaded with Muslims. Maybe he wasn’t a Muslim, but who would do such a thing? He’s from Rwanda? It will be some time before we know what drove this kid to do what he did. But he shouldn’t have been in England. I guess they have a death wish, or their hearts got bigger than their brains.

Anybody who’s been to the Middle East knows these people hate for a living. They’re full of bloodlust all the time. Everybody’s grandfather, or great grandfather owned beautiful property before the Jews took it. That’s their story, and it hasn’t changed over the decades. You wonder if they’ve learned their lesson. You can’t take murderous specimens and expect them to be reformed by the civilized world. Especially when they bring their culture with them.

What are these people doing in the United States? Maybe you’ve seen that they burned an American flag in Times Square, and hoisted what they’re calling the Hamas flag.  Just a peaceful protest, mind you. We’re very tolerant. Or are we?

The mainstream is all in for Kamala Harris. She was a dead letter. Now she hung the moon. She says stupid stuff nearly every time you see her. I wonder how she’ll do in a debate with Trump. It’s a good thing Dad’s not still alive. He’d be beside himself, and he’d be tearing up the patch. The next four months will be telling. Good luck with the United States even surviving. It might be time to stock up.

The Iranians are furious after Israel struck a Hamas commander in Tehran. There will be a response that will be hailed as a great success by the Iranian government. They tend to be boastful, in case you haven’t noticed. Better watch what they hope for. Everything is going wrong. How many wars are there? How many wars are in the offing?  We don’t even know what will happen between now and the election. But it’s a very dangerous time for the United States. Everybody around the world knows they act now, or not at all.

Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk. Don thought he’d be cute, and Elon didn’t appreciate it and canceled Lemon’s gig.  

It’s gone all quiet about the assassination attempt. If they’d been successful, they’d have had to change EVERYTHING on cable. We don’t even know what would have happened if Trump hadn’t turned his head. But he did. Are they going to try again? Nobody seems to believe the party line. Just a crazy kid, and he’s dead. The end. Now everybody can pick up where they left off.  

The coming months are a very dangerous time for the United States, particularly so since we’ve got a commander in chief who has delegated all his decisions to department heads. You know who they hired to run all these departments.  

Meanwhile, the invasion of the civilized world continues unabated. It was somebody’s idea! Is this how it all ends? Is the United States going to go down the tubes because we’ve earned it? The stupidity going on at the Olympics is hard to watch. You know what they’ve done, I don’t have to tell you. Men who think they’re women competing in female sports at the Olympics? Shame on whoever made that decision. They obviously don’t understand that men, regardless of their testosterone levels, have no business competing in female sports.  

Mark

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Great news everybody!  It turns out the third booster shot is the ticket for immunity from the Omicron variant.  But that supposes… New York Mayor De Blasio issued an executive order on his way out the door.  For the first time in American history a Mayor has ordered everyone under his power to get inoculated, even five to eleven year old children, that is, if they want to go out to eat or to a theater.  But it turns out the “fully vaccinated” no longer are fully vaccinated, and the way things are going, never will be for more than several weeks at a time.  It looks like you’re going to need a fourth booster shot.  After that, we’ll see what the famous doctor says.

Do you think for one minute the drug companies are ever going to declare the “pandemic” over?  Is there some possibility that they’ll ever stop banging on about the great benefits of the substances they produce?  Have you seen how much money they’re making?  Maybe they claim it’s free, and maybe it is, besides giving up freedom itself.  How free is that?  But somebody’s footing the bill, and chances are good that it’s us.

They’re virtually impossible to tolerate, but have you ever noticed who the sponsors of the mainstream media are?  How many times a day are you told to, “Call your doctor,”  Ask you’re doctor if such and such is right for you.  Mind you, half the promotions tell you all the ways you might die if fate has your number, but other than that.  Maybe something is doing some good, but one thing is for sure.  If they can afford to be in your face all over the internet, TV and print, they’re making bank.

The so-called news reporters have been leading their readers and viewers down one dead end after another for longer than we care to remember.  They’re never wrong.  At least they never admit to having been wrong, even when they’ve failed to produce any sound logic for their continued dissembling.  It’s become clear that they are advocates, not reporters, determined that the American people see things their way regardless.  You people that love your country have yet to become as smart as they are, even when they’re dead wrong.  They were right all along, and the cases just weren’t ever proven, but they weren’t wrong!  It’s a lot like the Jessie Smollett situation.  If you think he’s not telling the truth…

The pursuit of President Trump and his supporters is on-going.  Nobody in media has admitted that they wasted at least four years of everybody’s lives accusing the former President, and by extension all who favored him. of bizarre, unbelievable crimes.  Meanwhile, they secretly stacked the deck behind the scenes.  They trotted out accusers like, well, why say their names?  No one has forgotten the outlandish claims, or those who made them all over national media, engendering unending coverage of the coverage of a story cut from whole cloth.

Now, however, we’re expected to hang on every word of people who’ve been trying to deceive their audiences for a living. Their good buddy, the former actor, is UNDER OATH making the most unbelievable claims that he didn’t do what he’s proven to have done.  His friends have told what happened.  They didn’t want to risk whatever trouble would have ensued had they continued to lie for the little self-righteous schemer.  But he defiantly acted his way through testimony, smug in his feigned innocence.  Legal expert Jonathan Turley says he wasn’t trying to convince anyone, he was hoping to provide an excuse for even just one juror to “hang” the jury.  But that didn’t happen.  They say they’ll appeal.  The ridicule will be hilarious.  It already is.

How many household names went on record to say, “See there?” as if it were proof of the false narrative they’ve been promoting for years.  What a coincidence that he’s “close friends” with Don Lemon, Cory Booker and the troubled vice president. It’s also convenient that hate-crime legislation was under consideration which included something about “lynching.”  Then the little twerp turns up with a phony noose around his neck.  Pathetic.

The media beat Jan. 6 to death ages ago, and they’re still at it.  In fact they’ve been obsessing over the “investigation” as a diversion from the embarrassing reality of the “hate-crime” trial.  January 6 was a DEADLY insurrection after all.  Some real police-state activity is underway as a result of these claims.  People are still rotting in jail because of this bogus perception that is sold unquestioningly by the mainstream.  Their time is short, and they seem to know it.

Everything is going just great for the pretend administration.  The Big Guy scared Putin half to death, threatening to revoke approval of the Nordstream oil pipeline to Germany if anything goes wrong in Ukraine.  Huh?

Maybe we were dreaming, but wasn’t it Putin’s threat, to cut off Europe’s oil supply?  Turns out that it’s Biden’s threat against Putin!  Aside from having their threat stolen, they’re worrying that a strongly worded letter may be in the offing.  By now everybody knows that Russia has one hundred thousand troops on the border with Ukraine.  But the media says the Pretender in Chief was adamant during a “tense” zoom call.  No doubt the Russian was rattled to his core.  Surely he’ll think twice before doing anything.

Inflation is already in Jimmy Carter territory.  The supply chain is backed up.  We’re being informed of the many booster shots we’ll be needing, until we need another one.  The airlines have never seen less friendly skies, especially now that stewardie are in charge of enforcing the mask mandate, just extended.  Those poor federal workers are just doing their jobs after all.  There have been more incidents of “unruly passengers” than in all of airline history, combined.  Losing freedom tends to make people a little testy.  Autocratic regimes from Russia to China to North Korea are poised to take advantage.  Our military is being schooled in the finer points of transvestite feelings.  Can you remember any military conflict resolved on the basis of whose feelings got hurt?

We hope your sense of humor is intact.  If we can’t laugh at those promoting fear and threatening people who aren’t frightened; if we can’t laugh at what fools the media has made of themselves; if we take any of their nonsense seriously it’s going to be goodbye to freedom.  So long, Western nations and all your dignity to boot.  They’re trying to get Boris Johnson to resign as Prime Minister because he broke COVID rules.  Really?  The world has gone mad.  We intend to retain whatever sanity we can.  Bringing God into the equation might be a good start.

Mark

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We were warned that hospitals would be overrun.  They were sure to run out of ventilators, if not hospital beds.  Car companies were recruited to manufacture ventilators instead of cars.  Now nobody knows what to do with them all, and they’re being shipped to other countries all over the world.  Decisions that upended and impoverished millions were made based on predictions that were wildly inaccurate.  But don’t worry, they’ll all get “government money.”

The illness is real, not a hoax.  But “reporting” on the matter is a story unto itself.  This isn’t the media’s first rodeo.  Maybe they believe they’re getting better at perpetuating these frauds on the American public.  They spent three years trying to make us believe that General Michael Flynn was a Russian agent, and said those very words on the air.  They were sure or wanted all of us to be sure, that Trump was doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin, and said as much so many times you couldn’t count them.  (That’s all blowing up in their faces with new revelations this week.  Documents that prove the whole thing was a frame job have been released.  For some unknown reason the DOJ and FBI have been sitting on these all this time, and they prove what we’ve known for nearly three years.  But the mainstream still hasn’t a clue.)  After manipulating the public for years with nonsense that was obvious to anyone not relying on the mainstream papers and networks, we’re supposed to buy the panic they’re selling?

It looks like they’re inflating the numbers of illnesses and deaths.  We know all the early projections were four and five times the actual COVID numbers are as queer as several of the news anchors who report them.  There are numerous anecdotal examples, unreported in the mainstream press, to show that illnesses and deaths are being attributed to the virus on the basis of assumption.  The reason may have something to do with the allocation of “government money.”

But it’s a smirkfest on CNN.  A video is played of the President stating that he hopes to be able to hold rallies again, beginning sometime before the November election.  When the camera returns to the anchor desk you get a series of knowing looks (Don Lemon), a disgusted scowl, and an exasperated shaking of the head.  They just cannot believe what a dork we’ve got for president, or that any sane person wouldn’t agree.

Speaking of queer numbers, have you seen how badly Joe Biden is going to beat President Trump in the upcoming election?  Oh yeah, he’s going to beat Trump as soundly as Hillary Clinton did, maybe worse.  They love their numbers, don’t they?  Especially when their numbers are impossibly bad for President Trump.  Then they sneer at us for rejecting “facts.”  Given their recent and continuing record, it becomes clear, this is no accident.  They’ve pushed one false narrative after the other, beating each to death. But nothing works on the public like fear.

The great toilet paper crisis was utterly unnecessary.  But stand by.  They are pushing a meat shortage now, and one will probably be created leaving empty counters at the supermarket.  Apparently, that’s already the case in some places.  The news people are terribly skeptical about states allowing people to go about their lives while the “death count” is still rising.  But then, they haven’t been very good about predictions.

The reaction to the pandemic has been like an exercise in socialism.  We’re seeing dictatorial actions that make little logical sense, and then more drastic clampdowns when people do what they want anyway.  Like what happened at California beaches last weekend.  Aerial photos made it appear as though people were allowing a lot more than six feet between families. But there were thousands out there and governor Newsom was incensed that his “orders” had been disobeyed.  So this weekend he’s ordered the beaches closed.  Get back indoors, where it’s safe and healthy!  The other thing is the flood of money the government is distributing.  A couple or three trillion is out the door, and we’re beginning to wonder if there’s any end to it.  Are there no longer any consequences when the national debt explodes?

A headline today says the pandemic could last two years.  If the media has anything to say about it, it’s probably all we’ll hear for at least that long.

There’s still no visible sign of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.  Nobody’s sure if he’s sick or dead, or just partying with the concubines at a seaside resort.  At least no one is lowering their children down manhole passages, worrying that a missile strike could come at any moment.  Now we’re wondering what ridiculous “orders” we will be under, and whether the police will jail otherwise law-abiding citizens while letting actual criminals run free.  It’s the “new normal.”  (Forgive me.)

It looks as though we’ll be holding our meetings for the Feast of Tabernacles this year unless Dr. Fauci says otherwise.  Maybe even if he does.  We’ve got more to think about than the latest report, and it’s nice to think about something else for a change.  We’re holding a Sabbath service tomorrow at the regular time and hope things will be normal for everybody soon.

Mark

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If you thought you were going somewhere to do something, forget it.  In the continuing strategy of never letting a crisis go to waste, it seems that there’s no point in waiting to see the extent of the crisis.  An economic crisis has been created, regardless.

Conferences are being canceled.  Concerts, festivals, sporting events, vacations, you name it.  What might happen to Las Vegas?  Will everything be canceled?  Will they close the casinos?  Will the entire economy of the United States be sacrificed on the altar of panic?  The stock market shed nearly a third of its value over the past two weeks, and that’s real, whether the health risks are or not.

The Trump haters should have figured this out long before now.  All they had to do in the first place was create a public health panic, true or otherwise.  Trump haters have longed for an economic recession, regardless of the pain and suffering it might cause.  Blaming Trump, perhaps not for having created the virus, but at least for not caring enough or not having taken the proper precautions, is reason enough to keep stoking fear.

What about the wild gyrations in the stock market?  Do you think money managers and stockbrokers make money while the market is rocking along normally?  In fact, they make their biggest paychecks when big transactions take place.  Having people in a state of panic, selling to get out before they get wiped out, or buying at a perceived low, has to be lining their pockets.  Big swings, of the sort we’ve seen over recent weeks, is boon to money managers and brokers.  Panic isn’t bad for everyone.

If it means that Trump takes the blame or bears responsibility for not having reacted properly, so much the better.  Just ask the homosexuals at the anchor desks.  The President has obviously mishandled every aspect of this crisis.  What a bum!

Having turned briefly to CNN just to see what they were doing, without staying long enough to turn the air blue, proud anchor Don Lemon had John Kasich on to lambaste Trump’s televised address on the coronavirus.  Kasich was on the network due to the fact that he’s been reliably anti-Trump, what’s known as a never-Trumper.  When Kasich allowed as how he thought Trump handled the televised statement “just fine,” sounding the right amount of seriousness, anchor Lemon boiled over.  He threw a hissy fit at Kasich about Trump, talking over him turning the interview into a shouting match, ultimately getting himself so worked up he all but cried.  How dare Kasich appear and not express outrage at Trump?

And what’s with these tests?  The most effective of recent criticism has been that the government was unprepared, with not enough tests.  But as we’ve seen, some of those who’ve tested positive don’t have any symptoms!  At least two under mandatory quarantine have appeared on national television, feeling great physically, but having tested positive.  They appeared healthy and happy except that they can’t leave to go anywhere until they’ve tested negative two or three times consecutively.  It is interesting that people testing positive are showing no symptoms.  Hmmm.

You’ve heard of the “containment zone,” some New York suburb where no one can leave their home for two or three weeks.  What will you bet somebody in the “zone” tests positive and the quarantine gets extended again and again?  Schools have extended Spring Break an extra week and cancellations of every imaginable gathering are roiling across the nation like a tidal wave.  Every professional sporting activity has been canceled.  The NBA, MLB, the NHL, College Basketball tournaments, and that’s just the beginning.

One of the most infuriating things to come out is the suggestion that some business concerns are refusing to accept cash. It might transmit the coronavirus, mind you, so kindly use your debit card or the Internet to make transactions.  One of the dreams of the left is to ban cash.  If all transactions have to be electronic, then there’s nothing one can do without oversight by government authorities.  And isn’t that the socialists’ dream?  Government monitoring and control over buying and selling?

Maybe the coronavirus is all it’s cracked up to be but forgive my cynicism.  We’ve watched the mainstream media lie their faces off for three and a half years.  Are we to suddenly believe them, now that they’re trying to frighten everyone to self-quarantine?  Maybe this is the magic bullet that will finally take Trump down, and they’re positively giddy delivering the latest dire report.  Two weeks ago I made the mistake of saying I didn’t want to hear one more word about the coronavirus.  But it seems as though we’ll hear of nothing else for the foreseeable future.  Hopefully, it joins Russia, Russia, Russia, the Ukrainian phone call and the fake impeachment as another attempt to depose the President.

If you want to stay home and wash your hands every five minutes, knock yourself out.  Who doesn’t want to play hooky from work or school, and have an excuse nobody dares question?  It’s perfect!  We can all remain glued to the latest positive test result, just in case.  Maybe Trump didn’t create the virus, but it’s the establishment’s only bet to turn the country against the President.  They all seem to be in on it, the corporations, the sporting franchises, the media.  Some people are engaged in panic buying, whether food, toilet paper or gasoline.  Isn’t this fun?

It turns out that abortion will be funded, government power expanded and authority transferred from the executive branch to the legislative branch as part of coronavirus legislation.  If Trump doesn’t sign on, they’ll explain it as proof he doesn’t care about poor sick people.  We’ll see in the long run but there is the distinct possibility we’re being played.

We’re not going to cancel church this week, but you can always keep the Sabbath at home if you wish.

Mark

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