BOMBSHELL: CIA Director John Ratcliffe REVEALS that John Brennan, James Comey and Hillary Clinton are headed for AN INDICTMENT over the Russia Collusion Hoax.

The SPYING, LYING and ELECTION RIGGING MUST END pic.twitter.com/7ixE1Bv2vc
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) April 13, 2026

CIA Director John Ratcliffe: “Adam Schiff covertly conspired with the fake whistleblower Eric Ciaramella in an attempt to overthrow the sitting President.” (2025)

The Inspector General CONFIRMED it.

Tulsi declassified the memos TODAY.

THIS COVER UP IS OVER pic.twitter.com/bo6OW0qRae
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) April 13, 2026

I love that Trump and JFK Jr. were good friends. pic.twitter.com/LtbV5bhiW9
— Mila Joy (@Milajoy) April 14, 2026

I was looking for coverage of why the US insists on a 20-year moratorium, and sees 5 years as too little.

When Trump said he wanted 100% (Jeffrey Sachs didn’t get it), this is what he meant.

“..such a timeframe is necessary to permanently limit Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”

• Over 20 US-Approved Ships Pass Through Hormuz (ZH)

5-Years vs. 20-Year Nuclear Moratorium

More info and color has been added in the wake of failed talks between the US and Iran in Pakistan, per The New York Times citing officials from both countries. Iran signaled Monday it would halt uranium enrichment for up to five years. The Trump administration rejected the offer, according to two senior Iranian officials and one US official who spoke to the Times. The US position, shaped in part by Vice President JD Vance, calls for a roughly 20-year suspension. Vance has argued such a timeframe is necessary to permanently limit Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
“The Iranians, in a formal response sent on Monday, said they would agree to up to five years, according to two senior Iranian officials and one U.S. official. Trump has rejected that offer, the U.S. official said,” writes NY Times. “The official said the U.S. has also asked Iran to remove highly enriched uranium from the country, and the Iranians have insisted the fuel stays inside Iran. But they have offered to dilute it significantly, so that it could not be used to produce a nuclear weapon,” the report adds.

Bits and pieces.

• U.S. Says Israel and Lebanon Agree to More Peace Talks (New York Times)

President Trump reiterated that Iran wanted to negotiate a deal, telling Maria Bartiromo of Fox News that the war was near its end. “I think it’s close to over, yeah, I mean I view it as very close to over,” he said when asked if the war had ended, speaking in a clip from the interview posted on Tuesday night. The president has previously indicated that the war was ending. In his address to the nation on April 1, he estimated that it should wind down within three weeks. His interview with Bartiromo is scheduled to air on the Fox Business channel on Wednesday morning.

[..] The U.S. military has completely stopped commercial traffic to and from Iranian ports, Adm. Brad Cooper, the Central Command leader, said late Tuesday. The blockade began on Monday but trackers showed several Iranian-linked vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz after that. It was unclear if those ships departed within a grace period. Intelligence experts have also observed ships using tactics to avoid detection in waters in and around the strait.
… uptick in ‘spoofing’ by ships near the Strait of Hormuz.
[..] Maritime intelligence experts are starting to see a new pattern of “shadow” activity in waters in and around the Strait of Hormuz since the United States naval blockade on vessels coming in and out of Iranian ports went into effect on Monday, suggesting that more ships seem to be adopting tactics to avoid detection than during the previous weeks of war.“Now, we are starting to see vessels going dark or using ‘zombie’ or random identification,” said Ami Daniel, the chief executive of Windward, a maritime intelligence data provider, in an interview on Tuesday.
In the weeks after the American-Israeli attack on Iran in late February, Iranian exports went “uninterrupted” and had “almost no need to go off radar,” Mr. Daniel said. But in the past 24 hours, more ships appear to be manipulating the global system intended to keep tabs on vessel activity and traffic, suggesting that some vessels linked to Iran are being “a bit more cautious,” he said. Under international maritime law, most large commercial vessels must travel with a transponder that automatically transmits the ship’s name, location, route and other identifying information. That includes a 9-digit number with a country code, which serves as a digital fingerprint for a ship.
Vessels in Middle Eastern waters that are now trying to hide their location or are otherwise falsifying information are employing methods that have been perfected by Russian “shadow fleet” vessels evading sanctions related to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, some experts say. “Shadow fleet tankers have been experimenting with stateless ID numbers,” said John C.K. Daly, a nonresident fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute in Washington who has been tracking Russian shadow ships. “What the Russians have been doing is altering the numbers.”
When a ship is engaged in “spoofing,” as the practice is known, its captain can type in a false origin or destination or can pretend to be piloting another ship altogether. Vessels can also temporarily turn off their transponders, seeming to disappear in one place and reappear in another, sometimes with altered data. This approach has enabled Russia to keep up its energy exports and finance its war, generating up to $100 billion a year. It appears that vessels linked to Iran are using similar methods now, experts say. Some ships have gone dark, while sanctioned and falsely flagged vessels seem to still be active, a Windward report on Tuesday noted.
“Under previous enforcement frameworks, including the December blockade of Venezuela, sanctioned and stateless tankers were primary targets for interdiction,” the report said. “The continued movement of similar vessel profiles indicates that operators are testing the practical limits of enforcement in real time.” By manipulating the global system meant to illuminate ship movements, so-called ghost or shadow vessels may compound confusion about the state of the Strait of Hormuz, even if in the end they cannot breach the American blockade.
“Right now, the strait is a contested information environment,” said Erik Bethel, a partner at Mare Liberum, a maritime technology venture capital fund. Detection-avoidance tricksmay make it harder for the Navy to identify boats for interdiction. “A blockade is only as strong as the intelligence behind the interdictions,” Mr. Bethel said.The maritime system is complex. A vessel may be owned by one country, leased to another and travel under a third country’s flag of convenience, Mr. Bethel said. That makes determining who is truly behind any given journey a “really hard thing to do.”
Maritime intelligence companies and militaries use an array of sources to stitch together information about vessels, including optical satellites, radar satellites and radio frequencies. They also collect information being transmitted by sailors, sometimes unwittingly, through their own personal technology, like Fitbits and cellphones. Still, whatever ruses they employ, vessels off Iran might only get so far. It is difficult to get out to the open ocean via a waterway as narrow as the Strait of Hormuz without being detected.
A U.S. official said that more than 12 American military vessels were stationed in international waters in the Gulf of Oman. And on Tuesday, United States Central Command said that six merchant vessels had complied with directions by radio from U.S. forces to turn around and re-enter Iranian ports. “My expectation is that the U.S. Navy can sit out in the Gulf of Oman,” Mr. Daniel of Windward said. “I don’t think there’s a way to breach the blockade.”

“.. Trump has forced a hidden imperial system into the open “

• The Money in the Background of the Iran Conflict (CTH)

Promethean Action Follows the Money in the Background of the Iran Conflict. A generally good summary into some of the financial issues happening in the background of the dire Straits of Hormuz. Susan Kokinda highlights UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer declining to join an American blockade and claims Britain has lost control of the choke point. She details financial actions targeting Iranian money flows, including UAE arrests of IRGC-linked money changers, Treasury Secretary Bessent using Patriot Act Section 311 against a Zurich bank, and scrutiny of London-based crypto exchanges and Santander UK. She cites a UK military chief admitting Britain’s war planning has lapsed since the Cold War and links fuel disruptions and protests to the conflict, concluding Trump has forced a hidden imperial system into the open.

Trump Names the Hidden War — Britain Has No Cards Left

Helmer lost track too. Iran has nothing left to fight with.

• Blood, Money, and The Trump Dynasty – Iran Shows How To Fight (Helmer)

In the world in which President Donald Trump plans his future and the presidential dynasty of his sons to succeed him, the gunman believes he can take away both lives and bribes. Unless the victim catches him by surprise, outgunning him and those of his allies who have paid the price of his protection. It’s blood for money. This is the new stage of Iran’s war. It is the stage which the Iranian and pro-Iranian post-mortem analyses of the Islamabad negotiations have not disclosed; the stage which the US and Israeli propaganda organs cannot comprehend; the stage which the Trump dynasty’s rivals are afraid of, Vice President JD Vance in front.

This stage of Iran’s war is also an example to President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping of the futility of paying bribes, as their advisors tell them; and the vulnerability of Trump and his sons to political defeat at home. [..] In the Iranian account of the Islamabad negotiations, there was initial progress in the expert-level negotiations on release of Iranian assets and relief of trade and financial transfer sanctions. No detail has leaked or been disclosed officially by either side. The Iranian negotiator was Central Bank Governor, Naser Hemati. The Iranian pre-conditions – an Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon and release of Iranian assets blocked in Qatar – were partly fulfilled, partly glossed over.
A US attempt to send two destroyers into the Hormuz Strait boomeranged as a test of the IRGC’s readiness to open fire, and the vessels reversed course. However, when the talks reached the level of the principals – Vice President JD Vance, Steven Witkoff, Jared Kushner for the US; Mohammad Bakr (Bagher) Ghalibaf, Abbas Araghchi, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, and Ali Bagheri Kani – the US side added new deal-breaking conditons, according to the account of Mohammed Marandi, one of the Iranian delegation’s official spokesmen. The first of these was Iran’s agreement to give up its entire civilian nuclear programme, not only its nuclear material enrichment capacities and stockpiles; the second was a US half-share in the Hormuz Strait regime tolls. Neither of these proposals was included in the 15-point plan sent by the US to Iran through Pakistan in the run-up to the ceasefire announcement of April 8.
According to the Israeli-American outlet Axios, “the U.S. proposed that Iran accept a 20-year moratorium on uranium enrichment during negotiations in Islamabad over the weekend, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge.” The second source was Israeli. There has been no Iranian confirmation.
Several US moves were also unexpected, according to Marandi. Vance had interrupted the negotiations to make repeated telephone calls to Washington, including one — the Iranian delegation claims — to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Vance has acknowledged in his brief press appearance at the conclusion that he had made calls “half a dozen times, a dozen times”. In the Iranian interpretation, Vance did not have a clear negotiating mandate for the negotiations, and lacked personal authority.

MDCP= Major Defense Cooperation Partnership

• All in All, It’s Just Another Brick in the Wall Around China (Stephen Green)

Last year, Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping played the rare earths card, forcing President Donald Trump to slow his roll on decoupling from the Middle Kingdom. This year, Trump played the oil card against China — first in Venezuela, then in Iran — and he just slapped it on the table again in Indonesia. Their summit in Beijing next month already promised to be interesting, with the U.S. enjoying significant leverage over Venezuela, Iran in tatters, and the U.S. Navy taking charge of the Strait of Hormuz. Until very recently, both countries served as Beijing’s reliable sources of discounted oil. Today, Xi might ask, “Et tu, Indonesia?” If he spoke Latin, that is.

It might have seemed like one of those dry, bureaucratic, almost meaningless announcements on Monday, when War Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X that the U.S. and Indonesia “are elevating our relationship to a Major Defense Cooperation Partnership.” According to a joint statement, the partnership covers “military modernization and capacity building,” “training and professional military education,” “exercises and operational cooperation,” and I can hear you snoring already.But a Major Defense Cooperation Partnership is kind of a big deal — and it’s aimed directly at China’s oil imports. China’s difficulties begin in the Strait of Hormuz, but they peak at Malacca.
Nearly two-thirds of China’s imports — largely the raw materials that keep its export machine humming — and a whopping 80% of its energy imports pass through Indonesia’s Strait of Malacca. But that hardly means Beijing minds its manners around its southern neighbor. While the two countries maintain a close strategic partnership, there are also persistent strains, particularly around Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea, Chinese fishing boat fleets intruding on Indonesian waters, resulting in naval tensions, and ongoing trade disputes. And here comes Washington — with no territorial ambitions and no invading fishing fleets — with an MDCP.
And Another Thing: Honestly, China is now so powerful and aggressive that its neighbors ought to be attracted to Washington like iron filings to a magnet. It took significant displays of American weakness and dithering — thanks, Obama and Biden! — for countries like Indonesia to have fallen even partly into China’s orbit in the first place.
An MDCP usually means regular joint military exercises, interoperability training, and streamlined access to U.S. weapons systems. In other words, even though an MDCP is less than a formal military alliance, it allows the U.S. and its partners to effectively act as allies, should the need arise. The MDCP with Indonesia, just announced by Hegseth, even includes military overflight access.= Unlike NATO, there’s no Article Five-type guarantee requiring us to come to Indonesia’s defense, but should the need arise to act against China, our two militaries ought to have enough familiarity with one another to make it work.
In response to Trump’s tariffs last year, Beijing used its control over the majority of rare earth processing to get a better deal. But rare earths aren’t actually all that rare, and the U.S. sits on major deposits. Our problem is that we outsourced the processing to China. We’re working to correct that mistake. When Trump and Xi meet in May, the balance between our two countries will have shifted significantly in our favor since 2025. Seen that way, our new defense partnership with Indonesia is just another brick in Trump’s Great Wall Around China.

BIG ruling against Boasberg et al.

• Appeals Court Terminates Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Trump Admin (ET)

An appeals court has put a stop to criminal contempt proceedings initiated by a district judge against the Trump administration. In a brief, unsigned order on April 14, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated a previous order by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, and ordered him to terminate the contempt investigation he launched in December. The contempt proceedings stemmed from the deportation of illegal immigrants—suspected gang members—to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, last year. Boasberg had ordered planes carrying those detainees halted and turned around, but the men were sent to El Salvador anyway.

The Trump administration had appealed Boasberg’s order all the way to the Supreme Court, which overturned his ruling. Despite that, Boasberg tried to hold members of the administration in contempt of his order unless they returned the suspected gang members to the United States. The appeals court blocked that move by vacating Boasberg’s first contempt order, but he decided to move ahead with a contempt investigation in November. “Undeterred, the district court is proceeding with criminal contempt for the government’s decision to transfer the plaintiffs to the custody of El Salvador,” the Appeals Court’s opinion reads.

“.. the so-called whistleblower behind the 2019 impeachment singled out Director Patel by name, relied on hearsay, submitted false claims, and had documented political bias — all of which was hidden from the American people..”

• FBI “Is Reviewing Closely New Allegations On Ukraine Impeachment Accuser” (JTN)

The FBI said Monday night that it is “closely” reviewing newly declassified memos showing the intelligence community kept secret for years evidence raising questions about the credibility and bias of the main accuser in President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment case. “The declassified impeachment memos show the so-called whistleblower behind the 2019 impeachment singled out Director Patel by name, relied on hearsay, submitted false claims, and had documented political bias — all of which was hidden from the American people,” FBI spokesman Ben Williamson wrote on his X account.

“This is the same playbook used during the Russia collusion hoax — which Director Patel exposed. The FBI has previously been reviewing these revelations closely and will continue to do so,” he added. The FBI was one of several agencies to react to a story Sunday night by Just the News that revealed the CIA analyst who alleged wrongdoing by Trump involving Ukraine policy was flagged for the “potential for bias,” had lied to investigators about a key fact and only had hearsay evidence to back his claims.
That evidence was kept from Trump’s impeachment proceedings by ex-Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday. Gabbard accused the former watchdog of “weaponizing” the whistle-blower process to hurt Trump. The alleged whistleblower’s name was redacted from the newly declassified memos but has been identified in some media reports as retired CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, who now works at a D.C. think tank and is a regular on a podcast critical of Trump policies.
Officials declined to publicly confirm whether Ciaramella was, in fact, the whistleblower when questioned by Just the News. Ciaramella has appeared on numerous podcast episodes put out by the anti-Trump Lawfare outlet. Benjamin Wittes, the editor-in-chief of Lawfare, appeared on multiple episodes with Ciaramella. Wittes was described by Politico in 2017 as “The Bard of the Deep State” and is a longtime Trump critic and a self-described friend of fired FBI Director James Comey and Strzok.

“The Lawfare impeachment crew, led by Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Mary McCord, Dan Goldman, Barry Berke, Stephen Castor and Norm Eisen also weaponized the “ongoing investigation” classification to keep the CIA/ICIG report hidden during the impeachment effort.”

• Johnny Didn’t Bark – But Tulsi Did (CTH)

I’m going to try and keep this short. You can tell from the transcripts of the testimony from ICIG Michael Atkinson that at the time of his testimony, September 19, 2019 and October 4, 2019, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) was not in a classified session; simply closed-door. In fact, during the October 2019 deposition, Ranking Member Devin Nunes went out of his way to clarify the status of the hearing itself. Chairman Schiff reemphasized this was not part of the impeachment inquiry, simply a hearing to clarify questions from Republicans to ICIG Atkinson about the nature of the complaint created by CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.

This is interesting, because that means at the time of the hearing itself in 2019 any one of the members could have immediately gone to the microphones and discussed all of the information gained from within the questioning. They didn’t. Later on, Chairman Adam Schiff classified the Atkinson testimony in order to bury it. The Lawfare impeachment crew, led by Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Mary McCord, Dan Goldman, Barry Berke, Stephen Castor and Norm Eisen also weaponized the “ongoing investigation” classification to keep the CIA/ICIG report hidden during the impeachment effort.
President Trump was not even allowed to see/review the classified IC IG information that was being used to impeach him. Now, as you can see from the attendance above, John Ratcliffe was present for both Atkinson depositions. Despite his immediate silence, we know John Ratcliffe was concerned about the content within ICIG Atkinson’s statements as he relayed in a series of questions during a public hearing December 9, 2019. Ratcliffe questioned both Dan Goldman and Stephen Castor who were part of Adam Schiff’s staff and present during the October 2019, testimony of ICIG Atkinson.

John Ratcliffe knew all of the details from ICIG Atkinson’s testimony because he was present and part of the questioning during both sessions. Here’s where it gets interesting Following the failed impeachment effort (Senate acquittal), President Trump fired IC IG Michael Atkinson April 3, 2020, and then nominated John Ratcliffe to the position of DNI to replace Acting DNI Ric Grenell. The ICIG investigation of the alleged claims by CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella ended during the impeachment inquiry. Following the impeachment acquittal, and following the subsequent firing of Atkinson, all of the ICIG work product returned to the custodial review of the ODNI.
DNI nominee John Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on May 21 and sworn in on May 26, 2020. John Ratcliffe was now a constitutionally confirmed DNI with access to the full record and work product that led to the previous impeachment effort. Why didn’t DNI John Ratcliffe release the ICIG investigative material and CIA whistleblower report? Why did it take another six years and DNI Tulsi Gabbard to discover, dig out, declassify and release the material that was in the custodial review of DNI John Ratcliffe back in 2020?
Congressman Ratcliffe was in both Atkinson depositions during Sept/Oct 2019, and he knew the impeachment allegations were false. He essentially called out the HPSCI Democrat staff in December of 2019. Congressman Ratcliffe became DNI in May 2020 and knew the entire background of the IC IG material that was now at his fingertips. Ratcliffe knew President Trump was set up. Why didn’t John Ratcliffe release the evidence of it in 2020?
I might also note that following the 2022 midterm election, Republicans took back control of the House in January 2023.Why didn’t HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner (2023/2024) release the Atkinson transcripts to the public? Why didn’t HPSCI Chairman Rick Crawford (2025-present) release the Atkinson transcript in 2025, without the request of DNI Tulsi Gabbard. To be fair, former HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner might say that back in 2023 without the underlying CIA/ICIG report, the explosive Atkinson testimony didn’t have context…..
…. But that brings us back to the question of why DNI John Ratcliffe didn’t release the CIA/ICIG report as soon as he took office in 2020. Has the statute of limitations tolled? Johnny didn’t bark – Tulsi did!

“The spirit of revolution hangs in the air.”

• Irish Patriots are Fighting Back (J.B. Shurk)

So you say you want a revolution? Well, take a look at what’s happening in Ireland right now. Tens of thousands of farmers, truckers, and other fed-up “normies” are taking to the streets of Dublin to protest fuel taxes, mass immigration, and poverty-inducing “climate change” policies. For the most part, corporate news propagandists in both Europe and North America are intentionally ignoring the combustible situation. Just when I had begun to think that all the “fighting Irish” had moved to America, the Old Country has started to show signs of life. Perhaps there are still a few irascible pugilists willing to bash heads and take on the globalist empire after all.

Speaking of irascible pugilists, Irish slugger Conor McGregor issued a bit of an ultimatum to the ruling class after the government mobilized the military and sent tanks to intimidate the protesters: “One wrong move by government here, and you will see, at the very least, 250k Irish people descend on the capital in a blink. They must step down, there is no other way.” Declaring war against ordinary Irishmen isn’t a good look for an Irish Deep State that can’t be bothered to guard its borders from hordes of invading foreigners. While McGregor and his compatriots are out feeding protesters in the streets, the Irish government is hiking taxes on those who can least afford to pay them. “One wrong move” could spark a revolution.
Perhaps that’s why — after an initial show of force — Ireland’s globalist government appears to be trying to settle things down. Reports on the ground say that police officers have remained friendly with protesters. Some have suggested that Irish authorities are wary of following in the footsteps of Canada’s former prime minister, Justin Trudeau, when he exercised martial law powers to seize the bank accounts of and jail “Freedom Convoy” truckers protesting coercive COVID “vaccination” mandates. On the other hand, a lot of the Irish protesters have also described a sense that many of the law enforcement officers patrolling the streets appear to be on their side. If that’s the case, then Ireland’s political class may be worried about the effectiveness of siccing the military on a broadly-backed citizen uprising.
Although few people saw the present brouhaha coming, Ireland makes a natural “ground zero” in the war between Big Government globalists (aka, the “international rules-based order” club of World Economic Forum totalitarians) and ordinary citizens willing to defend their nation’s sovereignty and their own personal freedoms. For two decades, the globalists have been taking over Ireland and stripping it for parts. As a country that once took pride in its meaningful traditions, customs, family loyalties, and Catholic heritage, Ireland has been one of the globalists’ favorite targets for conquest.
If the “multicultural” atheists could convert Ireland into another globalist outpost devoid of religious or civilizational allegiances, they knew that they would collect a valuable scalp in their war against the West. Sadly, the globalists have been largely successful. By transforming a conservative, staunchly pro-life, Catholic nation into a “woke” re-education zone embracing abortion, “trans” surgeries for children, open borders, Islamic supremacy, and the fetishization of “diversity,” the World Economic Forum’s “Borg” hive mind gutted one of the most culturally rich nations on the planet and mounted Ireland’s head on globalism’s wall of slaughtered states.
Two months ago, free speech defenders Lorcán Price and Graham Linehan testified before the House Judiciary Committee concerning the mass censorship operation being run through the expanding Big Tech enclave in Dublin. There are over 32,000 NGOs in Ireland receiving billions of dollars in U.S. and E.U. grants meant to help shape public opinion. These organizations — one for every 155 Irishmen — represent the “information warfare” army that supports Europe’s globalist policies. Over 70% of Irish legislation is copy-and-pasted from bureaucratic edicts originating in the European Union. These laws include special incentives for illegal immigrants who arrive on Ireland’s shores. They also include “hate speech” laws that have been used to criminally prosecute Irish citizens who object to foreigners raping and murdering their children. The NGO-E.U. takeover of the Irish political system this century has drastically reshaped the country.
Once Christian Ireland now has constitutional protections for gay “marriage” and abortion up to a baby’s birth. Two years ago, Ireland’s globalist cabal nearly succeeded in removing all mentions of “women” from the national constitution, as well as nearly redefining “family” as a “durable relationship.” The Irish government continues to attack Ireland’s Catholic history, going so far as to depict Catholic saints as pagan goddesses in shameless acts of historical revisionism. Globalists continue to rename historic institutions due to ludicrous accusations that Irish clergymen and scholars had ties to slavery and “white supremacy.” As Irish writer Roger Berkeley sorrowfully observes, “Ireland shows what happens when elites, bureaucracies, and ideology override national identity.”
[..] What is clear is that ordinary people in nations across the West are becoming aware of the information war that has long been waged against them. For decades, they have been conditioned to believe false things: “Diversity is our strength.” “Islam is a religion of peace.” “Trans-women are real women.” “Sex is a social construct.” “Man-made climate change is killing the planet.” “New taxes will save the planet.” “Christianity is hate speech.” “Hate speech is a violent crime.” “Free speech requires government-moderated censorship.” “National sovereignty is fascist.” “Families promote white supremacy.” “Merit is white supremacy.” “Math, home ownership, mowed lawns, and punctuality are all forms of white supremacy.” “Equal rights require ‘Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.’” “Unelected bureaucrats protect democracy.” “NATO must protect non-NATO Ukraine.” Et cetera ad infinitum.

That he was.

• Eric Swalwell and the Fall of a Made Man (Turley)

The resignation of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Cal.) came with one of the most spectacular falls in political history. Just days ago, Swalwell was the leading Democratic candidate for governor of California and positioned to be one of two final candidates (the other a Republican). He expected that, regardless of his unpopularity, California Democrats would never vote for a Republican. Now Swalwell has pulled out of the race, pulled out of Congress, and was even tossed out of the home of a billionaire who had been letting him crash there during the scandal. Swalwell continues to deny the allegations and pledges to fight them.

For the record, I have been one of Swalwell’s most vocal critics for the last ten years. Yet, while I am not surprised by the allegations, I am surprised by how quickly Swalwell was abandoned by his political patrons in Congress and the unions. In Washington, Harry Truman advised politicians that if you want a friend in this city, get a dog. However, even Swalwell’s dog Penny has yet to appear in public with him. Presumably, she is consulting with her own canine crisis team. Swalwell has spent his entire career protected by an enabling establishment and media. He was a made man in Washington, and those who made him protected him despite years of rumors and allegations of misconduct.
He was never much of a legislator. One 2025 study showed that he was outvoted in Congress by a colleague who had died months earlier. His value was his vicious signature. He was always first to a mob. When Sen. Susan Collins received death threats, it was Swalwell who mocked her. In running for governor, he not only pledged to arrest ICE agents but to deny them driver’s licenses and jobs. He trafficked in unadulterated rage to a nation of rage addicts. His greatest patron was Nancy Pelosi, who single-handedly saved Swalwell’s career when he was found to have had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. She told the media, “I don’t have any concern about Mr. Swalwell.”
For most of the media, that was enough and they slinked away. When critics sought to remove him from the classified House Intelligence Committee, Pelosi shocked many by insisting that he remain in the sensitive position, lashing out at those “trying to make an issue of this.” Now, Pelosi and the media allies are gone. Even Swalwell’s friend, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.), has morphed into Claude Rains and proclaimed that he is “shocked” by the allegations. His former campaign chair, Gallego was shown in a picture bare-chested and riding camels with Swalwell on a luxury junket paid for by Qatar business interests. The photo has not aged well for Gallego any more than his earlier lament that the Democratic party “used to be the party of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.”
The abandonment of Swalwell is a familiar move of political triage. By letting Swalwell succumb to the scandal, Pelosi and others hope to protect the establishment from any blowback after years of enabling his career. The media, as usual, is complying. The media will cover a scandal involving a leading Democrat if there is no real alternative. What is interesting is how the Democratic establishment is now signaling that they want Swalwell destroyed — quickly and surgically. The media is content calling Swalwell a monster without delving into who created and released that monster. Swalwell is no self-made man. He is a made man of the Democratic establishment.
The alleged victims have lashed out not only at Swalwell but also at many in the establishment. They allege that they were rebuffed when they tried to bring their allegations to reporters. One independent reporter said that he had been raising similar allegations about Swalwell with California Democrats from before Swalwell was elected to Congress. He was also turned away. Swalwell had a use and that made his “appetites” irrelevant. If even half of these allegations are true, it shows the sense of license that Swalwell developed for years in Washington. He lost that political immunity this week and now faces real legal liability. That does not mean that Democrats will not try to control the damage. They want Swalwell to take a deal to avoid any investigations that will pull other Democrats into the vortex of the scandal.
They are counting on New York and California district attorneys to produce the type of controlled explosion seen in construction where a hotel is brought down without damaging the adjacent structures. The problem is Republicans may not just accept his resignation as the final act. They could call the women to testify and even call some of his congressional friends who took trips and partied with him. They could cite Swalwell himself for demanding such total transparency.

“La Marxista: Mamdani Pledges to Open First City-Run Store with Projected $30 Million Initial Cost “

Turley is not his biggest fan.

• Mamdani Pledges to Open First City-Run Store (Tuirley)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani used his “First 100 Days” speech this week to announce that he has kept his promise to create a chain of city-run stores . . . by pledging to open one store sometime “next year.” According to the New York Post, the city is planning to make an East Harlem location the first store at a cost of $30 million. It will be located in La Marqueta near Park Avenue. Hopefully, La Marqueta will be renamed La Marxista for clarity. It will follow a long line of failed state-operated and city-operated stores. Chicago’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, also pledged such city-run stores.

It is notable that the stores received such emphasis by Mamdani. It is not difficult to set up a grocery store, particularly when you run the city that approves permits and compliance conditions. It is not even difficult to set up a money-losing store as long as you have a city budget to pay for it. It is far more difficult to set up an independently sustainable store. In my book, “Rage and the Republic,” I discuss the rise of support for socialism and communism among young citizens who have no experience or memory with the failures of such systems in the 20th Century. I specifically discuss Mamdani and his policies. These are calls that are likely to increase with the emerging new economy:
With the rise of American socialism, there are new calls for state subsidies and even the establishment of state-run grocery stores in places like Chicago. Past efforts have been colossal failures, including the still-ongoing effort in Kansas City. Over seven years, KC Sun Fresh is gushing money with losses in 2024 at $885,000. The millions lost on this store are on top of the $17 million that the city paid to buy the entire strip mall. By 2025, many of the shelves were entirely bare, while private grocery stores were successfully operating in the area. Despite these failures, there are new calls in other states to create their own state-owned stores.
In New York City, socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was heralded for his campaign to open up “government-owned, government-operated grocery stores” in 2025. There are also calls to subsidize key industries that are becoming less competitive in the global market—an effort that is unlikely to succeed as jobs are lost to cheap labor markets or automation. Since the city already owns La Marqueta, it can avoid paying rent. However, it will lose any rent that could be earned by renting the property to a business.
Mamdani pledged that these will be “stores where prices are fair, where workers are treated with dignity, and where New Yorkers can actually afford to shop at our stores…Eggs will be cheaper, bread will be cheaper, grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation.” Of course, that has not worked out that way in other cities. Governments are not known to be either efficient or competitive. The start-up costs of this first store will consume almost half of the budget for the original cost estimate for all five stores.
Soon, New Yorkers will be subsidizing grocery stores to artificially support the myth of socialism. In the Soviet Union, state-run grocery stores were the subject of gallows humor. The “reimagining” of grocery stores left shelves bare with only imagined essential products. The most widely told joke spread just before the fall of the Soviet Union:
A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.” As Mamdani demands a 10% property tax to fund his promises of free buses and other socialist programs, he is returning to the same socialist script. Of course, as the University of Chicago’s Milton Friedman noted, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

“.. was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.”

• American Pope Leo Has a Massive Case of TDS (Rick Moran)

The papacy is one of the most unique institutions in the world. The pope is not “elected” in any meaningful sense. A bunch of older males who played the same kind of political games that Republicans, Democrats, Communists, and Socialists play to get ahead, to become “cardinal,” meet to fill a vacancy following the death of a pope. How a new pope is chosen is steeped in tradition and ritual. It’s all baloney. The pomp and circumstance were created to hide the simple fact that choosing a pope is no different than choosing a CEO or president of a large company. The assembled cardinals decide who should lead the church, the same way a board of directors chooses a new leader: someone who can best advance the goals and interests of the Catholic church.

There’s nothing holy about it. There’s nothing sacred in the process. It’s politics, plain and simple. Pope Leo XIV played the game exceptionally well in order to get elected last year. He had a huge obstacle to overcome; he is an American (and Peruvian), and there is a large faction in the Vatican that hates America. Leo was seen as a compromise candidate who, although close to the radical Pope Francis, who died in 2025, was not considered as confrontational as the former pope. That belief turned out to be very wrong.
In April 2025, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica stated that Leo was seen as a “cosmopolitan and shy figure” who was “appreciated by conservatives and progressives” within the church. The pope destroyed that illusion by going after Donald Trump in a very un-papal way. On Sunday, Trump let loose on Leo for his constant sermonizing. Of course, that’s what popes do, but Trump saw an opening to attack Leo on very secular grounds.
Truth Social:”I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump wrote.
“Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise,” Trump said. “He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.”
I don’t think there’s any doubt that the church considered an American for pope because Donald Trump was president. Trump’s roundup of illegal aliens was bound to cause friction with the Vatican. Leo tried to sound diplomatic in his response, which was, in itself, a shocking departure from tradition. Popes aren’t supposed to play the tit-for-tat political game.”I don’t want to get into a debate with him [Trump],” the U.S.-born pope said. “I don’t think that the message of the Gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing.” The pope is referring to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asking “the American people to pray “every day, on bended knee” for a military victory in the Middle East “in the name of Jesus Christ.” “
We are not politicians, we don’t deal with foreign policy with the same perspective he might understand it, Leo told reporters. The pope said that “to put my message on the same plane as what the president has attempted to do here, I think, is not understanding what the message of the Gospel is.” Leo has entered the political fray with his words and has lost the moral authority to comment as the leader of one billion Roman Catholics. Commenting as a famous religious celebrity is perfectly fine, but getting in the mud and rolling around with a politician should be beneath Leo and the papacy. “I do not look at my role as being political, a politician,” Leo said. “Too many people are suffering in the world today, too many innocent people are being killed, and someone has to stand up and say there’s a better way.

Holocaust Remembrance Day was Jan 27. Then why this? “Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day this year starting on the evening of April 13 into today, April 14.”

• ‘Unwavering Commitment’ to Fight Hatred (Salgado)

President Donald Trump issued a powerful message against antisemitism and a commitment to honoring the memory of Holocaust victims through a freer future in his message for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day this year starting on the evening of April 13 into today, April 14. While the Nazis killed political dissidents, Catholics, other Christians, and ethnic minorities, their death camps were most strongly focused on wiping out the Jewish people. In fact, the global Jewish population has never fully recovered since the Holocaust.

The Trump White House issued a message on April 13. “During the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, our Nation remembers the more than 6 million innocent Jewish lives taken in one of the most horrific atrocities and worst acts of anti-Semitism in human history; we commemorate the Roma and Sinti, Slavic and Polish people, persons with disabilities, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, people targeted for their sexual orientation, and countless others who were victims of the Holocaust; and we renew our unwavering commitment to ensuring that such evil is vanquished forever,” President Trump wrote.
Unfortunately, the fundamentalist Muslims who were allies of Hitler during World War II, because of their shared goal of destroying Jews, are more powerful than ever, somehow gaining the sympathy of the West every time they attack Israel and commit heinous atrocities. To give just one number for context, Hezbollah alone launched over 6,500 missiles, UAVs, and rockets at Israeli civilians during the first five weeks of Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion.
Trump continued, “On Yom HaShoah, we recall the horrors Nazi Germany inflicted across Europe during the harrowing years of the Second World War, where men, women, and children of many backgrounds were subjected to vicious acts of persecution, degradation, and death by methods beyond comprehension. Yet, in the midst of this unfathomable darkness, the resilience of the human spirit endured.” “From the outset of my Administration, I have taken decisive action to defend the God-given worth of every human being,” Trump affirmed. “By establishing the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, my Administration is bolstering coordination across federal agencies in an effort to prevent acts of hatred and violence in our streets and on our college campuses that were allowed to spread under my predecessor.”
He concluded: “I am directing the Department of Justice to relentlessly pursue those who threaten or harm Jewish Americans, and we will not stop until every case of terrorism perpetrated against the Jewish people is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
As our Nation marks these Days of Remembrance, we honor the memory of all who were murdered and vow to never forget the victims of the Holocaust—the most heinous violation of human dignity in the history of the world. Together, we reaffirm our solemn obligation to stand guard against antisemitism in every form and carry forward the enduring legacy of the more than 6 million innocent souls of the Holocaust with vigilance and unwavering resolve. May the memories of all who perished forever be a blessing. Global antisemitism has been on the rise ever since Hamas committed the Oct. 7 massacre. Each one of us is responsible for seeing that “never again” is more than a slogan.

Forever ago, I read a biography of Abe. Which was John Hay’s POV.

• Remembering the Faith of Lincoln on the Anniversary of His Death (Tom Griffin)

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head and killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre during the showing of “Our American Cousin.” It was Good Friday. It is eerily fitting that the murder occurred on the most somber day of the Christian year. Lincoln mentioned God frequently in his presidency, and his journey with God was deeply connected to the gravity of his work during the Civil War.
Between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861, several southern states seceded from the Union. In Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address on March 4, 1861, he spoke about how the nation must be firm in faith: “Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.” Here Lincoln showcased his distinctively American spirit. He believed that our nation was built on faith as well as love for both neighbor and country. Those qualities, in his view, can sustain the American people during tumultuous times.
In September 1862, during one of the most personally challenging parts of the Civil War, Lincoln wrote a private “Meditation on the Divine Will.” The Union had recently lost the Second Battle of Bull Run, and there were immense challenges ahead for the president. The country was tiring of the war. The growing death toll weighed heavily on the president. Had the time come to end the war? According to one of his White House secretaries John Hay, the letter was the president’s way of working through his confusion and stress about the most important decision of his life. Hay also noted that this letter was not meant to be seen by men, which is why we have only one section. Lincoln writes:
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party — and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true — that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By his mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”
The words above are filled with religious significance and depth. They relate the broken heart of a man—and a president—for his fellow countrymen. Faith demands that we be utterly honest with both ourselves and God. Lincoln’s meditation was more than a mere method to inform the president’s decision making; it was itself a prayer.
First, Lincoln writes that God’s will is victorious. To understand what that means for him, Lincoln then references a philosophical idea called “the principle of noncontradiction.” Most famously explained by Aristotle, the principle holds that two opposing claims cannot both be true in the same way at the same time. Therefore, either the south was right that human beings are not equal, and some can thus be owned by others. Or the north was right that the expansion of slavery—even its existence—is immoral because all human beings have dignity.
Second, Lincoln writes that the outcome of the war might be different from what either side hopes for. God often works in unexpected ways. God’s logic often makes itself known through challenging and confusing times. Though painful, this can ultimately teach us to rely on God and trust that providence will lead us through. Finally, the president’s meditation on God’s will does not seem to have resolved all Lincoln’s confusion. The war must continue, for now. This brings him much grief, but he knows that it is right.

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April 15, 2026 at 9:25 am #238329

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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Thomas Cole The Course of Empire – Destruction 1836 • Over 20 US-Approved Ships Pass Through Hormuz (ZH) • U.S. Says Israel and Lebanon Agree to More
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 15 2026]

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Regime Change the Empire of Lies

Make Israel look like Gaza

Sic semper tyrannis

“The Ides of March”

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All in the Family

Hey, Meathead!
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The Worst DISASTER for the US: IRAN seized the surviving Latest US Infrared Anti-Missile System

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TAE Don Tzu Summary

All-in-One Quick Reference Card for your Wallet

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Trump as Crassus

Crassus was one of the richest and most powerful men in Rome.

He rose to the top alongside Julius Caesar and Pompey as part of the First Triumvirate, an informal three-man alliance that dominated Roman politics even though it was not an official office.

Crassus wanted military glory to match his wealth and political influence, so in 53 BC he led a Roman invasion of the Parthian Empire, which then ruled much of what is now modern-day Iran.

The campaign was a disaster, one of Rome’s worst military defeats.

Crassus ignored better advice and pushed deep into hostile territory.

Roman infantry was formidable in close combat, but the Parthians refused to fight on Roman terms. They stayed mobile, kept their distance, and rained arrows onto the legions until the Romans were exhausted and collapsing.

Crassus hoped the enemy would eventually run out of arrows. They never did.

He paid for that mistake with his life.

His death became famous partly because of the story that the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth, [YES] turning his demise into a lasting warning about arrogance, overreach, and the fatal habit of confusing wealth and status with strategic wisdom.

April 15, 2026 at 12:08 pm #238356

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April 15, 2026 at 12:16 pm #238357

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I must admit I’m rather taken aback that our gracious host, having been perfectly well able to see through the Empire’s obvious lies and misrepresentations in respect of the origins and prosecution of the illegal war of aggression in Ukraine, appears to simultaneously believe that, when it comes to Iran, every pronouncement by the denizens of the western MICIMATT complex is true and credible – viz: Iran is run by a coven of evil religious nutters, picked a fight with the US out of the blue and for no reason at all, but thankfully now the ‘Good guys’ have beaten them to a pulp and it’s only a matter of time before Netanyahoo rides through the gates of Tehran in triumph to crush his enemies, see them driven before him and hear the lamentation of their women.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting, but recent weeks have seen a distinct bias in the daily articles selected for TAE towards uncritical repetition, and apparent approval of, statements from various Washington and Tel Aviv mouthpieces.

“Helmer lost track too. Iran has nothing left to fight with.” – Really?

“The Pope’s criticism of Trump’s warmongering are indicative of a bad case of TDS” – Really?

“Khomeni destroyed Iran for 47 years” – Not the constant attacks and sanctions. Khomeni personally did this. Really?

Pretty much everything said or published in the western media about the war in Ukraine has been fairly transparent propaganda, but suddenly these same organs have foresworn their bad habits and are reporting honestly about Iran? I don’t believe that. Do you?

April 15, 2026 at 12:23 pm #238358

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donald trump kills children.
donald trump kills the elderly.
donald trump bombs hospitals.
donald trump bombs schools.
donald trump portrays himself as jesus.
donald trump sells arms to murderers.
donald trump makes money from murder.
donald trump helps his friends make money from murder.
donald trump is proud of operation warp speed.

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Iran Explains Why Negotiations with the US Failed

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Gold $4800, no direction. Silver near $80, possibly no direction. USDX 98. No change.

Oil $86, plummeting. Dow recovers all.

Now that DOES sound like a direction and someone’s decided who won. Don’t get after me, I didn’t make it and I don’t approve. I’m just pointing out facts over the fever delirium here. Far worse disease than Covid. The All-Americans-Must-Die disease.

“Over 20 US-Approved Ships Pass Through Hormuz, As Trump Eyes Jump-Starting Next Pakistan Peace Talks
It remains that ships not under sanction, & not visiting Iran’s ports can pass through American-imposed blockade.

Hmmm, that’s inconvenient.

So all ships worldwide including China are rushing here to make us rich. Golly, Jeff, I can’t think of any possible motive to close Hormuz or how foreign policy serves the domestic economy.

“China Rejects ‘Baseless Smear’ It’s Sending Weapons To Iran After Trump Warned Of ‘Big Problems’

China totally has their back. They’re denying helping at all. Um, might want to look into your friends, Iran. Not great. As yesterday: I take the other side of those bets. Also that China wants Iran flipped and open as much as we do.

“Netanyahu told Trump that Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks;”

No kidding. Dumbasses say a lot of things when they’re trying to sell you on something. It means nothing unless Trump has never met a used car salesman or been in a negotiation. Since reality is optional now, I guess that’s true now too! As I just made it all up just this minute.

“Israel was clearly wrong. Iran stood its ground.” Yes, and Trump let them get flattened. Funniest thing ever. Now Israel and their lobby are sorely wounded.

“Is The EU’s €90 Billion Loan To Ukraine Meant To Buy Time For The Return Of Democrats

So we hear. And they have to keep looking like they’re winning or they’ll release smallpox on us or something. Art of War: appear weak while still methodically moving your agenda forward “on accident.”

“Swalwell Resigns From Congress – Effective TODAY, After Fresh Rape Allegation And Corroborating Campaign Records

Promethean – one of the few not having lost their d—n minds — pointed out, he’s a PRESIDENTIAL candidate. But no one, never dun heard any of this before. From DOZENS of women. No background check, no rumors when he was on the Congressional Security Committee. Nope! That’s the FBI/CIA all a-doin’ their jobses.

But now, for Onnnnnnnnnnnnneee governorship, not even that important; Bam! Banhammer. Suddenly Democrats know! Democrats care! This is all totally legit!

“Netanyahu Boasts: Trump Admin Briefs Me Every Day On Iran

Or vice-versa. They are co-belligerants in a war. They talk? Jeez no kidding, how about that? You can not like the war! That’s fine. But the parties to the war communicating? That’s In-saaaaaaaaaaaaaane.

“Mossad Chief Declares Mission In Iran Not Over Until Regime Falls

I’m sure he does. They’ve made no secret of “wanting things”. So?

“”Obama Admin Manufactured Intelligence” in the 2016 presidential election.”

As we’ve all heard it, now it only means something when someone is arrested.

“Adam Shiff 10 years” Same here.

“John Brennan, James Comey and Hillary Clinton are headed for AN INDICTMENT”

And this. What’s holding you back? If you have this info, why are you telling me and not a policeman? That’s your job. (Okay, in fact, remember how they would release, let the Derp State counter-fire, over and over until by attrition, the Derp State would run out of ammo and move to “Okay it DID happen, but that was a GOOD thing?” Yeah. I see no counterfire when they float balloons anymore)

JFK Jr is in the news all over again. Half the people think he’s alive, which isn’t a bad bet if you look into his plane crash. He was traveling the world trafficking in secrets.

“More info and color has been added in the wake of failed talks between the US and Iran in Pakistan, per The New York Times”

Just yesterday, they weren’t talking and were never going to talk since Iran won and is presently taking over D.C.. What gives? Did something happen? When you’re wrong every day about things like this nothing happens and we still have to take you seriously?

Iran will give up uranium “Or else what?” Who is going to check and make them?

“Black-tracking ships.” This means a few things. Even as Iran mined OMANI waters and the ships are within sight of Iranian shores, they lack the capacity to identify and harass them. This will also be relevant when UN Navy is extensively de-mining, since it’s touchy, time-consuming business where the ships are parked and exposed to anything Iran wants to throw. …Which apparently they’re starting, looking for details.

Addendum to that: Iran does NOT control the Strait at all now, because “Control” means you can turn it off, sure, but also that you can turn it on. They cannot turn it on, and China is now locked out. So Iran is a useless ally.

Is Susan even a real person? She uses all AI construction. Every sentence.

“• Blood, Money, and The Trump Dynasty – Iran Shows How To Fight (Helmer)

Helmer thinks you win when you’re leveled and your opponent has taken 5% damage. …And he used to cover Ukraine! By this standard, Ukraine is indeed winning and will take Moscow any day now!

“and the presidential dynasty of his sons to succeed him” Da fuq, Helmer? “We Make S—t Up!” No one is even TALKING about this, even as it would take 1,000 steps to achieve it. Why not say Jeb Bush’s grandkids, not yet born?

He’s in the running for “Emotional Nonsense Award” front runner with Sachs. He only speaks when his brain disengages.

“Vance did not have a clear negotiating mandate for the negotiations, and lacked personal authority.”

Sure, maybe. How would anyone prove one way or another? What difference does it make? If Iran wanted peace would this stop them at all? A: No, No, none. See: Iran really really really wanted peace but the U.S. “Did something” and now Iran is a helpless victim again! Oh no! They sent a bishop and not a pope! So our hands were tied!!

General Patton always said the same thing: “If the conditions aren’t perfect, never move. Blame the other guy. Give up instead.” So Sayeth Chess Master Iran.

“Indonesia’s Strait of Malacca. But that hardly means Beijing minds its manners around its southern neighbor.”

That can’t be right. All BRIICS countries are uniquely moral and the “West” is uniquely bad. In fact, no nation or people was ever bad before we ended slavery worldwide. …Or something.

“BIG ruling against Boasberg et al.
• Appeals Court Terminates Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Trump Admin (ET) .

Means nothing. Like VA they have the Supreme Court rule firmly against something, next day pass a law defying it all over again. In this case guns, but everything else too. Power just means “Take power”. I don’t care about your stupid words. Canada was slapped over the Trucker “Emergency” three years after. Did anything happen? Nope. So 100% they will do it again, but harder. They need to be AT LEAST punished, but hopefully shot.

“any one of the members could have immediately gone to the microphones and discussed all of the information gained from within the questioning. They didn’t.”

Who are all Republicans. We know. Just like now. Boasberg could be out by 9am tomorrow. All Republicans want him, because he stops all “Republican” winning.

“John Ratcliffe was now a constitutionally confirmed DNI with access to the full record and work product that led to the previous impeachment effort. Why didn’t DNI John Ratcliffe release the ICIG investigative material and CIA whistleblower report?”

Same thing. We are all going to die in a nursing home still hearing about this, and the Gulf of No Arrests.

“Declaring war against ordinary Irishmen isn’t a good look for an Irish Deep State that can’t be bothered to guard its borders from hordes of invading foreigners.”

Stop. Re-read that. Those are the same thing. And that’s the Irish point here: Letting people in IS WAR ON IRELAND. And more, not JUST letting them in, which would be fatal, but PAYING them while Ireland chokes, then setting up TWO TIER justice so they, Africans, are Ireland’s rulers over the Native Irish people.

This was brought up in general: so you have a generation of Irish, and you rape 1:100 girls. I’m sure they won’t mind, won’t be affected by it, won’t change them, the culture for life or anything, right? Yes, this is an AUTHORIZED PLAN. This is the highest war crime. They know it’s happening, and far from stopping, as UK, are openly encouraging, nay, DEMANDING it. Every Afghan who says “He’ll be sad if he can’t rape English children” and gets to stay (many such cases) sends a signal to every OTHER (brown) person on the whole island. …And they’re definitely getting the message!! “Free Rape Widely” cards are being issued all over Europe, and the government stands by it 100 fold. Year after year. Decades now. Everyone knows. (Except women voters)

“• Mamdani Pledges to Open First City-Run Store (Tuirley)

Let me guess: Mamdani doesn’t have to follow ANY of the laws other businesses do in NYC, where getting a single permit can take 3 years and a million dollars. Nope! He’s good for it. We know he’s swell. So he is not experiencing anything like a business environment, having infinity capital, no risk, and ignoring any inconvenient part that they load on everyone else, while also presumably paying no taxes.

The irony here is, EVEN WITH THAT, they STILL fail. My GOD, what hath Socialism wrought that you could POSSIBLY fail when you start 80% to the finish line? It takes time to fail, but they ALREADY set up a number of these (Chicago was covered I think) and failed within 2 years or something, being a Stalinist store having only cabbage and potatoes in a dark, gray cavern of retail sadness?

How that’s possible, I have no idea, but it happens 100% of the time.

““Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day this year starting on the evening of April 13 into today, April 14.”

Ah. Well. You died LEAST of anyone in Europe, so I don’t want to hear it. 25 Million Russians died, you’re a rounding error. Also did you know there was a genocide in 1572? Honest! St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in France. And one in Ireland too! 1847. That is to say, “How long do you think this s—t holds water?” Get stuffed, Jack.

“[Lincoln] spoke about how the nation must be firm in faith: “Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land,”

Lincoln was a complicated Christian, may not have been one at all by the period standards. What this does is what you see today: Sturm und Drang where you can’t hear yourself think, all moorings uprooted. Then “Every man does what he thinks best in his own eyes.” Prov 21 And “What he thinks best” is what gives him POWER, and MONEY, ….and lots and lots of rapes, apparently. Who knew. Anyway, the point of Lincoln referring back to God, to Christianity, to a bible he probably didn’t believe in, was that it is about PRINCIPLES. Eternal, enduring principles of right and wrong that transcend local issues. Even as we seem to be doing that again today, however slowly.

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.”

As I say daily. Over and over and over and over and over. A thing and its opposite are not the same. Reality exists. Sturm und Drang makes you forget that.

“Lincoln then references a philosophical idea called “the principle of noncontradiction.” Most famously explained by Aristotle, the principle holds that two opposing claims cannot both be true in the same way at the same time.”

“Every year, approximately 1.19 million people die in road accidents worldwide.”

Sure. Except 100% OF THE TIME THE GOVERNMENT WILL ONE DAY KILL EVERYONE ON A SINGLE DAY. By shutting off the cars. If you give them this power. The 1M/year will pale in comparison to giving one group the power to kill EVERYONE. Always. There is never a thing in history this wasn’t applied to. This already happened in Ireland and elsewhere.

“Ayatollah Khomeini settles in France, where he plots the overthrow of Iran’s monarchy. “

Sure, except he never plotted anything. You see “Iron Man” the Mandalorian? He’s an actor drinking wine on a French estate, where MI6 and DGSE come in daily with briefings for him to memorize. GTFO.

“he destroys Iran for the next 47 years.”

Not really! The CIA, MI6, BP, and the Shah had already done that! He was just continuing the extraction to London in a more stable NoKo way.

Oh no, not FOX News and Napolitano. MI6 Asset Murdoch will be very pleased. And so the Judge has been right all along, or wrong all along? Going back, I dunno, 5 years or so?

Very first sentence: “The American proceeded as if we had won the war, which wasn’t true”. Okay, discard interview. This negotiation IS WHAT ENDS THE WAR, you idiot. It’s not over until this treaty-negotiation is signed. Next sentence: ALL AMERICANS MUST SURRENDER TO IRAN. Ah, thanks for that. On it. Totes.

Also riveting: Did you know they talked? No kidding! Oh noe! How dare they! They talked for hours! Yes! 21 hours! That means they’re not at all serious! Proof! Then did you know Zionists were there, as Israel is a party to the war? Whaaaaaa???? How dare they have people involved in the war involved in the war. We need only Bolivians and !Kung peoples.

…And other such logic.

And putting up Col. Kwaitkowski, who last time I reviewed had not ONE. SINGLE. FACT. In a whole half hour. Nothing. She knew NOTHING, and what she guessed was visibly retarded. So I’ll spare you reviewing this interview.

Wisdom of Don Tzu Meme: Amazing how every one of those points applies to Iran. “Make sure to threaten and alienate your your allies for no reason so they turn against you”. China. Russia. Jordan. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia. Oman, UAE. WHILE they openly bomb Turkey.

IF! IF IF IF IF IF, If only Iran had the support of ANNNNNY Muslims in the world, anywhere. Indonesia, Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Even Paris! Or Russia and China, then yes, they’d be in an okay position right now. The only Islamic Assets they have are Fox News and the Democratic Party, along with the governments of WEF/Muslim Europe.

You can not like the war! That’s fine! But you want IRAN to be the United States and rule the planet, for all humans worldwide to be killed thereby, and that’s not a trade.

But, enough.

April 15, 2026 at 1:15 pm #238376

those darned kids
Participant

minds are being lost..

April 15, 2026 at 1:15 pm #238377

Michael Reid
Participant

Russia to EU: “None who came to us with a sword left safe and sound” | RU-EN

April 15, 2026 at 1:37 pm #238378

charles
Participant

Its not stupid. Its useless. Its not informative. Its not analytical. I often agree with the feelz. But its just feelz. Useless.

April 15, 2026 at 1:43 pm #238379

Michael Reid
Participant

Dear Dr. D,

Do you agree with:

U.S. military operations against Russia?
U.S. military operations against Iran?
U.S. military operations against China?

April 15, 2026 at 1:44 pm #238380

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
Keymaster

When I see how people link Iran and Ukraine together, it tells me they don’t see what they do. That’s sort of fine, we can think different things.

But making TAE just another anti-Trump site is just too stupid. “Trump kills little children”. Do you get paid to say that?

April 15, 2026 at 2:11 pm #238381

those darned kids
Participant

my soul pays my conscience to say “that”.

pro tip: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”

April 15, 2026 at 2:16 pm #238382

D Benton Smith
Participant

One of the things that is learnable if one lives long enough is the incontrovertible fact that one might shed this mortal coil at any moment, maybe even mid-stride at the very time that one is in the midst of learning some great life-lesson in the first place, or while writing it down to share with others.

That’s the kind of day this day is shaping up to be, so I better write this down real quick before I’m struck dead in the very act of thinking it.

The Universe (meaning absolutely everything that is, was or ever shall be) is the work of the “originator” of it all, whom we refer to as “God” in order to save ourselves the time, effort and ink on longer and more detailed definitions.

THEREFORE, and this obviously obvious fact cannot possibly be overemphasized, it behooves us to do our level bestest to at least attempt to understand and align with that source of all sources of wisdom.

For starters, let’s not STUPIDLY presume that the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Divine Creator of the macrocosmic ALL is in any way dumber than we are. Everything you can do, God can do better. The sheer arrogance of thinking that God is not intelligent, purposeful, conscious and fully aware of it is so far over the top that the state of being which causes that level of dumb doesn’t even deserve its own word to label it.

The word hubris doesn’t even come close. Encountering that level of ignorance is physically, mentally and spiritually painful to even look at or hear, so please … I implore you… PLEASE try to refrain from pointless lies about things that you yourself are fully aware are not true.

In other words, please don’t DELIBERATELY lie. There are of course many times and situations when we just can’t seem to stop ourselves, but those aren’t the sorts of lies that I’m talking about. I’m talking about the bullshit that you damn well know is bullshit when you say it.

Just fucking stop it. You’re wasting your own time along with our time our time at the same time every time you indulge the vice. Please just cut to the chase, say your piece and feel good about yourself for having done that! You may well be as dumb as the rest of us but at least you are not being a God damned liar.

Here is the lie that I hate the worst: The lie that that it is somehow good, or even possible to seek to nullify the free will of another person by enforcing one’s own will over the will of that other person against their will.

What makes that attempted “control” so bad is that it is impossible. It cannot be done. It doesn’t work. It always fails in the most horrible ways when it is attempted.

I’m not saying that all of us are are not sometimes forced by circumstances to do it anyway (to enforce our own personal will over the will of some other individual soul against their will) ….. but there is nothing “good” about it.

Don’t foment the lie that the unnecessary taking or enslavement of another life is in any way a good thing.

April 15, 2026 at 2:27 pm #238383

D Benton Smith
Participant

The sheer arrogance of thinking that God is not intelligent, purposeful, conscious and fully aware of it is so far over the top that the state of being which causes that level of dumb doesn’t even deserve its own word to label it.

The word hubris doesn’t even come close.

Well there’s a first (and hopefully a last). I’m quoting myself to clarify a point that I didn’t really make in the first place.

Anyway, I’ve thought of the word I was looking for, the word that describes that basement level of stupid. The word is “oblivious”. The state of being in which not only does one not know a particularly vital piece of informational truth. They don’t even know that they don’t know. That’s the word for it alight, oblivious

April 15, 2026 at 2:30 pm #238384

tboc
Participant

Charge, Indict, Trial
Gabbard and Ratcliffe – male bovine pasture enrichment

” a hidden imperial system” – simple thoughts for simple minds

“We need to use the momentum of the Hungarian elections, to push for qualified majority voting!” – Ursula von der Lyen
The old europen guard has always favored monarchy and fiefdom

Rick Moran, whomever He thinks He is, does not seem to know the date 1054 or the word Jesuit. This boy, Moran, is out of his league. A battle of wits with The Vatican? – get outta town!
Here is a clue for you Rickey, Popes have a history of writing letters. Have a doctrinal issue accepted
and addressed as a matter of faith?
a word to the wise is sufficient

City Run grocery store:
What the hell is wrong with you? We can’t take the profit garnered for exploting poverty out of the equation!

i’m from the south, peddle your saint abe merchandise elsewhere.

April 15, 2026 at 2:45 pm #238385

zerosum
Participant

Idiots guide on how to lie and hide the truth.

Read more …from TAE
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April 15, 2026 at 2:54 pm #238386

D Benton Smith
Participant

A worm like James Howard Kunstler should not use the word “worm” in the title of his maggot riddled essay glorifying the corpses stacking up from the noble efforts of Israel and America to steal (by main force and killing) the land and lives of other people living in foreign places.

If you’re looking for an example of one of the REAL “Bad Guys” you need look no farther than James Howard Kunstler. He believes it is okay to kill people and take their stuff on the sole basis of being “better” (in some ill-defined way) than the folks you are robbing.

April 15, 2026 at 2:59 pm #238387

Michael Reid
Participant

Decency and morality

“
my soul pays my conscience to say “that”
“
Humanity
Money not a factor

April 15, 2026 at 3:07 pm #238388

D Benton Smith
Participant

@Ilargi

When I see how people link Iran and Ukraine together, it tells me they don’t see what they do. That’s sort of fine, we can think different things.

But making TAE just another anti-Trump site is just too stupid. “Trump kills little children”. Do you get paid to say that?

Trump DOES kill little children. We have the receipts to prove it. So does most of the rest of the entire world with accelerating understanding. We’re not paid to say that truth (quite the contrary indeed!) we are telling you …. for free….. because we like you.

If your sources of information are people anything like James Howard Kunstler (and yes, we are aware that you and he are friends) then that goes a long way toward understanding how you could possibly have your head so far up your ass on the matters we so often address on this forum.

April 15, 2026 at 3:30 pm #238390

zerosum
Participant

People are bold in front of cameras/in front of an audience.

April 15, 2026 at 3:39 pm #238391

D Benton Smith
Participant

Just watch this and listen to the data. Then tell be what needs to be done, or not done, about Trump.

April 15, 2026 at 3:44 pm #238392

thomasjkenney
Participant

# blackhole
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Topcat’s post are now impotent one-liners that don’t land.

April 15, 2026 at 3:53 pm #238393

D Benton Smith
Participant

The answers that everyone is looking for are in the Epstein Files. (duh) AND in the external data sources and document evidence that Epstein’s stuff shows to exist elsewhere. Look underneath the redaction black-outs. Nothing much changes all that much until somebody authoritatively reveals the content of the files AND the content of the non-Epstein data that the Epstein Files point to.

The war of attrition continues until that task is done.

April 15, 2026 at 4:00 pm #238394

tboc
Participant

Just Some Randomer public opinion is being shaped by which information is marketable. As you see the current bias the next emotion baiting topic is being prepared.
At any given time the perspectives that are currently profitable appear here, whether in the aggregated information or comments. The news cycle is so short that even the most informed are reacting to yesterdays perspective.
Our host maintains this site for a purpose. The site is valuable in the market place of ideas.

April 15, 2026 at 4:17 pm #238395

tboc
Participant

“Trump kills little children”. Do you get paid to say that? ”

Do you get paid not to say that? Takes more than one to make a clusterfuck.

April 15, 2026 at 4:21 pm #238396

D Benton Smith
Participant

@tboc

“Trump kills little children”. Do you get paid to say that? ”

Do you get paid not to say that?

Well placed shot! Amidships at the waterline.

April 15, 2026 at 4:28 pm #238397

D Benton Smith
Participant

@tboc

The site is valuable in the market place of ideas.

Man, you are on a roll.

“Marketplace of ideas”, indeed. A Fair Market, closed market, gray market, black market and ‘dark web’ market combined, all rolled into one.

It’s the kind of marketplace where everything and anything that anyone places value upon can be purchased with whatever you’ve got that the seller thinks is worth something to him.

A murder in exchange for a lie? Deal! How about a betrayal in exchange for a genocide or power and immunity in exchange for child rape? Shop’s open.

April 15, 2026 at 4:31 pm #238398

Dr. D
Participant

Pretty reasonable VDH. He’s a little Pro-America as expected but not all that much, really.

Anything not completely insane is fresh air at this point.
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