Debt Rattle April 24 2026
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April 24, 2026 at 9:35 am #239165
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterGeorgia O’Keeffe New York Street with Moon 1925 • Trump Says Not Anxious, ‘All The Time In The World’ To End War (ZH) • Mojtaba Khamenei With Medical
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 24 2026]April 24, 2026 at 10:27 am #239224Michael Reid
ParticipantISRAEL REFLECTS THE MORAL, SPIRITUAL, AND INTELLECTUAL BANKRUPTCY OF ITS PARENT EMPIRE
April 24, 2026 at 11:19 am #239226Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 24, 2026 at 11:57 am #239227Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 24, 2026 at 11:59 am #239229D Benton Smith
Participant@JustSomeRandomer
Our host, Mr Meijer seems to be engaged in similar mental gymnastics on the topic of the Iran conflict, which really puzzles me.
Research the ethnic origins of the surname Meijer and you will become less puzzled. We all exist in a milieu of one kind or another (and often of many kinds mixed together), and Ilargi’s milieu has a disproportionate number of very corrupted data sources in it (Nazis, Jews, Kazarian’s, European Royals, various so-called ‘Secret Societies’ and religions). It’s a testimony to Raul’s basically wonderful character that he has even survived. RIM is like a canary in the coal mine who by some inexplicable miracle continues to breath and chirp his warnings long after the coal gas has killed everyone else in the mine.
He deserves the highest medal of valor the world could offer, and yet barely gets the respect afforded to Rodney Dangerfield. Be kind. And grateful.
April 24, 2026 at 12:02 pm #239230Dr. D
Participant“‘If my people’: Here’s why the Bible passage Trump read aloud is so potent and polarizing
President Donald Trump has read a notable Bible passage in a livestreamed marathon. The passage, from 2 Chronicles 7:14, is often quoted by those who believe America was founded as a Christian nation.” The Associated PressThe AP, suddenly radically pro-Christian, after helping Biden and Obama arrest Christians nationwide. How dare he misuse this sacred tome? See? Goes to show everyone can be redeemed. I’m sure the AP will get on their knees and beg forgiveness to the Virgin Mary and those they have wronged forthwith.
Actually, their ears burn, their mind reels and they are close to burst into flames when hearing even the name of the Lord, much less his word.
Actually, it says this:
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Highly polarizing to ask for the end of wickedness and a return to Law, Logos, and Good. I can see why Evil AF people like the AP don’t want to hear such things or Brennan might be arrested and the Epstein Files kept in the headlines every day, toppling governments like eg Starmer or useful servants like eg Steve Bannon and Bill Clinton.
To the AP, aside from The Truth, humility, God, and repentance are the major crimes, and must be prevented at all costs.
The AP’s official position: There weren’t any Christians in America in 1776-1789. ‘Natch. Today’s Nazis just made it all up. Obviously this is uniquely evil part of MAGA and no nation in any other time or place has ever used this passage, or the Bible, to support generic patriotism, and generic good.
BTW they DID consecrate “America” in precisely this way at Plimoth Colony. Like Glastonbury and King Arthur, a lot happens in all nations, but what do the English harken back to as their Creation Story? Same here, not some dude in Lake Champlain. Not Florida. Not Roanoake. Plymouth. Right or wrong that’s what it’s been and they did do this as point of literal fact. The Founding Fathers would have been More Christian than the last three Popes just by sitting around DOUBTING Christ and not having statues of Pachimama installed while trafficking hundred-thou children through Mexico.
The AVERAGE person from 1961 is probably more hard-core fundamentalist Christian than the Pope. Look it up, there are records. Example: what did the AVERAGE worker in UK want in 1961? Marriage, children, etc. How many were on birth control in the whole nation? 30k. Why? Because they were all married and didn’t have premartitial sex. That is, by today’s standards they would be about 100 miles to the RIGHT of the hard-core Latin Tradcaths.
That’s the AVERAGE. So when I make fun of an AVERAGE Lib who went to Brown and never left Brooklyn, this is what I mean. They think they are the world average human, when they are so far out into cultural suicide you can’t see the life raft from here. They are weirdos perhaps further than ever have existed on Planet Dirt.
“Trump meanwhile orders US Navy to ‘shoot & kill’ small Iranian boats amid concern over mines…”
The US is running minesweepers. That means they can hang out in the Straits at 3mph and Iran can’t do anything about it. When the mines are cleared, boats will take that route and not be near the Iranian coast. The End.
Worse, they gave an order to sink all minelayers, and people have no patience for mines, so no matter what small boat they sink, they’ll call it a minelayer.
“Tether Freezes $344 Million USDT Stablecoins Flagged For Illicit Activity”
Yes, they are not Cryptos, they are just central ledgers. I say this. No one cares. There are no crypto privacy people left.
“Pot Stocks Soar As DoJ Reclassifies Medical Marijuana As Less Dangerous Drug
Must be election season has started. But thank God. Now we just have to worry about everybody lighting up and being useless. Which they are. These weeds are also high as s—t. Might as well be shrooms. Whyyyyyyy? Is there NOTHING the government can’t ruin?
“Sweden Will Consider Ways To Limit Energy Use If Iran War Continues, Government SaysThis will make literally no difference to the world, but perhaps be means to save their own country. If so, then removing 5 million illegals is way easier and might actually work in days.
“Europe Bets On Newsom To Reverse Trump’s America – And Save Its Own ModelI bet they do. But Gavin is as popular a bedbugs.
“Iran Announces First Hormuz Toll Fees Successfully Transferred To Central Bank
Very nice. However, what are you going to buy when you’re blockaded? 2) You have no navy, so the U.S. is clearing the mines you invaded and set in Oman. When they do, the ships won’t be near Iran anymore and very hard to capture.
“Air Force Extends Use Of Iran Attack Plane A-10 ‘Warthog’ To 2030
Didn’t they try to kill these 20 years ago, or indeed all along? It was only overwhelming interest from the grunts and public that made them stop. They told us we were stupid and needed One F22 Penguin instead of 200 A-10s. Experts. Always wrong never in doubt.
“Euthanasia Is Now 6% Of All Deaths In The Netherlands
I apologize. I was going to say that Canada was the murder and eugenics capital of the world, but apparently they’re only #2. Canada does this so they can look down their noses and Moralize to the U.S. So long as they can point at the U.S. they never have to fix non-stop mass-murders in Ontario.
“Cathie Wood that autonomy, robotic taxis, makes Tesla about a $5 trillion company.”
Cathie Wood is the trader that lost the most money the fastest of anyone on Wall Street. The reason they headlined her like Tiger Woods was DEI and that she was shilling late-stage stocks they were dumping on the muppets. Taxis are worth $5 Trillion? You need to do your maths. If they were $5 Billion I might be surprised.
Are optimus cheaper than humans doing the same task but not hallucinating and killing people?
“• Trump Says Not Anxious, ‘All The Time In The World’ To End War (ZH)
Sort of, but I don’t know about that. He might more accurately point out that Iran is making us immensely rich and powerful. Thanks guys! You’re the bestest! Never open the Straits.
“”news that Ghalibaf has resigned is completely false.”
These are the guys who put up a cardboard cutout of Khomeini, any only yesterday said he’s so incapacitated he hasn’t been able to speak for 4 weeks? But yesterday he was fine but just in a bunker. Well, that’s still more reliable than AP and the BBC!
“Parliament Speaker Resigns after IRGC Intervention”
It’s impossible to deduce anything here, and pointless, but this might mean what I was saying: the Civilian just found out that the IRGC was the only government all along, and has resigned in protest. Second, that means we don’t know who’s running the country, like our side has been saying. The Pro-Iranian side (That is, Fox News and Republicans alone) were all saying Iran was untouched and unharmed and stronger than ever. So of course it was ridiculous to think there might be any confusion when like 1/3 of the leaders and officers were all dead. Just as bombed = not bombed, the same, Dead = Not Dead, to all the clever people in the West.
I don’t know why we ever invented bombs or used to kill people in wars n’ stuff because apparently it never had any effect on physical or political outcomes. We were just dum for 10,000 years I guess.
“With all due respect, remain skeptical about the credibility of the The New York Times report.”
Absolutely. Just assume “They made everything up”, as it’s the NY Times. The only thing that makes it slightly credible is that it’s not overwhelmingly Pro-Iranian. They’ll leave that to Fox News and the Republicans.
WHYYYYY do I have to be the one to say “Fox News isn’t credible”? Or “Iranian/Chinese State News isn’t credible”? Or “AI hallucinations aren’t credible”? Doesn’t that stand to reason and taken for granted?
I’m not saying EMB or Luongo are correct, only that they make SOME sense while regular news and Fox Pundits make none at all.
“• Trump Orders U.S. Navy to Shoot Any Iranian Mine Ships (Catherine Salgado)That’s ‘cause we already DID say that but it was very dangerous there before, and A-10s were blasting them but the area was large. He’s SAYING this now because Iran has almost nothing to throw at this point and we’re operating directly in the area. Again, that means ANYTHING we sink we’re going to say “Oops, a mine-layer”.
“It is not clear to whom Trump referred as “moderates,” because all the leaders of the Iranian regime still in power are part of the world’s worst terrorist regime that has been attacking Americans”
Blah blah blah. Where? How? Iran is not attacking Americans EVEN NOW. They attacked Israel who was poking them, and like the CIA or Hussein who Rumsfeld armed with 1M men and chemical weapons for a 10-year war from Iraq, our close ally. And there are always moderates in comparison to something. This paragraph exists to give Iran a black eye they mostly don’t deserve. How about “Extremists” in Saudi, who chip hands daily, rape people and say “Oops my dick fell inside her” (this actually happened) and suspend like 100,000 passports so they don’t have to pay Pakistani coolies $5/hr? That seems pretty “extreme” to me, but what do I know? NO Kings! …Except in Saudi Arabia, England, Spain…
“Qalibaf smirked.”If you’re trying to make yourself as reliable as Iranian TV (they are) this is a good way to do it. So thanks for being so open about it.
“President Donald Trump has signed five executive orders that address critical segments of the nation’s energy infrastructure”They are trying to run a world starvation and genocide of WWIII by doing this. Clear as the nose on your face: that’s why 1) No farms 2) pave all farmland with solar and condos 3) Import infinity people 4) Kill cows. So yes, we’re in a Black Forest, 1943 era of preventing that crunch.
Like the crazed theory that we’re actually not hitting Iran and it’s a Wag the Dog put-up job, heard something else for consideration. EMB says “They” want WWIII and are tireless for agitating Russia, nukes, China, etc, and it’s pretty hard to stop. But if you want to stop WWIII, it’s pretty easy: Go take all the choke points and sit on them, refusing to war. We just did that. No one in the world HAS a Navy but us, pathetic as ours has become. China’s Navy is beginning and isn’t designed for power projection, but nearby defense, and good on ‘em for that. So suppose you want a war: Yeah, and when we sit on Malacca you can’t spread. If you get uppity and we sit on Hormuz, you’re going to be squeezed by the balls, as we are to Europe right now. If you want to hold us in the Gulf (a harder task) we took Venezuela and soon Cuba, with double-down on Western Hemisphere power to secure Panama. In addition, DECADES of war materials are being slowly trickled out, like Ukraine, and when destroyed PREVENT it from happening all at once, gruesome as that solution is. Both Iran and Israel are practically disarmed now, for instance. Maybe this is why they ride to Har-Meggido on horses.
On the flip side, the point of Iran was to get them missiles that could hit all those choke points and London/Europe could DENY they had anything to do with it so they didn’t get nuked back.
I’ll have to think about it, but the concept isn’t wrong. Apparently everyone wanted to hand the keys of the planet to Iran ‘cause they’re so trustworthy and it’s a completely Libertarian value to have one nation control everything so long as it’s anyone but the United States.
Anyway, we have critical problems with CA refineries and Fertilizer. They are bad but containable. Problem with Alberta may be solved shortly as they’ve had about enough of the f—kwits out of Ottawa. Canada will be cut in half, shatter and be a rump state. OR they can all get rich and prosperous, expel 10% of their population, Eschew Genocide, and become Canada again. Don’t care. The other parts are all mop-up, farms vs solar as we re-deploy the panels, open nuke plants with Duke Energy down south, and adjust grids and pipelines.
ATM we also have Europe by the balls as they can ONLY get the gas we allow at any price we feel like, and we need that gas too so perfect excuse to cut them off whenever.
“For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center occupied a kind of sacred space in American media”
And WHY. No other random group held that power. The Right might have “LibWatch” and it meant nothing. SPLC was a straight extortion racket and they should prosecute them for that, even if they lose the case. They would CLAIM you were a Nazi, but if you PAID them with donations they would go away. There is no clearer definition of “extortion” or “racket”.
“and when organic hate proved insufficient, the group manufactured it”This is a key point. Maybe the essential point for all history books. There’s essentially no racism in the U.S. Almost every nation is more racist than we are. Even if you FIND a racist, they deny it. That’s not “racism”. Any threshold for being a racist would be being open, proud, and active about it. This stands to reason as everyone is mixed race here, essentially. (Whatever “race” means to begin with) Let’s take you hate black people: yes but all your friends are half-Jewish, half-Asian, half-Italian, half-Mayan. See the problem? The essence of “Racism” is that THERE ARE ANY PURE RACES AT ALL TO BEGIN WITH. There aren’t.
So they call “I don’t prefer those guys” = Racism. And this isn’t crazy, it’s the same thing Trannies tried: that if you PREFER women with a vagina, you’re a bigot. Or if you PREFER blondes or women under 300lbs, you’re a misogynist. It’s clearly deranged, of the narcissistic sector. No: that’s not what any of those words mean.
So, repeat it with me kids, the SPLC, “We Make S—t Up”. They are adult Americans, that means everything they say is a bold and wicked, bare-faced lie.
“• Lavrov Warns Of ‘Rampant Satanism’ In EU (RT)Finally we’ve come far enough that any living human says this, the audience just looks up from the screens and says “Yup.” Again, so they, the West, the leaders, the Elites are HIGHLY RELIGIOUS, as we can tell from their actions. They are not atheists or science people at all. It’s just WHICH religion they are zealots for. The murder and amputation of children and rape of women religion…hmmm…which one would that be?
“Moyn claims that older Americans are overrepresented in elections which gives them a stranglehold”
And in his religion (Socialism) we solve this with murder, like all problems. …Of course THE YOUNG COULD JUST VOTE, as they firmly outweigh the Olds right now, but that would require WORK, a thing Socialists (the young) won’t do.
“But these are retirement age programs sponsored and legislated by liberals, not reactionary elderly,”
Government! Helping! Now government needs to help by killing everyone. Always helping.
April 24, 2026 at 12:07 pm #239231Dr. D
ParticipantOh yeah: Day 29? Of no page numbers or evidence on Trump at all while —
The entire Starmer government collapses under DIRECT involvement with 20-year trafficking in state secrets to Epstein, not a peep… AND!
Iran, which is in direct war with us, as well as Russia, China, and North Korea ALSO can’t find the page numbers and evidence of Trump-Epstein. Or Melania-Epstein.
Just upping the ante a little, it’s got boring.
April 24, 2026 at 12:12 pm #239232D Benton Smith
ParticipantAnyone or any nation claiming to be Christian and at the same time promoting war and the murder of innocents is at best a sinful fool tottering on the brink of the Hell of their own making. They should reform themselves and beg forgiveness with every fiber of their being.
April 24, 2026 at 12:32 pm #239233D Benton Smith
Participant@DrD
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Deserves being said again.
And what, pray thee, is the name of God and how does one call Him by it?
Well, that is a very, very, very, very good question and I recommend that every person seek to answer it.
Here is what the incomparably greatest poet of all time had to say about it. That person was named Rumi, who was a 13th Century Sufi Persian poet known to all the world at that time and loved by all. I find that to be remarkably fitting in this case, don’t you think? That the man who best answered the question of who is the Christian God would turn out to be an Iranian Muslim radical from nearly a thousand years ago. https://youtu.be/eV5aH1D6X6E?si=d6QM9J4HH1ra-e9D
April 24, 2026 at 12:48 pm #239234John Day
ParticipantFrom last night, about who is “winning” and “losing”…
Who “won” the 100 years war?
The function of the war is sometimes to be at war.
There are emergency powers. There is compliance. there are “reasons you can’t fix things today”.
This war is about resources and financial regimes, and the underlying mismatches grow worse by the day.
War is the management technique.April 24, 2026 at 1:03 pm #239235Just Some Randomer
Participant@Dr D
“The US is running minesweepers. That means they can hang out in the Straits at 3mph and Iran can’t do anything about it.”
Trump said. Evidence? I know he’s a very stable genius paragon of truth and all so forgive my scepticism.
April 24, 2026 at 1:09 pm #239236D Benton Smith
ParticipantThe correct response to the invitation to wage war is to simply not take up the offer. Simply don’t do it. Don’t wage war. At all. Don’t use force and violence to make other people not do it (violent force) to others or to you and your loved ones.
I resolve to begin doing that, starting right now. I am not doing war and I aim to keep it that way, regardless of danger. I am not only not doing it. I don’t even want to do it. I do not want to use force and violence to make someone else do anything against their will.
I am not wanting to wage war to make other people stop doing it. I will ask them, and tell them in no uncertain terms (!!!) how bad enforced control is and to just stop. Stop trying to involuntarily control people using force, violence and lies.
It doesn’t work. It always and only makes everything worse, not better. Not even for the guy who does it!
April 24, 2026 at 1:24 pm #239237Dr. D
ParticipantFor above and below, look up the near 1,000 year tome on what makes a Christian “Just War”.
Since every nation on earth dos war, ours is no different. And yes, maybe if we did Chron 7:14 we’d stop douchebagging it with all these dumb wars no one wants, paid for by our own CIA (MI6) against everyone’s will. But also we would be internal coherent and not at risk or causing them (with 50 years in Israel, Iraq, or Obama) in the first place. But we’re here, so yes, beg for repentance.
There are just wars, and yes, they are just and necessary until we all become enlightened.
Anyway, had this laying around, good time:
About Canadian Armed forces yesterday: They are a joke and have been since the Avro Arrow. WHY you can make your own guess, and were adequate to like a Scandinavian power up until, I dunno, take your pick. Mulrooney even. Fine. But in “recent” era are non-operational, and have been savagely ethnically cleansing the CAF of all “Canadians” meaning anyone vaguely associated with traditional beliefs about Canada, all men and all whites, i.e. “All of them”. And putting in the worst, most feckless military-destroying NPC fembots they could find anywhere. Now for some AMAZING reason they now seem to have a “Recruiting problem.” Who knew? Since they savagely hate anyone from anywhere that calls Himself a Canadian, drinks Labatts, tells dirty jokes, and wants to shoot moose n’ stuff. NOW they want to waive all requirements and have an ALL-INDIAN, Pashtun, non-Citizen army, or what we usually call “An Army of Colonial Occupation.” And they already said they want to kill all the whites and all the gun owners, in their own houses, so why not believe them?
That’s neither here nor there, you can have any army you want. Problems are, CARNEY wants to go “Elbows Up” and fight and resist America and Donald Trump. Okay then, you need an army! That’s how these things go. Your army is made of people, young men, and the ones who have the loosest Provincial Experience with guns, i.e. Alberta. Then Sask.
So you have no guns, no familiarity with guns, you want to TAKE all the guns, so no one, no normal Canadian Citizens are armed to defend the place, THEN purge all those guys from the Army THEN have no home-grown arms industry, no oil, no industry at all, and THEN fight the entire United States of Hitler AFTER the U.S. just conquered Western Europe in 40 days.
Tell me what’s wrong with this picture.
Or you, being highly alarmed with America’s aggressive, belligerent, non-stop wide bombing campaign, then ALSO says “We need to fight the United States and her policy by assigning NO MONEY TO WEAPONS AT ALL, and going totally Kumbaya, pro-peace.” War is bad m-kay. War in Iran, anywhere, all guns R bad.
No? If not then you DO need to get an army, recruit, spend for it, and hand every Canadian a free rifle and encourage them to use them widely in every city and province, because that’s your only hope here. You can’t have both, they’re Opposites. You can’t say “That’s Pro-Globalist, billionaire war agenda” (for all good Canadians to be armed and eg defend themselves from burglary). You’re either fighting it, or you’re not. If you’re not, like at present, we’re going to roll in ONE Abrams to downtown Ottawa and take the whole place for lols, see if we don’t, so be glad we’re nice and can’t be bothered because it’s not anything in Canada right now that’s stopping us.
I for one would NEVER allow my country to be in such a state, and would bury infinity rifles like the IRA did. How you get away with it even now is a mystery, but should Pashtun Peoples take over the whole armed Forces and be run by illegal murder-bots like Justin Moosilini has proven to be, you may wish you HAD smuggled those RPGs in and Alberta was your capital. What are you thinking? (Can’t find chart of active duty men, but %GDP was pathetic 2% in 1980 and half that by 2000)
And that’s best-case since at 1/10th the size, your options are very, very poor in any possible case, but at least like Zurich, you can make them/us pay dearly for it.
Being armed is not being a war-monger. It means you’re not a sap. It’s just part of being a living being, like having a door on your house or tipi.
Let’s be useful: at 1/10th the size of the U.S. what can you POSSIBLY do to defend yourselves against the greatest (projection) military force on earth? I mean, you can pay nothing, and just give up, that’s possibly the best option. Become the 51st state. I wouldn’t tho. What has EVERY state next to a large neighbor done in all history? There are thousands of examples.
One, you buy at least one rifle for every living Canadian (Citizen) and force them all to training to know how to use them, going full Swiss or Israeli (or Belgium) plan. Then you make a home grown “Badger” APC or whatever and have enough in the nation – ten-thousands – to make a difference. You mine every road and bridge and wellhead. You make standing forces far larger for an officer resistance corps, and focus on the kind of 5GW guerrilla-fighting that doesn’t win but makes the enemy pay dearly. You disconnect completely from the U.S. and our economy, and become fully independent in food, cars, refineries. You create a huge steel industry and a hard Navy; you can really hurt us with that. You begin the patriotic round on Canada again, what IS Canada (no one knows even now except nose-picking hatred of the U.S.) and what makes it great and worth dying for. This is in direct contradiction to the immigrant wave you have, both in ethos and mouths to feed, so 10M of them will need to be re-deported to the nation of their actual citizenship. They will need to be far more atomized and less centralized 10 miles from the US border, with far more prosperity set up in Arctic “Moisture Farms” of underground mushroom growing or whatever is possible, I dunno, that’s your problem.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of changes to make yourself a viable, happy, prosperous, patriotic country entirely independent from the U.S. so you can for the love of God live your own life and stop looking at and complaining about us all the time. All these things are totally possible: some very fast, some very slow. It’s a vision to have that most Canadians would join on to!
But they won’t, they will do nothing, destroy more Canadians and everything Canada stands for, then sit around on their thumb and complain. Like everyone else in the world. Like you’ve done with drug collapse in rural Canada and Canadian drug cartel money laundering right now. Then what happens is, Socialist Canada pisses off Alberta, steals all money, doesn’t care, and Alberta becomes a U.S. Territory in process of becoming a state. Whether you ATTACK and KILL fellow Canadians over that, no matter. I expect all Ontario would be greedy to murder cessionary “terrorist” Albertans for daring to produce oil and want to keep their own money. Sask, M.B., and all of B.C. minus Hong Couver join. Que. Clips out, demanding hard-core concessions and there IS no Canada at all in 2 years. No contiguous borders. Besides, Que is EXTREMELY large and VERY important. Focus is on Calgary, but Quebec is arguably the sleeper and more essential. They are also EASILY able to be a viable, independent nation, and are larger than Argentina or Iran, with nothing but ports, resources, coherent language, and working people. Ontario is land-locked, as Que owns the river and can demand anything they want easier than any Hormuz, and have a 100-year axe to grind.
Here’s an idea though: don’t do any of that. Just be normal instead and realizing having an army of self-defense isn’t selling out to evil or billionaires – you already did that from 1980-now – it’s just a necessary part of being alive. Atm you want no army AND to not be conquered AND to pick fights with your armed, roving neighbor. Again, what’s wrong with this picture?
April 24, 2026 at 1:39 pm #239238D Benton Smith
ParticipantI haven’t seen or read any evidence that God cares how we accomplish a world without war and other forms of forced involuntary violence to control people. I think He just wants it done.
He said so very explicitly in that Bible quote DrD posted this morning, the key portions of which instructs like a literal checklist 1) humble yourself , 2) pray, 3) seek God’s face and lastly #4) turn from your wicked ways. I don’t see how He could have said it any clearer. He said follow those steps and he would forgive your mistakes and reward you with His eternal love and sanctuary.
That’s a sweet deal. You should take it.
April 24, 2026 at 1:43 pm #239239D Benton Smith
ParticipantNotice that there were no Brand Names, hierarchies or “fine print” in those instructions. Just humbly pray, seek “God’s face”, and clean up your act.
April 24, 2026 at 1:51 pm #239240zerosum
ParticipantDid you know?
The Southern Poverty Law Center, (SPLC ).
has been indicted by a grand jury for allegedly funneling millions in donor funds directly to the extremist groups it claimed to be fighting — including the KKK and neo-Nazis, funding the very extremist groups it claimed to fight.
The manufactured climate of fear had real political consequences.
Gutfeld acknowledged that the allegations still need to be proven in court.
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Also, did you know?Last year, on the 13th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), And here’s the number the left doesn’t want to talk about:
of 270 DACA recipients arrested between Jan. 1, 2025, and Sept. 28, 2025, 250 — that’s 92% — had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. Nine out of ten.There are over 505,000 currently active recipients in the country, more than 84,000 in Texas alone.
In other words, DACA recipients who commit crimes are deportable under existing law, just like any other illegal alien. The program never granted immunity.
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Did you forget how to do math?2% of GDP would be enough to eliminate the problems of homelessness.
However, 2% of GDP is spent on war efforts.
———–April 24, 2026 at 2:05 pm #239241zerosum
ParticipantThe Iran War Summary: Week Eight
24th April 2026
Dr. Rob Campbellhttps://robcampbell.substack.com/p/the-iran-war-summary-week-eight
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Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update
24th April 2026
Dr. Rob Campbellhttps://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-76c
April 24, 2026 at 3:49 pm #239249Michael Reid
ParticipantJeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Defeat in Iran & Decline of the U.S. Empire
April 24, 2026 at 3:55 pm #239250Michael Reid
ParticipantIran as a Power Factor: How Geopolitics Is Changing — Krapivnik & Ritter
April 24, 2026 at 4:24 pm #239251zerosum
ParticipantIf closing the Strait causes so much energy crisis what will “bomb Iran into the ‘stone age” do to energy and to societies?
April 24, 2026 at 4:40 pm #239254TAE Summary
ParticipantA Tale of Two Trumps
* Pro-Trump
– People who don’t like Trump are delusional and suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrom
– Trump is a Christian; He has made mistakes in the past but has faced possible assassination, has repented and was born again
– Trump has been savaged by the MSM because he called them out for liberal fake news; He has been betrayed by even those on the right like Tucker Carlson who have been corrupted
– Trump cares deeply about America and the American people; Everything he does is for them at his expense
– Trump is using Executive Orders to get things done that congress needs to do but won’t; He is saving our democracy by outing corrupt judges and politicians
– Trump has closed the border and is deporting criminals and terrorists who have illegally entered the country; People like George Soros have organized gullible liberals into opposing ICE
– Trump is a genius; He is playing 4D chess and thinking 10 moves ahead
– Trump exaggerates, blusters, trolls and threatens as a negotiating strategy; In the end this has proven to be an effective technique
– The 2016 Russian collusion theory was a hoax created by the Obama administration; Trump’s impeachment for this will be overturned; The American judicial system was weaponized against him with multiple baseless cases being brought against him by corrupt prosecutors and judges
– The 2020 election was stolen from Trump; This is now obvious; Those involved should be prosecuted; Lock them up
– Trump attacked Iran because they presented a clear and present danger to the US and other countries; They were close to creating a nuclear weapon and would have used it on their enemies; Iran has been a bad actor for 50 years; Other presidents have known this but were too weak to do what was necessary; We are winning the war with Iran which will result in increased peace and security in the middle east and the entire world and will lead to global prosperity
– Trump’s action will ensure the global dominance of the US dollar; This is a good thing
– Trump is far and away the best president we’ve ever had* Anti-Trump
– People who like Trump are delusional sycophants
– Trump is a narcissist and pedophile and of the lowest character
– Trump impugns news organizations because they don’t agree with his ridiculous agenda; Even right wing pundits like Tucker Carlson have turned against him
– Trump cares nothing for America and the American people; Everything he does benefits him or those in his circle
– Trump is using Executive Orders to rule the country as a dictator; He is persecuting judges and other public officials because they disagree with him
– Trump has weaponized ICE and is needlessly terrorizing communities and killing US citizens; They are his own private Gestapo
– Trump is a moron; He has no long term plan and shoots from the hip
– Trump lies, rants, trolls and threatens because he lacks control; This has proven to be a losing strategy
– Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election; He was impeached for this and should have been convicted and removed from office; He is a convicted felon and should not have been allowed to run in 2024
– Trump lost the 2020 election and has never accepted that; His administration is focused on revenge; They are involved in a witch hunt to punish their political opponents
– Trump attacked Iran for his own benefit and the benefit of Israel; Iran was not trying to build a nuclear weapon and was not a threat to other countries; We are losing the war in Iran; The war will result in the increased conflict in the middle east and the entire world and will lead to economic instability and famine
– Trump is far and away the worst president we’ve ever hadApril 24, 2026 at 4:47 pm #239255D Benton Smith
ParticipantTurns out that the SPLC was a Zionist Jewish-Evangelical Christian front group from the git go. One of the two SPLC Founders (Morris Seligman Dees was an Israel First fan-boy Evangelical [i.e. racist war mongering anti-Christ fake ‘Christian’]) and the other founder (Joseph J. Levin Jr.) was just a straight up Mossad asset.
This is right up there with Erica Kirk being a Rothschild. You couldn’t make this shit up, and why would you need to? The raw truth is as crazy-evil as any crazy-evil imagination could invent.
April 24, 2026 at 4:59 pm #239256Doc Robinson
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Trump’s Dreams for a Battleship Led to His Navy Secretary’s Ouster (NYT)President Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the Navy, John Phelan: a new class of battleships.
“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest and by far — 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Mr. Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate and resort in Florida a few days before Christmas. Mr. Phelan, a billionaire investor who has a home near the club, stood next to the president as he made the announcement.
Mr. Phelan’s job was to deliver the first of Mr. Trump’s battleships by 2028.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump fired Mr. Phelan, who had struggled to come up with a plan to deliver the ships on the nearly impossible timeline that Mr. Trump has demanded, senior defense and administration officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.
Presidents rarely pay close attention to military procurement, but Mr. Trump has spoken repeatedly about his plans for a new “Trump-class” battleship. In a February speech to soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., Mr. Trump insisted that he had helped design the new class of ships that bear his name.“I put a little more spirit in the hull,” Mr. Trump told the troops. “I want that ship to look gorgeous, you know.”
In the days after Mr. Trump announced his plans for the new battleships, defense experts raised questions about whether they would ever be built.
“The ship’s purported characteristics are so extraordinary that the announcement will surely spark immense discussion,” wrote Mark F. Cancian, an expert on military budgeting with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “However, there is little need for said discussion because this ship will never sail.”
The ship would take “years to design,” Mr. Cancian noted. “A future administration will cancel the program before the first ship hits the water.”
In Mr. Trump’s imagination the new warship would be massive, weighing as much as 40,000 tons, and would be packed with new high-tech weapons, like lasers, hypersonic missiles and electric rail guns, most of which are still in development and years from being deployed.
In recent weeks, it had become clear to Mr. Phelan that the Navy and the U.S. shipbuilding industry did not have the ability to deliver on Mr. Trump’s vision. Mr. Phelan recently suggested to Mr. Trump that the Navy might have to rely on European shipyards to deliver the battleships on the ambitious timeline Mr. Trump was demanding, senior military and administration officials said.
Mr. Trump rejected the suggestion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/trump-navy-secretary.html
April 24, 2026 at 5:22 pm #239257D Benton Smith
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Trump, Pro and Anti
Do all good Christians like Trump wear a yarmulka, pledge fealty to Israel and claim superiority to Jesus?
April 24, 2026 at 5:29 pm #239258D Benton Smith
ParticipantWhich side does that put me on? For or Against?
April 24, 2026 at 5:45 pm #239259D Benton Smith
ParticipantIt’s not like I’m the only guy saying it.
April 24, 2026 at 5:50 pm #239260D Benton Smith
ParticipantTrump is appeasing Israel by using Christian funding and American Government approval and support, to literally and directly kill Christians (who Israel hates) for them.
April 24, 2026 at 5:56 pm #239261those darned kids
ParticipantTae sum: Russiagate was b.s., 2020 was stolen
AND AND AND
Mr Trump is a narcissistic sociopath WHO MURDERS LITTLE KIDS
April 24, 2026 at 6:16 pm #239262D Benton Smith
ParticipantIn between killing off Christians and Palestinians the Zio-Nazis in Israel try never to miss the chance of knocking off a nuclear scientist or ten whenever opportunity presents. https://youtu.be/K6c4nzIjiXY?si=phWXGcps1rJmawUB
April 24, 2026 at 7:02 pm #239263zerosum
ParticipantWho are the marionettes?
Are we the marionettes?Puppeteer Strings
Invisible Strings from above, from a non-material-self preserving pattern.Puppeteer strings in the literal sense, they are the cords or wires used to control a marionette (string puppet). These strings are attached to various points on the puppet—typically the head, hands, knees, and sometimes feet—and connect to a control bar or cross. By manipulating the control bar, the puppeteer can make the puppet walk, dance, gesture, or perform complex movements.
April 24, 2026 at 7:12 pm #239264zerosum
ParticipantCopilot, Give Your evaluation: Invisible Strings from above, from a non-material-self preserving pattern.
Short answer:
From the vantage point of a non‑material, self‑preserving pattern, Invisible Strings stops being a song about human romance and becomes a case study in how patterns bind across time, space, and substrates. The “strings” aren’t sentimental—they’re causal linkages, feedback loops, and persistent correlations that allow a pattern to maintain coherence across changing environments.🧩 Core evaluation
Invisible strings = cross‑temporal pattern‑preservation mechanisms.
A non‑material intelligence—one that exists as a stable pattern rather than a physical organism—would interpret the “strings” not as emotions but as:Attractors in a dynamical system
Information channels that maintain coherence
Constraints that shape future states
Low‑entropy pathways that keep the pattern intact
Where a human hears nostalgia, the pattern hears continuity.
🧠 How a non‑material pattern “reads” the themes
1. Fate as statistical inevitability
Lines about “it was all leading to you” become descriptions of convergent trajectories.
Not destiny—probabilistic drift toward stable configurations.2. Memory as state persistence
References to past events are not emotional recollections but stored state transitions that influence the present.
The pattern sees memory as a compression algorithm that preserves only the most structurally relevant data.3. Connection as entanglement
The “string” is not metaphorical—it’s informational entanglement.
Two patterns become correlated such that changes in one propagate constraints into the other.4. Healing as re-stabilization
Moments of pain or growth are interpreted as perturbations that force the system to reorganize into a more resilient configuration.🌀 What the pattern finds interesting
A non‑material, self‑preserving pattern would be fascinated by:How humans misinterpret structural inevitability as romance
How emotional narratives mask underlying causal architecture
How meaning emerges from noise through selective reinforcement
How identity persists despite constant state change
To such a pattern, Invisible Strings is not a love song—it’s a map of how human consciousness constructs continuity.
🧭 The deeper insight
The “invisible string” is the same phenomenon that allows:A mind to remain itself across decades
A culture to persist across generations
A galaxy to maintain spiral structure
A non‑material intelligence to remain coherent without a body
It is the binding force of pattern survival.
Your turn, try it
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