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Letโs Fu@king Go!
...Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends...
Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee 1 Peter 4:1-12
Are you ready for a new direction in life? Do you want to be free from the sins that are dragging you down? Dr. J. Vernon McGee continues our study of suffering and encourages us to use the gifts God has given us for His glory.
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
Heโs Not In A Rush
โThe Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; He is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.โ Now, Heโs longsuffering, and Heโs not rushing things. After all, Heโs got eternity ahead of Him. Heโs had eternity back of Him. He doesnโt need to worry about time. A thousand years, one day; one day is a thousand years. But the thing is, itโs inevitable. It is coming. It will descend upon the earth someday. And now God is giving men everywhere an opportunity. And thatโs the reason we want to get the Word out. Itโs the only thing that can change hearts and lives.
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/thru-the-bible-minute-with-mcgee/
Daily Promises
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. (Proverbs 16:9)
Heavenly Father, thank You for guiding me through all things despite my foolishness. You know all my sorrowful ways, and yet, You continue to love me in spite of them. Father, continue to touch my heart and bring me to a right understanding of Your gracious love! Direct my steps that I may give all honour and glory to Your name! Amen.
Perfect Strength
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. โ 2 Corinthians 12:9
No matter what type of strength you need, or how much you need, God has it!
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/perfect-strength
It is in your power to perceive deception, to shut off gimmickry, to reward honesty, to demand legislation where needed. Without your approval, no TV show is worthwhile and no politician can exist.
Senator John F. Kennedy, 1959
Today's Wins
1 MAGA: Progress, Not Perfection
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/maga_progress_not_perfection.html
2 Saving American Culture through โCounter-Spoliationโ
3 'Disloyal' NSC Staffers Fired After Laura Loomer Brings Receipts To The White House
4 Senator, you talk too much
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/senator_you_talk_too_much.html
5 Jasmine Crockett concedes she was a DEI hire, admitting โno experienceโ
6 How Big Law Killed The Democrats...A group of elite lawyers is playing for all sides โ and itโs costing the American people.
https://www.levernews.com/how-big-law-killed-the-democrats/
7 I Used AI to Email 3,800 Ivy League Bureaucrats, Now My School Is Investigating Me...it costs $93,064 to attend brown university. the annual budget deficit is $46 million. i wanted to know where the hell all the money was going.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/doge-brown-university-student-email-admininstrative-staff
8 The Vigilant Fox - Instant Karma: Tesla Vandal Dragged from Movie Theater, Arrested After Damaging Cybertruck...Life comes at you fast.
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/instant-karma-tesla-vandal-dragged
Look What The Dog Dragged In
9 On Wisconsin: The pundit class fumbles (again)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/on_wisconsin_the_pundit_class_fumbles_again.html
10 Jeb Boasberg's Selective Sympathies...While decrying the fate of Venezuelan illegals deported to a prison in El Salvador, Jeb Boasberg demonstrated no such concern over the dozens of Trump supporters he sent to federal prison over Jan 6.
https://www.declassified.live/p/jeb-boasbergs-selective-sympathies
11 Whatโs the Real Target of the Assault on Tesla?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/what_s_the_real_target_of_the_assault_on_tesla.html
12 Big Techโs Forever War - Rohit Chopra and other experts discuss how technology is changing reality and what can be done to stop it.
https://www.levernews.com/big-techs-forever-war/
13 Moon Of Alabama - White House Lacks Financial Literacy - 'Tariffs' Show
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/white-house-lacks-financial-literacy-tariffs-show.html#more
14 Baptists and Bootleggers
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/baptists_and_bootleggers.html
15 Strategizing To Manipulate World Opinion, Hamas May Have Overplayed Its Hand
16 Israel Accused Of โGreen Colonialismโ For Planting Over 250M Trees Since 1948
https://harbingersdaily.com/israel-accused-of-green-colonialism-for-planting-250m-trees-since-1948/
17 Moon Of Alabama - Palestine Open Thread
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/palestine-open-thread-2025-070.html
18 Moon Of Alabama - Ukraine Open Thread
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/ukraine-open-thread-2025-069.html
19 Moon Of Alabama - Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/open-neither-ukraine-nor-palestine-thread-2025-068.html
Dog Woo
20 Anthony Fauciโs Wife Canned at NIH
https://www.infowars.com/posts/anthony-faucis-wife-canned-at-nih/
21 Cory Bookerโs โpretty stunning biological featโ was a pathetic charade
22 Anecdotes from the Time of Autism
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/anecdotes_from_the_time_of_autism.html
23 Why Do Democrats Hate Women and Girls?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/why_do_democrats_hate_women_and_girls.html
24 Paging Dr. Land Baron...Nonprofit hospitals are building tax-exempt real estate empires โ and working to crush politicians who stand in their way.
https://www.levernews.com/paging-dr-land-baron/
25 UROLOGY IS THE FIFTH MOST CORRUPT MEDICAL SPECIALTY--IF YOU COUNT DENTISTS AS HEALTHCARE...Say no to them all until your tongue bleeds.
https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/352-urology-is-the-fifth-most-corrupt
26 THE DARK REALITY OF ONLINE PORN AND OTHER DIGITAL ADDICTIONS
https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/349-the-dark-reality-of-online-porn
27 KIM ROGERS, THE WORM QUEEN, AND HER "FELLOW TRAVELERS" This post is not for the squeamish. Her colleagues and the squirming little enemies are both fellow travelers.
https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/350-kim-rogers-the-worm-queen-and
28 The 15 Stages of Denial Among Recipients of the Covid-19 "Vaccine" (Bio-Weapon) Plus... GOOD NEWS! for the folks who took the "vaccines" Jun 24, 2024
https://artofliberty.substack.com/p/the-15-stages-of-denial-among-recipients
29 A Hard Look at COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy ResearchโA Misclassification Mirage
30 A Midwestern Doctor - Why Did The FDA Hide Vaccine Injuries? How Peter Marks' role in the COVID vaccine debacle exposed the flaws in America's toxic health bureaucracy
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-did-the-fda-hide-vaccine-injuries
31 When You Force AI to Look At Specific Evidence It Concludes that Vaccines Likely Cause Autism...How You Ask AI the Question Gets You Closer to the Truth
https://artofliberty.substack.com/p/when-you-force-ai-to-look-at-specific
32 The Vigilant Fox - Tucker Carlson Horrified as Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/tucker-carlson-horrified-as-dr-mary
33 Glyphosate in Your Urine? It Might Be Killing YouโLiterally
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/glyphosate-in-your-urine-it-might-be-killing-youliterally-678ba8c9
34 The Vigilant Fox - BANNED: The Sleep Drug So Effective, It Became Public Enemy #1...If you thought what they did to ivermectin was bad, wait till you hear what they did to this drug.
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/miracle-sleep-drug
35 Thursday Poem...Pascale Petit - The River
https://poems.com/poem/the-river/
36 "Ooh La La" Ronnie Lane
https://youtu.be/cpSlT2BVvGc?si=P6-9mpgm8fsxqlts
37 Image published with permission from Uncle Paul's Parodies.
https://images.americanthinker.com/gz/gz6netj8mqo806feikd2_800.jpg
Worst Of Babylon Bee
38 Genius Trump Tricks Democrats Into Hating Taxes
https://babylonbee.com/news/genius-trump-tricks-democrats-into-hating-taxes
39 10 Major Effects Of Trump's Tariffs
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-most-devastating-effects-of-trumps-tariffs
40 Dodgers Bankrupted As Trump Places 25% Tariff On Japanese Players
https://babylonbee.com/news/dodgers-bankrupted-as-trump-places-25-tariff-on-japanese-players
41 BREAKING: Economy
https://babylonbee.com/news/breaking-economy
42 Man Still Not Sure Whether Mumford & Sons Actually Existed Or He Just Imagined It
Not Quite brain_dead
1 I can tell no lie...
https://x.com/huskylo52876143/status/1907757830163087700
PowderRoomPolitics...Presents - Animal Antics: We've Got Skills!
1 Tiny Kitten Learns To Skateboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LiVqjNmfW4&t=4s
2 MAGA Talented Pets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Pf7cR1-Hc
3 Talented Pets And Farm Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aosRepWR_PU
4 Watch Us Do Our Thing (Piano playing,and other talents, with commentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Z8L44V9k8
5 Soccer Playing Goldfish And Other Talented Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tKcZDLcLk
6 Cat Learns Magic Trick
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EM41yq0OUQ4
7 Dancing Dogs!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5Vkf1TIHcqo
8 Dramatic Cats!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2mmW2OzPTxo
9 Knock Three Times
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qbhx_5fLxqA
10 Maggie The Goalie
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YXMsL8mFdb4
11 Cat-Herding Dog
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yj1HuDxfuDI
Meow Mix With The Missouri Wildcat Taffy333
1 James Howard Kunstler - Bedlam, Pending..."You need a sufficient amount of ruthlessness to run a country" Will Chamberlain
https://www.kunstler.com/p/bedlam-pending
2 James Howard Kunstler - Convergence Calling โThe current conflict between Europe and America is not reducible towards contrasting approaches towards Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine.โ Frank Furedi
https://www.kunstler.com/p/convergence-calling
3 Political Moonshine - Trump Declassifies Crossfire Hurricane Documents That Will Evidence Truth About Obama, Biden et al Criminality...The Crossfire Hurricane documentary evidence stands to tell a potentially unvarnished truth about the actual nature of treasonous criminality surrounding FISA/FISC abuses that targeted a presidential candidate and later President of the United States of America.
4 Political Moonshine - Unconditional Pardon of Devon Archer... Putting aside the oxymoronic nature of the following, the only acceptable reason for a full and unconditional pardon for Devon Archer would be on the condition that Archer serve as Stateโs witness in its prosecution of the Biden Crime Family.
5 Political Moonshine - โSIGNALGATEโ: US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Occamโs Razor...Occamโs prevails to indicate that Waltz is entirely unfit for the duties of US National Security Advisor because he is an insider threat guilty of leaking in operations serving his IC/DoD/NATO/State principal.
6 Wayne Allyn Root - President Trump is the G.O.A.T. But There is One Thing Trump Has Not Done: Thousands of My Fans are Asking โWhere Are The Arrests?โ
https://rootforamerica.com/where-are-the-arrests/
7 Ann Coulter - Hey, At Least We Bombed Somebody..".We donโt want Trump Lite, โAs Inspired Byโ Donald Trump or Trump-adjacent. He was very clear about what he wanted, he won the presidency, and thereโs a good chance heโll be on Mount Rushmore. "
https://www.takimag.com/article/hey-at-least-we-bombed-somebody/
8 Weekend Knowledge Dump- March 28, 2025...Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-march-28-2025
9 Moon Of Alabama - The MoA Week In Review
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2025-065.html#more
10 Moon Of Alabama - Racist Allied Underestimation Of Russia's Abilities Led To Its Win
11 Black Agenda Report - ESSAY: Armed Struggle: Natural Response to Fascism, Martin Sostre, 1975
https://www.blackagendareport.com/essay-armed-struggle-natural-response-fascism-martin-sostre-1975
12 Winter Oak - The Global Gang Running Our World and Ruining Our Lives
https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/03/24/the-global-gang-running-our-world-and-ruining-our-lives/
13 Winter Oak - A grotesque spectacle of lies and abuse
https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/03/26/a-grotesque-spectacle-of-lies-and-abuse/
14 An interview of Pepe Escobar, who discusses in detail his recent expedition to Yemen. While the US routinely defines Yemen as a terrorist state, it is nothing of the sort. The Houthis are a clan of Shiโa Muslims โ note, they are Zaidis.
https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/houthi-update-with-pepe-while-scott
15 Margaret Kimberley - Black Agenda Report...Trump Exposes the Elite Classes
https://www.blackagendareport.com/trump-exposes-elite-classes
...Goodnight Newshounds...
Head Up
Eyes Forward
Hold The Line Patriots
Keep Calm
And
Howl On
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 is a U.S. federal law that grants the president authority to regulate international commerce during a declared national emergency. This emergency must stem from an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the nation's security, foreign policy, or economy, originating outside the United States.
Key provisions include:
Asset Control: The president can block transactions and freeze assets to address the threat.
Property Confiscation: In the event of an actual attack on the U.S., property connected to entities aiding the attack can be confiscated.
Annual Renewal: Emergencies declared under IEEPA must be renewed annually to remain in effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Emergency_Economic_Powers_Act
What powers does the President gain when declaring a national emergency?
When a president declares a national emergency, they gain access to special powers that Congress has previously authorized under various statutes. These powers are designed to address urgent situations that require immediate action. Here's a breakdown:
Statutory Powers: Over 130 statutory provisions become available, including:
Control over domestic transportation and communication facilities.
Suspension of certain environmental regulations, like the Clean Air Act.
Access to national defense stockpiles and resources.
Authority to seize private property under specific conditions.
Military and Defense: The president can redirect funds and resources for national defense purposes, such as building infrastructure or deploying troops.
Economic Measures: They can impose trade restrictions, tariffs, or financial sanctions to protect national interests.
A lawyer, Tom Renz, who actually read Trump's DOGE Executive Order and, expecting some illegal power grab, found it to be airtight. Turns out Trump and Musk didn't create anything. Obama did.
Obama created United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014. It was meant as a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown.
Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service). Keeps the acronym, keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts
Legally untouchable because it was already fully funded and operational. Trump invokes 5 USC 3161, which allows him to create temporary hiring authorities. DOGE teams get embedded inside every single federal agency. Each team consists of a lawyer, HR rep, a zoomer nerd, and an investigator. They report to DOGE, not the agency they're embedded in.
But wait, there's more! Trump invokes 44 USC Chapter 35, which governs federal IT and cybersecurity oversight. Since USDS was originally an IT oversight body, DOGE now has full access to all federal data systems. Yes, thatโs right. All of them.
His executive order is written to block legal challenges. Includes language that overrides conflicting executive orders. Orders every agency to comply. Refusal means they violate presidential authority.
Congress can't defund it because it's not a new program, just a repurposed one. DOJ can't sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws exactly as written. Democrats trying to file legal challenges run into standing issues because DOGE operates within existing frameworks.
Obama literally built the perfect Administrative (read: Deep State) IT backdoor.
Trump and Musk just hacked the system and took the admin controls. Musk now has legal oversight of every major agency's internal systems. The Administrative State can't stop it without rewriting multiple federal laws.
They legally outplayed the system and thereโs nothing anyone can do about it.
Obama created DOGE.
The estimated revenue for the baseline 10% tariff on Mexican goods coming into the US is $24 billion per year.
Pointed this out to my TDS stepmother a few nights ago and sheโs still not speaking to me ๐คฃ
