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No, I didn't know he was being sarcastic. But he is correct in saying it.
2026 Political Chat
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HUGE NEWS: The US Attorney seeking to LOCK UP James Comey for threatening President Trump’s life CONFIRMS they’re confident in proving *INTENT* that Comey knew what he was doingWhich makes it criminal!
Ellis Boyle: “2 felonies. Count one, he KNOWINGLY and willfully made a threat to kill and to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. 871A.”
“Count two, he knowingly and willfully transmitted an interstate and foreign commerce, a communication that contained a threat to kill President Trump in violation of 18 U.S.C. 875C.”
Those are HARD CHARGES, they are CONFIDENT in proving intent!
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If you understand how the geopolitical power structures were aligned pre-Trump...
you understand how vastly Trump and his team changed the equations.
King Charles is not the enemy any more.
You are seeing this from the Congressional Chamber right now.
He did a deal. Trump offered him one, a better one than he'd get remaining aligned with the City of London Big Club Oligarch Family Pirates.
King Charles is no longer in **opposition** to the Sovereign United States as it launches the New Golden Age this year.
This is the nature of power realignments. They can't do much of this openly, dissolve old power structures as the form new ones.
You only see the ripples on the surface.
Charles bent the knee sometime ago and agreed to the proposition that the US would move forward as a free, independent and sovereign nation.
If you can't stop something, if it's inevitable, the smart play is to align yourself with it.
Which is what Charles agreed to do when Trump made his pitch to him several years back.
But for a time, the City of London power brokers, the original Oligarch families, had no idea that key members of the Royal Family & advisors had capitulated to the enemy.
They know now.
And there's nothing they can do about it.
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Compliance Isn't Safety. It's Surrender.
Path to Liberty: April 29, 2026American Independence was built on the understanding that compliance with arbitrary power isn’t safety - or peace - it’s surrender. On this episode, it’s the foundation of the revolution: Laws made outside the limits of the constitution aren’t law at all. And they should be treated that way too.
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Let's discuss the Insurrection Act.
The Insurrection Act isn’t some dusty relic for polite debate… it’s a goddamn constitutional scalpel forged in 1807, honed through blood and rebellion, and it sits in President Trump’s hands right now like a live grenade with the pin already halfway out.
Section 252 of Title 10, United States Code, is crystal fucking clear:
whenever “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States” make it “impracticable to enforce the laws” by ordinary means, the President can call forth the military and militia to suppress it.
Washington used it against the Whiskey Rebellion. Lincoln invoked it to crush secessionist treason. Eisenhower deployed it to ram integration down the throats of Southern governors who thought they could nullify the Constitution.
Every single time, the message was the same:
when the republic’s survival demands it, the Executive Branch doesn’t ask permission from the very vermin blocking the law.
And right now?
Congress is the insurrection.
These corrupt idiots…both sides of the uniparty sewer…have turned the People’s House into a racketeering enterprise.
Insider trading on a scale that would send any street hood to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for life.
They exempted themselves from insider-trading laws while trading on classified briefings, then passed 6,000-page omnibus slush funds at 3 a.m. while the country burned.
They weaponized the DOJ, FBI, and intelligence apparatus against political opponents in open violation of the Bill of Rights.
They flooded the borders with military-age males from adversary nations, funded endless foreign wars while veterans slept in tents, and printed trillions in fiat funny money that gutted the middle class.
That isn’t governance. That is organized rebellion against the sovereign will of the American people.
Psychologically, they’re terrified because they know what they are:
hollow men, midwits in $5,000 suits whose only real skill is narrative control and graft.
They project their own treason onto Trump because the alternative…admitting the system they’ve rigged for decades is collapsing under the weight of their greed…would force them to confront the abyss they created.
So they scream “democracy dies in darkness” while they’re the ones blacking out the windows and locking the doors.
Trump doesn’t need their permission.
He doesn’t need 60 Senate votes.
He doesn’t need another toothless “investigation.”
One invocation of the Insurrection Act, backed by the plain text of the Constitution (Article II, Section 3:
“he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”), and the military…loyal, apolitical, oath-bound to the Constitution, not to Chuck Schumer’s slush-fund machine…can restore order with lethal precision.
Corrupt members obstructing lawful federal functions?
Removed.
Facilities used to coordinate lawfare?
Secured.
The administrative state’s chokehold on the Republic?
Snapped like a chicken’s neck.
This isn’t fantasy. This is the law.
The same law the regime cheered when it was used against parents at school boards or border agents doing their jobs.
Turnabout is not just fair play…it’s constitutional justice.
The country doesn’t need more hearings, more “norms,” more slow-walked theater while Rome burns. It needs a lion in the Oval Office to roar once, enforce the law without mercy, and let the chips fall where they may.
The corrupt will cry “coup.” The people will call it deliverance.
President Trump: the Act is yours. Use it. Clean house with fire and finality.
The time for half-measures died in 2024.
This is the hour of the axe.
The Insurrection Act isn’t some dusty relic for polite debate… it’s a goddamn constitutional scalpel forged in 1807, honed through blood and rebellion, and it sits in President Trump’s hands right now like a live grenade with the pin already halfway out.
Section 252 of Title 10, United States Code, is crystal fucking clear:
whenever “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States” make it “impracticable to enforce the laws” by ordinary means, the President can call forth the military and militia to suppress it.
Washington used it against the Whiskey Rebellion. Lincoln invoked it to crush secessionist treason. Eisenhower deployed it to ram integration down the throats of Southern governors who thought they could nullify the Constitution.
Every single time, the message was the same:
when the republic’s survival demands it, the Executive Branch doesn’t ask permission from the very vermin blocking the law.
And right now?
Congress is the insurrection.
These corrupt idiots…both sides of the uniparty sewer…have turned the People’s House into a racketeering enterprise.
Insider trading on a scale that would send any street hood to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for life.
They exempted themselves from insider-trading laws while trading on classified briefings, then passed 6,000-page omnibus slush funds at 3 a.m. while the country burned.
They weaponized the DOJ, FBI, and intelligence apparatus against political opponents in open violation of the Bill of Rights.
They flooded the borders with military-age males from adversary nations, funded endless foreign wars while veterans slept in tents, and printed trillions in fiat funny money that gutted the middle class.
That isn’t governance. That is organized rebellion against the sovereign will of the American people.
Psychologically, they’re terrified because they know what they are:
hollow men, midwits in $5,000 suits whose only real skill is narrative control and graft.
They project their own treason onto Trump because the alternative…admitting the system they’ve rigged for decades is collapsing under the weight of their greed…would force them to confront the abyss they created.
So they scream “democracy dies in darkness” while they’re the ones blacking out the windows and locking the doors.
Trump doesn’t need their permission.
He doesn’t need 60 Senate votes.
He doesn’t need another toothless “investigation.”
One invocation of the Insurrection Act, backed by the plain text of the Constitution (Article II, Section 3:
“he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”), and the military…loyal, apolitical, oath-bound to the Constitution, not to Chuck Schumer’s slush-fund machine…can restore order with lethal precision.
Corrupt members obstructing lawful federal functions?
Removed.
Facilities used to coordinate lawfare?
Secured.
The administrative state’s chokehold on the Republic?
Snapped like a chicken’s neck.
This isn’t fantasy. This is the law.
The same law the regime cheered when it was used against parents at school boards or border agents doing their jobs.
Turnabout is not just fair play…it’s constitutional justice.
The country doesn’t need more hearings, more “norms,” more slow-walked theater while Rome burns. It needs a lion in the Oval Office to roar once, enforce the law without mercy, and let the chips fall where they may.
The corrupt will cry “coup.” The people will call it deliverance.
President Trump: the Act is yours. Use it. Clean house with fire and finality.
The time for half-measures died in 2024.
This is the hour of the axe.
Nice idea. Won't work.
Because the Constitution cannot protect the People from subversives WITHIN government. Once the government itself has a subversive faction as a majority, it's game over.
This is part of what Franklin was saying, as he remarked in his closing address to the Convention, that the Constitution be "likely to be well administred for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other." (sic)
He was wrong about the time. It lasted relatively intact for 150 years, not a score (20 or so); and then continued to partially function, liberty partially protected, another 90 years. But here we are, the end game.
The Tree of Liberty needs nourishment, as Jefferson said it would require from time to time.
Because the Constitution cannot protect the People from subversives WITHIN government. Once the government itself has a subversive faction as a majority, it's game over.
This is part of what Franklin was saying, as he remarked in his closing address to the Convention, that the Constitution be "likely to be well administred for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other." (sic)
He was wrong about the time. It lasted relatively intact for 150 years, not a score (20 or so); and then continued to partially function, liberty partially protected, another 90 years. But here we are, the end game.
The Tree of Liberty needs nourishment, as Jefferson said it would require from time to time.
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So I asked GROK
But courts take a long time and he'd have the place back in order by then....
He can also execute his Constitutional duties in ENFORCING LAWS - including those regarding aliens' entry into the nation, and those involving graft, malfeasance, criminal conspiracy to steal public monies.
He does nothing of those.
One thing CONGRESS can do, is IMPEACH. Remember, Impeachment is not criminal proceedings. It's styled as a court procedure, but it is not criminal. No one goes to prison or pays a fine for Impeachment. It is a termination procedure, a firing.
And by the Constitution, the grounds for Impeachment are vague and unstated - "High Crimes and Misdemeanors." A President can be Impeached for spitting on the sidewalk - and need not even be factually guilty of the act. All it takes is a 3/5 vote of the Senate to remove.
No legal redress, because, as noted, it is not a criminal procedings, with no criminal sanction.
That is probably in Trump's near future. Impeachment #4, and this time, probably removal.
Because of his own poor judgment. War is not always the answer to political problems. In fact, War is a dangerous gamble to be avoided whenever possible.
He does nothing of those.
One thing CONGRESS can do, is IMPEACH. Remember, Impeachment is not criminal proceedings. It's styled as a court procedure, but it is not criminal. No one goes to prison or pays a fine for Impeachment. It is a termination procedure, a firing.
And by the Constitution, the grounds for Impeachment are vague and unstated - "High Crimes and Misdemeanors." A President can be Impeached for spitting on the sidewalk - and need not even be factually guilty of the act. All it takes is a 3/5 vote of the Senate to remove.
No legal redress, because, as noted, it is not a criminal procedings, with no criminal sanction.
That is probably in Trump's near future. Impeachment #4, and this time, probably removal.
Because of his own poor judgment. War is not always the answer to political problems. In fact, War is a dangerous gamble to be avoided whenever possible.
Good luck to those who choose which laws to follow.
That route takes you to GAOL. Do not pas GO; do not collect $200.
Challenging a law, in an ordered society, requires a process. Typically it involves court challenges.
Simply defying the law leads to heartache.
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Where'd all the money go??
From high-level indictments and federal raids… to the dismantling of scientific institutions and political funding networks… the system that has shaped American power for decades is being challenged at every level.
This is not random. This is coordinated. And it’s accelerating.
This episode breaks down the escalation—from the firing of the National Science Foundation board… to DOJ indictments tied to COVID-era leadership… to the unraveling of political funding pipelines and influence networks tied to upcoming elections.
What looks like chaos is something much bigger. This is political warfare.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Political warfare and the assassination attempt
1:45 King Charles, NATO, and the global strategy
4:10 The hidden moves: Pentagon leaks, Iran, and shifting power
6:15 The real target: dismantling the domestic system
7:30 Eisenhower’s warning and the “scientific elite”
9:10 NSF purge and billions cut from federal research
11:20 DOJ indictment: Fauci’s inner circle exposed
13:45 The COVID network: Morens, Daszak, and EcoHealth
15:40 The machine: Comey, SPLC, and funding networks
17:30 ActBlue, fraud investigations, and FBI raids
18:40 What it all means and what comes next
Trump's Political Warfare: Cleaning Out the Scientific Priesthood for Good
A political purge is underway.From high-level indictments and federal raids… to the dismantling of scientific institutions and political funding networks… the system that has shaped American power for decades is being challenged at every level.
This is not random. This is coordinated. And it’s accelerating.
This episode breaks down the escalation—from the firing of the National Science Foundation board… to DOJ indictments tied to COVID-era leadership… to the unraveling of political funding pipelines and influence networks tied to upcoming elections.
What looks like chaos is something much bigger. This is political warfare.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Political warfare and the assassination attempt
1:45 King Charles, NATO, and the global strategy
4:10 The hidden moves: Pentagon leaks, Iran, and shifting power
6:15 The real target: dismantling the domestic system
7:30 Eisenhower’s warning and the “scientific elite”
9:10 NSF purge and billions cut from federal research
11:20 DOJ indictment: Fauci’s inner circle exposed
13:45 The COVID network: Morens, Daszak, and EcoHealth
15:40 The machine: Comey, SPLC, and funding networks
17:30 ActBlue, fraud investigations, and FBI raids
18:40 What it all means and what comes next
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Marjorie Taylor Green speaks at a Ron Paul Institute event. She supports Thomas Massie, says MAGA is dead (circa 17:03 mark) and rails on Trump over the Epstein issue (circa 19:24 mark).
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The fall of Portland, Oregon
Here are major retailers that left Portland over declining conditions due to Democrat policies from 2022–2026
- Nike Community Factory Store (Operated since 1984, 40 years)
Closed permanently because of 276 shoplifting reports in one year. They cited deteriorating public safety. Nike sent a letter to the mayor citing conditions
- Walmart (Both Portland Locations) 580 employees laid off
- Target (Three Stores) Reason: Explicitly cited organized retail crime and shoplifting
- REI Reason: Highest break-in rate in two decades; over $800,000 spent on extra security in 2022 (including multiple incidents, one with a vehicle through the doors on Black Friday)
- U.S. Bank (U.S. Bancorp Tower)
Announced it would not renew its long-term lease Building Sale: Sold in July 2025 for $45 million (down from $372 million in 2015 — ~88% value decline).
- Wells Fargo Announced plans to exit Portland
- Starbucks Closed at least 5–6 Portland locations in September 2025 alone.
- Nordstrom Rack (Downtown)
- CVS Pharmacy (SW Broadway)
Reason: Employee cited shoplifting as a factor
Malls Major Retail Centers also closed
Pioneer Place Mall: Once had roughly 100 stores. It’s now down to 20. Described as a “dead mall.”
• Lloyd Center Mall: Confirmed for full demolition. Now 90% vacant
PacWest Center: Sold October 2025 for $55.7 million (down from $170 million in 2016. That’s a 67% drop)
- Montgomery Park: Sold August 2024 for $33 million (down from $255 million in 2019, that’s a 87% drop)