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Trump asks Supreme Court to let him fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter​

  • President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fire Federal Trade Commission commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, who had been reinstated to that post after he had terminated her.
  • Trump in March removed two Democratic commissioners from their posts at the FTC — Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya — as part of his sprawling effort to exert his influence over federal agencies.The question of “cause” for termination is also at the crux of Trump’s bid to remove Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook from her role.
President Donald Trump on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fire Federal Trade Commission commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, who lower courts ordered reinstated after he terminated her.

Trump wants the Supreme Court to pause her reinstatement as he appeals the case.

“President Trump acted lawfully when he removed Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement.

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I wonder if it will take less than a miracle to get Massie to run for the Big Chair.

I heard him in an interview, and I for one was very-greatly impressed. It's too bad Trump's stage-managers are telling him he's Public Enemy #1; because they agree on many points. Where they do not, in fiscal and monetary matters, Massie is more correct than Genius-Act, Negative-Interest, Big-Beautiful-Bill Trump.
 
yep!




You know how when a dog is rescued from an owner that beat the hell out off it it’s entire life. THAT’S ALL THE DOG KNEW.

The new owner has to move slowly, with great care, patience, and carefully introduce new ways, new surroundings, lots of love and support and sometimes unconventional treatment.

At first, some dogs will be aggressive and some with cower in fear as the transition moves forward. Some will immediately accept the love and know it’s all going to be okay.

That’s America right now.

The anons know everything is going to be amazing. The biters are the left who are crazed and out of control. The fearful ones are the ones who voted for Trump but can’t see the future yet.

AMERICA IS BEING RESCUED FROM VERY EVIL OWNERS.

We’re in Trump’s home now and we have all been renamed FREEDOM. Go for a nice long walk and stop and smell the roses and be SO GRATEFUL.

THE BEST IS YET TO COME! 🙌🏻🇺🇸💜✝️
 
Aside from Mises' deep-thought on DESIRED outcome versus ACTUAL outcome of government bureaucracy and programs...Reich is wallowing in come textbook Projection.

He says Trump wants to control others' thinking; when HE and HIS party stop all discussion with names like "Ray Cyst" "Science Denier" or "(blank)ophobe." Those are to silence discussion, and signal to the malleable, that those are forbidden thoughts and must never be discussed.

It is not conservatives who refuse to re-examine premises and theories. Many of us weren't "anti-vaxxers" until we saw what pharma was finally trying to pull off, having already turned millions of kids into autistics.

And we weren't "anti-immigration" until we saw what the Jackass Party wanted to try - Open Borders. That chapter of history isn't written, yet - but it will not be pretty; just as it was not with other mass invasions.

I'm tired of lies and liars and ESPECIALLY recividist liars with many diplomas and credentials and the support of the Elite Classes.
 
Why is that an embarrassment? It IS the department of war.

We haven't used it defensively since South Korea - a strategic region which, with a stretch, you could say was necessary for safety of our allies in the region, primarily Japan.

Truth in labeling.
 


The coordinated campaign to oust RFK Jr. from the Trump administration is not organic—it’s a meticulously planned, multi-million dollar operation by Big Pharma, exposed by a leaked memo.

In July, the Brownstone Institute revealed a bombshell document from Bio, the powerful lobbying arm of Pfizer, Moderna, Merck, Eli Lilly, and Johnson & Johnson. The memo’s goal was explicit: lobby Congress to remove RFK Jr. as a threat to their vaccine business model.

Why the panic? The memo states there is "no opportunity to raise capital in the current environment" because investors are wary. The "vaccine pathway to approval is unpredictable," especially if required to be tested against a true placebo—a standard RFK Jr. advocates for.

Their 2025 strategy? "Protecting continuity and viability of vaccine business." Translation: preserving the lucrative status quo, including the 72-shot childhood schedule, without increased scrutiny.

To achieve this, Bio allocated a staggering $2 million—half of its cash reserves—to a campaign to "both inspire and frighten" legislators and influencers. The timeline targeted September.

Right on schedule, the assault has begun:
• Senator Bernie Sanders called for his resignation, citing corrupt organizations like the AAP & AMA (which take millions from Pharma).
• Nine former CDC directors penned a fear-mongering op-ed, praising the disastrous Operation Warp Speed.
• The media echoes these talking points, refusing to address the central issue: systemic corruption.

This is a defining moment. It’s not about public health; it’s about profit. Pharma’s fear confirms that RFK Jr. and Maha are the first real threat to their unaccountable regime in decades. They aren't trying to debate the science—they're trying to silence the debate entirely.

The memo is the blueprint. The current media blitz is the execution. Watch closely.
 
Kennedy is the Last Man Standing.

When he's out, it's business-as-usual - Big Pharma and Big Tech, again safely rule.

I see Caliphuktardistan is again agitating for Face Diapers. Gavin Pondscum claims that they're finding COE-vidd in large amounts in sewage-treatment plants.
 
For all the naysayers



TIMELINE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TAKEDOWN OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN!

1997 - President Trump takes a flight on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane for the last time from Palm Beach to Teterboro, New Jersey.
2004 - Trump and Epstein have their public falling out.
2007 - Trump bans Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.
2009 - Trump is the only person from Epstein’s black book to help attorney Bradley Edwards, who represents several Epstein victims, with his case against Epstein.
2/2017 - Jeffrey Sessions is sworn in as Trump’s attorney general and begins the investigation into Epstein and his ring.
4/2018 - Q told us access to Epstein’s island is closed.
4/2018 - Q highlights Epstein was spending $29 million to bury the tunnels under the temple at his pedophile island.
July 6, 2019 - Authorities arrest Epstein at the Teterboro, New Jersey airport. This is the same place Trump took his last flight with Epstein on his plane — master level trolling right here!
8/2019 - The Daily Mail reports that Epstein shipped an $100K cement truck to his island in November of 2018 — confirming what Q already told us! — and experts state it can’t be discounted that it was used to cover up evidence.
July 2, 2020 - Authorities arrest Ghislaine Maxwell under Trump’s Department of Justice.
8/2024 - Trump trolls Epstein’s ring of Satanic pedophiles by flying in Epstein’s old plane for multiple campaign stops with “Trump 2024” painted on it.
9/5/2024 - Speaker Mike Johnson confirms Trump worked as an FBI informant to take down Epstein.

The world now knows Trump has been working for decades to take down Epstein and his ring.

Checkmate. ♟️
 


Europe today “hit” another great American company, Google, with a $3.5 Billion Dollar fine, effectively taking money that would otherwise go to American Investments and Jobs. This is on top of the many other Fines and Taxes that have been issued against Google and other American Tech Companies, in particular. Very unfair, and the American Taxpayer will not stand for it! As I have said before, my Administration will NOT allow these discriminatory actions to stand. Apple, as an example, was forced to pay $17 Billion Dollars in a Fine that, in my opinion, should not have been charged — They should get their money back! We cannot let this happen to brilliant and unprecedented American Ingenuity and, if it does, I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA






There’s ALWAYS a good reason why Trump does what he does.

The “panicans” ALWAYS follow their emotions and are blind to the clandestine war being fought outside of the public narrative.

The “panicans” would have you believe that Trump submitted to the corrupt oligarchs in the tech world.

It’s actually the exact OPPOSITE.

The corrupt tech oligarchs just submitted to Trump.

We will soon find out how they caved and Trump scored for the American people.

LEVERAGE is the KEY to the Art of the Deal.

Trump LEVERAGED these corrupt tech oligarchs and forced them to “praise” him publicly at the White House.

This should be obvious to everyone paying attention over the last eight years.

Why didn’t Trump include Elon Musk?

That was the SIGNAL.

Elon is ALREADY on team Trump.

While the “panicans” push the narrative that Trump got “played” they ignore the history of what we’ve witnessed time and again for eight years.

Trump has a reason for EVERYTHING he’s doing.
It’s all strategic.
 

My Response To The Left…​

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Hear! Hear!

I just wish I had his will to fight. I knew this was coming, for a long time - over 20 years - but now I'm old and weak and not up for Game Of Thrones.

He obviously is. I hope there's enough, a critical mass, who share his outrage and his focus.

He's right, Charlie's fight is over. My fight is mostly over, too...I can only dread where it might lead.

I haven't seen too much fight out of those you'd expect - parents, religious communities, those who stand to lose everything economically. They've just rolled over and taken it.
 


GERMANIUM CRISIS: CHINA CUTS SUPPLY, PRICES SKYROCKET

China has choked off exports of germanium, a rare metal that makes fighter jet cameras and other high-tech military gear actually work.

Prices have gone wild, soaring from just over $1,000 a kilo in 2023 to nearly $5,000 this month, the highest in at least 14 years.

The U.S. once bought tons of germanium from China, but imports have fallen nearly 40% as shipments dried up, leaving defense companies desperate.

Russia could have been a backup source, but sanctions killed that path, and finding substitutes is nearly impossible because precision systems can’t risk losing accuracy.

Even Lockheed Martin had to make a deal with a Korean supplier, a sign of how bad the crunch is and how nervous the defense industry has become.

Source: Financial Times
 

US Debt Scheme Leaked by Russia: Its Plan to Rewrite Gold & Crypto Rules to Wipe Out $37T Debt​

“My prediction is it’ll double...It’ll be $70 trillion and the system will get bigger,” says E.B. Tucker in this interview with Daniela Cambone. Responding to Vladimir Putin advisor Alexander Kobyakov’s claim that Washington plans to offload its $37 trillion debt into a “crypto cloud,” Tucker cautions against overthinking the geopolitical spin. “If the Russian power structure and the U.S. power structure have this bizarre war behind the scenes, obviously that affects us, but there’s a lot of moving parts there.” Instead, Tucker urges investors to focus on how to grow alongside a system that keeps expanding. “If that happens, I want my asset pile to grow with that, because otherwise I’m going to go backwards.”

For gold, he warns that central bank buying won’t last forever. “Now you get up here like 3,600 and you’re like, okay, so you could have a 10% move, but we’ve had a lot of move now… gold tends to move in advance of things changing.”

Chapters:
00:00 US debt scheme leaked by Russia
04:30 EB’s take on the “Powerball Effect”
08:49 Will silver rise above $50?
13:05 What if China stopped buying gold?
15:00 Property tax revolt & why it matters
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BREAKING: Sen. Chuck Grassley announces a whistleblower has exposed the program “Arctic Frost” for targeting 92 Republican groups, Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA among them.

All records will be made public today.

“These new records show that Arctic Frost was much broader than just an electoral matter.”

“In total, 92 Republican targets, including Republican groups and Republican-linked individuals, were placed under investigative scope of Arctic Frost. On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk's group's turning point, USA.”

“Today, Senator Johnson and I are making these records public for the entire country to see, and I hope a lot of people are interested in seeing what government can do when various agencies have a political agenda.”
 



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Dearborn’s Muslim mayor tells Christian he’s ‘not welcome’ in debate on honoring pro-terror Arab leader​

At a Dearborn City Council meeting last week, Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud told local resident Edward "Ted" Barham, a Christian, that he was "not welcome" in the city after Barham raised concerns about new street signs honoring Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani.

FOX 2 Detroit reported that the signs honoring Siblani were placed at intersections on Warren Avenue by Wayne County, not the City of Dearborn. But the mayor escalated the debate, telling Barham, "Although you live here, you are not welcome here."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/d...rror-arab-leader/ar-AA1MHzGX?ocid=socialshare
 
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