By Charlie Johnston
You can do things quickly or you can do things solidly. Rare it is that you can do both. Joe Biden and his team came into power under the shadow of a dubious election of uncertain integrity. The left immediately took the “We have the power!!!” route and started doing all manner of things that they wanted, but the country recoiled from. They acted quickly. Before the inauguration, the Capitol was surrounded by barricades and razor wire to keep uppity citizens out. And so came the inevitable backlash. Personally, I think it is going to be a long time before Democrats ever hold power again.
One would think from that lesson that conservatives would be prudent instead of demanding that we get everything we want, everywhere we want, right now! The “We have the power!!!” method is prelude to destruction rather than prelude to greatness. Patience, grasshopper!
Last week the Supreme Court slapped down the universal injunctions that activist judges were using to cosplay as president and try to stop the administration from exercising executive power that is Constitutionally denied the judiciary. Donald Trump accomplished his aim without triggering a Constitutional Showdown with the judiciary and without performative, but impotent efforts to impeach the judicial activists. Meantime, because of the outrageous nonsense of these activists in black robes, everyone (including their buddies) could see why it was necessary to clip their wings. Instead of a patchwork fight, we got a permanent solution – and the activists, by their gleeful overreach, helped us get there.
The thing that has bothered me most after Trump’s return to office is how many conservatives insist on doing their Veruca Salt (from Willy Wonka) imitation: They want what they want when they want it and they want it NOW! Besides the bratty entitlement involved, if they get it the way they want it it can be as quickly and easily dismantled as the depredations of the Biden administration are being torn down now. Do it steady and do it right. That is how you go about bearing fruit that will last.
I have come to have a great deal of trust in Trump and his team’s judgment. Out of early chaos (and still quite a bit being staged by the performative left) is emerging new order – and a consensus that traditional American norms are a better way to live than constant meltdowns over fringe issues.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote perhaps the most unhinged, idiotic, opinion in dissent of the Supreme Court’s decision to rein in the obstruction of universal injunctions ever to come out of the Court. It ridiculed the very idea of law, the Constitution, and ordered liberty, arguing for whatever feels right in the moment. At bottom, it was a screed seeking to do away with the concept of law permanently. (Jackson would, undoubtedly, have made a prosecutor George Soros would have given two thumbs up).
It was so bad that, in the majority decision, author Amy Coney Barrett delivered Jackson a withering slapdown that was more brutal than that delivered to leftwing activist district judges. All the justices in the majority concurred with the slapdown. Even Jackson’s fellow liberals, Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, are keeping their distance from this dissent – that reads like the passionate emotings of a flat earther on meth.
Make no mistake: this is about slowly and steadily re-establishing the norms that make for healthy discourse in a healthy society. For a very long time leftists have loudly championed insanities that no healthy culture would waste five minutes on. We are bringing back shaming to people who seriously insist on a reality more absurd than a Salvador Dali painting. (Impressionism and absurdity in art can be a profound thing. I love Dali. But it has no place in public discussion of weighty matters). Officials who abuse their authority and try to usurp authority they don’t have are being slapped down – and having chunks of the authority they do have taken away from them. It is a massive project, kind of like bringing order back to a yard that has been left untended for a decade. But the trajectory we are now on is towards order and peace.
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A lot of commentators jumped the gun when the Supreme Court refused to hear several cases on gun rights this session. They got mad when Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the court will hear a major gun case in the next couple of sessions, thinking the court was just kicking the can down the road. That is not the case – and now the Civil Rights division of the Justice Dept. has tipped its hand on what the Supreme Court is waiting for. It has issued an amicus brief on the Barnett vs Illinois case, currently awaiting appeal, urging the Supreme Court to take it up as soon as possible.
Why are all eyes focused on this case, now? Before getting into that, I should note that Federal District Court Judge Stephen McGlynn, who issued the original order, is a very close friend of long standing.
Most cases the Supreme Court could have taken up covered just a few aspects of the issue, if they even covered more than one. Even a favorable judgment on gun owners’ rights would have left a ton of loopholes for blue states to exploit. The Barnett ruling covers the issue from soup to nuts, including some issues that pro-gun rights advocates hadn’t brought up. (You may have to temporarily disable your VPN to see that last link). If the Supreme Court takes up this case and gives a favorable ruling, it will be very difficult for blue states and other gun grabbers to find loopholes to exploit. That means the cycle of the Court ruling in favor of the Constitution every few years – and activists finding new ways to get around the intent of the Court’s ruling will largely come to an end.
I’m weird. I read an unusually large number of court rulings. McGlynn and I are very particular not to discuss any details of any case he is hearing while he is hearing it. On this one, he sent me the pdf of the ruling hours after it had been publicly filed. I was stunned. Yeah, at 168 pages it can seem daunting, but it is simultaneously the most concise and the most comprehensive ruling on an issue I have ever read. Not only that, it has literary merit, to boot. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has been slow to act on this one, I think, because they know what a comprehensive poison pill it is to all the leftist pretensions. The amicus brief from the Justice Dept. will, undoubtedly, help move things along.
Of course, we all tend to think the best of our friends. But my friends know that I only give a specific compliment when it is fully deserved. McGlynn’s ruling on this case cuts through decades of noise and, I think, reveals him to be one of the finest, most comprehensive legal minds in the country right now. Take it with a grain of salt, if you must, but read the ruling and you will be hard-pressed to disagree with me.
After the Supreme Court takes this case up and rules on it, the left is going to have to find other things to constantly harp on and play games with. Their game plan has long been to disarm innocent victims while letting predators go to terrorize our communities. Disarming victims is a dumb way to fight crime – and the Supreme Court is going to soon have a means of underlining that point.
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The media and the discredited public health establishment is gearing up for a new wave of attacks on the miracle drug, Ivermectin. They will lose. Too many people on their own side have now used it to overcome Covid, other viruses, and the depredations brought on by their ineffective and dangerous “cures.” (I strongly encourage you to read the last link: Jeff Childers writes in an engaging style and you will come out very knowledgeable about what is going on.)
Trump is using an incredibly effective three-step process to suck the little remaining credibility out of anti-American media and officials. First, he announces something bold (that he has actually carefully vetted). The media and leftist officials then raucously explain very publicly and contemptuously how stupid he is and the deadly damaging effects that will follow from his bold announcement. He lets them rant for a while (I think he even secretly encourages it). Then he turns out to be very publicly and decisively right. It’s a good thing the price of eggs has fallen so dramatically. Otherwise, the media’s bill for the egg they keep constantly on their faces would rival the judgments they have had to pay for libeling Trump.
This keeps playing out VERY publicly. The media wants it so, for they are utterly convinced, like Wile E. Coyote with the Roadrunner, that this time they have surely gotten him. Do not underestimate how very many people, even of a somewhat rational liberal persuasion are asking themselves every day, “Can’t these people in the media get anything right?” Those lunatics who have degenerated into Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) are helping the process along by making it difficult for the most moderately left talking head to be reasonable without being shrieked at.
Of course, ratings in the establishment media continue their precipitous collapse – with no corresponding bouts of embarrassed humility by the supposed “newspeople.” They are as smug as ever. Some, such as at the New York Times, when they are exposed as catastrophically and laughably wrong, just come up with new lies that are equally transparent and easily disproven. Honestly, if the media were deliberately trying to destroy all vestiges of their credibility, I cannot think of anything they would be doing differently.
We need a genuinely independent press. Those who have made themselves into the Communications Dept. of the lunatic left are not it. This truly is unsustainable. Right now, a lot of people are gravitating to social media to get their news. That is a relief valve, but it has its own limitations. And bubbles. I think we are about to see a genuine collapse in the news industry, opening up a vacuum that, surely, some actors who are committed to actual journalism rather than activism will exploit. Don’t be surprised if, a year from now, you randomly see the staff of CNN, MSNBC, et. al. on street corners with signs saying, “Will rant for food.”
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The biggest threat to American prosperity and revival right now is Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Though exactly the opposite has happened, he is obstinate in his insistence that reciprocal tariffs will trigger massive inflation. That means he insists on keeping interest rates high.
With the massive interest we now pay on the massive national debt, keeping interest rates high at a time of general prosperity serves to continue to increase the national debt – because we have to use those dollars to service the debt rather than do something productive or useful. A reduction by a point or two, which would be much more appropriate to our economy, would have a massive impact on reducing deficits. If Powell remains obstinate, I do not see how Trump fails to replace him early. Our economy depends on it.
I have come to think that, in this area, Trump is genuinely a genius. This country and its politicians have used financial gimmicks for so long to make things look better than they are that we are addicted – and systemically, the economy is in the greatest peril I think it ever has been since the early days of the Republic. The only way to avoid catastrophic economic collapse is to dramatically boost productivity, bringing hard manufacturing back to the land en masse, and making full use of our abundant energy sources. Everything Trump is doing is designed to do just that. His critics reveal every day to people who know something serious about economics that they are utter economic illiterates. Thankfully, they are revealing it to ordinary people wholesale now, too. We are a long way from being out of the woods, and we retrace our steps with the left and its “experts” fighting us every step of the way. But I am beginning to think we have a genuine chance.
Nine years ago, a woman at a talk I gave in Las Vegas, said she believed “Donald Trump was God’s plan for America.” I drily retorted that, “Well, God can do anything, so it’s possible. But if that is God’s plan, I have to say I think it is the dumbest plan He ever had.” I have long since repented and apologized to God. It strikes me that, over his lifetime, Trump has had a lot of characteristics in common with King David. Now I find myself wondering if maybe Trump, too, is a “man after God’s own heart.”
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It is striking to note, for all the sturm und drang involved, that the secular world is healing faster than the spiritual culture. But it is not sustainable. Much of the ills that attend us are because of our embrace, over the last century, of good as evil and evil as good.
Sex trafficking and child exploitation have reached such catastrophic levels because we have casually redefined love, a self-sacrificial commitment, to mean whatever form of lust floats your boat. At the heart of it all is that, when you start treating people as things to be exploited for social credit or private gain, you start spiritually dying and your culture starts degenerating into chaos.
John Adams said, over two centuries ago, that, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” He was right, of course. We need a great revival in our Churches, in our hearts, and in our homes, that we may become a people capable of both exercising the rights and carrying out the duties of a free people under God. There is no policy that will accomplish that. It can only be a turning of hearts back to God. The most important thing any of us can do is to give witness to the Gospel to everyone who encounters us, to show them that they can have a life and a hope – and that it will not come through shrieking and complaining.
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Just a couple of weeks left until our national CORAC Conference. You’ve still got a week to sign up. I hope to see you there – where you will meet examples of the sort of Courage Under Fire we are all going to need to live to move our culture from darkness into light.
If communication goes out for any length of time, meet outside your local Church at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings. Tell friends at Church now in case you can’t then. CORAC teams will be out looking for people to gather in and work with.
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A Sign of Hope 
Thanks be to God for your writing, Charlie. You’re a dynamo!
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Charlie, thanks for the reminder to be patient, i needed that. And the analogy to an overgrown garden hit personally. Hurricane Ida took out a huge pine tree in our yard (and smashed through out house). We’ve been back in our house for almost three years now, but hadn’t yet dealt with the overturned stump of the tree and two other trees that were taken out. We are now chopping through the overgrown vines entangled with branches, bushes etc. and it will be awhile before we see order out of the chaos we let fester. We’re starting to see progress but doing what we can as we can and not giving up will lead to the beautiful backyard oasis we had in the past. Again, thanks for this writing. 🙂 Denise E.
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Charlie, I sure hope you are right about the secular media! It’s so disheartening to hear the older generation (over 70) parroting what MSM says. Most of them are not computer literate (if they even have a computer!) and they still trust the media! Makes me want to tear my hair out–especially since they won’t listen to real truth. Of course, these same people despise Trump, so, I guess that’s why it’s easier for them to believe lies. 🤦♀️
And thank you for the reminder that doing things right takes time and patience.
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Sorry, I have to correct you! 🙂 It’s only the old, greying, hippie crowd that you describe. Be careful about characterizing “most” of us! Just a friendly reminder. There are many of us very computer and media savy.
Another great commentary, Charlie, and again, I needed it.
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Sorry, Annie, I did not mean to disparage all the older generation! It just seems that most of my older family members, neighbors and friends who are older than 70, do not use a computer to search for real news (again, if they even have one). They rely on what the “boobtube” tells them. I could not convince my mom and dad that Trump was not evil and the vax was. It is a blessing that they are no longer living, but know the truth now!
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jewelsword13, The enemy has always used lies and distortions to fool and ensnare those who are gullible and do not long for Truth. 100 years ago Satan asked God for ” more power over those who will give themselves to him”. (https://aleteia.org/2017/09/25/the-demonic-vision-that-inspired-the-st-michael-prayer/.) Jesus spoke to Pilot of those that “hear” His voice are those who are “on the side of Truth”(John 18:37) The parable of the seed that falls on the path, rocky ground, thorns or good soil (Matthew 13) is an explanation of these different souls and why they loose or keep the faith. Of course, all things are possible with God so anyone can be saved by the means God has established by intercessory prayer or by a miraculous act of His sovereign will (think St Paul – ACTS 9:3-4). The Warning could be such an event for many.https://www.renewalministries.net/the-warning-and-illumination-of-conscience/?srsltid=AfmBOooe-ZaxjxqVjrM-UuWQUGMUeeSmboyEVsmb8Reyr-IbUJ09WUmb.
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Thanks Charlie, for the injection of hope! You have come a long way from 2016 in Cherry Hill, telling me you were going to hold your nose and vote for Trump!
Jerry
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Haha…in 2016 I was not convinced, by a long shot. But unlike those who suffer from TDS, when I see a man working constantly and producing good results, I give thanks to God rather than double down on my initial errant judgment.
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As a Pro-Life Texan, I love that pic! Yes, Mama squirrel, love that baby! Charlie this post gives me great hope.
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I’d like to add a few comments to Charlie’s great article.
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I laughed out loud at item four, Steve. Turnabout would, indeed, be fair play.
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Brother Charlie,
Peace and blessings to you and all CORAC Family.
When Donald Trump came down that escalator 10 years ago and officially announced that he was entering the 2016 US presidential election, that very beautiful voice of Jesus spoke to me these very simple words of prophetic truth: “Charlie, there is the next president of America.” I shared this with many of my family, friends, and endured great ridicule from all. My dear loving brother (now deceased) was quite passionate in excoriating me for believing that the American People would elect a clown to the Presidency. Like yourself, my brother also apologized to me, as well. You are a humble man for apologizing to your readership.
In JCALAS Forever,
Charlie R
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy St Serra Day!! 😉
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My gracious, absolutely outstanding piece Charlie! Certainly one of your your very best. Thank you very much for your encouragement in these crazy times we live in today. Blessings always. 🙏
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My view (and family’s) of Trump from the beginning was that someone who can run successful businesses, would know better how to run a country and it’s economy, etc. We voted for him the first time, and I’ll never forget the next morning and the very wonderful surprise that he had won (and the delight in seeing the liberals crying). Thank God he has another chance to help our country out of corruption! Come Holy Spirit and Mama Mary!!!
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The skills needed to run a political entity and a business entity are very different. Both involve command, but politics require a great deal more persuasive ability. Most businessmen are like a fish out of water trying to run a political entity. Trump is uniquely talented – probably because his whole business model required a lot of negotiation and persuasion.
Dwight Eisenhower was once asked about the difference between being Commanding General and President. He said that, as a General, everyone would argue with him as they made plans – and when he decided and gave the orders they carried them out with dispatch. As President, everyone always told him how wonderful he was and when he gave an order, nothing happened (until he started kicking some tail).
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I have heard/read that this one big beautiful bill will likely result in the closure of rural hospitals due to a large drop in funding. It seems to me that rural area hospitals are visited by those who are part of Trump’s base. And even if rural areas were not part of his base, I cannot see how this is good for American citizens. Does anyone have knowledge of this may happen and why this could possibly be good for anyone?
My daughter-in-law (recently deceased as of June 20 ) went to a rural hospital several times this year and they really helped her. Sometimes the rural hospital (hospital #1) arranged for transport to a hospital about 1 hour and a half hours + away (hospital #2). Consider that this long drive is truly one heck of a ride if there is a life-threatening emergency.
I believe that the rural hospital is essential. I consider what they did at the rural hospital was even better than what is being done at a large city hospital (hospital #3)at 50 minuted away from her home. And that is why she had to be taken to a hospital at 1 hour and 1/2 + hours away (hospital #2).
I cannot name the hospitals. Note that I am referring to 3 different hospitals.
I currently believe that local hospital (larger city hospital #3) is currently making huge mistakes.
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That claim is based on ending Medicaid for illegals and cracking down on fraudulent claims. I hope that no hospitals are dependent on such and that it is, as usual, a fraudulent claim from Dems. If there are any hospitals which depend on fraud and billing the gov’t for illegals to survive, they need to find a new business model.
I, of course, may have a blinkered view of the matter. I have refused to go to any hospital since Obamacare was passed, regardless of how sick I was, even when I was near death – because Obamacare made our hospitals the primary support system for the Culture of Death. Then, of course, during the Covid scare, hospitals intentionally withheld inexpensive life-saving medicine that actually worked in order to use expensive pharma and gov’t approved therapies that killed people – and received huge (up to $50,000 per patient) bonuses from the gov’t for following its recommended protocols whether or not the patient died. I would feel safer in a crack den than a hospital since Obamacare completely deranged the medical system, making it far more predatory.
That said, there is a grave need to rebuild and rebrand hospitals so that they are geared to saving lives in this country.
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As I understand it, after this bill passes the federal matching funds will be much less for Medicaid patients for all hospitals and health care centers. And the matching funds will be greatly less for rural hospitals. This lesser funding does not appear to be matched to a working requirement or status of not being a citizen.. It simply places more of the burden on states in general.
All of us would like to see fraud and abuse removed from all of our government and health care systems. Any sane person would be happy to see this happen. However, I am not sure any of us would deny care to a special needs person or for a person who is working at a low -paying job with no offering of health insurance (and who finds Obamacare too expensive).
Despite the COVID debacle, I think there are situations where any one of us would go to a hospital. There are also situations where any of us could be working at a low paying job for a while or an extended period.
There are certainly great concerns about our medical systems and how they are performing.. When one does have a need to go to a hospital, the patient should have the confidence that the hospital is fighting for a life and no simply figuring a way to earn big bucks.
These days one can read lots of information on the internet. At the same time, one has to wonder if what is being reported is true or simply a political spin/falsehood..
I think this bill will pass. We will soon see the results.
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Hey Charlie!
I think part of the concern is that those that qualify for medicaid will fall through the cracks due to some of the onerous bureaucracy and paperwork that may be created due to the BBB. There is obviously no perfect system and some of it comes down to choosing, would one rather err towards having some people to take advantage of the system or have a higher likely hood of people in need to fall through the cracks?
At this point, I don’t buy the “sky is falling” rhetoric, but I do think we all need to be ready to care for our neighbor who is in need. Whether it be the immigrant, the sick, the poor, etc. That seems to me to be the biblical call to all of us!
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Interesting and disconcerting fact. Rep. Chip Ray (R-Texas) said: “I asked every witness at the panel in the Rules Committee yesterday if they’d read the bill, who were testifying on the bill, and they haven’t read it.”
Apparently our senators and representatives rely on other people to read the bill and tell them what is in it.
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I appreciate this, Judith. I was once one of the guys who did a chunk of the reading. Everything is far too overcomplicated and gov’t gets too deeply into everybody’s lives. Even many conservatives see the government as the source and summit of community life. That was one of the things I was trying to get at subtly on the business about rural hospitals, earlier. If there is a need that is good, we tend to automatically assume the federal government should fill it – without stopping to think that having the feds held responsibility for everything is a HUGE part of what allows them to take power over everything.
We used to have rural hospitals with NO federal money. In remote areas, we would have clinics which would allow people with serious ailments to be airlifted to a hospital in a more populated area. At the start, we relied on voluntary associations and states to do the good we needed communally. It has changed. What has not changed is that if you insist on having a federal government which is big enough to cover every need, do not be surprised when it becomes rapacious enough to take everything you have. And the larger it gets, the less every representative official knows about what is covered under it.
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I understand what you are saying about any hospital or entity which receives federal (or even state) funds. I think that this acceptance of funds does give away our independence and privacy. This is a huge concern but I have no idea how to get around it…..I also fully believe that as long as we use computers to communicate either an an individual or as part of a business, we are all being tracked and profiled. I certainly do not see how we can get around this in the modern day. I am also very concerned about the use of AI. When I do a computer search on something, AI gives me a summary of what is allegedly true. Of course, no one knows if AI is actually summarizing truth or if it is all a pile of fiction. The world has certainly gotten very complicated.
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The hospital staff these days seem to have very little practical knowledge. The last few times I have taken someone in to see the Dr they are always stumped as to what is wrong. A quick blood test to rule out specifics and a prescription for a multi use antibiotic and we’re out the door! Of course they follow up with ” if this doesn’t work, contact us”. Truth is, practically anything one gets sick with your body can heal by itself without ” professional” medical attention and the “placebo” given most times doesn’t even target what you’ve got in the first place. But since most can heal on their own, the clinic and pharmacy get your money for basically doing nothing but can still claim they did. Back in the day most country doctors were aware of the “local” maladies and could diagnose without a bunch of clinical tests. Now days, there are so many similarly looking diseases on the books that they might be looking at you for the Botswana plague when you simply rolled in green grass and got a little rash from it!
As far as the bill, I understand that mostly lobbiest lawyers from companies hired to push their agendas write the bills. This is why there is so much pork in them and why our representative don’t/can’t read them!
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I find that if a person is admitted to a hospital for an illness these days, that person needs an advocate to watch what the hospital staff is doing. That means a family member or other loving friend needs to be on the ball and often ask the right questions to keep the doctors and staff on their toes. One cannot simply expect that all the proper care is being provided. I think that the time a doctor is allowed to spend with a patient is now limited both at the doctor’s office and at the hospital. There is also a nursing shortage and, therefore, we now have traveling nurses. One of my doctors tells me that few people want to be nurses these days. People want to be administrators. I am not sure how to turn this around.
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“There is also a nursing shortage and, therefore, we now have traveling nurses. One of my doctors tells me that few people want to be nurses these days. People want to be administrators. I am not sure how to turn this around.” (Judy).
Judy, at this level of replacement we will not be able to keep up with our aging population. With birth rates plummeting in the West shortages in every sector is of society is going to happen. The geniuses of birth/population control never realized that when you dance with the devil you get exactly the things that your father, the devil, is the master of. Jesus said the devil kills, steals and destroys and is the father of lies. Here and lies the hope of AI and robotics. Since demonically, he does not want more human beings with souls it stands to reason as next plan is to reduce the population of soul-bearing man to souless machines. This fits the elite quite perfectly, because they no longer have to worry about what they want being serviced by humans that they don’t want and have to pay a salary to. There’s a bit of an irony in Elon Musk. He is fathering multiple children but also engaging in the replacement of humans with AI/robotics. But his tactics are also obviously from his father, the devil, for he does not have family ties with his children who he only fathers as a self-pride biological act and not out of love for them, nore sadly, even himself.
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Phillip, the world is certainly changing in ways none of us could ever have imagined. I shudder to think that soulless machines may soon replace men and women in many areas of the workplace. All I can say is that the so-called elite have a plan and Almighty God has a plan. I expect that we will not get to the turnaround easily, but God always wins. We will surely see a triumph for soul-bearing men and women.
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Independence Day!! 😉
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/pdf/ssb_lyrics.pdf
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” .. John Adams
https://catholicexchange.com/true-freedom-the-power-to-choose-the-good/
https://www.catholicleague.org/july-4th-bedevils-celebrities/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-patriotic-john-dubois-americas-champion-of-religious-freedom/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/happy-independence-day-2025-today-we-thank-god/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/celebrating-life-liberty-pursuit-happiness-this-4th-july/
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/04/this-independence-day-ditch-the-dna-test-and-learn-more-about-your-american-ancestors/
https://stream.org/fun-mathematical-facts-about-the-fourth-of-july/
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2025/07/03/ashamed-usa-medias-21-worst-anti-american-outbursts
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1941140880616026493
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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Hey Charlie – Hope all is well!
I do not have near the political expertise that you have, so wanted to get your take on a question I’ve had.
I have not been able to discern any clear, consistent first principles that President Trump works from, which is one reason I’ve always have a hard time trusting him.
I know that first principles are important to you, so I wanted to get your take on if you’ve been able to discern what his first principles are (regardless of whether he himself is self-aware enough to know what first principles he is working from)?
Cheers!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!! 😉
https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-ugandan-martyrs/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/configuring-all-things-to-christ
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/mills-gods-answer-to-pain-of-adolescence
https://www.catholicleague.org/smear-merchants-attack-pope-leo-xiv-2/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265151/vatican-downplays-leaked-documents-on-latin-mass
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/4/ex-skeptic-john-burke-discovers-evidence-jesus-near-death-encounters/
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/prisoner-of-love/
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/lukas-nuns-day
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/cardinal-fernandez-rupnik-judges
https://catholicexchange.com/what-we-learn-from-labels-and-st-thomas-the-doubter/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/egypt-must-not-confiscate-st-catherines-monastery
Pastor Dana-Worth a Watch .. https://youtu.be/HQT0t3SgMKA
I hope and Pray that I will see justice prevail for ALL the Feral Gubermint Agencies … Especially the DOJ/Judiciary. I want to see the Perps that oversaw the Double Standard shreadding of the Constitution/Bill of Rights and the premediated & CRIMINAL trampling of the Civil Rights of honorable Citizens ….. evil Perps who ignored the Criminal Acts of the violent Militia Origanazations of the DemonRat Party and/or THEIR assorted “Victim Groups”! …. I want these Perps outed, prosecuted, jailed for decades and civily sued into abject poverty! AMEN!! https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/prisoner-of-love/
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1941279537746280916?s=09
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/07/04/the-decline-and-fall-of-our-so-called-degreed-experts-n2659917
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/fda-announces-new-safety-warning-all-mrna-covid/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://newsbusters.org/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!! 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/bearing-christs-spiritual-authority-well-fourteenth-sunday-of-ordinary-time/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251704/here-are-11-american-saints-to-remember-on-the-fourth-of-july
https://spiritdailyblog.com/news/a-mystic-camp-near-the-guadalupe
https://aleteia.org/2025/07/03/this-capuchin-saint-spent-15-hours-a-day-hearing-confessions/
https://spiritdailyblog.com/apparitions/archives-the-message-of-our-lady-of-america
https://acninternational.org/religious-robbed-held-at-gunpoint-and-threatened-with-decapitation-in-mozambique/
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/i-danced-for-berlusconi-then-the-devil-possessed-me-for-six-years-g83t83x58
https://spiritdailyblog.com/miracles/odds-and-ends-2
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/farewell-francis-hello-leo-xiv/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/defunding-planned-parenthood-is-only-a-baby-step/
https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/why-was-moses-not-allowed-to-enter-the-promised-land
https://onepeterfive.com/os-justi-press-and-the-new-hymnal/
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/07/racing-devil-joseph-pearce.html
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265193/pope-leo-xiv-moves-to-the-second-vatican-city-castel-gandolfo
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/discerning-movie-independence-day-28-years-later/
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/what-happened-in-2013-2014-that-caused-democrat-pride-in-america-to-fall-off-a-cliff/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://newsbusters.org/
https://newsbusters.org/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!! 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/disarming-simplicity-and-why-we-must-pursue-it/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/parish-priests-are-the-cure-to-the-crisis
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265203/catholics-mobilize-aid-response-after-historic-flash-floods-devastate-texas-hill-country
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/a-saint-of-and-for-our-times
https://catholicexchange.com/theres-no-perfect-school-choosing-formation-over-flawlessness/
https://aleteia.org/2025/07/02/us-catholics-believe-personal-relationship-with-jesus-defines-them/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/dirty_deeds_judicial_ping_pong_and_the_bbb.html
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/the-fight-for-the-fate-of-the-intelligence
https://www.frontpagemag.com/should-john-brennan-be-in-prison/
YEP! Cover-Up de Cover-Up.. Not to Worry! Drink your Kool-Aid!! .. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/07/07/fbi-concludes-jeffrey-epstein-had-no-clients-didnt-blackmail-anyone-and-definitely-killed-himself/
Beyond The Realm of Possibilities .. ChemTrails? … Anyone?? .. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/07/07/operation-texas-deluge-weather-warfare-via-geoengineered-floods-in-kerr-county-specifically-perpetrated-to/
https://courage.media/2025/07/03/the-anti-american-academic-who-helped-build-the-caliphate/
https://catholicvote.org/
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://floppingaces.net/
https://www.americanthinker.com/
https://amgreatness.com/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://thedailybs.com/news/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS 😉
RIP Victims!
This Texas Flood was a Murphy’s Law Event … one that occurred at the worst possible time ……. 3AM on Independence Day … when everyone/thing is asleep ;-(
This area gets Flash Floods frequently! Long past time for Flood (w/Tornado) sirens at Campgrounds that can be triggered by the National Weather Service as well as by Locals .. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14879817/texas-flood-victims-furious-officials-national-weather-service.html
Oh! and it’s probably time to take a hard look at Gubermint subsidized Flood Insurance Programs that encourage Dummies to build and re-build in Flood Zones.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we start to deceive” – Walter Scott
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/wait-what-if-there-was-no-epstein-client/ .. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/if-jeffrey-epstein-had-no-client-list-then/
We simply can’t afford The Freeloaders Here or Abroad!! .. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/06/when-an-intransigent-resistance-meets-an-immovable-object-eu-trade-team-accepting-baseline-tariffs/
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/07/05/planned-parenthood-promises-to-sue-president-trump-for-signing-defunding-bill
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258o5q1t.1vx2/ab324428
https://newsbusters.org/
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!! 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/saintly-influencers-the-later-patristic-age/
https://www.catholicleague.org/one-big-beautiful-win-for-school-choice/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265203/catholics-mobilize-aid-response-after-historic-flash-floods-devastate-texas-hill-country
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/preach-like-elmer-gantry/
https://onepeterfive.com/the-incorruptibles-miracles-pt-6/
https://spiritdailyblog.com/news/53453 .. https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/area-of-texas-hit-by-flooding-rain-part-of-north-american-weather-modification-council
Good! Heretofore only DemonRat Party Controlled Urban Area “Churches” were allowed to “Preach Politics” from de Pulpit! .. https://thehill.com/homenews/5389119-irs-churches-can-endorse-political-candidates/ .. It will also give Pew Peons some insight into the True Beliefs of their alleged Shepherds?
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/07/marlow-liberals-reveal-themselves-as-monsters-in-rush-to-politicize-deaths-of-christian-girls/
Yep! .. Long Past-Time for Lord Obama the Perfidious and ALL his felonious disciples to “Pay the Piper” for ALL their Treason, High Crimes and Misdemeanors! .. https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/07/cia-review-reveals-obama-pushed-intel-community-to-launch-trump-russia-witch-hunt/ .. https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/07/exclusive-brennans-fake-russia-collusion-assessment-even-more-corrupt-than-current-report-shows/ .. If NO-one goes to Jail … and SOON! …. we will know that The Deep State is still In-Control and the 2nd Trump Term is just be a short pause in the Destruction of The Republic!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/07/08/former-cia-agent-deep-state-likely-destroyed-the-epstein-files-n2660035
https://stream.org/submit-and-all-will-go-well-for-you-a-jihadist-summons-to-trump/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/gen-mike-flynn-drops-memo-demanding-trump-admin/
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/07/07/cage-match/
https://hotair.com/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://thedailybs.com/news/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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Thank you, Charlie!
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