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    Trump’s Debt Diet Is Working

    Nicole Huyer | January 21, 2026
    The Daily Signal
     **If there’s anything Republicans and Democrats can agree on,
it’s how to spend money. Both parties created the federal budget
deficit and contributed to the looming $38 trillion national debt,
but President Donald Trump’s administration is actively working
to close it.
     Since the budget is essentially financed by taxpayers,
closing the gap means reduced borrowing and interest payments,
lower national debt, and boosted long-term economic growth all
Americans can feel.
     The Monthly Treasury Statement highlights fiscal year 2025,
in which the federal government spent over $7 trillion in outlays
and generated $5.2 trillion in receipts. Despite including
President Joe Biden’s last four months in office, the budget
deficit of approximately $1.8 trillion was still down 2% from
fiscal year 2024.
     Early data for fiscal year 2026 (October to December 2025)
shows further fiscal responsibility. The cumulative deficit of
$602 billion is approximately 15% lower than the same period in
fiscal year 2025.
     The deficit’s closure—or at least slowed rate of growth—under
the Trump administration, can be attributed to a combination of
receipt (revenue) increases and targeted outlay (spending)
reductions.
     Tariffs are a sure method to generate federal government
receipts which drove the deficit down. Beating economists’ pro-
jections, tariff revenue soared to nearly $200 billion in Trump’s
first year of his second term.
     In just the last three months, custom duties boasted $90
billion—an increase of over 330% from the comparable prior period.
These tariffs targeted communist Chinese imports—among others—
allowing the U.S. to decouple from the Asian giant and boosting
government income amid broader economic growth.
     Individual income tax revenue surged as wage increases out-
paced inflation. These receipts rose from $518 billion in fiscal
year 2025 to $606 billion in fiscal year 2026 (17% growth), which
contributed to a shrinking deficit. And with Trump’s “One Big,
Beautiful Bill” tax cuts taking effect in 2026, Americans can
expect to feel greater financial relief.
     On the spending side, budget outlays contracted from the
previous period. In an unprecedented opportunity created by the
Democrat-engineered October government shutdown, Trump and his
team worked hard to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
     Trump axed thousands of unnecessary government workers and
programs, a decision that contributed massively to efficiency and
fiscal savings. Partnering with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent,
the two oversaw financial reallocation and halted billions in
wasteful programs.
     Office of Budget and Management Director Russell Vought made
substantial Reductions in Force (RIFs) in health, education,
environment, and other agencies with unfavorable political agendas
—cutting spending and saving taxpayers billions.
     For example, federal outlays for the Department of Agriculture
fell by 18%, the Department of Education by 26%, the Environmental
Protection Agency by 81%, and International Assistance Programs
by 82%.
     Shrinking the public sector tackles the affordability crisis
created by the fiscally undisciplined Biden administration. Four
years of prices rising faster than wages and inflation reaching
40-year highs encouraged voters to elect Trump who promised to
balance the budget—and not just in rhetoric, but in decisive action.
     The combination of reducing Treasury outlays and increasing
receipts reduces the budget deficit and may lead to lower inflation,
stabilized prices, and supply side private sector growth—all of
which will usher in a golden era of affordability for Americans.
     Biden is certainly responsible for the economic woes felt by
voters today, but Trump continues to make meaningful progress in
reducing stubbornly high prices.
     In a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report, overall, the
12-month adjusted consumer price index estimated 2.7%. Core infla-
tion fell to a remarkable 2.6%, the lowest since March 2021, with
price reductions driven by gains across most grocery groups, used
vehicles, gasoline, communications, and energy.
     With data reflecting broader disinflationary trends, further
cooling may even influence the Federal Reserve to cut rates, making
the cost of borrowing cheaper and interest on credit cards or loans
lower.
     So long as regulations continue to be cut, tax rates are
reduced, brakes are put on government spending, and government
revenue is generated in a sustainable manner, there’s hope for the
American taxpayer.
     Rather than feed the government machine and widen the federal
budget deficit, Trump is putting Washington on a diet, eating
inflation, and cooking up a private sector boom—the real drivers
of economic expansion which will provide relief to all Americans.**
    
     Since Trump took his seat back, he's battled corrupt liberals  
but still has lowered oil to less than $100 a barrel, and he has
made big strides in lowering the price of many things aside from
things that have to be bought from China and other Socialist style
nations. The housing market has slumped just like many other items
but Trump told us prices will rise and fall until he gets the stock
market settles and interest rate go down since Powell is no longer
running the FED.
     We were told it will take months but he has ended 8 wars, gas
is 50 to 80 cents less but for some reasons Democrats want to go
back to the rampant inflation they left him with.
     With God's grace and faith you will learn that without Him
you will be crushed by liberal plans to socialize America.
     Pray that God hears our prayers and the American Dream gets
new life.
    
  Conservatively,
  John

     Gighrich Warns US
    
	**Gingrich Warns Of ‘Very Dangerous’ Consequences as Dems
        Attack Trump
        
     Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is warning that Democrats’
“very dangerous” rhetoric and behavior could lead to something
“serious” against President Donald Trump, particularly after at
least two failed attempts at taking the president’s life.
     During an interview on Fox News, Gingrich dismissed a claim by
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., that Republicans are
“on the run,” warning that Democrats are in a rage and offering
“no solutions.”
     Gingrich said the left is resorting to extreme tactics to
resist Trump and oppose Elon Musk’s efforts to cut government
spending.
     “Well, I think that everything you showed earlier reflects
what Lincoln said at Gettysburg when he said, this is a test of
whether this system or any system so conceived in liberty can
survive. You have a hard-line group who believe that they have
the right to be violent, that they have the right to deny the
American people the choice of their leadership, that they have the
right to break the law. The answer to all of that is, frankly, you
have to lock them up. You have to enforce the law,” Gingrich began.
“Period. And at some point, people begin to realize that you can’t
wage war against the entire American people. And in that sense, I
would argue that Elon Musk is simply one of the people serving the
American people. He’s a senior advisor to the president of the
United States. And I think that, in that sense, all of this is
totally unacceptable, as is harassing a Supreme Court justice or
harassing the vice president and his three-year-old,” Gingrich
added.
     “What I saw the other night … the House Democrats were sort
of zombie Democrats. They couldn’t applaud anything. They couldn’t
applaud the president. They couldn’t applaud a 13-year-old cancer
survivor. They couldn’t applaud a young man who wanted to go to
West Point. They couldn’t applaud people who were there who had
lost loved ones. It was pretty bizarre. And I think that, you know,
Hakeem Jeffries may think he has to say these things. He’s their
leader,” he said.
     “What’s he going to say? But the fact is, the Democrats
currently have no solutions. They are so enraged that Trump is
actually changing what, overwhelmingly, Americans believe is a
corrupt system. I’ll just give you one piece of data,” he said.
     “Our America’s New Majority project just had a poll come
out yesterday. 82% of the American people believe the system is
corrupt. Now that’s dangerous. Both for the survival of freedom.
But also it tells you the fact that the Democrats, who want to
defend the bureaucracy and the corruption and the waste, they’re
going to have a big mountain to climb come 2026,” Gingrich
continued.
     Gingrich went on to speak about the “remarkable contrast
between the destructiveness” of the Democratic Party leadership
and the “remarkable focus on peace” by President Donald Trump
and his team.
     Gingrich warned that it will be a key talking point going
into November’s midterms.
     “Here at home is totally different and here at home you’ve
got two pygmies who live literally within 1.1 miles of each other,
both in New York City,” Gingrich said.
     “About to elect a big government socialist with radical values.
They are totally out of touch with the country. Think about
Schumer’s comment. "Every day gets better". It sure does not get
better for the workers who are laid off, for the people who cannot
get there government services, it does not get better for normal
Americans. Maybe that tells you how out of touch and how out of
touch the Democratic Party has become. But the contrast between
the destructiveness of the democratic leadership and to the
remarkable focus on peace by Donald Trump is truly astonishing,”
Gingrich added.**

     So, if you think Obama and Biden screwed up our powerful and
beautiful nation? Just give the Democrats another shot and the
U.S. will again be run by a group of clueless misfits and the
economy will be destroyed like it was every time the Left was in
control while the American people were never given a positive
chance to build the country back to her nation of freedoms and
History.
     Ask God to help and give us another chance at GREATNESS.
     
  Conservatively,
  John

        **America Just Hit a New Record, But Not a Good One
        Bradley Devlin | January 21, 2026
        
     America has hit another record, but it’s not a good one.
     Last year, the median age of the first-time homebuyer in
America hit 40 years old. In the 1980s, the average age of the
first-time homebuyer in America was just 28.
What happened?
     Higher interest rates in recent years have taken their toll,
but today’s interest rates are nothing compared to the 1980s,
when the first-time buyer’s age was much lower.
     The answer is that housing prices have gone up, and for many
different reasons. While an average house was around three times
the average annual American wage, the average house now costs
around seven times the average annual income. 
     Part of the reason that home prices have shot up is that
large, multibillion-dollar institutional investors are increasingly
snapping up homes.
     These institutions have crowded out younger families who can’t
compete, which has contributed to older first-time homebuyers. It’s
an issue that Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., has thought a lot about,
and he joins us this week on “The Signal Sitdown” to explain how
this happened and his proposal to fix it.
     “During the Great Recession, you had the middle class losing
their rear ends because they were getting underwater on their
houses,” Harrigan told The Daily Signal.  
     In response, both the Bush administration and the Obama ad-
ministration were “really encouraging institutional investors to
come into the market, particularly in certain ZIP codes. And in
many respects that was actually very helpful because it actually
propped up and helped to stabilize market prices, and probably
prevented a lot of middle-class Americans from getting kicked out
of their homes, honestly,” Harrigan explained.
     But in Harrigan’s telling, there was a cultural understanding
that underpinned this new arrangement.
     “There was also kind of a cultural understanding that as soon
as the market stabilized, they were supposed to divest of those
investments,” Harrigan continued. “Instead, they liked the appre-
ciation, they liked the revenue coming in from it, and when you
amass enough homes in a certain ZIP code, you actually start kind
of controlling the market a little bit. And so, they actually
bought more.”
     These financial institutions have increased the number of
homes they own by eight times since the Great Recession.
     “At the end of the great recession, there were about a hundred
thousand homes that were owned by institutional investors,”
Harrigan claimed. “Today, by some accounts, it’s almost 750,000
homes across the country.”
     “Just in my state of North Carolina, in Charlotte, 18% of the
single-family homes on the rental market are institutionally owned,”
Harrigan added.
     “I do think we can all recognize it’s now gotten to a point
where it is crowding out middle-class homebuyers, particularly in
certain ZIP codes across the country that are more popular than
others,” Harrigan said. “That is having a very negative impact on
the wealth-building trajectory of our middle class.”
     As Americans pursue the dream of homeownership, they “should-
n’t be competing against the company that’s managing your 401k.”
     “The longer that you delay somebody from getting into that
first house, the longer you delay their wealth-building trajectory
toward actually putting themselves in a very solid, fiscally re-
sponsible position, which is where you want the middle class,”
Harrigan said of delaying homeownership.
     In the House, Harrigan has just introduced the Families First
Housing Act with Rep. Josh Riley, D-N.Y., in an attempt to give
American families a leg up on institutional investors.
     The Families First Housing Act, Harrigan explained, requires
government entities auctioning homes “to provide 180-day first
look to non-institutional investors.”
     “We want to narrowly tailor this to get to a point where we
don’t think it’s unconstitutional [or] gets thrown out by the
courts at some point later down the road,” Harrigan added.
     “I think that the solution that we laid out on the table,
either in its current form or a slightly expanded form of it, is
something that’s palatable,” Harrigan said, “I think it’s some-
thing that’s reasonable. I think culturally it’s something that
all Americans could say, ‘Yeah, I think that’s a good idea.’ And
I think that that serves the interests of the middle class.”**

     Adding to the first paragraph, my Dad bought his home in 1960
for $10K. It sold in 1999 for about $70K.
     We bought our first home in AL in 1979 (I was 30) for $17K
and sold it in 1984.
     I bought my next home in 1987 at 38. It was 1800 SF for $69K
in NJ and sold it for $107K in 1999 and another home of 1700 SF
in 1988 in AL for $42K and sold it for $146K in 1999.
     In 1999 we bought a home in FL for $112K that is currently
valued at about $300K.
     My point is that the prices are now too high for a young
couple to buy a home even with 2 incomes.
     The homes are being bought up and then rented while the
owners go rent a place to live for less than a mortgage.
     Clinton started a lot of this problem using HUD homes back
in the 1990s.
     They are killing the housing market.
     God may have to intervene to save Americans who would love
a part of the "American Dream". "PRAY"

  Conservatively,
  John

 

        Anatomy of a Liberal Democrat
        John Cohn November 10, 2015 / updated March 28, 2026
        
     A liberal democrat is someone who seems to live in a bubble,
void of portals, designed to only let certain information enter.
     They come with extreme restrictions on which sites they can
use.  The sites have to be those far enough left, like CNN, MSNBC,
WaPo and a variety of other liberal sites, to fit their agenda. 
They seem to also need to possess a record of numerous apologies
and retractions that somehow makes them believable.
     Democrats seem bound to a culture that will not allow the
individual reader to think for themselves.
     Their bubble forbids them to be their own person capable of
separating facts and truth from lies and half truths fed to them
by their very limited collection of sources. Sources that are ac-
ceptable to their ranks of minions who are focused on hatred for
anyone who disagrees with their limited viewpoint.
     Their reluctance to search for the truth seems out of bounds
to what their peer struction will allow.
     The more outrageous the claim and agenda items of their can-
didates, although all planned items are unaffordable forAmericans,
the more they want to support it.
     Doubling and tripling the budget and socializing the nation
are totaling acceptable to the left. Even though this will require
virtually every person who might still have a job to be taxed at
more than a 50% rate. The rest get  $30 trillion worth of free
healthcare on top of the Obama freebies created to make them
dependent upon the corrupt government.
     That will bankrupt the United States. Welcome to Venezuela,
Democratic-style.
     Wake up people, it's not rocket science.
     **I wrote this before Trump, term #1.
    
     Now we have things to do and flex our muscle.
     We have had Democrats lie every time they open their mouth.
     They make up fake news, out-right lies and accusations.
     I have asked hundreds on the Left "Why are you supposed to
hate President after all he has done for the American people, not
one single reason.
     I asked them many, many times who keeps filling their heads
with lies that they know are not true? Still no excuses or logical
answer.
     I show them evidence with obvious truth and I get ignored.
     I give them links to the truth. Nothing!
     Lists of sources and the places to explain facts. Nothing!
     The media, (CNN, MSNBC, MSNOW, ABC, CBS, WaPo, New York Times,
Washington Times, Wikipedia and almost any main stream media
source).
     Then I give them places that don't lie and that will give you
where they get their facts, like Lindell TV, NEWSMAX, mostly Fox,
The Washington Times, Mostly Reuters, Mostly NY Post, Bloomberg
Website. There are many more.                                                                          

     Things every democrat should read that will open your eyes.
     After Karl Marx brought Communism came Saul Alinsky who wrote
'Rules for Radicals'. The lies come from rule #10 but all 12 will
look familiar to the Left. In that book Soros, Hillary, Obama, and
many in D.C. now have followed these rules.
     Also in that book you will find the "Cloward-Piven strategy"
written by a pair of communists that will also seem familiar but
they have all been tried.
     We have with God's grace defeated an army that is more than
ten times the size of what the corrupt and lying liberal side of
the world's population wants us to believe.
     Think for yourself and stand up and defend what God tells us
we must follow and trust.
     Find the lies and fake news that you accuse President Trump
of saying or doing.  You dig past the lies at the beginning of
every search you preform and seek the truth.
     God will save His people. Are you one of them?
     
   Conservatively,
   John

 
 

    	Trump provides solution to housing crisis
        Search Daily Signal…
        EJ Antoni | January 09, 2026
        
     **President Donald Trump announced on Jan. 7 plans to ban
institutional investors from buying up homes and renting them
back to Americans.
     *You’ll Own Something and Be Happy
     Corporate landlord Blackstone’s stock plunged nearly 5% on
the move to make housing more affordable.
     Trump’s goal is to lower house prices and prevent Wall Street
outbidding the rest of us with their unfair access to cheap capital.
And it’s something a lot of Americans have wanted, from the MAGA
base to Bernie Bros.
     Home ownership has long been a bipartisan goal, as it promotes
family formation, promotes community involvement, and lets people
build a nest egg.
     A recent study found the average net worth of an American home-
owner is close to $400,000. The average net worth of an American
renter is $10,000. Ten grand makes for a thin retirement.
     The problem, of course, is Americans can no longer afford
houses that skyrocketed in price to almost 40% under Biden. Toss in
Federal Reserve rate hikes that doubled mortgage rates and, accord-
ing to Bankrate, the median monthly mortgage payment, which doubled
from $1,242 a month in 2019 to $2,207 in 2024.
     This then bled to rents—landlords have mortgages too.
     Meanwhile, wages for twentysomethings—who should be starting a
family—actually went down under Biden. And have only made back part
of the lost ground.
     This put institutional buyers in the spotlight, who have spent
decades quietly hoovering up millions of homes to rent. The buying
accelerated dramatically during COVID’s low rates—at one point in
2022 institutions were buying one in four single family homes.
     Banning institutional banners will lower prices. But not by
much considering they make up just a couple percent of home
purchases. So going by price elasticities you might get a 3-5% drop
in home prices—possibly closer to 10% in sunbelt cities where
institutions are most active.
     But this comes with a roughly equivalent 3-5% rise in rents if 
Blackstone drops the rental business, where price elasticities are
similar.
     So, slightly cheaper houses, and slightly higher rent. Both
nudge people into owning. At the expense of people with poor credit
or no down payment who will pay more rent.
     Moreover, we’re talking 3-5% when houses went up 40% and
housing costs doubled.
     *Buyers need a lot more.
     Since he took office in January 2025, Trump’s been trying
everything. He’s tried to cut closing costs, promoted simplified
local building codes, removed tariffs on construction materials,
proposed opening federal land to housing. Additionally, just this
week, he deployed $200 billion from government-controlled mortgage
giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower mortgage rates.
     In the Big Beautiful Bill, he added tax relief for builders,
which is already helping multi-family construction. He even floated
50-year mortgages, which lower payments at the cost of paying your
mortgage when you’re 92. And, of course deportations, which have
opened over a million houses and are finally lowering rent prices,
especially in deportation-heavy cities like Austin.
     What’s missing is the two biggest drivers of house prices:
inflation, which is driven by federal deficits. And mass deregula-
tion in home-building, including environmental mandates, zoning,
and rent control the National Association of Homebuilders estimates
can add $94,000 to the cost of a home.
     For these, he needs Congress. Along with local governments
like New York or San Francisco, where rent control has led to over
a hundred thousand empty units despite citywide shortages and
nosebleed rents that delivered New York to Comrade Mamdani.
     Affordability and inflation have been the top voter concern
all year, and prediction markets currently have 77% odds the GOP
loses the House in the midterms.
     Given Congress won’t meaningfully cut inflationary spending
or regulation in areas like healthcare and insurance, housing costs
are the last man standing.
     Trump’s doing what he can, but Congress has to do the heavy
lifting if they want to keep their seats.**
     We have a good chance today of keeping control of Congress but
I keep thinking how bad things would be now if Trump was not at
the wheel keeping us out of the ditches and trying to catch up.
Faith and prayer and a relationship with God is our best anchor.

  Conservatively,
  John

    Right-Sizing SNAP
    **USDA's Rollins: SNAP Faces 'Right-Sizing' Changes
    By James Morley III |  Wednesday, 19 November 2025
    
        **USDA's Rollins: SNAP Faces 'Right-Sizing' Changes
     By James Morley III |  Wednesday, 19 November 2025
     
     Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday that the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will undergo major
changes, even though regular funding has resumed now that the
government shutdown is over.

     On "NewsNation Now," Rollins said, "Clearly there's a right
-sizing that needs to happen with the program."

     After the 43-day shutdown ended, Rollins announced that SNAP
beneficiaries must reapply in order to eliminate suspected fraud,
adding that other changes to the benefits program will be announced
after Thanksgiving.

     "We have to make sure that for those who really need this
benefit, it's going to the right people," she said. "So, we're
making a lot of structural changes in SNAP."

     Rollins said that before the shutdown, USDA data from 29 Re-
publican-led states showed that 186,000 deceased enrollees were
still receiving SNAP benefits and 500,000 people were receiving
benefits twice.

     "And that just includes the states that have sent their data
in," Rollins said. "That doesn't include most of the blue states,
where we believe there's even more fraud and abuse."

     She added that SNAP benefits increased by 40% under the Biden
administration. "The unintended consequence of the Democrat shut-
down is that the spotlight has been shined on this," she said,
"and we have to make sure that for those who really need this
benefit, it's going to the right people."

     In fiscal 2024, SNAP served an average of 41.7 million people
each month, with federal spending totaling $99.8 billion, about
$187.20 per recipient monthly, according to the USDA.
     James Morley III ✉**
   
     Since November 2024, the government has been reducing the cost
while slightly decreasing the number of recipients to 41.3M or 12.1%
of the population from Obama's about 47.2M in 2013.
     The number has shrunk by about 700K as Trump chips away at the
inflation Biden created.
     The point is that the Democrat administrations robbed the us
of Trillions of dollars and made themselves wealthy but still do
not care about the country or the people who voted them into office.
     This has been a disastrous string of losers with the only one
trying to fight for Americans has been Trump's two terms.
     The left has been a massive failure.
     We pray and have faith that keeps us going.
     
  Conservatively,
  John
 

	    Leftists Embrace Sedition and Insurrection as Democrats Lose
        Power.
        Victor Davis Hanson | July 09, 2025
       **Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.
     We’ve talked in the past a lot about the unfortunate turn to the
hard Left that Democrats have made. But in the last week, it’s
become surreal.
     We had this minor official—a Democratic official—Sade Perkins,
and she posted that she was almost happy that we lost over a hundred
people, the majority of them children, in this flash flood in Texas.
She said they were “all white,” and therefore, they were discrimi-
natory. I’ve never seen anything like it.
     And then, people weighed in. And they had some atrocious
comments. A pediatrician was almost gloating. And they had a
variety of mechanisms to show how grotesque and ghoulish they were.
     One group of people said, “It was global warming. You people
in Texas”—where, by the way, there’s more, I think, there’s more
wind turbines and solar than almost anywhere—“you people denied
global warming. This was caused by global warming. And therefore,
you got your just desserts.”
     It was not caused by global warming. It was a once-in-a-cen-
tury flash flood of a magnitude no one had seen in a hundred years.
     And then there were other people who said, “You supported the
Department of Government Efficiency cuts, so you got what you
deserved.” And in her case, she said, “You’re white people.”
     So, it’s very, very, very disturbing.
     At the same time, we’ve had now two organized assassination
attempts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who are
just following the law. Remember what they’re doing. Apparently,
in the mind of the Left, it was a moral thing to break the law and
let 12 million people—without vaccinations, without audits, without
criminal background checks—come into the United States. But it is
an amoral thing to enforce the law and restore the rule of law,
and ask people, who came in illegally, to please return.
     But in that conundrum, we’ve had now 10 people arrested. And
they were kind of Antifa types. I’m not saying they were Antifa.
But they were dressed in black. They had radios. They had semi-
automatic weapons. They had body armor. They were young, mostly
white kids that looked like they were children of the middle class.
And they shot an ICE agent in the neck. And they had a gun battle.
And then, this was following an earlier assassination attempt.
     Now, you think that the Democratic Party would be worried. But
we’ve got even more disturbing reports that Democratic Congress
people said, “Well, what are we supposed to do? We meet with our
constituents and they’re telling us that one of us should be shot.
I don’t mean shot by punishment. They’re urging us to use violence
and be willing to be shot by others to promote a radical agenda.”
     And I don’t know if that’s true because they won’t report any
circumstances that would substantiate that. But basically, the con-
gressional Democrats are saying, “I don’t know what I can do. These
people are pushing us to the radical edge.”
     And then you saw House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, didn’t
you? He was posing with a bat like he was going to club people, in
opposition to the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
     I could go on with all of these examples. But I mean, this is
an age in which people tried to kill President Donald Trump twice.
And we know what happened to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise
and other congressional personnel. And so, we’re getting a Luigi
Mangione, etc. The attacks on Jewish people in Washington, D.C.
We’re getting to the point now, the Left is entering the era of
sedition, insurrection.
     We had Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass go to a park and confront
ICE agents who were federal law enforcement people, obeying and
enforcing, and trying to restore the legitimacy of federal law,
which surpasses municipal and state law, remember? And she said,
“You’ve got to get out of my city.”
     This is insurrection. Why is it happening? We’ve said in the
past that part of it is that the Democratic agenda nobody wanted,
there were 80/20, 70/30 issues, and as a result of that, they lost
the Congress, they lost the White House, they lost, of course, in
most cases, the Supreme Court.
     So, they don’t have any power. So, they’re frustrated. But I
think, even more importantly, in the first administration, Donald
Trump addressed symptoms of the progressive project: Let’s restore
deterrence. Let’s try to deal with the border. Let’s try to stop
crime. Let’s cut taxes. But he didn’t have time or the knowledge
or the constituencies. And he was working with a hostile Congress
to address the root causes of those symptoms.
     This time he’s saying, “This lunacy, it’s caused by certain
institutions: foundations, universities, the Democratic Party,
public broadcasting, the media.” And so, what he’s doing is he’s
going after blue-stocking, left-wing law firms. He’s going after
the endowment and taxing university endowments. He’s looking at
grants on federal—grant surcharges gouging the federal government
on university grants. He’s dealing with countries that are openly
promoting open borders.
     So, he’s dealing with the symptoms. And the Left is saying,
“Oh my gosh, we have no institutional power. And now the way that
we exercise power without having legislative or executive influence
is institutions, foundations, media, K-12, universities. And Donald
Trump is starting to address our left-wing monopoly and dominance
of those institutions. And if he were to be successful, we would
collapse, dissipate, disintegrate. So, we’re going to go take to
the streets and we’re going to use violence and we’re going to do
anything possible to stop this Donald Trump counterrevolution.”
     It’s going to be very dangerous times. We’ve got to be very
careful about what everybody says and not escalate the situation.
But it’s mostly, now, coming from a frustrated and impotent Left.**
     WE continue to pray that God will judge and make the evil on
the left pay for the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the
American people. He will teach them that they will always reap what
sew against His people.
  Conservatively,
  John
 

    	**Your Mind Can Bend Time—Here’s How
        Makai Allbert / 27 December 2025
        
     Everyone experiences time, but not in the same way.
     A minute is always a minute, except when it isn’t.
     This idea was put to the test in a 2023 Harvard study.
     Researchers induced minor bruising on participants’ forearms
and then had them sit in rooms where the clocks ran at normal
speed, half-speed, or double-speed.
     Crucially, the actual elapsed time was identical across all
conditions—28 minutes—but the clocks ticked at different rates.
     The results surprised the researchers. Wounds healed faster
when people thought more time had passed, and slower when they
thought less time had passed. “Personally, I didn’t think it would
work,” lead author Peter Aungle told The Epoch Times. “And then it
did work!”
     A century ago, Albert Einstein demonstrated that time is
relative—not fixed. He explained the idea with a simple, humorous
example: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems
like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like
a minute. That’s relativity.”
     Now, psychologists and neuroscientists are finding that our
sense of time is not only inherently subjective but also highly 
malleable.
     We can’t stop the clock, but by understanding how we perceive
time, we can make minutes feel longer, heal faster, and even expand
our memories.
     How the Mind Affects Reality
     The Harvard healing experiment is a pivotal piece of evidence
that mind and body are not only connected, but may be one and the
same. “We weren’t really manipulating time itself. We were manipu-
lating expectations,” Aungle said.
     “If they [people] think more time has passed, they expect more
healing—and those expectations can shape the body.”
     Most people think of mind-body effects only in terms of
emotion, he added. Yet, “psychology is embedded in everything the
body does. I would argue the mind influences every physiological
outcome to some degree.”
     Expectations are not the only time bender. While believing
time has sped up aids healing, high-arousal negative emotions,
such as fear, significantly dilate our perception of time, making
it feel slower.
     In one study, participants watched frightening clips from
“The Shining” or “Scream.” Afterward, a blue circle was presented
in the center of the computer screen. Participants perceived that
the circle lasted longer after watching frightening movies than
after watching neutral or sad films.
     Sylvie Droit-Volet, the lead researcher of the study, told
The Epoch Times that subjective expansion is likely because “fear
accelerates the internal clock, making time seem to pass more
quickly and prompting action”—the fight or flight response.
     Because the internal clock is ticking faster, measuring more
units of time per second, the external world appears to move in
slow motion. The time dilation allows the brain to process infor-
mation with higher resolution during life-threatening situations.
     You can find the rest of this article and Read Full Article
on TheEpochTimes.com**

     We have to remind ourselves that God sets the time for every
moment in our lives.
     I was told once by a very smart thoughtful man that said;
God gives us each a specific number of heartbeats in His plan for
all of us. When you have fulfilled His plan He will call you to
Heaven and we all will be judged.

  Conservatively,
  John