Our POTUS is a New Yorker, born and raised. He is an inveterate reader of the New York Post. After absorbing this morning’s cover story, here is what he posted at 9:35am on Truth Social. The President has had an epiphany. What follows is why.
That’s because no one else has either. From left to right: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, American President Donald Trump. French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
The whole world and all its media was stunned as it happened so suddenly with no warning. How? Because of headlines like this on Saturday (8/16):
The fear lay in that key word in the Daily Mail headline, “summoned.” Zelensky would treated with threats, demands, and insults as he was during his infamous visit to the White House last February. Add to that the nothingburger results of the Alaska Summit, no ceasefire, no consequences, just the world’s greatest mass-murdering psychopath treated with red carpet respect.Giorgia Meloni saw the danger and got on the phone Saturday night with Merz and Macron, then all three on a call with Zelensky to propose they accompany him to the White House on Monday. He immediately agreed in enormous relief. Soon Rutte and von der Leyen were on board. By Sunday morning……
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on August 22, 2013. In response to my Socialism IS Fascism last week (8/14) regarding Mamdani and his supporters in New York, Mike Ryan commented on the TTP Forum: “He is passing out dopamine hits on social media on a massive scale. Dopamine hits are the currency of the social media generation. They crave it. He provides it. Mamdani is like the candy man to a crack addict.”
To which I responded: ”Right you are, Mike — but those hits only work on those who never passed the Marshmallow Test. How could a whole generation fail that test?"
The cure for addiction to rewards-without-effort (government welfare) afflicting so many millions is needed more than ever today. And note: that cure is about how the brain handles dopamine clearance. Several TTPers have told me they consider this one of the most important articles ever in TTP.]
TTP August 22, 2013
It began in Trinidad. Walter Mischel, a Jewish kid from Vienna whose family escaped from the Nazis to Brooklyn, was doing field work on the Caribbean island for his Ph.D. in psychology. It was 1955, and he noticed the population was split between people whose families came from India and those from Africa.
The Indians thought the Africans were “impulsive hedonists” who lived for the moment and never cared for the future, while the Africans thought the Indians only cared about “stuffing money into their mattresses” and didn’t know how to have fun. He wondered what lay behind such assessments.
In 1966, when the Stanford Psych Department launched its Bing Nursery School to research child development, Walter thought back to his days in Trinidad and came up with an experiment that was to become famous as the Stanford Marshmallow Test.
The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.
Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy.
Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.
Under the Biden administration, over 10 million illegal aliens flooded the country, sometimes 10,000 a day at the southern border. More than half a million criminals swarmed in.
Yet now there is essentially zero illegal immigration and over 100,000 criminal aliens deported. 1.6 million who entered illegally have voluntarily gone home. Yet the left has fought the enforcement of immigration law tooth and nail.
Do they believe that it is lawful and moral to break immigration law but immoral and illegal to enforce it?
What is their solution?
One of the darkest chapters of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine will be his regime’s systematic abduction of Ukrainian children.
Last week, first lady Melania Trump delivered a letter to Putin during the Alaska summit, appealing to him on behalf of these children. In it, she reminded the Russian dictator that “every child shares the same quiet dreams in their hearts … of love, possibility and safety from danger.” Her letter avoided politics, but made the clear point that abducting children is an act of barbarism that cannot be tolerated.
Ukraine has documented nearly 20,000 kidnapped children, though the true number could be many times higher.
These boys and girls are not just displaced — they are forced into Russian families, indoctrinated with propaganda, punished for speaking their native tongue, and in some cases subjected to military training. Reports have even exposed online “catalogs” where children are sorted by eye color or hair color for adoption in Russia.
This is not wartime collateral damage, but a deliberate campaign to erase a nation by erasing its children.
The Biden administration placed thousands of illegal alien children in the care of unvetted sponsors, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.
The Iowa Republican has released Department of Health and Human Services data showing that during President Joe Biden’s administration, over 11,000 unaccompanied alien children were placed with unvetted sponsors who were not the children’s parents or legal guardians. Additionally, no home visits were conducted for over 79,000 illegal immigrant children.
Moreover, some children were “allowed to be placed with sponsors who were actually smugglers and sex traffickers,” according to the HHS. “My oversight continues to expose disturbing evidence that the Biden-Harris administration turned a blind eye to tens of thousands of kids who needed proper supervision and care,” Grassley said in a statement.
“It’s appalling to prioritize speed and optics over the safety and well-being of children,” the senator continued.
James Comey, the 64-year-old former FBI director who was one of the most prominent players in the Russia Hoax, outed himself the other day: He’s a Taylor Swift fan, a Swiftie.
And he’s not just someone who says, “Her tunes are catchy.” Oh, no. Comey finds deep meaning in Taylor Swift’s music. It speaks to him—and the fact that it does explains a great deal about the man and his Democrat party politics.
Swift was, and is, what young girls and leftist women want to be: so gorgeous that their emotional mess doesn’t matter. In many ways, Swift is the avatar of a generational ideology that’s stuck in high school and junior high school: emotional, immature, and, when it comes to the girls, incredibly vicious.
Moreover, girls that age are devious, given to backstabbing, whether through truth or lies (but usually through the latter, not the former).
Those traits, incidentally, are the same traits that the Democrat party embraced when Trump was elected: emotional, immature, and incredibly vicious, including embracing partial truths and flat-out lies in their rush to destroy him.
April, 2003. On my 21st expedition to 90 North, the geographic North Pole, I took my son Jackson. He was nine, but handled it like a trooper. And no wonder – it was his third time! The first was when he was just six, following his brother Brandon whom I had taken to the Pole back in 1990.
We landed our ski-equipped Twin Otter on the sea ice – and as it’s featureless with the ice slowly moving on the Arctic Ocean surface, nothing stays there for long. So if you want a physical candy-stripe North Pole, you have to bring your own! It is so indescribable to actually be on the very top of our planet that it has to be experienced to be understood. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #95 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
This is a Hoatzin. I took this picture in the Amazon jungles of Colombia, its native habitat. It has no genetic relationship to any other bird, and thus has its own family, the Opisthocomidae, and its own suborder, the Opisthocomi. Extensive DNA-sequencing demonstrates that “the hoatzin is the last surviving member of a bird line that branched off in its own direction 64 million years ago, shortly after the extinction event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs.”
The Hoatzin is the Dinosaur Bird, the only bird on earth directly descended from the dinosaurs. It makes weird noises – grunts, hisses, groans and croaks – no melodious birdsongs. It emits an awful smell due to its fermentation digestive system, and tastes just as awful so no one hunts it for food. Yet it is distinctively pretty in a hyper-funky way. Spend enough time exploring the Amazon, and you may be lucky to see one. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #186 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
In 52 AD, St. Thomas the Apostle, one of Jesus’ 12 Disciples, sailed down the Red Sea and across the Arabian Sea to the Malabar Coast of Southwest India to preach the Gospel of Christ. He found a receptive audience among the peaceful fisherfolk in the villages along the coast – so receptive he established a series of churches that still exist today. Some remain small and humble, others like the one above rebuilt with soaring glass and stone.
There are many Christian denominations in the Indian state of Kerala, which has the entire Malabar Coast, from the original St. Thomas Syrian Christians to Catholic, Pentecostal, Charismatic and others. Of Kerala’s 34 million people, at least 20% are Christian. Kerala is a place of relaxing beauty and peaceful serenity. The best way to explore it is via a luxurious houseboat along the many canals or “backwaters” dotted with fishing villages and churches. You’ll be warmly welcomed. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #155, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
The leatherneck sea turtle is the world’s largest turtle, weighing up to 1500 pounds. This female was about half that. They have an enormous range, all the way from the North Sea to South Africa in the Atlantic, spending their lives at sea eating jellyfish – except when a female comes ashore to her hatching beach and bury her clutch of eggs in the sand above high tide.
Dropping several dozen glistening white golfball-size eggs into a depression scooped out with her flippers, she covers them up with sand, and heads back to sea, never to see them again. More than two months later, the born hatchlings dig out of the sand and wiggle their way into the sea, where the lucky ones survive.
I was able to watch this mommy’s entire egg-birthing process at dawn on a remote beach in the West African country of Gabon. It was such a privilege to witness an act of elemental nature by such an extraordinary creature. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #127 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Toledo, Spain. As you drive up the hill upon which this ancient city sits, at the city’s entrance you are greeted by this statue. It is of King Alfonso VI of León and Castile (1040-1109) holding his sword as the Christian cross symbolizing his liberating Toledo from Moslem rule.
The sword has been the symbol of Toledo for over two millennia. In 193 BC, Romans founded the city as Toletum, where their blacksmiths developed a process of making swords of layered steel with different carbon contents, known to history as “Toledo steel,” the finest in the world for millennia until the hi-tech methods of today.
With Fall of Rome, Christian Visigoths ruled Spain from their capital here at Toledo – known as “Holy Toledo,” the center of a flourishing Christian civilization for 300 years until it was overrun by Moslems spreading Islam from Africa in the early 700s.
It was Alfonso VI who liberated Toledo from the Moslems in 1085. It was his great-grandson, Alfonso VIII (1155-1214) who led 30,000 knights in a surprise attack on 200,000 Moslems at the Plains of Tolosa in 1212 to destroy Moslem rule in Spain.
Today, Toledo is a small town of some 50,000, charming, historic, and peaceful. It’s one of the special places places to visit whenever you decide to explore Spain. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #170 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
BETHESDA, MD — Federal agents raided the home of former National Security Advisor John Bolton on Friday as part of a security probe involving classified documents. Unfortunately, the whereabouts of Bolton were currently unknown, as it was believed that he escaped by blending in with a nearby herd of walruses.
"I didn't know there were so many walruses in Maryland. Now we'll never find him!" FBI Director Kash Patel was heard saying at the scene. "Walruses. This job never gets any easier."
Walruses are not native to Bethesda, where Bolton's primary residence is located, on account of them being marine mammals that live near the ocean. But, according to sources, Bolton always keeps a herd of walruses nearby in case he needs to disappear.
Bolton has had a long and controversial career in government with scandals related to Vietnam War draft avoidance, Iran-Contra, planning coups in foreign countries, and being the product of Russian experiments to create the world's first human/walrus hybrid. Sources said it was only logical that he would keep a group of the marine mammals around as part of an elaborate escape plan.
Agents canvassing Bolton's neighborhood reportedly met with a witness who claimed that the former U.S. ambassador was home just minutes prior to the raid and was tipped off by a nearby seagull. "I've got to vamoose!" Bolton was allegedly heard saying as he dove into the nearby herd, also called a haul-out, of walruses and began barking. "Arf-arf! To the ocean, my brothers!"
At publishing time, John Bolton had been recovered from the gill net of a fisherman's trawler and was being transported to Washington, D.C. for questioning.
~ Babylon Bee reporting
Unless you have the IQ of a meat thermometer, you can see the split in the Democratic Party.
Nobody pays attention to what Presidents Obama or Clinton, Sen. Schumer, or former Speaker Pelosi say anymore.The real leaders are Zohran Mamdani, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, and Sen. Sanders. pic.twitter.com/bCd8DIOimf
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) August 14, 2025
Guess who showed up on the street outside the building by sheer coincidence. Yep, ICE and the USBP, led by Chief Border Patrol Agent Greg Bovino, arresting illegals:
BREAKING: Border Patrol has arrived outside of the downtown LA venue where Governor Newsom will be holding a press conference today & appears to have made at least one arrest. Chief Greg Bovino tells @FOXLA cameraman:
"We’re here making Los Angeles a safer place, since we don't… pic.twitter.com/RqrnnPu48U— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 14, 2025
And wow, did America’s Worst Mayor Karen Bass get her eggs fried about it.
. @MayorOfLA shows up to Little Tokyo and reacts to the 100 agent ICE/BP raid during @CAgovernor ‘s press conference about redistricting. pic.twitter.com/do9ITQoG2u
— L.A. TACO?? (@LATACO) August 14, 2025
Let’s have a fun – and informative – HFR. Let’s go…
Sunday’s (8/10) NY Post cover featured this photo of Muslim-Communist Mamdani and his Democratic Socialist Party (DSA) supporters . It’s hilarious that these morons haven’t a clue that Socialism IS Fascism, since the identities are fundamental while the differences are superficial.
So… there are three guys running against Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral election this November 4: Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Slima. Obviously, a three-way split of votes guarantees Mamdani. Two of these three have to bow out and support the third. In realpolitik calculations that means the two are Slima and Cuomo.
What could clinch it for Adams – get his two rivals to step aside and support him, get POTUS to all-out endorse him, and get him MAGA news coverage and drive the Woke Left bat-guano crazy – is for him to adopt as a campaign theme Socialism IS Fascism.
Print up ten thousand placards and hand-held signs, put it up on billboards and Times Square neon signs. Run Mamdani right into the ground with it, for this two-bit Ugandan Muslim Nobody really is a totalitarian fascist.
Of course, the necessary condition for this to succeed is for Adams to explain clearly and succinctly why Socialism is fascistic. Here we go.
