Susie Given

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@DavidLimbaugh I think some wrestle because of the kindness and mercy of God.

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@Vincentgdevlugt Why is his mouth alway open?

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@DavidLimbaugh One of my favorite verses lately Job 13:5 “If only you would be silent and let that be your wisdom!” I need to be reminded.

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@DavidLimbaugh Thanks David. So good to back up and see the big picture. I have learned to realize that often times things look really grim with Trump’s negotiations…until he is done!
But in this case, much of this has a spiritual component and I’m not sure how aware he is of that.

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@TerriGreenUSA What exactly was wrong in this clip??

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@parshalltalk A-95-100
B-94-85
C-84-75
D-74-65
F- 64-
In my day….

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@Baseballmomof8 @DavidLimbaugh Perfect! Always made me smile

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@lindley_clark @BethMooreLPM I couldn’t agree more Lindley. The part that breaks my heart about Beth is her incongruence and lack of integrity;
so difficult to come to grips with. I have respected her teaching for many years, but cannot understand why she thinks we need her politics.

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

Remember when Roe v Wade was overturned and Russell Moore didn’t even make a comment about it until about six weeks later on a podcast?

No tweet. No statement. No blog.

But the moment when two seconds of a meme video he doesn’t like gets posted by Trump…he’s ready to go.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Notes In Absentia

I want again to thank everyone for the wonderful expressions of concern and reassurance that I have received from listeners and readers.

In response to inquiries, and some quite detailed questions and advice, here is a brief update concerning my current temporary absence.

As I wrote, the removal of a cancerous lung mucinous adenoma carcinoma along with the lower right lung lobe roughly a month ago was successful.

But a post-op aneurism /bleed soon developed. That required a quick second reentry operation into the lung to stop the hemorrhaging—adding considerable time under anesthesia and requiring about 5 blood transfusions.

As a result, over the last 30 days, I developed low red blood counts, fatigue, and bouts of arterial fibrillation. All that has sort of slowed my recovery.

This type of nonsmoker’s lung cancer has a rare genetic/mutation profile. And it seems to recur about 40 percent of the time in the general lung area—even when as in my case the removed and biopsied lymph nodes, along with adjacent vascular/pleural samples, were all negative. And the pre-op PET scan show no signs of malignancy outside the lower right lung lobe.

Chemotherapy and immunotherapy are said to be not particularly effective against this rare sort of tumor mutation. But they can offer a 5-10% edge in stopping recurrence. So I’ll do a cost-benefit analysis, depending on how quickly I regain energy, to determine whether to start the preventative drug regimens.

The bottom line is that I’m hoping to come back as soon as possible. But I don’t know exactly when I'll be back to near normal. In the meantime, I hope to post things now and then on days when I feel better.

Sincerely—and again thanks to everyone!

Victor Davis Hanson

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@NEWSMAX Seems like a low number to me

[Janet Parshall @parshalltalk]

WOW - listen to what Good's father said on national TV. He certainly recognizes the spiritual warfare aspect of what is happening in our country...

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I have been monitoring the Venezuela issue all day long, and there are so many questions yet to be answered (thanks to great Pentagon OPSEC), but the strategic reason for bringing down Maduro has become abundantly clear.

While we ostensibly captured Maduro based on legitimate, outstanding US drug charges from 2020, the real reason for the military operations early this morning is that neutralizing Maduro's Venezuela had become a strategic imperative for the USA.

Under Maduro, Venezuela had become the Latin American crossroads for all of the USA's principal enemies. Maduro was nurturing relationships with Russia, Hezbollah and Iran. Worst of all, Venezuela was eagerly becoming a part of Red China's Belt & Road initiative.

As America's enemies were lining up Venezuela as their base of operations in the Western Hemisphere to cause mischief and destruction for the USA, Maduro was at the same time making Venezuela a crossroads, safe haven and enabler for all manner of narcoterrorist operations, ranging from Colombia's FARC to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.

On top of all that, Venezuela had become a key player in the illegal alien invasion of the USA, shipping its very worst to the USA in a deliberate and comprehensive destabilizing operation that might have worked had Donald Trump not won in 2024.

Next in importance: oil. The global and regional ambitions of both China and Russia are in large part dependent on the politics of petroleum, and the USA just deprived both of the cudgel afforded by friendly Venezuelan oil. Trump opponents say "It's about oil" as if that was a bad thing. Yeah, it's about oil.

Finally, all of this was in keeping with the most essential and fundamental foreign policy mandate of the USA almost since the nation's inception: the Monroe Doctrine. Operations like what Maduro was running simply cannot be allowed in the Western Hemisphere. Trump was right for falling back on this most basic of doctrines that protects the USA's sovereignty.

So was Maduro seized because of some five year-old drug charges? Yes. Legally--yes. However, like so many strategic issues in the world today, an action needed to be backed by the fine points of law, and it was. But the reality is that the Maduro takedown was a Monroe Doctrine-driven necessity that has greatly enhanced the power and national security of the USA.

Congratulations, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and the rest of the Trump national security team: you boldly took the steps necessary to defend the USA.

Well done.

[Janet Parshall @parshalltalk]

Take note...

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@Nursekatejohn Starting milling my own wheat and making our bread

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@miles_commodore Exactly my thoughts!
I like Greta on Newsmax. She has interesting, informative guests and actually lets the talk

[X @XaviercMiller]

Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.

The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.

The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.

Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.

Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.

Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.

I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.

People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.

This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.

If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@jenniferwilkin Only one opinion, and I think you missed a BIG piece of the puzzle. I did your study of Revelation and I’m sorry I did.

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@greta Definitely, loved it! And the fine China

[Susie Given @SusieGiven1]

@wendelltalks Job 26:14

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,
and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?”