Gerlanda van de Maat

Farm life. Native gardening. Self sustainable.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Joe Kent asked the question most of these debates dodge: Are we hurting ourselves?

He and Will Chamberlain went at it over what actually serves America, and how a conflict can slide from “strategy” into something that eats the country that started it.

"What got us into this conflict was the Israeli lobby.

There were senior level government officials of the Israeli defense apparatus that were coming directly to Trump and repeating the same tired talking point of Mike Pompeo in 2018, saying 'the policy is 0 enrichment,' KNOWING that it would basically sabotage any remaining negotiations.

We basically worked against our own principles."

Source: @BrandonStraka, @joekent16jan19 / Writer: Val

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Because we left our ships & troops in the region Iran has the ability to strike us in an effort to change the dynamics of the war to their advantage.

We should deprive them of targets (our ships & troops) and funding.

If our goal is to move from conflict to economic pressure, then our ships & troops within range of Iranian missiles give Iran the ability to move the conflict back to a kinetic war that keeps the flow of oil from SOH restricted— putting economic pressure on us, with the risk of U.S. casualties.

We should remove our ships & bases now before Iran gets lucky & kills more Americans, sucking us back into a war of attrition.

All our efforts should be on making the economic strategy effective or reentering the MOU to end the war.

[elise1029 @eliseOLeahy1]

You called the flight attendant.

Said you felt “uncomfortable.”
Said my dog looked “dangerous.”
Asked why a German Shepherd like that was even allowed to fly.

Ma’am, let me introduce you to Duke.

That “dangerous” German Shepherd spent six years deployed as a Military Working Dog alongside U.S. Special Operations. He wasn’t trained to intimidate civilians — he was trained to come home with everyone.

Duke is a certified Multi-Purpose K9.

Tracking hostile targets through desert heat that melted boot soles.
Detecting explosives before they became folded flags on grieving mothers’ laps.
Clearing compounds before young soldiers ever stepped through the door.

He’s been shot. Twice.

And he never broke command.

That scar on his shoulder you keep staring at? Shrapnel from an IED overseas. After the blast knocked him off his feet, ears ringing, body bleeding, Duke got back up and swept the perimeter. He located two secondary devices hidden along the exit route before his handler physically carried him out.

The limp you noticed when we boarded? That came from taking rounds during an ambush so his handler — a 22-year-old soldier on his first deployment — could make it home, hold his newborn son, and build a life outside a war zone.

Duke has military commendations.

He has a Purple Heart.

Official after-action reports credit him with saving more than forty American lives.

Know what else he has?

Zero bite incidents.
Not one. Ever.

The “intense look” you’re afraid of? That’s discipline.
The stillness that makes you uneasy? That’s control.
The size that worries you? That’s the same strength that dragged wounded men to safety.

The only people Duke has ever been trained to engage were armed combatants actively trying to kill U.S. service members.

Right now, he’s retired.

Twelve years old.
Arthritis in his hips.
Still scans every doorway out of habit.
Still positions himself between me and strangers without thinking.

He’s not scanning you because he wants to hurt you.

He’s scanning because once upon a time, if he didn’t, people died.

So no, ma’am — I won’t be changing seats.

He’s allowed to fly.
He’s earned every mile in this cabin.

But if you’d like to say something, you’re welcome to say thank you.

Trust me.

He’s heard far worse — from people who were actually dangerous. 💙🐾 🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺

[Gerlanda van de Maat @GerlandavdM]

Thank you for pointing this out. Free preventative care seems to be a scam.

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

This is what “preventive care” looks like in America in 2026.

A patient goes in for the annual physical her insurance promised would be covered. She mentions anxiety and bloating. The clinic later bills her $216 because, and I quote the billing office: “Insurances pay once a year for a physical—which is just that. A physical, no problems can be discussed.”

Read that again.

No problems can be discussed.

What, exactly, is the point of a “preventative physical” if the patient is not allowed to mention the conditions she is trying to prevent?

There is no healthy adult walking around with zero medical concerns. Anxiety. Bloating. Fatigue. Sleep. Weight. Blood pressure that is starting to creep. A family history that suddenly feels relevant. These are not “problem visits.” These are the exact conversations that turn a checkbox exam into actual prevention.

The current coding and payment rules punish that conversation. The moment a physician documents a concern and uses clinical judgment, the visit can be reclassified from a no-cost preventive service into an evaluation-and-management visit subject to deductible and copay. Clinics know this. Insurers know this. Hospital systems that own those clinics know this. The patient is the last person told.

The result is predictable:
• Patients learn to stay silent so they do not get a surprise bill.
• Early, cheap problems become late, expensive ones.
• Physicians are trained by RVUs and modifier-25 rules to treat humans as either “well” or “sick,” never as people who need both screening and counsel in the same 20 minutes.
• Insurers keep the premium and deny the claim. Hospital systems bill the higher code. The patient pays twice—once in premiums, again at the window.

This is a billing product dressed up as wellness, and it has nothing to do with medicine.

@SecKennedy @RobertKennedyJr @DrOz @DrOzCMS @CMSGov @POTUS — you have the authority to end this farce.
Require that a covered annual preventive visit include the discussion of common symptoms and risk factors without automatically converting the encounter into a separately billed problem visit.

Mandate clear, written notice before the visit if any conversation may trigger cost-sharing. Stop letting the CPT codebook decide whether a doctor is allowed to listen.

Prevention that forbids the patient from speaking is not remotely close to prevention. It is a trap that makes Americans sicker and the people who run the billing departments richer.

Fix the rule. Do it now.

Every adult who has ever sat in that exam room already knows this is broken. They are waiting for someone in Washington to admit it.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says there is no Israeli plan to force people out of Gaza.

He said categorically that Israel is not planning to displace Gazans against their will, that nobody is proposing forced displacement, and that he knows of no one who supports it.

He's either lying or hasn't seen the endless hours of podcasts where Israeli ministers are saying the opposite

Writers: Lynn, Ian

[Gerlanda van de Maat @GerlandavdM]

@MaybeUrJusWrong @Roger_Negan It can't be worse than the people who serve now and are bought and paid for. There are only a few ethical and patriotic ones that serve now.

[William Tabor DDS @WilliamTaborDDS]

@Roger_Negan I want more enlightened voters who can't be bought with campaign promises that are never kept, and that anyone with a superficial knowledge of history would know can't be kept.

But here we are

[Gerlanda van de Maat @GerlandavdM]

Yes please.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Dustin Kittle @dustinkittle]

This is accurate; the three organizations who I feel have been the most detrimental to agriculture in my lifetime are as follows and in no particular order:

1) @FarmBureau (Farm Bureau; nationally)
2) @farmcredit (the Farm Credit System)
3) @BeefUSA (NCBA)

[Jim Roberts @JimRobe30722278]

Update: De-Flock Patriot has bond revoked and might be held until trial for destroying cameras in a neighboring county…. A man not afraid to take action could use some support right now. If only 10% of us followed they wouldn’t be able to stop us.

[Gerlanda van de Maat @GerlandavdM]

@POTUS 👇

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Would've been cheaper to just deliver on campaign promises

[Robert Barnes @barnes_law]

It's called the American side, which ain't the same as the Deep State side.

[Gerlanda van de Maat @GerlandavdM]

Thank you for pointing this out.

[Suneel Dhand MD @DrSuneelDhand]

I’m a Doctor and my personal health goal is to avoid all doctors and medications.

I never want to be on any prescription drug. My nightmare is to have to take a daily medication and be reliant on the pharmaceutical industry

[Robert Barnes @barnes_law]

Your typical government bureaucrat waddling in to tell you what healthy food is before banning the Amish to approve BigAg.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Killing kids is killing kids. I don’t care if you hear voices. I don’t care if Donald Duck or the devil himself demanded that you do it. I don’t care if drugs messed your head up or if you’re schizophrenic. I don’t care. EVERY child killer deserves the death penalty. Period.

[Tom Renz @RenzTom]

I’m still unclear how Kushner continues to speak for the United States without any formal position that allows him to do so. He strikes me very much like Biden’s kid - he runs around making money off daddy’s position.

This isn’t me ripping Trump but i certainly do not trust Kushner.

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

WTF?

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: “We’ve got to stop calling chicken pox and measles diseases... because they’re not. They’re infections, and infections come and go in a week to 10 days, and leave behind a lifetime of immunity. A disease is something that comes and stays, and frequently can’t be cured. So when you vaccinate to avoid an infection, what you potentially are doing is causing a disease.”

Infections come and go. The question is what they leave behind.

Studies have reported links between natural childhood measles/chickenpox and lower adult cancer and heart-disease risk:

• Albonico et al., 1998 — History of febrile childhood infections (measles, chickenpox, rubella, etc.) linked to lower overall cancer risk, strongest for chickenpox/rubella and non-breast cancers.

• Montella et al., 2006 (Leukemia Research) — Childhood measles and chickenpox linked to lower Hodgkin lymphoma; measles also linked to lower non-Hodgkin lymphoma (esp. follicular B-cell).

• Tennant et al., 2013 (Eur J Epidemiol, Newcastle Thousand Families, n=1,142 born 1947) — Childhood measles linked to lower cancer mortality as adults.

• Pesonen et al., 2007 (Atherosclerosis) — Childhood contagious diseases (including varicella/chickenpox) linked to lower coronary heart disease and fewer acute coronary events.

• Kubota et al., 2015 / JACC study (Atherosclerosis, 103,836 Japanese adults, ~21-year follow-up) — History of measles (and measles + mumps) linked to lower cardiovascular mortality.

[Dustin Kittle @dustinkittle]

Here is a good example of why I think this Administration is losing trust with America’s farmers and ranchers.

Secretary Rollins and Ag influencers have presented today’s Executive Order as taking some meaningful action on MCOOL.

But did not restore MCOOL in any way —

Instead, it tells the USDA to spend 90 days studying whether it already has authority to require it (which it doesn’t); and then, if the law allows it (which it won’t), the USDA can act or ask Congress to act (none of which is binding on those bodies in any way).

So no, this is not MCOOL —

It guarantees a 90-day study; that I would suspect will put us right back where we are today, just 90 days later (after the election).

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Normalize walking away from women who are Lindsay Clancy fans

Dump them, break off engagements

Name and SHAME

Men, talk to your bros. Do not let a toxic feminist take them down