In her place‚ Trump is expected to promote Michael Whatley‚ chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. After years of criticism and a public spat with Vivek Ramaswamy‚ who said Republicans under her watch have become a “party of losers‚” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is stepping down. According to the NY Times‚ which required four journalists‚ McDaniel has told former President Donald Trump that she’ll quit shortly after the South Carolina primary on Feb. 24‚ according to two people familiar with the plans (ah yes‚ ‘people familiar’). In her place‚ Trump is expected to promote Michael Whatley‚ chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party – after which an election will take place. McDaniel‚ the longest-serving chair since the 19th century‚ came under fire in January of 2023 after Republicans had terrible results going back to 2018. “We’ve had three substandard election cycles in a row: ‘18‚ ’20‚ and ’22‚” Florida Governor DeSantis told TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk in an interview. “Given the political environment of a very unpopular president in Biden‚ huge majorities of the people think the country is going in the wrong direction—that is an environment that’s tailor-made to make big gains in the House and the Senate and in state houses all across the country‚ and yet that didn’t happen.”Our fan-favorite Turbo Force Plus is now 40% off! See for yourself the delicious one-of-a-kind energy boost infowarriors CRAVE! McDaniel also took barbs from attorney and GOP committee member Harmeet Dhillon‚ McDaniel’s primary challenger in the Jan. 2023 election for chair‚ telling Fox News: “But you know‚ at the end of the day‚ like I said‚ this isn’t school. You don’t get a gold star forever. You don’t get to stay in your job forever. If you continuously under perform what you promised your clients‚ they don’t hire you the next time around.” In November‚ after the GOP lost several races that should have been layups‚ more people called for Ronna’s head. “What‚ exactly‚ does Ronna McDaniel do‚ besides lose?” asked former Trump administration official Monica Crowley on X. “The only thing she SHOULD do is RESIGN. Effective immediately.” What‚ exactly‚ does Ronna McDaniel do‚ besides lose?The only thing she SHOULD do is RESIGN. Effective immediately.— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) November 8‚ 2023  “FIRE RINO RONNA MCDANIEL NOW!” tweeted Florida congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini‚ an Army veteran‚ adding “Ronna McDaniel will go down as the worst RNC Chair in history.” FIRE RINO RONNA MCDANIEL NOW!— Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) November 8‚ 2023 🚨 Steve Bannon and John Solomon are calling for Ronna Romney McDaniel to resign after the GOP’s performance in elections last night pic.twitter.com/yAHjk2Kv3c— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 8‚ 2023 McDaniel has also come under fire for picking NBC to host a November GOP debate – during which former 2024 presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy suggested she come up on stage and quit during said debate‚ as the GOP has become a “party of losers” under her watch. “…there is a cancer in the Republican establishment… Since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017 we have lost 2018‚ 2020‚ 2022‚ no red wave‚ that never came.” And then the haymaker… “We got trounced last night in 2023 and I think that we have to have accountability in our party‚” he went on.“For that matter‚ Ronna if you want to come up on stage tonight. You want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign… I will turn over my time to you.” Vivek Ramaswamy: "We've become a party of losers."#debatten pic.twitter.com/GUeD2r5Dr5— The Watcher 🌎 (@TheWatcherDaily) November 9‚ 2023 It took four months‚ but here we are. 

Last words are tricky. Sometimes they can be sublime‚ like those of a religious martyr sentenced to burn at the stake. Amidst the flames‚ he still sought to comfort others. Sometimes they can be heroic‚ like the World War II antifascist resistance fighter who‚ with a noose around his neck at his public hanging‚ urged others to carry on the fight against the Nazis. Sometimes they’re unfortunately hilarious‚ like those of a nun who broke wind just before she died‚ and thought that a fart indicated that she was still good to go. She was not. Below are twenty five things about those and other last words from history. Sister Louise Marie-Therese‚ the Black Nun of Moret. Wikimedia A French Queen’s Black Daughter? There were relatively few black people in seventeenth and eighteenth century France. It is thus unsurprising that black French nun Louise Marie-Therese (circa 1658 – 1730) stood out. A Benedictine nun at the abbey of Moret-sur-Loing‚ she was also known as the Moores of Moret and the Black Nun of Moret. She attracted plenty of attention not only because of her skin color‚ but also because of some fascinating tales about her ancestry – some of which she herself helped spread. Among other things‚ Sister Marie-Therese was rumored to be the love child of Queen Maria Theresa of Spain‚ wife of King Louis XIV. Her Majesty supposedly gave birth to a black daughter in 1664 – a birth that was hushed up‚ and the baby swiftly whisked away from the royal palace. It is a fascinating story‚ but it is highly unlikely to have been true. However‚ people like juicy and salacious stories‚ and as such‚ many believed that Sister Marie-Therese was illegitimate royalty. Whatever the truth of her birth‚ death finally claimed Sister Marie-Therese in 1730. She was bedridden on her last couple of days. In her final moments upon Earth‚ with death clearly upon her‚ she cut a loud fart. “Good“‚ she said‚ as she turned over. “A woman who can fart is not dead“. Unfortunately‚ those proved to be her last words. However‚ they were not the last sounds to issue from her. She immediately afterwards cut another huge fart‚ and promptly died. Source

Trillions of gallons of rain have already fallen on the state of California‚ and more rain continues to fall as I write this article.  Billions of dollars in damage has already been done‚ but of even greater concern is what all of this water could mean for southern California’s fault lines.  As you will see below‚ geophysicists have discovered that the additional weight that flooding puts on fault lines can help trigger earthquakes.  Of course we have been warned for many years that “the Big One” is way overdue in southern California‚ and when it finally happens it will be a disaster unlike anything we have ever seen before. Water is very heavy.  If you doubt this‚ just try lugging a couple of gallons of water around with you for a while. Now trillions of gallons of rain have poured down on California‚ and all of that added weight is going to put additional stress on the fault lines in the southern portion of the state. A number of years ago‚ a team of geophysicists determined that flooding helped trigger major earthquakes in southern California “at least three times in the past 2‚000 years”… Geophysicists have linked historical earthquakes on the southern section of California’s famed San Andreas fault to ancient floods from the nearby Colorado River. The work has broad implications for understanding how floods or reservoirs relate to quakes — a topic that gained new relevance in 2008‚ after a massive earthquake in China’s Sichuan province killed more than 80‚000 people. Some geologists have proposed that impounding water behind a newly built dam there helped hasten the quake. Now‚ new work in southern California suggests that at least three times in the past 2‚000 years‚ the weight of river water spreading across floodplains seems to have helped trigger earthquakes in the region. Geophysicist Daniel Brothers was one of the scientists that worked on this study‚ and he was very confident about what his team discovered… “We found quakes happened about every 100 to 200 years and were correlated with floods‚” says Brothers. “The Colorado River spills‚ loads the crust and then there is a rupture.” He says the team is “very confident” in its evidence for the existence of three flood-derived quakes‚ of roughly magnitude 6‚ which happened about 600 years ago‚ 1‚100 years ago and 1‚200–1‚900 years ago. “Sediments don’t lie‚” he says. With all of that in mind‚ let’s talk about what has just happened in southern California. Some of the rainfall totals that we have seen so far are just staggering… The highest total came at the Cogswell Dam above Pasadena. NWS monitors at that site recorded 13.15 inches of rain in the past 72 hours. A little farther south‚ Beverly Hills has seen 8.61 inches of rainfall‚ Culver City 7.71 inches and Downtown L.A. to the east has endured 8.13 inches. That means that in just three days‚ downtown Los Angeles has received more than half of its 30-year average seasonal rainfall‚ which is 14.25 inches. And it is being reported that UCLA’s weather station experienced “a 1-in-1‚000 year rainfall event”… The 11.87 inches that fell in 24 hours at UCLA’s weather station was a 1-in-1‚000 year rainfall event. Technically known as a “1‚000-year recurrence interval event‚” according to meteorologist Jacob Feuerstein‚ a 1-in-1‚000-year rain event is a statistical way of expressing the probability of such a huge rainfall occurring in any given year in a given location‚ according to NOAA. That is certainly a lot of rain! Overall‚ it has been estimated that approximately 5.6 trillion gallons of rain fell on California in a 48 hour period… A rough calculation estimates that 5.6 trillion gallons of water has fallen across California the past two days‚ according to FOX Weather meteorologist Greg Diamond. Of course that is not a final number. More rain continued to fall after that estimate was made‚ and it is still raining in California as I write this article. What we are witnessing is truly unprecedented‚ and all of this water is going to put immense pressure on southern California’s fault lines. We’ll get back to that in a minute. But first‚ let me talk a bit about the damage that all of this water has already caused. In an article that I posted a few days ago‚ I speculated that this disaster would cause billions of dollars of damage in the state‚ and it appears that is precisely what has happened… AccuWeather estimates the preliminary total damage and economic loss from the intense storms and record rainfall in California this week will be between $9 billion and $11 billion. Right now‚ there are apocalyptic scenes all over southern California. Flash floods‚ mudslides and fallen trees have caused immense amounts of destruction. These massive Eucalyptus trees were blown down by Sunday’s wind gusts of 60+ MPH smashing cars on this hillside above the Pacific. Fortunately the power here is buried. But 11% of Santa Cruz County is in the dark this morning. We’re live on @weatherchannel pic.twitter.com/0IThCYEB9E — Mike Seidel (@mikeseidel) February 5‚ 2024 Even if nothing else happens‚ this is going to be one of the costliest natural disasters that we have seen in a long time. But what if the weight of all this water triggers “the Big One” at some point? It has been reported that when “the Big One” strikes it could literally “plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly”… The Big One may be overdue to hit California‚ but scientists near LA have found a new risk for the area during a major earthquake. They claim that if a major tremor hits the area‚ it could plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly. The discovery was made after studying the Newport-Inglewood fault‚ which has long been believed to be one of Southern California’s danger zones. A lot of people seem to think that a part of the state could break off like a cracker and fall into the Pacific Ocean. But that is not how it would work. According to Cal State Fullerton professor Matt Kirby‚ land on the western side of a major fault line would suddenly drop by up to three feet and that would allow the Pacific Ocean to come rushing in… The study showed that land within major Californian seismic faults could sink by 1.5 and three feet instantly. The last known major quake occurred on the San Andreas fault in 1857. Seismologists estimate the 800 mile-long San Andreas‚ which runs most of the length of the state‚ should see a large quake roughly every 150 years. ‘It´s something that would happen relatively instantaneously‚’ Kirby said. ‘Probably today if it happened‚ you would see seawater rushing in.’ As I have discussed in multiple books‚ scientists have repeatedly warned us that this is going to happen someday. It is just a matter of time. Will a disaster of this magnitude happen in 2024? Let’s hope not‚ but I will definitely be watching southern California very closely now that all of this rain has fallen. When it finally arrives‚ “the Big One” could hit without warning‚ and those living right along the coast may only have moments before the Pacific Ocean starts rushing over them. Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com‚ and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s extremely controversial new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”‚ “7 Year Apocalypse”‚ “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”‚ “The Beginning Of The End”‚ and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned)  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog‚ End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News‚ and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  You can connect with Michael on YouTube‚ Facebook and Twitter‚ and sharing his articles on your own social media accounts is definitely a great help.  These are such troubled times‚ and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world‚ that he gave his only begotten Son‚ that whosoever believeth in him should not perish‚ but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so‚ we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today. 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by Matt Agorist‚ The Free Thought Project: Today is the 21 year anniversary of when Colin Powell sold us the lie about WMD’s in Iraq and I feel like it is important to once again remind people that the American government is still making up blatant lies to sell unnecessary wars so rich dudes can […]