Wednesday, December 10, 2025

HUD SECRETARY, SCOTT TURNER: But when you have over 12 million people coming over our borders unchecked, unvetted, this is straining our housing market from a supply standpoint, from an affordability standpoint.

But when you have over 12 million people coming over our borders unchecked, unvetted, this is straining our housing market from a supply standpoint, from an affordability standpoint.  HUD just put out a report and found that between 2021 and 2024 the foreign-born population in our country in just three short years is 6 million people, which is the most in that period of time of American history.  So we cannot forgo the thought that because of illegal immigration, because of people coming into our country, prices have risen, supply has been squeezed, but we're working very hard at HUD along with the president and the leaders in the administration to bring down the cost and raise the supply.  And we're doing it through inter-agencies but we need the FED to cut rates.  We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people.  So we are very intentional and focused about it at HUD and across the Administration.  

HUD Secretary, Scott Turner.

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VALERIE ANNE SMITH: Today, research shows babies cry for connection, comfort & regulation, that is crucial to their development, trust, & so much more

For 1,000s of years, babies slept with their mothers. They were never left alone. They were held, rocked & fed when hungry.

Did you know the 'cry-it-out' method didn’t even exist before the early 1900s? Until two men came along...Psychologist John Watson & Dr. Luther Holt pushed the idea that babies should be left to cry. Before that, families co-slept, rocked, or responded to babies’ needs without the concept of strict training. These doctors believed responding too much to infants would 'spoil' them, an idea that shaped decades of parenting advice. They said babies should be trained, isolated & controlled. That babies had to fit the assembly line & office schedules of their parents. Dr Watson had 4 children, 3 attempted suicide & 1 succeeded [. . .]. His remaining 3 children blamed him for their psychological pain & damage. Watson died alone, isolated & estranged from his family...the same painful way in which he brainwashed millions of parents to treat their babies. Dr Watson's granddaughter is quoted as stating, "my grandfather's ideas were a legacy of psychological damage." These methods became parenting norms...not because they were right, but because they worked for the system. A system that demanded efficiency. Not connection. You're not being manipulated by your baby by attending their needs. You're resisting rules built for factories, not families. Your instincts aren't outdated. They're what kept our species alive & emotionally healthy. Without abandonment issues & the ability to have emotional connection with others. Today, research shows babies cry for connection, comfort & regulation, that is crucial to their development, trust, & so much more.

SAMA HOOLE: Chicken was lean, stringy, required long cooking, not particularly desirable. It was acceptable protein when the egg production ended. Nothing more.

Chickens were domesticated 8,000 years ago in Southeast Asia. For 7,900 years, humans kept chickens for one reason: eggs. Chicken meat was eaten only when the hen stopped laying. Usually after 3-5 years. The bird had earned its retirement in the cooking pot. Chicken was lean, stringy, required long cooking, not particularly desirable. It was acceptable protein when the egg production ended. Nothing more. 1950s: The low-fat era begins. Saturated fat becomes the enemy. Beef and pork are suddenly "dangerous." Chicken becomes "healthy lean protein." 1960s: Factory farming begins breeding chickens specifically for meat. The Cornish Cross is developed - grows from chick to slaughter weight in 6 weeks instead of 16 weeks. These birds are bred for: - Massive breast meat (consumers want lean protein) - Rapid growth (more production cycles per year) - Docile temperament (easier factory farming) They're so far removed from ancestral chickens that they can barely walk under their own weight. Their skeletons can't support the meat mass. Many develop heart failure before reaching slaughter age from the metabolic strain. 1980s: "Chicken breast and rice" becomes the default fitness meal. Bodybuilders everywhere trim the fat, eat the lean muscle, call it optimal. Your great-grandparents would have fed that part to the dog. The fattiest parts - the thighs, the skin, the liver - those were the valuable bits. The breast was just convenient bulk. We've spent 60 years promoting the least nutritious part of the chicken as a health food while demonising the parts humans actually valued for millennia. Chicken wasn't a health food until we decided fat was poison.

Before that, it was just the consolation prize when your laying hen retired. 

SAMA HOOLE: The deer belonged to the king. The barley belonged to the king. The peasant belonged to the king. And the king ate venison while the peasant ate gruel. This wasn't about protecting animals. It was about controlling protein access.

1066, England. William the Conquering just taken the throne.

Within months, he issues the Forest Laws. Hunting deer is now forbidden to anyone below noble rank. The punishment isn't a fine. It's death. Not execution by sword, which would be quick. Execution by hanging, slow strangulation, body displayed in the village square as a warning. Sometimes they'd blind you first and let you starve instead. The cruelty was the point. These weren't conservation laws. The deer population was massive. Herds roamed freely across thousands of acres of "royal forest" that just happened to include the land peasants had been hunting on for generations. The real reason becomes clear when you look at what replaced venison in the peasant diet. Bread. Lots of bread. Grain-based gruel. Pottage made from whatever vegetables they could grow. The lords continued eating venison. Multiple deer per week. Whole roasted boars. Fatty game birds. Their tables groaned with meat at every meal. The peasants ate grain and were told it was God's will that only nobility could hunt. The Church backed this up with sermons about knowing your place in the divine order. A peasant family could watch deer walk through their barley field, destroying their crop, and be executed for killing the deer to feed their starving children. The deer belonged to the king. The barley belonged to the king. The peasant belonged to the king. And the king ate venison while the peasant ate gruel. This wasn't about protecting animals. It was about controlling protein access. A population fed on grain is weaker, more compliant, easier to manage. A population eating meat is stronger, more energetic, more likely to cause problems for the ruling class. The Forest Laws stayed in effect for 800 years. Eight centuries of restricting meat to the elites while forcing the masses onto grain. And during those eight centuries, the peasant class got shorter, weaker, more disease-prone with each generation. The nobility, eating their venison and boar, stayed tall and strong. You can see it in the armor. Noble armor from the 1400s fits a 5'10" man. Peasant remains from the same period average 5'3". Same genetics. Different diets. The nobility ate what humans evolved eating. The peasants ate what they were allowed to eat. The elites have always known: Control the meat supply, control the population.