This TO STOP THEM FROM STOPPING OUR MOVEMENT TUESDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.
Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.
Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.
Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.
And while the most important thing you can do is to be able to tell our President THIS:
I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!
It would also be PRETTY COOL to sign his birthday card!
AND WHAT TIME IS IT?
TIME TO….
DRAIN THE SWAMP
Our movement
Is about replacing
A failed
And CORRUPT
Political establishment
With a new government controlled
By you, the American People.
Candidate Donald J. Trump
Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
MAGA Mom had a most excellent summary of something that has happened.
Don’t BLAMECAST about it – please – that just feeds into it. But I want people here to understand what has happened. MAGA Mom did the NUMBERS and they explain something.
MAGA Mom
Let me recap and see if I have a grasp on the situation:
1) Thread on actual censorship, deplatforming and silencing conservative voices, groups & opinions: 61 comments
2) Open Thread: huge debate on being nice and self censoring, name calling, humor v. growing a thicker skin, etc.: 80+ (as I stopped counting) & 27 comments on this topic on this page so far
Hmmm…priorities??? distractions???
Think about where we are spending our time, our energy and our focus, our combined brain power!
I am not saying I am upset with BakoCarl for starting the debate (or anyone else, for that matter!) or that the topic is unimportant. I happen to agree to an extent in huge part because I think certain name calling is distracting and ineffective. Whether it is nice or not I will leave up to others as my mission is not to be “nice” but to MAGA as I said in my comment on the previous page and name calling or disparaging people on physical characteristics or on being gay/lesbian is a turn off to many and therefore decreases our effectiveness as we loose audience to truth and facts re political candidates and issues.
(https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/dear-maga-20190610-open-topic/comment-page-1/#comment-170240)
My point is, So much discussion on this topic and not the same on the political enemy and their methods, our choices to counteract and ideas on what we can do. Why!?! What should be our actual focus right now?! We need to spend as much time analyzing, sharing facts, links, researching, synergysing on possible political action as we do sharing our feelings and opinions.
Let’s harness our brainpower and put at least as much time and thought into the censorship being implemented by others as we do on self censorship & appropriate names and criticism for our political opponents.
And Please don’t tell me that I am just being sensitive as I have fibromyalgia and would feel that you are being mean as well as ridiculing and belittling all of those in my condition if you associate negative connotations with sensitivity. 😉
MAGA Mom, June 10, 2019 at 18:56
Now – if I even talk about any of this stuff, to some extent that action falls, MOST IRONICALLY, into what MAGA Mom is talking about. And when I was posting about this stuff earlier – YES – it was exactly what she is talking about.
And LET ME TELL YOU THIS – which REALLY PROVES what she is talking about.
I have been intending for SEVERAL DAYS to talk about the NEXT PHASE OF CENSORSHIP.
I have critical information about this. I tried to do a BIG POST to explain it earlier, and got all kinds of bandwidth problems that made me lose EVERYTHING. I think I ended up calling it “Placeholder Friday” in frustration, publishing a near-empty daily thread.
So I was going to fix it on Monday. But no. I spent all day on a sideshow, much of which was (ironically) MY OWN DOING. Yes. I was – you might say, “Sideshow Wolf”! 😀
HOWEVER, TheseTruths responded by stating something very important which captures why I have wasted my time on stuff I didn’t really want to do:
TheseTruths
“So much discussion on this topic and not the same on the political enemy and their methods, our choices to counteract and ideas on what we can do.”
This topic IS about the political enemy and their methods and what we need to do. A number of the posts, including mine, have pointed out that they are trying to suppress our free speech with demands of political correctness and censorship. It doesn’t hurt to be reminded of that and have a heightened awareness so we don’t get inadvertently sucked in to their schemes. That kind of psychological preparedness is part of the battle.
TheseTruths, June 10, 2019 at 20:17
This is exactly correct. We ARE in the censorship fight, and BY GOD, IT’S ON OUR SOIL.
Bluntly, we are taking one on the chin – but we are taking it well. Look at it that way. We have an actual demonstration of how they cannot effectively undermine us, but they CAN get us to undermine ourselves.
This is why I was forced to warn people about how the other side will DESPERATELY try to shut us down, shut us up, and make us ineffective, by influence – EXPERT influence – on individual members. Stuff you will likely not recognize, and may NEVER recognize.
And I will NOT let it happen. So I had to inform you about CRUEL REALITIES OF THIS WORLD.
I had to WARN PEOPLE. Because I know what’s coming, and it’s UGLY.
The other side is spending MILLIONS OF DOLLARS – ON THE GROUND – IN REAL LIFE – to shut our side up. RIGHT NOW. I am literally WATCHING THEM do it. LITERALLY. The White Hats know *exactly* what I’m talking about.
Remember what they did to JIM JORDAN in Ohio? That cost them millions of dollars and ultimately FAILED, but you can bet that a shitload (pardon my French) of money was spent to INFLUENCE PEOPLE to make that happen. Individuals. Influenced, positioned, and manipulated. Using LAWYERS. Expensive LAWYERS.
And lawyers, psychologists, and even rat-bastard communists in beater junkie stake-out cars cost money.
They are doing it now. EVERYWHERE. And some of that money is designated to influence YOU. So think very carefully about what the social media puts in front of you, because THEY THINK ABOUT IT VERY CAREFULLY.
Twitter is so much more than you think it is. The DEVIL is in details of CODE that HIDE from oversight or legal discovery.
Most of it is programmed – automated – but not all of it. When they see a point where the economics of influencing specific people needs a human touch, it gets a human touch.
Here is a TIP. They love to use OLD PEOPLE, SICK PEOPLE, and PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP. Those people are very real, and very deserving of our sympathy and help.
BUT….
Your response makes you PREDICTABLE. And that is all they need.
“Wounded hostage ambush.” I use this analogy all the time, because they use this method all the time.
We are at WAR. So when you go to the hospital, wear an invisible AR-15 on your back. Wear your SPIRIT GUN and watch the fuck out. Because they are watching you.
Now – I close with a VICTORY. We had a big win today.
Not here – but where it COUNTS BIG.
Oh, yeah. This lady was RIGHT.
SO – here is what I’m going to do.
I am going to start working on my censorship post, which CONTINUES the discussion of Daughn’s censorship post. That post should be ready by morning.
We are FIGHTING BACK. And we are fighting back NOW.
W
http://www.becomingcloser.org/History/solzhenitsyn.jpg
AMEN!!!
Here is a question that needs to slip past every form of mind control.
Would PUTIN let a book pointing out that Russian media is its own form of “Fake News” go unhindered?
It really seems to me that the Soviets realized that FAKE NEWS was *way* more effective than internal Soviet news. So they “transitioned” to what had been working in America, once America was largely under control, and a pair of deadly communists – Bill and Hillary Clinton – carefully labeled as over-the-counter “Third Way” UniParty BS – were safely in the White House.
I would suggest that we be like Skateboard Cat:
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Skate Cat is moving along…he sees a big dog in his path.
Does he engage?
No.
He just jumps right over that big ole distraction and keeps on going.
He could’ve made mincemeat out of that dog’s face.
He knows he could outrun him afterward.
But no…SkateCat just jumps over that distraction and keeps on going on his way.
dog wasn’t really a distraction there…dog was just something in the way…like an obstacle .
or maybe not…maybe dog was actually part of the fun.
But an obstacle is very distracting, Smiley.
In fact…obstacles are sometimes put in our way to distract us.
😏😉
🙂 dog was just standing there, being a dog…on a leash…he didn’t even know cat was coming down the pike there ! cat was having fun on the skateboard…cat could have slowed down, stopped, made a turn…or gone around dog…but cat jumped on dog, pissing dog off…then went his merry way…having a blast !
cat provoked dog…then fled the scene….thumbing nose at dog.
I’m a cat person =^-^= but I an see that gif from dog’s perspective. 🙂
oops typo…I an see = I can see…
…sometimes. 🙂
I’d like to have seen that dog test just how fast that cat can make that skateboard go 🙂
I’m a dog person (woof). Would love to have a nice, well-behaved Golden (OK, contradiction in terms, I know), but unfortunately we live on a hill, our house is split level over three stories, and we have open stairs (looks nice, plus when no one’s looking you can…oh, didn’t say a thing). Doesn’t lend itself to having a dog, sad to say, unless said dog could fly, preferably with a minivac and a dustmop to clean off the beams in places I can’t climb to anymore…sigh…
Makes me think of Tevye and his three stairways, one going up, one even longer going down, and one more going nowhere, just for show (haven’t found that one, yet 🙂 )…
Hmmm. Robot flying dog…Nah, just isn’t the same…
Woof Woof Cuppa!! I love doggies!!! 👁 ❤️ 🐶
“So think very carefully about what the social media puts in front of you, because THEY THINK ABOUT IT VERY CAREFULLY.”
I am not on social media, but of course I can read on Twitter, Gab, etc. I’m very much looking forward to the article about censorship and the methods used against us. Are we revealing too much about ourselves? (I have always thought so.) It would be interesting to give them false information to distort their data.
“It would be interesting to give them false information to distort their data.”
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That’s true…but then you have to remember what it was that you put out there.
You could get all tangled up in your disinformation if you’re not consistent.
Since I’m working with limited storage capacity in my brain…I prefer to just give as little information as I can.
😜
If I just stick with the truth, then I don’t have to remember some deception that I came up with.
🤓😎
When I signed up for FB a LONG time ago to keep in contact with family, I used my maiden name, and didn’t give quite the correct B-day. Had only family as friends, but over time, have quit posting.
That’s true. And giving them the truth (which is what good people do) is what gives them their power. I don’t know what the answer is.
TheseTruths
“That’s true. And giving them the truth (which is what good people do) is what gives them their power. I don’t know what the answer is.”
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They already know because they have been at it for a long time.
Funny on my one email I give my middle name and since the computer was registered to my husband it came up on the Internet Google that he is also known as XYZ.
He is diabetic and I got diabetic info into my email he never gave anyone my email. How did diabetic magazine know my email..???? How did politicians know my email address to my husband?
Everything is known knowing that truth actually helps because we do not operate from a dark hole.
At least I do not do wrong that I have to hide.
I ordered a knee brace several years ago on the Internet never gave my home phone I am getting at least
one time a week a call saying someone in the family has knee problems.
One thing about intimidation is that communist operators try to do is want to divide. They divide trust between family and friends. They sow discord between groups.
People gathering to them is dangerous because we can share information. They sow distrust among unsuspecting groups and friends.
I have seen it in East Germany. People whispered no one trusted anyone and they had total control over people that way. The Internet is a nightmare for them because of free flow of information and that is why people are banned. Merkel in Germany when muslims began to commit crimes what did she do? Sh put an Stasi to oversee the Internet and worked with Zuckerberg to identify people to them. They broke the communication about rape and other crimes on the Internet and information was stopped.
We are very lucky to have Trump and we need to be as strong as he is and do our part.
Look at Adler , Palolsi and many more of the democrats they exhibit the tyranny of communism.
I’m in favor of unfettered truth for those of us not officially involved in spy operations. We have had truth denied to us, deflected from us, hidden from us, twisted and turned until we don’t know what is up and what is down.
The more truth the better. The more each of us speak it, the more of us will hear it. The more of us hear it, the more we will make it our own. The truth of what the communists have done to our nation is ugly. The cultural and political corruption is legion. A little Christian truth: When Christ Jesus was crucified, it was said he was so heinous to look at that it was hard to recognize he was human. Yet the truth of what was done to him redeemed us.
Shout truth from the rooftops!
“I’m working with limited storage capacity in my brain” . . . unfortunately an increasingly common afflication! Tell me about ! As the years go by . . .
Actually, THEY would get all tangled up. Obfuscation doesn’t require consistency, indeed, it works better with inconsistency. Both chiefio and pointman discuss this, and probably a number of other blogs do, too.
And I’m not even talking about the IT and database dweeb side of it, where “normalizing” data is a way of life, and inconsistent input from varying sources which should match is irritating, to say the least. One thing that some folks do is have multiple online “personalities” from multiple devices, and do their best to drive Garble and Amazoon into the weeds (yes, they share TONS of data, also with the Appleverse).
My favorite story along this line, from decades ago, is a mainframe guy got a bill from PG&E (everyone’s favorite electric company – not) for $0.00. As he had already paid the bill beforehand, he expected to have a zero balance. He laughed, and tossed the bill out.
A few weeks later, he got a demand notice for $0.00, requesting immediate payment. Laughing again, he tossed the ungrounded demand away as he did the first.
A week after that, in a specially-highlighted envelope, he got a final demand notice, threatening cutoff if he didn’t IMMEDIATELY settle the debt of $0.00.
While reading the bill, trying to decide whether to laugh or cry at this idiocy, he noticed some very familiar features to the punched-card with the cut-off corner that we all used to see in PG&E’s bills. Being a good IBM’er, and a systems programmer at that, he added a few punches with “instructions” to that card, and returned it, with a check for $0.00 (just thinking what his back will have to say later on….).
A few days later he got a frantic call from the VP of IT at PG&E. It seems that his card had made it into their nightly bill processing, on a night when a trainee computer operator was at the console. Everything had been running fine, until his card went through, at which point the machine shut itself down.
It seems those extra punches were the instructions for the machine to halt.
The VP pleaded with the man to never, EVER, do that again, to which he replied, “and don’t ever threaten to cut me off for a ZERO BALANCE!”…
Talk about Bend, Fold, Spindle, and Mutilate 🙂 I can imagine that’s what the Veep wanted to do to that fellow. Sort of like this XKCD, little Johnny Tables:
Never trust user input!
On social media, there is no sanitizing method available 😉
Jam the system.
Yep. Just like with buffer overflow exploits/bugs. I spent a large part of my career on a platform where bounds-checking was enforced (and enabled) in hardware. Other platforms/vendors felt that was “too costly” both from a hardware and time point of view, and basically moved to a “trust” system, and software mitigation.
It seems that the order of the day was speed; at all costs (to which I say, speed kills). Same thing with speculative execution, which I never liked, because of most, if not all, error- and bounds-checking being turned off (because it’s only speculative). Intel’s in a world of hurt now because of that, and AMD, for the most part, is safer because they chose a more conservative (albeit slower) means of look-ahead. Someone said on a forum the other day that the Bulldozer family would be about even with the Intel competitor architecture were it not for this.
Maybe after I get done cooking breakfast on my FX-8350 I’ll check that out 🙂 (and I’m grilling tonight on my 9590 🙂 … if I had one – over here, power usage has become a factor in CPU choice, leading me to get a 65W 2700 (no X) or 3700X when it comes out. Sad that it’s come to that…
The way I heard the power usage described, is that a modern CPU is more energy efficient per square inch than a heating plate. Cooking breakfast on it is probably a good use of energy.
I never thought the Bulldozer was a bad architecture. I thought it was pretty innovative and the name gives the idea of moving lots of heavy stuff. No matter how many times I read the story, every time the tortise beats the hare. Still there were a ton of people badmouthing it. Speculative execution has always made me queasy and I still don’t like it on the AMDs, but right now I won’t buy Intel. That’s not hard b/c I’ve never been an Intel fanboy.
Hardware needs to do more for security. I like pushing out capabilities for AES into the chipset. But I remember the bad old days when we had no memory protection and I still feel like even with DEP/EMET/etc we’re not totally there yet. I’d like to have FPGAs on desktop workstations but we’d be totally blind to exploits…
Jam the system? Can we use a broomstick?
Sand, sawdust, or sugar… or all three 🙂
I would post an excessive amount of content that doesn’t easily fit common patterns. Remember all those “like” features? They’re organized on the user’s page according to patterns: Movies, Books, Music, Games, etc. Notice a theme/pattern? They also track news posts religiously. That’s why they can be so aggressive with their filtering and de-boost algorithms. They have fairly comprehensive intelligence on which sites, articles, and authors conservatives post/share, and it takes little extra work so that when a user posts, it correlates that against know content categories and buries it. They literally know what bubbles people live in (and they get a power trip off it). If you post outside those patterns, you can break those bubbles. But you have to jam it with a lot of content that doesn’t fit their preconcieved usage.
Have a look at the source code for a web page, and tally (Hey Steve) how much of that mountain of code is actually doing something useful, for the web page itself. A vanishingly small percentage anymore. Much of it generated automatically, either be the server or the CDN, the ubiquitous “Like” buttons usually come from farcebørk and sometimes are buggy.
I sent a bug report to FB about one instance of this, what the error was in their code, and what the fix was. All I got back was basically “we’re not interested in fixing it”. Despite the fact it was a repeatable, and relatively easy-to-fix bug…
The number of scripts and scrapers that run is absolutely appalling, as well. Economy of code and thought is an unknown concept to them. It’s almost as if it’s the 1960s all over again, with COBOL programmers paid by the line. “Reusable,modular code? Bah, Humbug. I’m paid by the (in)line”… The more things change…
Speaking of COBOL, at once place I worked we had to change the COBOL Compiler due to an issue with a very popular code generator. It seems that EVERY SINGLE (xyzzy, I’ll call it) VERB created a COBOL subroutine, making even a simple invoicing program into a million-line behemoth.
Don’t think those folks were paid by the line, though… And thank goodness they didn’t enable $CONTROL SYMDEBUG to check their programs (I can’t say more, except it can bring a huge machine to its electronic knees in seconds; ironically, the bigger the box, the, erm, bigger the shocks…
Only if you want to risk being burnt at the stake
Well, you could simulate being a psycho and then you’d believe your lies which makes it easier. Just trying to help. 🙂
Yeah like … we’re from the planet Alderon …. heh-heh
TheseTruths – you have just given me a huge hint about how the censorship works and why we don’t AS A WHOLE see it.
Because YOU are not actually “ON” socialist media, you are only referred to it from OUTSIDE. That puts you out of the grasp of the TIMELINE – where Twitter most greatly controls WHAT PEOPLE SEE.
The convenience of referring to the timeline SELLS ITS BIAS.
I think that one of their greatest powers – as masters of social media – is SELECTION and SELECTIVITY – to “curate” (as they like to call it) and JUDGE what we should or should not see. That is what we are OVERCOMING by posting here. We are CHOOSING truth from Twitter AGAINST THEIR WILL.
Since you are not on Twitter, you don’t see that part.
FACEBOOK tries to actually make people become a part of it to see it. Facebook is more CAREFUL than Twitter not to leak information without THEIR CONTROL.
THIS IS INTERESTING.
What it means is that the people bringing news here IS why “We are the news now.” And THEY have to fight it.
I’m curious if anybody here has had the experience of finding that somebody is able to see certain tweets that others are not allowed to see. Whenever I encounter those “you are not allowed to see this tweet”, notices, instead of a tweet, I’m wondering – well – who CAN see the tweet?
Twitter could tell us WHY we can’t see those tweets. THEY CHOOSE NOT TO DO SO.
I believe the social media platforms are gathering data on their users in order to manipulate and control them. They are then able to do target advertising and target censorship (as with the “you are not allowed to see this tweet” notices, which I didn’t know about). I suspect there is sharing of information among many of the platforms and that the deplatforming of conservative voices that we are seeing now is the tip of the iceburg for what they have planned. I hope the Trump administration is working on this problem; I have no idea what the solution is. The Left is all about control.
Oh I have had the whole nine yards. kinthenorthwest no longer exists after over 10 years on tweeter
She and GracieLoveUSA have/had been shadow banned so many times it not even funny..On FB I’ve even had a few articles, pictures & video censored, even in a private group.
Sounds strange, but retweeting your own tweet seems to help. Also if there is a troll in the tread you are on uncheck them & block them Its ok to play with them for a few tweets, but then get rid of them. This is not only for your own tweeter safety, but for others on the thread. Most of the liberals(trolls) that just pop into a primarily conservative thread are just there to instigate trouble.
Manipulation is another form of scamming people. Having been scammed/ manipulated by a so called friend is the worst too. A “friend” that had scammed other people so that a lot of people thought that person was a wonderful person. And I think that in a way is what is happening, but once you’ve been had, that’s it. It really makes you be the “suspicious” cat!
indeed.
pay close attention to ppl who don’t clap when you win
rock bottom will show you who is real
make sure everybody in your boat is rowing
know your circle
Was someone we knew for a long time, watched the kids grow up, nice kids too. Don’t know what happened with him, but something sure did. Wasn’t drugs though, maybe some sort of financial difficulties.
Money can do some funny things to people and that’s an understatement. 1 Timothy 6:10.
so does ENVY …
seems to me, ENVY is many times, if not most of the time, at the root of trouble between ppl…between groups of ppl.
manipulators are driven by it.
And among family, smiley……can’t tell you all the times I see ENVY create almost unsolvable problems among siblings.
Envy is the technique of the left. It’s hidden in plain sight.
Envy needs an object to operate on. The latest strains of virulent leftism have created an all-around object for envy:
Privilege.
They never come out and say you should be envious of other people. That would be too obvious.
Instead they get you to focus on the object of envy by talking about unearned privilege, inequality, injustice, unfairness. About the same way one would a toddler.
Before long envy has a deep root – all because they focused on the object of envy, rather than on envy itself.
Very Machiavellian in its deceit.
If anyone starts blathering about “privilege” recognize that what they are intentionally doing is stoking envy.
BAM
“Money can do some funny things to people and that’s an understatement. 1 Timothy 6:10.”
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Envy and greed and power are very distructive.
Communism taps into those human temptations.
We are being scammed every day by people we do not even know, and they are scamming us in ways which are designed to get our approval, which we often give enthusiastically and self-righteously, not understanding that our “righteousness” is factored into the scam.
Even on our side too many minds are filled with Fake News narratives, and are controlled in fundamental ways.
The charades of ersatz Christianity is a big factor in mind controlling many good people. Puppies and kittens have become a national obsession used to control minds. “Public safety” (always bereft of actual cost/benefit analysis) gets a free mind control pass from well meaning people. Etc., etc., etc.
The mind control schemes and techniques have saturated out culture, are highly successful, and now censorship is being deployed to eradicate any vestiges of unfettered thinking.
More and more people are on to the scam – enough to swing elections. The failure of the polls to predict Trump, Brexit and the Aus elections point to this. People give the EXPECTED answer in the poll, and then they vote their actual belief.
This is blowing back on the left. Their censoring and virtue shouting is resulting in ERRONEOUS feedback. They then think that their strategy is working, and continue merrily on that path. No wonder they are gobsmacked when they lose – they simply did not see it coming.
These people KNOW that good ideas based on TRUTH are dangerous to their philosophy – that is why they censor. You attack that which you are afraid of.
The key is to focus on the vital areas of import, like abortion, 2A, and CLIMATE etc (the things that are already known) and make the best, most concise cases for them. Then just hammer those messages at them, again and again until they give in …
Propaganda them with the TRUTH in their weak areas, which are also their most cherished areas ….
I always wondered why I get so many puppy and kitty twitter accounts following me. 🙂
Even on our side too many minds are filled with Fake News narratives, and are controlled in fundamental ways.
I’m seeing this in a lot of people. The one thing they seem to have in common is watching entirely too much Fox News. Any open-mindedness to alternative theories, or information that contradicts a narrative just is not entertained. And these are not stupid people.
I noticed FOX News was a problem some years ago. I mean back when Dubya was President. FOX would report things in such a way or some pundit would just say something as if it was a fact, and I would cringe. Inwardly, that Little Voice would say, “That’s not right.” At the time I would shrug it off and figure they just didn’t want to rock the boat or something. But now I see it for what it was. They are driving the narrative. They want us to believe something in order to control us in some other manner.
And Twitter and other social media is rife with “conservative” voices that do the same damned thing. You have to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove nowadays. I really believe we are being forced, sometimes kicking and screaming, to grow in wisdom about how the devil operates in human consciousness. And make no mistake, he is behind communism and socialism and political correctness and Christian fakery and RINOs and most especially Never Trumpers. And many useful tools think they are doing God a favor. Pride. Beat it outta yourself if you have to. It blinds you to the truth.
AMEN!!!
I saved your comment as an image. It’s one of the best statements about controlled opposition EVER.
I am abashed and honored, Wolf.
It was something I heard on Fox News that I knew was not the full story that got me started on my search for the truth over 5 years ago in the spring of 2014. I was absolutely incensed that here I had been trusting their reporting for all this time and they were slanting the news to fit their prerogatives – it was an in-your-face moment! And I woke up!
They WANT us to think FOX is conservative. It serves the double whammy of keeping the Democrat masses distracted with anger against FOX and watching the other Fake News, and it keeps us defending them! Gosh, it pisses me off so bad!
Amen Grandma!
The hardest deception to see is that which is ALMOST the truth. 99 percent truth, and 1 percent lies from Satan himself in the deepest pit of Hell (or actually, in Heaven, accusing the elect before GOD’s Throne, 24 hours a day, continuously…). The old “but God didn’t say…..”. The libs and perverts LOVE that one…
But, sad to say, the heretics and deceivers love it too. And they’re all the more dangerous…
Discernment. Seems such a trivial word, yet it is the key to avoid being deceived (along with Prayer, of course)…
Tonawanda
“The charades of ersatz Christianity is a big factor in mind controlling many good people.”
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Very good observation.
The first thing communism does is destroy Christianity and the rituals. They highjack baptism and replace it with a secular ritual. They are smart enough to keep some of them like Christmas. Just look how Christmas has evolved over years her? Santa Claus is the focus not the Christ child. We perpetuate that with kids. I grew up were Christ birth was the focus not toys.
Going back to ersatz Christianity we are venerable because I believe we have a need for faith just as we have a need for family and when that is not there we substitute it with something else.
Same thing with “public safety”, we are told that just giving up more and more of our rights will protect us from the boogey-man of the day. Question that and we are ridiculed for not participating in “hero worship.” We don’t want to see the incrementalism of tyranny, the security/police state that we are now living with. We want to believe in idealism and whatnot that more and more no longer exists, especially when it comes from our own side wrapped in the flag of “patriotism.” 9/11 and tje un patriot act come to mind.
We need to be more discerning of things and less willing to accept at face value what is being spoon fed to us by playing on our emotions.
They want up to live in Fear. Easier to control that way.
My thoughts exactly…makes us more pliable.
“They” make “us” wear a seatbelt while driving a car……
but NOT when on a motorcycle?
Not even a helmet is REQUIRED.
but, but…..
It’s for our own good!
Fuck that!
Let “US” decide things like this.
Just another TAX for non-compliance?
“They” make us wear a seatbelt….
And then risk takers are lulled into a false sense of security and drive entirely too fast for everybody’s good.
They are called diner cycles for a reason
Doner
A dash of cynicism is a good thing … always be aware of what the heck is going on around you, it’ll can help guard you against all the “you didn’t build that … “ evil persons (I’m working on being civil … I may overheat my lovely mind .. 😑🤚)
Am also looking forward to reading that post as well.
I just finished the first part. SIGH. A lot of work. Need a break now!!!
wow— had no idea it would be so large…but thinking on it, coming from your authorship, it’s always going to be a thoroughbred of a piece….
yes, take a much needed break…..regroup and we’ll sling shot you back into it (why am I suddenly thinking we are all a roller derby team out on the roller rink of life???? HAHA)
Not sure if this applies to your situation but I was wondering why you don’t prepare it off-line and save it on your hard drive first, then paste it into the thread? Not understanding why band-width loss would affect your losing your document…..?
School of hard knocks lesson:
I learned a long time ago…..
SAVE your work OFTEN!
You never know when the power may go out.
EXACTLY! Learned that early on in the computer/word processing world. I always set my word processing programs to auto-save every 5 minutes.
The first word processor I ever saw or used was the ancient MTST (Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter) when I was sent to the Pentagon. It pre-dated personal computers and used large 8 mm plastic-enclosed tapes for storing the data. One of my temp jobs right after I ETS’d from the Army was a church in VA that still used the MTST – no-one else knew how to run the danged thing!
Had a CPO friend in the Navy who worked for JCS and he gave me a tour of their computer network and new word processors. I would have given my right arm to have one of those systems whereas all the older women who worked in JCS were scared of it!
Question. Do we have a list of ‘tools’ to help with privacy concerns and other ways to slow them down a bit? I will drop this one in here, saw it mentioned over on gab.
privacytools.io
One of the best tools is SEPARATE tools for your personal life and your politics. A SEPARATE COMPUTER for politics is a good place to start.
Wolf you’re still on gab, right?
Absolutely! Same handle as Twitter – WOLFM00N with two zeroes in moon. Just look to that account if there is EVER any site closure here. If anything happens to me to where I’m not on that account, look to wheatietoo or BigMamaTEA.
If you have a gab handle, I can also put you in one of our emergency notification groups.
Thanks! Will do!
smiley3 over 2 the gab place…don’t say much…just there…
Got it. Thanks!
I am attempting to ‘DM’ you at gab. No idea what I’m doing, though. lol. If you don’t mind, would you check to see if you got a ‘direct message’ there? Thanks!
I got something from “Emma”…that you ??
and…I also am finding it a little confusing there…I get notifications in email if someone “follows” me …but if I don’t reply to you immediately, give me a little time to find you there, ok ??
I sooo prefer phone calls…but…
wish there were a way to privately share phone numbers w/ ppl here.
Thank goodness it WAS you! I suddenly got concerned…what if I just sent a slightly off color joke to the WRONG ‘smiley?’ lolol!
This is a very serious topic and threat to us all. Ties in with anonymous conservatives last 2 blog posts. McAfee frightened and making threats to release data. Info on ppl having their pets killed etc.
Slightly off topic and perhaps just lost in translation but I read you post twice and didn’t see any French to pardon you for. (Lol)
LOL!!!
Can someone give me a brief summary of the McAfee story? Katie mentioned it in yesterday’s thread, along with this tweet. I usually wait until the dust settles on stories to sort out truth from non-truth – similar to what Wolfie is encouraging – but this appears to be coming to a head soon. Only thing I know about McAfee is that he developed antiviral software. Sounds like he is saying he has private information about people in high places. Note, his tweet comes from Cuba?
Katie
June 10, 2019 at 22:35
Anyone want to place bets on whether or not he releases the names on Friday?
If yes, anyone want to guess who will be named? (I know, there should be a whole bunch more.)
After McAfee sold the software company (it still bears his name, but it’s been 10 years at least since he’s had control), he claims the government has been after him. There were trumped charges that he fought – and won – having to do with any number of things.
Anyway, over the weekend, McAfee started posting about being on the run, threatening to name names, and then named the people he claims were sent to “bring him in” or take him out, one or the other. So much has happened in the last three days that detail is fuzzy for me.
Now, this.
IDK if it is a bid for attention, or if he’s serious. The reality is McAfee is just crazy enough to go down swinging with a dead man switch if he really is on the run.
Saint McAfee of Situational Awareness!
I love it when the question isn’t whether you should take a gun into the shower, but rather HOW MANY.
He’s serious all right. His only need for attention is to help forestall any effort to “disappear” him. See los desaparecidos of the 70s.
Adds in a little from his Wikipedia page, mind you it has had over 500 updates since 2010 many of which have happened this year.
McAfee is die hard libertarian of means, physical, mental and money. Ran for President on the Libertarian ticket during last election and pulled in the most Libertarian votes. Don’t remember off hand if he ran before that, thinks he did but I’m not going back to look. He was jailed in Balize for killing his neighbor, but the charges didn’t hold up, during the time of incarceration he is said to have faked some heart ailments until his lawyers could get him sprung. He does have international warrants however Belize is not one of them. He has legal problems here in the States but there doesn’t look to be anything extremely serious. He has had other business ventures and seems to also to be sought after to help run certain business ventures.
Certainly not an all inclusive list of his activities
Some thoughts on him and this current flare up.
1. He’s just being his normal self.
2. He’s maybe doing his gin up for the next election.
3. Someone might figure he could be news worthy enough to take over the head lines in the news and thus take the heat off them. Look squirrel thing.
I’m certainly not knowledgeable enough to endorse any of the three above, but they do come to mind.
Not sure if that helped.
Any confusion about McAfee is educational!
Thanks. It helps. It’s a wait and see. Definitely looks like attention getting – but some times in the bushel of corn is a nugget.
Got called away for chores but was going to add a few minor things.
When McAfee left his business go he also lost the rights to his name and has been successfully sued after trying to use his name in another start up company. His idea on anti virus software was to never let the hackers get in, in the first place and thus the blocking happens outside of the computer. Norton does this now a bit differently in that they mask the connection. Also the guy is a forerunner in the world of bitcoin world and a prolific cocaine user evidently. Genius scoundrel that does not like being held down by convention might sum him up. In big scheme of things I’m still thinking he’s cut away too many cords and has made himself small fish.
Lastly I had started a Neal Stephenson book, “ReadMe” but had put it down for the time being not having time to devote to it, but one of the main character’s seemed to be turning out to McAfee like, (math, cyber, drugs, and bit coin) but I didn’t get far enough along to be sure as life has been turning out to be more interesting than fiction since MAGA and Q came along.
IPOT had something on it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96_uZB03wEQ
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I’m hoping this wii help. If not anonymous conservative blog may help
“Socialist Media”
Someone used this term in a comment recently…and sadly, I don’t remember who to thank for it.
Because this term is so spot on!
I have lamented before, that the term ‘social media’ seems like a psyop of some sort.
I mean…why was this form of internet communication called ‘social media’?
Why wasn’t it called “cyber comms” or “net comms” or “web media”?
There are several other names that could’ve been used instead of ‘social media’.
But no…it was called ‘social media’ instead.
Which implies that it is something harmless and social.
It also implies that you are somehow missing out on being ‘social’, if you don’t join in and engage in it.
But the truth is…corporations, businesses and the government, all use ‘social media’ as much as individual people use it.
So it’s not just used by people to ‘socialize’ with other people.
Was it called ‘social media’ as part of a plan to make us okay with the idea of Socialism?
It certainly seems to be working that way.
Young people weren’t taught about the evils of Socialism in school.
Not like previous generations were.
The leftists who have taken control of our education system have conveniently omitted all the old lessons on what a Trap socialism really is.
There is now a general attitude that if you’re not engaging in ‘social media’…that there is something wrong with you.
We are also seeing the idea of a ‘Social Score’ being established.
You can be graded on how well you use social media…or not use it.
Like a Credit Score.
Many young people today don’t even know what ‘socialism’ really is.
When asked…they think it something good because it has the word ‘social’ in it!
This is why I think that the newly coined term of “Socialist Media” is so spot on.
Because it is looking like the thinking behind naming internet-communication, ‘social media’, was to get people programmed to accept Socialism.
And since Socialism survives by censoring the Truth about it…we are now seeing Censorship being deployed.
I would love to see the term Socialist Media used widely.
And while Alt Media is cool, I think THE FREE MEDIA is even better!
(“THE” being helpful, just like it is for “THE FAKE NEWS”.)
Yeah, ‘Socialist Media’ is really kind of perfect, isn’t it…for describing the way it is right now.
Let’s hope it gets freed up and becomes the ‘Free Media’.
Out of all the things it could have been named in the beginning…I’m kinda partial to ‘Web Media’.
Because it *is* kind of like a web that we can get tangled up in.
a NET .
makes you wonder if maybe that was the intention all along….the net…the web …from the very first computers created.
yet another way to control the masses.
and, like lemmings, we gladly go with the flow.
no offense to lemmings, now…ok ?
Yeah…and we’re all out of coincidences.
🤓😉
I am old enough to remember when there were people working 24/7 to upload tons of information onto the ‘Web’.
I remember thinking…
“Why? What’s the big rush to do that? …We’ll still have Libraries, so why does everything have to be loaded onto the Internet?”
And then the thought occurred to me — “I hope they are being accurate with it and not changing anything to suit themselves.”
We now see that there are powerful forces who want to Control All Information.
The internet is made to order for doing that.
And they want people to believe that ‘everything’ we need to know is on the internet.
exactly….which is why I held out as long as I could before finally getting a computer…I still do not have a “smart” phone…intentionally…and I don’t use social media at all…just a few blogs…
I’m thinking what Wolf is trying to get across to us is…
do not be easy prey.
I kind of alluded to something like that yesterday in one of my posts…referring to ppl who can’t see the forest for the trees…
getting all bogged down in irrelevant emotions that are beside the point ! and which actually reveal vulnerabilities instead of strengths !
like : Don’t Feed The Alligators…or The Bears…or The Lions…
being “nice” to predators won’t get you any new “friends”.
also…watch out for the two-faced ppl in the crowd(s).
wheatietoo
“We now see that there are powerful forces who want to Control All Information.
The internet is made to order for doing that.”
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The University Library is an example of digitizing everything the library is half empty and books are available on internet.
The danger I see is to omit what they do not want people to know and there is more control on information. I am a book hoarder I love books and I do try to go with original not from an author who is filtering through their tapestry what the origional author was trying to say.
It’s VERY important to keep hard copies of books and information, in particular those that are either hard to find, in a foreign language (to where you’re living) (sort of a subset to the first point), in danger of going out of print, or in your or a family member’s field of expertise.
BECAUSE, with e-media, be it Kindle, or any of the other e-books, or even articles and pdfs downloaded from the web, the actual contents of said media may change from one minute to the next, WITHOUT NOTICE, and perhaps, without reason or justification.
Just look at how the climate “record” has been manipulated. UEA has PURGED (they say, “lost”) an enormous amount of original temperature and weather measurements. So now, they’re free to redefine history.
AND THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT.
As George Orwell said in 1984:
The whole movement to ban children’s books published before 1985 (hmmm, there’s that date) because the ink might be tainted with lead was really to remove older, more conservative, and more Christian books from the libraries, and to fill them with moderm, mind-controlled propaganda masquerading as children’s literature.
Never mind the fact that a child would have to eat a whole shelf-full of books in order to ingest the amount of lead that would be a problem. They’d have many OTHER problems before then… but truth and logic are never part of the left’s agenda… Their mind control and lies are FAR more poisonous than any compound or chemical used today (except for, maybe, Nasty Nan’s Botox)…
I can’t just move on without saying something about publishing.
One of the things I do to make money is write novels, and I have had knowledge of how the industry works for 30 years. I did a lot of research on it way back even if I didn’t start REALLY writing and self-publishing until about five years ago. Things have changed, but not that much unless you self-publish.
Back before the internet, what an author did, was type the novel or book in triple space (for copy editing) with a header containing personal information and submit the paper manuscript to the publisher. If the book was accepted as it was – a big if – the publishing house would make changes per their perogative, take out name brand names, etc., at will. Books published in hard copies get the same treatment even now. Authors may be uploading the files rather than sending a paper copy that had to be rekeyed at the publisher level, but the publishing house has the final say on what actually gets printed- and if they want a change, and you are under contract, they will stall publication until the change happens.
In romance, right now, the demand from the publishing houses is for borderline erotica love scenes. Writers talk about it amongst ourselves, and readers complain that those scenes add nothing to the plot. Seriously. Readers, generally, are looking for more of Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet and damsels in distress than bodice ripping. Most of us tend to skip over that part. That being the case, there is a group of authors – including me – who publish clean romance. And we skip the slush piles in New York where the work would most likely be rejected by self publishing, and therefore controlling the content attributed to our copyrights.
There are two ways to self publish: one is upload your file to 18 or so online retailers one by one. The other is bite the bullet for a small chunk of profit and use an online distributor that takes a small cut, and then upload separately to Amazon. I chose the second option, and that being the case, I am here to tell you that the files to be uploaded are different, but that the retailers have no control over the content other than to reject it outright.
Smashwords, my distributor, requires the file uploaded to be a Word 97-2003 doc with none of the features activated other than making a table of contents. It goes through what is called a “meat grinder” that takes maybe ten minutes to generate the files needed and what is spit out the other end, is 17 different versions of the same book, each compatible for a different e-reading platform. No one changes anything other than the author, because if there is a problem with the manuscript, and the problems are ONLY technical in nature, you get an email telling you to fix it.
Amazon, OTOH, requires the upload to be a PDF which is not as easy to change as you might think. Flat files are pretty much static, even for Adobe software if you didn’t create the PDF in Acrobat unless they’ve changed something since I last used components of the more recent creative suites.
So, that being said, without access to the original manuscript, there is no way to know if what you are reading in a hard copy book that passed through a publishing house is really what the author intended or not. That’s pretty much it. The publishing houses have been part of the censorship game since their inception.
I’m old enough to have kept a large personal library of physical books. If people could understand that dumbass term “The Cloud,” and realize it is just servers (like any other servers) that SOMEONE ELSE IS CONTROLLING, and not this fabulous ethereal place where all information is kept safe, they would be much more likely to maintain control of their own businesses using personal servers.
Really, all The Cloud is, is a bunch of servers in different PHYSICAL LOCATIONS that are being maintained and controlled by entities like Google and Amazon. They will tell you how safe and secure they are, but are those controlling those servers trustworthy?
Exactly.
The Cloud is simply the tire-fire of your information on somebody else’s property.
Hence the term “tire-wall”…. 🙂
(ducks and runs, with the Michelin man armed with “Les Tire Ahns” in, erm, hot pursuit)…. oooh, and Stay-Puft Man behind him… or is that Michael Moore after meeting Napoleon Blownapart in his kitchen?
Guess I’m kinda old, but when I hear about “the cloud”, I think of X.25 and all the, barf, joy I had dealing with CCITT, disconnects, packet routing, and non-standard standards way back then. Hmmm, I actually hid an engineer’s name (not mine) in there…ha…
And we had Gandalf and Kermit to keep us company, and Tymnet and a *cough* host of others… I had a Deutsche Telekom 9600-baud modem that probably weighed 20 pounds (at least) that was 4″ x 8″ x 20″ for X.25, when on the open market (other countries) the Hayes, et. al. modems were much smaller. I think this monster was a TUBE modem… (power xformer weight)…
Not sure about “Alt Media”……
We have been called “Alt Right”……..
Therefore…..
I use the term “CTRL Left”
As the left just wants CONTROL
I keep punching “Escape”, but I’m still here… 🙂
lol………….. good one (again)
Actually I “borrowed” that one, which has been around a lot longer than that hag lady from Hallmark, sometime in the late 1970s. Here’s an example:
Brilliant post!
Amen!
I second Towanda’s comment; this post is brilliant.
However, I think it is important to say a little more on the concept of a Social Score. This is not merely intended to reflect how well a person uses Social Media, but rather is intended to reflect how well a person accepts and adheres to Socialism. Do you conduct business with approved sources, do you avoid those designed by your betters as persona non grata, do you use only your allotted share of energy, do you tune in for the full speech by the person your betters think you should follow, do you reflect the proper attitude in your online posts, etc., etc., etc. Far more pernicious than a credit score, and if we look at the Google algorithms, pretty well along in implementation.
Those thing are already available here. We went on one of the people search sites and for a nominal fee you can search for info. They had social scores!!!!! So we checked out all our family members. Oh Lord, we are only Fair on whatever social scale they have decided upon. Not only that, but they had SO MUCH INCORRECT INFORMATION. Names not right, even photos not correct. Yes, they had photos…of other people. This is truly dystopian stuff.
OMG – you’re RIGHT about that. They’ve seeded those creepy “background check” sites with THE FACT of social credit ratings so that they can SELL THE IDEA IN GENERAL.
I wonder if that might be a real money-maker to go after those sites. Especially if they are IN ERROR. Presumably if you are “on the site” you are “using it with their permission”, but still.
Interesting thread, lots of prolific thought. Note though it’s not just about changing information but its about establishing enough data points to smart hubs to manipulate the present in order to shape the future and 5G is going to be able to turn your worse thoughts on such over to an automated processes requiring the least amount of input.
What’s a data point? A spot on a map. Something that can be sorted, plotted, and understood and hopefully allowing some amount of control over. Example, now your tracked by cars, phones, cameras, debit/cards, other access cards and more, many of which we might not recognize such as satellites and other sensors. Just sitting at home pecking away at your key board provides your location.
What’s a smart hub? A fair definition might be something that can monitor data points and manipulate a mechanical function to some degree. Some smart hubs are going to be exposed to the web of things and some are not or may need to be hacked physically or remotely in order to be manipulated.
With all these connections to the web of things, establishing someones social credit score becomes all the more likely and thus it becomes more likely that control can be asserted to modify behavior or take action against anti social behaviors.
Anti social behavior might be something as simple as you trying to raise your social status. ~Nope not going to let you get up that wrung of the ladder, too many up here now and you haven’t payed to play so we send you back ten steps because we can. Gives you six years of bad luck where everything you buy breaks down, gets lost or other wise not made available to you. This includes troubles with the rental at the air port, flight delayed, flight or car crashed if your so much a worry to me. You can let your mind run rampant here, if you can imagine it, it can happen.
So what’s the solution, try to drop out of sight? No. Its the same as always. Compete and help maintain even playing fields. Education, ethics and morals all practiced at the widest level possible (yes the belief in God). Sticking with the Constitution. Finding like minded capable leaders. Less ant mounds when they can’t be trusted and more ant hills. And an armed and knowledgeable citizenry that is capable of threatening tyranny.
Mind you that Hitlary was supposed to inherent 5G and all that it can control.
Socialist Media makes sense. Essentially, toe the “party line”, hard left, socialism… Toss conservatives.
With TW, FB, YT and other Socialism Media giving time outs and kicking folks out, I am likening it to China.
China grades its citizens on their behavior and penalizes them…through big brother watching cameras in public places, everyday events…
How long before TW, FB and the like share data among themselves and ban folks based on behavior on a different site? Demonetize without justification.
Socialist Media works in concert with MCM (Mind Control Media) on national level. CCN (Communist Control Network), on international scale.
Trudeau is starting to sound like Pelosi:
https://twitter.com/kbq225/status/1138304116470341634
Hope some Canadian mosquitoes bit him hundreds of times near that lake.
Have you ever wondered how many mosquitoes have crack and ice addictions now? And Ebola and hepatitis and hiv etc.
no you selfish humans only think of yourselves
he could’ve just said, we grab a glass out of the cupboard……..
All this needs is a loose eyebrow!
LMAO!!!
“Wisdom from Canada” is largely an oxymoron.
Rosie has a thread about how the Mueller Team worked to get their hands on ‘The Watergate Roadmap’ last year.
It had previously been under seal.
.
It’s not real long, but there is a Thread Reader for it:
This thread is incredibly important and deserves attention.
It also makes Matt Gaetz’s exchange with Dean a lot more vital. It wasn’t just for a good laugh. Gaetz had a point when he asked “How many presidents have you accused of being Richard Nixon?”
Deplorable Patriot
“Gaetz had a point when he asked “How many presidents have you accused of being Richard Nixon?”
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Interestingly Dean only fingered republicans not Democrats. Where was he when Obama was President or Clinton?
Dean is a tool and maybe he was a tool for the deep state all along.?
Was Nixon set up the way Trump was set up?
I believe that could be true. Especially now that we know the little we know about how we’ve been usurped and controlled for so long.
Was Nixon set up….IMHO, indubitably! And, do we not think POTUS and Q team are fully aware and prepared?
Exactly.
When I figured out that Nixon was set up, my mind was blown.
When I found out that STEFAN HALPER was in Nixon’s administration, right next to Ehrlichman, my mind was blown again.
I posted here several times that Watergate was the cabal’s roadmap, noting that the target was always PDJT’s reputation.
Establishing Crossfire Hurricane, setting Mueller in motion, the Mueller report and a constant barrage of news stories intended to gin up outrage at something PDJT has done are all designed to drive down PDJT’s approval ratings to the the point where his supporters abandon him. Once his ratings go low enough, so the hope goes, impeachment in the House makes PDJT ineffective and he quits.
PDJT did not just blunder into his job, as we are led to believe. Rather, he has studied Watergate; indeed he has discussed it several times with Nixon directly. He is prepared.
The Watergate model is a method of socialist control, for those who do not accept media discipline.
From the Thread Reader:
9- To them, the key is accessing grand jury material, which in watergate was done by Congress, by way of the judges handling Special prosecutions. Their are glaring differences between the two cases that even Wittes points out BUT they claim “precedent”
This explains Nadler’s insistence on AG Barr giving them the redadcted portions of the Mueller report that include grand jury material, even though it is against the law for Barr to do so. Nadler is desperately following the Watergate Roadmap. Instead of seeking the truth in this case, he is seeking ways to take down Pres. Trump. This needs to be publicized far and wide.
by Pawel Kuczynski ~ Polish (b. 1976) ~ Contemporary ~ Graphic Designer/ Political Art : Satire
just 3 of many.
more, here….
https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Pawel.Kuczynski
🙂
* don’t know what his politics are but I appreciate his satire skills.
🙂
Those are great…thanks, Smiley.
I went to his site and fell in.
Got lost looking through his work.
He is a rather prolific artist, isn’t he.
It mentioned that he graduated college in Poland…so I guess he’s Polish?
There is a sort of Euro perspective that is detectable in his work.
yes…I mentioned that he’s Polish up there by his name..,and birth date…very prolific…has a real gift for satire…and illustration skills…potent combination.
love his work…thought-provoking.
Ah…heheh, yes I see that you did.
*facepalm* 🤦♀️
Sorry, I passed right over that and went straight to the link.
no problem…it’s very early…you’re very busy.
I’m like you, Wheatie, fall into sites like that. My take is that he is right leaning – and is pointing out the dangers of technology – computers and that “social media” being talked about in this thread. He seems to be a lover of books, as they’re a common theme in the pictures – noting that knowledge is to be found in the books, but only sameness in the ‘net.
Did you see the Robin Hood pic with all the rooftops and their antennae? “Alone” – I think technology has harmed, broken the bonds of society. We now have a whole generation of young people who live their lives through a screen, and not interacting with people. Or writing or reading in depth. Soundbites, brief vids, and headlines make up their lives.
Interesting how scrolling over each picture transposes to another – the art piece as displayed on the wall in a room.
Very talented artist, in more ways than one.
Okay Zuckerbook has now banned the word HONK. Good LORD!
It’s not just censorship of IDEAS but our very LANGUAGE is being altered by these commies. (Y’all seem to be partial to the term “socialist” but these aren’t mere socialists – they’re straight up communists!)
and “they’ve” waited til everybody’s hooked on the technology and the social connections before really cracking down on all of this…
it will get worse.
like ppl struggling in straight jackets trying to break free.
too late.
ugh…
like addicts.
social media obsession is like an addiction.
YOU CAN QUIT
😀
Smiley…speaking of quitting…how are you doing with the smoking cessation effort?
almost 100 days…in another day or so it will be 100 days. 😀
smiley2
“like addicts.
social media obsession is like an addiction.”
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We can free ourselves if we choose.
yes.
it’s a choice.
I am not on Facebook at all now. I use Twitter as a formatting device. I use Gab as a safety device.
THIS RIGHT HERE IS OUR SOCIAL MEDIA – and they HATE US FOR IT.
hi Wolf…I just joined over at gab recently in order to connect w/ anyone here due to the recent OT drama…but Gab is the only social media connection I “use”…and I still don’t really use it…
just way too public for me…
never did FB or Instagram…or even Twitter.
my sarcastic self would then begin using ‘KNOH’ or ‘H8MK’
Fahrenheit 451 anyone?
What crime did “honk” commit?
Seriously, did FB splain the problem with “honk”.
It’s interesting Who twitter pushes for people to follow:
I like this reply:
https://twitter.com/tyrant_tweet/status/1138320052858392576
That’s why we have a scroll wheel, right?
Here I sit alone at last,
The facebook ads I scroll on past…..
POTUS tweets:
I think that our bird is a lot more powerful than their bird…just sayin’.
LOVE IT!!!
May I publicize in a tweet?
Certainly you may. Here is a version where the Twit is running away…not sure which is better…
just a thought…many of us remember…
🙂 <3
which also cultivated the art of waiting…of anticipating….
and an appreciation for receiving.
and giving.
Still have letters from our son when he was in boot camp, and he still has ours. Meant a lot to him.
BAM
“Still have letters from our son when he was in boot camp, and he still has ours. Meant a lot to him.”
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My husband and I were Pen Perls for three years . When we began writing letters (he began) I was 16 he was 19. He still has all those letters 🙂
Same here. I still have letters from when my soon-to-be-husband was deployed overseas. I cringe at some of what I wrote, but youth..
I still write letters! it’s so much more intimate than email imo
patfrederick
“I still write letters! it’s so much more intimate than email imo”
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I wrote letters as long as my grandmothers were alive. Now I get card from my grandaughter.
I have written letters to family members to be delivered after i pass…I update them from time to time, but I view them as a last hug from me…
that is incredibly sweet and so very thoughtful….
I will have to borrow that idea patfrederick.
Yes. Went looking for stationary for my nephew for a gift. Good luck finding anything reasonably priced, especially personalized. I use my personalized foldovers for everything that calls for a handwritten note. Even that level of manners is falling by the wayside. Sickening.
Nowadays, a personal email not all in the Subject is something. B/c txt.
I spent hour after hour working on my cursive. Texting for anything other than avoiding a phone call in non-emergencies is just…. Yeah, no.
Of course, that’s just me, and how I was raised.
Had it with firefox, just installed Brave on my tablet. Seems to be fine, and no ads. Put it on my desktop a couple of weeks ago too.
My take on this is that one should be truthful and open.
James Woods spoke for himself – no avatar. He got banned. The world has taken note WHO got banned, and WHAT FOR. There will be more. If they are recognised as real people – the crime of banning is NOTICED more effectively. Also, you are now accountable for your OWN speech. This is FREE speech. Speech from behind an avatar – well who knows who actually said that. Does the speaker really mean it, or is there some other hidden agenda?
I am not accusing anyone here of anything. I am not broadcasting the blogs that I comment on to people that know me – I get the point behind anonymity. But it does change what you say, because you – the person – is not accountable.
My face and real name (partial) is on display. Over time my full name will be known as a result of my blog. I will have real skin in the game. I will be standing behind my own words – both good and bad. I may live to regret it, but if I don’t DO what I believe, then what am I?
Just my 2c worth, fortunately allowed in a free speech forum …. 🙂
Anyone here who has followed what I have written can find out who I really am, because I have led them there. 🙂
I am a real person. I am a professional genealogist, and I deal with people online as my real self in that line of work.
I’m sure Wolf knows who I am.
You’re wrong. Pseudonyms like mine are well known on the political blogosphere. My legal name is irrelevant to what I put out there – it’s an opinion and is nothing more or nothing less. As far as facts go, what I post I try to link to the source; otherwise I say IIRC or something similar.
I’d like to think that my stated facts are almost always true & accurate. Whether that is right or not is open to flaming or slobbering.
What’s going on?
No idea – ozzytrumpster seems to know something about it ….
dunno, but wanted to thank you for the thread yesterday! i do so love your commentary!!!!
He claims the government is after him again and he’s on the run. This has been going on since he sold the software company. (No, he has no control over the anti-virus product that bears his name any longer.) Either the guy is a serious attention whore, or he has some material information that can be used as evidence in a court of law. That’s my guess, anyway, otherwise why pursue somebody that nuts?
BTW, he did actually put information out about the people he claimed were after him. Now, he’s threatening to name congress critters who are corrupt and need to be recalled.
A complete dossier on each of us can be assembled easily, or has been already, including the most intimate biological and psychological information, as well as all the facts relating to our daily lives. The circumstances have already happened, and it cannot be undone.
It is only a question of who has access, and IMO it is reasonable to assume the worst.
It is prudent to take reasonable steps to limit the exposure of additional information, but really it is just a matter of trying to limit the degree of access. Obama and the government are a done deal, but maybe we can keep away an additional private fact which may favorably tip the balance in some unknown algorithm, or deprive a random nut case from finding us. But it is all over, and it is just a question of whether whatever is intended for the information will happen.
The communists are daring us to try to destroy them. They see it as a no lose situation. By using our privacy against us, they are reaching into the deepest parts of our psychology and asking us, what are you going to do about it?
And whatever our answer is, as they see it, they win.
They THINK they win, but they cannot, by definition. They may win battles, as they have in recent decades, but they cannot win the war. The ideology is self defeating in the long run. Nature selects against it. By that I mean to say is that God’s Law makes it impossible for communism to win – it burns itself out like a virulent disease.
China have morphed into a mixed system – this just delays the inevitable a bit. Xi being chairman for life signals the end is in sight – they are reverting back to true form.
This is the time to take them on in the ideas front – the West has enough “Christian memory” to turn the tide. The Jordan Peterson phenomenon demonstrates this clearly. Peterson seems unable to carry the message to the end, but he is serving a vital function in re-introducing 20-30 somethings to the importance of the Bible …
This is part of why I keep a paper calendar, and post mostly junk on the only social media account where I do post, and that is basically the one I use to keep in touch with family and friends. Photos are always posted hours after they were taken, not at the venue or event. I’m a little paranoid about that. All of my passwords are different.
Once all medical records were in a single database, and payrolls are all done with software that links up SSNs to bank accounts, etc., everything is open to being found. Everything. You can pay with cash, but that doesn’t hide income.
And we had no say over any of this.
Hi DP – newbie here. I am not sure if your “social media” account is facebook or not but if it is – it is my understanding that photos posted there become “kind of” the property of facebook. This may be true for the other social media accounts too. I only belong to facebook. Another interesting thing is that you are subject to the two hop rule. If you or any of your friends play games on facebook, your e-mail address book and everyone of your e-mail “friends” address book and their “friends” address book can be used and linked by facebook for whatever purposes they deem appropriate.
It is a good idea to “like” one or more of the police pages such as Law Enforcement Today (I have several) that will help keep you up to date on what is really going on in the world today. Who knew that placing the little figures on the back of your van (father, mother, 3 children and a dog) was an advertisement to predators?
Just an FYI – do your own homework, don’t take my word for it. Facebook and probably other social media accounts depend on the fact that no one reads the agreement that you are making.
“Who knew that placing the little figures on the back of your van (father, mother, 3 children and a dog) was an advertisement to predators?”
Yes, I have always thought that. The same with people who place a big stork in their yard to announce the birth of a baby. Information is power, and I think we give up way too much of it.
Here is an article from 2011………
Seems correct….
https://www.globalresearch.ca/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-facebook-google-and-other-social-media-used-to-spy-on-people/5606170
Yup. Don’t forget some grocery stores push extreme loss leaders in order to get people’s e-mails. “We don’t track people individually” doesn’t mean that it can’t be done.
Our laws already embody the notion that we have a property right in our reputation, but in practice we can only defend this right when we can place a monetary value on it. I would carry this further, relying on the notion that we have a property right in our privacy.
There is a group of people propounding a “Convention of States” that hopes to modify our Constitution, through a state by state debate process. Mark Levin has proposed, by way of example, to place in the Constitution the requirement that no bill may be voted on in Congress unless is has been engrossed for 30 days in order to kill off these “we have to pass it to find out what is in it” bills.
My idea, which admittedly has not been fully fleshed out, is to incorporate into the Constitution the notion that we have a property right in any information that can be used to identify us individually. Some mechanism would need to be provided to bypass the monetary value problem so as to allow us to protect this information even if we cannot show it is worth a lot of money (perhaps by placing a large arbitrary value on all information – any information is worth at least $1 million – and by requiring a loser pays rule for legal fees). My hope would be to create a massive incentive for all the private parties who now have information about us to protect it and to enable us to have a say in how it is used.
I received a very nice thank you card from our lovely First Lady for the birthday card I sent her. Don’t forget POTUS’s birthday is this Friday!
Wow, nice touch from FLOTUS.
it was…every time we send a card to the White House, we get a card back…can’t say that’s protocol cuz I never sent anything to the WH before President Trump came along. 😀