Dear KMAG: 20191028 Open Topic

This Merry Warrior Monday 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/KMAG/KAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

Yes, it’s Monday…again.

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But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.

Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. But please keep it civil.
Discussion of Q is not only allowed but encouraged. Imagine that! We can talk about Q here and not get banned.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.

Remember…your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

TrumpWalkingWaving

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from Ivan Torrent, titled ‘Moonriser’:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Wy5-C4GZs&w=640&h=360]

Since Halloween is upon us, how about some ‘All You Zombies’, by The Hooters:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I&w=640&h=360]

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Best of luck with your pumpkin carving!

But it’s not a good idea to put your head in a pumpkin:

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michaelh

And once again…
KABOOM!!!
101ST Field Artillery Boston Pops 1812 Overture

pgroup

Let’s just call today Suddenly Serious Sunday.
Shock & Awe, courtesy of US Special Forces. (The Sanitation Engineers of the Middle East)

bakocarl

The Times They Are A-Changin’
Come gather ‘round people
Wherever your home,
And admit that our country
Is corrupt to the bone.
And accept it that soon,
From the old to the youth,
We’ll be put on the road
From lies to the truth,
‘Cause the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics
Who spin with your pen,
And write to an agenda
To deceive all good men.
You have a chance now
To write truth and facts.
You’d better change soon
Or you’ll never come back,
‘Cause the times they are a-changin’.
Come senators, congressmen
You must heed the call
To work for the people
And not the cabal.
There’s a battle here now
To do what is right
For our great nation
To remove the blight,
‘Cause the times they are a-changin’.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land,
Choose Light over darkness
For Truth make your stand.
You sons and you daughters
Make your solemn vow,
For yours is the future,
Choose Life or death now,
‘Cause the times they are a-changin’.
The line it is drawn
With good on this side,
Standing with truth,
And we must now decide
For justice and liberty
And freedom for all,
And listen to hear
The patriot’s clear call,
‘Cause the times they are a-changin’.

scott467

I can’t even read that without hearing Bob Dylan’s voice.
Or Peter, Paul & Mary’s 😁

ForGodandCountry

Carl, It’s long been believed that some great music paired with objectionable-to-crappy lyrics could be redeemed by a great writer, most particularly music that glorifies evil. You are that writer.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to discard the lyrics from the following song and create new ones that redeem it for posterity. The song is
Hell’s Bells by AC/DC
As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck.

GA/FL

Bet you could do a lot with this one, Bako Carl!

ForGodandCountry

We need a name for the Monday bear. He or she is just too awesome not to have one!comment image
Please submit your nomination. We’ll have a board vote to follow if this idea meets with everyone’s approval.

Gudthots

I should have worn a bib to the all-you-can eat seal buffet.

ForGodandCountry

Ha!

Gudthots

Okay, I read your invitation wrong, I thought you wanted captions, not a name… Hipster?

ForGodandCountry

Oh snap! A caption competition to boot? Heck yeah!! 👍😁

TheseTruths

1. Bjorn
Language(s) Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Dutch, German, Finnish
Meaning Bear
Region of origin Germanic
Bjorn (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, German, and Hungarian), Bjørn (Faroese, Norwegian, and Danish), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Germanic male given name, or less often a surname. The name means “bear” (the animal). In Finnish and Finland Swedish, sometimes also in Swedish, the nickname Nalle (“teddy bear”) refers to Björn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjorn
2. Ursa = bear in Latin
3. Chilly Willy 🙄

ForGodandCountry

Great!!

cthulhu

I’m thinking that could be Makinit, our Monday bear…….because he’s bear-ly makin’ it.

gil00

Very pseudo Inuit. Not bad.

ForGodandCountry

Very strong early candidate.

pgroup

“Okay, I’ve crawled on my belly for you. Can we cuddle now?”

michaelh

Kan I pls haz sum uv dat globul wurming?

gil00

"Watch this, I’m a torpedo!"
by in AnimalsBeingDerps

scott467

There are a couple good ones at that link:
[video src="https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AcademicImpressiveFantail-mobile.mp4" /]

scott467

I hate WP, by the way.
No idea where the brackets came from. If you copy the web address and post in in the address bar of any web browser, it works just fine, I tested it.
But post in WP?
Nooooooooooooooooooo…
Not a chance.

ForGodandCountry

“Lemme show you how I creep ‘n peep”

trumpismine

Chin-chilla

patfrederick

I’d call him Berg…he looks like an ice berg to me…
my caption…”GRETA! Can I get up now?”

daughnworks247

“Fred” the Monday Bear.
Fred is a good name for Monday Bear.

Deplorable Patriot

Fred…does it have to be a boy? I mean, it’s Monday, meaning “moon day”. Luna works…better for a bear than a little girl, IMO, of course.
What was Magellan’s first name? Ferdinand. Hmmm.

rayzorbak

Fred Bear?

Katie

Scooter.

Katie

Or Slider.

ozzytrumpster

Oooh

jamcooker

Hmmmm curiouser and curiouser.

kinthenorthwest

Boy the liberal crazies are out there attacking anything and everything that looks conservative. Common denominator is that most of the people making the worse statements have less than 50 followers, some even less than 10 after 4 to 10 years as a twitter member. Had to step away for a while before I did something I knew would get me suspended.
Do my best to keep these words in my head…My family all the way back to the revolution has made too many sacrifices for our country for any of us to let it go to the hands of the crazy liberals.
I give my words that I will not forget that dark September day….”
Dear America, no I won’t forget the families who hold a photograph and a thousand vivid memories and a neatly folded flag

ForGodandCountry

“Boy the liberal crazies are out there attacking anything and everything…”
It goes by many names, but this is what “panic” and “desperation” does.
The political left is on the verge of a generational ideological destruction and they know it.

kinthenorthwest

I can usually tell its a good day for America and Trump due to liberal trolls.

ozzytrumpster

The grizzly is grizzly by name and nature. It’s an albino , keeps getting darted and dumped in the Arctic by well meaning fools

ozzytrumpster

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gil00

Bwahahaha!🤤😆😆😆😆

ForGodandCountry

Now THAT is spicy!!comment image

Gudthots

Parody account?

pgroup

Yes. Note the mis-spelling of the last name.

ozzytrumpster
kinthenorthwest

Its FB–but I don’t understand it enough to want to repost it some other way.

andyocoregon

It’s Punkin’ Porncomment image

ForGodandCountry

Wait…..did they use a small cake or muffin tin to paint around and create the ball gag??
True brilliance is found in the small details.

ozzytrumpster

Whatever gets you out of cutting pumpkins up

Sadie Slays

UPDATE: Sidney Powell doesn’t believe the recent report that Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe were having an affair:

OANN hasn’t retracted the claim (yet).

Sadie Slays

And then there’s the whole question of why OANN reported this in the first place. Genuine mistake? A signal? Trying to make some swamp rats squirm? It is weird how this bombshell came out of nowhere.

michaelh

I am really good with knowing that at least Lisa has SOME standards.

ForGodandCountry

I knew it! Too good to be true.

andyocoregon

Did a search but found nothing about it on OANN.com.

Sadie Slays

Here’s the video. The Page/McCabe thing starts around 1:50.

Deplorable Patriot

I never believed it, either. Neither marriage broke up. That’s usually a pretty good indicator if your last name isn’t Clinton.

GA/FL

I’m willing to give OANN a mistake now and then.
CNN however, continually lies and fabricates….remember their fake rally and Anderson Cooper kneeling in the water… and how they tried to heroize the kid that stormed the Trump campaign stage in Ohio in 2016? CNN gets no more mulligans.

Sadie Slays

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1188637878760411137
That was my read on it, too. DC is surrounded by super Democrat Maryland suburbs and swampiest of swamps Northern Virginia. The President had to have expected that reaction.

ForGodandCountry

See my post above about true brilliance being found in the details.
Speaking to your point, Sadie….
PDJT approves a mission to take out Bagdooshie a week ago then he announces it’s success…it just so happens….on the day he goes in front of a known and rabid leftist crowd to be boo’d in a broadcast watched by who knows how many tens of millions around the world.
Coincidence? With THIS President??

ozzytrumpster

And the trump curse kicks in and they lose. Bwahahahah

Gudthots

I’m sure it’s TW now.

daughnworks247

Houston Pitcher wearing #45!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GA/FL

BETCHA – there was a small group of hired boo-ers being projected by loud speakers.
BET THE BOOS WERE FAKED!!!

GA/FL

The left fakes everything.
Fake news, fake women/men, fake indians, fake everything.

GA/FL

Maybe that’s why Huber is working offsite. Where is Durham working?

GA/FL

Heheheh……

Sadie Slays

ForGodandCountry

Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly love this man anymore than I already do, he has to go and do this.
😎

pgroup

Six years ago.

ozzytrumpster

You gotta man crush? In a completely heterosexual way of course

Gudthots

By the way, WordPress wanted me to read the terms of service again when I logged in the last time. I was scrolling through it and found a link that said something like,
“wow, you are still reading this? … here’s a treat:”
https://wordpress.com/tos/treat

ozzytrumpster

I’m gobsmacked

🦋🦋bflyjesusgrl🦋🦋
patfrederick

like big old dogs who still think they’re little lap puppies…LOL

daughnworks247

She got snuggled by the baby!!!

Deplorable Patriot

Babies of any mammalian species are babies. When they are that little they want and NEED a lot of body contact.

nikkichico7

Awwww … I love this .. 😍👍❤️ ..

prairie123

Oh my goodness! This just made my day!!! How adorable, but that poor woman probably is now looking forward to a hot clean shower!

gil00

One of Katie Hill’s challengers.

TheseTruths

That was great!

ForGodandCountry

Yes. Yes it was! 😎

andyocoregon

Would love to hear Nancy Pelosi’s house went up in flames. Yeah, I dislike her that much.

ozzytrumpster

Be better if she was in it. She’s such a drunk they could pour water on it for a month before the flames went out

ozzytrumpster

People having to pay tolls in the middle of a fire. I guess the Democrats really want California to be hell on earth.

ozzytrumpster

This is from difi. The old hat with the 30year tenure of a Chinese spycomment image

andyocoregon

I’d like to see him reply by simply saying….
“We urge you to resign”.

michaelh

^ Exactly. Very rich coming from her to demand a recusal, when she’s neck deep in it herself, and her reasons for demanding recusal are transparently self-serving. It’d be easy to say she’s a hypocrite but this has gone FAR beyond that point…

scott467

Right Off. 👍

ForGodandCountry

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Concerned Virginian

RE AG Barr:
AND the man plays a mean set of bagpipes!
Bagpipers DO NOT CARE what you think.
That means you, Sen Feinstein et al.

ForGodandCountry

(insert Barr water bottle “Meh” gif here)

ForGodandCountry

Uh! NOW it shows up. Smh

ozzytrumpster

Lol

scott467

“This is from difi. The old hat with the 30year tenure of a Chinese spy”
________________
Shirley you meant old ‘bat’…

ozzytrumpster

I did. Don’t call me Shirley

scott467

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up homophones.

ozzytrumpster

Looks like I picked the wrong week to Match wits

scott467

😁

ozzytrumpster

Looks like I picked the wrong week to Match wits
Re tit for tat. It can be incredibly destructive ie ira and Britain
And I can be hijacked and become incredibly debilitating to both sides when there’s a secret third player making both sides think the other is betraying.
I think this is what has been happening with the cartels and what happened to isis.

nikkichico7

The old crone can pound sand in hell .. 🤨🤚‼️

ozzytrumpster

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ForGodandCountry

Yeah….not gonna post what he said here. Unreal.

scott467

Yep, he is.
Still, it’s strange to read that whole series of tweets, and then see Wayne Dupree say: “This vulgar, racist man should lose his Twitter account over this.”
Followed immediately by:
“Attn: Wayne Dupree is a free speech champion who works tirelessly to bring you news that the mainstream media ignores…”
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Yes it’s vulgar, crude, possibly rayciss and definitely in poor taste.
But this whole idea of silencing people we disagree with is playing right into the enemy’s hands.
As long as the Left uses a double-standard, then we need to hold them to their own rules (which we can’t, all we can do is flip the “I’m so outraged!” switch), so I understand Wayne’s point, in which case Tom Arnold should be banned, according to Twitter’s current rules and enforcement.
In a normal world, or after the war is over, it would be better to leave it up, and then let everyone destroy him.
The answer to speech we don’t like being better speech, as opposed to banning.

daughnworks247

Okay, I read what he said.
The response from Diamond and Silk would have BROKEN records on Pay per View!!!!!!
Would have been better than their response to Megyn Kelly after the first debate!
They need to do a response.

Deplorable Patriot

Umm, if that isn’t racist, what is?

andyocoregon

If he’s not banned from twitter for this it will be excellent evidence of twitter bias for liberals and against conservatives.

ozzytrumpster

bakr-al-baghdadi-leader-isis-targeted-u-s-raid-n1072506
Sending condolences to Reps. Omar and Tlaib. Sorry for your loss.

ozzytrumpster

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Deplorable Patriot

Due to a weird “right turn” storm with hurricane strength straight line winds, over half this region was out for days. I mean days. My ‘hood was out about 48 hours, just long enough to force a complete clean out of the fridge. Literally, people were asking “got power”?
I feel bad for CA, really. There’s no excuse for a lot of what’s happening out there.

gil00

No theres no excuse DP. I just posted a twit unrolled thread on the next page but its short enough to get the idea. I think this is wherevthe feds can come in to investigate the CPUC. It will require some leadership changes for cooperation first.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1188466346675167232.html

ozzytrumpster

I’m all oils. Energy weapons ,which burn houses and leave the trees and shrubbery untouched require power. Shutting down the grid might be preemptive

ozzytrumpster

Supposed to say suspicious cat? Wtf?

andyocoregon

Yep, that’s about how shallow many young women are. But thank God for easy lays. How else could young men find entertainment?

ozzytrumpster

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andyocoregon

And to think all it took to wake them up was having their electricity shut off and their houses burn down.

ozzytrumpster

Ffs. Should have done it years ago

ozzytrumpster

Problem solving. The democrap way
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New York Post [bot] News @NYPost@mastodon.cloud
NYC homeless initiative sends people across US — without telling receiving cities https://trib.al/QjBHq1r
Original Tweet:

ozzytrumpster

Chinese and birth tourism. Quite a cottage industry.
The real reason, money laundering.

Not surprising with Communist rule with lack of property rights.
Also getting around 2 child policy.

GA/FL

More likely a Chinese Communist plot to get spies into USA.

ozzytrumpster

Yep. With American citizenship

ozzytrumpster

“In every instance in which the United States government gives another country something, whether it be military supply or it be food, there better dadgum well be a quid pro quo,” said @RepMoBrooks. https://trib.al/l0C9Tjr
Original Tweet:

cthulhu

Absolutely right! Otherwise, it’s just Federal politicians p***ing away taxpayer dollars as fast as they can.

ozzytrumpster

Meghan McCain, spoiled clueless brat, opens her mouth again.
From Harold Finch in The Library on Telegram :
Your dad helped build ISIS. Your dad through the Senate Armed Services committee arranged USG funding of ISIS, & worked w Hillary’s state dept to arm them.
Spare uscomment image

patfrederick

puke

nikkichico7

… 🤢👍 …

ozzytrumpster

This is the way to do itcomment image

patfrederick

RIGHT ON…
I don’t believe that POS was in any bag…

Gudthots

That thing making the rounds yesterday…
https://twitter.com/40_head/status/1188672978914955269

ozzytrumpster

Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic
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It’s bizarre that entertainers think they are the only ones who understand the cost of military action.
Take D-Day.
We killed 20,000 French civilians.
Why?
Because there was no other choice, and we didn’t do it deliberately.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic
We freed all of Europe. Millions of people.
Would it have been more moral to NOT free Europe, since innocent civilians were going to die?
George Orwell said that most pacifists oppose war, and that’s as far as their thinking goes.
I see that all the time. Well, when your national security is threatened, sometimes you have to go to war.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic
The raid on Baghdadi showed what’s possible with today’s weapons.
There was nothing left of the house and multiple vehicles, but no nearby civilians were harmed.
Did you know that the Geneva Conventions allow for civilian casualties?
The only prohibitions are on disproportionality and on indiscriminate attacks.
You can’t blow up a city to get one man, and you can’t use weapons like artillery on civilian centers.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic
Assad, Putin, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Iranians routinely commit unambiguous war crimes, but the world’s press and “human rights” organizations don’t care.
Orwell said that lots of pacifists oppose war only when it’s waged in defense of western democracies.
He wrote that in 1949.
Imagine if he were alive today. He’d be stunned.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic
The Third Revolution in Military Affairs allows for major conflict that doesn’t produce collateral damage.
And Trump is helping by using American economic leverage.
War is becoming obsolete.
But that’s only because incredible new weapons were invented.
After World War One, everybody disarmed. Because of that, nobody could stop the Japanese and the Nazis.
At first. And here’s the hell of it:
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic
The Japanese had the worst weapons in World War Two, and they squandered the lives of their men.
The Germans, on the other hand, built ridiculously over-machined weapons, and THEY squandered the lives of their men.
If the Allies had had well-trained and well-equipped armed forces in 1939, World War Two may not have even happened.
I’m a realist. We need well-equipped armed forces. Period.
“Books, not bombs!”
Shut up, fatty.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic
I think of all the American men who went into both world wars with terrible training and lousy equipment.
In the first battle that the Americans fought in World War One, our men fell in rows, cut down by machine guns.
Each wave died.
In World War Two, we had aircraft that were like flying coffins.
That’s because of “Books, not bombs!”
Trump has the right idea. Keep everybody off guard.
Oh, and there’s another thing.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic
After we briefed French army intelligence about our plans in Iraq, they passed the information to Saddam Hussein.
In Mogadishu, the Italians passed intelligence to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
Why don’t old-school military people like James Mattis ever talk about THAT?
Our best allies are the Saudis. Not the Europeans.
Trump plays his cards close to the vest because it SAVES AMERICAN LIVES.
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Thomas Wictor
@ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
As a military historian, I’d love to know what’s REALLY going on in the Middle East.
But I don’t mind being kept in the dark.
It’s for the best.
END

ForGodandCountry

I’m struggling to think of a time when he wasn’t spot on and I’ve got nothing.

ForGodandCountry

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GA/FL

ALL of Europe’s leaders and intelligence people have showed they are not reliable and trustworthy.
The UK and possibly the EU were also likely involved in the coup against our President.
The UK has gone soft, socialist and Islamonazi as if they had been conquered and occupied.
The Yanks beat them twice in 1776 and 1812, saved them twice WWI and WWII.
The UK and EU are going to have to resolve to save themselves now. Rise up and vote out anyone and anything that does not pertain to your constitutions, that doesn’t protect your citizens’ rights and values, your economies, jobs and needs, and get the rest – the barbarians and conflicting supremacist ideologies out of your country.

ozzytrumpster

And if necessary go full Viking

scott467

Except we never go full Viking, i.e., ‘everybody storms the castle together’.
At best, all that ever happens is Long Wolf, while everybody on his own side disowns him, calls the cops on him and convicts him at trial.
Because we’re ‘law abiding’ to a fault.
We’re not like the people who fight to win by whatever means necessary… which means we’re easy. We’re pushovers, easy targets for anyone willing to ignore the law.
We’d rather lose to traitors and cheaters and become slaves, so long as we are able to pat ourselves on the back for playing by the rules. Rules which the subversive enemy has changed to their own advantage, and then they still don’t play by them anyway.
But we do.
I’ll never understand that, and nobody can explain it to me.

scott467

edit / correction: I have never been able to understand that (I’d like to), and nobody ever even tries to explain it to me.

ozzytrumpster

Eventually the dam bursts. Then things get really ugly. Think death camps, killing fields. Make people angry enough, cheat them enough,deny them due process enough and they throw the law books out.
Even though it’s already illegal dems had to pass an antilynching law.
When shit gets real it will be our side that needs management. I think this is another reason for the slow reveal.

scott467

I’ve got it.
Thanks to your post about “Prisoner Dilemma / Tit for Tat” in the ISIS thread.
It has always been just outside my ability to articulate, resulting in ‘screaming into the void’, and now it’s not, thanks to being able to make application of ‘tit for tat’ game theory.
Relevant excerpt from the link you posted:
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https://web.archive.org/web/20060615011001/http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/02/fog0000000350.shtml
When Tit-for-tat plays against itself, it plays fair for the entire game and maximizes output. When it plays against anyone who tosses in some cheating, it punishes it by cheating back and reduces the other guys unfair winnings.
No-one has ever found a way of defeating it.
Now let’s analyze two different and even more simplistic approaches; we’ll call them “saint” and “sinner”. The saint plays fair every single round, irrespective of what the other guy does. The sinner always cheats.
When a saint plays against another saint, or against tit-for-tat, the result is optimum but more important is that everyone gets the same result. When a sinner plays against another sinner, or against tit-for-tat, everyone cheats and the result is still even, though less than optimal.
But when a sinner plays against a saint, the sinner wins and the saint loses.
Which brings me back to the point of all this: Is there anything I would rule out in war? Nothing I’d care to admit to my enemies, because ruling out anything is a “saint” tactic. The Tit-for-tat tactic is to be prepared to do anything, but not to do so spontaneously. In other words, if the other guy threatens to use poison gas, you make sure you have some of your own and let him know that you’ll retaliate with it. That means that he has nothing to win by using it, and he won’t. (A war is a sequence game and not a single transaction because each day is a new exchange. If you gassed my guys yesterday, I can gas yours today.)
I chose that example carefully because that’s actually what happened in WWII in Europe. After the horror of poison gas in WWI, the world agreed to ban its use in one of the Geneva Conventions, and in fact no-one did use poison gas in Europe in WWII. Not even Hitler, who apparently knew no bounds at all, was willing to. Because he was following international law? Hell no. It was because the Americans and British maintained stocks of poison gas in Europe and were ready to retaliate in kind. (In fact, an American ship carrying 100 tons of mustard gas was sunk by a German air attack in the Italian harbor of Bari in December of 1943.)
And so it is here. No, I cannot promise ahead of time that my nation will not bomb innocents, or use terrorism, or torture, or poison gas, or bio weapons, or nuke, nor in fact can I exclude anything. If I do, then I am adopting a “saint” strategy and leave myself wide open for the use of such tactics against my own side by an opposing sinner. Only by being willing to do those kinds of things myself can I deter their use against me.
I believe that my nation must adopt tit-for-tat instead of using saint tactics, because it is much better. But for that to work, I have to be willing to be as dirty as he is, if he forces me to be.
This is the theoretical basis for such aphorisms as “To get peace, you must prepare for war.” That means that your nation is prepared to use tit-for-tat. The pacifist idea of publicly pledging to never go to war, or to never use a particular tactic in that war, is instead a saint strategy, and it results in disaster.
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This is the problem.
Our side, the Conservative side, insists on playing the role of ‘saints’.
The other side, the Left, revels and glorifies in playing the role of ‘sinners’.
According to ‘tit for tat’ Game Theory — which I remind everyone, “No-one has ever found a way of defeating it” — if we play ‘saint’ to the Left’s ‘sinner’, we will always lose, and they will always win.
It’s the only possible outcome.
The only reason we’re not STILL losing right now, is because DJT understands ‘tit for tat’, and he is beating them senseless because he understands it.
As posted by Ozzy, from John Schulien’s thread: https://social.quodverum.com/@Johnschulien/102758226656183804
THANK YOU Ozzy!
This infuriating situation has been eating at me for YEARS, and I could never explain it in a way that broke through the noise, beyond “we can’t keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result”.
This ‘tit for tat’ Game Theory explains the problem almost perfectly.
It explains WHY we can NEVER win, doing it the way we’ve been doing it.
We’ve always known it. Marquess of Queensberry ALWAYS loses to the guy who’s willing to kick you in the nuts.
Now we have a written ‘proof’.
Game Theory: Tit for Tat.
THANK YOU!!! 😁 👍

Aubergine

I agree with you, Scott.
Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, should be off the table when at war with evil.

ozzytrumpster

Game theory can be dry as dust mathematical theory( like making your eyes and brain bleed). But if you skip that shit and get to the results you’ll have an epiphany.
I posted about it a long time ago saying Potus has been using it for years as well as the art of war. It makes him almost unbeatable. Also a great ally. Think that pa who was kicked for leaking to the press, Madeline someone. The dis she showed to ivanka etc were such as warranted a severe punishment but he didn’t want her prosecuted etc.Doomed spy? Don’t worry, eventually they’ll suss you out but I got your back.

rayzorbak

How did WE Americans Defeat the British in the Revolutionary war?
Militia tactics against those idiots marching in rows by some “Rules” of war.

rayzorbak

Way to win a War = KILLING enemies and blowing shit up!

scott467

“The UK has gone soft, socialist and Islamonazi as if they had been conquered and occupied.”
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But no more so (or less so) than we did.
I’m sure you and I didn’t go soft on socialism or islam!
The only reason we don’t have the islam problem to the same degree as Europe is because we’re further away. Hussein certainly gave it his best shot, and nobody here did SQUAT to stop him.
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“The UK and EU are going to have to resolve to save themselves now. Rise up and vote out anyone and anything that does not pertain to your constitutions, that doesn’t protect your citizens’ rights and values, your economies, jobs and needs, and get the rest…”
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Are their elections any less rigged than ours have been for the past 30+ years?
When elections are rigged, it’s not possible to vote out the crooks.
For an analogy, think of the old Chicago mob. Lots of the cops are crooked, and the state and local government is DEFINITELY crooked. What chance do the People of Chicago have to vote out the crooks? They’re still trying to find the answer to that question, all these years later.
It is true that, somehow, in 2016, we miraculously overcame the widespread voter fraud of the Left.
We still don’t know how that happened, but we give ourselves credit anyway.
I think we’ll find out, eventually, that we had some non-conventional help to suppress voter fraud, or we wouldn’t have won.
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I agree that they have to do it, I just don’t know how they can, any more than we could, absent the ‘X’ factor.
This is why corrupt government is so dangerous.
Government has all the power of force (intimidation, arrest, prosecution, incarceration, execution) and surveillance, and money, and manpower at its disposal.
If government is corrupt, if government is using technology and intimidation and propaganda to suppress and manipulate the vote, such that a super-majority would be required to overcome it, and THEN the government engages in massive voter fraud on top of it all, then what chance do the People have?
I have the exact same frustration as you expressed, with all of it.
I just don’t see how ‘voting’ is the answer, if the entire system, including the vote, is rigged.
And it is.
And we know exactly how demoralizing it is to get everyone motivated to vote, and they DO vote, and yet we lose anyway because the vote is rigged, and then we all attack each other for not getting out the vote.
What if we DID win, what if we HAVE BEEN winning, what if we actually WON most of the elections for the last 30+ years — except we didn’t, due to voter fraud at the state and local level, and ‘The Splitter Strategy’ at the presidential level?

scott467

NO!!!
Never give up!
Improvise, adapt and overcome.
I’m suggesting that if the system is rigged, if the vote is rigged, then we can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
Encouraging people to ‘get out and vote!’ — and we do vote — and then beating ourselves up for losing, while ignoring that the entire system is rigged, is stupid and self-defeating.
When something isn’t working, we have to break the pattern, do something DIFFERENT, or we’ll only remain stuck in perpetuity.

GA/FL

Good points all – really good – esp. the last paragraph.

GA/FL

Crooked polls – crooked elections – crooked media – crooked politicians.

itswoot

Exactly.

Cuppa Covfefe

The good guys over here,the AfD, are slowly but surely winning, even though the faux-conservative CDU don’t want to form a coalition with them. Actually, they are doing it quickly, as they’ve grown into a major party faster than any other one has.
In Thuringen over the weekend, the AfD came in second, with the left (Die Linke) first, not a surprise considering the history of that land. The gains by those two parties came at the expense of the two (crooked) traditional parties, the CDU and the SPD, as well as the Greens, who have angered everyone, even liberals, with their “ban everything” agenda. Now the tricky bit will be forming a coalition, as whichever one happens, will have to have some elements of the left, and unless they really pull a fast one, the AfD. The FDP is a barely-right-of-middle party that could help out. The SPD have been marginalized, almost to the point of missing the 5% cutoff. The next few days as the backroom deals are made should be interesting, especially as the Ministerpräsident (effectively Governor) of Thuringen is CDU, and actually talking about a coalition with Die Linke, just to shut the AfD out. He’s a real jerk, and risks ruining the CDU in Thuringen. Another faux-conservative along the lines of Merde-Kuh…

GA/FL

May your white hats be blessed, brave and bold! Wish you were here! :8-)

Cuppa Covfefe

Thanks 🙂 It would be difficult to move back now (house prices, etc.), and we wouldn’t move to Kalifornistan at all. But we’ll visit some time on vacation… between those Garrison pics and the Brave browser’s Golden Gate Bridge pics, I get kind of homesick some times 🙂
I think more and more people are “getting woke” and, from what I’ve read, the younger folks in Thuringen are more conservative than their elders. The 60-and-over group voted for the Die Linke (the left) much more than the younger folks did; understandable because when they were part of the DDR, Die Linke were the SED (the party, as it were)… hmmm. Merde-Kuh probably still is a card-carrying member…

Coldeadhands

What’s more, even after winning in 2016 against all the skulduggery of entrenched leftist government, we get nonstop gaslighting from the communications office (MSM) of the Demoncrats. This to convince the public that nothing has been won.

Deplorable Patriot

Actually, the Yorktown surrender was in 1781, and in 1812-1815, the British forces were spread so thin that they let us go. The big victories for the US were in 1814 and 1815 – and that one was after the treaty was signed.
Yes, we saved them on more than one occasion, and put together a war machine that is necessary, but required constant war to remain profitable for the investors.
That’s where some of us hesitate to exult over all these victories we’ve racked up.

GA/FL

You are right and a lot more accurate. I

Deplorable Patriot

There’s at least one country touted as an ally that supposedly sold one of our fighters to China, too. And not just any fighter, but an F-15.
Really, we can’t trust anybody.

Deplorable Patriot

People like Brandon Straka are desperately needed in all of this. He might be gay, and flamboyant in a way many of us cringe, but he’s willing to stand up and say what needs to be said.

daughnworks247

Bret Velovich, former intel special ops analyst, wrote a book on the drone war, “Drone Warrior”. In comments this morning, he said, expect a lot more activity in next 48-72 hours.

scott467

It has been so long now, I know most of you are probably too young (or too old?) to remember Q, but today is the 2nd anniversary of the first Q drop. 😁
[reminder courtesy of NeonRevolt]

ozzytrumpster

Q? That comes after p doesn’t it?

Cuppa Covfefe

Heyyyy, I resemble that remark 😀
Now, what was it you were saying???

Dora

Only the ‘real’ Pope has his ring kissed. And the ‘real’ Pope doesn’t kiss anyone else’s ring.
I think the rumors are true.

gil00

Who’s ring is he kissing?

Dora

He is kissing the ring of Pope Benedict.

Cuppa Covfefe

I’m almost wondering if Benedict is under some sort of house arrest…
“Liberation Theology” has no place in the church, or anywhere on earth, for that matter… it’s just socialism by another name…

daughnworks247

Wake Up, Wake Up Wake UP!!!!!!
No resting!
It’s Rocktober!
President is headed to Chicago today to speak to the Police.
Already a controversy.
The Chief of Police in Chicago will not attend.
The more the do this the more they look like children.
Putting up a thread for the speech in a few minutes!!!!!!!!

smiley2

HUMOR …comedian Tom Shillue as little Adam Schiff ….LOLOL

TGIMonday 😀

duchess01

Verse of the Day

Genesis 1:31
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
King James Version (KJV)

duchess01

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duchess01

Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!

duchess01

Monday Blessingcomment image

duchess01

Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborncomment image
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Childrencomment image
Jesus Loves You – Come to Himcomment image

patfrederick

Good Morning!
coffee?

duchess01

Yes – Please – already cold – Thanks!
Have a Blessed Day! God Loves You just the way you are!!!

patfrederick

you are a ray of sunshine Duchess!
Have a Blessed Day yourself!

duchess01

Awww…how sweet, pat! * Smile *

andyocoregon

Jesus!

patfrederick
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patfrederick

dogs are sooooo patient…
I had a friend in high school who did a report with photos of her Irish Setter dressed as characters from the book…it was a SCREAM!

nikkichico7

Awwww pat these dogs are seriously cool 😎, sweet and funny …. love all of them … 😍👍❤️‼️
.. giggle/snort .. 💦💦 .. 🤭 … pardon me 😜🤚❤️

nikkichico7

Spot on ….comment image

smiley2

ahem…in honor of CATS =^-^=comment image

patfrederick

i clicked on it and it’s a gif? I can’t see those…but to be fair…I posted plenty of cats on Caturday…

smiley2

“…plenty of cats on Caturday…”comment image
=^-^=

patfrederick

LMAO!