“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
ShaMMMpeachment ends at 4:00pm Eastern Time! We’re proud of the President’s team in DC and our Congressman. Thank you to every single person who slugged it out on these threads. Thank you for contributing and passing important links up to the main thread. It’s astounding how we all help each other out and make QTree better. Thank you…..
When you’re done singing, it’s time to dance with the Crabs! In honor of Michael’s kids!
They were terrific and worked hard!
And …….a personal note …… I’ve made an executive decision. It’s time to take back all the bad things I’ve said about McTurtle over the years. When we needed him, he was there. Yes…….. I’m going to send him a VALENTINE’S Day Card! Full Mea Culpa! (Until he messes up again!)
What a fabulous SOTU speech delivered by our President! Repubs unified as never before and President takes the opportunity to reach out to the other side of the aisle, with programs and issues important to us all. His litany of successes is impressive……….. and our political enemies are defeated and miserable. Success is sweet. Those who criticized safely from the sidelines have been proven…. WRONG!
Wolfie warned us all. He said it would be a Roller Coaster once we got on that Trump Train. He said there would be good days and bad days. He said we were moving at a new speed with President Trump, faster than before.
Wolfie said, sometimes, a whirling dervish like President Trump may cast off a few people, or could draw a few people in by sheer magnetism. Yes, Wolfie warned us all, but we hung on for the ride of our lives. For those with determination and conviction………. the reward was well worth the effort. Every day with our President is an adventure. It’s exciting. What a glorious time to be alive!
Today/Yesterday was the best Twitter day EVER. This is ice cream with sprinkles while riding a Ferris Wheel. This is a brand new Porsche for your 16th birthday when your folks are middle class. This is getting a first job as a corporate VP This is your high school crush asking you out. This is going into labor with a first child and having the whole thing take about 20 minutes, WITH your lipstick still intact and no sweating. This is the high school nemesis asking YOU for a job.
It’s vindication! America is succeeding like never before and those who wanted to bring America to our knees……… are scared!
This is a long life, with “above average” kids who don’t fight, great health for the family, and prosperity under a President who fights for the people of the USA!
Muh Russia = failed Muh Ukraine ShaMMMpeachment = failed Iran = FailLLLLLINGGG Middle East Peace = maybe, perhaps, closest we’ve ever come. USMCA / China Phase One = done Military redone and re-tuning, Bad folks at the VA purged and Vets have choice Israel is doing well Border Wall = lawsuits over with, full speed ahead
Consumer confidence, home buying hitting records Unemployment at record lows Jobs available at record highs = real choice and opportunity Blue collar wages rising faster than exec wages = “inequality” in wages/gap in wages has NEVER been closer = REAL OPPORTUNITY. Manufacturing in USA is UP and gaining, while other countries falter. China in the toilet – Panda mask has slipped America is jamming Europe is worried, globalists on the run BREXIT!!!!!!!!
Gallup polls for President hit all time high…….. on the day he gives the SOTU speech! GOP at highest approval since 2005!And the Dems are in utter disarray!
Never Trumpers in the toilet Rasmussen approval for President Trump at 53% MSM is yelling at the Dems = Does it get any better?
And the Dems in Iowa are imploding, creating ripples of failure, ……… total catastrophic failure…. Caucus Chaos. And wait for this…… Bernie wins popular vote with 28K votes, Pete has 27K votes, but Pete gets more delegates and wins Iowa, …… according to the DNC? And wait for it….. the Iowa DNC only released 62% of the vote……… after 24 hours? It’s an EPIC failure.
On our side, the market was up 400 points today. It’s strange, because we’re so used to fighting, tooth and nail, with the Dems. Yet, today was sheer perfection. Like having a giraffe over for breakfast. Like election night all over again. It’s a terrific day!!!!!!! Time to be glad and rejoice in it.
NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 08: Presidential elect Donald J. Trump walks on stage at his election night event at The New York Hilton Midtown on November 8, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/WireImage)
Can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow!
We’ve been on this “Roller Coaster” with President Trump for years. Sometimes, we take a “whole ride” in a single day. Still, after SOTU, we loudly proclaim, “Again, Again, Again”. We want to stay on the Roller Coaster.
Here is the famous Wolfie Roller Coaster Essay (thank you, Crossthread):
WolfM00n1776 wrote: Well, I don’t really have to do any holding together, now that I figured out what Trump is up to. He is shaking things out, but counting on Trump gravity to pull things back together as he moves along. He is moving “forward” at speeds Obama could not even dream of.
You and I will be anti-Trump trolls one day and MAGA heroes the next. Get used to it. Trump speed is the new normal. Some will call it flip-flopping, but that’s not what it is. Trump is dodging and weaving through reality faster than the reality can react to disrupt his plans.
I was explaining this to my wife. This is a roller-coaster now. Trump is no longer waiting for people to keep up. He is taking his bewildering art-of-the-deal campaign schtick into geopolitics, and for a lot of people who can’t keep up or hold on, it will be a rough ride.
Trump is no longer playing only with evil and cunning players who are still predictable, easily beatable dopes, like Hillary. He is playing against killers, with his own team of killers, and all the while he has scheming creeps like Hillary, BGI, SPLC, and the neocons gunning for him. Snake Ryan ready to bite when nobody is looking. “Warhead” McCain screaming for Russian blood. Psycho Kim and Samoa Obama plotting some kind of intrigue to take him down. And THOSE are the lightweights.
This is the majors now. Trump has to outwit world-class adversaries and “frenemies” by defining the deals that they will agree to. One minute they will think Trump is their friend – the next minute, a cunning, bitter foe.
And he has to do this with evil cheerleaders like Warhead, Linderace, Dipsy Dowd, Maggie Haterman, and Fake Yapper trashing him or praising him alternately, no matter which way he goes. They can’t keep up, either.
Neither can many around him. I think that half of the problem with advisers crashing into each other is they don’t realize what Trump is doing.
And people will trash you, and they will trash me. Get used to it. I’ve already caught plenty of people mocking me. Well, just wait a week in Trump time. Look stupid and conned by Trump one minute, and you look like a sage three days later. Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more. Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity. Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit. A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it.
In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Wolfmoon! 4th of April, 2017
(My add) (From Crossthread).. AND He WILL be Acquitted TODAY!
Welcome back to the previously scheduled Wednesday Open Thread!
And just because of all the recent BOOMs.
https://youtu.be/Pe8FnYVSX0Y
Okay, so here’s the deal. This is the open thread. This is where we all come to get the news that other Q tree inhabitants think is worth knowing and sharing. Please, post links to any “news” stories quoted, and ask for help if you are stumped as to how to do that. We’re a friendly lot. Someone will be with you shortly, and there is no reason to have to press one for English.
Free speech, and the open exchange and hashing out of ideas is not only allowed, but encouraged. If we all don’t use it, we’re going to lose it. There are, however, limits to civility, and those limits are strictly observed here. We are all on the same team. No personal threats, baiting, name calling and other behavior you would not want someone else to do to you is allowed.
Yes, it can be rough to temper speech. However, those who would like to slog it out from the comfort of the seat behind your keyboard, Wolf has provided a venue known as the UTree. Please, take it there where this is allowed to happen:
And now for some house keeping:
There are a few rules here in the branches of the Q Tree. Our host, Wolfm00n, outlined them in a post on New Years Day 2019. Please, review these rules from time to time, maybe while waiting for the defrosters to get rolling while warming up the car in this global warming climate change deep freeze that’s happening.
Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Steve suggests – to be accurate – no shooting at the nuclear weapons, but to be safe about it, don’t event point firearms toward them. I, Deplorable Patriot, bossy chick that I am, request no teasing the animals, pets and wildlife alike. FG&C asks that you wash your hands, wipe down all non in-home surfaces, and take some vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, and get plenty of rest.
And please, pretty please with sugar on top, no celebratory gunfire…at least not indoors. Concealed carry is encouraged though.
Teasing and trolling the lefties and their bastions, on the other hand is a moral imperative. I will say this one aged well.
From tomorrow’s readings from the First Book of Chronicles:
And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart: and David the king rejoiced also with a great joy. [10] And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to eternity.
[11] Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all princes. [12] Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over all, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of all things. [13] Now therefore our God we give thanks to thee, and we praise thy glorious name. [14] Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given thee what we received of thy hand. [15] For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome.
