“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
In Congress, though, we’ve got another act in Kabuki theater. That doesn’t mean that the bulldogs in the Senate aren’t telling the world what is really going on.
And then in the fight to correct the election record:
https://youtu.be/n_p1sonhp-k
Some movie music to go with all the drama:
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And from today’s Mass Readings, the psalm that has more settings than Trump has hotels.
PSALMS 98:1-6
1O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory. 2The LORD has made known his victory, he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations. 3He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God. 4Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises! 5Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody! 6With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD!
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome.
Please include: President Donald Trump, the Q team, our soldiers in the field, special forces, tactical units, members of the Cabinet, first responders and those working behind the scenes.
As the 2020 Presidential Election falls into pieces, and the left in utter desperation tries to make us believe their SICK FRAUD – which is apparently the culmination of YEARS of sick frauds, they make some extremely cynical moves.
Sundance passes along the mealy-mouthed, PROGZI explanation…..
“Community Guardian”. What a SICK and COWARDLY joke.
Sundance also provides us their “reasons for deplatforming people” as follows:
This stuff is quite clearly weaponized for censorship of the right. LyingPress could kick any MAGA blog off their platform at any time, simply for disagreeing with the “party line”, or for publishing memes too sophisticated for the “Community Guardians” like Sal P. to understand.
In reality, they would understand, but would pretend not to understand.
And the reality beyond THAT ONE is that the leftists are not stupid – they’re malicious. They simply use pretending not to understand as cover.
Now, the rules here seem to only affect accounts with optional ad display, but I don’t think we should delude ourselves about any kind of immunity, or worse yet, quibble with power-holding baizuo from that position. Even our free blog with no ads, which we are currently running, has notices in the editor that ads may play at the end of an article, in spite of our “ad-free” status. Thus, we might be subject to these rules anyway, and I suspect that we are. Additionally, we cannot count on LyingPress to uphold the specifics of the rules, since it appears that Sundance had no recourse to change the nature of his blog to ad-free.
Just looking at the whole list of “prohibited content”, we should actually be GLAD to get off this platform! Some parts of it make sense, but a lot of it just looks like a way to hammer anyone they don’t like for the tiniest, most ridiculous “violation”. I say good riddance! But if I was to guess what finally caused them to come after the Treehouse… it would be this LIE:
“Proliferating or creating verifiably false claims or content that could undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.”
To me, it’s very clear that LyingPress knows Sundance is influential, and needs to help protect their phony neo-Soviet “electoral or democratic processes” by prohibiting any thought they might be filled with cheating.
Sorry. LyingPress are now SOVIET SCUM, and we will be leaving them.
I cannot promise any time-frame for moving, but I already have a good idea about where we will go. I will begin researching immediately.
In order to have time to become an ACTUAL full-time administrator (and not just a member with an admin role and permissions on a canned site), I will need to relinquish both weekly authorship and frequent commenting on the site. Perhaps at some point, those can come back, but not right away.
If somebody is interested in doing the FRIDAY daily thread, please feel free to speak up. I will also FREE UP the current authors at this time to renegotiate their responsibilities, if they so desire, with me and each other. Please feel free to keep or change your current days for the daily threads. Talk among yourselves – I am fine with whatever you all decide.
There’s just so much of it. Really, it’s mind boggling.
But the lawyers say they have the goods:
Well…if this is the case, here’s a visual.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em-gkieXIAEhSTd.jpg
This is the President’s Own Marine Band’s latest. Yeah, it’s long, but there’s some great stuff in this compilation.
And a reminder to take the pledge:
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31“When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. 34Then the King will say to those at his right hand, `Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37Then the righteous will answer him, `Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee, or thirsty and give thee drink? 38And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee? 39And when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee?’ 40And the King will answer them, `Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
If you were going to have the Dominion voting system take votes from President Trump and give them to Biden, you would target the 36 counties out of 156 that had at a minimum 25,000 votes counted in this past election in Georgia.
Of the 36 counties with over 25,000 votes, our President’s total percentage went down in 32 of the 36 counties (* will be placed near the 4 counties that the President’s percentage went up in 2020 compared to 2016) when compared to 2016. Here is the list in alphabetical order. The percentage on the left is 2020 while the percentage on the right is 2016:
Barrow – 70.7% / 73.2%
Bibb – 37.5% / 38.7%
*Bulloch – 61.1% / 59.9%
*Carroll – 68.8% / 68.5%
Catoosa – 77.2% / 78.7%
Chatham – 39.9% / 41.2%
Cherokee – 80.2% / 72.7%
Clarke – 28.1 / 28.7%
*Clayton – 14.1% / 13.2%
Cobb – 42% / 46.7%
Columbia – 62.1% / 67.1%
Coweta – 67.1% / 69.3%
DeKalb – 15.7% / 16.1%
Daugherty – 29.6% / 30.1%
Douglas – 36.8% / 43.2%
Effingham – 74% / 76.4%
Fayette – 52.5% / 58%
*Floyd – 70.3% / 70.2%
Forsyth – 65.8% / 71.7%
Fulton – 26.2% / 27.1%
Glynn – 61% / 63.1%
Gwinnett – 40.2% / 45.2%
Hall – 70.9% / 73.7%
Henry – 39.3% / 46.6%
Houston – 55.5% / 59.4%
Jackson – 78.3% / 80.4%
Lowndes – 55.4% / 57.9%
Muskogee – 37.3% / 39.4%
Newton – 44% / 47.7%
Paulding – 63.9% / 69.1%
Richmond – 30.8% / 32.6%
Rockdale – 29.1% / 35.8%
Spalding – 60% / 60.3%
Troup – 60.4% / 60.6%
Walton – 74% / 76.9%
Whitfield – 69.8% / 70.9%
Just a shift of a few percentage points in each of these 32 counties would total nearly ~100,000 votes. Had our President maintained his percentages from 2016, he would have easily won the state by 3%+.
Keep in mind every county in GA used the Dominion voting system!
This tweet tells me that what we saw in those RED counties in Georgia is exactly what this person found.
She appeared with Maria Bartiromo to discuss significant evidence of vote and ballot fraud. Sidney highlights several areas of ongoing investigation from software designed to manipulate ballot results to payments from vote counting companies to local/state officials.
She also notes the CIA has a relationship with Dominion and Smartmatic software providers who have used their election counting products in foreign countries. She states the evidence is so overwhelming there is likely going to be another election.
Sidney Powell also joined Judge Jeanine on her show on Saturday night:
The election results in several battleground states continue to be under intense focus as allegations of voter fraud are being investigated. @SidneyPowell1 joins “Justice” to discuss this and much more. pic.twitter.com/lLoXdgAhpV
[…] According to Powell, the Trump campaign has enough evidence to launch a serious criminal investigation.
“We’re fixing to overturn the election results in multiple states and President Trump won by not just hundreds of thousands of votes but my millions of votes that were shifted by this software that was designed expressly for that purpose,” Powell explained. “We have sworn witness testimony about why the software was designed. It was designed to rig elections.”
According to Powell, the witness that the Trump team has is someone who has seen elections rigged in other countries. Those same tactics and software were allegedly deployed to the United States.
“They did this on purpose. It was calculated. They’ve done it before,” she said. “We have evidence of 2016 in California. We have so much evidence I feel like it’s coming in through a fire hose.”
[…] “First of all, I never say anything I can’t prove. Secondly, the evidence is coming in so fast I can’t even process it all. Millions of Americans have written by now, I would say, definitely hundreds of thousands have stepped forward with their different experiences of voter fraud but this is massive election fraud and I’m very concerned it not only involved Dominion and its Smartmatic software but that the software was essentially used by other election machines also.”
[…] The attorney said the campaign has a sworn affidavit from a person who knows how the system works and was allegedly there when the system was being created and implemented.
Our President asked that we watch the interview with Rudy Giuliani:
Rudy Giuliani also appeared with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the current status of the evidence gathered into the ballot fraud in multiple regional jurisdictions.
Mr. Giuliani outlines a series of very serious allegations which includes ballot tallying fraud within the Dominion ballot counting software and Smartmatic machines. In each of the regional jurisdictions noted by Giuliani there are multiple witnesses and physical evidence. Philadelphia, PA; Milwaukee, WI; Wayne County, Mich; Fulton County, GA; Phoenix, AZ; and Pittsburgh, PA.
Our President knows exactly what the Dominion voting system tried to do.
All of the mechanical “glitches” that took place on Election Night were really THEM getting caught trying to steal votes. They succeeded plenty, however, without getting caught. Mail-in elections are a sick joke!
This Stormwatch 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.
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.
Our President is fighting for us night and day…please pray for him.
Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this collection of compositions conducted by Peter Pejtsik and performed by the The Budapest Film Orchestra:
If we’re lucky…we may get to punch a Karen or two.
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Wheatie’s Words of the Day:
Learnt vs Learned
Learnt and learned are both used as the past participle and past tense of the verb to learn. Learned is the generally accepted way of spelling it in the United States and Canada, while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to prefer learnt for now.
Why for now? The American English tendency toward making irregular verbs into regular ones has started influencing British English, which is why the -ed variant is becoming increasingly used around the world. Soon learned might be the most common form everywhere.
There is an exception, though, when learned is the only option. That is when it is used as an Adjective…for example, when you say that someone is learned. And then we pronounce the word as two syllables: LER-ned.
Personally…I use ‘learned’ whenever I need to say: “I learned something.”
Because to say…”I learnt something.”…sounds like hillbilly jargon.
How I was led from prayer at a patriotic rally to resolution that we must NEVER concede to either the stolen re-election of President Trump, or the deplatforming of The Last Refuge, and that NOW is the time to send in the troops. The key is WHERE.
The order in which this happened should be noted for the historical record.
Late this morning, in the aftermath of a wonderful RALLY yesterday, and after sleeping on the thoughts of a wonderful YouTube video about the TWELFTH AMENDMENT…..
…..I had a kind of revelation, and decided that we must, and I personally will, NEVER concede to this fraudulent cheat coup.
All we have to do is NOT CONCEDE, knowing TRUTH is on our side, and this election becomes the SWORD that turns into a PLOW that digs up the DIRT in FREEDOM’S FIELD and the HARVEST is OURS.
Stay PEACEFUL – we turn NANCY’S ARROWS into the blades of AMERICA’S PLOW.
The symbolism of the SEAL where a group of patriots prayed the day before should not be lost on the reader, for it was indeed inspirational.
Immediately after that, I learned that The Conservative Treehouse is/was going to be deplatformed by WordPress.
Look HERE for the full context, including my comment at 13:40…..
He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
I will cover this later. I told people here to prepare. Bad stuff. This is what CIA is doing through Stelter and CNN – putting out that “alternative social media” is dangerous.
They are TRYING to make peaceful revolution impossible. It’s quite EVIL.
POTUS may have to intervene. They are trying to FORCE VIOLENCE on America.
Now – let me make an argument which falls out of BOTH my revelation about concession, AND what is now happening to Sundance and The Conservative Treehouse.
One of the most important points is this, made by President John F. Kennedy:
Guess what? It is now my contention that the forces arrayed against President Trump are attempting to FORCE his supporters into violent rebellion. They WANT it. They understand the TRUTH of John F. Kennedy’s wonderful quote. They are attempting to FORCE President Trump to concede the election, so that his supporters are not forced into violent rebellion, but rather into submission. And yet, I am not so certain that even a concession by President Trump would – or more importantly SHOULD – work to quell the thirst for Precious Liberty in America.
Once you see the control of the media – the HIDING of our words – the SILENCING of our voice – it is quite clear that the Bolsheviks are using EVERY tool they can to force us to accept socialism, or rebel violently. The deplatforming of voices of BITTER TRUTHS, like The Conservative Treehouse, will, in my opinion, ENSURE that there is either war or concession, but more likely WAR.
Must there be war?
I bring your attention to a small, pacifist, monotheistic religion – highly persecuted – which prides itself on befriending all other godly / heavenly religions. This is the Baha’i Faith.
They have two specific beliefs which I think are highly relevant here.
One a very USEFUL belief – that we are duty-bound to always attempt to overcome thoughts of war with greater thoughts of peace.
This should not be that hard for followers of the Prince of Peace, who in fact constitute a majority of believers in America, and have since its founding. The founder of the Baha’is, Baha’u’llah, was in fact himself a big follower and fan of the Prince of Peace, and led an exemplary life, even befriending and winning over his jailers, by loving his enemy.
The SECOND point – much more interesting and a bit mystical – is that the Baha’is believe AMERICA has a special purpose in helping to bring PEACE to the world. They even have a prayer for this.
Abdu’l Baha was the son of the founder, Baha’u’llah, and so while this is not “red letter” Baha’i theology, it’s definitely regarded as canon.
Is there, in fact, a way that this can all work out?
I believe there is. And as the mysterious group behind “Q” reminds us, John F. Kennedy is the KEY.
I urge you to now take a look at all of Q’s posts which reference JFK – it will give you a picture of what is going on.
Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 237dde No.324395 Feb 10 2018 03:33:29 (EST)
“Rest in peace Mr. President (JFK), through your wisdom and strength, since your tragic death, Patriots have planned, installed, and by the grace of God, activated, the beam of LIGHT. We will forever remember your sacrifice. May you look down from above and continue to guide us as we ring the bell of FREEDOM and destroy those who wish to sacrifice our children, our way of life, and our world. We, the PEOPLE.”
Prayer said every single day in the OO. JFK – Secret Socities. Where we go one, we go all. Q
Why is JFK particularly relevant? Because JFK used the military to (1) insure peace, and (2) restore civil rights to a minority being denied those rights.
Tom Cotton was suggesting that the military be sent in to confront rebellious communists (ANTIFA and BLM) directly. These groups are the violent shock troops of not just the left in general, but the leftist TECH TYRANTS in particular.
It is no accident that ANTIFA staked out my house when I first attacked censorship by Big Tech.
It is no accident that BLM, carrying a big “pocket 9”, was used to try to intimidate me into silence when that didn’t work.
However, nobody except TRUMP wants to do anything about the problem.
Chris Wray will not rein in these groups using the FBI. Mark Esper would not rein in these groups using the DoD.
Now, here’s a wild thought. What if Wray and Esper are RIGHT? Or maybe ALMOST RIGHT?
What if WE THE PEOPLE have the primary duty to rein in ANTIFA and BLM – if only we could?
Normal citizens in NORWAY reined in THEIR Antifa problems PEACEFULLY by their VOICES – by their FREE SPEECH – in public and online. They SPOKE Antifa into retreat, and ultimately into nearly vanishing. Interestingly, it involved a lot of argument and even ridicule. Very interesting that Jack Dorsey FORBIDS the social speech which inhibits these violent Bolsheviks.
Wow. You know, we could do that here, too, if our voices weren’t suppressed by the MEDIA and now the SOCIAL MEDIA.
But it gets worse. Voices of reason and peace – remember COLD ANGER? – like Sundance of the Last Refuge, are now being squelched.
This is too far. THIS is directly interfering with those who counsel RESTRAINT. It is a cunning way to pave the way to WAR. WordPress was one of the last bastions of reasoned but unrelenting free speech on the internet. The Last Refuge is indeed one of the LAST refuges of smart and restrained but uncompromisingly free speech without ever descending into hotheaded fury.
Thus, I am suggesting something entirely different. I believe that the TECH TYRANTS – gifted the beauty of the INTERNET by our own military – have ABUSED THEIR PRIVILEGE, and are now choosing to KNOWINGLY disenfranchise a segment of our population for political reasons. They are DENYING IN PRACTICE our civil rights – our equal rights – and particularly our FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS of FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
They even push us into SEGREGATION.
They are doing this knowingly, to create conditions for WAR, while pretending to seek PEACE.
PURE BOLSHEVIK. “Make it look like the other guy is at fault.”
Forget Section 230. SEND IN THE TROOPS – not for WAR, but to preserve PEACE.
All we want is free speech and freedom of religion. Nothing more. We can handle PEACE from there.
Restore our ability to seek a PEACEFUL transition to the next administration – and we all know who that will be, if the public is allowed to SPEAK FREELY and demand TRUTH and FAIRNESS.
Restore our VOICE. Prevent the cunning tech Bolsheviks from forcing us into WAR by their removal of our FIRST AMENDMENT OPTION. Stop them from forcing us to the SECOND Amendment.
Send in the troops, and restore TRUE law and order – on the internet.
Before I get too far into this post, because there is A LOT to say, I would like to acknowledge the contributions of a number of QTreepers who helped shape this compilation: MichaelH, eilert, razorbak, Aubergine, The Boss, and more. There are many more. But these people’s contributions are in tabs waiting to be added to the post.
…the famous words of newly elected President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address, on Jan. 20, 1961, 60 years before our next president will be administered the oath of office, in January 2021.
Kennedy said, “And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”…
Here’s how Kennedy opened that address: “The world is very different now. … And yet, the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”
And from XVII:
703 Feb 10, 2018 3:33:29 AM EST Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 237dde No. 324395
“Rest in peace Mr. President (JFK), through your wisdom and strength, since your tragic death, Patriots have planned, installed, and by the grace of God, activated, the beam of LIGHT. We will forever remember your sacrifice. May you look down from above and continue to guide us as we ring the bell of FREEDOM and destroy those who wish to sacrifice our children, our way of life, and our world. We, the PEOPLE.” Prayer said every single day in the OO.
JFK – Secret Socities.
Where we go one, we go all. Q
As a quick recap on what this writer believes about “The Plan,” it is a THEORY (this one really is a theory) which is constantly morphing based on a chan post that disappeared some time back that what we are seeing unfold now is the product of DECADES worth of planning and thinking through contingencies beginning either during or in the aftermath of the Korean War.
It became obvious to somebody, somewhere in the Pentagon, and possibly even President Dwight Eisenhower while he was NATO Supreme Commander that the people in the background of what Ike termed the “Military Industrial Complex” on his way out of the White House in 1961, were then (and still are) hellbent on bankrupting America using two tried and true ways of bilking money out of a treasury: lending us our own money at interest via a central bank (the Federal Reserve) and keeping us in a constant state of war.
How that was to be accomplished, I believe, lies in the creation of at least two entities created by the secret societies who want to enslave us via the means described above: CIA (1947), and the United Nations (1949). Those are the two bodies that got us into the Korean War and through which battle plans were sent for approval. In the field, the Americans were getting slaughtered…until they sent false plans to the UN, and proved that the UN was sabotaging the effort.
In 1952, in a move so secret, it was decades before the existence of “No Such Agency” was admitted, President Harry Truman signed into being the National Security Agency (NSA). From that time, behind the scenes, the Central Intelligence Agency (a definite contradiction in terms), and the NSA were at odds, and most likely still are today. (Maybe, some of the Snowden reveals put that in question.)
Our beloved XVII claims that the current effort of executing “The Plan” was started by President Kennedy, but….
What if Kennedy was actually in the same role as President Trump is: the front man for a military operation so meticulously planned that it is unfolding next to a plan of the same size and scope with exactly the opposite goals and objectives. What if the first attempt to make this happen was stopped on November 22, 1963 in a VERY public way, and the planners regrouped knowing they had to find another front man, and a way around what we call “mockingbird,” the C_A’s gaslighting and propaganda operation, in order to ensure the freedom of the people of the world could be achieved by taking out the cabal at the top of the food chain in the secret societies via exposure and creating the demand for it to happen.
What if that is what we are beginning to see today.
What if the 2020 election was and is the mechanism by which the opposition wanted to finally enslave the people, and the planners are countering by exposing the plot using their front man, President Donald Trump, and the mainstream media work around known as the internet (social media).
These are the thoughts I have had since the election was over. I can’t change them, no matter what information comes to me.
There appear to be two options, and two only, for what is currently happening.
1) President Trump, knowing vote fraud was coming, telling us over and over again that vote fraud would happen, used the ENORMOUS power of the Presidency, not to mention the power of lots of money, to somehow set up a way to catch the cheating and expose it, winning reelection and bringing down the fraudsters. Doing this in a very public way ensures that it can never happen again and new laws and safeguards for elections will be the order of the day.
2) President Trump, knowing voter fraud was coming, telling us over and over again that vote fraud would happen, did NOTHING with the power of his office or money, allowed the cheating he knew was coming to happen, and fecklessly spent millions of dollars on a campaign there was no hope of winning. Doing nothing ensures that we will definitely be a Socialist country, and never have a fair election again. Everything we have believed about Trump for the last five years was a fantasy. The Emperor truly has no clothes.
Looking at the situation through this stark lens has brought me a lot of peace. I BELIEVE the only possible answer is number ONE. If for some reason I am wrong and have been completely fooled for five years, I have exactly ZERO control over current events, and will have to live with whatever comes, for however long I live.
As I see it, these are the two options, and there really are no other choices. I don’t see a third option, no matter how hard I look.
I believe there is a third option which includes your first option:
The Plan called for this and used their recruited front man, President Donald J. Trump, to explain to the public how it was going to go down.
None of the people really pulling the strings behind the scenes have the name recognition or star power to make it happen, IMO.
I’m now seeing this as one of the most sophisticated operations ever attempted based on the Shakespearian 5 act model. We’re currently in Act III, unless I miss my guess.
And that’s the crux. No matter which side of this mess one finds his or herself, this is the climax; this is Act III; this is where the set up culminates and where the real action begins.
At the risk of it being too early on a Saturday morning when so many people are headed to capitols, both state and federal, to express their displeasure with the election aftermath, I would like to share this from GAB, and will comment below the post itself.
𝔻𝕖𝕞𝕠𝕔𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕪4𝕌𝕊•𝔸𝕃𝕃 @mysticphoeniix
9h · Staggering fraud. Includes governors & Secretaries of State. Multiple, US & global elections. Organized crime throughout all media. It’s deeper than we ever thought. I’m going to expose every one of them
Massive criminal investigations coming, covering *multiple elections*. If any states are stupid enough to certify, they’ll be set aside by fraud. The President won this election in a landslide.
Every frauded ballot is a federal felony !!
@LouDobbs Release the Kraken: @SidneyPowell1 vows to expose the Silicon Valley and left-wing corporations that are using their power to help Democrats steal the election from @realdonaldtrump. #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Dobbs 3:35 PM · Nov 13, 2020
DePat comment:
The “Swamp” is nationwide. It’s not just Foggy Bottom in Washington. It’s the entire system top to bottom. All of it needs to be cleaned out, not just the federal government as in the Cabinet and Congress. ALL OF IT. State houses, local party operations, even down to county executives and mayors – and please, take mine, including my state rep.
Nothing this big, as in election fraud which is most likely systemic since the vast majority of Americans only participate in the form of actually voting rather than being poll watchers or taking vacation time to work at the polls, just happens. It’s been in place for DECADES if not a couple centuries. I seriously doubt we’ve ever had honest elections at this point – and interestingly enough, the decentralization of it may have played into hiding the fraud since there are so many places that need to investigated. Limit it to just a few precincts, as Karl Rove has said about winning an election, and it can be hard to detect when you have to go through several states with uncooperative actors to find it.
Remember: 3-4 years ago when a federal commission was set up to clean up the voter rolls, the states refused to cooperate. We the people may have been on the Trump train, but the people in the state houses weren’t always.
This time around when it came to election fraud, the sheer size and scope of the steal turned out to be the mechanism by which it was exposed. There was simply too much from coast to coast to keep it hidden, especially when there had been observers out there watching for the last few elections seeing what we saw last week on a smaller scale.
We are in the exposure phase of The Plan, I’m convinced. The fraud is being SHOWN to the public to create the DEMAND that something, anything be done about it. The trick is to make sure it never happens again, and that means cleaning out the system from top to bottom, and getting corporate interests out of the influence business, i.e., lobbying.
Lobbyists will need to be viewed as abortionists once were: the dregs of polite society.
The other thing that *needs* to happen (without being read into the plan, this is a personal opinion) is that the vaunted alphabet agencies be subjected to the same microscopic inspection as is happening with the election system, if one can call the clusterf#@! we’re watching fall apart a system, and just dismantled. I have a feeling that’s where this is going, but some people had to be caught in the trap, first.
Exposure is always the precursor to demand. That’s where we are. And the “intelligence” people may just be next. We don’t know.
The question, though is what is being exposed. It’s not just election fraud:
For reference on the Oceans 11 concept, this is the scene that explains where the money is:
In the movie, all of the money was kept in one place…and what we are now finding out is that via the voting machines (Dominion, GEMS, etc.) voter information – who we all are and HOW WE VOTE, FOR WHOM WE VOTE, AND WHAT INITIATIVES WE VOTE FOR OR AGAINST – all gets dumped into a a single server in a foreign nation owned by a company known as “scytl.”
Please see Aubergine’s post on the taking down of that company last week.
The letters “scytl” were bugging me, I mean one of those mental nags that just won’t go away, until I realized in the dark of night that the lower case “l” could be an “I” in some fonts, and rearrange the letters and you get:
If you look at it a certain way, with the head being at the top and the tail at the bottom, the bug does resemble a quilt pattern I have for surf fish using triangles.
That may just be spitballing, but….
So, back to what Patrick Bergy was getting at with his tweet. If all of the voter data – legal and not – is dumped in one place, and ballots actually do have identifying marks on them, which I have wondered for a long time since ours have always been numbered and representatives from both parties have to sign for them, are the people who want to enslave us collecting our voting habits and patterns, something that really should only be between a voter and God?
And how much of this is influenced by foreign governments?
Remember, if we are in the climax of a five act play (and Shakespearian plays are LOOOOONNNGGGG), the eye of the storm, if you will, then everything up to now has been prelude. Even this:
This story begins with the little-known executive order signed into existence on September 12, 2018, by President Donald J. Trump. That order, available at Whitehouse.gov, is entitled, “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”
In that executive order, which almost no one has covered since the day it was signed, President Trump declares a national emergency. That emergency is still in play to this day, and the 2020 election was conducted under this state of emergency, which is a crucial point to understand what’s coming next.
“Unauthorized accessing of election infrastructure”
In the EO, the President also states that people and organizations located, in part, outside the United States are known to be able to, “interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation.”
If you’re starting to see how this ties in to CNN, the NY Times, the Washington Post and MSNBC, you’re not alone. All those organizations, as you’ll soon see, have been caught under this emergency declaration of “foreign interference” in U.S. elections, aided by complicit corporations on U.S. soil.
The EO further states that this foreign interference in U.S. elections, “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
Why is this relevant to anything we’re seeing right now with the massive election fraud carried out by the Democrats and the deep state? Because Dominion Voting Systems is a Canadian company. And Scytl is run out of Spain.
That’s right. Dominion is a foreign-owned company, which makes Dominion-based election theft a “foreign interference issue.”
I’ll have grounds More relative than this—the play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2, 603-305
The XVII team and President Trump set the trap, and the other side fell right in. The cheating, fraud and brazenly claiming that the Biden/Harris ticket won was supposed to be the climax for the parallel plan (Act III in their play) resulting in routing out those of us who would give them trouble, and – OOPS – the sleeping giant woke up thanks to MAGA, and all those rallies.
We’re not buying it.
And now that all is being exposed with the American people awake – FINALLY – well, for the most part anyway, the system that has held us in check for over a hundred years will be dismantled by the will of the people whether the other side likes it or not.
Top to bottom.
And for them it’s a tragedy.
For the people of the United States and the world beyond our borders, it will be a triumph.
We’re watching the movie extravaganza of the year play out in all its ugliness, including a host of villains that well deserve the gallows and a tidal surge of putrid swamp ‘Rats that can easily engulf the unwary. The futures of our country and families are of paramount importance in this constitutional crisis that, understandably, consumes the attention of anyone who is aware of the possible ramifications.
But . . . is this the overwhelming crisis of the day? Well, no it isn’t. That designation continues to belong to the overall battle between good and evil in this world. Our current political battle for survival is but a skirmish in world-level hostilities. . . . hostilities in which we must choose sides and thereby the future of our very souls. There is no middle ground. We can’t choose not to choose and thereby not align ourselves with one side or the other. We must choose one side or the other and either suffer or enjoy the consequences of losing or winning.
This is the paramount battle, a spiritual battle, and a constant reminder that we are not of this world, but, as Christians, are permanent and eternal residents of a different location.
We are but sojourners and exiles and “our citizenship is in heaven, from where also we await for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our body of humiliation, so that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working of His power even to subdue all things to Himself.”
This is a perspective that we must keep well in mind as the current crisis attempts to drag us through the mud, rocks and ditches of our path here on Earth, because our real war has been won and we are more than conquerors on our way to our eternal victory celebration.
We should be feeling a strong sense of dissatisfaction with our temporary position among the struggles here on earth and also a longing to come home to our family in its rightful spiritual dwelling.
Those feelings remind me of a couple of old-time songs that have, for many years, portrayed the same feelings.
This World Is Not My Home
This world is not my home, I’m just a passing through My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue; The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door, And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.
They’re all expecting me, and that’s one thing I know, My Savior pardoned me and now I onward go; I know He’ll take me thro’ tho’ I am weak and poor, And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.
I have a loving Savior up in glory-land, I don’t expect to stop until I with Him stand, He’s waiting now for me in heaven’s open door, And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.
Just up in glory-land we’ll live eternally, The saints on every hand are shouting victory, Their songs of sweetest praise drift back from heaven’s shore, And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.
O Lord, you know I have no friend like you, If heaven’s not my home, then Lord what will I do? The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door, And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.
Wayfaring Stranger
I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger, I’m trav’ling through this world below; There is no sickness, toil, nor danger, In that bright world to which I go.
I’m going there to see my father, I’m going there no more to roam; I’m just a going over Jordan, I’m just a going over home.
I know dark clouds will gather o’er me, I know my pathway’s rough and steep; But golden fields lie out before me, Where weary eyes no more shall weep.
I’m going there to see my mother, She said she’d meet me when I come; I’m just a going over Jordan, I’m just a going over home.
I want to sing salvations story, In concert with the blood-washed band; I want to wear a crown of glory, When I get home to that good land.
I’m going there to see my brothers, They passed before me one by one; I’m just a going over Jordan, I’m just a going over home.
I’ll soon be free from every trial, This form will rest beneath the sod; I’ll drop the cross of self-denial, And enter in my home with God.
I’m going there to see my Saviour, Who shed for me His precious blood; I’m just a going over Jordan I’m just a going over home.
In spite of the present troubles and strife, may we keep these comforting thoughts as foremost in our minds.
I have resisted this story pretty strongly since I first saw the Tweet in German about a server being seized by US forces in Germany, from a company named Scytl. I was afraid it was just another internet rumor. But when Louis Gohmert and Sydney Powell are talking about it, I figured I had better take a closer look. I posted most of this information in a comment, but I didn’t want what I found to get lost in the other news of the day. I think it is important. There is something here.
I found this translation of the original German Tweet:
Something big is coming. The Spanish software company Scytl, which offers election manipulation software worldwide that was used in the USA, is right in the crosshairs.
The server for the manipulation was in Germany (Frankfurt). Shamed be he who thinks evil of it. Tonight the US army confiscated the surfers with a huge contingent.
According to Gateway Pundit, Scytl put out this statement about this incident:
“Fact Checking Regarding US Elections: Debunking Fake News November 13, 2020 | General
Following several erroneous statements that have been published in digital and social media, Scytl would like to clarify the following:
The technologies implemented by Scytl in the US are both hosted and managed within the US, by a local subsidiary, SOE Software, based in Tampa, Florida.
We do not tabulate, tally or count votes in the US
We do not provide voting machines in the US
We did not provide online voting to US jurisdictions for the US elections.
We do not have servers or offices in Frankfurt
The US army has not seized anything from Scytl in Barcelona, Frankfurt or anywhere else
We are not owned by George Soros and have never been connected to him
We are not tied to Smartmatic, SGO, Dominion or Indra
LIE 1) “We do not tabulate, tally or count votes in the US” and “We do not provide voting machines in the US”
“Founded in 2001 in Spain, Scytl organized 12 state-wide implementations, and its technologies were used in another 980 U.S. jurisdictions in 28 states, during the 2016 General Election.”
The way they claim there in not a LIE in this is that their activities are not BASED in the U.S. They also don’t provide voting “machines” but SOFTWARE. They are probably not lying that they don’t tabulate or count HERE, it is done overseas.
LIE 2) “We do not have servers or offices in Frankfurt”
They really DO think we are stupid. They crashed their website so you can’t find the information on it, but all I did was look at the REFERENCES on their Wikipedia page, and found this:
“”Election Night Reporting2019” (PDF). Scytl.com. June 2019. p. 3. “Scytl’s team began preparing nine months in advance. Over this time, we conducted 3 separate trial runs, 5 user acceptance tests, and we set up the data collection center in Barcelona, as well as an emergency back-up center in Frankfurt.””
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scytl
LIE 3) “We are not owned by George Soros and have never been connected to him”
The connections from Scytl to Soros are detailed in this article from 2013:
LIE 4) “We are not tied to Smartmatic, SGO, Dominion or Indra”
If they are connected to Soros, they are de facto connected to Smartmatic and Dominion.
LIE 5) “We have no ties with Russia either”
Not so fast. They took down their website, but we still have the Wikipedia references:
“”Russia’s first online participation platform powered by Scytl“. Scytle.com. 26 November 2012. “Scytl’s cryptographic security technology will ‘power’ Yopolis, Russia’s first online participation platform. Yopolis was launched in a public event in Moscow on November 22nd by renown businessman Maxim Nogotkov with the objective of becoming the main social network for local e-democracy in Russia. The online platform includes a variety of features to foster and facilitate citizen engagement and participation in local issues for all Russian municipalities. Scytl’s CEO Pere Valles attended the launching event in Moscow and explained Scytl’s security contribution to the platform which, among other benefits, will allow citizens to verify the integrity of the results of any voting process that takes place in Yopolis.””
I have been resisting this story as a pipe-dream, but it is beginning to really look like something HUGE. Prayers up that this is the SMOKING GUN. The fact that their website has been taken down COMPLETELY is a huge red flag.
Anything you find about Scytl and this purported raid, please post it here.
Yeah, we’re definitely in a shitstorm right now, and we’re starting to respond to the other side’s opening salvos.
Assuming things go as we hope (and for the most part, expect) this will be looked upon as one of the pivotal points in history we will consider ourselves lucky to have witnessed. (On the other hand if we get a nasty surprise, it will be looked on as a pivotal point in history we wish we hadn’t seen.)
This is for ALL OF THE CHIPS. They are “all in.” We are “all in.”
If the Enemy wins, we will never, ever, ever have another chance at this without a hot civil war, and the enemy will have the full weight of the Federal Government on their side. Because we haven’t managed to drain the swamp, and they can certainly either co-opt or get rid of the few good people Trump has managed to install.
Trump having to leave office next January would be a catastrophe, and everything he has accomplished will be undone in a matter of months…if not weeks…if not days. To the applause of the minders of our culture and our educational system.
Welcome to the American Socialist State (ASS). Maybe that’s why the Dems have that as their mascot?
If Trump wins the work has just begun. The swamp MUST be drained, it must become his TOP priority. I’ll be honest, I think it should have been kicked into higher gear a long time ago, but then…I do NOT know what the Generals know, and I also don’t know what they DON’T know. Maybe by delaying, he’s pulling an Alexander I, giving Napoleon a long enough supply line to hang himself on. Seriously, I am reminded of this. Alexander was risking being deposed because the Russian army would not meet Napoleon head on. But in the end it was worth it. Napoleon didn’t just fail to conquer Russia, he himself ended up being chased all the way back to Paris and being deposed.
I wrote most those words last week, and can’t improve on them, at least not without pulling a Biden and plagiarizing someone.
[Which is what sunk Hiden’s candidacy in 1988, of course now who on the Left would care enough about things like that? Or remember Gary Hartpence a/k/a Hart, the carpetbagger nominally from Colorado who ran for President for the second time that same year, but was sunk by having an affair? It didn’t take too long for the Dems to decide that should pose no obstacle…]
On Messing With Patriots
And of course, that talk about the War of 1812 caused me to remember a certain piece of music and I posted it and analyzed it to make my point. That’s always kind of risky for me, I will form associations with a piece of music that others will not share; but in this case I was mostly in line with Chaikovskiy’s intent.
The 1812 Overture from last week was written long after the fact, in 1880, and is properly but never here referred to as the “Year 1812 Solemn Overture.”
The War of 1812 isn’t called “The War of 1812” by the Russians; it’s not even called by that phrase translated into Russian. It is, rather, “Отечественная война 1812 года” or, romanized, “Otechestvennaya voyna 1812 goda.” That’s pasted in from Wikipedia, which does a minor disservice here because they didn’t spell out the Russian for “1812,” which (from memory of Russian classes decades ago) would be something like “odin tysich vosyemsot dvyenadtsat.” (It looks a lot harder to pronounce than it actually is.) Anyhow, the entire translation of the name of the war is: “The Patriotic War of the Year 1812.”
This parallels what we are dealing with right now: We’re heading for the Patriotic war of 2020…in fact, if you count “cold wars” we’re already in it. A civil war between patriots and…er…traitors (whew, managed to restrain a profanity or six).
But hearing the phrase “Patriotic War” in a Russian connection might remind some reading this of a different war.
World War II in Russia is known as “Великая Отечественная война” Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna , or the “Great Patriotic War.”
This started when Hitler turned on his erstwhile ally, Stalin, in June of 1941.
(Never let anyone forget that the Soviets and Nazis were allies for nearly two years. They collaborated in carving up Poland in September 1939, and as far as the United Kingdom was concerned, the Soviet Union was the enemy, until Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.)
The Soviet Union, of course, was an empire just as much as the Russian Empire was. It was run largely by Russians, and hundreds of conquered peoples were basically just so much crap on the bottom of Russian shoes–a status relieved only when those people adopted some Russian culture.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was supposedly a union of co-equal countries all striving towards a glorious communist future (but merely socialist for now). If you believe that, then I have a bridge to sell you. Russians dominated in daily life, they got the good jobs in the military, and so on, though at least in the very uppermost echelons of leadership belief in Marxism-Leninism was more important than ethnicity. In fact as of 1941 the leader of the USSR was a Georgian, not a Russian. (Georgia, by the way, is called “Sakartvelo” by its own people, who call themselves the “Kartveli.”) Stalin’s original name was Jugashvili, which ends in shvili, which is one of those endings, along with -adze and -ia, that screams “This dude is a Kartvelian!” to those who recognize it.
Stalin, of course spoke Russian, but with a very thick Kartulian (Georgian) accent.
What did he do when Hitler unexpectedly attacked him? (Yes, unexpectedly. For whatever reason, Stalin, as paranoid as he was, didn’t expect Hitler to stab him in the back before Stalin would be ready to stab Hitler in the back.)
Well at first he was too stupefied to respond, and the Soviet military, seriously weakened by Stalinist purges in the late 1930s, fell back, and fell back, and then tried something different: they fell back.
Stalin eventually came out of his shock and began to rally his slaves.
Did he do it by appealing to the great glorious quest for communism? No. He appealed to Russian patriotism! Which is why they called it the Great Patriotic War. Why not evoke images of 1812?
Imagine the irony of a guy with a thick Georgian accent appealing to Russian patriotism on the radio.
There were songs written for the Great Patriotic War, and the most famous of them was first published three days after the invasion. It’s titled Священная война Svyashchennaya Voyna “Sacred War” or страна огромная! Vstavay, strana ogromnaya, “Arise, Great (Vast) Country!” It was written by Alexander Alexandrov, the same man who wrote the Soviet national anthem.
It’s a kick-ass song, and here is a kick-ass video of it chock-full of footage from the front lines, restored and colorized. (I know the color is not original, because I have seen many of the same clips in black and white in documentaries.) It even shows von Paulus surrendering at Stalingrad!
(Note: If you go directly to youtube and try to play this, it will ask you to sign in to prove your age. Apparently you can get around that by copying/pasting the URL.)
The lyrics, as you will soon see, say not one word about socialism, but plenty of words about kicking the fascist scum the hell OUT. As such it’s worth a look despite its origin.
Here is a literal translation (think New Revised Standard Version) on the left, and a looser paraphrase (think Living Bible) on the right. The right hand column even has the same meter as the music; you could sing it if you ever have to drive Nazis out of your country.
Chorus: (2x) Let noble wrath Boil over like a wave! This is the people’s war, a Sacred war!
We shall repulse the oppressors Of all ardent ideas. The rapists and the plunderers, The torturers of people.
Chorus
The black wings shall not dare Fly over the Motherland, On her spacious fields The enemy shall not dare tread!
Chorus
We shall drive a bullet into the forehead Of the rotten fascist filth, For the scum of humanity We shall build a solid coffin!
Chorus (2x)
Arise, you mighty motherland Arise for Sacred War To crush the evil fascist hordes Unite and drive them back!
Chorus: (2x) And noble anger leads us To victory against the fascist scum Arise, our mighty land Arise for Sacred War!
Let’s crush the mad oppressors And save our mighty land From rapists, thieves, and plunderers, These slaughterers of men!
Chorus
The black fascist wings of death Shadowed our sacred land But her spacious fields and streams They never shall defile
Chorus
Behold, fascist insanity You now face your doom The plague of humanity Shall be driven to its tomb!
Chorus (2x)
The appeal to patriotism rather than socialist glory worked…eventually. After a few years and 25 million deaths.
If you’re like me, you have mixed feelings about the fact that the Soviet Union beat Nazi Germany in World War II. (And you’re no doubt wondering why the hell I am posting Soviet patriotic music here.) Couldn’t they both have been annihilated? Pretty please?
But that’s exactly my point. The Soviet Union was a disgusting stain on the world, it was a mammoth prison, it was a mammoth slave plantation, it was the most evil thing on Earth for decades. And yet the people there had a sense of patriotism that could be dredged up in 1941, the depth of Stalin’s rule, even after over two decades of propaganda against the notion of being patriotic to a country, rather than being international socialists.
So (now finally returning to America) when someone proposes to mess with a country that is not only worthwhile, but the greatest ever in history, what are its people going to do?
This is something the Left cannot imagine. And they will continue to not imagine it as it blows up in their ugly faces.
There’s no ambiguity here. There’s no situation where an outside observer should want both sides to lose, like there was with World War II. The Left deserves to lose, and America deserves to win. Hopefully it won’t come to a shooting war, but if it does, perhaps, given the Left’s hatred of America and our love for it, it will be known as the Patriot’s War. Will we end up with a song for this? Perhaps, perhaps not. But really, do we need another one? We already have our anthem. We have America the Beautiful. We have My Country Tis of Thee. We have God Bless America. We have God Bless the USA. We have The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
The other side cannot lay claim to any of those, because they hate America. In fact, they have nothing but their own misguided hate for America to guide them through what is about to come.
And they are about to learn what happens when they threaten something people love.
Justice Must Be done.
Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People...Our campaign represents a true existential threat, like they’ve never seen before.
Then-Candidate Donald J. Trump
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
The Mandatory Coin
I found out that the Russian Empire issued a number of coins to commemorate the War of 1812, more specifically the battle of Borodino.
In 1839, a memorial was constructed at Borodino, and this ruble was issued that year (sorry about the crappy photography).
http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/901753.jpg
The portraits on both coins are of Alexander I, who was tsar at the time (1801-1825), rather than Nicholas I, his younger brother, who was tsar in the 1830s (1825-1855). In fact, if you want a portrait of Alexander I on a ruble, you have to get one of these coins; he did not put his own portrait on his coins while he was alive. Neither did Nicholas, nor Paul, Alexander’s father (1796-1801), nor Alexander II, Nicholas’s son (1855-1881).
(Maybe monarchs don’t have such a big ego after all–given a precedent of not putting their image on coinage, these absolute monarchs were all happy to keep it that way.)
Finally in 1912, to commemorate the centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812, we have:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/photo16517.jpeg
I’ve had some trouble translating that inscription on the reverse. It runs something like “this glorious year has passed, but the deeds done in it will not pass” though I’ve seen very different renderings. “This glorious year has passed but the deeds done in it will not be forgotten” probably is a better rendering.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
Just two more things, my standard Public Service Announcements. We don’t want to forget them!!!
How Not To Find Yourself In Contention For The Darwin Award (Nothing to do with bearded dragons)
It has been pointed out that all of the rioting is nominally on account of criminals who resisted arrest in one form or another, and someone suggested schools ought to teach people not to resist arrest.
Granted an “ass kicking” isn’t the same as being shot, but both can result from the same stupid act. You may ultimately beat the rap, but you aren’t going to avoid the ride.
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0%3F
I hope this guy isn’t rotting in the laogai somewhere!
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
Appendix: The lyrics in Russian
For anyone interested, here is Sacred War in Russian, with a transliteration.
Вставай, страна огромная, Вставай на смертный бой С фашистской силой тёмною, С проклятою ордой.
Припев: (2x) Пусть ярость благородная Вскипает, как волна! Идёт война народная, Священная война!
Дадим отпор душителям Всех пламенных идей, Насильникам, грабителям, Мучителям людей!
Припев
Не смеют крылья чёрные Над Родиной летать, Поля её просторные Не смеет враг топтать!
