“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
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
This Sanctuary Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.
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The Storm is upon us. Please remember to Pray for our President.
AND WHAT TIME IS IT? TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!
It’s time to replace a failed and CORRUPT political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. ~ Candidate Donald J. Trump
Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And,
On this day and every day –
God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Praise for the LORD’s Mercies
With all the garbage that’s being flung about now, especially in consideration of the monumental impact that will result from the decisions made in the near future, I thought it’d be a good time to sit back and let God’s Word do its work to focus our attention upward on a matter of eternal importance.
This Psalm stands well on its own with no expert explanation or commentary needed. It reminds us of who God is, who we are, all that God has done for us, and the absolute appropriateness, if not necessity, of praising Him from the very depths of our souls.
Psalm 103 – A Psalm of David.
1 Praise the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, praise His holy name! 2 Praise the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD executes righteousness And justice for all who are oppressed. 7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. 9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities. 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who respect Him; 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father pities his children, So the LORD pities those who respect Him. 14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting On those who respect Him, And His righteousness to children’s children, 18 To such as keep His covenant, And to those who remember His commandments to do them.
19 The LORD has established His throne in heaven, And His kingdom rules over all. 20 Bless the LORD, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word. 21 Praise the LORD, all you His hosts, You servants of His, who do His pleasure. 22 Praise the LORD, all His works, In all places of His dominion.
Praise the LORD, O my soul!
A Psalm of David. –Doubtless by David; it is in his own style when at its best, and we should attribute it to his later years when he had a higher sense of the preciousness of pardon, because of a keener sense of sin, than in his younger days. His clear sense of the frailty of life indicates his weaker years, as also does the very fainess of his praiseful gratitude.
As in the lofty Alps some peaks rise above all others so among even the inspired Psalms there are heights of song which overtop the rest. This one hundred and third Psalm has ever seemed to us to be the Monte Rosa of the divine chain of mountains of praise, glowing with a ruddier light than any of the rest. It is as the apple tree among the trees of the wood, and its golden fruit has a flavour such as no fruit ever bears unless it has been ripened in the full suushine of mercy.
It is man’s reply to the benedictions of his God, his Song on the Mount answering to his Redeemer’s Sermon on the Mount. Nebuchadnezzar adored his idol with flute, harp, sacbut, psaltery, dulcimer and all kinds of music; and David, in far nobler style awakens all the melodies of heaven and earth in honour of the one only living and true God.
Our attempt at exposition is commenced under an impressive sense of the utter impossibility of doing justice to so sublime a composition; we call upon our soul and all that is within us to aid in the pleasurable task; but, alas, our soul is finite, and our all of mental faculty far too little for the enterprize.
There is too much in the Psalm, for a thousand pens to write, it is one of those all-comprehending Scriptures which is a Bible in itself, and it might alone almost suffice for the hymn-book of the church.
(And how not to spend it curled up in fetal position saying “Oh, shit!”)
Yeah, we’re definitely in a shitstorm right now, and worse (for our morale) is that our side hasn’t really answered the other side’s opening salvo. However, even a skeptic/pessimist like me can see we are gathering our forces for the counterattack. There are some unknown factors in play, but the only thing we can do is plunge in.
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.
Which just reminds me of a particular piece of music.
1812 Overture with Chorus.
That piece of music is about the war of 1812 between France and Russia, not our war of 1812, but nonetheless we’ve adopted it for our Independence Day (maybe having cannon used as a musical instrument had something to do with that). It’s replete with the Marseillaise theme as well as the old Russian Imperial anthem (neither of which was in use in 1812, but give Pyotr Ill’ich Chaikovsky some artistic license). I found this recording a few months ago and like the period paintings AND the fact that the choral part is included. (You can hear them sing God Save The Tsar towards the end, 15:00 or so.)
There are two parts of this where there is canon fire. One string of five shots at about 12:30, then a minute or so later at about 13:35 the music kicks into high gear, the bells ring, the same hymn that starts the whole piece is sung again, and there’s the big volley, and on July 4th you have fireworks too. When that hymn starts up, I think of it as “Mother Russia is awake, she’s riled, and she is going to bring an ASS KICKING with her.” (The one disadvantage of this recording is this doesn’t have the punch it does with an instrumental recording.)
Sort of like we feel about this election.
That first volley represents the Battle of Borodino. That was when the Russians did, in fact, make a stand. Borodino is a few score miles west of Moscow. The Russian Army and Napoleon’s Grand Armee faced off and twenty five thousand soldiers died.
This is one of the bloodiest single-day battles in history. In fact, it was at the time the second worst ever, second only to the utter annihilation of five Roman legions by Hannibal at Cannae.
For comparison, the Allies lost about 4400 men on D-day.
Napoleon was nominally the winner of this battle, but it drained his capabilities tremendously, and he had not decisively beaten the Russians, so the victory he was seeking continued to evade his grasp. (He specialized in crushing his enemies utterly in one stroke, and the Russians understood this and never gave him the opportunity.)
The Russians continued retreating towards Moscow. They reached it, and the soldiers marching along were waiting for the command to stop, and take their stand. Surely Moscow, the ancient (but not current) capital, the beating heart of Old Mother Russia, had to be defended! But they waited for the stop command in vain, they marched completely through the city and out the other side, giving it to Napoleon. They did, however, arrange to set the city on fire, leaving Napoleon with nothing…and winter was coming.
Hundreds of thousands of troops, French and allies, entered Russia. Almost none of them survived to retreat back out of Russia. An ass kicking indeed. And he was pursued all the way to Paris and deposed.
I think right now we’ve just fought our Battle of Borodino, and we will soon see who wins the war. There’s a hard deadline. The electors cast their vote on December 16, which means we must know before then who they are–Dopey Joe’s people, or Trump’s people.
And if it’s Dopey Joe’s people in too many cases…well, life will get very nasty, brutish, and interesting.
OK enough of that. To the immediate matter at hand. Unfrauding.
Unfrauding is getting out from under the electoral fraud. (I was about to coin the word “defrauding” but then I realized it already exists and means the exact opposite of what I would want it to mean. It must be one of those “flammable”/”inflammable” things.)
I am hoping there is indeed something to the one pixel dot identifiers. Actually, I do know there is something to it; that HP printer over to my left undeniably uses them. The question is whether the Big Honking Machines that printed off all those mail in ballots months ago also do this. A home/office printer is one thing, this other thing is an industrial printer you could probably print dead-tree books and magazines on.
If they do, then great: We can certainly discern whether a ballot was or was not printed on those machines and toss those out (unless, of course the counterfeiters were clever/able to change their machines to match–unlikely but not totally impossible–if it really was in China, big resources were in play and I’d expect someone over there to at least try).
But it’s important to remember how many different ways to commit fraud there are, and that this won’t catch all of them. For example, we know for a fact that many of those ballots printed on the perfectly legit machine were mailed to people who are dead, or who have moved away. Any of those “harvested” and filled out will have the correct dot pattern on them. Also, legit ballots with votes for Trump can be, and have been thrown away, and the correct dot pattern on those won’t prevent them from hitting the dumpster.
And there is a third factor. I’ve mentioned in the past that Colorado is mail-in only…but you can vote in person in Colorado; I did so on Monday. I had to go to one of about ten places in my county, fill out paperwork giving my name and address (and affirming that I am a citizen). They then looked me up, and on the spot, a big machine the size of an office copier but with a big attachment on top, printed my ballot.
I tried to explain this to someone, that Colorado prints legal ballots on the day of the election, and he simply denied it. Well, I saw it happen the day before the election on my behalf and I know people who voted on election day the same way.
Now this machine presumably prints the dots. And the dots encode a time stamp. But what happens if they run off a ballot or two during a slow time of day and vote them? Well, with THAT there is an audit trail; the number of ballots will be off from the number of people who voted, but I can think of ways around that, and the dot pattern will not, by itself, save us from that form of fraud.
Basically, folks, as useful as the dot pattern is…it had better not be the only thing in our quiver, and I’m 99 percent sure it isn’t.
A Reminder Of Today’s Big Issue.
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
Needs to happen, soon.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
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This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Political 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. The first rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government take your guns. 5. 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. Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Be sure of your target and what is behind it. 9. Social Justice Warriors, ANTIFA pukes, BLM hypocrites, and other assorted varieties of Marxists can go copulate with themselves, or if insufficiently limber, may substitute a rusty wire brush suitable for cleaning the bore of a twelve or ten gauge.
I made a joke Thursday, telling the left not to make me go Ivan the Terrible on them. Wolf appreciated it, which got me to thinking about him (Ivan, not Wolf). He was the fourth grand duke of Muscovy named Ivan (and the ones before him all had nicknames too, Ivan Moneybags, Ivan the Red (or Ivan the Fair), and Ivan the Great). He flourished in the late 1500s, and was the grandson of Ivan the Great. Ivan the Great had defeated the Mongols, which is how he got to be called the “Great”, and Ivan the Terrible, his grandson, capitalized on that to assume the title “Tsar” (a derivation of the word Caesar). Russia at that point (in 1547) became a “Tsardom” with Muscovy becoming its most important constituency.
His reign started out promisingly in 1533, and he managed to conquer the Khanates of Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556) on the Volga, and made the first inroads into Siberia (50s-1580).
But then something happened, and he became erratic in the 1560s, starting a rather “Red Guard” like force called the Oprichnina. He eventually (1570) turned them loose on Novgorod, one of his own cities, and it was as if an invading army were sacking it, murdering and pillaging. Novgorod at the time was second only in importance to Moscow. It never regained that level of prominence.
He also built St. Basil’s cathedral on Red Square in Moscow (that’s the one with all the onion shaped domes on it).
His sobriquet isn’t really “the Terrible” in the sense of “awful, horrific.” The word Terrible made sense as a translation back then, but its meaning has changed over the centuries and now the Russian word groznyy is a bit difficult to translate, it’s somewhere between fearsome, formidable, dreaded, and awesome (as in awe-inspiring, not excellent). To be “terrible” in the modern sense of the word, to a Russian, a ruler would have to allow the country to descend into anarchy or lose a major war or something like that. Ivan Groznyy did none of those things. he kept a tight grip, he expanded Russia’s borders…basically, you didn’t fuck with him.
That first picture of him shows him robed with a walking stick. But that walking stick is actually a spear. He was not above literally pinning someone’s foot to the floor with it.
(“Mommy, mommy, why do I keep walking around in circles?” “Shut up or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor.” — from a compendium of sick jokes I read as a teenager, the natural market for such books.)
Ivan beat one of his pregnant daughters for dressing immodestly in 1581, she ended up miscarrying (probably as a result of the beating), then his son, Ivan junior, got into an argument about it, and Ivan beat him with his staff, and Ivan junior died.
A very famous painting by Repin of Ivan immeidately after killing his son. Talk about “Oh, Shit!!!” moments.
Ivan Groznyy finally died in 1584.
Because he had killed his son, his dynasty, the Ryuriks (who had ruled in some form since the 800s) petered out after a nephew succeeded him, and Russia spent the time from 1598-1613 in the Time of Troubles, after which a more distant relative of Ivan, Michael Romanov, was asked to be Tsar, and he founded the Romanov dynasty, which endured for just over 300 years.
But this is the coins section, so you might be thinking I’ll show you some of his coins. And they must surely be fabulously expensive.
Half right. I’ll show you the coins. But they’re cheap. And not terribly impressive to look at.
Denga of Ivan the Terrible, while he was Grand Duke. (You can spot part of the word ВЕЛИКИЙ “Velikiy” in the lettering, Russian for “Grand” or “Great”)
These coins are considerably smaller than a dime. Dengas (I’ll explain that in a moment) were originally about a gram in weight but over time got debased down to 0.14 grams. A silver dime weighs 5.0 [edit: not 6.25] grams, for comparison.
Russian coins at this time were made by a very different process. A bit of silver wire was carefully measured and cut. If the wire had consistent thickness, the cut piece would have consistent weight. This bit of wire was rolled flat, resulting in a rather oblong shape. It would then be struck by hammered dies. The dies were much larger than the coin, meaning that the coin would never show the entire design. However, by examining hundreds of these bits of “wire money” one can assemble a composite and see what was on the die.
One side was the name and title of the tsar. The other had a man on horseback, fighting a dragon with either a spear or a sword. That man, of course, was St. George. And him fighting the dragon was the emblem of Moscow (and still is). If you’ve ever seen a double-headed Russian eagle emblem, it generally has a shield on its chest, and on that shield is St. George.
Ivan the Terrible wire money, this time as Tsar (ЦАРЬ, abbreviated ЦРЬ, upside down on the left at what should be the top).
Wire money is occasionally found in hoards (someone buried a pot full of them for safekeeping and never returned to dig it up). These sometimes have many hundreds of pieces and thus the coins aren’t rare and aren’t very expensive. They’re also generally not very attractive. It’s a rare collector who takes a fascination with them, but in principle you can buy a book that shows you all the dies we know of and figure out which one struck your coin. If it has the name of Ivan Vasilievich on it, it will either call him “Veliky Knaz” (grand duke, pre-1547) or “Tsar” (tsar, post 1547) and you’ve got a coin of Ivan the Terrible. (Pro tip. If the lettering contains an X, it cannot be anything other than a coin of Michael Romanov.)
They commonly came in two sizes; ones with St. George and a sword were called “dengas”, ones twice as heavy with St. George using a spear (in Russian, a kopye) were called “kopeyeks” and that is what ultimately led to the kopek. There was, occasionally, an “altyn” worth six dengas, and it got that name from the Tatar word for six. That fact right there should tell you how hard the Mongol/Tatar yoke sat on the Russians during the late middle ages. (Even “denga” is probably a Turkic word.)
Rubles at the time only had a theoretical existence. Centuries earlier there were cast silver ingots and ruble, from the Russian word for “to cut” was a cut-off piece of an ingot. But by the 1500s, no physical “ruble” existed, so rubles were a “unit of account” equal to 200 dengas.
Nice round coins like ours didn’t come to Russia until Peter the Great introduced them in 1700.
Standard disclaimer: I never show pictures of my own coins. I may or may not own coins like the ones I show. Burglars will be interested to hear that gold and silver aren’t the only heavy metals I have, and I have quite a bit of one with a heavier nucleus than either. And I keep it around a lot more than the gold and silver.
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.
Chris Rock on a similar vein, in 2007
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!!! And remember the tens of millions who died under the “Great Helmsman” Chairman Mao.
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 !!!
For my money the Great Helmsman is Hikaru Sulu (even if the actor is a dingbat).
Years ago, I met a distant cousin who had researched one of our ancestors for many years. There were family stories and legends about him and even a newspaper story in 1903, but no one really knew how much of the stories was true. She had dedicated herself to finding out, and I joined the search to see what could be known.
This is the newspaper story about him. Many family researchers said it was made up, but we were able to prove that almost everything in it was true. Yes, there was some hyperbole; Edward Williams wasn’t with Washington at Valley Forge, that was the journalist adding something to spice up the tale. But the rest is really something, and true:
A SOLDIER OF THE WAR
In a quiet country cemetery down on Cheechero, lies the remains of Edward Williams, a soldier and drum-major of the American Revolution and War of 1812, with no other mark to designate his resting place than the letters “E, W,” cut on a rough stone. On his arm was tattoed his name, Coat-Of-Arms and the British Crown.
The old soldier was drafted in England to fight the Colonist, but when he landed in America he took up arms with the Liberty Boys and fought for American liberty to the finish. He was with Gen Washington in the battles of the Brandywine and Princeton and was a survivor of Camp Valley Forge.
When peace had been made between England and America and all had gone back to quiet living, every Fourth of July this old soldier would take his drum to the top of the highest mountain and “beat” the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
His desertion of the British army was not on account of crime but for the liberty that fired American’s heart and which burned in his also.
In 1812, when England began to press the American sailors into her service this old soldier again marched with the Americans against England, He was 107 years old when he died.
His dying request was that he be buried under the Honors of War. A company of local Militia carried the remains to the cemetery, then formed a circle around the grave and after each one had fired a blank load into it, they placed the old soldier in his last resting place while the ground was full of smoke.
That he was a drummer of much ability, can be proved by almost all the old citizens of Rabun who have heard him “beat” at the old Muster-Grounds, and it may be stated here that one of his posterity, J. H. Williams, of Alto, Ga., was drum-major under Gen. Lee in the Civil War.
The Clayton Tribune, Clayton, Georgia, March 26, 1903
Old Edward really did rejoin the military in 1812, when he was in his <b>70s</b>. His grandson was in the same unit, we found their pay records. Edward played the drum; I imagine that was all he could do at his age.
But he did it.
I can only imagine what Edward felt around 1811 as he realized the British hadn’t been defeated ENOUGH the first time, and were back for more. I can only imagine how he felt as they impressed American sailors into their ships, as he had been impressed and escaped before, because being “drafted” into the British Navy wasn’t done by choice. At over seventy years old, he saw his country under attack AGAIN by a relentless enemy, so he stepped up. I have no idea how he managed it. His family must have thought he was nuts.
This morning (after having my morning cry in the shower) I thought about Edward and the parallels to his story in our current situation. The British didn’t take NO for an answer the first time, and the BASTARD LIBERALS didn’t take NO for an answer from us the first time, either. One win for Trump was not enough to shut them down, they are back for a second try. They are desperate and over-confident, just like the British of 1812. They want to annihilate everything our ancestors fought and died for.
They must be DEFEATED, for good and all.
Today, when I feel trepidation, I will remember Edward. When I want to lay down my arms and give up, I will remember he picked up a drum. If I don’t want to march another step, I will pick up my feet anyway in his honor.
I am the legacy of Edward Williams, an American Patriot. So are we all. Let’s do him honor with our actions and words in OUR time of struggle against tyranny.
Give them nothing but one more day to rue, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Remain LEGAL, generally CIVIL, and possibly even GENTEEL.
Yeah, this image is a replay, but it LEADS THE THEME.
JUSTICE.
And more specifically…..
Angels of Justice.
I began this post before THE STEAL, but I am finishing it NOW THAT WE KNOW. Now that we KNOW WHAT THEY DID.
Our TIME OF DESTINY is here. I choose to STOP THE STEAL or DIE TRYING. There is no turning back for me.
I will not live KNOWINGLY under CHICOM TRAITORS.
Before I do, I will SHAME the treasonous FBI into either KILLING ME, DOING THEIR JOB, or CLOSURE. Take their pick. And if their job IS killing me, then may God have mercy on their souls.
Today we have FIVE SHORT LESSONS in politically incorrect WOLFTHINK.
Wild Angels
If you need to get your “Wild Angels” mood fired up, then rather than give you the original Hollyweird version of “country” with gargoyles and big city strangeness, try this more recent version with a Vegas feel and a horn section.
https://youtu.be/1Y3ppJrTh7M
Aw, what the heck. Here’s the original, too!
Angel Families
So maybe it really is time to be CALLING ALL ANGELS…..
If there was ever a hint that we needed ANGELS OF JUSTICE – well – here you go. ANGEL MOMS.
The Angels of Justice are not powered by HATE, but rather by LOVE.
And that’s why we love them back!
Sharyl Attkisson Covers The Grand Energy Treason Conspiracy
Yeah, this lady has left a few hints on her profiles…..
Anyway, now she has come to the same conclusion I did. There sure seems to be something sketchy about people who cry-bully us into CHUMP ENERGY getting all invested in NON-CHUMP energy with COMMUNISTS and “former” communists.
Note that I borrowed that image of the flaming angel from a video Q posted…..
This is part of WHY WE FIGHT.
Corrupt Joe Biden and Hoax-Mistress Kamala Harris cannot be trusted to serve this country, but even more importantly, they could not even win a FAIR election to allow us to “choose socialism knowingly”. They wouldn’t even let us vote to FREELY choose socialism. They had to RIG the answer.
Sorry – speaking only for myself and those who freely choose to follow, we will not accept their CHEAT RESULT. We will try to do this nicely, but if that fails, we will defend the Constitution and TRUTH ITSELF.
There is no need to be shy about this. You don’t have to be specific about “what you will do” or “what you will not do”. Will you accept the cheat result of this election, or will you fight it with everything you have, by the means that you find morally acceptable?
Yes, no, uncertain, or “no answer” (a good strategic choice). Easy. And you don’t even have to consider the question. But I suggest facing the question NOW, in your mind. Doing so NOW is helpful to President Trump, however you may answer, in my opinion. Pray on it, think about it, choose by instinct – whatever. Start making the decision NOW. That is my recommendation – particularly if you want to LIVE FREE.
Independence Day
Yeah, this song is about ENDING an abusive relationship.
I had never heard this particular version, but YEAH. Not bad.
Listen to the words.
It’s TIME, people.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw offsuchGovernment, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Whether YOU choose it or not, some of us are making the choice NOW. I will not live under socialism. This will NEVER be a socialist country. Not for ME and those who choose to follow.
WISDOM 3:1-9
1But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. 2In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction, 3and their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace. 4For though in the sight of men they were punished, their hope is full of immortality. 5Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; 6like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them. 7In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble. 8They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever. 9Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his elect, and he watches over his holy ones.
The time has come. We begin peacefully, but if that fails, those who follow me, know the price. Communists kill people. Deal with that, however you must.
Join this army at some risk, but fail to join us at known cost.
And remember – we will keep our sense of humor.
SO…..
We begin. These are the days we were born to live.
MAKE THE MOST OF THEM.
CALM. STEADY. TO VICTORY.
W
Sorry – let’s fix that.
I don’t even remember what the 200 meant, originally.
I only know that it will mean something important now. -W
I am sure most of you have had the same experience in the past couple of days I am about to relate.
I have spoken with multiple friends about the election, of course. The first reaction I get from them when I ask how they are is:
*heavy sigh* “Fine, I guess. Probably feel about like you do.” *groan*
My response? “I feel GREAT! We are going to WIN! We all knew it would end up in the courts, and Trump spent the last FOUR YEARS fixing those!”
Invariably, people’s eyes light up, their spine straightens, and their voice strengthens. “Really?” they ask. “You aren’t worried?”
Me: “Hell, no, we got this! We’re gonna win! Stand strong, tell everybody, spread the word!”
Off they go, raring to rip again. Into the fray.
Right now, WE HAVE TO STAND. I’m not going to give in to despair, that is what “they” want. That is the end game. For us all to give up, lay down, and get in line with what they want us to think is inevitable, when they do it to us. WELL, IT IS NOT “INEVITABLE”, AND I WON’T HAVE IT!!!!
Whatever it takes, I will do. Our President gave up years of his life, a very cushy and successful life I might add, to dedicate himself to us, our country, and our future. Can we do less? If it takes a month or six weeks of fighting it out EVERY day, online, at a protest rally, with the naysayers in our lives, whatever, is that really too much to ask? Ask yourself how much it means to you to have four more years of Trump guiding our country, and match that with your effort and attitude.
Never give up, never give up, never, never, never! Spine of steel, set the example, don’t be afraid, disheartened, or sad. If you have to cry, do it in the shower (I certainly have), but never let them see you be anything less than a warrior for our cause. Because that is what we are! Warriors. Trumpians.
WOLVERINES.
We will be victorious, because we MUST. The world hangs in the balance, and we will STAND!
This is about where we are with all of this election stuff. Please, put any commentary in the comments. It’s been exhausting talking people off of ledges both at home and online.
As devout Christians and faithful citizens of the United States of America, you have intense and heartfelt concern for the fate of your beloved country while the final results of the Presidential election are still uncertain.
News of electoral fraud is multiplying, despite the shameful attempts of the mainstream media to censor the truth of the facts in order to give their candidate the advantage. There are states in which the number of votes is greater than the number of voters; others in which the mail-in vote seems to be exclusively in favor of Joe Biden; others in which the counting of ballots has been suspended for no reason or where sensational tampering has been discovered: always and only against President Donald J. Trump, always and only in favor of Biden.
In truth, for months now we have been witnessing a continuous trickle of staggered news, of manipulated or censored information, of crimes that have been silenced or covered up in the face of striking evidence and irrefutable testimony. We have seen the deep state organize itself, well in advance, to carry out the most colossal electoral fraud in history, in order to ensure the defeat of the man who has strenuously opposed the establishment of the New World Order that is wanted by the children of darkness. In this battle, you have not failed, as is your sacred duty, to make your own contribution by taking the side of the Good. Others, enslaved by vices or blinded by infernal hatred against Our Lord, have taken the side of Evil.
Do not think that the children of darkness act with honesty, and do not be scandalized if they operate with deception. Do you perhaps believe that Satan’s followers are honest, sincere, and loyal? The Lord has warned us against the Devil: “He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44).
In these hours, while the gates of Hell seem to prevail, allow me to address myself to you with an appeal, which I trust that you will respond to promptly and with generosity. I ask you to make an act of trust in God, an act of humility and filial devotion to The Lord of Armies. I ask that all of you pray the Holy Rosary, if possible in your families or with your dear ones, your friends, your brothers and sisters, your colleagues, your fellow soldiers. Pray with the abandonment of children who know how to have recourse to their Most Holy Mother to ask her to intercede before the throne of the Divine Majesty. Pray with a sincere soul, with a pure heart, in the certainty of being heard and answered. Ask her – she who is the Help of Christians, Auxilium Christianorum – to defeat the forces of the Enemy; ask her – she who is terrible as an army set in battle array (Song 6:10) – to grant the victory to the forces of Good and to inflict a humiliating defeat on the forces of Evil.
Have your children pray, using the holy words that you have taught them: those confident prayers will rise to God and will not remain unheard. Have the elderly and sick pray, so that they may offer their sufferings in union with the sufferings that Our Lord suffered on the Cross when he shed His Precious Blood for Our Redemption. Have young ladies and women pray, so that they turn to her who is the model of purity and motherhood. And you, men, must also pray: your courage, your honor and your boldness will be refreshed and strengthened. All of you, take up this spiritual weapon, before which Satan and his minions retreat furiously, because they fear the Most Holy Virgin, she who is Almighty by Grace, even more than Almighty God.
Do not allow yourselves to be discouraged by the deceptions of the Enemy, even more so in this terrible hour in which the impudence of lying and fraud dares to challenge Heaven. Our adversaries’ hours are numbered if you will pray, if we will all pray with Faith and with the true ardor of Charity. May the Lord grant that one single devout and faithful voice rise from your homes, your churches, and your streets! This voice will not remain unheard, because it will be the voice of a people that cries out, in the moment when the storm rages most fiercely, “Save us, Lord, we are perishing!” (Mt 8:25).
The days that await us are a precious occasion for all of you, and for those who unite themselves spiritually to you from every part of the world. You have the honor and privilege of being able to participate in the victory of this spiritual battle, to wield the powerful weapon of the Holy Rosary as our fathers did at Lepanto to repel the enemy armies.
Pray with the certainty of Our Lord’s promise: “Ask and it shall be given unto you, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you” (Lk 11:9). The King of Kings, from whom you ask the salvation of your Nation, will reward your Faith. Your testimony, remember this, will touch the heart of Our Lord, multiplying the heavenly Graces which are, more than ever, indispensable in order to achieve victory.
May my appeal, which I address to you and to all people who recognize the Lordship of God, find you to be generous apostles and courageous witnesses of the spiritual rebirth of your beloved country, and with it the entire world. Non praevalebunt.
God bless and protect the United States of America!
One Nation under God
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America
November 4, 2020
You ready, Pat?
And a few of the (late, some of them) grand old men of…well, music.
Well, and this:
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As usual, this is the daily thread, the place to put all information that needs to be out there – Q drops, Q drop decodes, riot information, rumors about MAGA rallies starting up again, news flashes, Chy-na flu updates, fashionable mask photos, satire, memes, and of course cute animal videos.
In the meantime, the short and sweet version of “THE RULES” is here borrowed from Tuesday:
The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out.
This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.
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.
Since it is almost the weekend, the reminders are in place to not swing from the chandeliers, wash your hands and face, and be nice to the liberals whether they deserve it or not. Making your bed, OTOH, is optional.
Today, the first reading is from the Helenistic Canon, one of the seven books of the Old Testament known as the Deuterocanonicals, Wisdom. It is a beautifully written book I wish all Christians could know, and don’t. The details on why are divisive and right now we don’t need that argument.
WISDOM 3:1-9
1But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. 2In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction, 3and their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace. 4For though in the sight of men they were punished, their hope is full of immortality. 5Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; 6like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them. 7In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble. 8They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever. 9Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his elect, and he watches over his holy ones.
Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day Operations shares this video from woman in Penn stuffing the ballet box. Share because twitter is censoring it.
OK – so you have that? FILMED cheating not allowed to be shown by “big tech” – specifically Jack Dorsey’s platform, owned by Saudi billionaires.
Now read this.
Remember – this woman was working with third-generation Russian red diaper Jussie Smollett to use a HOAX to defame us and pass legislation that WE were “lynching blacks”.
But it gets worse.
From Gab.
For the visually impaired, we have a Kamala Harris tweet from TODAY, November 4 at 4.24 AM…..
…..which says:
“One of my first acts as VP will be to ensure that there are excellent education programs for Americans, young and old, so that we never end up with another Donald Trump.”
Let us be VERY clear. If this woman becomes President, America ENDS as we knew and loved it. It’s RED DAWN.
So no. Just no.
They WILL have to kill me, to see this woman into the White House.
And I won’t make it easy.
Are you READY to commit to the same?
That this CHEAT COUP will NOT STAND, WHILE YOU LIVE?
All who will join me, and Patrick Henry Censored, are welcome.
I had another music video in mind for today, but after the bull crap the dinosaur lamestream media put us through last night, this one will have to do.
IDK about anyone else, but I really wish the other side and take their medicine like honest people do.
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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.
FOR TODAY ONLY: CELEBRITORY GUNFIRE AND SWINGING FROM THE CHANDELIERS IS ENCOURAGED IF THE ELECTION IS CALLED! Please, though, don’t mess with the nuclear weapons.
Please remember to remain locked and loaded and ready for trouble should the insurrectionists try to invade your space.
Those who have things to say that do not fit the generally accepted limits of “civil” discussion, Wolf has provided a venue known as the UTree. You’re welcome to visit over there and say hi to anyone hanging out over there.
A few other vital notes:
Please, review these rules that our host Wolfm00n outlined toward the beginning of the growth of the tree itself. it won’t take long.
To options for Mass readings today, and all are good, but the bookends are most appropose for the day:
PHILIPPIANS 2:12-18
12Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 14Do all things without grumbling or questioning, 15that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. 17Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. 18Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
JOHN 10:11-16
11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, 15as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
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.
PERHAPS you remember this infamous tweet…. Yes, that’s the REAL one. The image I used for this post up top is actually a FAKE Trump tweet that I made to harass Trump’s enemies back when “covfefe” was more of a thing, and we took “Pepe pride” in “covfefe”, turning an “MSM negative” into a “MAGA …
To put it bluntly, it’s highly likely that “covfefe” was simply the result of a computer TEXT BUG, and the entire Fake News Media pretended it wasn’t the most obvious answer – that most of their I.T. people either could have told them, or DID TELL THEM, and they either “pretended not to know” or “pretended not to hear”.
Note that TWITTER never said a WORD that would have corrected or affirmed the LYING PRESS.
That old post has a lot of relevance for where we are NOW.
So let’s go back in time to see it.
When I realized that the Fake News should have figured out that “covfefe” was simply a stupid Unicode bug, finally dumped out in ASCII characters, and either did not perform due diligence, or pretended not to, and that this was an example of what doxxed Twitter MAGA commentator “Burn Notice” (@BurnedSpy34) was talking about – that we have been “granting authority” to a lying, deceiving, untrustworthy media to whom we don’t have to grant ANY authority – I began to understand something even GREATER – a great truth that we have been “hypnotized” out of.
WE are the ones who decide WHO has authority over us.
If we choose GOD and not MEN, then THEY have to live with it, whether they LIKE IT OR NOT.
The main point of that post is that WE NO LONGER GRANT PERMISSION OF “AUTHORITY” TO THOSE WHO HAVE ABUSED IT.
THE PHONY MEDIA DOES NOT DECIDE THIS ELECTION.
THE CORRUPT DEEP STATE DOES NOT DECIDE THIS ELECTION.
Some wizard-bearded FREAK at Twitter, and his gaggle of woke minions, do not decide this election.
Being that mainstream media propagandists keep reaching out to me for comment on Gab’s election day policies I thought it would be helpful if I wrote a post to let the world know how Gab will be handling the election and what our policies will be.
While Facebook and Twitter are “fact-checking” (editorializing) election news and results, banning “hate speech,” and shutting down basic functionality of their applications to prevent people from speaking freely, Gab will be enabling the free flow of information on our platform.
Gab’s election day policies are the same as our regular policies: any political speech that is protected by the first amendment of the United States is protected on Gab. Illegal and criminal activity, including threats of violence, is not allowed.
That’s it. It’s really that simple.
While Twitter plans to censor President Trump if he “claims an early victory” on election night, Gab will have all of the President’s posts backed up and uncensored. In the event that Facebook and Twitter censor the President’s victory speech, Gab will mass email the speech to millions of people and have it securely backed up on our site for the world to see.
The time to get on Gab is right now. There is a massive wave of Big Tech censorship coming both during and after the election. Be prepared. Tell a friend to get on Gab where information flows freely and the people speak freely.
God bless,
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Jesus is King
So……
ARM YOURSELVES WITH YOUR BIBLES – NOT YOUR GUNS.
THE TRUTH WILL DECIDE THIS ELECTION.
GOD – NOT MEN
We will not respect LIES. We will only respect TRUTH.
