“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
[If HOPIUM is needed, please ask for directions to the nearest Hopium Den. We’ll be happy to help you out.]
Or…maybe we’ll just pile some on today.
A while back, like close to two years, I think, I put forth an actual theory of “The Plan” and asserted that it really began to be put together about seventy years ago around the time of the Korean War. I also came to the conclusion later, that President Kennedy was the original “front man” for the operation, and that he was publicly executed as an example of what happens to someone when they cross the banking cabal.
That part has not really been questioned, but my idea that the start of the execution of the plan itself, when it started rolling, was in 1999 has been lampooned and scoffed at.
Only one (unfortunately now former) tree dweller thought maybe I had a point.
And then on Tuesday, while on the treadmill trying to work off some of the winter eating habits, I watched this. Start at about 24:30.
https://youtu.be/ZZ8QUUy7OMg?t=1474
Howard Hughes would not have been my first choice for someone who caught on to what was going on and made the first moves against the banking cabal, but to an extent, that makes sense.
However, Scott McKay is the first of the people claiming any sort of insider knowledge to state that the “start” was in 1999.
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Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: a0205a No.952914 Apr 8 2018 13:15:14 (EST) POTUS & JFK JR. Relationship. Plane crash 1999. HRC Senate 2000. The “Start.” Enjoy the show. Q
When the book is FINALLY written on this episode of human history, it’s going to be a page turner, that’s for sure.
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14King Nebuchadnezzar questioned them: “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you will not serve my god, or worship the golden statue that I set up? 15Be ready now to fall down and worship the statue I had made, whenever you hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, lyre, harp, psaltery, bagpipe, and all the other musical instruments; otherwise, you shall be instantly cast into the white-hot furnace; and who is the God that can deliver you out of my hands?” 16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, “There is no need for us to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17If our God, whom we serve, can save us from the white-hot furnace and from your hands, O king, may he save us! 18But even if he will not, know, O king, that we will not serve your god or worship the golden statue which you set up.” 19Nebuchadnezzar’s face became livid with utter rage against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace to be heated seven times more than usual 20and had some of the strongest men in his army bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and cast them into thewhite-hot furnace. 91King Nebuchadnezzar rose in haste and asked his nobles, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” “Assuredly, O king,” they answered. 92“But,” he replied, “I see four men unfettered and unhurt, walking in the fire, and the fourth looks like a son of God.” 95Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who sent his angel to deliver the servants that trusted in him; they disobeyed the royal command and yielded their bodies rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
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, first responders and those working behind the scenes…and any and all people with family members in the hospital, COVID or not.
I have been warning people about “taking money from China” for a long, long, long time, but I finally realized that this warning is best expressed in exactly the same TEMPTATION that China uses.
MONEY.
Here is the truth, expressed in MONEY.
All. Chinese. Money. Comes with a string attached. A TAX. And that TAX is WHATEVER THE CCP WANTS TO TAKE.
It’s as if there is a TAX on any profits you make in China, and that tax is GREATER – always – than the profits you were promised, more so the lesser profits you will actually GET, if you are LUCKY. You will have to get that tax money from OTHER PEOPLE. By cheating your customers, by losing your reputation, by helping create a Chinese competitor who will use YOUR intellectual property.
SOMEHOW you will pay.
You CANNOT get past this. China doesn’t ASK – it TAKES. And if you refuse, they take something else.
This tax is not something that goes away. It’s not something you can cheat BETTER than the CCP to get a leg up on them.
The ONLY way to WIN is to NOT PLAY.
Take, for example, the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Remember when the CoC was regarded by almost all people as a LEGITIMATE VOICE OF CONCERN whenever they WERE in fact “concerned”? Remember when people worried about what the Chamber of Commerce said, rather than thinking “OK – the Chamber of Chinese Commerce In America is against it – so it’s good – right?”
The thing that REALLY clued me into the power of Chinese money to OWN people, was the way that HOLLYWOOD was essentially lost to China.
Who does THAT? Who suckers HOLLYWOOD? Man alive, talk about GIFTED! That is criminal genius!
I have covered Hollywood and the CCP before, and that picture is not pretty.
A short bibliography on Hollywood, caught between the Scylla of China-backed cultural Marxists here in America, and the Charybdis of Chinese CCP-taxed investment money – a WHIRLPOOL of destruction where all bucks flow to CHINA.
I’m going to make a list of four important points about Hollywood – (which was to a large extent ideologically molded by communist RUSSIA, and is now significantly owned by communist CHINA, although being uniquely developed by AMERICAN communists) – and elaborate on those four points for your interest. Remember – this is from the …
It was the MOMENT that I realized that we are dealing with DEGRADATION of Western symbols…. That we are being forced to DEGRADE THEM OURSELVES…. That it is being done using RACIAL REVENGE as a psychological subtext…. And it was ALSO being done using SEXUAL REVENGE as a psychological subtext…. That REVENGE is a form …
Perhaps you remember my last column on Chinese Communism’s insidious cultural attack on America through Hollywood. If not, then here it is for your background consideration: Why I Believe That Chinese Communism is Raping Western Symbols And Must Be Punished by Tariffs on Hollywood Investments It was the MOMENT that I realized that we are dealing …
Do you remember the movies “Walking Tall” and “Billy Jack”? Do you also remember the hundreds of “me too” movies…
Ultimately, it sometimes seems like TRUMP is the only person who has a CLUE how to play hardball in a game where the CCP actually plays hardball, but will let everybody else pretend it’s softball all day long.
That is how the CCP’s overwhelming, smiling, lying, SOFT POWER works.
It is VERY instructive to look at all the victims of the CCP, and simply say “maybe I’ll do something other than what they did.”
Hollywood not only cannot contradict China – it can’t even TALK about China, except in approved ways. Worse still, Hollywood has to accept “instruction” from idiotic cultural radicals in America, who are BACKED by China, and who would be CRUSHED in China, but who force Hollywood to contradict AMERICA, insuring Hollywood’s alienation from its core market, until – yeah – who does Hollywood serve?
However, if you REALLY want to see the TAX extracted by China, look no further than CHINA JOE and his weak, pathetic, demoralized, mind-controlled administration.
You’ve seen the news – the DRESSING DOWN that Biden’s State Department nebbish received from China.
To say the first major diplomatic summit between the United States and China was an unmitigated mess would be an understatement. Apparently U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken thought it would be of value for the domestic audience if he was to lambast the Beijing delegation in public and on camera. His efforts were a complete fail as the Chinese knew everything was presented for domestic consumption… so, the Red Dragon threw fire right back onto the purple hair and obviously stunned an unsettled U.S. Secretary.
This is NOTHING. This isn’t even the BEGINNING of the TAX that the Biden administration will pay to China for its little Dominion hoax to make sure that the little Democrats got their little White House.
CHINA. SCORED. BIGLY.
The Democrats were almost over a barrel with the GOP and Trump.
Now, the Democrats are completely over a barrel – NAKED – with China in control.
To understand where we are at, it’s very helpful to take an hour and enjoy some “Fake Entertainment” from Hollywood, when it was on a “demoralization” kick, and one of the later incarnations of “The Outer Limits” was making a fairly prophetic statement, in a 1996 episode about tyrannical geopolitics dressed up as science fiction, called “The Deprogrammers“.
I warn you – even the demoralization-loving LEFT thinks this episode is depressing. Watch at your own risk.
The Mao Jackets – the sullen workers – the haughty and oppressive aliens living in luxury over the masses – it’s all there except – OH WAIT – yes – COVID-19, or at least the aftermath, even makes a cameo appearance!
There is a line at about 56:00 minutes into the show that is straight out of the China Virus. The word “jollem” is a disparaging term for humans, who are all slaves to the aliens.
“Jollem aren’t allowed to touch anybody! EVER!”
Yeah. That is EXACTLY where we are at. One would almost think the people behind this show had a direct line to the future to plant this stuff.
Or maybe the predictive programming knew exactly what it needed to get us used to – I don’t know – for some weird reason that maybe we discover eventually.
Cover image: Cherry Blossom Festival by Sarah Grainger, 2010.
As we wait for shoes to drop…or any movement on the surface that matches up with anecdotal accounts and CEO resignations on the side…it is worth a trip down memory lane to remind ourselves that this war in which we are entangled is far older and more engrained than any of us imagined when an anonymous account on a public chat board started putting out breadcrumbs for anons who were hungry for information and willing to find public records of events in the past and piece together the puzzle of just what the powers that wanna be have been up to while We the People on the fruited plain and elsewhere in the USA and the world were distracted with life. (Please, skip to 8:41 mark for the important segment.)
Ike having been in command positions in the U.S. Army and as NATO Supreme Commander was in a unique position to know what sort of dangers foreign powers could pose to the nation.
This speech was given in 1961. Imagine how, in the secrecy of non-transparency, those involved in President Kennedy’s “conspiracy” would have augmented their control and power since that time.
At a certain point, it would seem limitless with as many government agencies, departments and branches under enemy control (foreign or domestic doesn’t really matter at this point) BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY and working toward the common goal of delivering up the nation to the other side.
The enemy has been in this war a lot longer than most of us. And…”they” aren’t going to give up without one heck of a fight.
The problem, then, for our side is one of perseverance and a certain dying to self to make it to victory. No one person or his or her (in objective truth) feelings is above the fight. To give in to self, to make the fight about “what have you done for me lately” or all surface victories when the larger war is galloping in the background is to succumb to division, a tactic the other side uses constantly and with impunity.
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Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: d73264 No.5245228 Feb 18 2019 13:57:32 (EST) How can an entity known only as ‘Q’ (face-less, name-less, fame-less, etc.) begin to ask questions on 4ch (now 8ch) and build something of this magnitude? How can this same ‘Q’ entity garner such a massive amount of WW MSM [FAKE NEWS] attention [attacks]? How is it possible this ‘Q’ entity can ‘forecast’ future events or ‘know’ when the POTUS is about to Tweet? How is it possible ‘FUTURE PROVES PAST’ re: information provided? How is it possible this ‘Q’ entity, an entity who began by merely asking questions on 4ch/8ch, was able to ………(fill in the blank). Think logically. People are craving TRUTH. People are craving TRANSPARENCY. People are craving EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW. People are craving GOOD. People are craving RIGHT. People are craving TRUE FREEDOM. People are craving SAFETY & SECURITY. People are craving ………..(fill in the blank). PROOFS NEGATE FALSEHOOD/CONSPIRACY ATTACKS. Those who attack have an agenda or remain plugged into the biggest disinformation campaign to be ever witnessed. ———————————- Ask yourself, why are ‘Liberals’ always angry? Why do they curse? Why do they slander (push fake labels > racist, sexist, …ist etc.)? Why do they create ’emotional outbursts’ when challenged? Why are they violent? Why do they form mobs (packs)? Why are they incapable of listening to the other side (fascist)? When you don’t have facts to support your arguments (present logical reasoning), you must resort to the above tactics. The NARRATIVE is designed to keep people in a constant state of ‘FEAR’ thereby forcing ‘ANGER’, ‘RAGE’, ‘VIOLENCE’. Emotionally unstable people are easier to CONTROL. They want you DIVIDED. DIVIDED BY RACE. DIVIDED BY CLASS. DIVIDED BY RELIGION. DIVIDED BY POLITICAL AFFILIATION. DIVIDED AS HUMAN BEINGS. DIVIDED you are WEAK. TOGETHER you are STRONG. WHEN YOU ARE STRONG YOU THINK FOR YOURSELF. WHEN YOU ARE STRONG YOU CHALLENGE WHAT YOU ARE TOLD TO BELIEVE. WHEN YOU ARE STRONG YOU ARE AWAKE. WHEN YOU ARE STRONG YOU ARE NO LONGER CONTROLLED. …………………… TRUST YOURSELF. TRUST THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE. TRUST THAT THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE RIGHT BESIDE YOU FIGHTING FOR WHAT WE KNOW TO BE RIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL! Q
Remember: to shut up this entity that pushed all followers to think for themselves, an entire social media chat board system was de-platformed.
That simply cannot be dismissed.
Just a reminder:
Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.
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Your weekly reminder to take the pledge:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
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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.
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4From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way. 5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7And the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
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/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.
No really, we’ll get through it…even though there might be stairs.
We’ll get through it.
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Please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election:
For your listening enjoyment, I offer this from Tobias Alexander Ratka of Atom Music Audio, a mix of three compositions, titled ‘Fly Like a Bird’, ‘This Is Our World’ and ‘Our Only Hope’:
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
I will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
futilitarian
‘Futilitarian‘ is a noun which refers to…a person who thinks that human hopes are in vain, and that human striving is futile. As an adjective, futilitarian means…having or holding to the opinion that all human endeavor is hopeless and futile.
Used in a sentence:
A diehard futilitarian, Stephanie was perplexed as to why she didn’t get invited to any parties.
Plain Jane, who would come to the Q Tree and comment when she could, is now with the Great Physician. She fought cancer with unbelievable courage and didn’t flinch at trying different therapies. RIP.
Here is the brief message from IOTWreport, a site that Plain Jane held very dear. She turned me into an admirer of “Big Fur Hat” and the other denizens of that site. I thoroughly enjoyed the history of their little collective, which reminded me greatly of ours, only they pulled it off 10 years earlier, when it was much more difficult, both technologically and politically.
Big Fur Hat kept it short and sweet and to the point.
PJ, the sweetest, has passed, succumbing to cancer.
Knowing how Plain Jane adored that site, I am tickled knowing that BFH could do her no higher honor than giving Jane her own short, sweet, dignified post of au revoir.
Maybe someday I’ll search deeply to find the night (or was it early morning?) where Jane and I talked about IOTWreport and BFH. It was fun. It was a good memory. But I think I’ll save that for later, when I need it.
Instead, what I did now, was to go back and find her very first post. That was enough for now.
I knew that Jane was one of the very first posters on this site. What I did not remember was that she was one of the VERY, VERY, VERY first posters.
She commented on THE first post of the site. The very FIRST comment was by Curry Worsham, at 11:34 PM on September 18, 2018. Plain Jane commented at 1:51 AM (on the 19th), a little over 2 hours later.
Here was our conversation. Her first comment was (I calculated – the numbers are a bit offset due to site migration) the 28th comment on the blog.
Plain Jane Offline September 19, 2018 01:51
Congrats and thanks for founding this site, Wolf. While I can’t say that I understand Q, I totally enjoy reading others’ interpretation of his posts, and sometimes even try to figure them out myself.
Thank you! And really good, because I’m a great explainer of Q, but rarely on CTH – usually in personal discussions on Twitter. This way I can help people understand some of the things that maybe don’t make as much sense. And I do think a lot of fellow Treepers will be able to explain things much more fully here, and without worrying about drawing FLAK from Soros trolls, who I will boot immediately. We won’t allow any of that here.
This is not a site for basic decisions about whether or not to “stop making fun of Q-tards”. This is a site for advanced understanding of Q. Many of the people who mock Q on the Treehouse will be banned instantly.
Treehouse standards. Q is the center of focus. Very simple.
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Plain Jane Offline Reply to wolfmoon1776 September 19, 2018 02:04
This is an excellent idea, Wolfmoon. Q people need a place to chat. I no longer do twitter or facebook, so a blog is great for me to interact on. While I like the Treehouse a lot, I find it somewhat disturbing that more people (admittedly trolls for the most part) now hit at each other over their disagreements rather than pass a comment by.
I’ve been following Q for a while now and we tune into Praying Medic regularly for his insights. I very much appreciate that you have made a space for Q followers.
BTW, WordPress has a good history for leaving politics out of it. Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That (WUWT – fighting climate change nonsense) talked some years ago of how hacks and other attacks can’t get through to a WordPress site and also how they can handle large volumes of traffic, which is why he uses them. That stuck in my mind. As far as I know, he’s never been foiled by the enemy.
Cheers to you. I have bookmarked this site and will be a regular. Now to look at and appreciate your other link…
Thank you – great post! Hope to see you here regularly! And totally agreed about WordPress security. If it worked for the climate guys and Sundance, it will work for me. I mean US!!!
Hey Wolfmoon – Just saw your contact page. Haha – Neat! I love it. Okay, any chance of an open page every week or so for open chat? Or just when nothing much else is happening? I don’t want to go off-topic on any thread already up. I sometimes just feel a need for my buddies here and to be able to talk within the realm of general topics or just say “Hi”.
You’re welcome! I tend to be cautiously speculative, which I think is a good thing for filtering truth, but allowing people to explore possibilities. As I tend to think a lot like Praying Medic, there is some chance we’ll end up sounding dittoish, but still I hope that we will overall bring something new to the table, and thus sharpen the vision of MAGA as a whole.
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I had many wonderful conversations with PJ over the years. She was – sorry – IS – incredibly grounded. She told me about some of the volunteer work she had done – it was powerful testimony. She has the DRIVE of an activist but the COOL and CALM of a true conservative.
She will be missed in the here and now, but not in the spirit, because she is truly an inspiration, and perhaps one that I need right now.
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.
It is also a place to read, post and discuss news that is worth knowing and sharing. Please post links to any news stories that you use as sources or quote from.
In the QTree, we’re a friendly and civil lot. We encourage free speech and the open exchange and civil discussion of different ideas. Topics aren’t constrained, and sound logic is highly encouraged, all built on a solid foundation of truth and established facts.
We have a policy of mutual respect, shown by civility. Civility encourages discussions, promotes objectivity and rational thought in discourse, and camaraderie in the participants – characteristics we strive toward in our Q Tree community.
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In The Q Tree, we’re compatriots, sitting around the campfire, roasting hot dogs, making s’mores and discussing, agreeing, and disagreeing about whatever interests us. This board will remain a home for those who seek respectful conversations.
These days, a number of people are encouraged by communications from people they trust that appear to be supporting the concept that Biden is not really President and that President Trump and others are actively working behind the scenes to detect and develop evidence against a large number of people around the world who are involved with overthrowing the recent Presidential election (and other heinous activities).
A second group of people are convinced that the election is over and Biden is President and we, the voters, will have to become very active in determining which politicians really have America as first priority in their hearts and which are ready to cede American sovereignty to Globalists and Socialists for their own personal gain.
The second group generally thinks that the hope that stems from “encouraging signs” seen by the first group is unwarranted and irrational. The first group generally thinks that the second group does not value the “encouraging signs” seen by the first group and has an unwarranted pessimistic view of this situation. The “encouraging signs” not seen by the second group are valuable in supporting the hope for the present situation that is held by the first group.
In the current situation, the second group views the first group as being addicted to “Hopium”, an unwarranted and irrational hope for a means to a certain positive outcome. The first group views the second group as a bunch of “Debbie Downers” who can’t see the hopeful signs because of their pessimism.
The point of this discussion, so far, is to establish that within each group, encouragement of their point of view leads to hope on one hand, and a dedication to the hard work involved in ensuring a favorable result in the next election on the other hand. Encouragement is very important as a support for the hope that each group holds for a favorable outcome in the future.
Encouragement in our Christian lives is vastly more important as it leads to a bolstering of our faith to believe, think, speak and act in a manner that guards against failure in our Christian walk and moves it from immaturity toward maturity.
Vastly more important? In the worst case, those who have sampled the Christian life and then walked away from it are in danger of putting themselves in a position of being separated from God for eternity . . . a concept and a consequence of monumental importance. Encouragement or lack of encouragement can have a large impact on the possibility of this eternal outcome.
Marica March 15, 2021 at 8:21 pm
Why is encouragement in our Christian walk so important according to the Bible?”
“But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness,” Hebrews 3:13 tells us. First Thessalonians 5:11 says, “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” Throughout the Bible we see instructions to encourage one another and verses that are meant to encourage us. Why is encouragement emphasized in the Bible? Primarily because encouragement is necessary to our walk of faith.
Jesus told His followers, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33b). Jesus did not shy from telling His followers about the troubles they would face. In fact, He told them the world would hate them (John 15:18-21; see also Matthew 10:22-23 and 2 Corinthians 2:15-16). But Jesus’ grim forecast was tempered with cheer; He followed His prediction of trouble with a sparkling word of encouragement: He has overcome the world. Jesus is greater than any trouble we face.
Without encouragement, hardship becomes meaningless, and our will to go on wanes. The prophet Elijah struggled with discouragement (1 Kings 19:3-10), and so do we. It’s important to remember that “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against . . . the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12). This truth makes encouragement all the more important. It’s not just that we face the world’s displeasure; we are caught in the crosshairs of a spiritual battle. When we are encouraged in Christ, we have strength to put on our spiritual armor and remain steadfast (see Ephesians 6:10-18).
Even in places where Christians don’t experience overt persecution or hatred, we all know that life can be difficult. Discouragement isn’t an uncommon human experience. At times, recognizing that there’s meaning in the seemingly inconsequential things we do seems next to impossible. We may want to give up. Yet He who calls us is faithful, and He gives us the power to be faithful, too (1 Corinthians 1:9).
A man in the early church named Joseph was given the nickname “Barnabas,” which means “Son of Encouragement” (Acts 4:36). What a blessing Barnabas was to the believers of his day! Through the encouragement of Barnabas, the apostle Paul was first accepted by the church in Jerusalem (Acts 9:27). Through the encouragement of Barnabas, Mark was given a second chance after an abject failure (Acts 13:13; 15:39).
Encouragement makes it easier to live in a fallen world in a holy way. Encouragement makes it easier to love as Jesus loved (see John 13:34-35). Encouragement gives hope (Romans 15:4). Encouragement helps us through times of discipline and testing (Hebrews 12:5). Encouragement nurtures patience and kindness (see 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and Galatians 5:22-26). Encouragement makes it easier to sacrifice our own desires for the advancement of God’s kingdom. In short, encouragement makes it easier to live the Christian life.
Without encouragement, life would soon feel pointless and burdensome. Without encouragement, we can be overwhelmed by the very real pains of our lives. Without encouragement, we feel unloved. Without encouragement, we begin to think that God is a liar or is unconcerned with our welfare. So, the Bible tells us to encourage one another, to remind each other of the truth that God loves us, that God equips us, that we are treasured, that our struggles are worth it.
Encouragement from the Bible gives us the will to carry on. It is a glimpse of the bigger picture. It can prevent burn-out. It can save us from believing lies (“sin’s deceitfulness”). Encouragement helps us experience abundant life (see John 10:10).
Proverbs 16:24 says, “Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.” God’s Word is full of encouragement. Pleasant words, indeed.
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching” Hebrews 10:24-25.
“But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness” Hebrews 3:13.
“Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up” Romans 15:2.
“Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear” Ephesians 4:29.
“A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations” Psalm 100:1-5.
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things” Philippians 4:8.
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” Romans 8:28.
“And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus” Philippians 4:19.
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you” Isaiah 43:2.
“May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,” Romans 15:5
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.”
You have GOT to see the video I’m going to show you.
It’s not just what they’re talking about. It’s WHERE IT LEADS.
Most of the people who watch Rand Paul go after Fauci here, are concentrating on MASKS, because that is the TOP LAYER of the argument. But THAT is the small potatoes.
Rand Paul distracted Fauci to defend masks, while introducing DEVASTATING truth about variants and immunity.
Rand was not only opening up basic questions about what we should be doing in terms of allowing the immune to “bring us back to normal” in terms of wearing or not wearing masks – he exposed a SCAM being pulled by the left, in which they NEED to push humanity to a Marek’s Disease dilemma, as part of forced dependence on government, and thus to lock in socialism. I will explain that part below.
Because COVID-19 is constantly mutating, AS IT HAS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, variants are naturally causing the new infections, AS THEY HAVE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING – important – AS THEY HAVE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING – but Rand Paul is showing a deep truth of the results that Fauci is trying to hide – that “of course variants take over” – but that does not mean that people who have been vaccinated or recovered from EARLIER VERSIONS of the virus don’t have real immunity that should be letting them return to their normal lives. Just as we always used to do, and always did, with all other colds and flu.
See? It basically boils down to NORMAL vs. WEIRD NEW UNNECESSARY NORMAL.
You can see Fauci RUNNING from this and DISSEMBLING in every possible “smart” way.
Indeed, Rand Paul is hinting at the truth, and you can see Fauci hiding it. The disease seems to be becoming a NORMAL COLD AND FLU BUG to the vaccinated and recovered, once it is no longer novel. And Fauci absolutely CANNOT SAY THAT. He has to try to make us see the glass half empty, by sleight of hand, to make us focus on the SCARY VARIANTS and not the CURED PEOPLE.
It is SO SLICK. You can see that little MAFIA TWERP trying to evade, but no – he CANNOT.
Because YES – we AS A WHOLE are becoming immune, and the disease is no longer a huge threat – most of all to those who have recovered or been vaccinated.
That is, as long as we don’t do something STUPID like making it more virulent – like we did with Marek’s Disease.
And I’m pushing it even beyond THAT, because it seems to me that Geert Vanden Bossche is correct about the possibility of a Marek’s Disease outcome. It sure looks like the globonazis are “accidentally” doing the wrong thing – which will end up making all humans addicted to a vaccine by PUSHING the variants to greater infectiousness and virulence by the very act of mass vaccination using inefficient vaccines.
In this open letter I am appealing to the @WHO and all stakeholders involved, no matter their conviction, to immediately declare such action as THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN. Please read and share: https://t.co/0Fupw9JInP#COVID19pic.twitter.com/I24mSjpVKM
Only I’m saying it’s not accidental. I’m saying that they want us REALLY dependent on the vaccine (see Marek’s Disease), but to get there we have to FAKE IT to make people take the vaccine for a relatively harmless pathogen NOW.
Which is to say, Aubergine’s razor.
Are you with me?
Maybe not?
OK – there is a lot to unpack there.
Let’s START from the beginning.
Rand Paul Nails Fauci
This is a great link with a TRANSCRIPT right here. If you want to READ the exchange, go there.
First, listen to Fauci start off with “I don’t understand….” – LIAR. Fauci immediately tries to lead away from the IMMUNE to the UNINFECTED.
This is extremely disingenuous. You can tell exactly what Fauci doesn’t want to do. He does not want any exceptions in the policy. He wants people obeying mandates.
This is where, as a recoveree FORCED to wear a mask DESPITE both IMMUNITY and HYPOXIA, I am SO PISSED OFF at all these mask martinets with their muzzle mandates.
In their ZEAL to vaccinate, people like me have been THROWN UNDER THE BUS.
So Fauci pretends to not understand. MAMET PRINCIPLE AGAIN.
So what does Fauci do? Rather than answer the question – “WHAT STUDIES CAN YOU CITE?” – which of course he cannot do – he THROWS A STRAWMAN at Rand Paul, and says “the studies you are talking about…” – WAIT A MINUTE – what studies is Rand talking about? He’s NOT. He’s asking YOU, Fauci, for studies in support of YOUR recommendations.
Then Fauci tries to shut up Rand Paul – gets him to back off a bit – and pivots back to SCARY VARIANTS, and the South African results from the Johnson+Johnson trials – with which I’m actually familiar.
Rand Paul actually NAILS Fauci on something I missed.
The J+J results tested people for antibodies – NOT CLINICAL SICKNESS. This is KEY. This is absolutely freaking KEY. We tend to forget that we MEASURE what we ACTUALLY MEASURE – not what we often THINK we’re measuring.
The J+J serological results, obtained in the course of vaccine trials, looked at whether people had antibodies to different variants at various stages in the testing, and included BOTH vaccine and placebo groups. Novavax also tested in South Africa, and also got interesting results. But the fact is, these were not tests for disease – they were tests for ANTIBODIES. And the results Fauci is talking about were BYPRODUCTS of the study. They weren’t even the POINT of the study.
This just blows up everything Fauci is saying.
Fauci is a hypocrite and a jerk. One the one hand, he DISMISSES clinical testing cases in hospitals for hydroxychloroquine, where LOGIC – PURE LOGIC – can tell you that something is WORKING FOR TREATING DISEASE – because THAT is what you’re actually measuring – but Fauci will dismiss it as not being “placebo, double-blind”.
Or worse still, Fauci ignored the “Lancetgate effect” – a statistical proof of DEATH on a societal scale when HCQ was withdrawn – showing the BENEFIT of hydroxychloroquine on a NATIONAL SCALE.
Yeah. Fauci loves statistics on a tiny, ancillary, and potentially mistaken scale, but when it’s BIG and STARK and says the wrong thing – well – then he just IGNORES them.
So what we’re talking about Fauci ignoring are studies of REAL DISEASE – not just antibodies in the blood – and LOGIC is fully operant on the results – but that’s no good for Fauci because “no placebo” and “not double-blind”.
BUT YET – here we see Fauci talking about MERE HANDFULS OF PEOPLE GETTING ANTIBODIES to the new South African variant, both having HAD the prior version, and NOT having had any prior version. That’s all it was. A mere BLIP in a much larger population of tested people.
But that is ALL YOU MEASURED – antibodies in people who walked in the door – and yet Fauci EXTRAPOLATES THIS to disease, and “no protection”.
And it LITERALLY does NOT MEAN THAT. It only means what people were tested for. ANTIBODIES. It means that getting new antibodies happens, when exposed to a new version, whether you had an old version or not.
WHOOPEE!
Now I see why people don’t think much of Fauci. He sees PROCESS and BUREAUCRACY as TRUTH. He doesn’t see the big picture – STOPPING DISEASE. Yet Rand Paul does.
Wow. Just blown away. Mikovits is right. This guy is a PROBLEM.
MOVING ON.
So here’s what happens next. Rand Paul pushes the fact that we have NO hospitalizations or deaths for people who have recovered or been vaccinated. He confronts Fauci with this. What does Fauci do? He IGNORES the question – IGNORES the challenge – and sticks to “you’re not listening” and “variants and wild type”.
Just as an aside, Fauci is helping his ChiCom buddies by calling the original version “wild type”, when it was anything but “wild”, but THAT is Fauci to the core. Evil little RAT. Bat soup, Fauci! BAT SOUP! You believe that crap?
Buzz off, Fauci, you little demon! LOL. Good grief, I hate people who abuse science like this evil gnome.
Sorry – the guy just makes me burn. “Wild Type”! Bullshit! This thing started mutating so fast, it was wild for about 5 people.
SPIT!
So Rand Paul hits Fauci AGAIN with no significant hospitalization or death, and Fauci AGAIN circles back to variants, and says we have “no variants in this country”.
Now THAT is a flat out lie. FLAT. OUT. LIE.
There is an AWESOME website called NEXTSTRAIN.ORG which has phenomenal analysis of the mutations of viruses, and has been on top of COVID-19 coronavirus mutations from the very beginning.
And I mean VERY beginning.
The site is very up-to-date as well. For example, here is the evolution of SARS-COV-2 as of this very moment:
I was looking at Nextstrain from the VERY beginning of this thing. There were country variants ALL OVER the world IMMEDIATELY, and they were spreading to other countries as fast as PEOPLE WERE.
Let’s look at the situation right now. We don’t have variants?
YOU LIE!
This is what Fauci looks like when he lies. Keep it for reference.
And this is what he’s lying about.
Oh, but it gets better – look how variants were emerging from the very beginning:
So no – do NOT tell me that we don’t have any variants, Tony Fauci, you MEALY-MOUTHED GARDEN GNOME.
At that point, Rand Paul just launches into a barrage of truth. JUST LISTEN TO HIM. He is so spot on with the idea of giving people a REWARD for getting the vaccine.
Now – some Democrat chickie-poo comes in and tries to rescue Fauci – who does his best to lie his way out, saying that Rand Paul’s statements are only true about the “wild type” and not the variants. We may get into the possibility that the first “allegedly stronger variant” showing up in South Africa……
…..may be a product of more ChiCom shenanigans, as a propaganda ASSIST to the AmeriCommies and the COVID COMMIES such as Fauci – but let’s just leave that possibility aside for now.
Fauci simply cannot consider letting off on what appear to be IMAGINARY lack of protections of the recovered and vaccinated, even though there is no evidence to suggest that they are not actually protected.
WHY? Why persist in keeping people fearful, and ready for that next vaccine?
I believe it’s because they have a reason.
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche’s Warning
Here is the text of his letter which you saw on Twitter above.
I personally like his video better – this interview – but it’s a long listen.
https://youtu.be/YtHfI00D_s4
Now – this guy does not spell out the possibility that we could end up with a situation EXACTLY like Marek’s Disease – but others have, because that is ONE of the “better” outcomes of what GVB is talking about.
Yeah – it could be WORSE than Marek’s Disease. But THAT is bad enough.
Here is the internet explanation of the “better” Marek’s outcome, where we are ALL dependent on a vaccine we would not have needed if we HADN’T over-vaccinated – but at least the vaccine keeps us from dying.
Here is the excellent Wikipedia description of that disease.
So – are you feeling a bit of overload at this point?
I suggest getting a drink, coming back, and listening to the NEXT GUY.
Del Bigtree’s Antibody Explainer
I am not actually a fan of this guy – but JUST because of his wonderful “football playbook” method of explaining Geert Vanden Bossche’s point about the virtue of general antibodies over specific antibodies under certain circumstances, I really have to recommend watching this.
Del Bigtree has followed this subject (vaccines for a while, and while he’s generally on the “opposite side” from me (with Del being generally opposed to vaccines), he clearly understands what GVB is saying, and makes it very easy to understand.
Between Rand Paul’s excellent questions about WHEN we should call “OVER” an overreaction to a “novel cold and flu” that was masqueraded to us as a pandemic to falsely elect Joe Biden…..
Between Anthony Fauci’s dissembling, his evasions, and his flat-out lies, to support policies which have only the trickiest and most misleading grounding in science or reality….
Between Geert Vanden Bossche’s disturbingly simple question of whether our vaccines are actually DRIVING the evolution of new and potentially increasingly dangerous variants of COVID-19…..
And between Wolf Moon’s suspicion that the “South African variant” may actually be the product of more perfectly timed Chinese bio-adventurism…..
It would behoove us to ask whether we are on the right track with mass vaccination of a NEW FLU.
Because if we’re NOT on the right track, then “my vaccine” may not kill grandma – but it could very well kill the grandkids.
And that’s not nice.
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Based on some of the reactions to my post of two weeks ago, it became apparent that some people misconstrue where I’m coming from.
When I condemn hopium, am I condemning any and all hope? NO. It’s true that hopium is hope, but not all hope is hopium. So when I condemn hopium, I am not condemning hope as such only false and unfounded hope.
In fact, I wasn’t even dumping on all hopium two weeks ago. I was talking specifically of the kind that implies that at some date in the near future, all will suddenly become well, and more specifically, the speculation that names a date. (This is, by the way, something that Q never did, and I am aware of that yet I got criticized on that point as if I were going after Q for naming dates.)
A perfect example, someone posted a thing from John Solomon claiming the long-awaited indictments would be coming out in 4-6 weeks. That means, before the end of April. I have a couple of questions in all earnest to anyone who pays any attention to John Solomon.
How many times has he promised the indictments would be coming in just a few weeks?
How many times has he been right?
Given the answers to 1 and 2, why in blazes is anyone still paying attention to this guy?
Or for that matter to ANY prognostication about a specific date?
I’m thinking we may finally have broken ourselves of that particular habit. Because I don’t see too much of it any more. Good.
And now to clear up a misunderstanding I did my fair share to contribute to.
I had heard others here refer to Marica’s as a place with a lot of hopium, and (my mistake!) I assumed that they meant it included this sort of date-specific stuff. Having misunderstood them, I took them at what I thought was their word. (And I probably shouldn’t have trusted them at all, much less expected them to mean the same thing by hopium as I do.)
So when I said later on that they really needed to get off the hopium, I meant the date specific stuff. And when I went over there later, and picked a random page off that day’s daily…I found no date specific stuff! So I was wrong about that, not that one would necessarily be able to tell, since *I* failed to define my terms. Regardless, it was factually wrong and I apologize.
Not that there isn’t hopium of other types, there, and here.
The emphasis over there is quite a bit different. They’re Deplorable over there, of course, but a lot of the content is about peoples’ personal lives, their other hobbies, their current difficulties, and so on. It may or may not be more your cup of tea than this place (which is 90% politics); if you think you need a change of pace, go have a look-see over there.
OK, one other thing to get out of the way. Someone (either there or here, I do not remember) seemed puzzled that I could say that I believe something is happening, when I clearly don’t believe the “movie set” and “Trump is really in charge” interpretations of today’s events. Am I contradicting myself or backing off from that?
No, because that word something could literally mean a trillion different things, and I don’t believe it means either of the two things I mention above. Trump is doing something, but I doubt it’s a countercoup; more likely he’s doing a bunch of stuff behind the scenes to discredit a lot of bad actors, and trying (quietly) to fix the fraud issues and trying to defeat the worse-than-useless dogpuke RINOs. A lot more mundane than what many are thinking, but it’s all important stuff that has to happen one way or another.
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
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.
Just when I thought Rhodium might start returning to sane levels…it jumped right back up again. Iridium, too, is going bonkers, in the realm of $5000. It’s a congener of rhodium. (That’s a fancy word meaning “in the same classification group as.” In chemistry, specifically, it means it’s in the same column of the periodic table, which tends to govern chemical properties.)
What’s causing the PGMs other than platinum to go up while platinum is in the dumpster (relatively speaking)? (And the PGMs are: Platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium.)
According to one analysis I read, it’s platinum being in the dumpster that is causing all of these problems! (And I can’t verify this, but it makes sense.)
The other PGMs are not mined in their own right; they are quite rare and specifically going after them is uneconomical. Since they do appear with platinum, they are a byproduct of platinum mining. So production of them halts when platinum production halts, and resumes again once someone starts mining platinum.
And platinum was produced a lot back in 2008-2009, to the point where it became a glut on the market. And it is still a glut on the market. Then Covid came along and killed what little platinum production was still going on. The analysts expect this to continue to be a factor until 2024-25.
If they are correct, it’s still a good time to get into PGMs, however, I at least really can’t afford to do so. On the other hand if rhodium, for instance, were to hit $100,000 or more it might just force a restart of platinum mining!
Watch your tailpipes. Your catalytic converter has about $400 in rhodium in it (which as you might imagine, is not much). There is a rash of practitioners of socialist economics thieves sawing off tailpipes on certain model cars now.
Ruthenium
Ruthenium.
We have five precious metals to go, having done silver, rhodium, platinum, and rhenium already.
Rhenium is very difficult to find in bar form, and so is this week’s metal, ruthenium. (Even rhodium is showing iup in bar form at Kitco, PAMP is making bars now.) Ruthenium is one of the “platinum group metals,” that block of six metals tucked in under iron/cobalt/nickel. If you find a nugget of one of these metals, the others will be in that nugget as impurities.
(It’s important not to confuse the two names even though they’re very similar. Rhenium and ruthenium are different things, even if the only difference in spelling is the “ut.” It’s of the “ut”most importance not to let this confuse you.)
Ruthenium’s density is 12.45, which makes it a bit heavier than lead. But do not use it for bullets; the bad guys are barely worth the regular cost of ammo. And it would probably wreck your rifling, being a lot harder than lead (even jacketed lead). Besides, you’re going to have a very difficult time casting it! It melts at 4,233 F (2607K, 2334 C), which is pretty darned hot–about like the filament in an incandescent bulb (2400K), but other precious metals would shrug even that amount of heat off (e.g, rhenium, which melts at 5767F or 3459K). To give you another notion as to how hot this is, iron melts at 2800 F, 1811K.
Ruthenium was, in fact, the last of the PGMs to be discovered, in 1844, by Karl Ernst Klaus. Don’t let that name fool you. He had German/Baltic ancestry, but he was born in the Russian Empire (and indeed, many Russian scientists had very Germanic names, at the time). He named the element ruthenium, after Ruthenia, the Latin term for Russia.
It appears that Klaus discovered ruthenium while going through the residue left over when refining raw platinum for the Russian platinum ruble coinage that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. And indeed the timing is right, the series was produced between 1828-1845.
Ruthenium has some catalytic uses (like rhodium, platinum, palladium and iridium), but not to as great an extent, so its spot price seems to be roughly $385-400 depending on exactly where you look. It seems to be slowly climbing. But even so, it’s by far the cheapest of the PGMs…if you can find it in bar form. It usually trades as “sponge” which is to say loose powder.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
China is in the White House
Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is Asshoe
China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.
But of course the much more important thing to realize:
Joe Biden Didn’t Win
乔*拜登没赢 !!! Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!! Joe Biden didn’t win !!!
“Truth is the norm of logic. Correctness in thinking is the normal means to reach truth, which is the conformity of thought with things as they are—with reality.”
It’s Friday and Wolf’s Pub is open for business. Thank the good God. Who the heck couldn’t use some camaraderie at the pub and a good stiff drink?
It’s been a hard week for some of us. Vaccine mayhem, sick pets, blizzards, car trouble, hospital stays, to mention a few. But we made it through and now we fortify ourselves and get ready for whatever comes next in this wild world.
HOLD THE LINE
There are times in history when the world runs particularly mad. This is one of them. We’ve been urged to HOLD THE LINE, so let us link arms and face down the madness together.
One of the best tools we can have in these times is the ability to utilize LOGIC, which according to “The Trivium” by Sister Miriam Joseph, C.S.C.., Ph.D., is “the art of thinking.”
The Trivium is a classical term denoting three of the seven branches of the Liberal Arts (and we aren’t talking Queer Gender Studies here) that make up both the Trivium and the Quadrivium. We are going to focus on one part of the Trivium, LOGIC, but the other two parts are GRAMMAR (the art of inventing and combining symbols”) and RHETORIC (the “art of communication”).
Yes, we are going to utilize the tools that have stood Western Civilization in good stead for many centuries. I think it was mostly white men who discovered and codified this SUPERIOR way of learning but let us not enrage any lurking BLM Marxists too much…yet.
The propaganda below is evidence of the lack of reason, logic, and critical thinking that is endemic in our culture right now:
You see, comrades, giving THEM any way of showing proof or giving examples is verboten.
LOGIC: THE ART OF THINKING
You may have noticed that people are having a great deal of trouble reasoning nowadays. They have fallen victim to inferior education, indoctrination, their own emotions and foibles, fear, intimidation, celebrity culture, etc. Clear thinking has gone out the window.
Violent Antifa riots are called “mostly peaceful protests.” Black Lives Matter calls white people racists based only on their skin color. Simply being born white is an offense.
People with gender dysphoria are encouraged to undergo surgery rather than consider the historical and emotional causes of such illnesses.
Indeed, the time has now come when the plain provable, scientific facts of biology are officially refuted in order to maintain a political narrative that seeks to overturn the existing order. The madness is such that it is now suggested children be given a cocktail of puberty blockers in order to first discern and choose their sex, gender being the term for sex now, rather than its traditional grammatical function of feminine or masculine in language usage.
The globalists and Marxists who seek to wrest power from the citizens have embarked upon the familiar tactic of overturning the foundations upon which our political system exists, even our understanding of REALITY.
We are experiencing a satanic rebellion. Mankind has seen it before. This is nothing new.
There was another time in history in which the same kind of mass insanity held sway, and that was the French Revolution (one can also add the Russian revolution and other such events). The will to power, rather than truth and the legitimate seeking of redress for wrongs, takes hold of those who let rage, envy, greed and violence fill their minds.
Cunning. Clever. Predictable.
It’s enough to make you want to drink. 😊 Let’s!
Today’s special is the Texas Two-Step, or in more common parlance, a Boilermaker. A shot of whiskey and a beer. Here’s a bit of history about the Boilermaker. Fta:
“Stories are murky at best as to how the boilermaker first came into existence, but it’s pretty clear that the drink was originally consumed by blue collar workers at the end of a long shift – which is why it’s now become the shift drink of choice among bartenders. It’s believed the drink takes its name from the workers who built and maintained steam locomotives in the 1800s. These workers were known to head to the bar at the end of the shift, and a shot of whiskey with a beer became a staple for quickly easing the pain that came from a hard day of back-breaking labor. As it was the drink consumed by boilermakers, it took on the name as well.”
I’m going to feature this Irish whiskey that DePat suggested in a comment the other day.
I just happened to be down in the metroplex and picked up a bottle of Powers Irish Whiskey (do read their introduction. I swear I could hear an Irish brogue emanating from the screen while I read it).
From their website:
“YOU DON’T LAST OVER 200 YEARS BY CUTTING CORNERS”
Powers Irish Whiskey
That could be said about the USA, too, eh? These damned commies just do what they want and cut corners, like ignoring the rule of law and the will of the people.
Back to the Boilermaker. DePat, I just love you. Powers is one of the most delightful whiskeys I’ve ever tasted. From Cork, where my husband’s family history hails, it has firmly supplanted his current favorite (which I will not name out of an abundance of respect for it).
However, Powers has a light refinement to it that is reminiscent of some of the best whiskeys. Looking forward to trying all three types.
I paired it with Guinness, which was NOT MY CHOICE. I would’ve gone with a lighter beer, but sometimes you have to let your better half do what he’s gonna do. That said, it pairs up pretty darn well.
Now, there are several ways of drinking a Boilermaker. Back in the day, lo these 40 years ago, we did it as this fine fellow does in the video below. He’s a hoot.
Let us raise our glasses to DePat and her sweet pup. God keep them together now and in eternity.
HOUSE RULES
Before we get much further, this eminently annoying but much needed reminder: let us down our Boilermakers in a spirit of true brotherhood. We might disagree—strenuously—but we are patriots. And we stick together like glue. Rules here.
The bouncers are happy to direct you to the Utree if you feel the need to boil over. Besides being a release valve, the Utree is also another place to gather in case something happens here.
HOW TO LIVE
Circling back to LOGIC (Red Jen just saw what I did there) here’s another quote from The Trivium:
“The utilitarian or servile arts enable one to be a servant—of another person, of the state, of a corporation, or of a business—and to earn a living. The liberal arts, in contrast, teach one how to live; they train the faculties and bring them to perfection; they enable a person to rise above his material environment to live an intellectual, a rational, and therefore a free life in gaining truth.” Sister Miriam Joseph
Sister Miriam Joseph
“…a free life in gaining truth.”
That is the crux. How does one live “a free life in gaining truth” when all around us is lies? Our pastors lie to us. Our government lies to us. Academia lies to us. The Press lies to us constantly. Business lies to us. Big Pharma lies to us.
I think freedom comes from “conformity of thought with things as they are—with reality.”
Let reality order our thoughts:
There are two sexes: Male and Female. The biological reality of that fact is not negated by surgery or saying differently.
Calling white people racist on the basis of their whiteness…is RACIST.
Wearing a mask is largely an exercise in virtue signaling or servile compliance, or is worn by POWs in the global war on freedom.
Experimental vaccines are not a panacea for fear of death from a virus that over 99% of us would survive anyway.
Sending your children to the public schools and expecting they will be the very few who are not affected by communist/globalist indoctrination, is unrealistic.
The 2020 election was stolen from the American people.
No one man is adequate to saving a country from revolution.
Evil ideologies flourish anywhere they are given a foothold, including the United States of America.
In a world full of lies we must stand for the truth, for REALITY.
It may cost us dearly. The path of revolution very well might have to come full circle. Let those of us who make it through be ready pick up the mantle of reason and rebuild. We owe it to our posterity.
Resources to teach ourselves and others how to think:
And just for fun, The Scarlet Pimpernel with Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon. You get a Hollywood taste of the French Revolution, but it’s still a great film.
Enjoy a rare WOLF POST as our dear DP deals with truly more important things. We pray for her spiritual strength and well-being at this time.
Grandma will be here tomorrow with the good stuff – let’s be lazy and steal this fascinating image from Dep Pat because it just makes me thirsty and hung over looking at it.
That’s supposed to be DP’s favorite, Powers Irish Whiskey, not Wolf’s favored Jack Black that gives DP a headache.
I was thinking about showing you some “cat fishing”, but here’s “dog fishing” instead.
I was also thinking of showing you something about fly rods, but then I thought HEY – lever actions are kinda like the fly rods of assault rifles! Check out the CENTENNIAL model of the lever action from Winchester.
[If HOPIUM is needed, just go over to Gab and see what America is really thinking right now.]
Seriously – people are not going to put up with much more BS, and this game of chicken between CONGRESS and THE PEOPLE is about to go into “BRACE FOR IMPACT”.
There are also reasons to be HOPEFUL that REASON is about to prevail regarding COVID-19. Listen to this guy while you still can on YouTube. I suspect that he will be banned from YouTube once they figure out how to discredit him. But that doesn’t stop the LOGIC. “Can’t stop the signal” – just like with HCQ…
https://youtu.be/YtHfI00D_s4
If you’d like a DIFFERENT interview with Geert – this one not being on YouTube, so it likely won’t be deleted, check it out…..
(Go ahead and click, even if it looks odd beforehand.)
Also, I can guarantee that you are NOT taking enough Vitamin D. You need 4000 to 12000 units daily, depending upon your body fat, with 4000 normal, 6000 overweight, and 12000 if obese.
Watch this to understand how to avoid hospitalization for COVID-19 by keeping your Vitamin D where it needs to be.
And now for the obligatory message from our sponsors, copied shamelessly from DP.
Here at the Q tree we believe in the concept of CIVIL open free speech and the discussion that fleshes out ideas. When commenting and participating in the OPEN discussion on this thread all comments MUST NOT CONTAIN personal threats, baiting, name calling, or other anti-social words fomenting hate, violence or destruction. Our host Wolfm00n has strict rules about that.
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
Please, stock up on blanks for celebratory gunfire, be ready to swing from the chandeliers…and no messing 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. The “Rescue Thread” is also over there. In the event a rendezvous of the tree is needed, please check it out. It is also a good place from which to send up a “Wolf Sign” if you can’t get into The Q Tree. Just reply to a Wolf comment there to get his attention.
Auntie DePat’s requests [and Wolf concurs] as we are all, ahem, adults, not uncivilized pygmies:
If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.
The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.
Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.
One other vital note:
Please, review these rules that our host Wolfm00n outlined toward the beginning of the growth of the tree itself. it won’t take long.
27Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid. 28You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. 29And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.
30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me. 31But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father.
Get up! Let us go on from here.
POWERFUL!
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, first responders and those working behind the scenes…and any and all people with family members in the hospital, COVID or not.
Stay loose on the vaccine issue here – we’ll talk later. This is the REAL STUFF from REALPOTUS.
