Beware “The Prestige” of Democrat Black Magic Acts

Democrats are fakers, scammers, and con artists of the highest order. If you THINK they are doing something stupid, you had best reevaluate – they are almost certainly doing something EVIL and covering it up with something that’s merely stupid.

The above is AUBERGINE’S RAZOR – a wonderful formulation by QTreeper Aubergine of my earlier RANT against Hanlon’s Razor.


Hanlon’s Razor and The Mamet Principle Must Get Off Our Lawn

a guest post by our dear house guardian Suspicious Cat NOTE FROM WOLF: This post may require some explanation. After allowing my somewhat mythical and somewhat not mythical sister Fox Moon to have her guest post, our dear pet Suspicious Cat has demanded to have his post, too.You see, Suspicious Cat considers himself to be …


Hanlon’s razor is the old saw, behind which Democrats hide, that says, more or less, to never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence or stupidity. Under some circumstances, that may be reasonable, but “never” is utterly WRONG and DANGEROUS, and in my opinion makes Hanlon’s razor a “false aphorism” designed to protect the smartly wicked.

In considering HOW Democrats fool us, I just had a wonderful realization about ONE MORE WAY in which they do it – by following a kind of twisted form of a MAGIC ACT.

A magic act has THREE parts. The PLEDGE. The TURN. And the PRESTIGE.

First, let’s see how this is used in magic – from a truly great movie – THE PRESTIGE.

Thus, there are THREE PARTS to a magic act.


The Pledge – something ordinary but now suspect is offered for inspection

The Turn – something extraordinary happens to the pledged object

The Prestige – an even more confounding return of the pledged object happens


Now one can leave off the prestige, but this is most often done as a SERIES of pledges and turns, CAPPED at the end by a very dramatic prestige.

In the Democrat game, however, the PRESTIGE is replaced by the GOTCHA.

The GOTCHA is critical. It disappears ONLY if some rascal in the audience calls it out before we’re deep in the TURN.

The PLEDGE is also shrewder than in a magic act. It is offered as REALITY – not as a possible trick. It can be offered coyly, or brazenly, but it is always offered innocently.

The TURN is offered seductively, to bait the mark fully into it.


The Pledge – some typical Democrat scam is offered, brazenly or innocently, but deceivingly

The Turn – something unexpected happens to the Democrat scam

The Gotcha – something even WORSE happens because of the turn


A perfect example of this was NanXi’s trap for Deplorables on January 6.


The Pledge – Deplorables can protest the bad electors at Capitol Hill! Really! Stop The Steal!

The Turn – Fake MAGA and FBI informants create a phony riot on Capitol Hill! But no fair!

The Gotcha – Treasonous FIB chases hoodwinked Deplorables down as “insurrectionists”


The TRICK here is to always make the SUCKER go too deeply into THE TURN. You HAVE to be careful. Democrats will always try to lure us too deeply into the Turn. It’s our job not to go there.

NOW – the reason I’m cautioning here, is because I am very suspicious of this bullshit about three Texas Democrats who flew on a plane without masks, thereby getting COVID.

WHUUUUUT?

LINK: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/3-fully-vaccinated-democrats-test-positive-covid-packing-private-plane-fleeing-texas-block-gop-passing-voting-laws/

I’m sorry – this is not passing the Wolf Smell Test.

THIS.

JUST.

SOUNDS.

LIKE.

PLEDGE.

AND.

TURN.

Let’s look at this sucker closely.

THE PLEDGE – Democrats perform a typical dastardly Democrat deed that draws attention from all the fist-shaking MAGA. The outrage! It burns!

THE TURN – Great and WONDERFUL KARMA befalls those DASTARDLY DEMS – provided we accept all of the following:

  • Democrats are honest and really told us the truth
  • Dems have NO motive in bragging up stupidity leading to COVID KARMA
  • A bunch of mask Karen Dems wore NOT A SINGLE MASK on that plane by random chance
  • PCR tests worked GREAT and didn’t give us some false or “on-demand” positives by being cooked too long
  • Vaccines are not working because of some Democrat propaganda reason – for example – that the “unvaccinated are infecting the vaccinated” – their latest bullshit
  • sick and exposed Dems now have a legitimate reason not to come back into legislative session

Do you see how this works? That last one – THAT is just the CLINCHER for me.

Already, going into the TURN, things are looking SKETCHY. Just like they did to me on January Sixth.

WOLF and SUSPICIOUS CAT for the WIN.

SO – what would be next?

THE GOTCHA – Democrats use these three cases – to which we have “pledged” – as propaganda mills.

For example:

  • all three say that they didn’t have bad symptoms, credit the vaccine, and then justify vaccines as “preventing hospitalization and death”
  • all three claim it’s the horrible dangerous delta variant that must be stopped
  • Democrats say this proves that masks work, and demand remasking by CHUMPS like DeWine
  • Joe Biden and Facebook conclude their phony fake wrestling act with DRACONIAN censorship

Are y’all seeing how this works?

For a cheap fake hit on Dems, we PLEDGED LIKE CHUMPS.

Democrats NEVER give us this kind of easy victory unless there is a huge defeat for us, waiting behind it.

WISE UP, PATRIOTS. This is bad stuff.

We just need to figure out all the GOTCHAS.

W

THE SCIENCE OF THE SCAM

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Thy Will Be Done

“Thy will be done” is one of the requests in the Lord’s Prayer. In part, Jesus taught His disciples to pray, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:9–10). Jesus Himself pleaded for God’s will to be done in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Prior to His crucifixion, Jesus prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will” (Matthew 26:39). Jesus was committed to seeing God’s will accomplished, and the prayer “Thy will be done” was a theme of His life.

Most simply, to pray, “Thy will be done,” is to ask God to do what He desires. Of course, we’re praying to the God who said, “Let there be light,” and there was light (Genesis 1:3), so we know that

His sovereign decree will be accomplished,
whether or not we pray for it.

But there is another aspect of God’s will, which we call His “revealed” will or “preceptive” will. This is God’s “will” that He has revealed to us but that He does not force upon us. For example, it is God’s will that we speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15) and that we not commit adultery (1 Corinthians 6:18) or get drunk (Ephesians 5:18). When we pray, “Thy will be done,” we are asking God to increase righteousness in the world, to bring more people to repentance, and to further the cause of the kingdom of His Son.

When we pray, “Thy will be done,” we acknowledge God’s right to rule. We do not pray, “My will be done”; we pray, “Thy will be done.” Asking that God’s will be done is a demonstration of our trust that He knows what is best. It is a statement of submission to God’s ways and His plans. We ask for our will to be conformed to His.

The Lord’s Prayer begins by acknowledging God as Father in heaven. Jesus then models petition, presenting three requests to the Father: 1) That God would cause His name to be hallowed; in other words, as Albert Mohler explains, “that God would act in such a way that he visibly demonstrates his holiness and his glory” (The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord’s Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution, p. 61). 2) That God would bring His kingdom to earth; that is, that the preaching of the gospel would convert sinners into saints who walk in the power of the Holy Spirit and that God would rid the world of evil and create the new heavens and new earth where God will dwell with His people and there will be no more curse and no more death (see Revelation 21—22). 3) That God’s will would be done “on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). In heaven, the angels perform God’s desire completely, joyfully, and immediately—what a world this would be if humans acted like that!

As a point of clarification, “Thy will be done” is not an impassive prayer of resignation. Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane was not passive or fatalistic in the least; He bared His heart before the Father and revealed His ultimate desire: for God’s will to be accomplished. Praying, “Thy will be done,” acknowledges that God has more knowledge than we do and that we trust His way is best. And it is a commitment to actively work to further the execution of God’s will.

Romans 12:1–2 says, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Understanding who God is, we submit ourselves to Him and allow Him to transform us. The more we know God, the more readily our prayers will align with His will and we can truly pray, “Thy will be done.” We can approach God in confidence that “if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” (1 John 5:14–15).

By faith, we know that praying,
“Thy will be done,”
is the best thing we can ask for.

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen” (Ephesians 3:20–21).


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.”