Dear MAGA: 20211212 Open Topic

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2 Peter 3: 10-11 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.  Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be?

How Should We Live Our Lives?

Galatians 2:20    I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 4:29-32    Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Colossians 1:10    So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Romans 12:1-2    I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Micah 6:8    He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Romans 12:1    I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Proverbs 3:5    Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  Jeremiah 29:11    

Colossians 3:12-17    Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. …

Matthew 6:33    But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Romans 12:2    Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 15:8    By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Ephesians 4:25    Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Philippians 2:14-15    Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

2 Peter 3:1-18    This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, …

Ephesians 4:32    Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Hebrews 13:5    Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

1 John 1:9    If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Proverbs 16:1-20:30    The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished. …

Romans 8:28    And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

1 Corinthians 10:31    So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Mark 12:30-31    And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Psalm 139:23    Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!

Ephesians 4:29    Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 John 3:1-10    See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. …

Hebrews 12:12-16    Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Psalm 119:1-176    Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! …

John 15:5    I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

2 Corinthians 5:17    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Ephesians 6:10    Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Luke 9:23    And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Psalm 91:1-16    He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …

1 Corinthians 11:1    Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Luke 10:30-37    Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. …

Psalm 119:105    Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Matthew 6:26    Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

1 John 3:16    By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Matthew 4:4    But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Philippians 4:4    Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.

Matthew 22:37    And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Ephesians 2:10    For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Matthew 22:37-40    And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Revelation 12:11    And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Matthew 6:33-34    But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

James 1:17    Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Philippians 4:13    I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 13:15    For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

1 Peter 4:8    Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Philippians 2:3    Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

John 4:24    God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Colossians 3:1-25    If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

John 10:10    The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Luke 1:37    For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Colossians 2:1-23    For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …

Mark 16:15    And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Mark 10:45    For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Colossians 1:1-29    Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …

Ephesians 5:18    And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Galatians 5:22-23    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Psalm 119:1-127    Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! …

Galatians 5:22    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 8:13    For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

John 6:57    As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

Mark 12:30    And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Matthew 11:29    Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Colossians 3:23    Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

1 John 2:15-17    Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 John 2:6    Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Matthew 10:37-39    Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

John 15:16    You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Psalm 37:4    Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Colossians 1:16    For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Acts 17:28    For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

1 Corinthians 10:13    No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Matthew 28:20    Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Psalm 119:89    Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

Philippians 1:21    For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

John 13:35    By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 Peter 2:5    You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 5:25    Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Proverbs 19:21    Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

1 Peter 2:21    For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

John 14:6    Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

1 Thessalonians 5:18    Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Matthew 5:13-16    “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Proverbs 13:20    Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

1 Timothy 4:7    Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;

Proverbs 22:6    Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

2 Timothy 2:2    And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Hebrews 13:7    Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Proverbs 18:21    Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

1 Timothy 4:12    Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

We live, such that when all is done,
we may give all the glory to God.

Jeremiah 29:11  For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.  John 3:16-17  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.  Romans 5:8 But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Ephesians 2:6-7  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.


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.”

Are You Prepared for the BIDEN DEPRESSION?

There is a reason that the Bidenistas and Bidenazis are worried freaking out.

Trump correctly predicted – as with all his well-aging tweets, that a Joe Biden win would be an absolute economic disaster for the United States.

Yes – the BIDEN DEPRESSION.

Don’t think it’s coming? THINK AGAIN.

And this time, in COLOR.

All the “meta” re-orgs in the WORLD cannot stop what is coming to the stupid assholes who threw the election, and condemned the entire planet in doing so.

There’s a REASON that the Bidenistas had to call in their media allies for an emergency economic pow-wow. The Bidenistas know the BIDEN DEPRESSION cannot be stopped. All they can do is LIE about it – and hope that the Bidenazis don’t force them into a new arrangement to limit the damage to THEIR end of the swamp.

YUP. Trump called it, and THEY KNOW IT’S TRUE.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-bidens-coronavirus-policies-233420869.html


Fox Business

Trump says Biden’s coronavirus policies would cause ‘crippling, long-lasting depression’

Thomas Barrabi
August 13, 2020

President Trump said Thursday that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s “defeatist” approach to addressing the coronavirus pandemic would result in long-term damage to a U.S. economy that is already showing signs of recovery.

Trump warned against further lockdowns shortly after the U.S. Department of Labor announced that unemployment claims had dropped below one million last week for the first time since the pandemic brought the economy to a near-complete halt in March. The president claimed that Biden “rejects the scientific approach in favor of locking all Americans in their basements for months on end.”

TRUMP RIPS BIDEN’S MASK MANDATE

“He wants to shut down our economy, close our schools and grind society to a halt,” Trump said during a White House press briefing. “He wants it done by a federal decree. This would lead to a crippling, long-lasting depression.”


And THAT prediction was WITHOUT the terrible, stupid, America-sabotaging vaccine mandate.

“Thank you, REAL PRESIDENT OBAMA!”


Are you prepared for SEVEN MORE YEARS of President Obama?

Sundance is spotting what’s coming, and it’s NOT GOOD.

Yesterday, Sundance came out with THREE economic articles, and you need to read them.


He Did It – White House Celebrates Joe Biden Reaching Inflation Milestone Set By Jimmy Carter, 6.8 Percent and Rising

December 10, 2021 | Sundance | 161 Comments


Clueless Joe Says Federal Spending Doesn’t Increase Inflation, Reality Begs to Differ

December 10, 2021 | Sundance | 123 Comments


MAGAnomics vs JoeBamanomics, a Simple to Understand Graphic

December 10, 2021 | Sundance | 4 Comments


I really recommend reading these articles, which explain THESE TWO GRAPHICS:

My interpretation of this data is NOT GOOD.

In my opinion, this committed folly is a TEXTBOOK RECIPE for DEPRESSION – and in particular, a 1930s socialist economic depression, just like the one FDR forced upon America, and blamed on his ideological opponents, with the help of the leftist media.

THAT is where I see this going.

Economic Afghanistan.


Fresh off my recovery from DELTA COVID, after pushing site preparation for a BAD WINTER (much credit goes to Aubergine for repeatedly warning about this), I can tell you that my WOLF INSTINCTS are in RARE SHAPE.

I can smell trouble coming from miles away, and I have no hesitation to call it out.

Well, THE WOLF can tell you that things are going to get MUCH WORSE.

YOU – ME – YOUR FRIENDS and NEIGHBORS – everybody needs to PREPARE.

We are not even a year into the Biden PRE-DEPRESSION – which is just the BIDEN RECESSION and BIDEN INFLATION, and we have at least 3 more years of this crap – more likely SEVEN MORE YEARS.

Obama, who is the bad counselor actually running this administration from afar, is careening his pasty white crash-test dummy Joe Biden into every object he can hit with him. It’s SICK FUN for Obama, but you know he’s loving it. Socialist rigor with ZERO responsibility.

And it’s not just going to be economic failure. Expect MILITARY FAILURE as well, to permanently scuttle the Bidenazi military, keeping them subservient forever to the true-believin’ leftist Bidenista overlords.

It is even possible that Obama will be able to do what he could not do, even with McCain’s help – to get our troops into a LOSING engagement with Russia – then make us submit to a humiliating phony settlement that gives Putin and China everything they want.

The Bidenistas, through INTENTIONAL FAILURE, CONTROL OF CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT, and SHADY DEALS WITH FOREIGN POWERS, will always be able to put the Bidenazi CHUMPS in their place as the second-string totalitarians who run this country on occasion by the only way they can – by eking out small 9/11-ish dramatic interregnums between massive communist main acts.

Just observe how the Bidenistas dealt with the Bidenazis in Afghanistan. THAT was a warm-up.

Obama is basically recapitulating the 4-term socialist, FDR. Do the math.

Of course, you never know. The Pentagram could always come up with a different plan that Obama and company can wreck into new and unforeseen outcomes.

Just pray that honest, patriotic Americans can survive 3 to 7 more years of this crap.

It’s gonna get worse. A LOT worse.

PREPARE NOW!!!

W

2021·12·11 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

Yo, Brian Stelter!

When I was a kid, I got nicknamed “Bald Eagle” because I actually was getting notably thin “up there.” Of course today “Bald Eagle” might be a cool nickname, but in Junior High School, it definitely was not a cool thing.

Fast forward to today, and now here I am over twenty years older than you are, and even in spite of that poor start, I have better hair than you do.

And I am not a piss-guzzling, shit-gobbling communist “journalist” (what a sick joke) either.

On both accounts you must absolutely hate looking into the mirror.

And Oh By The Way probably more people read my physics posts than watch you bloviate on air.

RINOs an Endangered Species?
If Only!

According to Wikipoo, et. al., the Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is a critically endangered species. Apparently two females live on a wildlife preserve in Sudan, and no males are known to be alive. So basically, this species is dead as soon as the females die of old age. Presently they are watched over by armed guards 24/7.

Biologists have been trying to cross them with the other subspecies, Southern White Rhinoceroses (Rhinoceri?) without success; and some genetic analyses suggest that perhaps they aren’t two subspecies at all, but two distinct species, which would make the whole project a lot more difficult.

I should hope if the American RINO (Parasitus rectum pseudoconservativum) is ever this endangered, there will be heroic efforts not to save the species, but rather to push the remainder off a cliff. Onto punji sticks. With feces smeared on them. Failing that a good bath in red fuming nitric acid will do.

But I’m not done ranting about RINOs.

The RINOs (if they are capable of any introspection whatsoever) probably wonder why they constantly have to deal with “populist” eruptions like the Trump-led MAGA movement. That would be because the so-called populists stand for absolutely nothing except for going along to get along. That allows the Left to drive the culture and politics.

Given the results of Tuesday’s elections, the Left will now push harder, and the RINOs will now turn even squishier than they were before.

I well remember 1989-1990 in my state when the RINO establishment started preaching the message that a conservative simply couldn’t win in Colorado. Never mind the fact that Reagan had won the state TWICE (in 1984 bringing in a veto-proof state house and senate with him) and GHWB had won after (falsely!) assuring everyone that a vote for him was a vote for Reagan’s third term.

This is how the RINOs function. They push, push, push the line that only a “moderate” can get elected. Stomp them when they pull that shit. Tell everyone in ear shot that that’s exactly what the Left wants you to think, and oh-by-the-way-Mister-RINO if you’re in this party selling the same message as the Left…well, whythefuckexactly are you in this party, you piece of rancid weasel shit?

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. (This doesn’t necessarily include deposing Joe and Hoe and putting Trump where he belongs, but it would certainly be a lot easier to fix our broken electoral system with the right people in charge.)

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is pointless 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 in the system is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

This will necessarily be piecemeal, state by state, which is why I am encouraged by those states working to change their laws to alleviate the fraud both via computer and via bogus voters. If enough states do that we might end up with a working majority in Congress and that would be something Trump never really had.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

While We Wait…and Wait…and Wait, for The Storm

Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony is called the Pastoral symphony, because its theme was a day spent in the country. The fourth (of five) movements depicts a storm, and is subtitled ‘Thunder Storm.’

The fifth is subtitled “Shepherds’ Song. Happy and Thankful Feelings after the Storm (Allegretto).” The fifth movement is the first thing I listened to on Thursday before Thanksgiving as it appeared that the wretched “poo flu” was finally going away. (It finally was gone a day later.)

Beethoven’s Fifth (dah dah dah daaaaah….) and Sixth symphonies both premiered at the same concert on 22 December, 1808 in Vienna. The entire four hour program was filled with new Beethoven music, conducted by Beethoven himself. It’s an almost infamous moment in music history as the whole thing bordered on being a fiasco. The orchestra was lackluster, and one of the other vocal pieces suffered by being sung by a teenager with stage fright. The original performer had quit after Beethoven insulted her. Fellow composer Antonio Salieri (the same Salieri depicted so unfavorably [and unjustly so] in Amadeus) was holding a benefit concert the same day, and he and Beethoven nearly had a falling out over the schedule conflict.

Purism Phones–Do NOT Purchase

I know for quite some time I have been looking forward to the Purism smart phone, entirely open source with hardware kill switches for the camera, mike and other things. They’re basically Linux boxes with call capability. I’ve touted them on this site. I now wish I had not.

Alas they have been slow coming onto the market, and their main page says “Shipping Now” (for the USA version of the phone.

The implication is that if you order your phone it will be shipped soon.

Multiple people, me among them, have been waiting over half a year for the phone that is “shipping now” and, candidly, I don’t expect ever to receive it. Unfortunately the fine print in their order policy says you can’t get a refund until they’re ready to ship the phone. So I am out the money as well.

I don’t expect anyone ordering today will get their phone any faster.

I can no longer recommend this company, even though I’m happy with the laptop they sold me three years ago. Their technical people are solid; their sales/web people, on the other hand…

Spot Prices

Last week:

Gold $1774.20
Silver $22.61
Platinum $940.00
Palladium $1900.00
Rhodium $14,850.00

This week, 3 PM MT on Friday, markets closed for the weekend

Gold $1,783.20
Silver $22.27
Platinum $950.00
Palladium $1,852.00
Rhodium $14,800.00

At the end of the week: not a lot of movement this time, and all in different directions.

Part XXX (and the last)
Acceleration! Surprise!

A couple of go-backs and review

This is a video I should have included a couple of weeks ago.

Especially starting at 1:43, this is of interest because it lets you see how a nearly-uniform early universe “clumped up” over time. You focus on the same volume of space, and your field of view expands with the universe, so what you are looking at is basically the same matter following the history of the universe.

The filaments and lumpy areas contain millions of galaxies.

This is a computer simulation, of course, but at the end they compare it to what we actually see when we survey the universe. It’s a pretty close match, so this simulation (unlike climatological models) is probably pretty close.

(Even though the simulation has a much, much bigger physical scope, the system is mathematically a lot simpler than a good climate model should be.)

And some reminders:

The critical density is the overall density of the universe that would be necessary for space to be flat (large triangles–and I mean large triangles, millions or billions of light years in extent–have inside angles that total to 180 degrees). Higher than this, and those triangles have total angles higher than 180 degrees, lower than that, the angles are less. Generally this gets set up in such a way that 1 equals the critical density and you’ll often see a ratio quoted. Judging from the matter and dark matter we are able to detect, the density is Ω = 0.3; i.e., the universe is at 0.3 times the critical density.

Energy also makes a contribution since it is equivalent to mass. But in our current universe, there is far more mass than there are photons, once you do the conversion. We live in a matter-dominated universe. Once upon a time, it was actually dominated by photons. But when the universe doubles in size, the amount of matter per cubic meter is 1/8th what it was before (because the volume is 2x2x2=8 times as much). But the same thing happens to the photons, when you count photons. But, because their wavelengths have stretched, each individual photon is now half as energetic as it was before, so the amount of energy from photons is 1/16th what it was before. If you run that tape backwards, and go back far enough, eventually photons dominate over matter.

The critical density also determines the ultimate fate of the universe. If Ω > 1, the universe’s expansion will eventually halt, reverse, and there will be a “big crunch” at some point in the future.

If Ω < 1, the universe will continue to expand forever, and the expansion velocity will always exceed zero. At time infinity the expansion velocity will still be some positive number.

If Ω = 1 exactly, as time goes to infinity the universe expands slower and slower, and the speed of the expansion will go to zero at time infinity.

(These cases are analogous to a rocket being fired at less than, greater than, and exactly at escape velocity.)

The cosmic redshift, Z, of some galaxy or galaxy cluster, will be some number greater than zero. It’s directly related to the ratio of the size of the universe back when that galaxy emitted the light we are now seeing, and the size today (which is set to 1). [See part 27] If a galaxy’s redshift is Z=1, then just add one to that number (getting…let me see here…where’s my calculator? Ah!) 2, and you know that today’s universe is twice the size it was when that galaxy emitted the light, or alternatively, it was 1/2 the size then that it is now.

OK, now on to new stuff.

The Quest to Plot the History of the Universe

I mentioned recently that actually plotting Hubble’s Constant versus time has been an important preoccupation of astronomers and cosmologists.

As it sits right now, near our own galaxy space seems to be expanding at 70 kilometers per second, per megaparsec distant from here. Galaxies one megaparsec away are receding at 70 km/sec, those two megaparsecs away are receding at 140 km/sec, and so on. That’s the speed due to the expansion of space itself, the so called “comoving speed.” Galaxies might also have some additional velocity because they’re gravitationally attracted to some other galaxy; this is how it is that M-31, the “Andromeda Galaxy,” is actually moving towards us (and will collide in about 5 billion years, about the same time CNN finally broadcasts a truthful news story, probably by mistake).

This was actually used, for a while, as the next rung on the cosmic distance ladder. If you couldn’t see any Cepheid variables in a galaxy because it was just too darn far away, you could measure its redshift, compute its velocity, and divide by Hubble’s Constant, and get a rough estimate of how far away the galaxy is.

The problem is, no one actually thinks the Hubble Constant is, well, constant. They usually call it the Hubble Parameter, and its current value is labeled H0 to denote “Hubble’s Parameter right now.”

It’s expected that it was higher in the past, and will drop in the future, because the galaxies all attract each other, which puts the brakes on the expansion. One of the big questions has been whether the galaxies will eventually stop receding, then reverse and start coming back together into a Big Crunch, or whether their speed will reach zero as the separation reaches infinity (just barely not a Big Crunch, like being exactly at escape velocity), or whether there’s extra speed and the galaxies will always be moving apart from each other.

So if we can measure the red shift (easy–in fact it’s the only easy thing to measure), and the distance to the galaxy, we can determine what H was back then, or equivalently, be able to plot the scale factor versus time.

What we know to start with is the scale factor of the universe (by definition, it’s 1) and today’s Hubble parameter. And the time can be set to 0, arbitrarily. Negative times are times in the past, positive times, are in the future.

We can set up a graph like this and plot the one point we know on it and (since the Hubble parameter is a rate of expansion) the slope of the line it’s on, right now:

But now we don’t know what the rest of the line is.

If the density of the universe is Ω>1, the slope should decrease rapidly in the future (and should have decreased up until now, quite rapidly); we can draw a notional line for that case, and as you can see the universe expands (distances between galaxies increase) up to some time in the future, then it shrinks again. But this line must cross through our one known point representing the present time and present size of the universe; and where it crosses through our point it has to be at the same slope.

We can add two more lines for Ω = 1 and Ω < 1. And even a third for Ω = 0, in which case the expansion rate is constant–the same as our original slope. In all three cases the conditions for “now” have to match what we actually see.

One thing to notice–the faster the universe’s expansion is slowing down, the closer in time to today was when the universe had zero size…in other words, the more recent was the Big Bang.

In other words if we can plot the scale factor versus time, we know how old the universe is and we find out what the Hubble parameter was at different times in the past…and because we will now know for certain what Ω is, we can extrapolate into the future.

Although we can currently see back to fairly low scale factors, we don’t know where in time those scale factors are, so we don’t know the shape of the line we want to plot.

And in order to know the time, we need to measure the distance. Because, with light carrying the image, the distance is proportional to how long ago the light was emitted. A galaxy a billion light years away is being seen as it was a billion years ago–and the redshift it has represents the universe’s scale factor, a billion years ago. This is called the lookback time and it directly correlates with distance.

So we need, for every galaxy, a scale factor and a lookback time.

The scale factor relates easily to the redshift, and the red shift is easy to measure.

Lookback time relates easily to distance, but distance is, as I said a few weeks ago, a cast iron bitch to measure. For very distant galaxies, all of the methods I’ve mentioned so far are useless. Even the Cepheid variables are unusable, because at those distances they’re too faint to pick out from the rest of the galaxies they are in. (And simply extrapolating the current Hubble parameter–well, that’s the gross approximation we’re trying to replace.)

We need a new standard candle, one much brighter than a Cepheid variable.

Once we have that, we can fill in the lines, and it’s pretty much expected it will look like the green, blue, or purple lines.

As it happens, we do have a brighter “standard” candle, but it’s rare and evanescent. If one is in a galaxy now, it’ll be gone in a year and it might be decades before another one appears in that galaxy.

The Other Kind of Supernova

A few weeks ago I talked about supernovas. Specifically, I talked about core collapse supernovas–ones that result from a large star finally losing its battle against gravity as it begins trying to fuse iron to generate energy–and it turns out that reaction consumes energy.

But those aren’t the only type of supernova. There are two major types and core collapse supernovas are actually labeled Type II. What’s Type I, then?

Consider a binary star. One of the stars is a white dwarf–basically a star smaller than or maybe just a little bit larger than the sun, having run out of hydrogen and helium, now shrunken down into a very dense ember that will take billions of years to finally cool off.

The other star is, perhaps, a red giant, because it’s a star that hasn’t quite reached the end of its life…yet.

The outer layers of the red giant may very well be so close to the white dwarf that the white dwarf strips them away and adds that material to itself.

The only problem is, there’s an upper limit to how massive a white dwarf can be; about 1.44 times the mass of the sun. (This isn’t quite the same thing as Chandrasekhar’s limit, but it is related.)

If enough matter gets pulled into the white dwarf, it could cross that limit. A star that exceeded that limit in the first place would have become a neutron star (or perhaps even a black hole if it really busts that limit). In this case, though, it’s a bit different and what ends up happening is a large proportion of this “dead” white dwarf suddenly undergoes a chain reaction and the gas from the other star, plus the carbon and oxygen already in the white dwarf, fuses.

All at once.

There’s a big explosion, known as a “Type Ia Supernova.” (That’s supposed to be a Roman numeral I. Sans serif fonts can be stupid sometimes.)

It turns out that every Type Ia supernova is identical in brightness. If you see two of them, and one looks a quarter as bright as the other, you know that the fainter one is twice as far away. Also, they follow the same luminosity curve. So even if you don’t catch it at its brightest, you can watch it fade for a while match that curve to part of the full curve for a Type Ia, and then figure out how bright it had been.

(And I need to be clear, you can tell from the spectrum what kind of supernova it is–no one will mistake a Core Collapse for a Ia.)

And a supernova of either type can outshine the galaxy it’s in. Very easy to see, as easy as the galaxy is.

So if we look at a galaxy and happen to catch a Type Ia supernova in progress, we can measure the distance to that galaxy by measuring the brightness of the supernova, and match that distance with the redshift.

As I indicated before, though, these are fairly rare occurrences; any particular galaxy might not have a Type Ia supernova for decades. But for our purposes, we don’t need to measure every galaxy’s distance, just a representative sample of them.

And there are a lot of galaxies. The usual estimate (based on the Hubble Deep Space Field, a photograph taken by Hubble where it simply “stared” at one part of space for months, to bring up even the faintest objects in that direction) is 100 billion galaxies that we can see from Earth. I’ve even seen some articles go ten times higher to an even trillion.

What we want to do, then, is hunt for Type Ia supernovae in distant galaxies, and use those to get a distance and redshift reading for those galaxies. We do this by photographing thousands upon thousands of galaxies, then going back later to look at them again. If we see a new “star” there, it is a candidate supernova. Further observation will hopefully establish it’s a Type Ia supernova.

This project was undertaken by two separate teams in the 1990s. When they spotted a Type Ia supernova, they’d look again a while later to see how much the supernova had dimmed. They could then figure out what part of the fading of the supernova they were witnessing, and know how bright it had been originally.

Here’s just one example.

At lower left, a type 1a supernova.

Often when they show pictures of a supernova, there will be two arrows pointing to it, added in post-processing, so they often joke that all you have to do is look for arrows in the sky to find one.

The two teams were the High-Z Supernova Search Team led by Brian Schmidt and Nicholas P Suntzeff, and the Supernova Cosmology Project led by Saul Perlmutter.

The rivalry was friendly.

Schmidt and Perlmutter

Both teams were actually glad the other team was doing the same thing; they would thereby serve as a check for each other. But that doesn’t mean the wanted the other team to be first.

In 1998, Adam Reiss from the High Z Supernova Search Team published his team’s results; and shortly after that, the other team published as well.

Was the expansion of the universe slowing down rapidly, indicating that we’d end up in a Big Crunch someday (Ω>1)? Was it expanding in such a way that it’d never quite slow down to zero, indicating the amount of “stuff” in the universe was at the critical density (Ω=1)? Or did it have excess energy and would never slow down to zero (Ω<1)?

Scientists were fairly confident that Ω=1. Because we seem to be close to that value by every measurement ever made, and calculations indicated that we had to have been much, much closer to 1 in the distant past. At some point, if Ω really is 0.3 now, in the distant past it would have been Ω=0.99999999999. Why would it not just be at 1.0 in the first place?

Well, thanks to those two teams, we know the shape of the curve. And the answer is:

None Of The Above

Surprise!!!

(This is why we check theory against reality, folks!)

The expansion of the universe is accelerating. And has been for a few billion years. Before that, it was indeed slowing down, but now, some unknown factor was becoming more prominent and starting to give the universe a big push.

Here’s what’s actually going on, shown in red:

This was very, very surprising, to say the least.

(This is, by the way, the sort of moment a good scientist lives for: finding something totally unexpected that forces a re-evaluation.)

Something is pushing the universe apart, something that became dominant over gravity a few billion years ago.

What is that something?

We don’t know.

That doesn’t stop us from giving it a name, and that name is “Dark Energy.”

We know it’s some form of energy. And we believe that it’s absolutely, uniformly distributed throughout space.

And we know that when we add it all together, its total mass-equivalent is 0.70 Ω.

Which means Ω = 1.0 and space is flat…which is what we’ve been measuring. So even though the blue curve isn’t right…we have the Ω value it was supposed to match with.

So now we know, at a very high level, what the universe is made of. About 70% Dark Energy, 25% Dark Matter, and 5% ordinary matter and photons.

That means that we really don’t have even the most basic understanding of 95% of the stuff in the universe!

Science is far from done with this!

Notice something else too: With that history, the universe is slightly older than it would have been otherwise. That solves the nagging problem of those old globular clusters that turn out to be older than the universe was thought to be. And so now the best figure for the age of the universe is now: 13.787±0.020 billion years.

And there are a couple of other nagging problems that are neatly solved by this, which is why it’s pretty much accepted by astrophysicists and cosmologists today, even though it was a total “WTF!!” when it was first announced.

So what does the future hold? The universe will continue to expand. Eventually, many billions or even trillions of years from now, future astronomers will only be able to see the local group of galaxies. Those are gravitationally bound to each other and therefore don’t move apart as space expands.

Some speculate that the repulsion is going to grow stronger and stronger as the universe expands, so that the local group will get ripped apart, then the individual galaxies, then even stars and planets…and perhaps even molecules, atoms and nucleons, and that those last few phases will happen very quickly when they do get here. This is called the “big rip” but I hasten to remind any reading this, that it is speculative.

We’d sure like to know what Dark Energy actually is. Then we could at least speculate more intelligently.

Some think it might be “vacuum energy,” energy inherent in quantum fluctuations in even totally empty space. The only problem is when we try to calculate how much vacuum energy there ought to be, it’s something like 10112 joules per cubic meter. Which is to say 1046 times more energy than has been released by all the stars in all of the galaxies throughout the entire history of the universe so far (note: that’s from a quick back-of-the envelope calculation I did, but I shouldn’t be off by more than a factor of a billion–puny by comparison to these numbers). Whereas dark energy, whatever it is, would have to be about 10-8 joules per cubic meter to fit what we are seeing.

That’s only an error of a factor of 10120, which I will write out, The theory gives a value for vacuum energy

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

times as high as it “ought” to be, to fit dark energy. This seems to just about everyone to indicate that the theory of vacuum energy might need to be polished just a bit, since it is even more wrong than Critical Race Theory.

There’s an idea of something called “quintessence” which would be a sort of energy inherent in vacuum, though the amount of it per cubic meter is allowed to change over time. (It’s absolutely uniform at any given time, but that amount can change with time.)

And finally, there’s Einstein’s cosmological constant, which he called his greatest mistake ever. Maybe not!

Einstein used the Greek letter Λ (capital lambda–that’s not an A, and if it was, it’d be missing the crossbar) to represent this constant, and he used it as a “fudge factor” to prevent the universe from collapsing when he first tried to apply general relativity to the whole universe. That’s because everyone back in the late 1910s thought the universe was static. Hubble and Lemaitre had not yet discovered the universe was expanding under the impetus from the Big Bang.

Even if dark energy doesn’t turn out to be Einstein’s cosmological constant, it’s often symbolized by Λ anyway.

Since Λ is uniform per cubic meter of space, and space is growing, the total amount of Dark Energy is increasing as the universe expands. The total amount of matter remains the same (though it gets spread thinner and thinner), and the energy in photons is actually decreasing with time. So it stands to reason that at some point dark energy becomes dominant, and indeed it already has since it is already over half of the stuff in the universe.

So we have a universe which consists of dark energy and cold dark matter (cold because dark matter moves a lot slower than the speed of light). The ordinary matter we are made of is insignificant by comparison.

The model is called the ΛCDM (“Lambda Cee Dee Em”) model.

And now for my editorial comment: Λ will be uniformly spread throughout space. When we find out what it is, it probably won’t be very complicated. Cold dark matter will likely be more complicated, but not very complex in structure; after all it only reacts weakly. (That is a double meaning: it reacts weakly in the usual sense, and it also reacts with the weak nuclear force.) Regular old matter, on the other hand, has a vast variety of structures. That is, after all, what chemistry and more broadly, material science is all about, and of course you are made of it too. So the complexity will probably turn out to be almost entirely in that 5 percent of the universe that is “ordinary” matter.

Where To From Here?

I’ve brought us up to the present day. Yes, this is the last part of the “physics posts,” at least so far as the historical approach goes. If you’re still with me, go buy the “I survived SteveInCO’s Deplorable Physics Posts” bumper sticker. (If on the other hand, you just scrolled over them…you ain’t earned it! No stolen valor, please!)

Theoretical physicists are trying to figure out what dark matter and dark energy are. On the dark matter front, they’re trying to come up with coherent predictions of new particles, everything from string theory to supersymmetry and even membrane theory. All of this is entirely speculative; nothing has been detected, and many of the theories aren’t even refined enough to make a prediction that can be checked.

And dark energy, being much more recently noticed, is completely off the wall.

Which is not to say that absolutely nothing has happened since 1998. But it’s stuff I’ve already covered, like the top quark and the Higgs boson.

How about astrophysics? Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope and various very large telescopes on Earth (Palomar is still doing excellent work, despite being built in the mid 20th century–what a feat of engineering–but it has plenty of company now, much larger telescopes using adaptive optics to cancel out the turbulence of our own atmosphere), we can see things thirteen billion light years away–just barely. Why no further? Ideally we’d like to get back past those last six or seven hundred million years, maybe see back to shortly after the Cosmic Microwave Background, which was a mere 300-400 thousand years after the big bang.

The very faintest and reddest dots in this image are galaxies 13 billion light years away.
This is a false color image, those red dots are actually infrared.

Because further away than about ten billion light years, things become so red-shifted that we do not see any visible light at all; it has all been stretched to infrared wavelengths. If you have infrared sensors, this can be dealt with, but there are enormous practical problems that limit what can be done.

Visible light has wavelengths 380-800 nanometers (billionths of a meter). The short wavelength/high frequency light looks violet, the longer/low frequency light looks red. The cosmological red shift at extreme distances pushes all of the light from galaxies out past 800 nanometers.

Hubble’s sensors can’t see anything longer than about 2400 nanometers, and earth’s atmosphere blocks things at that wavelength, so we’re currently limited as to how far into the infrared we can see. If we want to see the very oldest galaxies, and better yet, the individual big stars that we think formed very shortly after the big bang, we’re going to need a bigger telescope, and one that can see deep into the infrared.

We don’t have one. Not yet. That will be a topic for next week.

One Loose End

One of the 1894 mysteries hasn’t come to complete closure even yet, but we know the outlines of the answer.

How was the solar system formed?

Well, we know what happens. The Hubble Space Telescope has looked into the Orion Nebula and can actually see stars and their planetary systems being formed, and it is indeed by accretion from nebulae.

The bulk of the mass ends up in the star, but there’s a large disk of gas and dust (and that “dust” is all stuff that formed in prior generations of stars) that eventually starts to clump up into small bodies, which collect into larger bodies called “planetesimals” which in turn combine into planets.

What we don’t understand is how some of those stages of growth actually happen. For instance, a B-B sized particle of stuff colliding with a 1 meter boulder will likely ricochet off of it, rather than sticking to it. Gravity just isn’t strong enough for objects of that size. So even though we can actually watch the process happen–which settles a lot of things–we still don’t understand it.

If just seeing it happen is good enough, check that one off; if you want a full understanding, then don’t.

What A Ride, And It’s Not Over

There’s so much we know that we didn’t know before Galileo did his first experiments rolling balls down inclined planes, a bit over four centuries ago…but there is also so much we don’t know. The hard sciences seem to have gone through a golden age already, but I suspect the best is yet to come.

We are humans, we use our minds as our primary means of survival. That comes with curiosity, a desire to learn what makes the universe ‘tick.’ And then inventiveness to put it to use. It’s our unique legacy, but it’s also our future. We press on!

NOT the end. The story is still being written.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!

Remember Hong Kong!!!

If anyone ends up in the cell right next to him, 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 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 !!!

Reality Check: Jussie Smollett is Multi-Generational Russian Red Diaper Supported Throughout his Life by Numerous Marxist Fronts

Watch carefully, because you will RARELY see angry, vicious, red diaper communist hoaxing exposed as CLEARLY and DEEPLY as it has been with Jussie Smollett.

Here is the New York Post, calling it like it is. Well, almost.


Jussie Smollett guilty of staging race-baiting hate attack to boost career

By Gabrielle Fonrouge
December 9, 2021 6:18 pm  
Updated


Career boost? BULLSHIT.

Wait for the evidence I’m going to show you.

Don’t assume that the “to boost career” stuff is actually true. That is a RATIONALIZATION. In my opinion, our desire to EXCUSE a malicious race hoax to the less heinous crime of “personal gain” is a psychological gimme to Jussie Smollett – a kind of peace offering – but in reality it is a form of DENIAL.

The communists will GLADLY allow you to cover up THEIR crimes with YOUR self-deception.

We want to deny the VICIOUSNESS of black race hoaxing, but it is every bit as evil as the classic mirror opposite – the psychologically depraved white woman who falsely accuses a black man of rape. Both crimes are detestable in the extreme, and deserve punishment that sets an example.

“DON’T DO THIS. EVER.”

Social/political hoaxing is not, at its core, a “Black” thing. It is a COMMUNIST thing. And it is NOT Jussie Smollett’s “Black” roots that are actually behind what is going on. It’s his BOLSHEVIK roots, way back in Russia and Eastern Europe, that set the course of Jussie Smollett’s life.

Jussie Smollett, like his entire family of media-ready lib-sibs, is a PBS DUMPSTER FIRE out of the Soviet Union, pushed into America almost a century ago and STILL causing Stalinist destruction.

It’s time to take a closer look at what is REALLY going on with Jussie Smollett.


START HERE, with a wonderful editorial by the New York Post, fully engaged in the CRT wars, and understanding that Jussie Smollett / Cory Booker / Kamala Harris HOAXING, CRT / SEL race-mongering, Soros DAs and AGs putting criminals back on the streets, and BLM / ANTIFA / RevCom violence are all part of the same cycle of destructive race-grifting which keeps communism fed what it needs – people as human tinder, and which in reality keeps black America “down on the farm” by the most insidious form of oppression, namely by SELF-OPPRESSION.

BLM’s defense of Jussie Smollett exposes truth of the school CRT wars

By Post Editorial Board
December 9, 2021 6:43 pm  
Updated

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/GjQrO


What is that BLM defense? Again, the New York Post.

BLM backs Jussie Smollett: ‘We can never believe the police’

By Kenneth Garger
December 8, 2021 11:13 pm  
Updated


This is communism sticking to a story for political ends. Jussie Smollett caught “red-handed” means nothing to them.

This is EXACTLY like “Mumia” – the guilty-as-hell cop-killer who everybody knows is FACTUALLY guilty, but who the left always proclaims innocent by a kind of “group lie”, which pretends that evidence simply doesn’t exist – and that extends all the way to election theft, here in 2020 and beyond.


So who exactly IS Jussie Smollett?

Jussie Smollett comes from a family of Soviet social activists who came to North America and proceeded to ply their communist trade from one generation to the next. The Smolletts were ALWAYS never more than a step away from the MEDIA and HOLLYWOOD.

If you follow the family, you will see that Smollett kids were RAISED to be media manipulators.

LINK: http://superbhub.com/biography/janet-smollett-net-worth-children/

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/9CrtH

LINK: http://superbhub.com/entertainment/joel-smollett-sr-husband-janet-six-kids-dead/

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/Sm9kd


The trick with Jussie Smollett is getting good information about HIS red diaper parents, and going from there to THEIR red diaper parents.

It’s not easy to find, but what little REAL political information is available about BOTH of Jussie’s parents is MIND-BOGGLING.

LINK: https://justrichest.com/joel-smollett-bio-wife-janet-smollett-facts/

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/vuzfa

As you will see, Jussie’s entire lineage is connected to TOP leftist radicals for DECADES.

These are NOT ordinary people.


FTA:

It’s clear just from what little we can find here that:

  • Jussie’s mother was connected to TOP black radicals and powerful politicians
  • Jussie’s father was connected to Hollywood from before the kids were born, and used those connections to get the kids into media and programming from early on

There is much confusion about “junior and senior” on Jussie’s father Joel, and I find this typical of diaper families, where obscurity by confusion is used to pass off immigrant communist background as “ordinary”.

But let’s take that bit of information about his father PETER SMOLLETT and see where that leads:

Somewhere they obviously do NOT want you to look.

THIS is the MOTHER LODE.

LINK: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/leaderpost/obituary.aspx?pid=184450120

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/37Pg7

FTA:


Peter Smollett February 26, 1930-February 19, 2017

Peter Smollett died on February 19, 2017 in Toronto, a week before his 87th birthday.

Peter was born on February 26, 1930 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and grew up in Far Rockaway, N.Y. He was the son of David Smollett and Dawley Smollett (née Levy), both from Eastern European Jewish immigrant families.

At 19 years old, in New York City, he apprenticed as a film editor. He continued work in the New York film industry during the 1950’s and early 1960’s, interrupted by some years working in Pennsylvania as an industrial worker and union organizer. During that period, he was married to Molly Smollett (née Hirschenson), and had two sons, Jeff and Joel.

In 1966, in New York, he married Eleanor Wenkart Smollett, a cultural anthropologist. They moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where both went to work at the University of Regina. There they raised their daughter Rebecca.

For nearly two decades at the University of Regina, Peter taught innovative courses on the politics of the mass media, especially film, and on the evolution of the role of artists in society.

In the 1990’s, Peter and Eleanor retired to Toronto. There they welcomed a son-in-law and two grandchildren into their lives.

Peter was a lifelong radical, a trade unionist, civil rights activist, self-educated person, reader and polemicist.

Peter leaves his immediate family in Toronto: his wife, Eleanor Wenkart Smollett, and his daughter, Rebecca Smollett, son-in-law David Ley, and their children, Abraham Ley and Yohanna Ley. As well, he is survived by his son from his first marriage, Jeff Smollett; the six adult children of his late son, Joel Smollett, and their children; his sister, Norma Goldwyn, nephew, Craig Goldwyn with wife Lou, and niece Ann Goldwyn with husband Peter.

To Plant Memorial Trees in memory, please visit our Sympathy Store.Published in Leader-Post on Mar. 11, 2017.


One of the BEST validations of what this all means is a comment on the obituary.


March 11, 2017

Peter had a huge influence on me when he was my film professor in Regina. His politics were progressive and his filmmaking and teaching skills impressive. I credit Peter with teaching me enough that I was able to fake my way through a career as a television journalist. My condolences to Eleanor and the crest of Peter’s family.

Norm Bolen


There you have it – right there.

The Smollett family record is one of crypto-communist activism in America – STARTING with the immigration of Jussie’s great-grand-parents. Not only is Jussie double-diaper from BOTH parents – he’s got so much diaper on his father’s side, he could start a laundry service.

Don’t let these communists off the hook. This isn’t some “prank”, as Soros DA Kim Foxx tried to make it out to be.

NO – this is CLASSIC Alinsky hoaxing. It’s malicious, it’s anti-American, and it supports FOREIGN objectives on American soil.

My advice? Throw the BOOK at this familial communist creep.

And then find out what Kamala Harris knew, what Cory Booker knew, WHEN they knew it, and whether they are the ones who initiated the plot.

Look for burner phones used by aides. Remember Kamala’s “fake cops”? Yes – she’s perfectly capable of being part of a hoax.

Like all commie doings, DIRT leads to MORE DIRT.

Find it. It’s there.

W

Kamala Harris introduces anti-lynching bill.

DEAR KAG: 20211210

“If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”

St. Thomas Aquinas

Wolf’s Pub is open for business! This public house is decked out in the Christmas spirit, and speaking of spirits, our special today is the Brandy Alexander. We’ll get to that in a moment.

ZELENKO ON A RIGHTEOUS RANT

Here is some more info on that Babylonish woman, Barbara Hubbard. Beware, there is a lot of gunk.

Didn’t that feel wonderful? I love that man. He is God’s instrument and a blunt one at that.

Here is another of God’s instruments, Ivermectin. The Story of Ivermectin just premiered last evening (FLCCC Alliance), and you can share this with normies:

https://youtu.be/OLxJUOc_p5o

A FEW BRAVE SOULS

Here’s a Minnesotan doctor who’s running for governor, and who speaks plainly–they are lying to us:

And here is author Abigail Shrier, who implores Princeton students to reclaim their freedom. From her message to them:

“I know why students keep their heads down. They are hoping for that Goldman or New York Times internship, which they don’t want to put in jeopardy. Well, any institution that takes our brightest, most capable young people—Princeton graduates!—and tells you can only work here if you think like we tell you to and keep your mouth shut, that isn’t really Goldman Sachs and it isn’t the paper of record. It’s the husk of a once-great institution, and it’s not worth grasping for. Talk to alums at these institutions: they sound like those living under communist regimes. That’s the America that awaits you if you will not speak up.”

America’s Front Line Doctors are also straight up calling the side effects from the shots (V)AIDS. From the article:

“Our immune systems produce these antibodies in response to both vaccination and natural infection with COVID,” wrote Berenson. “However – though the researchers do not say so explicitly, possibly because doing so would be politically untenable – spike protein antibody levels are MUCH higher following vaccination than infection. Thus the downstream response to vaccination may be more severe.”

THE DEFENDER: CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE

Robert Kennedy, Jr., is a hero. He would make his dad proud, I think. His organization speaks truth about what is happening. Here we learn that Pfizer and Moderna are making billions off Covid-19, even now they are setting up Omicron to make them even more filthy lucre.

And here Pfizer and Big Pharma are seeking to weaken whistleblower laws. FTA:

MerckAstraZeneca, Amgen and Genentech also oppose the proposed legislation, according to The Intercept. Other groups opposing the legislation include the American Hospital Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of American Hospitals, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Healthcare Leadership Council, the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America and the American Bankers Association.”

Have you heard about American Front Line Nurses? Check them out and find nurses near you.

KEEP CONNECTING THE DOTS

Iain Davis is an investigative journalist who, like Catherine Austin Fitts, is really expert at connecting dots in a matter-of-fact way. I highly recommend spending an hour with this interview. At the very least start at around the 40-minute mark to hear some hard truth. Excellent interview. It’s on Odysee and I could not figure out how to embed it. From the description:

“He discusses the global partnerships between corporations, NGOs, and governments; how one-world governance is being achieved through policymaking and policy distribution; why voting doesn’t matter; who is pulling the public strings; and what we can do to protect ourselves from globalist tyranny.”

Wolf’s Attempt To Embed:

FOOD SECURITY

This can never be far from our minds. There are many levels of being prepared for emergencies, but having enough food to eat and share is among the most important.

Canned beans are good, but having 50 pounds of dried beans and knowing how to cook them, is much better. There are a lot of already-prepared people here. Tips are most welcome. I have the dickens of a time getting beans that turn out well.

Here’s a “live local” website for buying seeds: Seeds for Generations. Living local means finding those businesses and individuals in your community who provide a service or product that cuts out the multi-nationals, the Big Box stores, and places like Amazon and Walmart.

If you want to see what a year’s worth of food looks like, this gal (who is a TYPE A person if ever there was one) shows you her pantry. She’s only been gardening for a couple years. Holy cow!

A Year Without the Grocery Store is a book suggested in the video. I can’t pretend to be at this point, but wouldn’t it be grand to be able to say that you didn’t need to go grocery shopping for a year?

Regarding traditional foods and traditional cooking there is no better place to look than the Weston Price Foundation. This is serious stuff. That old adage, “You are what you eat,” is more true than we know. I highly recommend this site. It has always stood me in good stead.

If you are looking for a Non-GMO source for grains and beans, this is a wonderful site: Palouse Brand. They ship quickly and their grains and beans are of the best quality. Highly recommend.

NOW, FOR THE BRANDY ALEXANDER

Time for a holiday break. Dating from the 1930s and derived from a gin-based cocktail, the Brandy Alexander has been a holiday favorite for many years.

Indeed, it was a favorite of my in-laws, who used vanilla ice cream instead of cream. Fun video here on this easy and festive drink:

Background on Brandy here and here. Info on Crème de cacao and how to make it here. For your listening pleasure I say let’s go all in and listen to Handel!

HOUSE RULES

God bless us, every one! Tiny Tim had such a beautiful soul. He hadn’t a mean bone in his body…unlike most of us. But in keeping with Christmas, we promise to honor Wolf’s rules and keep Scrooge at bay. The Utree is where the Ghost of Christmas Present will conduct you should you need to rattle some chains. Another option, should all hell break loose is here.

Now, back to business.

#FIX 2020 OR BUST

What has happened to the Arizona audit? Seth Keshal is all over it. Go here to his Telegram (scroll to the bottom). He rakes Patrick Byrne and everyone else over the coals. Millions of dollars and nothing to show for it. Jovan Pulitzer, Patrick Byrne, dare I say Mike Flynn…

UPDATE: A mea culpa. Got taken in. Wrong Telegram account. Have been graciously corrected. I will leave the mistake up for my own shame. But do ignore. 😔

It seems like the steam has been taken out of the investigation of election fraud in the 2020 election. But no. Work continues. We will overcome. Here’s a good resource:

Election Fraud 20 is a site that gives excellent snapshots and updates of election fraud by state. This is a site to be bookmarked and shared. I don’t know how we recover from what is beginning to look like a typical deep state slow walk, but we can’t give up. Truth, justice, and the American way will prevail.

CHOICE OR FORCE? KNOW THE DIFF

Do we really know the difference between CHOICE and FORCE? Corey’s Digs has a great article about that. Hard truths:

“Self worth, confidence, integrity, beliefs, morals, ethical values, and boundaries are all needed to take these steps. If you remove the feeling of being “forced”, pressured, being boxed in or cornered, and the fear that goes with it, to melt away long enough to sit still with your heart – ask yourself what you really want. Do you want to work for a company that is part of the building blocks to our enslavement? Will that fulfill you, or eat you alive with each paycheck you cash? Are you willing to “choose” to comply against all of your beliefs and continue to ride out the tyranny, expecting that more will not be “required” of you with each passing month? Is the short-term comfort going to lead to long-term discomfort? Is it possible that there are hundreds, possibly thousands of other people at your place of employment that feel as you do and are willing to take a stand against the tyranny, alongside you?”

ODDS AND ENDS

Father of trans child (is there such a being?) runs for office. God give him the win. That dirty Gov. Abbott certainly hasn’t lifted a finger to help.

The sickos are all intertwined. God help us:

https://twitter.com/JesseMatchey/status/1467831289847836676

The Turn (when you finally admit there is something wrong with your pov). Dr. Malone recommends as a great read.

Cato Institute (libertarian and somewhat squishy) rates freedom in the 50 states. Their data and how it’s calculated. Hope the math minds around here weigh in.

Also, found this interesting organization: Free State Project. Of course one of the authors of the 50-state freedom raters is from New Hampshire. Still, there are some intriguing points.

Science vs. Anti-Science: Conservation of Spike Protein Biochemistry vs. Democrat Media Voodoo of Post-Pandemic Stress

As a young science student in the 1970s, I never would have thought that I would have to correct the American and global media over an issue of late 19th century basic science, but yet, here we are.

When basic theories of MATTER and CHEMISTRY proved that “Compound A created by one route has the same properties as compound A created by a different route”, science got a hold of a very simple but very revolutionary idea – that substances had assignable responsibilities for things. Further still, that we could PROVE THIS, and then use it in both diagnosis and cures.

This was the beginnings of the scientific theory of DRUGS and PHARMACEUTICALS.

I was PART OF THIS INDUSTRY. I learned about its history. I marveled at its beautiful truth.

But yet NOW – shamefully – to defend a corrupt pharmaceutical industry that literally controls our government, on behalf of other governments, our media will without shame DENY the most basic truths about how drugs and biochemicals work.

What is even MORE SHAMEFUL is that the global pharmaceutical industry KNOWS that I’m right – and yet in CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, they allow the idiot media to defend them with insanity that THEY THEMSELVES swept away 150 years ago.

SO – what I am going to do here is to SHAME OUR MEDIA – our unscientific media – for embracing VOODOO theories of disease, as 150-year-old BASIC SCIENCE stares them in the face.


Let me begin by stating the bottom line right up front.

Anybody who thinks that cardiovascular pathology in recipients of spike protein vaccines is due to anything other than those very same spike protein antigens – which were BORROWED FROM THE DISEASE that causes the very same cardiovascular pathology – is denying the most basic science of drugs and disease.

Let me state that just a little MORE clearly.

It is impossible for vaccines to use a known molecular pathogen as an antigen, and NOT engender risk of pathogenicity due to that very same molecular pathogen.

Do you understand this?

If you take a poison to gain immunity to the poison, and you suffer poisoning typical of the poison, it was probably the poison, and probably not “stress”.

Good GOD – I cannot believe that I actually have to SAY THIS to adults in America in 2021, almost 2022.

But lets keep beating this into mushy skulls……

  • COVID-19 does bad cardiovascular things
  • COVID-19 virus has a spike protein
  • the spike protein is how COVID-19 does the cardiovascular bad things
  • the spike protein is how the vaccines “pretend” to be COVID-19
  • the spike protein by itself does the cardiovascular bad things
  • vaccines CREATING spike protein can thus do the cardiovascular bad things

This is actually very simple, because it’s OLD science.

Here is how we might play it out with the poisonous protein “ricin”.

  • ricin is a poisonous protein
  • we could try to make a vaccine against ricin, using ricin
  • we could give people an mRNA vaccine that “makes” ricin in their cells
  • the recipients would then have antibodies against ricin
  • some people who would get the vaccine would get ricin poisoning
  • the idea that the ricin poisoning was due to “stress” would be absurd

Are you starting to see this?

TO HYPOTHESIZE that GIVING a poison to a person, where the recipient then GETS poisoning typical of that poison, is not in fact RESPONSIBLE for causing the poisoning typical of the poison you just gave the person, is NUTS.

Actually, it’s beyond that – it’s NUCKING FUTS.

To hypothesize that there is some mysterious “stress” that causes EXPECTED SIDE EFFECTS from what we just gave the person, is so ridiculous, I could actually call upon the NIH to publicly CONDEMN major media for going along with this stuff – except for one thing.

The pharmaceutical companies that CONTROL the NIH AND the media are in fact the ones that make the poison and sell the product, and are trying to deny the obvious side effects of the poison.

WELL THAT’S GREAT.

Well, at least *I* spoke the truth.

Now – you may be wondering why I have not even pointed to a REFERENCE yet.

Well, not only is this stuff that EVERY college graduate should understand – MOST high school graduates should understand it, too.

In fact, anybody who has taken a fucking aspirin should understand this.

“If you take aspirin, and you have a side effect typical of aspirin, it was probably due to the aspirin, and not voodoo stress.”

This is SCIENCE. This is BASIC. FREAKING. SCIENCE.

It is SO basic, it is not in the literature. It is assumed that you understand this to even be able to begin to READ the scientific literature.

It is time to call people to account for these most basic things.

I want you to understand the following.

On honesty alone, I am more qualified to be the CEO of Pfizer than is Albert Bourla.

If Bourla does not explain this most basic truth to the people of the world, then he is a scientific FRAUD.

If Anthony Fauci does not explain this most basic truth to the people of the world, then he, too, is a scientific FRAUD.

I told you the truth. Bourla did not. Fauci did not.

Think about that.

W

Ref: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/explosion-new-heart-conditions-dismissed-post-pandemic-stress-disorder

Ref: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/04/uk-physicians-worried-about-large-numbers-of-cardiac-health-emergencies/

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20211209

Well, here we are. It’s Thursday.

With all of the bickering and infighting of he said this, this one said that, blah blah blah, leave it up to Praying Medic to get to the bottom line.

Praying Medic
The attack on General Flynn succeeded in one of its goals—the creation of division among anons. That anons are considered a high value target implies that our community is a powerful force in the information war. Despite the temporary setback, anons have, for the most part, come back together and are once again working toward the common goals of disseminating the truth and destroying the deep state.

Many people have been planted in our movement as sleepers. They pretend to be on our side, but when instructed to by their handlers, they turn against us. The tactic being used at present is an attack against someone with a large following. Typically, the target’s words are twisted or taken out of context and they’re made out to be a villain.

Because our unity poses a threat to the deep state, we will continue to see these attacks on high-profile people. Another attack is coming.

If you wanted to leave a herd of sheep defenseless, would to consider taking out the sheepdog—the one who continually warns the flock of danger?

The more you know.
🐑🦮t.me/praying_medic/7273150.6KviewsDave Hayes, Dec 7 at 14:36

There is a lot of speculation that the next target will be President Trump himself, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Please, consider the backgrounds of those doing the attacking. Patrick Byrne, Glenn Greenwald and Patrick Bergy are all “converts.” They are the ones publicly doing the pot stirring. Individual anons and influencers jump on the bandwagon each of them confects according to their own likes and prejudices, thus creating discord and division.

Just remember what PM says: we, as a movement, are dangerous to THEM. They want us fractured. Don’t give them the satisfaction.

Alright on to other business.

Congrats, James.

Yes, we figured this one out. And now the normies are figuring it out too.

Excellent.

Message from our sponsors.

Although, the other side is still trying to keep the people in the dark.

[GASP] COVID scandal.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1468651246705913866

Carlin:

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One of the obstacles to full understanding of just what the enemy is all about revolves around the concept of symbolism.

Symbolism actually evolved in Christianity prior to the splintering of the Faith in the west in the sixteenth century Anno Domini, and the rich tradition of said symbolism is one of the aspects of the culture that was destroyed along with a lot of stained glass windows, altar stones, and other art work when the revolt happened.

From the Gospel According to St. Matthew, Chapter 3:

[16] And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him. [17]And behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

The dove is pretty obvious.

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And now for the business portion.

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ISAIAH 41:13-20

13For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I will help you.” 14Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. 15Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff; 16You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory. 17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together; 20that men may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

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Bonjour, bonjour, saluons le Français Trump, Éric Zemmour!

MOOD MUSIC – COMFORT TO THE PEOPLE…..


I had heard scuttlebutt of a “French Trump”, but the moment I actually HEARD this guy talking – even having to read the meaning through Google auto-translate – I knew he was the REAL DEAL.

I’m going to give you an introduction to this great patriot of France, Éric Zemmour – a slow and steady introduction – so that you can appreciate his wonderful mind, first in American English, but then in French with subtitles.

It is actually WICKEDLY HARD to find this guy’s videos online. Even searching in French on French search engines will only have limited success.

The communists, the globonazis, the Islamists, and all the other forces of “woke” who destroy this planet in the name of their cynical Satanic masters, are all absolutely TORMENTED by Zemmour. They will do EVERYTHING to stop you from hearing him.

They will do ANYTHING to prevent his FRENCH SANITY from presiding over France again.

So LET THE DEMONS SCREAM IN AGONY – it’s a GOOD THING!

He is JUST LIKE TRUMP – he makes them RAGE and SCREAM and SHOW THEIR DEMON FACES.

So let’s get started.

First, let us begin with a GREAT translation of a slightly older speech, read by a blogger.

It really helps to hear this translation FIRST.

https://youtu.be/_i9ipkgCUPo

LINK: https://declineandfall.blog/2021/11/30/the-speech-of-eric-zemmour/

From there, go on to hear the same speech in French, with AMAZING VIDEO – and English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8IGBDK1BH8

AH YES – the globonazi SCUM at YouTube are already trying to hide him!

Too bad, globonazis – we have Rumble!!!

Alas, the Rumble video is only a fraction of the YouTube video, but it will get you started.

It is still worth going to that YouTube link, because the Zemmour campaign has a good two dozen links there to their complete media and social media presence.

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8IGBDK1BH8

Rumble Link: https://rumble.com/vq4n2d-43886533.html

Now try this BitChute ad – much more forceful!

LINK: https://www.bitchute.com/video/DGUkDIJzU1I/

And here is a great one – a brilliant but BITTER red-pill speech to a meeting of the right.

LINK: https://www.dailysquib.co.uk/world/44325-eric-zemmour-breath-of-conservative-french-air-from-macrons-progressive-eu-gulag.html

Yes, but HERE, HERE, HERE is the great speech! This is the one to listen to – to hear the TRUMP resonating with the crowd.

If it doesn’t come up with autotranslate and English captions, please adjust it yourself, and you can read exactly what he is saying, and what the crowd is cheering.

If you must, go to the YouTube page itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoutpnHWkVA

Please – if you find more links and videos, add them in the comments. I’d like to create a full resource for people looking for information about Zemmour.

FRANCE isn’t the only country that needs Zemmour.

THE WORLD NEED ZEMMOUR!!!

W

US embassy warns citizens to avoid Paris rally of far-right candidate Zemmour

(BE GONE, JOE BIDEN, and your evil little commie wench Red Jen)

Dear KAG: 20211208 Open Thread

https://youtu.be/wtUbMaKt_TE
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1468288337593126922

If they’re not going to take it….

Food for thought:

https://twitter.com/JavierGoya7/status/1467930316123869191

Actually, someone out there does, and it may not be who we think it is. This popped up in some one of my feeds.

Larry Fink, huh.

Well, guess what Larry Fink is up to now:

December 7, 20216:46 AM CSTLast Updated 10 hours ago Asian Markets

Aramco pipeline is net win for BlackRock and Saudi

By George Hay

LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Saudi Aramco (2222.SE) has handed both Larry Fink and Mohammed bin Salman a win. The BlackRock (BLK.N) chief executive is part of a group that on Monday announced it was paying $15.5 billion for 49% of a 20-year lease over the oil giant’s gas pipeline network, ultimately controlled by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. Both leaders gain more than they lose.

The transaction looks identical to last year’s sale by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company of a minority stake in a lease over its gas transmission network to Global Infrastructure Partners and chums. The ADNOC deal implied a $20.7 billion value for 982 kilometres of pipelines. Aramco’s larger 5,000-kilometre network is valued at $31.6 billion. In both cases the state owner retains a majority stake and pays an undisclosed annual tariff to the gas network. Meanwhile, minority investors borrow 80% of the amount they’re putting up, juicing annualised returns on their equity comfortably beyond 10%.

BlackRock isn’t just buying up American real estate, they’re buying up Saudi oil resources, and if the 4chan post above is correct, the hedge fund also largely “owns” the Federal Reserve.

Is this Mr. Global or just one of his minions.

If Wilson was aware of it, just who or what is Mr. Global?

In the meantime, watching the resignations:

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker is stepping down next year after two decades running airlines and will be succeeded by the carrier’s president, Robert Isom, on March 31, the company announced Tuesday.

Parker’s retirement as CEO of the largest U.S. airline is the latest in a wave of leadership changes at the country’s big carriers, and the new executives are tasked with driving their recovery from the Covid pandemic.

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly will step down in February, handing the reins to another longtime executive, Bob Jordan, in February. Scott Kirby, who was fired as president of American in 2016, jumped to United Airlines and became that carrier’s CEO in May 2020. Isom, who took Kirby’s job in 2016, has been Parker’s heir apparent since then.

Parker, 60, will continue as chairman of American’s board.

“It likely would have happened sooner, but the global pandemic — and the devastating impact it had on our industry — delayed those plans,” Parker said in a note to staff Tuesday.

It might be nothing, but then again….

It’s that time of year:

The natural order of things. Then again….

And its citizens.

I have a cousin who got a similar complaint about his hearse being parked in front of his in-laws house. It’s true. The people of the neighborhood were disturbed.

Let’s see…what else is in the stuff I stashed….

Extrapolate at will.

Have a good day y’all.

(I don’t remember who brought this to a daily in the comments, but thanks.)

And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:

Per the Boss:

Elmer Bernstein?????? Yeah…I’ve sung both Susanna and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro. Mozart’s most famous overture was a great choice.

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The Gospel:

LUKE 1:26-38

26In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” 29But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. 30And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.” 34And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I have no husband?” 35And the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. 36And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 37For with God nothing will be impossible.” 38And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

Next Sunday, this is featured:

LUKE 1:39-45

39In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, 40and she entered the house of Zechari’ah and greeted Elizabeth. 41And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44For behold, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped for joy. 45And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace. Peace will be the last word of history” – St. Pope John Paul II

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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.

It is quite clear, as per Wolf’s message from July, that we are under spiritual attack. Building up a robust arsenal of prayer and discipline is a must in fighting the enemy and his minions.

In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.

Also, I watched a recent offering from the Grace Force while on the treadmill Tuesday morning (it was WAY too cold to walk outside), and there is a physical explanation to anxiety as well as advice on discipline that can be adapted from how one Faith uses prayer.

Once again, JP posted his latest just in time for a closer. 😁

Dear KAG: 20211207 Open Thread

Cover image: The Last Torpedo by Tom Freeman

The descriptions claim the ship is the U.S.S. Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor.

Okay, let’s see what I’ve got.

Over the weekend, the “Patriot Front” march got a lot of attention, and according to sources, the shields the men were carrying are FBI special orders. (Courtesy Anonymous Conservative)

It looks like this group’s march was first tweeted by a made up twitter account with no history, with the photo being an AI blend of images, and it was then promoted by the usual suspects on the left’s gatekeeping Cabal. Twitter since deleted the first account once people began asking questions, to cover for the op.

The “Patriot Front” marchers carried “Clear Point Blank Warrior Shields” that have a 2-3 month lead time and must be ordered by Law Enforcement or government, to the FBI’s specifications. Twitter actually deleted John Cardillo’s tweet on this to cover for the op. If these were LE grade and not props, they must have cost, and of course, only FBI could buy them. LOL.

Yeah, that stunt didn’t fool anyone with a brain.

In gender news:

Oh, oops, this is better.

Is this a trick question?

Another warning from a survivor.

https://twitter.com/HumanRights4UK/status/1466810938120712200

For Neil Oliver fans.

AMAZING batting average the conspiracy crowd has of late.

Are all leftists really this unattractive?

https://twitter.com/1nesara/status/1467489191907008522

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1467614832883118080

What will tomorrow bring?

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.

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.

And now for some mood music:

Your weekly reminder to take the pledge, and if the non-mainstream people are to be believed, including Lin Wood, we will need to take this seriously very soon:

“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:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

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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.

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ISAIAH 40:1-11

1Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins. 3A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. 5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” 6A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. 7The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people is grass. 8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever. 9Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!” 10Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 11He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms, he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

One of my FAVORITES. I got to sing this on Sunday from the Sanctuary.

Father Meeks again had a very instructive homily this week. Please, visit his channel for the video.

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Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)

Anonymous ID: pqW40Wgk No.148156518 
Nov 5 2017 20:05:48 (EST)

>>148154137

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.