Hey China!

Or rather, “Hey Chinese Communist Party and your entire array of servitors, ass-wipers, and fellators!”

You’re not even worth my time this week. When you decide to act like civilized people, maybe I’ll give you a lesson or two in how non-barbarians behave.

Hey BiteMe!
(Or, Whoever Has Their Hand Rammed Up That Putrefying Meat Puppet’s Ass)

[Language warning]

You and yours have caused a lot of injury. Literal injury with your war on people who don’t want to take an untested vaccine. When people die in an emergency room because a hospital won’t admit them because they haven’t had their clot shot, that’s a crime.

I’m going to address here the insult on top of the injury, because I am among the insulted. I still have my health but apparently you want me to live under the 8th Street Bridge (which actually isn’t on 8th Street, but whatever, that’s what the I-25 overpass over Cimarron is called), so maybe if you have your way that won’t be true for long. Dreadful time of year to become homeless.

No, you’re just trying to make me unemployed, because I won’t take your fucking shots.

Well, that threat is NOT going to work. I. Won’t. Take. Your. Fucking. Shots.

And it looks like enough people agree, that you’re having to back down, you worthless asswipe.

You’re LOSING.

You LOSER.

You Chinese-bought ratfucking traitor.

I would love to see you die an agonizing, humiliating death. (This isn’t a threat, because I am not threatening to cause that death. I am just announcing my intention to party if it happens.) It would be just recompense for the way you’re killing America…and millions of Americans.

His Fraudulency

Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.

One can hope that all is not as it seems.

I’d love to feast on that crow.

(I’d like to add, I find it entirely plausible, even likely, that His Fraudulency is also His Figureheadedness. (Apparently that wasn’t a word; it got a red underline. Well it is now.) Where I differ with the hopium addicts is on the subject of who is really in charge. It ain’t anyone we like.)

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Trucking

I saw a few rumors here that something would start…today. Others report at least three other expected start dates.

Some believe it will be more caravans. Some think the truckers ought to do something else (like just quitting in place). I could even see the expectation of caravans being a distraction from mass quitting. If the opposition concentrates all its resources to block convoys expected on I-70, I-40, I-80, and I-95 (plus any others, like I-81 to I-66) they can’t be “out there” trying to force truckers to continue working.

This reminds me, of course, of something out of Atlas Shrugged.

Atlas Shrugged was written in an age where trains were the predominant long-haul transportation mode, and it describes the “frozen train” phenomenon. Locked into their jobs, forbidden from quitting, being fired, or being promoted by Directive 10-289, sometimes an entire train crew would just decide “to Hell with this shit,” stop the train, and walk away. Passengers would become rather upset.

Truckers could do just this (though they needn’t walk away), and might even disable their trucks–the railroads could send another crew out and get the train moving, but if a truck is broken, it’s going nowhere. Meanwhile the feds are waiting for convoys that “need to be stopped” before they choke DC traffic. (Not that anyone would be able to tell the difference.)

In a way, we’re actually seeing Scott’s suggestion of a general strike. Not just with the trucks, but with all of the people who have quit working. Unfortunately, at least until the trucks stop rolling, the punch is a lot less when people quit gradually over the space of a year, than when they all stop work at once. But there it is. Millions of people are dropping out. Some use the phrase “going Galt” but that’s an injustice to the concept of going Galt. When the people in Atlas Shrugged “dropped out,” if they didn’t completely disappear, they took an almost-no-thought-required menial job. Their minds were on strike, but they still felt that they should support themselves. John Galt himself was a track walker. They certainly did not go on the dole like many are doing today.

The reason the trucks going on strike (be it by caravan or “frozen” truck) is potentially devastating is that almost everything we buy spends at least some time on a truck. Notably including food–and food is hard to go without for more than a very few days. Of course you can (and hopefully did) prepare for this by stocking up. (I believe I’m good for 2-3 months, though I might reach the end of such a time span willing to kill for a change in my menu. On the other hand some things I saw on Friday tell me I shouldn’t consider that adequate and need to get more food.)

But food isn’t the only issue. Personally, I’m likely to be very inconvenienced by a truck strike for other reasons I’m not going to go into.

I’ll be inconvenienced, but really, that’s no big deal in the grand scheme. Because my level of inconvenience pales next to that of the people rotting in DC jails because they were in the wrong place on January 6 (as it happens, they were somewhere within a hundred yards of me, not that distance from me is the issue).

So even for the prepared, this could be a very rough time. Unless you’ve been living and breathing “prep” for a few years (or even if you have been), there’s likely something you forgot about. And you might not be able to find it.

But something has to happen. The Opposition isn’t going to back down until we make this country useless to them. If we’re really lucky, it won’t get worse than a few weeks with empty shelves at the grocery store. But I’m going to try not to grouse about my inconvenience…and if I just have to do it as an alternative to exploding, I am going to lay the blame where it belongs.

On the truckers? HELL NO. On the deep state, the swamp, whatever you want to call it. Our self-appointed “masters” who need their heads mounted on pikes. They acted, we are responding in defense of our lives and liberty. If they didn’t feel a pathological need (and entitlement) to control others who just want to be left alone, none of this would be necessary. They are mentally ill. And we shouldn’t accommodate them.

So let’s see what happens. Canada is serving as our guinea pig. Hopefully Trudeau’s government will back down, even if he won’t.

If you’re the praying type, pray for Justice. That is what we’ve lacked for decades.

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.)

Spot Prices.

Kitco Ask. Last week:

Gold $1809.40
Silver $22.60
Platinum $1033.00
Palladium $2378.00
Rhodium $17,800.00

This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.

Gold $1860.00
Silver $23.67
Platinum $1033.00
Palladium $2405.00
Rhodium $18,900.00

Now THAT is big. The people who are technical traders–i.e., those who try to read the tea leaves based on the way the line looks on a chart–say that the $1860 line is a barrier. Gold will try hard not to go through it, but if it does, it’s going to keep going.

Now merely touching that mark isn’t definitive, but this is a Friday (when gold usually goes down) and it was UP 32 bucks today. Are the manipulators out of leverage? We’ll see next week.

Silver, too is up. Platinum has moved a bit, back and forth but ended up right where it was last week. Palladium and rhodium, however, are moving up again, and they are used a lot by the auto industry, which has been slowly coming back to life.

Inflation is real, and the conventional wisdom is coming around to having it stay for a while. That will push upward on gold prices.

James Webb Space Telescope Update

I had heard nothing about JWST all week, but suddenly Friday morning, there was a bunch of stuff.

The first step to getting the eighteen primary mirror segments (plus secondary mirror) to act as one mirror, was to assess how badly out of whack they are. So JWST took a photograph of the star HD 84406 near the Big Dipper. Actually, it took a lot of photographs near and around it. They took a mosaic covering about the size of the full moon; hundreds of photos. As it happens HD 84406 has few other stars near it as seen from Earth, so any dots that showed up were liable to be that star.

As it happens most of the mosaic was wasted; all eighteen segments put their image of the star fairly close to each other. Here’s what they saw:

So this was very positive news. The Near Infrared Camera is working; it can record light and send us the results. (“Near Infrared” is a term for the shortest wavelengths of infrared light, closest to being visible light.)

They were able, over the course of the week, to determine which image was coming from which mirror.

The two wings that swung into place as the last steps of deployment are circled.

So now they have enough to begin the process of getting the mirrors pointed right. Somewhere (not marked here, but in the lower right near the edge–it is shown in the video below, but turned upside down) is the spot they want the image to appear…so when they tell the telescope to point to such-and-such Right Ascension and Declination, that’s what will appear in the center of the field of view. They want this star’s 18 images to all be there and all be in perfect focus, and with the light waves in phase. So they have their work cut out for them over the next two and a half months.

It turns out there’s a lens inside the instrument package that allows JWST to take a picture of its own main mirror. Here’s a sample:

And here (for anyone still reading whose interest is not sated) is a video talking about all of this. Three minutes long. (Cthulhu will be happy to see HD 84406 marked in relation to the Big Dipper; he was asking about this a couple of weeks ago.)

There were no nasty surprises…like an obviously defective mirror segment.

“So far, so good, but we do have a long way to go”

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

China is in the White House

Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.

Joe Biden is Asshoe

China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!