“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
And indeed, it’s Monday…again.
But we WILL get through it!
Maybe even handily!
And we will have fun doing it, too!
The Rules
TL;DR –
Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.
Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.
SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]
We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.
Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.
In Wheatie’s words, “We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”
That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.
We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).
We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.
If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.
We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.
In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”
A Moment of Prayer
Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.
Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.
You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.
Call To Battle
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Day Year:
sigint
noun
signals intelligence; information gained by the collection and analysis of the electronic signals and communications of a given target
intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence
Used in a sentence:
A variety of sigint was used against Trump’s supporters on January 6, 2021, and in return, sigint was used against Democrats and China during 2021 and 2022, in order to prove that Trump’s supporters were correct on January Sixth.
This Rejoice & Praise God Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.
It’s also a place to read, post, and discuss news that is worth knowing and sharing. Please post links to any news stories that you use as sources or quote from.
In the QTree, we’re a friendly and civil lot. We encourage free speech and the open exchange and civil discussion of different ideas. Topics aren’t constrained, and sound logic is highly encouraged, all built on a solid foundation of truth and established facts.
We have a policy of mutual respect, shown by civility. Civility encourages discussions, promotes objectivity and rational thought in discourse, and camaraderie in the participants – characteristics we strive toward in our Q Tree community.
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In The Q Tree, we’re compatriots, sitting around the campfire, roasting hot dogs, making s’mores, and discussing, agreeing, and disagreeing about whatever interests us. This board will remain a home for those who seek respectful conversations.
During the First Temple period Jerusalemites ate mainly the natural crops that are typical of the region: “a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey” (Deuteronomy 8:8). The usual diet contained few vegetables, mainly those that grew wild in the fields (garlic and wild onion). Meat was enjoyed only by the privileged rich; ordinary people would have meat only at the Passover sacrifice or on particularly important occasions. Other foods of the common people included the eggs of wild fowl, milk, cheese, and butter. David, going out to his brothers who were in the camp of the army fighting the Philistines, brings them cheeses (1 Samuel 17:18).
The limited information we have suggests that in the biblical period it was customary to have two daily meals. A late-morning meal, which also served as a break in the workday, would probably consist of bread dipped in olive oil or in wine vinegar, toasted wheat, olives, figs or some other fruit, and water or a little diluted wine. A meal like this was eaten by Ruth the Moabite and Boaz (Ruth 2:14). The main meal was taken in the evening, before dark, and consisted of a common pot of soup or a broth of seasoned legumes into which the diners dipped slices of bread to scoop out the helping.
“Further, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer. Put them into one vessel and bake them into bread” (Ezekiel 4:9). The Land of Israel lies in the wheat belt where the culture of flour and bread as a universal food base developed. From the Bible we know of leavened bread and matzah, but also halah, wafers, bread morsels, and cakes. Bread was baked in an oven heated by twigs, placed on hot stones and covered with cinders or coals, or it might be fried in an iron pan. Other food-grains were damp green seeds (“carmel”, “melilot”), wheat stalks of which the seeds were toasted in fire, such as David ate during his flight from Absalom in the desert, and gruel made of ground wheat, groats, or a baked mixture of ground wheat and meat.
From the above, we can clearly see that grains, and more specifically, bread, was the essential staple, the food for life, in first century Israel.
I AM the Bread of Life.
“I am the Bread of Life” (John 6:35) is one of the seven “I Am” statements of Jesus. Jesus used the same phrase “I AM” in seven declarations about Himself. In all seven, He combines I AM with metaphors which illustrate His saving relationship with the world. All appear in the book of John.
John 6:35 says, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
Bread is considered a staple food—i.e., a basic dietary item. A person can survive a long time on only bread and water. Bread is such a basic food item that it becomes synonymous for food in general. We even use the phrase “breaking bread together” to indicate the sharing of a meal with someone. Bread also plays an integral part of the Jewish Passover meal. The Jews were to eat unleavened bread during the Passover feast and then for seven days following as a celebration of the exodus from Egypt. Finally, when the Jews were wandering in the desert for 40 years, God rained down “bread from heaven” to sustain the nation (Exodus 16:4).
All of this leads to the scene being described in John 6 when Jesus used the term “bread of life.” He was trying to get away from the crowds to no avail. He had crossed the Sea of Galilee, and the crowd followed Him. After some time, Jesus inquires of Philip how they’re going to feed the crowd. Philip’s answer displays his “little faith” when he says they don’t have enough money to give each of them the smallest morsel of food. Finally, Andrew brings to Jesus a boy who had five small loaves of bread and two fish. With that amount, Jesus miraculously fed the throng with lots of food to spare.
Afterward, Jesus and His disciples cross back to the other side of Galilee. When the crowd sees that Jesus has left, they follow Him again. Jesus takes this moment to teach them a lesson. He accuses the crowd of ignoring His miraculous signs and only following Him for the “free meal.” Jesus tells them in John 6:27, “Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” In other words, they were so enthralled with the food, they were missing out on the fact that their Messiah had come. So the Jews ask Jesus for a sign that He was sent from God (as if the miraculous feeding and the walking across the water weren’t enough). They tell Jesus that God gave them manna during the desert wandering. Jesus responds by telling them that they need to ask for the true bread from heaven that gives life. When they ask Jesus for this bread, Jesus startles them by saying, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
This is a phenomenal statement! First, by equating Himself with bread, Jesus is saying he is essential for life. Second, the life Jesus is referring to is not physical life, but eternal life. Jesus is trying to get the Jews’ thinking off of the physical realm and into the spiritual realm. He is contrasting what He brings as their Messiah with the bread He miraculously created the day before. That was physical bread that perishes. He is spiritual bread that brings eternal life.
Third, and very important, Jesus is making another claim to deity. This statement is the first of the “I AM” statements in John’s Gospel. The phrase “I AM” is the covenant name of God (Yahweh, or YHWH), revealed to Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:14). The phrase speaks of self-sufficient existence (or what theologians refer to as “aseity”), which is an attribute only God possesses. It is also a phrase the Jews who were listening would have automatically understood as a claim to deity.
Fourth, notice the words “come” and “believe.” This is an invitation for those listening to place their faith in Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God. This invitation to come is found throughout John’s Gospel. Coming to Jesus involves making a choice to forsake the world and follow Him. Believing in Jesus means placing our faith in Him that He is who He says He is, that He will do what He says He will do, and that He is the only one who can.
Fifth, there are the words “hunger and thirst.” Again, it must be noted that Jesus isn’t talking about alleviating physical hunger and thirst. The key is found in another statement Jesus made, back in His Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 5:6, Jesus says, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” When Jesus says those who come to Him will never hunger and those who believe in Him will never thirst, He is saying He will satisfy our hunger and thirst to be made righteous in the sight of God.
If there is anything the history of human religion tells us, it is that people seek to earn their way to heaven. This is such a basic human desire because God created us with eternity in mind. The Bible says God has placed [the desire for] eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). The Bible also tells us that there is nothing we can do to earn our way to heaven because we’ve all sinned (Romans 3:23) and the only thing our sin earns us is death (Romans 6:23). There is no one who is righteous in himself (Romans 3:10). Our dilemma is we have a desire we cannot fulfill, no matter what we do. That is where Jesus comes in. He, and He alone, can fulfill that desire in our hearts for righteousness through the Divine Transaction: “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). When Christ died on the cross, He took the sins of mankind upon Himself and made atonement for them. When we place our faith in Him, our sins are imputed to Jesus, and His righteousness is imputed to us. Jesus satisfies our hunger and thirst for righteousness. He is our Bread of Life.
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 lying piece of rancid weasel shit?
Justice
It says “Justice” on the picture.
And I’m sure someone will post the standard joke about what the fish thinks about the situation.
But what is it?
Here’s a take, from a different context: It’s about how you do justice, not the justice that must be done to our massively corrupt government and media. You must properly identify the nature of a person, before you can do him justice.
Ayn Rand, On Justice (speaking through her character John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged):
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification—that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of shining metal, so you do not value a rotter above a hero—that your moral appraisal is the coin paying men for their virtues or vices, and this payment demands of you as scrupulous an honor as you bring to financial transactions—that to withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, and to withhold your admiration from their virtues is an act of moral embezzlement—that to place any other concern higher than justice is to devaluate your moral currency and defraud the good in favor of the evil, since only the good can lose by a default of justice and only the evil can profit—and that the bottom of the pit at the end of that road, the act of moral bankruptcy, is to punish men for their virtues and reward them for their vices, that that is the collapse to full depravity, the Black Mass of the worship of death, the dedication of your consciousness to the destruction of existence.
Ayn Rand identified seven virtues, chief among them rationality. The other six, including justice, she considered subsidiary because they are essentially different aspects and applications of rationality.
I’m sure enough of this that I put my money where my mouth is.
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.
Quoted here in full, part I from late 1776. Written by Thomas Paine, whose nom de plume was “Common Sense.”
Thomas Paine had already written the all-time per-capita best selling American book, Common Sense, which had done more than anything else to make the case for Independence. Before it came out most Americans blamed the difficulties on the British parliament, or the King’s ministers. Afterwards, they blamed them on the institution of the monarcy, itself, and laid the blame at the feet of King George III.
But now we had declared Independence, and our fortunes seemed to be at a low ebb (this was before the Battle of Trenton).
Right now things seem at low ebb. Sure, the left has had a gigantic attack of diarrhea and then gleefully jumped up and down in it with the Raid on Trump. (Raid, raid, raid, raid, raid…assholes!) And now they’re getting desperate.
But that is when the danger is greatest.
Stay vigilant.
Be prepared.
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER,” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. Whether the independence of the continent was declared too soon, or delayed too long, I will not now enter into as an argument; my own simple opinion is, that had it been eight months earlier, it would have been much better. We did not make a proper use of last winter, neither could we, while we were in a dependent state. However, the fault, if it were one, was all our own*; we have none to blame but ourselves. But no great deal is lost yet. All that Howe has been doing for this month past, is rather a ravage than a conquest, which the spirit of the Jerseys, a year ago, would have quickly repulsed, and which time and a little resolution will soon recover. I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupported to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretense as he. ‘Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them. Britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a French fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the fourteenth [fifteenth] century the whole English army, after ravaging the kingdom of France, was driven back like men petrified with fear; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman, Joan of Arc. Would that heaven might inspire some Jersey maid to spirit up her countrymen, and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment! Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered. In fact, they have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world. Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware. As I was with the troops at Fort Lee, and marched with them to the edge of Pennsylvania, I am well acquainted with many circumstances, which those who live at a distance know but little or nothing of. Our situation there was exceedingly cramped, the place being a narrow neck of land between the North River and the Hackensack. Our force was inconsiderable, being not one-fourth so great as Howe could bring against us. We had no army at hand to have relieved the garrison, had we shut ourselves up and stood on our defense. Our ammunition, light artillery, and the best part of our stores, had been removed, on the apprehension that Howe would endeavor to penetrate the Jerseys, in which case Fort Lee could be of no use to us; for it must occur to every thinking man, whether in the army or not, that these kind of field forts are only for temporary purposes, and last in use no longer than the enemy directs his force against the particular object which such forts are raised to defend. Such was our situation and condition at Fort Lee on the morning of the 20th of November, when an officer arrived with information that the enemy with 200 boats had landed about seven miles above; Major General [Nathaniel] Green, who commanded the garrison, immediately ordered them under arms, and sent express to General Washington at the town of Hackensack, distant by the way of the ferry = six miles. Our first object was to secure the bridge over the Hackensack, which laid up the river between the enemy and us, about six miles from us, and three from them. General Washington arrived in about three-quarters of an hour, and marched at the head of the troops towards the bridge, which place I expected we should have a brush for; however, they did not choose to dispute it with us, and the greatest part of our troops went over the bridge, the rest over the ferry, except some which passed at a mill on a small creek, between the bridge and the ferry, and made their way through some marshy grounds up to the town of Hackensack, and there passed the river. We brought off as much baggage as the wagons could contain, the rest was lost. The simple object was to bring off the garrison, and march them on till they could be strengthened by the Jersey or Pennsylvania militia, so as to be enabled to make a stand. We staid four days at Newark, collected our out-posts with some of the Jersey militia, and marched out twice to meet the enemy, on being informed that they were advancing, though our numbers were greatly inferior to theirs. Howe, in my little opinion, committed a great error in generalship in not throwing a body of forces off from Staten Island through Amboy, by which means he might have seized all our stores at Brunswick, and intercepted our march into Pennsylvania; but if we believe the power of hell to be limited, we must likewise believe that their agents are under some providential control. I shall not now attempt to give all the particulars of our retreat to the Delaware; suffice it for the present to say, that both officers and men, though greatly harassed and fatigued, frequently without rest, covering, or provision, the inevitable consequences of a long retreat, bore it with a manly and martial spirit. All their wishes centered in one, which was, that the country would turn out and help them to drive the enemy back. Voltaire has remarked that King William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted health, and given him a mind that can even flourish upon care. I shall conclude this paper with some miscellaneous remarks on the state of our affairs; and shall begin with asking the following question, Why is it that the enemy have left the New England provinces, and made these middle ones the seat of war? The answer is easy: New England is not infested with Tories, and we are. I have been tender in raising the cry against these men, and used numberless arguments to show them their danger, but it will not do to sacrifice a world either to their folly or their baseness. The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall. And what is a Tory? Good God! What is he? I should not be afraid to go with a hundred Whigs against a thousand Tories, were they to attempt to get into arms. Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, selfinterested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave. But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him. Howe is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you. He expects you will all take up arms, and flock to his standard, with muskets on your shoulders. Your opinions are of no use to him, unless you support him personally, for ’tis soldiers, and not Tories, that he wants. I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, “Well! Give me peace in my day.” Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;” and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty. Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. A man can distinguish himself between temper and principle, and I am as confident, as I am that God governs the world, that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion. Wars, without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the continent must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. America did not, nor does not want force; but she wanted a proper application of that force. Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off. From an excess of tenderness, we were unwilling to raise an army, and trusted our cause to the temporary defense of a well-meaning militia. A summer’s experience has now taught us better; yet with those troops, while they were collected, we were able to set bounds to the progress of the enemy, and, thank God! They are again assembling. I always considered militia as the best troops in the world for a sudden exertion, but they will not do for a long campaign. Howe, it is probable, will make an attempt on this city [Philadelphia]; should he fail on this side the Delaware, he is ruined. If he succeeds, our cause is not ruined. He stakes all on his side against a part on ours; admitting he succeeds, the consequence will be, that armies from both ends of the continent will march to assist their suffering friends in the middle states; for he cannot go everywhere, it is impossible. I consider Howe as the greatest enemy the Tories have; he is bringing a war into their country, which, had it not been for him and partly for themselves, they had been clear of. Should he now be expelled, I wish with all the devotion of a Christian, that the names of Whig and Tory may never more be mentioned; but should the Tories give him encouragement to come, or assistance if he come, I as sincerely wish that our next year’s arms may expel them from the continent, and the Congress appropriate their possessions to the relief of those who have suffered in well-doing. A single successful battle next year will settle the whole. America could carry on a two years’ war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice. Quitting this class of men, I turn with the warm ardor of a friend to those who have nobly stood, and are yet determined to stand the matter out: I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but “show your faith by your works,” that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to “bind me in all cases whatsoever” to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other. Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a Scottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man. I conceive likewise a horrid idea in receiving mercy from a being, who at the last day shall be shrieking to the rocks and mountains to cover him, and fleeing with terror from the orphan, the widow, and the slain of America. There are cases which cannot be overdone by language, and this is one. There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both. Howe’s first object is, partly by threats and partly by promises, to terrify or seduce the people to deliver up their arms and receive mercy. The ministry recommended the same plan to Gage, and this is what the Tories call making their peace, “a peace which passeth all understanding” indeed! A peace which would be the immediate forerunner of a worse ruin than any we have yet thought of. Ye men of Pennsylvania, do reason upon these things! Were the back counties to give up their arms, they would fall an easy prey to the Indians, who are all armed: this perhaps is what some Tories would not be sorry for. Were the home counties to deliver up their arms, they would be exposed to the resentment of the back counties who would then have it in their power to chastise their defection at pleasure. And were any one state to give up its arms, that state must be garrisoned by all Howe’s army of Britons and Hessians to preserve it from the anger of the rest. Mutual fear is the principal link in the chain of mutual love, and woe be to that state that breaks the compact. Howe is mercifully inviting you to barbarous destruction, and men must be either rogues or fools that will not see it. I dwell not upon the vapors of imagination; I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as A, B, C, hold up truth to your eyes. I thank God, that I fear not. I see no real cause for fear. I know our situation well, and can see the way out of it. While our army was collected, Howe dared not risk a battle; and it is no credit to him that he decamped from the White Plains, and waited a mean opportunity to ravage the defenseless Jerseys; but it is great credit to us, that, with a handful of men, we sustained an orderly retreat for near an hundred miles, brought off our ammunition, all our field pieces, the greatest part of our stores, and had four rivers to pass. None can say that our retreat was precipitate, for we were near three weeks in performing it, that the country might have time to come in. Twice we marched back to meet the enemy, and remained out till dark. The sign of fear was not seen in our camp, and had not some of the cowardly and disaffected inhabitants spread false alarms through the country, the Jerseys had never been ravaged. Once more we are again collected and collecting; our new army at both ends of the continent is recruiting fast, and we shall be able to open the next campaign with sixty thousand men, well-armed and clothed. This is our situation, and who will may know it. By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue; by cowardice and submission, the sad choice of a variety of evils—a ravaged country—a depopulated city—habitations without safety, and slavery without hope—our homes turned into barracks and bawdy-houses for Hessians, and a future race to provide for, whose fathers we shall doubt of. Look on this picture and weep over it! And if there yet remains one thoughtless wretch who believes it not, let him suffer it unlamented.
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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 !!!
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Now that we have that out of the way, I stumbled upon a video on GAB, which is a MUST WATCH for people with teenage and young adult women in their families. I can only link the post, but PLEASE watch a dad point out what was found on his daughter’s car that is a marker for human traffickers.
Putting aside the legality of the whole thing, I have a bunch of questions.
Did President “Return to Normalcy” approve this, or is America now run by a shadow government? Biden claims he didn’t know about the raid. If true, that’s even scarier than the raid.
Has Merrick Garland erased any doubt that the Deep State is a genuine threat to our republic?
Is there any need for more evidence to fire Chris Wray and impeach Merrick Garland?
Has anyone made a stronger argument than Merrick Garland for limited government?
Does this raid undermine or reinforce the notion that we now have a two-tiered justice system?
If searches of ex-presidents are now accepted practice, who has the most to hide: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, or Joe “Ten Percent for the Big Guy” Biden? It’s a valid question because they’re all fair game now.
Is it just a coincidence that Director Wray cut his Senate testimony short, and skedaddled out of Washington just days before the raid? Might he have been worried about a leak concerning the raid while he was still seated before Senator Grassley?
Do we have enough now to at least start talking seriously about disbanding the FBI?
Is this the “return to normalcy” that the Democrats promised us?
Has this action “red-pilled” any traditional Democrat voters? Has this action shamed any of them, similar to how the FBI has shamed former agents?
Will this raid encourage or discourage Democrat voters from going to the polls in November?
Has this action gotten any independent voters off of the fence? If so, are they likely to fall left or right after news of the raid?
Are people suffering through stagflation getting sick of the Democrat party’s obsession with the last election?
Will this raid enhance or poison future legislative cooperation?
Will this be the “crossing of the Rubicon” that actually forces RINOs to take a side?
Did the NeverTrumps not see the character of the people they were climbing into bed with? Do they see now that they should have used protection?
Is this the kind of banana republic b——- that the NeverTrumps meant to unleash on America when they sided with the Dems?
Where do the NeverTrumps stand on the raid? Are they against or in support of the action? Do they have any principles left, or has hatred burned their consciences to ashes?
What is Liz Cheney’s position on the raid? Does her hatred of Trump outweigh her love of country? I have the same question for Kevin “Real Man” Costner and Senator Pierre Delecto.
Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood that The Donald will run again? I’m sure the Dems have contemplated this question a lot.
Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood of The Donald being re-elected? I’m pretty sure the Dems didn’t spend much time thinking this one out.
Did the Dems consider that this action might actually help to rehabilitate Trump’s image? They created an America in which victimhood is admired — and they just made Trump public victim number one.
Has Merrick Garland converted Trump from a mean-tweeting ogre to a sympathetic martyr yet?
Could the Biden administration have possibly done anything more potent to maximize Republican turnout in November?
Has this angered average Americans? If so, how are they likely to respond? Did the Dems devote even one brain cell to that question?
These are not rhetorical questions. I have suspicions about the answers — but I don’t know for sure. I am pretty sure the Democrats don’t know, either — which makes this raid seem all the more desperate.
Each thread referred to as “silk” that leads 2a separate seed of corn has turned brown so pollination is done. Just wait now for next five weeks for ear to fill out Harvest around October 1 #cornwatchpic.twitter.com/0idPd3FzIx
Your guess as to what this means is as good as mine, but the corn field behind a cousin’s place in Southern Illinois had a lovely looking crop on Wednesday ready to be picked.
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4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
After all, when is the last time the “Joint Terrorism Task Force” actually arrested a real live foreign terrorist, and not a “racist” American livestreamer, a politically convenient “red flag law” patsy, or a box of documents from a former President?
It’s kinda funny, but when I saw the biography of the Palm Beach sheriff who helped the EVIL FIB raid President Trump, I could not help but notice the letters “JTTF“.
You see, I knew what that meant. “Joint Terrorism Task Force“.
But the difference was, THIS TIME, I knew EXACTLY who those “terrorists” are, that “JTTF” was designed to go after.
That’s right, American brothers and sisters.
It’s YOU and ME who are the “terrorists” JTTF was created for.
And maybe Presidents that YOU and ME might vote for.
It took me a while to figure out why the “JTTF” just keeps growing and growing – and expanding and expanding – when actual, real terrorism just keeps declining here in America.
WE are the “terrorists” they’re going to go after.
WE are the “domestic violent extremists” they will pursue.
WE are the dangerous people who require a special group of state and local law enforcement agencies who are forced to follow the FBI’s “training” and “lead”.
Yeah, baby, you see where this is going now, don’t you?
But let me explain just a bit more.
I got clued into this “JTTF” back when a harmless but crazy guy who I christened “Red Flag Poster Boy” happened on the scene in Portland Oregon.
Intro: Comey’s Giant Plot I’m surprised it took me THIS LONG to see how Comey’s multi-layered scam worked, but hey – James Comey is one slick bastard, as you can tell from his long and complex play against President Trump. Why, Comey’s REALLY BIG PLOT is still unfolding right now. His CRAP is of an …
If you bother to read that rather long article, you’ll see that I know a thing or two about how patsies, informants, and other politically useful victims are “groomed” by the FBI.
You can skip over this article unless you’re dying to know everything about this patsy, “Red Flag Poster Boy”, and my opinions about how he was created.
The main point being that this dubious if not hilarious “politically perfect” guy showed up outside the MAYOR of Portland’s house, making the perfect case for “red flag laws” in Oregon – and maybe even nationally, thanks to the convenient national media coverage. AND this whole episode was handled by – YOU GUESSED IT – the “JTTF” in Oregon – which didn’t want to give too many details to the press – at least, beyond the original “propaganda payload”. It was all very “McCabe”, so to speak.
The FBI declined to provide additional details about the case or answer questions submitted by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
“The Portland JTTF’s role is to assess, address, and mitigate any given threat against the people of Oregon appropriately,” Beth Anne Steele, a spokeswoman for the bureau’s Portland office said in an email Friday.
“Sometimes that mitigation takes the form of criminal prosecution, and sometimes it involves a holistic response, including consultation with threat assessment teams or others to divert a person before a significant violent crime occurs.”
So JTTF is looking pretty sketchy at that point, but it gets worse.
If you think that the FBI had a bad look here, “taking a knee” with BLM….
…..wait until you see what’s next.
If you combine those folks right there with their “JTTF” local gophers, and send them all on a mission to take down a “racist livestreamer on Telegram”, you get THIS, as featured on “Yahoo / ATT Something”:
Feds Arrest White Supremacist Livestreamer in Dawn Raid, Rattling Supporters
Will Sommer
March 2, 2021·2 min read
The FBI arrested a notorious white supremacist livestreamer in an early morning raid in Florida on Tuesday.
FBI agents, working with Fort Lauderdale police and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, arrested Paul N. Miller, 32, on one charge of being a “convicted felon in possession of a firearm.” The FBI said in a press release that Miller was arrested without incident.
Miller’s neighbors in Fort Lauderdale’s Riverside neighborhood reported hearing flashbangs during the raid, which took place around 5 a.m. ET, local TV station NBC 6 reported. One neighbor described seeing law enforcement officers carrying out a box that appeared to have “a shotgun on the front or an AK.”
Miller, who goes by the name “Gypsy Crusader” online, has amassed more than 40,000 followers on Telegram, a messaging app and social media network popular with far-right extremists. Many of Miller’s videos feature him dressing up as characters like the Joker or Nintendo’s Mario, then hurling racial abuse at strangers, including children, through the randomized chat app Omegle. Miller can be seen holding a gun in some of his videos.
A grand jury indicted Miller on the firearms charge on Feb. 25, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. Miller is charged with illegally possessing a gun on Jan. 17, 2018. The indictment doesn’t describe the 2018 incident in which Miller allegedly had the firearm.
Miller’s Tuesday arrest sent shockwaves through internet extremist circles. Miller had recently sold patches promoting his channel to his supporters, with his arrest raising fears among other extremists that the FBI could access his customer files and find out their own names and addresses.
In messages captured by extremism researcher Hilary Sargent, Miller’s supporters worried about the possibility that they could soon become FBI targets themselves.
If convicted, Miller faces up to 10 years in prison on the gun charge.
Just read this crap. I mean, REALLY?
We have a guy who doesn’t actually appear to be a violent criminal, but who used a gun as a prop in videos, and who uses “racist” language, being arrested by the “JTTF” for using the gun as a prop when not being able to own guns – at least, that’s what it looks like to me.
Racist language? Owning a gun when “not allowed”? And you called out the freaking “Joint Terrorism Task Force”? Because you could label him a “white supremacist”?
He’s a fucking “YouTuber” who’s not even on YouTube! He’s a PUTZ. He’s a NEBBISH.
Crap. From the looks of it, he’s not even “white” – or could claim more “POC” clout than most “spokespocs” out there. The dude is the Shaun King of AOCs if he wants it.
This is BULLSHIT and you all KNOW IT.
This guy was arrested because he makes fun of REGIME VALUES and has a following online.
Some fat angry libtard purple-haired trans lesbian doxxer presumably phoned it in that the guy had a gun but had something on his record – AMIRIGHT?
And the FBI is now being PUSHED to make everything about “domestic violent extremism” – AMIRIGHT?
And “white supremacist” – which he likely isn’t even THAT in reality – is close enough for media hand grenades – AMIRIGHT?
Because that is how you have to build up your army to go after conservatives when January Sixth didn’t give you all the amount of PRETEXT you needed – AMIRIGHT?
Look, friends. Nothing good is going to come from continuing this JTTF charade.
JTTF is a way for bizarre, messed-up, leftist FBI values to undermine sane state, county, and local law enforcement.
SHUT THIS SHIT DOWN. GET OUT OF IT. TELL THE FEDS TO GO HOME TO WASHINGTON.
You know it’s the right thing to do. And if you don’t, it will only bring trouble.
Mark my words.
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"The law is clear, you don't engage in a raid unless you've exhausted all the other remedies" Alan Dershowitz comments on the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago.
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You’ve probably heard OF the Bill Gates “and if we do a REALLY great job on new vaccines“ quote, which many consider to be an admission of population control through vaccines. What is the real story here?
Strap in.
This is a complex question, beneath all the lies, counter-lies, half-truths, and diabolical chaos left in the wake of the elite and their evil plans.
We’re gonna look at the question, and we’re gonna have FUN doing it, too.
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Today I feel like an ANNOYING PUNK OF SCIENCE, pointing out the fecklessness of the lying elite and their captive lab coats of FAKE SCIENCE, with their ridiculous population control shot and their wicked lies to try to make us take it (yeah, FJB!), so I’m choosing the sneering, annoying, Billy Idol to be today’s musical mascot.
We continue this THIRD installment in our series on The Population Control Shot with a discussion of the notorious Bill Gates quote which incongruously juxtaposes vaccines with reduction of either population or population increase, take your pick.
This is it.
So what’s the real story here? Did he really say this? And what did he mean?
In my opinion, this episode turns out to be one of the most remarkably complex LIES + COVER in history. It is every bit as brilliant as Lancetgate and the HCQ / ivermectin hit job studies.
Get your SNEER on.
Even when the numbers are wrong, the science can be right. Always keep focused on the big picture. “THEY” will try to throw you off on details.
First – Did Gates Really Say That?
Looking only at the quote itself, there is audio of him saying it, that’s very fast and easy to verify that – YES – he said it. Pay careful attention to the exact wording.
As you can see, it’s very easy for “telephone” effects to creep in on this quote, with “great” turning into “good“, and “on” turning into “with“, not to mention “new” (as in “new vaccines”) disappearing. There’s not a LOT of difference in meanings, but there is some.
At the very least, it’s sloppy, and easy to get derailed into trivia about inaccuracy. Fact checkers love such diversions.
Now, the next question is context. Is that quote missing some necessary context when it’s standing alone?
In my opinion, the context is enlightening about Bill Gates’ thinking, but it turns out not to make much difference in the quote. He’s basically making a projection about population, as something that impacts climate change, and then talks about the fact that certain simple changes in how we’re doing things, would only reduce that projected population increase by 10-15%.
Gates is saying, basically, that ALL THIS STUFF HE MENTIONS, even his favorite thing, vaccines, can only lower the projected increase in population by a fraction of that increase.
You can either READ or LISTEN TO the full context of the TED speech at the following link. I’ve also embedded the video below.
The above article about the video is interesting for several reasons.
it triumphantly chides the fact checkers on “Gates really said this”, but pointedly fails to bring up or counter any of THEIR arguments
it notes that the YouTube video has disappeared
it provides an embedding of the TED video
it allows creation of a timeline
Gates speech was in 2010
author’s first article was in 2020
this article was from 2021
it does NOT address the question of what Bill Gates MEANT by saying that vaccines would help to reduce population increase
That’s actually a good question.
What in the heck do vaccines have to do with REDUCING population?
As a side note, it’s somewhat MISLEADING that this article lets the reader ASSUME that Gates meant something nefarious here. However, it’s even MORE misleading to go to the fact-checkers, who will conversely tell you SOME MORE TRUTH, and thus misleadingly imply that the story ends THERE.
Indeed, this point is where things get complicated – probably by DESIGN.
If you don’t get past the truth of the article, and THEN the truth of the fact-checkers, you will remain trapped in a kind of diversion, in which Gates wins. It’s actually a very smart defense.
You have to get past this “immunizing fake scandal” to figure out what’s really going on.
You will see later that Gates very likely SAID THIS ON PURPOSE, so that people would “discover” what the fact checkers tell you, and settle on it.
Because “what’s next” amounts to Gates’ ultimate defense.
Ask what they were REALLY getting these medals for.
Gates: The Innocent Do-Gooder
Let’s start off with Bill Gates stating WHY he’s interested in vaccines.
I’m pretty sure that’s the establishment shill Scott Pelley “interviewing” Melinda Gates.
Pelley was the presstitute who tried to “take down” Mike Cernovich for Hillary Clinton on the whole #HillaryHealth issue during the 2016 election – with a rather amazing backfire.
We can TRUST that this 2018 Melinda Gates interview is a softball set-up for the Gates Foundation.
The establishment WANTS people to suck this up – whether it’s true or false.
What is being alleged here is a paradoxical effect…..
…..that by people “living better” they have healthier kids…..
…..that better lives and healthier kids leads to fewer kids…..
…..that by having fewer kids, the population decreases…..
…..and could in principle even stabilize or decline.
If this is correct, and I believe that it IS correct – more or less – then helping people live better, so that they have fewer but healthier kids, can basically “defuse” the so-called population bomb.
I personally believe that the achievement of zero population growth (ZPG) by Japan was a perfect demonstration that this principle CAN work.
It may not work for every society, and it may not be compatible with all the freedoms we desire (gotta stay skeptical), but we know that it’s not a complete loser.
But before we go on, let’s ask a pesky question or two.
WHY would the IMF then try to subvert Japan’s population “success” by trying to force them to take in Muslim immigrants, which would be very likely to cause social problems, including new population problems?
For that matter, why does the UN actually CAUSE migration problems, and then “solve” them in nonsensical ways that make things worse? When we KNOW that migration problems lead directly to new population problems?
Somebody’s not really serious about things – and in my opinion, it’s because “population” is NOT the goal of the people at the top – sometimes referred to as “Mr. Global”. CONTROL is far more likely to be their goal.
In my opinion, the “population crisis” is only a motivator for lower-level DUPES. But we’ll get to that in a moment.
Let’s get back to Gates. It seems like he’s telling the truth! Vaccines (and I’m talking vaccines that are TRULY safe and effective) WILL (or at least could) actually help reduce the rate of population increase, or even help to stop the increase, or help reverse it.
OMG! Is Bill Gates INNOCENT???!!!
AND Logic To The Rescue
Remember what I love to say about Hitler and “2+2=4” – the idea that the truth of that statement does not depend on who is saying it.
Even bigger, this.
Hitler stating publicly, for the world, that “2+2=4”, would not preclude Hitler’s own Nazi camp guards literally grinding Jews under rifle butts until they said “2+2=5”. Nor would it preclude Hitler from secretly believing “2+2=5” in some mystical occult fashion.
The truth of 2+2=4 is independent of who states it, or why.
BUT – remember as well, something I ALSO like to say.
There is no cover like the truth.
Thus, we are led to the truth that Gates may speak openly about a very publicly palatable route to population control, but that fact does NOT preclude him from ALSO secretly pursuing a more aggressive route to the same goal.
To assume it’s one or the other is an ERROR that you are encouraged to make by “exclusive OR thinking”. The kind of thinking which explains why “they want you divided”.
AND – there are certain advantages to DOING BOTH.
“bad vaccines” depopulate much faster, while “good depopulation” through “good vaccines” helps to manage public expectations, and can even “succeed more than we thought”
a “good cause” always provides the cover of innocence to a “bad cause” (see Aubergine’s razor)
“good vaccines” are so adjacent to “bad vaccines”, that only LIES are needed to complete the deception, that ONE is not in fact THE OTHER.
And if you don’t like calling them “bad vaccines”, perhaps we can cynically call them “socially more efficacious” vaccines. Indeed, think about that. “Socially”, they’re not just more effective – the killer vaccines are “safer”! Maybe even “socially more just”! I’m sure Obama would like that.
So what does Wolf think?
“You can’t catch me!” said The Spiky Shot Man
I think that Bill Gates NEVER changed his spots or his stripes.
The same guy who used every underhanded trick imaginable, to sabotage Linux in favor of Windows, while evading all blame in the mainstream press, did NOT go into “curing malaria in our lifetime” because he suddenly found his sweet soul.
Let’s look at this guy’s prior history, between LINUXGATE and DEPOPGATE, just in terms of attacking COVID treatments. What follows here are 7 earlier posts about Gates and/or Lancetgate and/or related conspiracies against treatments other than the Population Control Shot.
I think it is now quite clear that Bill and Melinda Gates need to get the hell out of science and medicine for the good of humanity. I am going to show you why. I am not saying that Bill Gates is doing anything new. I am saying that he moved his disastrous “Windows Effect” …
Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President: AND our wonderful REALFLOTUS. Hopefully, this great couple is getting some REST, because they may NEED IT. I am telling y’all – the Trumps may very well be on their way back to the White House in 1-3 years. In fact, the way Obammunism has been …
The Pub is OPEN again! With a blend of humor and seriousness, like any good bar, we celebrate this grand re-opening of WOLF’S PUB on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021, by actually opening near closing time on Christmas Eve Eve, but what the heck. IT’S ALMOST CHRISTMAS. While our beloved bartender takes a needed break …
Yeah. This fucker can PAY FOR MY RESPIRATOR. Just read this. The guy who funded the UNETHICAL virus research that gave me the fucking shortness of breath….. The guy who promoted a curiously fortuitous corona virus “exer-psy-op” while his CHINESE FRIENDS let loose the ChiCom-19 virus….. The guy who worked with DEMOCRATS to try to …
The murderous LancetGate Effect is back, and this time it killed thousands before bureaucrats relented and allowed doctors to save patients. [ Hat Tip to barkerjim for alerting me to this Indonesian case. ] Part 1 – LancetGate Effect 1.0 and 1.1 Ah, the memories of LancetGate! That moment when “they” “finally” “proved” that hydroxychloroquine …
This [Q-3]TH of AUGUST FRIDAY open thread is OPEN – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA / KAG! / KMAG world (KMAG being a bit of both MAGA and KAG!). You can say what you want, comment on what …
Things are happening faster than I expected. Check this out. We need to contribute to this effort. Please dig up EVERY LINK that you can find of anti-HCQ and post it here. Be sure to include a description, including WHO exactly is referenced, to save people time when they go through comments. Also, I highly …
SO – it’s not like I’m just pulling my suspicion of Gates out of the clear blue sky.
I believe all of the following.
Gates helped sabotage every exit from the population control shots that he could, including HCQ and ivermectin
the Gates divorce is a money and power protection device, invoked because there was too much failure on the COVID scam, and the Gates world is protecting its assets
Gates eased into vaccines via malaria, knowing that going directly to vaccines might raise suspicions
Gates “owns” CEPI and GAVI so that, combined with the Gates Foundation, he effectively has two votes on all things vaccine-related
Gates is by nature “covertly direct”, ruthless, secretive, and aggressive – so he CANNOT not pursue direct depopulation – it’s IN HIS NATURE
Gates always takes dangerous fast shortcuts that cause problems (see WINDOWS), so there is no way he would bypass direct depopulation methods in favor of slower methods
Gates has tried to keep his fingerprints off the depopulation shots, but was largely undone by the spike protein’s striking success as an abortifacient
Gates is very likely behind Surgisphere and LancetGate, but I don’t know if anybody will ever be able to prove it, because these “titans” like Gates, Zuckerberg and Brin can just cover for each other in ways that defy detection. If you can’t follow the money, you can’t find the proof. But Surgisphere just smells like Gates. I’m sure he’s behind it.
Gates prepared for his task by developing MSN and MSNBC media ventures. He knows how to manipulate the press.
Gates’ statement in the TED talk was a VERY intentional drop, to “fluff the paradox” and center people’s attention on either a disprovable attack, or a glowing defense – leaving nobody to ask the “AND logic” question, which solves everything neatly.
Gresham’s law applies to depopulation methods. In other words, bad vaccines drive out good ones. And in secret depopulation conspiracy world, they almost certainly do. People who are “performing” for “them” need stronger actions for bigger “gimmes”.
(insert pictures of “nursing home governors” Cuomo, Wolf, Whitmer, Murphy, and Newsom)
Oh, what. the heck – here’s the picture
Let’s cut to the chase. Gates is STILL A MONSTER.
The Getaway
So what is my final prediction?
Gates is slick. Gates seems to get away every time.
Why, he’s probably laughing right now!
I think he’s going to get away this time, too.
But I think we may be able to put the heat on these bastards – enough to make them stop killing us for a while, as they crawl back into their evil villain caves, to plot their next insidious attack.
Evil ain’t going away any time soon. But we can make its life pretty rough in the meanwhile.
Cover image: Norman Rockwell, Election Day, 1944. Watercolor and gouache, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Museum purchase, Save-the-Art fund, 2007.037.1.
“Election Day, 1944″, watercolor on paper, 28.25″x36.75″ overall, 36.75″x44.75” framed, studies for Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Chamber of Commerce collection, photographed 10/30/06. CRMA #S2006.001, CRCC #L1983.15.4
I took some time away over the weekend to recover from Friday, and some other stuff, so this is not going to be quite as loaded as it could be. For a thorough discussion on the FBI’s Mar-A-Lago “raid,” please see yesterday’s daily. This could easily be a shiny red ball meant to keep the cats looking at laser pointers away from inflation, Ukraine, The Pit, the Yankees sinking like a rock…..
During an earnings call, Beyond Meat Chief Executive Ethan Brown told investors that as a category, meat substitutes have been hurt by rising prices, which have caused customers to trade down, buying cheaper real chicken and beef.
Brown noted that in the second quarter, according to data from numerator, US household penetration of plant-based meat contracted for the first time in more than four years.
The real truth wouldn’t be that the stuff is revolting, now would it?
Throughout the 1800s, the world’s dominant philosopher was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1830). He thought the universe was a logical machine, like a steam engine.
Hegel and his contemporaries agreed that Nature contains an underlying structure. The Hegelian dialectic was all the rage for a century. These philosophers wanted to sound scientific and mathematical. First thesis meets second thesis, producing third thesis.
Karl Marx (1818–1883) absorbed this thinking and concluded that history itself is a logical machine, like a cash register. Events do not happen randomly. There are laws — and Marx alone could explain them.
For Marx, the big predictions were about capital — i.e., money. He probably wrote a thousand pages, but his answers came down to a simple diagram. Capitalism works almost too well. Industrialists could acquire fortunes, but that is the trap. Capitalists are greedy bloodsuckers who reduce workers not just to poverty, but to starvation and desperation. Inevitably, according to Marx, workers rise up in righteous wrath, kill the industrialists, and divide the money among the workers, ushering in a communist paradise.
The problem for communism is that Marx had a flimsy theory to promote, and he could be reckless about it. Almost everything done in his name, as we’ll see, was dishonest. He hacked his own history machine.
Something is surely rotten at the Bureau when it is more than willing to “take a knee” in a Marxist show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter anti-American anthem protesters but denigrates pro-American emblems as evidence of violent extremism. Independence Day celebrations each year must be grueling for federal agents trying to protect the nation from its own rebellious past. Now that patriotic displays of affection for the country have been relabeled as potential signs of domestic terrorism, hot dogs and fireworks require a new national security threat assessment. All agents, be on the lookout for Americans engaging in too much fun on the Fourth of July. Be advised: children with patriotic face paint, persistent Liberty Bell ringing, and unexpected outbursts of support for freedom may warrant further investigation. Should you encounter any reference to the 1773 Boston Tea Party, the modern Tea Party Movement, or strong distaste for tea, in general, immediately call for backup. This much is clear: when the FBI honors America-haters and vilifies American patriots, love for America is perceived as not only suspect, but also dangerous to the Deep State. That says a lot about our current predicament.
The arguments for gun control are familiar to most. The anti-gun stance is that no guns means no mass shootings at schools less violent crime generally. In support of this position, the figure of fewer deaths by guns in nations where guns have been banned is often cited, while violent deaths by other means are typically ignored. Alternatively, the pro-gun position draws attention to 1) declining violent crimes in America for nearly three decades (Antifa/BLM riots, state D.A. criminal leniency, federal prison purges, etc. are altering this trend); 2) armed citizens for criminal deterrence; and 3) on-the-scene armed citizens preventing crime and apprehending criminals before police arrive. Think of the recent Indiana mall “good Samaritan.” In this article, we’ll explore the anti-gun side.
To underscore the U.S.’s unhealthy obsession with violence, anti-gun activists are aghast to learn that more guns exist in America (400M) than Americans (330M) — as if large numbers of inanimate objects somehow animate them. It would be akin to shuddering over the number of chainsaws in hardware stores for fear that one might somehow self-start and kill someone. What anti-gun activists don’t shout from their rooftops is that as the number of modern sporting rifles (MSRs) sold in America has increased over the past quarter-century — to include high-capacity-magazine, automatic high-powered rifles, etc., which they argue pose the greatest threat — the number of violent crimes has declined.
Perhaps the best thing of all is NPR’s shock and horror at how mean Abbott and Ducey are being. According to NPR, when they put those people on the bus, they had no plan: “GOP governors sent buses of migrants to D.C. and NYC—with no plan for what’s next”
That’s so wrong, of course. Gov. Abbott totally had a plan: It was to show that the last thing virtue-signaling leftists want is to live with the consequences of their open-border immigration policies.
In “They Can’t Let Him Back In,” Anton depicts the class war that is erupting around Trump. His antagonists, the people who insist he was inciting an “insurrection” on January 6, represent the permanent political class and their globalist allies. These actors are committed to international free trade, “endless wars” to benefit the arms industry, and keeping the Washington establishment in clover. Although Trump as president did not consistently work against these interests, he did appeal to a class base that is revolting against American elites. It is therefore necessary, according to Anton, to destroy Trump’s reputation and political career to protect those who control public administration, the secret service, the media, the educational system, and the culture industry.
It’s wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings.
Abortion intentionally kills innocent human beings.
Therefore, abortion is wrong.
The first thing to do when someone accuses you of making a religious argument against abortion is to clearly state the premises and conclusion of the argument and then ask, Which premise of this argument is religious?
The issue surrounds a new product technology called a vanadium redox flow battery. Essentially the U.S. government funded scientists to develop an advanced battery that could store energy without degrading. After success, the technology was then sent to China for manufacturing. China then invested heavily in the product and used the technology to mass manufacture the battery for the global market. The United States is now behind in the product development and manufacture.
As the story is told in NPR, “the Chinese company didn’t steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer.” Except that’s not what happened at all. There is some major ‘ass-covering’ in that false narrative.
The lead scientist working on the vanadium redox flow battery project was a man named Gary Yang. Mr. Yang was born in China and emigrated to the U.S. becoming a U.S. citizen. Yang worked with U.S. scientists to develop the technology and was funded by a multi-million research grant from the Dept of Energy.
After their initial success, according to NPR, “in 2012, Yang applied to the Department of Energy for a license to manufacture and sell the batteries.” The Dept of Energy license was granted, and Yang launched UniEnergy Technologies as the parent company to develop the commercial application of the product.
CNN should have learned that around the clock anti-Trump coverage is not a sustainable programing strategy for a company that claims to be a news network.
CNN’s viewers are leaving, and its revenue is following them out the door. Apparently, it was beyond Jeff Zucker’s understanding of the industry that you can’t sell time on a network that nobody watches. It turns out advertisers are a bunch of greedy capitalists that don’t understand the social importance of the work being done by the Commie News Network.
Over the last year or so, I have noticed an innovation, at once stylistic and substantive, that has taken root throughout the regime media. It is this: whenever referring to Donald Trump and the 2020 presidential election, be sure to insert editorial comments to the effect that any concerns about the fairness of that election are “baseless” or the result of “lies.”
He’s right. Outside of conservative media, no leftist or Never Trump article is content to say something along the lines of “Trump again alluded to his claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent.” Every time, the author will throw in that one- or two-word editorial:
Just one example: in a column Saturday about Donald Trump’s weekend rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the writer claimed Trump “spent much of his speech focusing on his baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election” (emphasis added).
For a while, the Current Thing was #MeToo. From 2016 until 2018, the Current Thing was Russian collusion. After that scheme unraveled, we moved through a series of Current Things, each of which was said to compound the grave threat Trump supposedly posed to Our Democracy: in March 2020, it was Covid-19; for a few months that summer, it was systemic racism; then, it was the Delta variant; finally, for a stretch of early 2021, it was the January 6th “insurrection.” And when Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukraine became the Current Thing. You knew it was the new Current Thing because all the smart peoplesuddenly changedhow theyspelled andpronounced “Kiev.”
On Friday, Gary Bauer reported that the Oklahoma Board of Education decided to downgrade the Tulsa Public School District’s accreditation. This is because in Tulsa, they’re still teaching Marxist critical race theory — which is now against the law in the Sooner State.
Oklahoma’s Secretary of Education is Ryan Walters, who told Fox News: “What we’ve got to do is go back to teaching our history and ensuring that every young person has the ability to be successful and be inspired by our history.”
He added, “We’re the greatest country in the history of the world, and our kids need to know that.”
But how will children in Oklahoma, and all the other states, learn to appreciate our country when so many have been brainwashed with a false view for so long?
Kent is currently running 0.1 percent behind establishment Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach President Trump. Critics wrote off Kent’s chances on election day, but the former Green Beret who served 11 combat tours and won six bronze stars has clawed his way back as the votes have trickled in.
“Don’t have sex with strangers” is really good life advice for everybody, but today’s woke health officials are unwilling to say it. 🙈🙈🙈 https://t.co/GMXWPODXno
This is the first time I’ve seen a CNN guest take one of the network’s jingoistic halfwits to the woodshed on Ukraine and Taiwan so comprehensively in such a short amount of time. And it was @rogerwaters. pic.twitter.com/maN4DTdMhO
A pandemic of greed, is what it was, and the figures were and is skewed, if you died in a car accident but had covid antibodies you would be classified as having died from covid,
Imagine risking everything, losing credibility, to create a massive, massive gaslighting strategy, millions of votes dumped, media “wag the dog” scenarios…then bungling the end result so badly that you’ll lose elections into oblivion.
Emergency workers are searching for stranded motorists and clearing roads inside California's Death Valley National Park after flash flooding triggered by a near-record downpour stranded nearly 1,000 people inside the park https://t.co/rJUhPJ2vMApic.twitter.com/pU4Z4dMjNC
Hmm…. What are the odds of TWO record breaking rainfalls in the USA weeks apart?
Joe Biden tested negative for the second day in a row, allowing him to leave isolation at the White House and travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. pic.twitter.com/0EUgeL5gwI
Normally, my reply regarding anything “wow, the left & all their brilliance” would be preceded with a haha, but this makes me too ANGRY to LOL. Because as a conservative, I can actually give a damn about my planet and its health AND believe basic science! Idiots https://t.co/gLBIRyeqyP
— Monica Matthews On Air (@monicaonairtalk) August 7, 2022
The Democrats destroyed millions of small businesses with illegal Covid lockdowns. Now they're hiring 87,000 IRS agents to go after the one's who managed to survive Pure evil
Kevin "Mr. Wonderful" O'Leary on the Bidenflation Scam:
"Naming it 'anti-inflation' is a joke. This is gonna be very inflationary almost immediately because we're printing billions of dollars." pic.twitter.com/NVXwImUJTp
The thing from which we suffer just now more than any other evil is not the assertion of falsehoods, but the endless and irrepressible repetition of half-truths.
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.
Your weekly reminder to take the pledge:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.
This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.
Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And Auntie DePat’s requests:
If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.
The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.
By now, I have learned to keep my reactions pretty close to my chest. There is such a thing as reacting too soon before more information is released, and it’s easy to make assumptions if you don’t see the whole picture. There’s power in observation.
At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? [2] And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, [3] And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [4] Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. [5] And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.
[6] But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. [7] Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. [8] And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. [9] And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. [10] See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
[11] For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. [12] What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray? [13] And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray. [14] Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. [15] But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.
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.
