Month: September 2022

The Red and the Black

I will try to make this fast.

Yesterday evening began a long discussion of Dark Brandon’s little speech with the odd lighting that created a Nazi eagle illusion in Independence Hall (yes, they’re THAT evil).

(H/T RAC)

Among the things I said was this:

I think this was for the literally satanic part of his audience.

This was a “rite” of some kind.

Later, I said this:

Several of the top Nazis were occultists. Two of the top BLM gals are practicing satanists. Hollywood loves it like a good fetish.

I am certain there is a big satanic component behind this puppet government.

Gil00 asked me to expand on this, as well as other comments further down the page.

First of all, do read Sadie’s comments HERE, which I am also including now.

Sadie Slays

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 September 1, 2022 22:03

DP posted this tweet upthread, but I wanted to make a separate thread about it.

Today—9/1—is the start of False Flag season. The numbers 9 and 1 almost always show up in their major ops (9/11, COVID-19, Route 91 Las Vegas concert).

So no, Ric, I don’t think this was a “huge mistake” at all. I think the date and set are deliberate. I think this is a ritual or, at the very least, the official start of their new psy-op for false flag season.

Dark blood red background, evil and condescending tone of voice & squinting eyes.

Negative words & themes – and constant condemnation.

Who staged this? Who wrote this?

Huge mistake. pic.twitter.com/PcIst7Wra8

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) September 2, 2022

Later, Sadie brought this information:

Sadie Slays

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 September 2, 2022 02:36

4chan weighs in on The Ritual. Predictions are that they’re laying the groundwork for 1) arresting Trump, 2) executive order “fortifying” the upcoming mid-terms (prediction not pictured in screenshot), or 3) assassination psy-op (wouldn’t surprise me at this point if that’s how they discard the puppet). Only posting this in case one of the above actually happens. They’re clearly laying the groundwork for something.

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I don’t really have insight into what the satanic or Luciferian goals are here, but I want to talk about some things that will assure you of exactly what we are up against, and why your faith in God – and from that, in His divine providence for America – through the most terrible times – is absolutely critical.

First, let’s look at the symbolism of “the red and the black”. The following web site is an amazing reference. I really encourage you to check it out, to see examples of red/black occult symbolism.

LINK: http://whale.to/b/red_black.html

ARCHIVE: https://archive.ph/asAE7

One key point from the linked page is as follows:

“To worship Lucifer, one must wear mostly red and black.”

Note that not everybody who ever wore red and black was a satanist or Luciferian. You can rightly assume that every occultist worshiping Lucifer has likewise not worn black and red, either. That’s not what I’m saying, and not what the reference implies. However, you can be sure that there are people in Hollywood and the music industry, who are actively promoting satanic and Luciferian memes, actions, images and references, to be fronted by the people they control. A fashion choice of red and black often has MEANING. Remember that LIES are fine with these people. Implications that their “stars” are on a satanic or Luciferian path may simply be one more deception. Or maybe not. The SYMBOLS, however, are often the point.

Now – I had learned about the “red/black” occult thing when I was much younger. I had a friend who had the most excellent Blue Oyster Cult double album, way back when, which made me an instant fan of their music.

Our peer group debated whether the members of Blue Oyster Cult were ACTUALLY occultists of some kind, or just making teasing references to occult things.

Some of my friends assured me that these people were just kidding around – that they were very smart and intelligent people, having a good time by making all these satanic references, but no way were they ACTUALLY occultists, which we thought was dumb.

I mean, the name of the album is “On Your Feet Or On Your Knees” – right? The gloved hand holding the song listing on the vinyl? YAGODDABEKIDDIN. Right? It is SO over the top. Just ridiculous.

Well, the occult symbolism is indeed so pervasive, that I figured out EVENTUALLY, one way or the other, it’s not good. My attitude about Satan and the occult NOW is that it’s all one big classic “fuck around and find out” scenario. You gonna dabble, even “not really”? You gonna die.

But back then? Aw, it’s just stupid and funny. These people can’t be REAL occultists. They’re just having a good time.

BUT – setting that all aside, one of my friends was very informed about Satanists, and he assured me that the song “The Red and the Black”, which appears on that double album, was glorifying the satanic colors – which were also the Nazi colors.

Using another BOC song, “ME 262” – about a German WWII airplane, this person convinced me that the members of the band were also, to some extent, what we called “Hitler freaks” – people who were fascinated by Hitler and the Nazis – but not ACTUALLY Nazis. Indeed, back in that day, a lot of Jewish guys laughed at and made fun of Nazis – both the originals and any reincarnations. ME 262 seemed in that vein. Again, THAT was part of why “The Red and The Black” seemed similarly unserious. It wasn’t just an occult joking thing – it was also a Nazi joking thing.

But LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF ME 262 NOW.

He told me that BOC “got off” on sliding nutty lyrics and topics past people – that this somewhat cynical love of fooling people was really what was going on – and NOT that these people were real occultists of any kind.

Even the band’s name, which can be abbreviated as “B. O. Cult”, was just guys with a sense of humor.

Now – you may accept that, or not. You may realize that “fooling people” is a HUGE part of the occult – or you may think one would be overreacting to be suspicious of comedy. But what I’m going to do now is to freak you out just a bit.

You have surely heard “Don’t Fear The Reaper”, and the innocent explanation thereof. We’ve discussed that on this site. As many have noted, there are even Christian interpretations of the song.

Here is an exemplary “normie” reaction to the song.

But where I want to take you next, is the transition from normie to how this song has “naturally” been used in movies and television.

If that album cover with the magician is going to wake you up a bit, now might be a good time.

Watch the transition in the first few minutes of this next video (which you have to watch on YouTube).

LINK: https://youtu.be/QPoX4WPhl2M

First, the song was used in the horror movie Halloween – and its remake.

It was also used in the TV adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand” – as the background music peering over dead bodies from a “real” pandemic.

The rest of the analysis shows that this really is an ingenious song – but I truly want to caution people that, just because there is definitely a nice, innocent, and almost (but not quite) pure reading of it – indeed, a very tempting reading of it – there are MANY other readings of it.

And THAT gets to the heart of BOC’s music, IMO. It is indeed poetic, having layers of meanings. And if you’ve read anything about the poets of yore, you know that they themselves often had multiple levels to their own personas, many of those levels FAR from moral.

Now – let’s get back to “The Red and the Black”.

Another version of the song:

Here are the lyrics.

[Verse 1: Eric Bloom]
Canadian Mounted, baby
Police force at work
Red and Black
It’s their color scheme
Get their man
In the end

[Chorus: Eric Bloom]
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) oh yeah, my honey knows it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(All right) oh yeah, baby knows it’s all right
(You’d kill, you’d maim) ah, c’mon kill ’em
(You’d kill, look out)
[Verse 2: Eric Bloom]
C’mon my husky
Frontenac Chateau, baby
I cross the frontier at ten
I got a whip in my hand, baby
And a girl or a husky
At leather’s end

[Chorus: Eric Bloom]
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) oh yeah, baby knows it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(All right) oh yeah, baby, yeah it’s all right
(You’d kill, you’d maim) ah, c’mon kill ’em now
(You’d kill, you’d maim)

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3: Eric Bloom]
Hornswoop me bungo pony on dogsled on ice!
Make a dash for freedom, baby
Don’t skate on polar ice
It’s too thick to be sliced by the light!
Of long and white polar nights
[Chorus: Eric Bloom]
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) oh yeah, baby knows it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(It’s all right) it’s all right
(All right) yeah, knows it’s all right
(You’d kill, you’d maim) ah, c’mon and kill now
(You’d kill, you’d maim) maim ’em too
Ah, break it up

[Instrumental Outro]

Ah – so “The Red and the Black” is just a fun, nutty song about the Canadian Mounties?

Maybe the same mounties that seem to have gone the way of the FBI vis-a-vis those truckers who didn’t want to get injected with a globalist depopulation shot?

What I find interesting is that by making a bit of a “Canada to Germany” switch, the song makes a lot more sense. My friend back in the day swore that the song was a thinly disguised glorification of “S&M”, and that it was indeed about the Nazis.

Who knows?

And if band members said otherwise, would you believe them?

No matter what, I think we should all take note of which B.O. Cult album that song happens to appear on.

Tyranny and Mutation

Kind of an odd coincidence, for sure. But that’s how things roll in the Satanic world, IMO. Signs and warnings. Which is also why “symbolism is their downfall”.

(Hat tips WSB and Sadie)……

Seriously, the back of that album tells you a lot about the band. Worth a close reading.

“Diabolically imagistic lyrics”?

Or as stated by a critic…..

Robert Christgau, writing for The Village Voice, praised the band’s disregard for “the entire heavy ethos”, but wondered if the “parody-surreal refraction of the abysmal ‘poetry’ of heavy” in the lyrics could be a start for a return to conformism.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_and_Mutation

Like I said, many levels to those lyrics.

Easily more than nine – most of which you can stay off of, if you’re smart.

You choose your own interpretations! Indeed, choosing one’s own interpretation (e.g., “Deplorables”) is a way of FIGHTING BACK SPIRITUALLY.

NO FEAR.

It’s totally legitimate to PUSH BACK spiritually.

But as far as COLORS, I’ll be sticking to the red, white and blue!

W

Some history of BOC, for those interested…..

Note commendation of band member as an educator by President Barack Obama. (!!!!!)

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20220902

Manhattan

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces rye whiskey
  • 1 ounce sweet vermouth
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • Garnish: brandied cherry (or lemon twist, if preferred)

Steps

  1. Add the rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters into a mixing glass with ice and stir until well-chilled.
  2. Strain into a chilled Nick & Nora or coupe glass.
  3. Garnish with a brandied cherry (or a lemon twist, if preferred).

I always thought the primary ingredient was Bourbon, but Rye would work.

It’s a light day as of the first pass of this post, but one BIG story did break on Thursday:

CAUGHT RED-HANDED — Missouri AG Schmitt’s Lawsuit Against Biden Admin with TGP as Plaintiff REVEALS GOVERNMENT-WIDE ‘CENSORSHIP ENTERPRISE’!!!

And from Revolver:

REVEALED: Facebook & Biden admin arranged weekly/monthly calls to discuss what to censor on the platform…

This hit everyone’s least favorite social media platform like a freight train.

Ain’t legal discovery grand?

The basement dummy went to Philadelphia to “address the nation.” The whole thing can be summed up in two tweets:

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1565492304579678208

Dan Scavino replied:

OT chimed in with this:

The Optics Created by Joe Biden Communication Team for a National Address Were Off the Charts Creepy

Emptying the tabs:

Tweets and Stones

Recently, former CIA director Michael Hayden implied on Twitter that former President Donald Trump should be executed for violating the Espionage Act.  After MSNBC contributor Michael Beschloss suggested in a tweet that Trump should be executed like the Rosenbergs for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow in 1953, Hayden retweeted: “Sounds about right.”

It was a year ago almost to the day that Hayden retweeted a meme comparing Trump-supporters to the Taliban in Afghanistan.  The retweet occurred at the same time the Taliban were overrunning Kabul in August 2021.  This helps to explain a lot in terms of Hayden’s total lack of self-awareness on Twitter, but it fails to help us understand exactly what’s behind the retweet that suggested that Trump should be executed.

Where are the ‘right-wing extremists’?

If you listen to the Left, parents of public school students are right-wing extremists because they don’t want their children to learn perverse sex, drag queenery, masturbation, pedophilia, and an America Sucks ideology. Parents don’t want their children to be taught to hate people with different skin color. Does that make the parents extremists? Apparently so: Parents have been labeled by the National Schools Boards Association as domestic terrorists, although the NSBA later apologized for the terminology.

Merrick Garland seconded the motion about labeling parents as domestic terrorists by threatening to set his DoJ dogs on parents  who object to what their kids are being taught in public schools. So I guess that parents who actually get involved in their children’s education by showing up to protest are now threats to our democracy.

Washington versus Republican voters

Unfortunately, many of the very people responsible for losing the Senate last cycle are now trying to stop us from winning the majority this time by trash-talking our Republican candidates. It’s an amazing act of cowardice, and ultimately, it’s treasonous to the conservative cause. Giving anonymous quotes to help the Washington Post or the New York Times write stories trashing Republicans is the same as working with the Democratic National Committee.

If you want to talk about the need to raise more money to promote our candidates versus the Democrats’ terrible candidates, I agree. If you want to trash-talk our candidates to help the Democrats, pipe down. That’s not what leaders do. And Republicans need to be leaders that build up the team and do everything they can to get the entire team over the finish line.

Ultimately, though, when you complain and lament that we have “bad candidates,” what you are really saying is that you have contempt for the voters who chose them. Now we are at the heart of the matter.  Much of Washington’s chattering class disrespects and secretly (or not so secretly) loathes Republican voters.  

That op ed by Senator Rick Scott got praise from OT:

Subtle, But Valuable – Senator Rick Scott Pushes Back Against Arrogance of Senate DeceptiCons

It is refreshing to see a republican politician taking the arrogance of the McConnell crew to task.  It is even more refreshing to see Senator Scott use the atomic sledgehammer of truth:

How Weed Became the New OxyContin

Prior to legalization, marijuana plants were bred to produce higher and higher concentrations of THC, a naturally occuring chemical compound in the plant that induces euphoria and alters users’ perceptions of reality. In the 1960s, the stuff the hippies were smoking was less than 2% THC. By the ’90s, it was closer to 5%. By 2015, it was over 20%. “It’s a freak plant that resembles nothing of what has existed in nature,” said Laura Stack, a public speaker who has advocated against the industry since her son, Johnny, killed himself three years ago at 19 years old after years of cannabis abuse drove him into psychosis.

Poland demands $1.3 trillion war reparations from Germany

Better late than never, I guess.

We Need God

LGB is Worried About T

A number of gay people who spent years trying to convince Americans that they were just normal people who deserve to be part of America, with jobs, homes and families like anyone else, worry that all their efforts are being destroyed by the “Trans” people, who are taking over their movement and becoming the public face of it

Our Ship of State is Becoming a Ship of Fools

Plato, of course, was targeting the Athenian democracy, and its presumption that ordinary citizens have the capacity to govern, even though they lack the philosophical knowledge that shows what is good for people and the city they inhabit––not power, conquest, wealthy, or the pleasures of the body, but the virtue that comes from philosophical study. In other words, a technocratic oligarchy that Plato called “guardians” in his imagined perfect government.

For over a century the West has been evolving into such a government, whether it be socialism, communism, or the progressivism that has increasingly dominated our technocratic “managerial elite” and the numerous executive agencies staffed by credentialed “experts” who know better than the people what’s best for them.

This tyranny of the minority “managerial elite” has been more dangerous than the tyranny of the majority, assaulting our Constitutional structure that managed to avoid those extremes through divided and balanced government, along with the unalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Hillary Clinton Shows Up to Venice Film Festival Wrapped in a Blue Tent

Technically, that’s a caftan. It’s usually worn for loungewear. I call such garments Mrs. Roper wear, which dates me. They are comfy, though.

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1565311044536438786

Exactly, Jack.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1565433396326793220
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1565473371780947968
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1565469338622107650
https://twitter.com/JimIronhorse/status/1565452881209294853

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1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-5

1This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. 3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself. 4I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. 5Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will receive his commendation from God.

LUKE 5:33-39

33And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” 34And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36He told them a parable also: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, `The old is good.'”

SATIRE!

Interesting conversation.

Have a great weekend.

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20220901

Here we are on Thursday and the day started with Sundance posting using this photo:

Never mind all the analysis of what the documents are. The lampooning of the photo itself was most entertaining.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1564988546158575618

Biden Justice Department’s Response to Trump’s Demand for Special Master Includes Staged Photo of Alleged ‘Classified’ Documents Perfectly Lined Up on Mar-a-Lago Carpet

Constitutional Law Expert Jonathan Turley Responds to DOJ’s Release of Staged Photo of ‘Classified’ Documents Strewn Over the Floor at Mar-a-Lago

Kash Patel on the Mar-a-Lago Carpet Photo: “First of All It Is Staged. Those Are Cover Sheets… It’s Being Run by Government Gangsters Along with Same Corrupt FBI”

Really, everything else that happened on Wednesday just got pushed to the back seat.

Well…except for we deplorables being labeled as…well….

White House Publicly States Biden Position, Donald Trump Voters “Are an Extreme Threat to Our Democracy”

Why is Washington DC So Intensely Focused on Targeting Donald Trump and Labeling His Supporters as Threats to Democracy?

We see the fully evolving system today with the merge of federal intelligence agencies and social media (big tech) collaborating.  Disinformation panels etc, are yet again an outcome of this political surveillance continuum. Now we see that ordinary discussion of information, newly defined as against the interest of the regime, has evolved to become targeting material.  Speech is now controlled from the same viewpoint as ‘terror threats.’

On to other matters:

‘Gutfeld!’ makes history, unseats Stephen Colbert as new king of late-night television

Charlie Crist resigns from Congress as he campaigns for Florida governor against Ron DeSantis

Qtah

Just had a discussion with a sheep who believes that DeSantis would be better than Trump because DeSantis doesn’t “mean tweet”.

Remind the 🐑 that “mean tweets” led us to the greatest economy in the world, built the wall, exposed the corrupt global media, built the Supreme Court to last, reenergized the forgotten men and women of America, promised to destroy the hidden enemy who wishes to destroy us.

No man is perfect, but no man has underwent the challenges President Trump has gone for us! 🇺🇸

@Qtah_17 #destroythesheepnarrative

t.me/Qtah_17/10375

13.5KviewsAug 31 at 11:25

UNREAL! Biden Picks Associate Of Lois Lerner To Head New Expansion Of IRS

What the Left Fears Most: The Church Militant

OUR GENERATION’S WAR: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOE KENT

From Dennis Prager:

Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country 

For those who associate women with instinctively protecting children or with being supportive of a traditionally religious life, this era in American history has provided something of a shock.

And mean girl behavior is not discouraged. That’s another problem.

Good Country People

Obama-Era ‘Sisters’ Circle Trump

Will the trio of Susan Rice, Avril Haines, and Lisa Monaco get their target or will their exaggerated sense of self finally catch up with them? 

Mean girls on steroids.

The Democrats’ laughable attempt to blame Trump for the COVID vaccines’ shortcomings

We knew it was coming. The push back has already started.

How Dick Cheney created Anthony Fauci

Report: 71 Members of Congress Found To Be in Violation of Federal Law

Even money that number is really on the low side.

TWEETS:

https://twitter.com/TheStoryHub/status/1564138145234518016
https://twitter.com/pkaxiom/status/1564766309593714690
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1564732506120790019

Note to the world: you don’t really need an F-15 for self defense. That plane kept a roof over my family for a while, and, yeah, that’s for specialists.

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1564993915983278081

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1 CORINTHIANS 3:18-23

18Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 21So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours, 22whether Paul or Apol’los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours; 23and you are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

LUKE 5:1-11

1While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennes’aret. 2And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 4And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, 7they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” 9For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; 10and so also were James and John, sons of Zeb’edee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men.” 11And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

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