Back In My Day: Civilized War – The NWO Cabal’s Weapon of FEAR; Plus Goober Gump Sighting

It is very hard to be concise on such a complex subject. So, please forgive the length of this story as it cannot be done well in two parts and BIMD will be on hold for a month or so through the holidays as I work on a family project.

As many of you know, there is a war of Biblical proportions underway, to quote the substance of Q, over America’s soul. Everything I have posted in BIMD’s past leads to this storyline and truth. There are many parallels of events and people that interconnect within my own sphere. Now multiply that by millions or more of others unrelated to mine. Examine your own and I am sure you will see them as well.

All have been arranged and managed by one Creator. Yet, even with the benefit of having truth and history to explore some still say there is no God. That position has far more faith involved than any believer in God will ever have.

This war is about the enemy using anything as a wedge to create disunity in a United States of America to achieve its destruction. Seeking truth has nothing to do with their efforts. In the words of Pontius Pilate, which represents the ancient Rome from whom they all descend figuratively and literally in some cases, “What is truth?”

So we will continue to explore “why” it is the way it is. If there was nothing to fear from America’s existence there would be very little conflict. Civilized war would not be underway. There would be no need to lie, manipulate, murder, steal and deny God’s imprint on this nation.

So let’s drill down.

On The Ground

As an example of the subtleties of engaging in the Civilized War, there are issues being decided without the general public being aware problems exist. To illustrate, in November in TN we passed a constitutional amendment that specifically outlaws any form of slavery despite an anti-slavery amendment in the federal constitution and all of the legal rulings and precedents on the state and federal level prohibiting it for over a century. The ballot measure stated that the language does not prohibit an inmate from working when the inmate has been duly convicted of a crime. Why was that amendment passage necessary? I promise you that question was on the lips of over 90% of the voters in this state. Yet it passed by a 4-1 margin anyway, partially because of the trust that has been built in our overall conservative state legislature and governor. Another reason is it simply reaffirmed constitutionally supported state law against slavery. However, those appeared to be overdone and unnecessary, like killing a fly with a sledgehammer. What was the real reason?

The answer is simple, but has far reaching implications. Slavery has many forms. Slavery by race is just one form and it left this nation a century and a half ago. The leftists in authority positions have obviously been setting the stage for claims of its existence with their refusal to prosecute crimes all over the country; which includes the crimes of illegal aliens, ANTIFA, BLM, etc. – who are their supporters and mercenaries. They have been setting up the lawfare type legal view that those prisoners convicted of crimes and sentenced to prisons are being enslaved if they are required to work while incarcerated. So it is a pretext for their immediate release. We also know that hard work by inmates serves as method to reduce internal prison conflicts and as a deterrent toward committing future crimes upon release. Now before you think I am talking out my azz on those later points, I am stating the observations of a retired Christian friend who has 25+ years of warden experience in two states and is supported by statistics in both states.

The passage of this amendment in TN removes that angle of attack constitutionally and in any other states that have the proper language in their Constitutions. The TN GOP has been paying attention. The action closed the door on using fear (and lies) to free the NWO cabal’s criminal lackeys, which is what they sought to introduce by associating the word “slavery” with those imprisoned for crimes.

We need to understand that the NWO cabal seeks to build their narratives and lies into the lexicon of the general public. Creating fear works to that end. Listen to the language that you, loved ones, co-workers, etc. use on daily basis. Are you hearing the words of the media, culture warriors and politicians in those discussions? Are you tired of their continuous lectures on what and how you should think and behave yet? Have your grown weary hearing about all of the “oppressed” groups of people, some of whom they claim deserve reparations?

As disheartening as it has been for patriots to observe and live through, the real enemy outs themselves throughout the process if we pay attention. The good news is that more people are waking up every day. As an example, per recent reports in even the fake news media only 13% of the population have chosen to be jabbed with the most recent COVID booster. Quite a change from the 70+% who got the first jabs. That being the case despite all the money spent by the government and Big Pharm promoting it. All of us who call things for what they are started calling them “the jab”, “the clot shot”, and so on. The words entered the every day lexicon of Americans and began reducing the fear related to not going along with the scam.

The battle with COVID and the jabs has been part of the spiritual, civilized war. They are connected. Trust government of man, or, trust the kingdom of God. Pick one. One is the blue pill, one is the red pill. Only one has truth to tell if you prefer The Matrix image.

Moral Decay and Collusion with the Enemy

The continuing Civilized War in America is over control of life; in particular, your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It involves every aspect of life in America all at once. A full out assault on truth and good all of the time, every hour of every day. They entice people to willingly enter into lives of sin and moral decay. They intentionally undermine the economic system, strip people of property and legal rights as well as the ability to earn incomes sufficient to live the American Dream. They develop a new normal where crime is acceptable while tolerance of the immoral and unthinkable are virtues to be prized. Both political parties knew and have participated in it for decades. The proof is they did nothing to change it despite having the authority and tools to do so.

The Uniparty only does show pony justice when it comes to themselves. Present the image of administering penalties for crimes. However, they know their subterfuge will be over if PDT goes back in as #47. So just enough states keep lax voter ID laws, illegally loaded voter registration rolls, hackable electronic voting, and use illegal ballot harvesting to keep them in power. The fake news intentionally lies as directed. The swamp will trot out the hoaxes and scams du jour to see if they can strengthen their hold over the sheeple that they need for the diehard Democrat socialists and communists to stay in power as they have always done. All while the Establishment GOP sends forth the Pences, Haleys and Pompeos of the world as potential POTUS candidates they know can never earn the nomination, but hope can siphon off votes and interest in the general election to help their Uniparty Dem buds. They sit quietly on their hands with silent voices hoping none of it reduces their dividend checks from a monetary and economic system that is as fake as they are. They want the GOP base to be fractured because it will reduce PDT’s and MAGA’s chances. So they play their parts to make sure it stays that way.

Caving to Fear

Fear has enabled so many genocides in societies in this world over thousands of years. Will it enable genocide in ours? Excluding the Scamdemic genocide, if the genocide that has already occurred in America with unborn children is any indication, then we have our answer. That one issue has been an American litmus test for totalitarianism versus liberty and freedom. It should divide us. There is no unification possible when one group of people argue for and pursue laws that the mother should have the right to choose to murder her unborn child, not consult with the other sexual partner in the act that created the child, and then take the action with the assistance of medical professionals in a nation dedicated to God. It is scripturally impossible to justify as well as within many legal entanglements.

As proponents, they have needed to deny America was ever dedicated to God and build this belief into the national lexicon and psyche. Does that help explain the lies and false narratives about our nation’s founding? They have to twist the meaning and use the corrupted government and judicial system to support their efforts. The same system created for We the People that they have corrupted with our unwitting assistance by not paying attention and challenging their claims at every turn.

To accomplish their goals the NWO cabal made the case with the support of the corrupted Supreme Court that life does not begin at conception and states’ rights did not apply in conflict with the Constitution and rule of law – that are based on God’s principles and commands throughout as discussed in my previous installment.

The Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade was a fraud and nothing was done to change it or to the justices ruling in its favor without having authority to do so. The Constitution is clear. If an issue is not addressed specifically in it, the issue is left to the individual states to determine. The Court’s fraudulent ruling led to a large percentage of approximately 60 million unborn children being brutally murdered a half century later. That’s genocide.

Yet, fear as a people kept us from taking steps through states’ rights to stopping a lot of the abortion genocide for half a century. Legal roadblocks were erected that caused fear of reprisals. For many it meant not wanting to offend others by opposing the legality of the issue openly; or to not risk the prospect of going to jail for protesting. Or politicians’ fear of losing federal tax dollars in state governments. For others it meant fear of losing relationships, jobs and being ostracized. For churches it meant congregational and denominational splits. Many felt hopeless as the Supreme Court was viewed as the final decision maker. They feared nothing could be done to change it.

They were wrong. Focus efforts here. How did this issue, this genocidal atrocity get reversed in states that have a conscience? Consider spending time thinking about how it was changed when the media and politicians repeatedly told the country for decades it was “settled law.”

To illustrate below is a trailer from the movie Lifemark that was released in 2022. I urge you to watch this movie that was inspired by a true story.

The abortion issue has been similar to not standing up against the removal of school prayer and deemphasizing patriotism in public schools. Accepting the old freedom “from” religion lie that was applied in opposition to the actual statement and intent in the Constitution keeps it alive. The recent Marriage Defense Act is yet another obvious destructive action taken by the NWO cabal that was Uniparty supported. Another open announcement on where they stand in relation to God and Satan that tramples on states’ rights as prescribed in the Constitution.

The NWO cabal clears the way for a drug culture through open borders that allow the cartels to operate with impunity, neocon wars of the moment to make money, sexual perversion and permissiveness, etc. All of which have undermined the foundations of society. In reality they are just other forms of slow, less obvious, and less detectable genocides that our current government leaders permit and even encourage. That once again, trample on states’ rights and the Constitution. Since when can undeclared wars be conducted without impunity? Since fear gained control.

Where do your elected officials in your states stand on these death provoking issues? Have you as an individual citizen asked them in writing?

Has it been worth it to fear? Why would it not divide a nation? It should in a nation that has a large segment of its people who believe life is good and a gift from God. We should be at extreme odds with those who push death and destruction.

When it comes to abortion, you either believe life begins at conception or not. There is no Switzerland on the issue. You either believe the life in the womb of a woman is a fetus, or, in the God-given reality that the life is a male or female human being. You are choosing love (and life) or fear (and death) with your choice. This is where Greta should focus her outrage…

Everything else is idle talk, just noise to deflect from truth and rationalize’s one’s decision. If you have made this choice of death and regret it, there is good news! The Lord provides a path for forgiveness and restoration. I pray you make that next choice to build or restore your relationship with the giver of all life.

Now take each cultural issue pushed by the NWO cabal to divide us and decide – life or death, love or fear. Then identify the proponents and opponents of each with authority to do something about it or strongly influence others. Those are your personal targets for prayer, communication and influence.

Personal Example

Please be clear about one thing. When the life of the mother is on the line and she is lying there bleeding out, save her life in accordance with her wishes. But do not kill the baby intentionally under a false pretext that it will save the mother’s life. There is a difference. Allow me the opportunity to give a personal example.

My wife’s first child from her previous marriage is alive and living a normal life today as a result of not making the choice to save one or the other as presented by her physician, who was also a Christian. However, well before the events of the actual day her child was born, my wife was given a choice to terminate the pregnancy due to many serious medical complications. It would have given many women an opportunity to opt out, however, despite her terrible marital situation she chose to have her baby if at all possible due to her Christian beliefs.

One day at 7.5 months into the pregnancy she began hemorrhaging badly and was rushed to the hospital. She and her father (the now ex-husband was not there) made the choice for the physician to try to save both despite the physician telling them to make a choice. You see that was the critical point. The physician predetermined that one was likely to die due to hemorrhaging, so she wanted to know which one she should focus her efforts on saving. It was a reasonable diagnosis given the situation and loss of blood. The choice of my wife and her father was to save both. There was no either or option to consider in their minds. They were at peace with none, one, or both dying in accordance with God’s will that life is sacred. Had my wife already been in a coma her father knew her choice long before the event. He would choose life and God’s will. Fear of death was not a material consideration. Of course death was not a desired outcome, however, being held in the hands of the Savior produces assurance that the outcome will go according to His plan.

At that point my wife slipped into a coma from the loss of blood. My future FIL sat in the waiting room and prayed to the Lord he loved, trusting in His will. The physician laid it all on the line to save both. She was amazed both lived and perhaps had her own faith and understanding strengthened. My rock star wife was cut wide open to get her child out quickly and the placenta removed. Then blood vessels, tissue and muscles were repaired while being given blood and her baby’s lungs suctioned. She lay in a coma for two days before waking up with her father holding her hand. He never left her side. Her daughter made great progress quickly and has lived a healthy life for 49+ years. My wife was told that she would never have any more children, that the risk would be too high. At age 24, she thought she was done with child bearing. She sensed she would not want any more by her ex-husband anyway. She never regretted making the decision for life and trusting God.

Fast forward 12 years later. The fraud of her first marriage had ended. She met Goober Gump at a graduate banking school over 400 miles from her home who had also ended the fraud of his first marriage. Two very different people in two very different situations who never had any previous connections at all. She had embarked on a quest to boost her career to help her financial situation as a single mom with the support of her wonderful, grandfatherly bank President who was more of a friend than a boss. It was a school that Goober had been on the waiting list to get in, who was notified he could attend two days before it started due to a cancellation. He felt fortunate to be admitted as he was restarting a planned business banking career that had been derailed by his ex’s uncompromising, selfish desires. Little did either know at the time that God had plans for good for both.

Each arrived at school and met the next day in classes that would last for a week. Each knew almost immediately that something had clicked. The week went by quickly before they headed their separate ways back to their homes, jobs and lives. However, they continued to talk over the phone frequently getting to know more about each other. A few weeks later Goober paid a visit to her over a weekend and it was all over. They knew immediately. A year later they married.

Through the years every time the following songs came on the radio they would bring smiles to their faces as they thought about the time they first met in Memphis.

https://youtu.be/D1OVMyJbJwE

https://youtu.be/PgRafRp-P-o

Rock star’s and this guy’s earlier separate, quiet prayers in solitude 500 miles away from each other for peace and a loving loyal partner for life at some point had led to this. I had no reservations marrying the woman of my dreams knowing that she could not have children. I was happy to help raise my step daughter and enjoy our lives together.

One day we both came home from work and as we were preparing dinner, she asked me to sit and talk with her for a minute. Unbeknownst to me she had been to see her long time OB/GYN who had delivered her daughter, who was no longer doing obstetrics. My wife inquired of her about the prospects of having another child. Her physician referred her to the top practice in the area that specialized in high risk pregnancies.

She had taken a morning off from work and gone without my knowledge. She saw one of three OB/GYN’s in the practice and he examined her. He told her he thought she had healed well enough through the years to have another child if done as a Caesarian with the cut in her abdomen made in the same manner as her first. That led to rock star telling me that evening that nothing would make her happier than to have my child. My first reaction was that I did not want to risk losing her if there was any chance that something could go wrong. She assured me that she and the physician were good with it and did not foresee anything that would prevent it all from going well. We committed it all to the Lord. If it was to happen, He would make it happen.

My wife’s pregnancy and delivery of our 6 lb. 2 oz baby girl back in our day went perfect. Wifey said that during the pregnancy she had never felt so good in all of her life. I cannot count the number of late night runs to Shoney’s for the breakfast bar we made. 😂 To hear our daughter’s cry as I stroked my wife’s head in the delivery room was a God moment I will never forget. Miracle.

To cut to the chase and as a result some 36 years later, many of you have been involved and made a positive impact in the life of our oldest grandson. You are a part of our story.

But it would never have happened if fear had ruled any of us at any point from the delivery of her first child on throughout life. None of it would have turned out the same had that same man with PTSD who had endured 15 months of living Hell in a Nazi prison camp in WW II had not stepped into the gap for his daughter. Fear could have kept us in failed marriages or with a strong reluctance to take a chance on love again. After what she had lived through with the first pregnancy, nobody would have ever questioned her fear of ever trying that again.

Fear. For the Christian there is no other way than the courageous freedom that exists under God’s dominion. Victory comes from conquering fear with love.

The Rest of the Story

Being Goober Gump means stuff just happens at times. Just dunno. During the course of going to doc appointments when wifey was pregnant with our daughter, she saw all three of the practice physicians. Her favorite, of course, was the good looking one. All women are the same. 😀 My favorite was the stout guy with the big sense of humor. Then there was the older one; highly intelligent, competent and experienced, who had a dour military attitude. He was unrivaled as a skilled surgeon per the area’s medical community. His attitude was probably because he was a retired surgeon of the Air Force.

You probably can guess where this observation is headed. That former military surgeon and chief of staff of the base hospital was assigned to the same SAC Air Force base near the same small town I lived in Arkansas in the same time period I lived there. We probably saw each other in stores and restaurants without having a clue who each other was. He retired from military service a few years before I left and accepted a position in a practice in Knoxville, earning his OB/GYN credentials in the process. He and the other two formed the new practice a couple of years before my wife had her appointment. As it turned out the AF surgeon who had replaced him at the base, was a personal friend of mine as his father was my district manager and mentor in my employment. During a medical appointment we figured out our common connections and his dour attitude turned to one of joy as we shared with each other. As God sometimes arranges things, he was the one on call at our hospital of choice, St. Mary’s, the evening wifey’s water broke. He worked hard and well to make sure it all went as it should and we will be forever grateful. He even allowed me to film a tasteful video of the delivery with a curtain protecting the actual bloody view. A video that included a paramedic in training who watched the procedure from the foot of the operating table, who completely passed out during the surgical part. 🤣 He came by wifey’s room later and apologized. He said they were going to make him watch another Caesarian without passing out before they would let him pass his course.

And Goober, once again, learned just how much God loved him and his loved ones. Humbled to my knees again.

A few years later we were talking with Pat and RB Summitt at church about how wifey’s pregnancy went as an older mother as Pat had just found out she was pregnant with Tyler. She wanted some insights from another mother at a similar older age. Her high risk OB/GYN’s office was located down the hall from wifey’s at the same hospital. Her physician was a bank customer of mine. Her pregnancy went just like rock star’s even if her marriage did not later on.

That older hospital was one of four in Knoxville at that time. As things go again, it was the same hospital that my Mamaw chose to use over 65 years before with her pregnancies and health issues through the years. The circle of life had been completed with 4 generations of my family. The hospital was later sold and closed at that location in recent years. Only for the land and facilities to be recently purchased and renovated beautifully to house…

Lincoln Memorial University’s new College of Dental Medicine.

https://youtu.be/FsSuolvBvwM

Yeah, there’s that Goober thing again. Hi, Pete, thank you from all of us hillbillies. Teach them well, Otto. My best regards to both of you. We the People will be the winners from your efforts.

Choose This Day

Have you noticed that life goes on and many good things happen when you are not paralyzed by fear? It does not mean you stop doing things to prevent evil. It just means to live life within God’s dominion and trust in His provision.

We can stop the genocides in whatever form they exist. Simply choose love over fear. Choose God and His ways and will. When you spot evil and destruction in play; call it out, go to work against it and do not fear. Let Him guide your path. Even if persecuted you will have peace, just like Paul as he wrote to the early churches from prison.

Joshua was born a slave in Egypt. He was in the group that Moses led that left during the Exodus. He saw the mighty power of God with the Red Sea parting. He became a personal assistant to Moses. It was Moses who gave Hosea son of Nun his name. Joshua means “the Lord is salvation” or “Yahweh saves” in Hebrew. The name was a reminder to all that their future victories would be accomplished by God, who would be fighting the battles for them.

Joshua was one of the twelve spies sent into Canaan and one of the two along with Caleb who told Moses they could take them. Because of the fear of the other ten spies infecting the people, God was angered and sentenced all of them to wander 40 years in the wilderness. It should be no surprise that of the 12 spies, only Joshua and Caleb survived during those 40 years. They still had to go through it even though they were faithful. This is a recurring theme for the faithful. Even Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane for release from what was to come, yet wanted The Father’s will to be done. He still had to go through it.

Upon Moses’ death, it was Joshua who was chosen to lead the people. It was Joshua who led the battles and conquests that took control of The Promised Land. A deeper study of Joshua reveals much depth. He even sent spies into Jericho who were assisted by Rahab the prostitute in its conquest. At every juncture Joshua trusted God and did as he was instructed. He is viewed as a foreshadowing of the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ, whose lineage extends through that same Rahab.

Obviously, 40 years before Joshua’s time came to lead, God knew it was not yet time for him to do what he was to do on behalf of the kingdom. Obviously as well, it was time 40 years later as we look back on what transpired. God’s timing is perfect.

Rahab and her family were the only people or animals left alive in Jericho due to her faithfulness and service to God and Israel. This young gentile woman was accepted, honored and married into the royal family of Judah, and is in the lineage from which our Jesus came. Fear of the evil people around her did not stop her from doing what she willingly felt she needed to do by sheltering the spies at great risk to herself and family. In return she was saved with her family and became an integral part of the kingdom of God with special praise of her acts in His Holy Word as an example to all of us who follow.

Despite terribly difficult circumstances that would strain any person’s faith, fear was not in Joshua’s vocabulary as he trusted God and His provision for the people. Fear did not prevent Rahab from helping either. Which leads to…

Joshua 24:15.

If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

We still have to go through it and remain faithful.

This is the path to regaining our freedom and fulfilling the promise of America that was acknowledged by God at our nation’s dedication. Collectively choose love over fear and trust God as we go about doing what is right in His sight. It took 50 years for Roe v. Wade to be overturned. It took 40 years in the wilderness for the faithful people of Israel to enter into the Promised Land. Those and other events tell us it may take time and will take the will of God for great things to happen in America. Our task is to be as Joshua and Rahab – trust God, be faithful and respond when He calls our number.

Next Up

I will return to personal stories that blend into examples of the Civilized War that continues to rage. It will be time to bring other Goober Gump adventures into periods you may remember and weave in the primary points of our nation’s calling. It even leads to Wall Street and to the halls of Congress.

However, I will be taking a break through the holidays as Rock Star wants me to begin the work of writing our story, as I have with both sets of parents, as a gift of love to our descendants. Whatever Rock Star wants, Rock Star gets! Have a Blessed and Merry Christmas!

2022·12·17 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

Joining The Herd Of Lemmings

I’ve had cause to consider a few things. Maybe we’re going about it the wrong way, and we need to ditch Trump

Yeah, NO

Trump all the way! Why? Because being hated by the people who hate him is a sign of impeccable character, that’s why.

The haters can go fuck themselves with rusty twelve gauge bore brushes. I’d prefer ten gauge but that’s kind of scarce, so…I’m willing to compromise.

The RINO’s Dilemma

The RINOs who who have burrowed in and taken over most GOP organizations, from the state down to local organizations, have quite a dilemma on their hands, and most of them have their heads too far up their asses to realize it.

OK, I’m not talking about the liberal in a Republican area, who knows they’re in the wrong party, but is there because it’s the only game in their town; they hope to capture a nomination someday, at which point they’re guaranteed to be elected…otherwise, they never will be. These people are a hazard in any heavily conservative area.

No, I’m talking about the guys who are a little bit conservative and want to do some good by going into politics, and they’re in a closely matched area, closely enough that they can join the party they are most aligned with and still have a chance. They think the Democrats…particularly the ones who end up running for office…are nuts.

They don’t think much better of the Deplorable types, either. A bunch of bumpkins whose hearts are in the right place, mostly…OK a bit extreme. But they think Deplorables can’t understand that first you have to get elected, then work within the system to change things…a slow process. They genuinely want many of the things Deplorables want…just not as much. The government is spending too much. Or they need to spend money on highways instead of welfare for illegal immigrants. But they want to work within the system to get these things done.

Or maybe they think things are pretty close to ideal right now, and they want to nail it in place.

The problem is, that means they don’t stand for anything in particular. And it shows. They’re about as unappetizing to the electorate as a puddle of dog vomit. The folks in the middle, who they think they are appealing to because they themselves are not extreme, would honestly prefer a clear-spoken radical to someone who qualifies everything they say to the point where they sound like they don’t believe anything at all.

The problem these “Mild RINOs” have, is they just can’t see that. And the reason they just can’t see that, is their entire sense of self-worth is tied up in not seeing that. In their minds, they’ve worked tirelessly for their party, to keep those crazy Democrats out…only to have to constantly fight with a small number of crazy Republicans–who are only liabilities if they end up as candidates. They’ve fought the good fight, and if they can just find the right candidate, someone with some charisma, they might stop the crazies…without being too beholden to the OTHER crazies. In the meantime it’s not working. What’s a responsible guy in politics to do?

They simply cannot understand that the Republicans can’t succeed as the party of nothing in particular. Not really in the past, and certainly not today when people are starting to realize that no matter what they do in the voting booth, the country is still about to fly off a precipice. If they did see it, they’d suddenly have two choices: Go away and let the GOP succeed, or stay and fight. But “go away” isn’t really an option, because what’s the point of having a party now owned by the crazies, win?

Well, they have a dilemma…and WE, therefore have a problem. And we would have that problem even IF they realized that they had a problem…that they were the problem.

No one ever thinks they are the bad guy. Even Epstein probably thought he was the good guy. Right up to the moment where he didn’t kill himself.

So if you ever wonder why these unappetizing dufuses cling on even when their fingernails are being left behind…that’s why. They don’t understand no one wants them, and can’t imagine that no one should want them. And oftentimes their greatest pride is in all the hard work they’ve done for the party. They’re not going to give that up; it’d be psychological suicide.

If you’ve worked with these people, there’s a good chance you like them and consider some of them your friends. But even if so…we’re going to have to give them a good, hard shove. Because America is more important than those milquetoasts’ egos.

Justice Must Be Done

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

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

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

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

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

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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

Spot (i.e., paper) Prices

Last week:

Gold $1,798.90
Silver $23.56
Platinum $1,034.00
Palladium $2,026.00
Rhodium $13,350.00

This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.

Gold $1,794.00
Silver $23.31
Platinum $999.00
Palladium $1,780.00
Rhodium $12,800.00

Gold and silver are stable. The platinum group metals, though, are taking a beating. I don’t think I’ve seen rhodium this low in a long, long time, and palladium is actually less than gold!

I take that as a sign the economy is circling the drain…those PGMs are industrial metals in the main, platinum a bit less so, but then it also took less of a beating than the other two.

Fuck Joe B*d*n

Due to complaints about foul language, I’ve censored the most objectionable word in the title of this section.

B*d*n, you don’t even get ONE scoop of ice cream today.

(Please post this somewhere permanent, as it will continue to be true; the SOB will never deserve a scoop.)

Fusion

There has been a fair amount of attention paid to the recent breakthrough in nuclear fusion. So it’s time for a bit of a review about nuclear fusion.

But there are some preliminaries…rather basic ones from a physicist’s point of view, not so from the point of view of many others.

Power vs. Energy

First off, the difference between power and energy. The physicist defines energy as the capacity to do work…and then defines work as motion against an opposing force. (Note: this is quite a bit different from the daily life definition; for example if you simply carry a 94 pound bag of cement across a level field, to a physicist you’re not doing work–okay, lifting the bag is work, but setting it down again cancels that out. To your muscles, you sure as heck are doing work.)

Energy is measured in joules in the SI (“metric system”); and lifting an apple a meter is about a joule of work. So is lifting two apples half a meter apiece. It’s work because you’re moving the apples upward against the force caused by the pull of gravity.

Power is not the same thing as energy. It’s actually how fast you expend energy. If you lift that apple one meter in one second, then pick up another apple and lift it up before two seconds (total) have elapsed, then pick up a third apple in the third second and so on, you’re using a joule of energy every second…and a joule of energy every second is a watt. Yes, that’s the same “watt” as you use for light bulbs; a 100W light bulb uses a hundred joules ever second. Watts are not actually a measure of brightness, but we’re used to a hundred watt bulb putting out a certain amount of light, so we tend to think of it that way. So much so that the compact fluorescent “spiral” bulbs and LEDs are marketed in watt-equivalents…they tell you that this particular bulb here puts out the same amount of light as a 100 watt bulb. (I get the impression that in Europe this is considerably overstated, but it seems closer to true here in the US.) The CF or LED bulb itself, however, uses a lot less than 100 watts of actual energy to produce that light, largely because an incandescent bulb literally generates more (waste) heat than light. (Note, if you look closer at the package you’ll probably also see “lumens” listed; that’s actually the measure of how much light the thing puts out. IIRC 1600 lumens is what an incandescent 100W bulb puts out, so that’s another way to compare.)

Another measure of power is the horsepower, which is not a metric unit. Now we tend to think of horsepower as being something mechanical like power tools and car engines, and then we think of watts as representing something electrical, but the fact is the two things measure the same actual thing: the rate of usage of energy. So you can convert between them: one horsepower equals 746 watts. (If you think about it this makes sense: your power drill generates a certain amount of horsepower…by using electrical energy at a certain rate. So they must be equivalent at a fundamental level.)

OK with that high school physics class level stuff reviewed, we’re ready to move on.

The Actors and Acts

The story of fusion has two main actors. They are the proton and the neutron. They are the two things you will find in an atomic nucleus. Supporting actors are the electron and neutrino, but you can (for the most part) ignore them in this context.

Protons and neutrons are about the same mass…the neutron is just a little bit more massive. But they are small. It takes roughly 600 sextillion protons (or neutrons) to weigh just one gram. (600 sextillion = 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.) In terms of actual size, protons and neutrons are 0.84 femtometers in radius–1.68 femtometers across, and that’s 0.000 000 000 000 001 680 meters. Tiny little buggers!

Protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. Of course, this is just a very notional drawing…neutrons are not colored blue and protons in reality are not colored red. (They’re far too small to even be seen in visible light.) In reality they tend to blend into each other following the laws of quantum chromodynamics–which, fortunately is not our topic for today!

Everything these actors do is according to one of four fundamental forces. The one you’re most familiar with as a force is gravity. The next one is electromagnetism, which manifests itself most plainly as magnets sticking to iron or steel, static electric “zaps” and your sheets sticking together after a run through the dryer. But it also is tied with light…and chemistry. Basically, in your daily life everything that happens that isn’t because of gravity is because of electromagnetism. Well, until you dig down to the nuclear level, which we are actually going to do today. The remaining two forces then come into play and are imaginatively named the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. The strong nuclear force is the main player for fusion, but the other three all have a role.

The strong nuclear force is directly manifested between quarks…what are quarks? That proton and neutron are themselves made of quarks, and the strong force keeps the quarks glued together. Without it, no protons, no neutrons…nothing we know today could possibly exist. There’s also a residual side-effect of the strong force, which holds protons and neutrons to each other.

The weak force is the only one that can turn one type of quark into another; we see it as radioactive decay. At the level we’re interested in today, because it can change one type of quark to another, and protons and neutrons are made up of quarks, it can turn protons into neutrons, and neutrons into protons. That’s going to be important.

Comparing these: Gravity is extremely weak. A nuclear physicist simply never cares about it, because compared to the others its effect is very small. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be important to us today; it plays a critical role in fusion that happens in nature. Gravity may be weak, but it is always an attractive force and its range is infinite. It weakens with distance but never drops to zero. Because of this it’s sort of like the tortoise that raced the hare–it wins in the end.

Electromagnetism for our purposes today can be thought of as electrical charges, those come in two types…opposite each other, and one kind was labeled “positive” and the other “negative” because there’s a pretty good analogy between electrical charge and positive and negative numbers. It’s much stronger than gravity…think about how an itty bitty magnet can pull on a nail harder than the great, big Earth…but because there are equal amounts of positive and negative charges out there, they tend to cancel each other out at distances…so even though in theory the force goes out forever just like gravity does, it’s effectively self-canceling at distances.

The Strong nuclear force is the strongest of the bunch…it had better be. But it is very, very short range…it’s good for about one femtometer, which is slightly greater than the radius of a proton or neutron, so it can bind one proton or neutron to the next, but fades to zero after that. It’s generally attractive, but it works like velcro. A proton or neutron has to be practically in physical contact with a neutron or another proton before the force takes effect.

The weak nuclear force is a bit weaker than electromagnetism and its range is much less than the size of a proton or neutron; about 1/1000th of the range of the strong force. What it does therefore happens entirely inside these particles, but as I said before, it’s critical nonetheless.

In our normal every day lives, protons, neutrons and electrons form atoms. The atom has a very tiny nucleus, where protons and neutrons “live”, and are surrounded by electrons essentially orbiting the nucleus. The protons have a positive electric charge, one “unit” each (the unit is a small number of coulombs, and I’m not going to define the coulomb…just think of it as +1 electric charge). The electrons have a negative charge, -1. So the electrons will be attracted to the protons, and vice versa, and will want to stick together. Those electrons will interact with the electrons of other atoms…that’s chemistry. And that’s why electromagnetism is behind chemistry.

But the protons in the nucleus (if it has more than one in it) should be repelling each other. In fact they do. Even though +1 unit is a very, very small amount of electrical charge, the protons are so close together that you could actually feel the force pushing them apart. The reason they stick together is the strong nuclear force.

Focusing on Nucleons

Protons and neutrons both seem to have the same size and mass…very close but not quite the same. The neutron is slightly heavier. In fact, since both of them live in nuclei and are so similar, they are sometimes lumped together and called “nucleons.” They are both subject to the strong nuclear force. The key difference is the proton has that +1 electric charge. The neutron has no net charge at all. (The quarks inside a neutron do, but you have to get really close to the neutron to see any effect from them.)

It’s the number of protons in a nucleus that determines which element it is a nucleus of. If it has six protons, it’s a carbon nucleus. The number of neutrons doesn’t matter for this at all. But add a proton, and you have nitrogen (7). If one of the neutrons ups and changes to a proton, it’s now nitrogen. And this does happen to carbon-14.

Wait! I just said carbon was 6, but then I talked about carbon-14. Well, I said the number of neutrons doesn’t matter for that, but it does matter for other things, Carbon-14 has six protons and eight neutrons in its nucleus, for a total number of nucleons of 14. These differing nucleon counts, that are nevertheless the same element because the proton count is the same, are called isotopes. Carbon-14 happens to be unstable; the weak nuclear force will eventually change one of the quarks in one of the neutrons, making that neutron into a proton, and now you have nitrogen 14.

Isotopes usually don’t make much difference to chemists (usually), but they’re overwhelmingly important in nuclear physics.

For nuclear fusion, specifically, we’re concerned with five different isotopes of nuclei.

The basic hydrogen nucleus is dead simple…it’s just one proton, no neutrons. Hydrogen-1. When you consider it as a complete atom (including the electron), nuclear physicists call this “protium” to distinguish it from…

The heavy hydrogen nucleus, which has the one mandatory proton, but also contains a neutron. Because there’s two nucleons in this thing, it got a special name, from deutero (two), and it’s a deuteron. When thought of as a whole atom (including electrons), it’s deuterium.

That’s actually pretty tidy: proton is to protium as deuteron is to deuterium.

Usually two different isotopes of the same element are almost identical chemically. Any slight difference is due to the different weights, a heavier isotope will react a bit more slugglishly than a lighter one. In the case of hydrogen, though, the weight difference is double and that has a noticeable effect on chemistry, so chemists actually do have to care about this difference. It can even effect water made from those atoms. If you’ve ever heard of heavy water, that’s just water made from deuterium instead of protium.

Of all the hydrogen out there, 156 atoms of every million are actually deuterium, not protium. So in every day life you can just ignore deuterium. But in fusion, the distinction is a big deal.

The three isotopes of hydrogen. Protium is by far the most common; tritium is radioactive and has to be manufactured. (And of course the color scheme is totally different in this picture than in the previous picture.)

Both protium and deuterium are stable–they don’t decay radioactively into something else. But that’s not true of our next isotope, tritium, which is a hydrogen isotope with two neutrons. (And true to our scheme, the nucleus is sometimes called a triton.) On average after about 12 years, one of those neutrons will flip to a proton (just like with carbon-14) and you get:

A helium atom, with two protons (by definition of helium) and one neutron. This is helium 3 and on earth it is extremely rare. (It is less rare in stars.) There’s no “special” name for helium-3; you have to call it helium-3. It’s stable.

And the last of our five isotopes is helium-4, two protons, two neutrons. Almost all helium on earth is helium-4, and it came from the radioactive decay of very large nuclei. But in the stars, the story is very different. Helium 4 is not only stable, it’s extremely stable. So much so that every hydrogen nucleus out there aspires to become part of a helium-4 nucleus.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a cute diagram of the helium isotopes, but it does have this diagram of a helium-4 atom, with some attempt made to show how tiny the nucleus is compared to the rest of the atom. (It’s still shown way too large on the diagram.) A pm is a picometer, which is 1000 femtometers or one trillionth of a meter.

However, if you’re disappointed at the lack of pictures of helium-3 and helium-4 nuclei, well, I’ll make that up to you below.

Finally: Nuclear Fusion

So now, finally, I can tell you what nuclear fusion is. Nuclear fusion is the process of combining two atomic nuclei together to make a larger atomic nucleus; when the nuclei are small (for nuclei) doing this releases energy. A lot of energy. That’s generic, it could describe any two nuclei becoming some third nucleus.

But what almost everyone means, specifically, when they say “nuclear fusion” is the process of combining four hydrogen-1 nuclei into one helium-4 nucleus.

In our universe this is a very common process. It powers most stars, including our sun. Some stars have run out of hydrogen and are fusing helium into heavier things. We’re going to ignore that and focus on the stars still burning hydrogen; astronomers call those “main sequence” stars and stars spend most of their lifetimes as “main sequence” stars. Our sun has been a main sequence star for about four and a half billion years, and it will probably remain a main sequence star for another five billion years.

What does it take to fuse nuclei? It isn’t easy. Remember that protons repel each other quite strongly electrically, unless you’re within strong nuclear force range. I compared the strong nuclear force to velcro. Well the electrical part of the repulsion is called the “coulomb barrier” and it’s like trying to force two magnets together when it’s both north or south poles and the magnets are repelling each other. So think: very strong magnets, with velcro on them. If you can manage to force them together, they’ll stick. If you can manage to force them together.

This applies to any nuclei, but here we’re interested in the simple case, two bare protons that some guy is trying to get to stick together. The best strategy is to fire one at high speed towards the other. The repulsion, hopefully, won’t be able to slow the incoming proton enough and it will get close enough for the strong nuclear “velcro” to engage.

And how do you do that, wholesale? You heat hydrogen gas up. A lot. Temperature, after all, is just the average kinetic energy of the atoms in a substance; the higher the temperature, the faster the atoms are moving. At only a few thousand degrees, the electrons are bumped off the atoms, and they become bare nuclei–in the case of protium, they’re just bare protons. This is actually considered a fourth phase of matter. We have solid, liquid, gas, and this: plasma. Now you just have to make it so hot, they slam into each other in spite of the huge electrical force pushing them apart. We’re talking millions of degrees here.

Natural Fusion in Stars

This is how a star functions. A star spends its whole life fighting the force of gravity. It’s a big ball of gas, and gravity is trying to compress it under its own weight. Gas is compressible, so gravity can do this. Up to a point. As the gas compresses, its temperature goes up, as the temperature goes up the pressure increases, so the star reaches a point where the heat on the inside balances the gravity on the outside and its size stabilizes.

That won’t work for long, of course, because the star will eventually cool off and the pressure drops, so gravity can begin to shrink it again. Without any new energy inside the star, it will just keep collapsing.

But fusion actually provides that energy. If a star starts “burning” its hydrogen by fusing it to helium, the energy released can balance the energy lost from the star trying to cool off, and it’s stable.

A star doesn’t have to fuse a lot of hydrogen all at once–fusion supplies a lot of energy. So even a little bit of fusion is enough to keep the sun from collapsing…and it can nurse its fuel supply and not run out for billions of years. A larger star, on the other hand has more gravity trying to crush it, and needs more fusion to counteract it. But there’s a built-in control valve: The more pressure and temperature, the more fusion. So the large star just gets hotter on the inside until the amount of fusion going on counterbalances gravity. It ends up having to rip through its fuel a lot faster than a small star, but it does do so as long as it can. In the meantime it’s a negative feedback system, so it’s stable. If something were to cause the star to generate excess heat in the core, it would just expand a bit until things were back in balance again, similarly if the star were to shrink for some unknown reason: the extra heat generated would make it expand again.

Very stable, and it’s a good thing because we are utterly dependent on it being stable. (Our sun varies some, but it doesn’t go way out of bounds.)

The interior of a star consists of about 75 percent hydrogen…protium, not deuterium, and 25 percent helium-4 by weight. (That’s what the universe originally consisted of. Everything else has been made since the universe begin, and is just a trace.) And the electrons have been stripped off these atoms and will have very little effect on what’s going on. So the interior of a star is bare protons and bare helium-4 nuclei, for the most part.

Fusion inside a star usually follows the route I’m about to describe, which is called the proton-proton chain. 1) Two protons get fused together. 2) The resulting two proton combo, called a diproton, is extremely unstable, and will just fall apart again–unless one of those protons happens to turn into a neutron at that exact time. The result is a deuteron. 3) Another proton gets added to the deuteron to make helium 3. 4) two helium 3 nuclei get smashed together. The result is helium-4, and two extra protons, that can then go off and try to repeat the process.

The proton-proton chain. This is how the sun gets almost all of its energy. Note at the bottom diagrams of helium-3 and helium-4.
There are some alternative routes, including one that uses carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen as a catalyst (the CNO cycle). But for stars like the sun and smaller (most stars), the proton proton chain is king.
The CNO cycle gets used more in stars larger than the Sun.

And a lot of energy is generated. In fact, for every helium-4 nucleus made, 26.73 million electron volts of energy are generated. What the heck is an electron volt? It’s a unit of energy, sized to be convenient to nuclear physicists. (This is not a rabbit hole we want to dive down; I covered it in my physics series.) Converting it to joules, we get 0.0000000000042768 joules.

Now that sounds like a millionth of a mouse fart. But remember, there are 600 sextillion protons in one gram of hydrogen gas. That’s enough to make 150 sextillion helium 4 atoms, so if we were to fuse all of the hydrogen in a gram of hydrogen, we’d have 641 billion joules of energy come out.

One kilowatt hour from your electric company is a thousand watts for one hour, or 3,600 seconds; power times time = energy so that’s 3,600,000 joules. So this one gram of hydrogen has produced 178,200 kilowatt hours of energy…that’s many many years of your electrical usage…again, from one gram of hydrogen! Which is less than half a cubic foot of the stuff. Or, it’s the amount of hydrogen in nine grams of water, which is roughly two teaspoons.

Two teaspoons of water, producing 178,200 kilowatthours of energy! Do you begin to understand why we are trying so hard to do this?

The Fly in the Ointment

There is a big problem though. That first reaction, getting two protons to get together into a deuteron…is almost impossible even at the center of the sun. Almost impossible. Even bouncing around at that temperature, and under that pressure, on average a proton will have to wait nine billion years for it to happen. Why is this so slow? Because it relies on the weak nuclear force to happen…that proton must turn into a neutron at exactly the right time, otherwise, effectively you just get protons bounding off each other, since the diproton falls apart immediately. And the weak force isn’t just weak, it’s slow.

The good news is once we do that the other steps are quick, because they only require the strong force…but we still have to get that first step out of the way.

(The other good news is that because it’s so slow, our sun lasts a long time rather than ripping through the fuel like it was gasoline-soaked pine needles dropped on a roaring fire.)

If we were to recreate the core of the sun in a fusion reactor, and put a bunch of hydrogen-1 in, it would take a long, long, long time to burn that hydrogen, and so our power output would be minimal. We’d get halfway through in 9 billion years, which means for every gram of hydrogen, we’d get 89,100 kilowatthours out…over the span of 9 billion years. Doing the math the power coming out of that plant is 314 femtowatts per gram of fuel. Or 0.000000000000314 watts.

OK, so that’s useless.

In bigger stars the temperatures and pressures are higher, so it won’t take as long under those circumstances. And maybe we could duplicate those conditions, and burn the hydrogen faster, but honestly even duplicating stars that burn fuel a thousand times faster than the sun, we’re getting nowhere. 314 picowatts/gram is still useless.

(You, sitting there reading this digesting your bacon breakfast, generate more power just maintaining your body temperature, than does an equivalent-mass part of the sun’s core. Yes, the sun’s core is hotter, but that’s pre-existing heat energy. In terms of new energy bacon works better than the sun’s core, per unit mass. But the sun’s core is so much bigger that it can power everything on Earth and the other planets with one billionth of the output and throw away the rest, sending it radiating out into the universe.) [edit: inserted this paragraph]

No, what we need to do is skip that first step entirely. In our reactors here on earth we need to start with deuterium. And helium 3. And even tritium. Then we will get most (but not all) of the energy out, but it’s well worth it, because we get it quickly enough–i.e., with high enough power–to be useful. [edit: rephrased this paragraph for clarity…as if any of this were clear.]

Our hydrogen bombs actually do this, rather than trying to fuse protium. And so do our fusion experiments. The good news is the step we skipped over only produces about 3 million (out of the 27 million) electron volts, so we will get nearly as much energy out starting from deuterium as we would have by starting with protium.

We also throw tritium into the mix, which means this is a slightly different sequence than the sun uses, because the last step in the sun is combining two helium-3s to make a helium-4 and two protons. But helium-3 is rare, and tritium actually requires a lower temperature to “ignite,” so we combine tritons and deuterons in ways that just don’t happen much inside the sun. But the end result is the same: helium-4 and energy.

But this is still hard to do. And that’s why we’ve been building big-ass labs with big-ass reactors trying to do it.

How We’re Doing It

There are two major approaches we’re following to try to get fusion to work. The first is the “Tokamak.” The idea is to ionize the deuterium and tritium, and put it inside a magnetic bottle so we can heat it up. (Nothing made of matter can be made into a container that will survive these temperatures.) We had problems with magnetic bottles leaking out the ends, so we started making them donut shaped, so they’d have no ends to leak out of. And so the tokamak–an acronym formed from the Russian for “Toroidal chamber with magnetic coils”–was born. (тороидальная камера с магнитными катушками: tokamak) [an alternate reading is “toroidal chamber with axial magnetic field: тороидальная камера с аксиальным магнитным полем.] (Luckily, t, o, k, a, and m look the same in Russian as they do in English.)

This is essentially the same idea as is being used by ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in southern France. It is expected to be finished by 2025 and will be ten times the size of any previous tokamak…and who cares because we are accomplishing what it was intended to accomplish already using the other major method.

Inertial confinement is to put a small amount of deuterium and tritium gas in a certain place and instead of trying to restrain it with magnetic fields, simply heat it up so suddenly it doesn’t have a chance to escape before reaching ignition temperatures. This is what the National Ignition Facility in California does. It uses small hollow pellets called hohlraums filled with fusion fuel, a few milligrams apiece, and blasts them with super powerful lasers. The energy is delivered so suddenly the gas heats up before it has a chance to dissipate. Even the shell of the pellet participates by collapsing inward under the pressure from the lasers, increasing the pressure.

The goal of both methods is to get out of the fusion reaction more energy than it took to cause the reaction. If we can do that, we’re generating energy. Otherwise, we’re consuming it.

This latest report concerns the fact that, for the first time ever, more energy came out of the fusion than was delivered to the fuel by the lasers. 3.15 megajoules came out, with 2.05 megajoules going in, roughly a 50 percent gain. Up until now it has always been a loss; the best was only a 30 percent loss. (3.6 megajoules = 1 kilowatthour.) We’ve achieved what’s known as scientific breakeven.

The problem is those lasers are horrifically inefficient; it takes about 400 megajoules to produce those beams for one firing of the system. So if you look at the whole system, we’re using 400 MJ to generate 3 MJ…and that’s not a good deal. We’re still nowhere near overall breakeven. We need better lasers, or perhaps more energy coming out of the pellet.

So maybe ITER still has a chance.

We’ve got a long way to go, but at least, for the first time we’ve got the second half doing its job, producing energy. Without that, it doesn’t matter if the lasers don’t waste a single billionth of a joule, the system will never produce power. Now half of it does.

So it’s still going to be a while before you can run your house or car off of Mr. Fusion.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0

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

China is in the White House

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

Joe Biden is Asshoe

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

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

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