DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230331

Grand Slam

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces Flor de Caña 7-year-old grand reserve rum
  • 1 ounce Gosling’s Black Seal rum
  • 1/2 ounce Pierre Ferrand dry curaçao ancienne methode
  • 1 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed  
  • 1/4 ounce grenadine
  • Garnish: orange twist

Steps

  1. Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
  2. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over crushed ice.
  3. Garnish with an orange twist.

Sorry about the brevity of this post. I was downtown for opening day festivities for part of the day.

That doesn’t mean there wasn’t big news:

New York Times: President Trump Has Been Indicted by Manhattan Grand Jury – Indictment Under Seal, Terms for Arrest Ongoing

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641566996482408448

Other stuff:

Team DeSantis Say They Have Been Hoodwinked by Disney Inc. as Orlando Board Changed Covenants Before New Officials Appointed

Rand Paul Shreds Josh Hawley Over “Restrict Act” While Blocking Unanimous Consent and Reminding About Constitution and “Bills of Attainder”

Badlands News Brief – March 30, 2023

Jamie Dimon To Be Deposed Over JPMorgan-Epstein Relationship

The drug being readied for the avian flu plandemic causes side effects that include BELIEVING false narratives, making it perfect for social control

Given the source, I’m not sure this is real, but it makes a great headline.

Could the RESTRICT Act Criminalize the Use of VPNs?

The Digital Iron Curtain: How the RESTRICT Act Threatens to Devastate Privacy and Crush Free Speech Online

The Nosedive of Ron DeSantis

How Much Longer Can Western Governments Spit on Their People?

The Cultural And Political Forces Driving Violence In The Black Community

How the Media Doubles Down on Falsehood

The Source of ‘Too Big to Fail’

Learning from Our (Bank) Failures

Josh Hawley plays fast and loose with internet freedom… Rand Paul gets it…

Board transferred all its power to Disney shortly before DeSantis’ appointees took over

Durham Unveils Smoking Gun FBI Text Message, ‘Joint Venture’ To Smear Trump

Trump Knows

From Trans Supremacy to AI, How Wokeness Seeks to Replace God

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641188069821804546
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641220051150807045

Who said life was fair?

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JEREMIAH 20:10-13

10For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him.” 11But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten. 12O LORD of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause. 13Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

PSALMS 18:2-7

1I love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. 4The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me; 5the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me. 6In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

JOHN 10:31-42

31The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?” 33The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, `I said, you are gods’? 35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken), 36do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,’ because I said, `I am the Son of God’? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39Again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. 40He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John at first baptized, and there he remained. 41And many came to him; and they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42And many believed in him there.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230330

Today is opening day.

Jeremy really is the organist for both the Cards and the Blues, plus he has a church job.

I guess I better find out who made the final squad.

Can it be true?

JUST IN: Senate Votes 68-23 to End Covid Emergency

Most Americans moved on long ago, but why not make it official.

James O’Keefe Starts Looking at Fraudulent Campaign Donations – FEC Reported Donations Via Act Blue Appear to be Money Laundering

It’s about time SOMEBODY looked into this abuse of the non-profit tax code…now if he would look at the rest of the non-profit tax code.

Jacob’s Limp

Badlands News Brief – March 29, 2023

BREAKING: Jury in Douglass Mackey trial tells judge they cannot come to a unanimous decision

A hung jury in the meme trial is actually good news for about all of us.

The End of the Cult of Free

Maybe in social media, but not in America, that’s for sure. The novel I authored that’s free is downloaded about forty times more often than the rest of the ten novels with a price tag combined.

Dr. Anthony Fauci sells memoir for ‘just under $5M,’ book insiders say

That’s not much for a money laundering payoff. Maybe there’s something going on behind the scenes.

161 House Republicans Voted to Abolish Education Dept., 60 GOP Voted to Keep It

Just make it go away.

Europol warns ChatGPT already helping folks commit crimes

Criminals will use any and all tools they can find to achieve their objectives.

Ukraine and the FBI: Profiles in Corruption

Overcoming America’s Political Paralysis

Time to End the Veil of Secrecy Inside D.C. Kangaroo Court

Like ChatGPT, Google’s ‘Bard’ ChatBot Peddles Left Bias

The Cross of Code

The danger of A.I. is not that it becomes like us, but that we become like it.

XI’S ‘CHILLING’ REMARKS: WHAT THE NEW MULTIPOLAR WORLD MEANS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

China Circles the Wagons Around TikTok

Watch: Rand Paul Claims Fauci Is Not Really Retired

The Men Behind the Curtain – Part 6

The Metaverse Is Quickly Turning Into the Meh-taverse

Exclusive: FAA Quietly Updates Guidelines to Clear Some Pilots Previously Diagnosed With Guillain-Barré Syndrome

There’s a good reason why there are two pilots on every commercial flight. I have it on good authority that pilots will fly on airlines other than the ones they work for on a regular basis, so there is always a good chance there’s a spare in the cabin.

Watch Teens Attempt to Carjack Man, But Can’t Drive Manual Transmission to Get Away

Minor…problem….

The Next Phase Of The War – Trans Terrorism

TWEETS:

Yeah, really, oh, really. This has been noticed:

If these lefties aren’t careful, they will be facing felonies. Oh, well.

https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/1640813615086293020

Still some rats to catch, Elon.

Yep.

I totally agree. AI is more of a threat than not.

Amen, Abby.

Watched that live. What a liar.

Rumors are lung infection – don’t forget the real Bergoglio only has one complete one – or heart attack. Either way, may he have the best of care…and don’t forget that the Lord moves in mysterious ways.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1640825751887912961

MEMES:

Proof that good comedy is universal:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1641192094445232131

Murphy lives at the raptor sanctuary in west county here. He’s quite the character and LOVES water.

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GENESIS 17:3-9

3Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, 4“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. 5No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you. 7And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” 9And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

PSALMS 105:4-9

4Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually! 5Remember the wonderful works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, 6O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones! 7He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 8He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, 9the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

JOHN 8:51-59

51Truly, truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death.” 52The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, `If any one keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ 53Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you claim to be?” 54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God. 55But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him and I keep his word. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.” 57The Jews then said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” 59So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

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SATIRE

Dear KAG: 20230329 Open Thread

Are we ready?

Today we begin with the Tik Tok bill. Banning Tik Tok is one thing. What the lobbyists, uh, Congress has written in this bill goes WAAAAYYYYY beyond that.

Tucker Carlson Warns About Senate Bill 686, The Restrict Act, Framed Around TikTok But Focused on Domestic Online Censorship

The TikTok Hysteria Is About Protecting Censorship and Profit

As written, the bill by Senator John Warner (D-Va.) would authorize the secretary of commerce to “identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit . . . or otherwise mitigate . . . [and] address any risk arising from . . . any property . . . that the Secretary determines . . . poses an undue or unacceptable risk of . . . interfering in . . . the result or reported result of a Federal election, as determined in coordination with the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence . . . ” or, “activities by a foreign adversary that are designed to undermine democratic processes and institutions or steer policy and regulatory decisions in favor of the strategic objectives of a foreign adversary.”

That would presumably include anyone who publishes words contrary to the accepted See Why Aye narratives.

Following up on the article from yesterday re AI and the private funding drying up, here is a podcast episode from the Catholic Talk Show that discusses the pitfalls and dangers of the technology. (I promise, there is no actual hard core Dogma in the discussion.)

And regarding the very technology discussed in that podcast:

Okay, onward into the weeds:

Badlands News Brief – March 28, 2023

Donald Trump is still winning by being Donald Trump

Four Out of Five Republicans Think Trump Probes Are ‘Witch Hunt’

Confronted by FBI abuses, Congress ready to add civil liberty protections to key surveillance law

Peter Schiff: This Is a Sequel to 2008 and Like All Sequels It Will Be Worse Than the Original

Why Vote GOP?

Fat, Stupid, and Diverse

Trump Showed Us That We Are Losing Our Liberties

Uncommon Senselessness: Who Are These People?

My conclusion is that we bend over backwards, turn the other cheek and give the benefit of the doubt to those who’ve declared themselves our political enemies because we feel we must remain on the moral high ground and be true to our beliefs.

One of those beliefs is that all people have the right to speak their minds however objectionable or wrong-headed/wrong-hearted their comments and core beliefs may be. We conservatives defend the right of every person to be wrong, and because we’ve been brought up to believe that there are just some things that civilized people don’t do to each other, we leave our flank exposed to attack from those on the Left.

We let our ideals get the better of us.

Trump Again Defines National Priorities

How Hard Work Destroys Character

The case against making talented young people do menial labor.

Do White Leftists Really Hate Themselves?

Parents Bill of Rights Sets Democrat Hair Ablaze

Electric Cars Are Bankrupting the Auto Industry

Given the number of billionaires whose fortunes and assets are based on oil, one has to wonder how long this electric car thing is going to go on.

EVs Are The Yugo Of The 21st Century

Black Commentator: Media Is “Inventing New Forms Of Racism To Cover Up The Fact That Anti-white Racism Is Out Of Control”

Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade Goes On The War Path Against Trump Following Waco Rally

Brian Killmeade couldn’t carry Trump’s bookbag.

Lin Biao’s Curse of Trans!

Going off the (Federal) Reservation

Tweets!

https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1640608962494988291
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1640670876512268291
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1640717010182209537
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1640691287321083905
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1640594564275900417
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1640678701380648961
https://twitter.com/RealScarey/status/1640583641515401218
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1640777533003030528

Yeah, we kind of figured that out over the weekend.

MEMES!

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1640572578493259783

Unless I’m mistaken this is the female who gave birth in the Great Tide Pool behind the Monterey Bay Aquarium a few years back. The whole think was caught on video.

Have a good day y’all.

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

And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:

Per the Boss:

PLAY BALL!

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DANIEL 3:14-20, 91-92, 95

14King Nebuchadnezzar questioned them: “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you will not serve my god, or worship the golden statue that I set up? 15Be ready now to fall down and worship the statue I had made, whenever you hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, lyre, harp, psaltery, bagpipe, and all the other musical instruments; otherwise, you shall be instantly cast into the white-hot furnace; and who is the God that can deliver you out of my hands?” 16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, “There is no need for us to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17If our God, whom we serve, can save us from the white-hot furnace and from your hands, O king, may he save us! 18But even if he will not, know, O king, that we will not serve your god or worship the golden statue which you set up.” 19Nebuchadnezzar’s face became livid with utter rage against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace to be heated seven times more than usual 20and had some of the strongest men in his army bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and cast them into thewhite-hot furnace. 91King Nebuchadnezzar rose in haste and asked his nobles, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” “Assuredly, O king,” they answered. 92“But,” he replied, “I see four men unfettered and unhurt, walking in the fire, and the fourth looks like a son of God.” 95Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who sent his angel to deliver the servants that trusted in him; they disobeyed the royal command and yielded their bodies rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

Bagpipes?

DANIEL 3:52-56

52“Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever; And blessed is your holy and glorious name, praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages. 53Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory, praiseworthy and glorious above all forever. 54Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever. 55Blessed are you who look into the depths from your throne upon the cherubim, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever. 56Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven, praiseworthy and glorious forever.

JOHN 8:31-42

31Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” 33They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How is it that you say, `You will be made free’?” 34Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin. 35The slave does not continue in the house for ever; the son continues for ever. 36So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 37I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 38I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.” 39They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do what Abraham did, 40but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God; this is not what Abraham did. 41You do what your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.” 42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

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And…members of the QTree who no longer participate for one reason or another.

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

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

SATIRE SECTION

Dear KAG: 20230328 Open Thread

Cover image: Spring Time! by Jill Van Sickle

Before launching into it, we take a moment to pray for the innocent lives taken in Nashville on Monday, as well as the victims of the tornado over the weekend.

Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, and may Perpetual Light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.

Re Ron DeSanctimonious…lots of headlines:

Trump: ‘Alliance’ With DeSantis ‘Very Unlikely’; ‘I Don’t Want to Attack’ GOP

Report: DeSantis Donors, Supporters Begin to Question if He Should Run in 2024 or Wait Until 2028

Ron DeSantis’ donors and allies question if he’s ready for 2024

THAT WAS QUICK: DeSantis Donors Reportedly Recommend He Sit This One Out

Christina Pushaw, DeSantis’ Media Guru, is a Soros-McCain-Bush-Koch Asset

SHOCKING! Not.

Sundance’s offerings on this topic from over the weekend:

President Trump Talks to Newsmax About Ron DeSantis and Election 2024

Mid-Tier Donor Class Very Worried About Ron DeSantis 2024 Management Agenda

Political Pundit Mark Simone Admits Team Bush and Karl Rove are Group Behind Ron DeSantis Effort….

Well, alrighty then. It’s official Ron DeSanctimonious is a uniparty hack. Got it.

Let’s see….

Vox Populi – Legislator Be Advised 2023 ~#16

WACO: FED massacre cover up and Clinton ‘suicide’ called out by Trump

In 2016, Trump brought up a ‘Conspiracy theory’ that the man who was connected to the Waco event with Hillary Clinton did not commit suicide but was murdered by the Clintons. Fake news Jake Tapper tried to shame him for speaking out about it.

Tapper:

“Mr. Trump has repeated an outrageous and long-ago debunked falsehood about former Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster a friend, of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s until his tragic suicide.”

Trump:

“I don’t bring Foster’s death up because I don’t know enough to really discuss it. I will say there are people who who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder. I don’t do that because I don’t think it’s fair.”

If certain stories in the conspiracy community are true, Waco was NOT the reason Vince Foster was murdered. I have no doubt he was murdered in a cover up, just not about that incident, but one that is not all that well known.

Badlands News Brief – March 27, 2023

The Men Behind the Curtain – Part 4

Patsies of the CIA and FBI

Ford Losing Billions On Electric Vehicles

Gee, I wonder why. Personally, I would not want an electric Mustang.

AI Investment Plummeted In 2022

I bring this here as a point of interest due to a tidbit I picked up in a past life. The reason why the government started funding embryonic stem cell research was because the private investment money for the efforts dried up after a number of decades. There were no returns on investment. I wonder if we’re seeing that with AI.

The RESTRICT Act is not limited to just TikTok. It gives the government authority over all forms of communication domestic or abroad and grants powers to “enforce any mitigation measure to address any risk” to national security now and in any “potential future transaction”

Thread reader here.

Mitch McConnell Allowed to Work from Home After Inpatient Facility Discharge

Hmm….

U.S. Banks are sitting on $1.7 trillion in unrealized losses, research says. That’s not a problem—until it is

The bond market went boom.

2016 All Over Again?

The proposition that “Trumpism” could exist without its progenitor appears to have failed.

Why Not America First?

Biden won’t stop pushing his bogus, cynical narrative of voter suppression

The Loathing of Fertility is the Longing for Death

Dr. Littell Loses His Florida Medical Certification for COVID ‘Misinformation’

Paging Rod DeSantis.

DeSantis takes lead over Trump in early Iowa, New Hampshire polls

And there’s shoreline in Nebraska.

The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality

Review of essential Sundance from over the weekend:

Liz Harrington – As The Awakening Continues, MAGA Continues to Grow

Neil Oliver – The Answer to Who Watches the Guards, Is Not Within The Question

You are Damn Right This is an ‘Us -vs- Them’ Conflict – And There are More of Us Than Them

Sunday Talks – Matt Taibbi Discusses the Twitter Files and TikTok Hypocrisy

Tweet hopper:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1640431636973076483
https://twitter.com/DavidKotiw/status/1640341768494370817
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1640419774491443218

Meme & Fun hopper:

https://twitter.com/TheWoofWorld/status/1639018982140248065
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1640406049004961810

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

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

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

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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.

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Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

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

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.

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NUMBERS 21:4-9

4From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way. 5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7And the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

JOHN 8:21-30

21Again he said to them, “I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.” 22Then said the Jews, “Will he kill himself, since he says, `Where I am going, you cannot come’?” 23He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. 24I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.” 25They said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Even what I have told you from the beginning. 26I have much to say about you and much to judge; but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.” 27They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father. 28So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me. 29And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.” 30As he spoke thus, many believed in him.

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Anonymous ID: hHkrVD7x No.148156632 
Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)

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

>>148154137

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

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

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

Satire

Dear KMAG: 20230327 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to board Marine One with first lady Melania Trump en route to his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida following the release of the Mueller report at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria – RC1F20A769B0

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


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 yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!!!

Swingingly!

Happily!

Laughingly!


Dedication

Image: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e5/ad/d5e5ad861f1fc08b93a6d511ed5ff19f.jpg

WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL

by Duchess01


Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know
That you had left us with armor in tow
We had no idea with what you dealt
We did not know the pain you felt
And now we can only imagine
With you what really did happen
Cause rarely did you complain 
And/or share your personal pain
Of one thing we are most certain
You are flying high behind the curtain
Watching over us above the crowds
Our Warrior Angel above the clouds
Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us
While you were here among the fuss
We miss you dear you have no idea
Since time began in the pangaea
With you there was no time
In your wisdom you would chime
To clarify and magnify
The what where how and why
We did not question when you left
We were not slightly bereft
But over time we wondered why
You did not at least stop by
Now we know where you have gone
With the break of this new dawn
We could be angry but are not
Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot
Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear
Send us a sign that you are near
A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain
From your love do not refrain
God sends Angels to watch over us
And now we have an Angel Plus
A Warrior Angel of Magnificence
From today and forward hence

LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/comment-page-2/#comment-917655


The Rules

TL;DR –

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. 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.


MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1

Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.

SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.

As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.

YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..

OTHER THAN THAT…….


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.


Musical Interlude

In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.

Here are three “placeholder” videos, selected from old Wheatie posts.

1.

From Dear MAGA: 20190222 Open Topic

2.

From Dear MAGA: 20190223 Open Topic

3.

From Dear MAGA: 20190427 Open Topic

Ah, yes! I remember those days!


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 Week:


kakistocracy

noun

  • Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
  • Government by the worst men in the state: as opposed to aristocracy, government by the best men.
  • Government by the worst men.

Used in a Sentence:

“In the Biden kakistocracy it makes little difference whether the Bidenistas or the Bidenazis have the upper hand.”

Used in a picture:

(H/T Robert Baker for this week’s word)

ENJOY THE SHOW

Have another great week!

W

What’s Going Around? Ground Reports on the 2023 Virus Season

During my recent absence, I was blessed with great health. However, 3 days after my return, something that is NOT COVID showed up. Definitely NOT COVID. But three days – that’s about right for some kind of exposure to a virus. I’m taking care of things nicely, but remain curious what this infection might be. Very likely a cold, but still – it would be nice to know what it is.

Beyond that, I’m very curious what’s happening out there, in the COVID, flu, and RSV worlds, as well as with all the other ILIs (influenza-like illnesses) that are vying for our respiratory systems.

Thus, I provide this thread as a dumping ground for all thoughts, opinions, and facts that you wish to report on the topic of transmissible illnesses currently making the rounds. In particular, ground reports of cases in your world are desirable.

LAY IT ON ME, PEOPLE!!!

W


Dear MAGA: 20230326 Open Topic

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.

Please show respect and consideration for our fellow QTreepers. Before hitting the “post” button, please proofread your post and make sure your opinion addresses the issue only, and does not confront or denigrate the poster. Keep to the topic – avoid “you” and “your”. Here in The Q Tree, personal attacks, name-calling, ridicule, insults, baiting, and other conduct for which a penalty flag would be thrown are VERBOTEN.

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.

Please also consider the Guidelines for posting and discussion printed here: 
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/01/01/dear-maga-open-topic-20190101/


On this day and every day –

God is in Control
. . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . .
Keep Looking Up


Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.

“This day is holy to the Lord your God;
do not mourn nor weep.” . . .
“Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet,
and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared;
for this day is holy to our Lord.
Do not sorrow,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”


Choose Life

God sets life and death before His people, Israel, at the borders of the Promised Land. As all people do, the children of Israel had a choice: they could obey God or disobey Him. One choice would lead to life, and the other choice would lead to death.

Deuteronomy is Moses’ farewell address to the people of Israel at the end of his life. The people had been “wandering” in the wilderness for approximately 40 years as the generation of unbelieving Israelites who had refused to enter the land died off (Numbers 14). The only ones who survived were under 20 years old at the time of Israel’s refusal, and there are many other Israelites who were born during the ensuing years so they had not personally witnessed the plagues in Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea, or the spectacular display of God’s power and glory at the giving of the Law. Moses reminds them of these things and of what God expects from them.

In Deuteronomy 28, Moses outlines the blessings for obedience and the curses for disobedience. In chapters 29 and 30, he further warns the people about what will happen if they abandon their covenant with the Lord but also promises that, when they do, they can be forgiven if they return to Him in repentance. In Deuteronomy 30, Moses promises that, when they repent, “the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul” (verses 7–10).

Then Moses calls on the people to renew the covenant and personally commit to follow the Lord. It is in this context that he says, “Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?’ Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?’ No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess” (Deuteronomy 30:11–18).

Simply put, if Israel obeys and follows the Lord, they will have life and blessing. If they disobey and forsake Him, they will experience death and destruction. God set before His people a choice: life or death, based on the conditions of the Old Covenant. We see the consequences of death and destruction playing out in the rest of the Old Testament with very few bright spots.

Although the terms of the Old Covenant were specifically for Israel in the Promised Land and are not applied to all humanity today, the choice is still very much the same. God still sets life and death before us. Romans 6:23 tells us that “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Those who accept Christ by faith will experience eternal life and blessing, while those who reject Him will experience eternal death and destruction (John 3:18). There is a clear choice with eternal consequences.

The choice is ours . . . life or death.

2023·03·25 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

A Caution

Just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. (Or we might not. The record is mixed even though there is more MAGA than there used to be.) But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled–I suspect it’s RINO), don’t get replaced.

State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhorses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.

Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!

SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

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

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

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.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

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

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

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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

Spot Prices

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Last Week:

Gold $1,990.30
Silver $22.70
Platinum $985.00
Palladium $1,495.00
Rhodium $10,000.00

So here it is, Friday, 3PM MT after markets closed and we see:

Gold $1,978.30
Silver $23.31
Platinum $993.00
Palladium $1,507.00
Rhodium $9,300.00

After dropping substantially earlier this week, gold reversed course by Thursday and spent most of Friday getting close to $2,000 but not over, then dropping down again. It ended up net down -15.20 for the day, which means it was over 1990 at close yesterday. I can’t see it going down much, honestly; the dollar is circulating the drain, and to keep it from going down the drain they would have to crater the economy. Because our “betters” play stupid games with the currency…we all win stupid prizes.

Galilean Relativity

Well, let’s give this a go, on short notice.

I like to write a first draft of science posts a couple of days beforehand. I’ll then come back in a couple of days and see a much better way of organizing it, or perhaps a more useful analogy, or other things like that.

I don’t have that luxury today; it’s 8PM mountain time already. So here’s hoping I’m organized from the get-go, because I am going to give it a go.

I’ve been planning to cover “gravitational slingshots” (the click-baity name) or “gravity assists” since much of what NASA has been doing is utterly dependent on them. That’s going to be a big topic, but I realized I can at least lay some groundwork tonight.

Consider a typical two body problem: some small satellite or even a space probe, and a big honkin’ planet.

I’ve been talking as if the probe orbits a point at the center of the planet. Technically that’s not true. The two bodies both orbit the “barycenter.” That’s basically the center of gravity of the system. Imagine the planet and the satellite on a seesaw, at whatever their “current” distance is. A million miles? five thousand? Ten billion? Whatever.

The barycenter is the point at which you’d want to put the fulcrum of the seesaw.

Now when it’s Earth and, say, a GPS satellite, that point turns out to be so close to the center of the earth that it’s likely immeasurable, because the earth is about 1.5 septillion times more massive than the satellite (6×1024 kilograms versus 4 kilograms; a one with 24 zeros after it is a septillion). And the GPS satellite orbit is about 20,000 km in radius (it’s a circular orbit so we can speak of a radius here).

So the “balance point” between Earth and the satellite is 1/1,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th of the way in from one of the ends. Which works out to 13 and a third femtometers. Recall that a femtometer is roughly the size of a proton or neutron; much much much smaller than an atom, and you’ll see the difference between the barycenter and the center of the earth Just. Doesn’t. Matter.

It can matter, though when the two bodies are closer to each other in mass. The sun-Jupiter barycenter is significantly far from the center of the sun (the mass ratio is almost exactly a thousand to one, the sun is almost half a million miles in radius, Jupiter’s orbit is a bit over half a billion miles in radius). In fact the barycenter is actually outside of the sun. Earth and Moon are closer together in mass, but much closer together, so the Earth/Moon barycenter is still a thousand miles or so down below the surface. Pluto and Charon are more nearly the same mass…they’d be a double planet if they were planets. The barycenter of that system is out in space.

When New Horizons was still far out from Pluto it took the pictures that were assembled into the GIF above of Pluto and Charon. The white x marks the barycenter.

OK, so now that I’ve set the record straight and planet and satellite both orbit a barycenter, I’ll now pose a question that is going to sound like it comes completely out of left field.

What if the barycenter is moving?

Take a space probe doing a flyby of a planet. It’s an escape orbit…it’s flying by never to return, so we are talking about a hyperbola. Under the circumstances the barycenter is effectively at the center of the planet.

So what if the planet is moving? They do move you know.

It turns out that this makes absolutely not a shred of difference. The spacecraft will move along a neat hyperbola as seen from the planet, no matter how fast the planet is moving.

The deep reason for this is that one level, it’s meaningless to talk about a planet or a star moving.

Einstein didn’t quite invent the concept of relativity; rather he refined it. Galileo truly originated it, to cover cases where (for instance) you’re in a moving railroad car tossing a ball in the air, and you have no way to tell the railroad car is moving. In fact, you could claim the railroad car is stationary, and the world is moving. As long as the train isn’t accelerating, you will feel like you aren’t moving.

It turns out that all of the mathematics of speed, velocity, and so on, is exactly equivalent no matter whether you regard the train car as stationary and the earth moving, or vice versa. The signs (plus or minus) on all the numbers are different, but the moving objects behave the same way either way. Galileo realized that there’s no absolute motion, only relative motion. The train is moving? Relative to what? The earth? Or the passengers on the train? Or the bug flying into the locomotive’s windshield?

It’s even more true out in space. Who’s moving, and who’s stationary. Is anything stationary?

You pick a frame of reference and go from there. Since they’re all equivalent, pick a convenient one. And it turns out in the case of the spacecraft flying by a planet, the convenient frame of reference is the center of the planet (I mean the barycenter of the planet/spacecraft system…here let me find my atom-sized measuring stick to correct it). In that frame of reference, draw a hyperbola, that’s what the spacecraft does.

Even though the planet is moving in orbit around the sun. Well, from the planet’s point of view the sun is going in circles around the planet.

[I remember in a college class discussing the sun as seen from Earth; the professor described the sun’s apparent path through the sky as if it were in a one year orbit around the earth. He gave us orbital elements just like I discussed a few weeks ago. And it worked, because…Galileo. We could compute where the sun would appear on any particular day. Of course some satellite in a 150,000,000 kilometer orbit around Earth is not going to complete that orbit in a year…not even in a thousand years. So we had to pretend the sun was closer than it is. The reason why is that in analyzing an orbit we need the combined gravitational parameters of the planet and the satellite…but again the satellite’s contribution is twenty or so digits past where you round off, so we don’t bother adding them together. Similarly, with the sun-earth system, the gravitational parameter that matters is the sun’s, not the earth’s; our gravitational parameter is a rounding error. So we can either put the sun closer to the earth for this analysis…or use the sun’s gravitational parameter in place of our own. The prof went with putting the sun closer.]

OK, we’re halfway to understanding the “slingshot.” I can’t say “see you next week” with a perfectly straight face, so I’ll settle for “see you next time.”

[PS: So what did Einstein add? He added that the rules change when the relative velocity between two objects gets close to the speed of light, and later on he incorporated accelerations into the mix–Galileo specifically excluded them.]

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

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

China is in the White House

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

Joe Biden is Asshoe

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

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

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

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230324

The Green Man

  • 2 oz bourbon
  • 1 oz Cointreau
  • 2/3 oz Fernet Branca
  • 1/4 oz lime juice
  • 3 sprigs mint

Muddle mint with the bourbon. Add other ingredients. Shake with ice. Double strain into a glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint.

  • Nose: Mint, orange, bourbon, menthol
  • Palate: Fresh mint to start, orange and bourbon on mid-palate, followed by a nice bite of acidic citrus just after that. Finishes with slightly astringent camphor and more mint.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1638786870451802112

Before getting too into the weeds, this is France:

https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1638934052790226948
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1638969339784355840

I’d say the French have had enough. And this was over a new retirement age.

Badlands News Brief – March 23, 2023

SHOCKING REPORT: DOJ Embedded an FBI Informant Inside the DEFENSE TEAM of Non-Violent Jan 6 Prisoner and Former US Marine Zachary Rehl

Why is this shocking? The other side will stop at nothing to get their way.

SCOOP: GAO to Investigate Dubious FBI Surveillance Practice

With a strongly worded letter to follow.

Red states flee bipartisan voter roll cleanup group, blame its left-wing election agenda

Ohio and Iowa withdrew from the Electronic Registration Information Center last week, and Florida, West Virginia and Missouri did so earlier this month. Alabama canceled its membership in January, and Louisiana withdrew last year.

Alaska’s election chief is also eyeing the exit, and legislators in Texas are pushing for an out, too.

Well, at least SOMETHING is happening at the state level.

Kari Lake scores win as Arizona Supreme Court sends part of her lawsuit back to trial court

Much more on this in the tweets.

Trump Wants to Create ‘Spectacle,’ Appear in Handcuffs if He’s Arrested: Multiple Sources

Given the author of this piece is someone known to me on a first name basis for over ten years now (we both wrote on another blog years ago), this is pretty much his opinion. Mike has been a never Trumper from the word GO! He was convinced in 2016 Hillary! would win. It was all he harped about on Facebook the whole year.

New Report Shows Extensive Biden Admin Collusion to Classify Parents as Terrorists

Biden’s DOJ is quietly trying to orchestrate taxpayer-funded bailout of Moderna

Oh, hell to the no. Not. No way, Jose.

Philadelphia will PAY women to get pregnant: Expectant mothers will be entitled to $1,000 a month ‘with no strings attached’ amid falling fertility rates and rising baby deaths

I saw something a couple years ago or more about being prepared for birth control to be illegal and incentives for parents to have more than 2.3 children coming in the future. It’s started already.

STOLEN VALOR: Top Ukraine ‘volunteer’ soldier revealed to be fraud, heavily promoted by Adam Kinzinger, Malcolm Nance

It’s the Spanish American War thing all over again. The reporting was pretty much all fake, but it sold a lot of papers.

Ex-House ‘Russiagate’ investigator Kash Patel sues Politico over impeachment lies

Evil Medicine

The Worst Prison Is the One You Don’t Know You’re In

Government Isn’t the Victim; It’s the Perpetrator

Why a Flat Tax Will Never Get Off the Ground

A flat tax would destroy the accounting industry. That seems to be the bottom line.

Irreconcilable differences but no divorce?

Can We Call It an Invasion Now?

The War on Humor

Rooting Out Election Corruption

Tweety Tweets:

This is a big deal. The lawsuit is still alive and the Arizona Supreme Court more or less told the lower court that their rationale for their ruling was not correct.

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1638642792242061313

Catturd ™

@catturd2

Democrat policies 101 …
1) Create a problem that doesn’t exist like GLObAl WaRMinG.
2) Use fake scientists, fake news, fake data to support your hoax.
3) Use over-the-top fear tactics to scare people into believing it (the earth is going end in 12 years and all the cities will be underwater in 5 years, etc – if we don’t act NOW!)
4) Use your fake news propagandists to amplify the fear.
5) Use your fake fact checkers on the Left owned social media platforms to ban anyone who tells the truth.
6) Demonize the truth tellers.
7) Rake in trillions on the hoax that doesn’t exist – so you and your friends can get filthy rich and gain power. (you don’t have to spend a dime on the hoax because it doesn’t exist.)
8) Rinse and repeat on the next “end-of-the-world” made-up fake crisis.

8:05 AM · Mar 23, 2023

Another example of lampoon the idea in the name of comedy so that the sheep will not believe that he’s actually telling the truth.

I looked it up. This is a study from 2012. Could it be that all these depression issues in women resulting in wanting to be a man might stem from going vegan or vegetarian? It’s worth considering as a contributing factor, IMO.

https://twitter.com/AnthonyDeWitt7/status/1638746686322520064
https://twitter.com/chrisabraham/status/1638974057164177408

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1639005201402085378

MEME STASH:

Buh-bye!

https://twitter.com/DarwinAwards_/status/1638994804662231040
https://twitter.com/puppiesDoglover/status/1638897125512871937
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1638650065420951552

No wonder the occult has adopted them.

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Author note: Wisdom is one of the Old Testament books not included in Bibles following Martin Luther’s version of it.

WISDOM 2:1, 12-22

1For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end, and no one has been known to return from Hades. 12“Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. 13He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. 14He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; 15the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. 16We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. 17Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; 18for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. 19Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. 20Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.” 21Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them, 22and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hope for the wages of holiness, nor discern the prize for blameless souls;

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230323

Welcome to the daily where the $#!+ show never seems to end.

So, about the indictment of President Trump:

https://twitter.com/AnnaApp91838450/status/1638514665914351617

Bragg Hit the Brakes – Manhattan Grand Jury Told to Take Day Off, Delaying Any Indictment of President Trump

I actually agree with this assessment:

I didn’t think it was going to happen from the beginning. And, anyway:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638639843411410950

Bombshell 2018 Letter From Cohen Attorney to FEC *SHOULD* Collapse Pretext of Alvin Bragg Nonsense Case Against Donald Trump

Okay, the link list:

Badlands New Brief – March 22, 2023

Did Donald Trump break the Koch machine for good?

Democrats see downside in Trump’s N.Y. case

One of the reasons it’s probably over.

How Donald Trump’s team wants to capitalize on his arrest, indictment 

There’s no such thing as bad publicity when you’re Donald Trump.

Spies tell Page Six that The Donald is in “high spirits” in advance of his possible arrest and indictment this week.

Sources even say Trump wants his potential arrest to be a high-profile affair for maximum exposure.

Anyone who has studied 300 level and above PR knows there’s no such thing as truly bad publicity. Thanks to OJ Simpson and a car chase Ford got LOTS of free publicity one evening and sales went up without them spending a dime.

The U.S. Government Is Building A Vast Surveillance And Speech Suppression Web Around Every American

FAUCI: ‘We Need To Break’ Will Of ‘Republicans,’ Make Them Get Vaxxed

Is new strain of paranoid leftism making American teens, young adults sick?

Tens of millions of American teenagers are miserable. Teenage girls, according to a recent CDC report, published on Feb. 13, are particularly miserable. 

Roughly 60% of U.S. teen girls have persistent feelings of sadness and despair — double the rate of boys. Close to three million teenage girls contemplated suicide in 2021, according to the extensive report. 

The social isolation imposed by harshly restrictive COVID-19 mitigation strategies certainly made things worse, but rates of teen depression were rising long before the pandemic brought the country to a screeching halt.

Unrealistic expectations in a lot of ways will do this also.

Poll: Plurality of Republicans Do Not Believe Ukraine Is ‘Vital’ U.S. Interest

‘They don’t respect women’: Fox News producer says she was set up in Dominion case

SCOTUS Nullifies Lower Court Ruling Giving Teen The Right To Seek An Abortion Without Parental Notification

BREAKING: Trump SLAMS globalist establishment for supporting endless wars

There Are Compelling Pragmatic Considerations Behind Supporting Trump Or DeSantis

There are no reasons to support DeSantis at this juncture.

Philosophy Professor: ‘Don’t go to College! Become an Electrician.’

Union trades do provide good income.

Good news sucks for climate cultists

There’s a war against happiness.  Climate alarmists bury good news and exaggerate bad news.  They have made up their minds to be miserable, and they’re determined to take the rest of us down with them.

For example, have you heard that over the past 30 years, there has been a 14-percent increase in the Earth’s green vegetation?  Deserts are getting smaller, and forests are getting lusher.  That gain even has a name: “Earth Greening.”  Not surprisingly, 70 percent of it stems from the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere!  Zaichun Zhu, one of the scientists who measured the greening, says it’s equivalent to adding a new continent of green vegetation twice the size of the mainland United States.

The benefits of the increased vegetation are widespread: “It means more food for insects and deer, for elephants and mice, for fish and whales.  It means higher yields for farmers; the effect has probably added about $3 trillion to farm incomes over the past 30 years, so less land is needed to feed the human population and more can be spared for wildlife instead.”  We’ve given a raise to all commercial farmers around the world.  Increased supply eventually results in reduced prices.

Where is the GOP united front opposing Bragg’s politicization of the justice system?

The Right Doesn’t Have to Agree on Everything—Only on Fighting the Left

History Unremembered

Play the Game

Have you ever noticed the conservative establishment is always compromised in the same way?

The Unraveling of the U.S. News College Rankings

They’ve always been a joke. The size of a school’s endowment is one of the ranking factors.

Beyond George: Other Soros family members helped push Manhattan DA Bragg into power

The Decade We All Became Slaves

COVID States Project Gives New Hope to Unvaccinated

Mexican President AMLO Hits Biden Over Likely Arrest of Trump, While Pushing Back Against Dangerous Cartel Narrative

TWEETS:

Reminder:

https://twitter.com/ReOpenChris/status/1638254567396634628
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1638187389058424834

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638341530648825857
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638322387958616065
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638585485554589724

MEMES:

That’s actually titled “Global Stupidity.”

https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1638325793569882117
https://twitter.com/AnimalNoContext/status/1638296409966346251

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EXODUS 32:7-14

7And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves; 8they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'” 9And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people; 10now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I will make a great nation.” 11But Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, “O LORD, why does thy wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians say, `With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self, and didst say to them, `I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.'” 14And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

PSALMS 106:19-23

19They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image. 20They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass. 21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, 22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea. 23Therefore he said he would destroy them — had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

JOHN 5:31-47

31If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true; 32there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true. 33You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved. 35He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me. 37And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen; 38and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent. 39You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; 40yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. 41I do not receive glory from men. 42But I know that you have not the love of God within you. 43I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? 45Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope. 46If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. 47But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

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SATIRE!

Fox News Ratings Plunge After Hiring Non-Blonde Anchor With No Cleavage