DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230303

BRIGHT AND RAINY

INGREDIENTS

  • 1.5 oz gin
  • 0.5 oz peach schnapps
  • 0.25 oz lime juice
  • 3 oz ginger beer/ginger ale

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Stir all ingredients over ice in a rocks glass. Enjoy!

The end of the week. I’m ready.

Belarus President Lukashenko Visits Chairman Xi, Affirms Support for China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

You would think that Lukashenko violated a war commandment from NATO, the World Economic Forum and the Western alliance when you read the apoplexy from the media describing how he stood next to Chairman Xi during his Chinese leader’s first comments in public about China’s peace proposal.

When you look at the big picture, you realize how strongly the western alliance needs to maintain a NATO expanded war with Russia as the only possible path forward. Anyone like Viktor Orban (Hungary) or Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus) who propose anything, except expanded war with Russia, are immediately attacked by the entire apparatus of western media.

It’s a remarkable dynamic to watch.

Badlands News Brief – March 2, 2023

At G20 meeting, India’s Modi says ‘global governance has failed’

A Subtle Way for Establishment Republicans to Sabotage Trump

The Death of Expertise

I’ve long despised the “expert” culture. May it be cremated so as to never rise again.

Blame the Science

More vaccines -> higher infant mortality

Why are young liberals so depressed?

Unmet unrealistic expectations. Happens to every generation.

Leftist Billionaires: The True Beneficiaries of Biden’s “Green Economy”

Do We Have a Contract With the Federal Reserve?

Inside the James O’Keefe ouster at Project Veritas

This all got blown out of proportion. Still, both sides left out a few points.

The Rise of the Right-Wing Peacenik

‘I realized that my own side was led by a bunch of incompetents and ideologues who had taken our country down a path of destruction. And for what?’

We won’t be smoking weed, and looking for free love, but war better have purpose above and beyond enriching the Military Industrial Complex.

Trump Proves The Establishment Wrong Again As He Surges In Another Major Poll

Asymmetric Linguistic Trend Analysis

Twitter File Release #17 – Matt Taibbi Outlines Obama’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) Labeling U.S. Accounts as “Foreign Actors” to Promote Media Narrative

Been there. Done that. Not doing it again.

Widespread public distrust in media baffles mainstream pundits

Disinformation Inc: Congress receives classified briefing on conservative blacklist group

BREAKING: Unsanctioned Russian Billionaires Discussed ‘Favors’ With Then VP-Biden After Going Property Shopping With Hunter

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1631121343482859520

I wish the COVID news wasn’t so morbidly depressing.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1631092444115742725
https://twitter.com/SantaSurfing/status/1631194089667567621

Anybody hear anything about this?

And counting, I’m afraid.

Will S’mores taste the same if we use Ghiardelli?

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1631361952801857537

We don’t know what we don’t know. It’s that simple.

Twitter files #17 dropped. It’s not the Fauci files, but it is interesting. The thread is broken on Twitter itself, so this starts in the middle.

https://twitter.com/nada88564211/status/1631434982366298112
https://twitter.com/ronin19217435/status/1631234821828616194

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1631100957206478849
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1631116952113491968

MEME STASH:

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1631106911566274560

https://youtu.be/ZJtQ4NwsA-g

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

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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.

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EZEKIEL 18:21-28

21“But if a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness which he has done he shall live. 23Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? 24But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die. 25“Yet you say, `The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just? 26When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die for it; for the iniquity which he has committed he shall die. 27Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his life. 28Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

PSALMS 130:1-8

1Out of the depths I cry to thee, O LORD! 2Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! 3If thou, O LORD, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? 4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. 5I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 6my soul waits for the LORD more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. 7O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plenteous redemption. 8And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

MATTHEW 5:20-26

20For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 21“You have heard that it was said to the men of old, `You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.’ 22But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, `You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire. 23So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison; 26truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!