It’s Thursday already? Where does the time go?
Starting with Sundance:
The Legislative Branch’s Biggest Leaker of Classified Intelligence, Rails Against Small Fry Ability to Leak Classified Pentagon Intelligence
The Bloom Is Off The Ruse – President Trump Gains Ten More Florida Republican Congressional Endorsements, DeSantis Has One – Rep Greg Steube Explains Why
NIH and CDC Directors TestiLie to Congress
Two-Tiered Justice, IRS Supervisor Says Political Intervention Taking Place to Protect Hunter Biden – Requests Whistleblower Protection
Everything else:
Stating the Obvious.
Badlands News Brief – April 19, 2023
Not seen on the “news” programming:
Massive Protest Sees Demonstrators Call for Czech Government’s Resignation
Hate the smell of BO? You might be xenophobic: Bizarre study finds people who are sensitive to disgusting smells are more likely to have negative attitudes towards migrants
Who thinks up this stuff? The worst smelling people I’ve encountered were not immigrants, legal or otherwise.
The real scandal behind the Pentagon leak
China Reveals What It Says to Be True Purpose of ‘Overseas Police Stations’
Like any of us are going to believe them.
Don’t cancel Picasso
Yes, Picasso was a genius. He painted what the salon set in Paris would buy. He knew it was junk, but he produced it anyway. Genius about making money.
Don’t play an instrument? No problem! Even listening to music prevents dementia
A More Than Material Matter
Riley Gaines shreds Biden promise to veto bill protecting women’s sports: ‘Catering to a radical minority’
Meet The Shadowy Group That Ran The Federal Government’s Censorship Scheme
You Can’t Just Move Away from it
The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh’s Twitter Was Just ‘Bored’
Ri-i-i-i-i-ght.
Ron Paul: Will the End of the Petrodollar End the U.S. Empire?
TWEETS:
Yes, he bang banged Fang Fang.
MEMES:
I’ve been listening to WAY too much First Wave.
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ACTS 5:27-33
27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, 28saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” 29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. 30The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. 31God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 32And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.” 33When they heard this they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
PSALMS 34:2, 9, 17-20
1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him! 16The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. 19Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
JOHN 3:31-36
31He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all. 32He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony; 33he who receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. 34For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for it is not by measure that he gives the Spirit; 35the Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.
Arguably the best thing he ever wrote.
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Time to put the shoe on their other foot.
This won’t as much get a peep in the Fake News, doesn’t fit their narrative.
Yup. But I think that this case, and the other in North Carolina, need to be “shot back” at the Kansas City case at every opportunity.
This one they’ll (politicians) use to go after g*ns, even though there throwing one of there own under the bus.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/6-year-old-girl-parents-shot-after-basketball-rolls-into-mans-north-carolina-yard/
Thank you, DePat, for carrying us through the latter part of the week —
— with panache!
— and style!!!
…..and a license plate…..
DUH, it is Thursday.
Easy to track the day, starting the day at QTree. Simpleton here.
As always, good sir, thank you.
Excellent!!!
Garrison even got the MK eyes right!
Kari Lake:
Love Kari. Despise Morning Joke and Handler.
How rude of Mika to say those things to Kari. I wish they would have her on their program.
She’s definitely threatened by Kari.
Kari is never at a loss for words and can win probably any debate. I don’t think there’s a chance of their inviting her on, much as I’d like to see it.
Exactly. Not gonna happen. The whole reason for Mika and Joe is to control the narrative.
Yeah, good. 😎👍‼️
As I write that, I’m thinking our side WANTS people to have the courage to call out liars to their faces (Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi, Biden…the list is endless). The difference is that a lot of Dems really are liars, while Kari Lake is not.
YUP. We need to confront these creeps DIRECTLY.
Mika would not be able to handle Kari. Kari would show off Mika’s true IQ below 100.
Yup it’s pretty obvious who wears the pants in that relationship.
Morning Cryptocommunism controls Morning Chumphood.
Kari is much prettier than Mika.
Kari doesn’t think about such things, but Mika knows it’s true, and it eats her up inside with envy.
This makes Mika mean to Kari.
AND, fundamentally, Mika is a BITCH. 24/7, lying, self absorbed bitch.
You give her too much credit!
LOL!!!
Bingo 😂
Mika looks as cheep as she is. Who walks around at an airport with their rope ?
“SIC’CUM, BOY!”
Excellent. Refusing KlauSS’s offer of the Order of the Hammer, Sickle, Swastika and Red Stars with Poison Ivy Clusters.
The “WEF” label isn’t helping him with MAGA voters either. I hope he is as patriotic as he seems. He could be an effective leader going forward.
If true I wonder if anyone else has suffered that kind of conscription but not spoken out about it.
Hope he gets big money off them.
To avoid possible confusion that should read..
Hope he wins big money off them.
No confusion now. 🙂
Believe what you see them do not what you hear them say. Deception is a cultivated tactic. It is designed to go unnoticed.
I think that it’s part of the WEF scheme.
Don’t think it’s ever a good idea to attend WEF stuff.
AND it makes me question our side’s automatic dismissal of anyone labeled as a “Young Global Leader.”
In the PAST, before WEF was outed as a bad guy, nobody had any reason to decline the label. But I am highly suspect of ANYBODY who made the trip to Davos, because of the risk of having been subjected to individual advanced MK techniques.
Ivanka is a great example. Not sure if she went to Davos, and I know she loves and supports her father, but her knee-jerk feminism, and her apparent refusal to accept that there even MIGHT HAVE BEEN a stolen election, make me think that she is – no matter what – “on the team”.
Thus, I *still* give automatic side-eye to anybody who got the “award” and didn’t reject it outright.
Did Tulsi Gabbard go there and make a speech? Did she stay in provided accommodations? How long was she there? I have questions. And I will retain suspicions until those are answered.
Makes sense to me!
This one hits a leeeeettle close to home….
LOL!!!
Yeah I had to make a concerted effort to bookmark em and organize the bookmarks…and I did it in “split browser” so basically the VMs that surf the web don’t have direct access to bookmarks (another VM lets me look them up and push the URLs to the browser VM).
One thing a lot of hackers LOVE to find out is what you have either bookmarked or open.
I partially mitigate this by having a completely separate computer (located in another room) dedicated only to online banking. But, yes, it deserves more attention than I give it.
I won’t even DO online banking though not because I remain afraid of MY machine being hacked, but rather of theirs having their passwords stolen. Prime target and there have been plenty of “financial institutions” having that happen to them.
I use RSA fobs for online banking. That’s the little keychain guys that have six digit “random” numbers that change every 15 seconds or so. Costs about $25-$50 to set up per financial institution. It is not well-advertised that they are available for individuals (I knew about them from being a Corporate Controller). Much better than 2FA through an insecure cellphone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_SecurID
If I *did* do online banking you can bet I’d have a dedicated qube for it.
One whose browser start command included the bank’s website, and whose firewall restricted anything but that.
It would not be connected to the bookmark machine. (This VM I am using right now isn’t, either.) And it also wouldn’t have my bank password installed; I’d have to type it in every time.
Store passwords in a browser?!?!? I may have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night…..
Uh, if I wasn’t clear…I *don’t* do that.
However, a browser on a qube that never visits but that one site, I could at least imagine without total panic storing the password on it. But I won’t.
That’s funny. First read further up AND real life, reality.
🤣
Same at my house.
I routinely go through and close a lot of open tabs.
I had to send the link to hubby! Not that anyone is counting all the open tabs or anything. It’s a gift & sign of a fertile mind 😉
Does that “fertile” mean “well-stocked with manure”?
chez moi clearly yes 😉
& before hubby’s snip snip it also meant he’d look at me & I’d get pregnant! 😂
Nebraska Legislature passes permitless concealed carry bill
https://www.klkntv.com/nebraska-legislature-passes-permitless-concealed-carry-bill/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_Channel8ABC
Because nobody has to get PERMISSION to exercise a RIGHT.
THIS!!!
At least some times, the “allow” only applies to state residents. They continue to honor out of state permits for others.
Someone put forth a bill to do that here in Colorado. it literally left ALL of the concealed carry permit language in place…then added one paragraph exempting almost everyone. How about just striking all that fucking language, assholes, and debloat the Colorado Revised Statues?
Even better, how about following the Constitution and stating that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, while further clarifying that all current state laws infringing such right shall be null and void and that no state resources shall be used to assist any other entities from infringing such right.
Well, yes…there’s that!
Actually many western state constitutions have even stronger language than the 2A: to the effect that the right shall not be called into question.
But then they say, however this won’t be construed to protect the practice of concealed carry . In other words, the state constitution protects OPEN carry but not concealed carry. Except in Denver, which blatantly bans OC and the state courts won’t do anything about it.
“But then they say, however this won’t be construed to protect the practice of concealed carry . In other words, the state constitution protects OPEN carry but not concealed carry.”
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Which again makes little sense.
The firearms instructors I’m aware of usually argue against open carry in most circumstances, primarily because it makes that person a target.
Essentially, open carry is more dangerous — for everyone — than concealed carry.
If a bad guy is going to commit a crime, the first person he’s going to shoot is anybody who might be able to stop him, and that means the guy wearing a gun visible on his hip.
Second, considering all the lunatics and drug-addled zombies who are no longer cared for in mental institutions, having a firearm in plain sight is also a firearm that some crazy person might try to grab.
Open carry also makes the kind of people who usually oppose the exercise of gun rights ‘uncomfortable’, and considering most state legislatures have liberal weenies outnumbering Constitutional conservatives by a wide margin, it’s strange that they’re not ‘sensitive’ to that sort of ‘discomfort’.
I’m sure there are other reasons, all of which make it curious that any state would favor open carry over concealed carry.
Personally, I favor “carry”, open or concealed.
“Carry” being optimal.
Let’s just say I keep my concealed carry permit active. I agree with the instructors and I live next door to a former Army Ranger/law enforcement weapons instructor who agrees and does likewise.
I am not against open carry, just find that it may make a person who does so a target. I see both sides of the issue.
I like making leftists uncomfortable no matter the situation. They need to completely understand they will not be tolerated.
That caveat is a historical relic. Open Carry used to be customary and common; anyone pretending to be unarmed but concealing was assumed to be up to no good.
Now of course the situation is reversed and people react poorly to open carry because even though legal, it’s very uncommon.
Clearly the proper thing to do is to consider both protected as rights…but that’s not what we have.
Absolutely…like Camden County, MO (iirc) 2nd Amendment finger in the ATF’s eye!
“At least some times, the “allow” only applies to state residents. They continue to honor out of state permits for others.”
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That seems inconsistent and silly.
If other states follow the wisdom of CO, then people from other states won’t have permits from their state of residence either, so CO would be seeking from residents of others states a permit which CO itself has deemed unnecessary.
It wasn’t Colorado I was thinking of, but rather Wyoming, which is marked as a “constitutional carry” state but you have to be a Wyomingite.
Colorado isn’t even that good.
I have never applied for a CCW permit but since every state has a mechanism (one way or another) for application and reciprocity with other states. As I was thinking about that topic I speculated why there would be individual restrictions on a state level for a right guaranteed at the federal level. Does anyone care to offer their opinion on why that might be?
Originally the BOR was conceived of as only applying to the Federal government. (A couple of states hung on to their established churches for instance.) Only after the passed of the 14th amendment did we start seeing the legal doctrine that the bill of rights could be “incorporated” at the state level but that has been done piecemeal and the SCOTUS only did this for the 2A fairly recently. So as understood before, a state constitutional RKBA statement was in no way redundant; it prevented the state from passing restrictions that they wre allowed to pass even if the Federal government could not. (Not that it makes any difference if people ignore it, anyway.)
Just so I am clear on what you said: In the original understanding of the BOR the rights recognized by the federal government were not binding at the state level. Therefore the Constitutional liberties were only mandated between the citizen and the federal government and could be legally ignored at any other government level unless the other government entity expressly tied itself to the BOR. Is that about right?
That is my understanding. Unless the Constitution said “No state shall…” a prohibition applied only to the Feds.
Until the Fourteenth.
Yep.
Worth a follow.
Found this in a link from a link from a link……
https://thespectator.com/topic/end-silicon-valley-dream-big-tech-california-svb-meta/
Had no idea we had one of these. Guess Biden has all bases covered then.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-black-astronaut-reads-anti-white-poem-to-prep-for-mission/
That’s very touching that his favorite poem is ‘Whitey on the Moon‘.
Apparently he’s not as big a fan of the poem about the diversity hire who didn’t make it to the moon, titled ‘Blackie in the Vacuum‘.
I love Gil.
MADE MY DAY!
Only thing missing is a good’ol boy, on a couch, on the porch, drinking a Coors. 
Robot lawn mower. Dog getting a ride.
Shhhhhhh! 😉
Yeah really and the guy making the video thinks it’s real……
Wasn’t there just a discussion about I Q’s the other day?
32-Year-Old Psychologist Dies From “Unintended” Complications of the Unsafe & Ineffective Covid “Vaccine”
35-Year-Old Single Mother Subject to Biden “Vaccine” Mandate Dies Suddenly
Yes I heard that on the radio and immediately picked up the “unintended complication”.
Of course the intended complications are meant to come out over an extended time period and be masked as known ailments.
The AstraZeneca and the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 “vaccines” use viral vector technology, as compared to the mRNA-based technology used in the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna COVID-19 “vaccines.” The 32-year-old psychologist died after getting “vaccinated” with the AstraZenca product.
However, IMO, here’s the thing that likely ties these COVID-19 technology platforms together (and, including the technology used in the Novavax COVID-19 “vaccine”) — the PRRARSV “backdoor key” sequence that Yours Truly believes was inserted into the genomic code of the original Wuhan Hu1 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) virus.
In addition, the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 “vaccine” contains ethanol and HBCD (a “brominated flame retardant” used in making upholstered furniture and thermal insulation.)
The Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers for the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 “vaccine” specifically warns (in a Black Letter Warning statement at the top of the document) about the potential for Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia Syndrome occurring after “vaccination” with the product.
http://www.fda.gov/media/146304/download
Revised March 13, 2023
The Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 “vaccine” also warns about the potential for Thrombocytopenia and “coagulation disorders.”
http://www.ema.europa.eu/documents/product-information/covid-19-vaccine-product-information-approved/chmp-29-january-2021-pending-endorsement_en.pdf
Then I would think those providers would have a duty to let their patients know.
Deep Fake or Newsome Time?
https://rumble.com/v2jbyj8-shock-cbs-covers-biden-crime-familys-newest-scandal.html
Everyone in the USA knows BiteMe and his Crime Family ARE Active Criminals.
Walking Free. No One In Authority Cares.
Pardons at the ready.
Some politicians making statements of their investigations are meaningless.
Make the damn information, details, statements, transactions public.
When Seal’s first album showed up, everyone was amazed that this “kid” could put out such refined work.
Moving forward to the present, he talks about his influences. He wasn’t a “kid” — he had listened and learned….
….and today is gentleman enough to generously share….
Had no idea record stores still exist today. Tower Records still out there?
Tower records is long gone.
Tower Records lives on! 😁
https://towerrecords.com/collections/vinyl
If you call that living….
Thoroughly enjoyable–TY for sharing!
Biden needs a few dozen of these.
When you’ve only got one shot, it’s hard to do better than that! 😂
Also impressive, the sloth-like reflexes of Mini Macron’s security detail.
Eggs are expensive, but that definitely qualified as highest and best use case 👍
Macron would be better off swappin’ his security detail for the Japanese guys.
Starbucks launches a joint venture with pay toilets…..
https://spectator.org/starbucks-does-it-again-with-oleato/
Verse of the Day for Thursday, April 20, 2023
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“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
Matthew 10:16 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
Amen! We are due date +2 now waiting for grandbaby #2 🙂
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-41823-dark-clouds-roll-in
When the US Army in Korea finally broke out of the Pusan Perimeter and began to advance north they would often come across dead North Korean soldiers that had been chained to their machine guns.
Interesting. Did not know that.
So the people who chained them to the machine guns, how did those people retreat, without being shot by the people they just chained to the machine guns?
Can only imagine that these machine guns would appear to have had been hard emplaced and any normal use of a machine gun incorporates hard stops/limits to make sure you don’t fire beyond the bounds set. Mostly used for night fire.
The book only described that the NK had to be killed in place as they were chained to their guns.
Send in the Abrams, Leopards… What Could Go Wrong.
And further on in that article it explains why the armed forces in Sudan were fighting each other, I never could understand what the heck was going on there.
Now it’s obvious, one sides globo, the other is not.
WWII the NKVD would station people behind the front lines and shoot anyone who tried to retreat.
So did the Union Army and Southern Army, and all the Armies that fought in say the Napoleonic Wars and all the way back to swords shields and spears time. Not all but many used those tactics.
Example you were immediately flogged or in some cases killed for simply flinching when you saw a cannon ball about to stream into your little tight square of men on the battle field. The theory born of experience being that flinching could set off panic in the ranks and such was not tolerated. How well these kinds of tactics were maintained would likely depend upon how well a unit could maintain discipline in the face of great adversity. These are coercive measures of motivation and are not considered to be the best method of motivating troops but often used in large armies where the commander of the army can view his troops in battle. The more units had to spread out across terrain and be fielded by lesser commanders the more other methods of motivation were relied upon.
You’d of course remember Roman’s having to decimate their troops in the case of a unit loosing a fight.
The study of principles of motivation have long been a subject of study for generals, princes, kings and such since time immemorial, and everything under the sun has been tried at one time or another.
I didn’t know about the canons and muskets era punishments, but it does sound like some (not all) of the cases you described were well after the battle.
In the particular case of the NKVD, they didn’t bother court martialing you; if you were running towards them they shot you.
The one about the canon balls were during the battle.
It was important to keep the formation tight, as the calvary(sic?) was coming in right behind the canon balls and would tear up a unit that could not maintain it’s square.
Also very critical with pike formations.
(Yes I caught where you said immediately; I was talking the more general case.)
If I’m a Ukrainian soldier, and I hear about ONE instance of that, Zelensky becomes the only target.
Similar questions have crossed my mind. All these men being press ganged off the streets, why don’t they wait till things get noisy then shoot the officers and nco’s prior to surrendering.
‘Jaw dropping:’ Now 2nd member of Congress warns of Biden ‘prostitution’
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‘I just saw evidence of human trafficking
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https://www.wnd.com/2023/04/jaw-dropping-now-2nd-member-congress-warns-biden-prostitution/
As I have said before, any of these criminals could be caught on video raping a child, and who would arrest them?
Suppose Brandon put his hand inside a little girl’s blouse, or pants, while he was sniffing her hair and licking her ear, like he always does?
Who would intervene?
Who would put their hands on him?
Who would prosecute him?
Nobody.
That’s who our police protect.
That’s who our Secret Service protects.
That’s who our military protects.
Sad Truths.
“A North Carolina 6-year-old and her parents were shot Tuesday night by an angry neighbor who fired at them after a basketball rolled into his yard, a report said.
Kinsley White was wounded along with her mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, and father, William White, when a gunman opened fire around 8 p.m. in Gaston County after he became enraged about the bouncing ball, according to WSOC-TV.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/6-year-old-girl-parents-shot-after-basketball-rolls-into-mans-north-carolina-yard/
Victims:
Not an old white guy shooting them:
“He’s been charged with four counts of first-degree attempted murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon, Gaston County police said.”
oh a felon you say? Ran off you say? Huh.
IsBiden goin to invite them to the White House?
Scott Adams has successfully made himself a meme of great intelligence, that IMO even has the respect of smart and decent black people, who know the truth, and respect it.
Article number 2 today. Its ridiculous.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/home-depot-guard-blake-mohs-fatally-shot-by-would-be-thief/
Yup. REALITY.
IF ONLY to deprive the CRUMPS of ammunition, good people need to be maximally informed about the laws of self-defense, so that they don’t shoot until they’re legally protected.
Indeed. There are more disparaging articles about the old guy shooting the kid today, but almost none on these 2.
Look at this:
Warp speed into crazy town! Talking about trump, q, and being a rayciss!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995587/Kansas-City-man-84-shot-black-16-year-old-Ralph-Yarl-QAnon-conspiracy-theorist.html
This needs to be shoved in Crump’s face at every turn.
This needs to be “linked back” at every mention of the Kansas City case.
Good idea.
Where’s Al Sharpton when he’s needed most?
Yup.
He was one of the first to be interviewed. Al doesn’t do street work anymore. He aims and deploys guys like Crump now.
Felon, WITH a gun? Existing LAWS make this IMPOSSIBLE, for a felon to have a gun.
Oh. Wait. Felons don’t care about laws.
What laws?
And many German’s in other countries volunteered happily. Some people are so misguided.
Concerning Chinese who can they trust never FBI . They are at the mercy of CCP spies or they have to take the law in their own hands.
A Technocratic Superclass of Earth Saviors seek to manage every aspect of our lives « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
I welcome our new overlords. Can’t be any worse than the current group of thugs.
Stating the obvious here but if we scratch the surface and we’ll find they want to depopulate the world.
Can’t be said enough, IMO.
Some days I am just speechless. I can not believe what is happening in the world right now. I have been a RATIONAL REALIST my whole life. Now I believe in demonic possession and the return to society of ancient, malevolent entities, AKA gods (I don’t like to call them gods, as I think it lends them too much legitimacy, but oh well).
It’s stuff like this that convinces me:
“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is using a women’s health grant to provide funding for a study that is actively recruiting 18-year-olds to experiment with the “unknown” cardiovascular side effects of removing young males’ testicles.
According to Fox News, the study is seeking 18-year-old men who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the mental illness which leads individuals to believe that they are somehow the “wrong” gender.” The experiment will involve 30 young men who are interested in undergoing the orchiectomy procedure, also known as “surgical castration.””
https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/20/nih-funding-an-experiment-to-remove-18-year-olds-testicles/
To reiterate, OUR GOVERNMENT is funding a study to CREATE EUNUCHS.
God help us, because nothing else can.
On another note, maybe these morons should read “Cry To Heaven” by Anne Rice. It’s a great novel about the 18th century Italian castrati. It’s very sad.
Yup. This is pretty shocking. The American elite, featuring their legion of Mengeles, are scumbags of the “highest” order.
What doctor does this? Psychopaths.
A grant like that would likely have to go through many hoops before authorization…all those opportunities for someone to say no, hell no.
First off they’re using a womans health grant for a study on men. Second, they don’t give a flying flip about side effects. They deliriously want to do the surgery and watch these maladjusted men like lab rats. They get off on it I think
I think they do, too.
“Power trip” is definitely a factor.
They should experiment with pedos and castrate them.
Society is going backwards instead forward lesson learned from the past.
Agreed.
This has long been a dream of mine. Maybe the Supreme Court, where it will certainly end up, will uphold it:
“On Tuesday, the Florida State Legislature passed a bill that would enact the death penalty for those who are convicted of sexually abusing children.
As the New York Post reports, the bipartisan bill passed in the Florida State Senate by a margin of 34 to 5 on Tuesday night, after previously passing in the Florida House of Representatives by a 95 to 14 margin last week. The bill would apply to anyone who is convicted of abusing a child below the age of 12, and would also allow the death penalty to be handed down by a jury vote of at least 8 to 4, rather than a unanimous jury vote as previously required.
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) is expected to sign the bill into law.”
https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/20/florida-passes-bill-enacting-death-penalty-for-sexual-abusers-of-children/
I still won’t vote for Wind Sock for President, however.
I have mixed feelings, because theoretically it might cause abducting child abusers to kill their victims automatically, but in most cases they already do anyway.
I suspect that overall this change will do more good than harm, so YES.
I am not for killing castrating yes. Put them into the experiments and cut their testicles off. I know it might be a crueler punishment than death.
I suppose this would only apply to such crimes committed in Florida. I wonder if it would apply to any of the “untouchable” higher-ups who always escape justice (and still might; just wondering if this might give them pause).
No mercy because they show no mercy to the children.
I agree. And as someone who has lived with the results of the abuse all of my life, I know what they take from them.
So sorry but also thankful for the person that God shaped you to be even through that trauma & pain. You inspire me!
Thanks, Valerie.
YW
I am so sorry 😞 kno you are loved❤️
Thank you, singing.
I now have the family I chose, rather than what I was born with. And great friends!
You are a lucky lady 🙂
🙂
The Daily Chart: The Most Deceptive Chart Ever | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
Wow! They did that? Devils is in the details distorting the picture.
That’s an impressive lie!
The U.N.’s flagship Green Climate Fund (GCF) will be $1 billion richer from Thursday after President Joe Biden gifts it a cash donation courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.
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Biden Gifts $1 Billion to U.N.’s Flagship Green Climate Fund (breitbart.com)
Money Laundering Going Warp Speed.
Raise a Hallelujah-Bethel Music-Lyrics
Amadeo (Still My God) by Ryan Stevenson [Lyric Video]
LYRICS:
[Verse 1]
Life can take our breath away
Tragedy can leave a wake
A broken heart won’t ever beat the same
Pain can stop us in our tracks
Losing what we can’t get back
Shaking the foundations of our faith
[Pre-Chorus]
No matter whats in my way
No matter the battles I face
[Chorus]
You are still my God
You’re still my rock
My only hope Lord
You’re all I’ve got
In every valley or mountaintop
I’ll say hallelujah
You’re still my God
You’re still my God
[Verse 2]
The questions keep us in the fight
The answer’s never black or white
We may not know until the other side
But even in this in between
We fix our eyes on what’s unseen
The shadows never overcome the light
No matter whats in my way
I know that You won’t ever change
[Chorus]
You are still my God
You’re still my rock
My only hope Lord,
You’re all I’ve got
In every valley or mountaintop
I’ll say hallelujah
[Bridge]
You’re still my hope
You’re still my peace
You’re still my joy
You’re all I need
You’re still my strength
When I am weak
You’re still my God
I still believe
[Chorus]
You are still my God
You’re still my rock
My only hope Lord,
You’re all I’ve got
In every valley or mountaintop
I’ll say hallelujah
You’re still my hope
You’re still my peace
You’re still my joy
You’re all I need
You’re still my strength
When I am weak
You’re still my God
I still believe
▼ CREDITS ▼
LYRIC VIDEO BY: Landon Gingerich
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Landon Gingerich
Amedeo
Amedeo is an Italian given name meaning “lover of God”, “loves God”, or more correctly “for the love of God” and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus and the Spanish and Portuguese Amadeo.
How to say Amedeo in sign language?
Psalm 16:2 I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good besides You.”
Psalm 31:14 But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord, I say, “You are my God.”
God bles each and every one here and their loved ones abundantly .. ✝️
And thank you for everything.
God bless you W0lf and your family abundantly always
Not able to copy the sign language for Amedeo .. 🫢
God WON
Romans 8:31-39
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?
32 He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?
33 Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died, yea that is risen also again; who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress? or famine? or nakedness? or danger? or persecution? or the sword?
36 (As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)
37 But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.
38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yep! How could God not win. He made this universe and infinitely moar.
He’s the only one truly deserving of your Respect, Love and Obedience.
Amen 🙏🏼 🙂🤚
Thank you! And to you the same! May God bless you and yours abundantly!
Thank you very much .. 🙂🤚❤️
God Bless you too Nicki. Thank you for these encouragements & the building us up in the faith. 😇
Thank you DePat .. 🙂🤚❤️✝️❤️ …
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
… and thank you for the Bible verses .. ❤️
You can find them every day here.
Thank you 🙂🤚✝️❤️🤗
I have this bookmarked .. 😉👍❤️
❤️❤️❤️LIKE❤️❤️❤️.. very much ..
https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/what-this-irish-blessing-means-may-the-road-rise-up-to-meet-you.html
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/electric-vehicles-heavy-parking-garages-report
Well that sucks…now half them won’t be able to park! 😮😵💫🧐😏🤣😆🤣
… 😎🤚😂👍 …
^^^ Great news. Wish the worst for EVs. Yea, i am like that.
Fox News Parts Ways With Dan Bongino: ‘It’s A Sad Day’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2023/04/20/dan-bongino-out-at-fox-news/?sh=d6a2e114b59b
Paul Ryan strikes again, IMO.
Nothing like the old “couldn’t come to an agreement about the contract” thing to be rid of an employee who doesn’t “toe the company line”, is there?
Didn’t Mr. Bongino state that his being “vaccinated” was mistake?
Paul Ryan is a miserable pile of atoms ⚛️ … and a pud
Wait till it leaks that Paul Ryan is working “behind closed doors” on behalf of DeSantis (or maybe even RFK, Jr. [that Irish connection, ahem…].)
Awww nuts ☹️😖
I heard today that Bongino was planning to leave he told a friend tow weeks ago. Fox is no longer conservative.
Yes, he said they could not come to agreement and they parted ways. No specifics. I doubt it was money. More than likely conditions he or they wanted to tag onto the contract.
I do not think Bongino likes to be controlled who does ? I do not blame him
Yes, Bongino was vaccinated AND stated he regretted getting Injected.
Not coming to terms…
Betcha, Faux News wanted too much content control.
Dan said NOPE, NOT Faux News Stooge.
Never watched his show. Always listens.
https://bongino.com
Now Dan can get out of NYC and shrink their shrunken tax base even further.
Go to https://bongino.com and listen to EP 1995. He explains all. One click and your listening. You’ll see it first thing.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-first-space-launch (vid of launch and rapid unscheduled disassembly.
SpaceX’s 1st Starship launches on epic test flight, explodes in ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’By Tariq Malik, Mike Wall published about 4 hours ago
A fully stacked Starship left the ground today (April 20) for the first time ever — and it came to an explosive end high in the Texas sky.
Musk and his large following on the ground are excitedly pumped. Terming this a huge success.
I know that seems strange, but they’re happy that flaws have been revealed so they can be fixed. Engineers learn a lot from failures.
.. 😮👍😎🤚 …
Yep, don’t miss the vid to the end. They were ecstatic even after they lost the ship.
Wow
Apparently. The data is there’s. Following separation that did not work, the next step was put the ship in the Gulf. So I’m assuming they got 80 to 90% of what they were going for.
Oh, okay I understand now. Glad I’m not paying for that .. or am I .. ? … 🫢
Only if you own tesla stock. And I’d imagine you can still expect a big dividend later on down the road. Down 10% as I post, but still up 49% year to date.
I’ll do that when I win the lotto … heh heh …. 😎
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Facebook Users Have Until August To Apply For Piece Of $725 Million Privacy Settlement – The Daily Financial Trends (thefinancialtrends.com)
For anyone that had an account from 2007 to 2022 to include those still on Fake Book.
Tempted and easy to sign up, but the only data I’d need would be the from when to when and fears I’d have to reactivate the account to get it, something I’d be loath to do. 🤔
Anyway, feel free to have my share! 😁
Awesome 😎👍🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
The petty bastards clowned themselves to no avail…. 🤣😂🤣
a false alarm has a penalty right ?
Yep! If they catch the twerp. Meantime Biden and the Demonrats pay by confirming their grumpy mafiaoso status in front a crowd of Democrats.
This is like what sleazebag mayor Andrew Ginther did to Trump in Columbus. He used a fire department construction “safety” concern to turn an 8000 person rally into 1000 allowed in. The Dem machine repeatedly screwed Bernie, too.
Yup .. he’s a turd
Well Done!
Hard pass.
They want your grandkids to demand it, the schools to pitch it to kids, and Kapo to enforce it a “right” of children.
The things that are being developed far surpass any sci-fi themes.
” Authenticating” humans and then what ? Behavior modification? agh..the list is endless
We have to kill it NOW.
Steadfast NO. Zero discussion. Treasure your 2A.
Yeah .. they’re nukin-futz
Could that be considered as the mark of the beast … ? …
Revelation 13:16-17
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
… shudder … 🥺😖
All the many years since that was penned….and kaboom…it’s being prepared and it will happen. None of this crazy stuff is being walked back.
… 😔🤚 … 🙏🏼😉🙏🏼
A resounding …GFY to the maroons pushing this shit.
these are sick, psychopathic, totalitarian demons 😡
Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has not been seen publicly since 2013, when he suffered a severe brain injury during a skiing accident in Switzerland.
However, a German media outlet Die Aktuelle recently ran a front-page story claiming it had landed the first interview with the F1 legend.
“No meagre, nebulous half-sentences from friends. But answers from him! By Michael Schumacher, 54!” the magazine wrote. After the “interview” with Schumacher was published in the magazine, though, it was revealed that the article had been generated via artificial intelligence.
An AI program called charatcter.ai produced the article about Schumacher, and the piece included “quotes” about the legendary driver’s health status.
“I can with the help of my team actually stand by myself and even slowly walk a few steps,” one of the fake quotes read.
“My wife and my children were a blessing to me and without them I would not have managed it. Naturally they are also very sad, how it has all happened. They support me and are standing firmly at my side,” another false quote stated in the article.
I believe they are terming this as “AI Hallucinations”, where the AI actually believes the things it’s saying. People are very worried about this in that the delusions and lies can continue grow and AI’s reporting and solutions could reach genocidal heights.
Uh yeah, it all seems monumentally dangerous to me.
If I was getting the gist of the articles about this particular thing it sounded like the fact that it was AI generated wasn’t even documented in the publication until the family spoke out. It’s going to get to a point where we won’t know what is truth about anything.
The current AI’s reach vastly exceeds its grasp, and it’s NOT a good thing.
It would be even worse if the same reach did NOT exceed its grasp.
“ It’s going to get to a point where we won’t know what is truth about anything.”
Obviously this is Already the case w/ human reporting! 🙄
2 Thessalonians 2:11- ..
For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness …
Old Keith Obermanic appears to still be stuck on stupid. Hope all this shows up…
nope… so slides this in on the top.
Love it. You told that psychotic Trump-hater exactly what he needed to hear.
I think the Bragg indictment was BIDENWORLD’s way of pre-empting this.
As well as this : 2 days ago Hunter Biden (accused of child sex-trafficking) receiving an award from the founder of ‘National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’ John Walsh, whose son Adam Walsh was murdered in Florida in the 80s by Jeffrey Dahmer. 18 Apr 2023 15:31:17
It disappoints me. I always thought of John Walsh being an upright guy.
Money.
He’s been through a lot. Adam was decapitated and that fact was widely disseminated with zero regard for its effect on John.
Side note: How sure are you that Dahmer was involved? I seem to remember his ‘thing’ was young queers that he killed and ate. Never heard of anybody ever being tried for Adam’s murder.
All true, is my understanding. BUT…
Following, remains a bridge to far in a sane world;
Hunter receiving an award from the founder of ‘National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’ John Walsh
^^^ Unacceptable. Completely, Totally Unacceptable.
My guess. Walsh is looking for grants (money) or some other compensation.
Oh man…another C & P fail. No way dahmer killed Adam. Obviously I’m not reading my text copies well !!
… 😎👍‼️‼️‼️ …
Good job! Olbermann seems to exist in a state of apoplexy resulting from a flawed worldview.
Since when was “defaming the POTUS” an issue, anyway? It happens all the time.
Here’s what Nancy Mace said that triggered him. It doesn’t look good for the Bidens.
hats off to you Para ! Great reply
Q-Tree Skills. Pretty sure we all have them 😉
Boom for para! Well done.
Oh. More generalizations….talk.
NOW do something tangible. Hell, release details.
R-Cons are far to content, with their predictable hearings, outrage…delivering NOTHING.
The complaint against the initial prosecutor was bc she is a republican and they forced her to quit.
Now this murdering sob walks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11996531/Involuntary-manslaughter-charges-against-Alec-Baldwin-DROPPED.html
I can see the jaws dropping all around the world right now.
Well the sane one’s anyway, the not so sane will celebrate. As they go on mutilating children.
Didn’t see that one coming ?!
Wow.
I suspected once they got the prosecutor removed something was up. Just paying off whoever expected it. Did he offer up one of his kids to the cabal for it?
He’s such an assho, always was .
Even his brothers have issues w him.
And filming on the movie is resuming. I know a lot of money had been put into it, but I don’t see how they can do that.
From the article:
I’m imagining the riots that would be occurring if the victim had been black…
I’m with you on being astonished that they’re continuing the film. Honestly, movies aren’t usually blockbuster hits anymore . He’s a B star at best anyway so ….
Where have the liberal save-the-children people been ? Their hypocrisy makes me sick.
But it’s all okay. The US is stepping up and we’re going to do it the right way . If it happens to pollute the pristine waters again there’s tons of $$$ set aside for cleanup. Gotta have the phones and EVs. Must save the world.
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In Idaho, America’s first, and only, cobalt mine in decades is opening
October 8, 20225:02 AM ET
A U.S. cobalt mine, crucial to making electric vehicles, opens in Idaho : NPR
Paul Sperry:
I guess this gives me a green light to publish an article about him molesting 7 year old boys. It has clear errors but what the fuck.
Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Pope Francis and Hundreds More Lose Verification on Twitter
People who can easily afford the $8 aren’t coughing it up.
that was pretty much the flight path of the rocket but there may of been an extra loop. The loop apparently was planned and part of separation process. But I think it was supposed to separate on the first loop and thus the extra/s
[giggle]
JUST IN: Another Twitter Files Drops: Fauci and Big Pharma Coordination
Full thread with illustrations:
In my way of thinking he’s a murderer so being a habitual liar is easily part of his twisted psyche
Good point.
Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Pope Francis and Hundreds More Lose Verification on Twitter
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/hillary-clinton-bill-gates-pope-francis-and-hundreds-more-lose-verification-on-twitter/
I visited The Crows Nest yesterday, I like it and reading Sylvia, Grandmaintexas. It’s piling the family into the station wagon and driving out to the country.
I share a lot here with my sister and two of my brothers … so they’re happy to receive the awesome information you all bring here, thanks.
… like piling … 🙄😑🤚
JUST IN: House Republicans Pass Bill to Ban Transgender Athletes in Women and Girls’ Sports
Dems are waging a war on women.
Sad state of affairs when we have reached the point of needing to “legislate” such NONSENSE.
If women in sports had any BALLS (pun intended !), they would STOP trying to compete with men, and form their own leagues, with their own rules.
The problem would then solve itself.
This just SUCKS.
“My Pillow CEO and founder Mike Lindell has been ordered by an arbitration panel to pay $5 million to a software forensics expert who debunked claims that China interfered in the 2020 presidential election in a “Prove Mike Wrong” contest.
Lindell presented the challenge in 2021 at a South Dakota “cyber symposium,” in which he said he had data that would support his claims that China interfered in the election and he offered the prize to anyone who could demonstrate the data was not connected, The New York Times reported.”
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/my-pillows-mike-lindell-ordered-pay-5-million-software-expert-who-debunked?utm_source=justthenews.com&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=external-news-aggregators
Really bad news. It will be used to cast doubt on the fact that the election was stolen, as will the Fox/Dominion settlement. I wonder if Lindell can appeal or if there is any possibility of error.
OR Lindell isn’t really on our side and took a dive to discredit people who dispute the election.
That would be a shock. I don’t think it’s the case. I think he might be a little too trusting and optimistic.
I tend to agree with you…but any more I find I can’t trust anyone except the ugly dude in the mirror.
If you were a Christian you’d Know you can never (fully) trust the person in the mirror 😉
I can trust that he will act intending my best interests–he’s not trying to screw me over. I don’t expect the right/best decision to be made every time.
Paul the Apostle, I believe, discussed the flesh vs spirit battle that all Christians face. As a non-believer you are likely not as subject to that battleground to the same degree. Yet, based on your worldview, as so eloquently & consistently articulated here in the Q-Tree, you are much drawn to & aligned with the light & the truth.
What an interesting dichotomy 🙂
Because what is, is, and there’s no god involved tinkering with it from the outside.
The error the Left makes is that they believe they can change reality by an act of societal will.
The error Christians make is that they believe there’s an authority outside of reality that can change it by mere willpower…and in some cases that they can cajole that outside authority by asking for it.
Nope, reality is what it is and it cannot be changed by an act of will. I say it and many here applaud me, but unless there are other non-believers here (who prudently keep their mouths shut), I’m the only one here who ACTUALLY believes that.
It so happens, though, that reality resembles the Christian picture of it (once rendered sans god) more than the leftist one (which comes, sans god), but that’s not *due to* god. It’s the other way around, Christianity succeeds to the extent it does because what it says about many things happens to resemble reality.
Now That is an Extremely Fascinating take. I doubt that I could do the debate justice but it appears that your logic is flawed there.
It would be interesting if one could design an experiment to test the existence of God. I agree that Christians, at least biblically based ones, have a belief system that tends toward reality, because the Designer of reality has shared so many of His principles with us via scripture…
In another reply to you weeks or months back I mentioned that prayer experiment that supposedly showed that the people who were prayed for had better outcomes than those who were not prayed for. Since the patients being prayed for, or not, didn’t know about which group they were in the “placebo effect” should have been eliminated, or at least minimized.
I’ve always considered aspects of scientific inquiry to be flawed by leaving no room for the Possibility of the existence of God & then If He exists that He might be a factor in explaining whatever phenomenon is being examined. From my viewpoint it’s a huge blind spot.
Conversely, Christians would likely be tending toward error when they want to use God as an explanation for Everything & not address the mechanisms & mathematics that deeply underpin the known & unknown universe. I mean yes ultimately God is behind Everything that exists, including evil (or at lease the possibility of evil, which I would guess ultimately is the same thing), but that doesn’t mean that the search for better understanding of the world AND universe around us should have us lazily stop there & not attempt to identify “how” many aspects of reality actually function, to the best of our constantly evolving 😉 understanding…
I think we sort of circled this topic in discussing Intelligent Design a while back. IIRC, ID allowed room for a Creator God or perhaps an outside “alien intelligence” to be an explanation for the origins of life, earth, & the universe. Obviously the “alien intelligence” view would allow for those who absolutely reject God as a being Who exists to still recognize the many evidences that this world/universe has a Design to it & that design implies an Intelligence ultimately behind it.
From my view, & this is in no way meant to offend you so please “forgive” me if it does, in your absolute rejection of “God” you are actually quite near to the realization/revelation that He is–the literal “I AM” revelation to Moses at the burning bush & even Jesus in Gethsemane with the “I AM He” to those who would capture & kill Him.
If/When you ever come to personally accept the Truth of Who He is & bow to His Lordship, you, Just Exactly As You Are will be a Mighty Warrior for the True Everlasting Kingdom, for Truth, Justice, Love, Light, Life, Freedom, Hope, & Brotherhood for you already Champion so much of this already!!! It’s hardwired in your very nature/design & you’ve been refining those skills through constant use!
You are my brother in the battle,& I hope (& occasionally pray) for the day you will Also be my Brother In Christ…
My view above is partly colored by the passage in Revelation chapter 3, addressing the church in Laodicea where God is saying that He would rather they would be hot or cold but not lukewarm. So I’m likely outside “acceptable” interpretation but I see the “hot” like on fire for God, as Christians should be, even though many(/most?) are lukewarm (at best). Whereas those who are “cold” are indifferent to God in various ways. In your honest rejection of God it’s because you don’t believe He exists at all, which is a noble viewpoint if in it you are firmly persuaded (as you seem to be). If you actually believed that God existed but Still chose to reject Him then the flames of Hell would be licking at your heels, imo.
As you seem to be a person who in so many arenas has a pure-hearted pursuit of The Truth if will remain my hope (& occasional prayer) that you will some day come to know Jesus as the Way, the Truth, the Life, & the Light while still in this life…
In Jesus’ Love AND I sincerely mean That!
By the way if you reply to something on a Saturday that is NOT on my Saturday post, I am unlikely to ever notice it. It’ll be in the notifier, of course…along with a couple of hundred things because everything someone puts on a Saturday post gets into my notifier. I tend to just click through them rapidly to clear them.,,and then go to the actual post and read responses.
I only saw this because I happened to spot a Scott comment in the notifier and your plea to Scott for reinforcements.
Likely Scott would have come over here, made some snarky reply, I’d never have known it, and you’d declare victory over the damn stupid atheist who couldn’t answer Scott’s argument.
Admit it that’s what you do every time I don’t respond. You think you must have won the argument and when I continue to be an atheist you then think I am in denial because after all you proved your case last time and that’s obvious from the fact that I didn’t respond.
Let me clue you in. I don’t have TIME to go through days old posts to see if someone is still talking. The notifier will clue me in…provided it’s not buried on a Saturday. And provided you’re not replying to someone else even if you happen to mention me or a discussion we are having. I only by SHEER LUCK noticed you were trying to sic Scott on me.
And there are times I don’t have the time or energy to respond to the same tired, refuted arguments people have been throwing at atheists for centuries, because it’s our experience it’s like talking to a brick wall.
Here’s one: “In another reply to you weeks or months back I mentioned that prayer experiment that supposedly showed that the people who were prayed for had better outcomes than those who were not prayed for. Since the patients being prayed for, or not, didn’t know about which group they were in the “placebo effect” should have been eliminated, or at least minimized.”
The version I heard of that was that some of the prayed-for knew it, and some did not. The prayed-for who knew it did worse. Those who didn’t–zero effect.
There are a lot of side issues here, including those (on the religious side) who claim that trying to do such an experiment is forbidden (You shall not put your Lord to the Test (deuteronomy 6:16)). Which would be mighty convenient, no? An excuse to reject any negative result. (This article is interesting for the way it presents the back-and-forth on such studies; it doesn’t actually have its own opinion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer )
It ends with this:
[Steve comment: You see why I think such discussions are pointless. A negative result would simply be excused by an escape clause, just like Swinburne is doing here.
[The following paragraph is the next paragraph in the Wiki article and is the actual Dawkins quote. So it was actually a quote within the Wikipedia article and should be “double quoted” here since I am quoting someone (Wiki) quoting someone (Dawkins), but WordPus won’t let you do that.]
(I added the bolding.) He’s absolutely right about that. Dawkins is excellent at calling out hypocrisy.
The simple fact of the matter is, sometimes you get what you pray for, and sometimes you don’t. This is acknowledged of course by the old bromide that “God answers every prayer but sometimes the answer is ‘no'”
Again, how convenient. You can justify either a positive or a negative result. “Oh, the fact that none of them worked doesn’t mean prayer doesn’t work, it just means God chose not to answer.” So in essence there is NO result from such an experiment that would lead you to question your belief because there’s a weasel-out ready when your expectation doesn’t turn out.
A strong positive result in a methodologically solid study, on the other hand, could earn someone a big prize (if nothing else then at least from the Templeton foundation, which was founded by religious people). A scientist would love to go down in history as the one who proved God existed in a way that impressed people who didn’t already believe.
Returning to what I said before: “The simple fact of the matter is, sometimes you get what you pray for, and sometimes you don’t. This is acknowledged of course by the old bromide that “God answers every prayer but sometimes the answer is ‘no'”” (wow, triple nested quotes).
If you were to take a hard, honest look at the history of the results of your personal prayer, you’d recall all of the noes and not just the spectacular yeses, and realize that the chances of a prayer working are exactly identical to the chances of things turning out the way you wanted anyway. So you have a world with a God that answers prayers in a manner that looks exactly the same as random chance…or you have a world where there is no one answering prayers [which wouldn’t necessarily mean no God at all, just that there isn’t one answering prayers] and you get results that look exactly like random chance.
Not only that there’s an excellent theological argument against intercessory prayer too: You’re asking God to alter a plan He put in place before the Creation. With his perfect and complete knowledge, he’d have known, even back then, that you were going to be praying for X to happen, and he’d also know even back then whether he’d be deciding to answer yes or no…which means that his answer, now, is nevertheless planned on, back then. In other words, you didn’t change anything with your prayer, no matter what; you couldn’t have, and that’s a direct logical consequence of an omniscient god who knows the future. Which would not be to say that other sorts of prayer wouldn’t be useful (thank-you-Jesus prayers for instance) but ones asking for God to do something are pointless even within your framework, much less mine.
OK, I’m out. Scott can come by, “whup my ass” in the knowledge I won’t be responding and you can declare victory over the “fool [who] says in his heart there is no god.” (Psalm 14:1, NIV)
You all are polite to me face to face but I know how you talk in church when you think none of us are around. [Though I wouldn’t be too sure of that atheist-free zone if I were you. Many go to church anyway because they don’t want their neighbors ostracising them. There are even non believing pastors (they lost their faith after being ordained) and my heart aches for them.]
Hi Steve, I’m replying on the page itself to try to keep track of all you shared that I want to respond to. At the outset let me say I’m pretty tired after 9 hours at the hospital w/ my daughter who was giving birth so I’m likely not “firing on all thrusters” 🙂
“your plea to Scott for reinforcements.”
Honestly since I’d raised the issue of flawed logic on your part & then didn’t really build a very logical case in rebuttal I thought Scott Might choose to weigh in & point out Both of our logic flaws. Plus his willingness to engage these type of topics periodically was what made me let him know of the conversation on another day’s thread…NOT wanting him to join me in ganging up on you!
“…Likely Scott would have come over here, made some snarky reply, I’d never have known it, and you’d declare victory over the damn stupid atheist
I have NEVER nor will I EVER look at you that way , if Anyone is “stupid” in our discussions it would Invariably be Me! Whenever you choose not to reply to me on one of those topics I just go “hmmm” maybe he never saw it, maybe he’s bored of the topic for I’m so beneath him intellectually that he’s tired of babysitting me in a discussion, or Maybe I Might have scored a point that made him squirm & move on rather that further engage…only Steve (& of course “God”) knows which it could be…
“…who couldn’t answer Scott’s argument.
Admit it that’s what you do every time I don’t respond. You think you must have won the argument and when I continue to be an atheist you then think I am in denial because after all you proved your case last time and that’s obvious from the fact that I didn’t respond.”
I don’t think there has been one discussion between us that I could recall where that was my viewpoint. In another conversation (based on my imperfect recollection) you challenged me asking if I thought I was going to convince you to become a Christian (or something) & I thought I’d said that I don’t have the intellectual capacity to convince you of anything AND I know it. If anything I’ve written in these discussions gets under your skin that Might be God tugging at your heart/mind using my meager offerings in our discourses as a way to reach you. If we’re being honest I would doubt that I have “won” any “argument” between us (though I usually think we are discussing things AND that you typically have a better grasp of Christian theology & scriptural statements than I ever have of atheist viewpoints…& I have very much appreciated when you’ve articulated how some of my arguments (or others’) might come across as offensive, helping me & any others who might read along have increased understanding of your perspective…
“The version I heard of that was that some of the prayed-for knew it, and some did not. The prayed-for who knew it did worse. Those who didn’t–zero effect.”
I meant to add that it would be interesting to read the details of the experiments & results as both of our “camps”, Christians & atheists, have obviously latched on to this topic in perhaps “urban legend” fashion…
“So in essence there is NO result from such an experiment that would lead you to question your belief because there’s a weasel-out ready when your expectation doesn’t turn out.”
& the converse is also true it seems 🙂
What you shared about prayer is interesting food for thought & I agree with you to a point…
“You all are polite to me face to face but I know how you talk in church when you think none of us are around.”
I’m sorry for what you & your atheistic compatriots have suffered at the hands of Christians. We are “supposed” to be known by our love but hypocrisy & judgementalism are likely more how people outside of the Church (universal) view “us”…I don’t look down on you at all, appreciate your insights & vast knowledge in numerous arenas, AND thoroughly enjoy & am honored when you choose to interact with me…I’m a bit sad that your “message received” in some of these communications is so different than what I thought/intended my “message sent” to entail.
I have no idea if Scott chose to weigh in in this “discussion” or not but I’ll try not to ask anyone else to “tag in” in the future because I don’t want you to feel ganged up on (any more than you likely do by all the overt Christianity on display at the Q-Tree & sister pages). We have to be “live & let live” with each other…& I believe that you’ve acknowledged previously that you recognize “evangelism” to be a “legit” Christian practice per biblical teachings & have been willing to periodically put up with my extremely imperfect pursuits in this arena in some of our conversations, as it were or maybe was…
Best Regards & HOPE your Saturday, including interactions on your post (I have yet to read) were all that you could have desired & more.
I’m going to post this “as is” since I’m so tired, so I’m sorry if it’s not polished enough & if I’ve managed to step on your toes more (again)…it wasn’t & isn’t my intention…
By the way I’ll still pray for you to a God that may or may not exist Who will answer how He wills & may have done regardless if I’d ever had the audacity to ask… 😉
Man, I was *cranky* yesterday…for various reasons. You didn’t deserve a lot of that. In some cases my words can stand IF only “you” could mean “some of your co-religionists” but of course…it doesn’t.
I apologize.
OK…to begin “& the converse is also true it seems 🙂” (After I complained about weasel outs)
There’s a fundamental difference though.
If some experiment were to show a huge, significant effect [which none has], after double-checking to ensure there wasn’t leakage or some methodological error, a scientist would have to accept it (not all atheists are scientists by any means, nor is vice-versa true).
On the other side, however, a *negative* result can make no impression on someone who will simply make excuses like “God will not be tested.” Positive result? God Exists!!! Woohoo we’ve finally got scientific proof!” Negative result? “God will not be tested.” “God didn’t want to answer the prayers (with a yes) for whatever divine reason…” etc., etc.
In any other endeavor if things don’t turn out based on what you expect, you change your mind as to what’s going on. But not in this one. Because the hypothesis is written in such a way that it has a ready explanation for both a positive and negative result.
Scientists call this the “unfalsifiable hypothesis” meaning there’s no way to prove it wrong even if it actually is wrong.
(A lot of conspiracy theories are like this, actually. If, for example, you were to try to infiltrate the (alleged) consipiracy, succeed in getting into the inner circle of friends of the alleged conspirators, find absolutely nothing going on, and say so, the conspiracy theorists would either a) conclude you got bought out, have joined the conspiracy yourself and are lying to cover it up or b) the conspirators are so clever they saw right through you and made sure you saw nothing. You see how that works? You can’t disprove it even if its wrong, to the satisfaction of those who insist it’s right, because they can explain away negative results.)
[And I need to make clear here that I am talking specifically about intercessory prayer, not other types; an intercessory prayer being one where the prayer is asking a divinity to intercede and change an outcome.]
Meanwhile I’m trying to find “sauce” on this particular study. I’ve heard a lot about it, but can’t find it. I’ve found this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569567/
which of course is a suspect source now. But my recollection is accurate: more complications on the part of those who knew they were being prayed for, no meaningful difference otherwise (a 1 percent increase among those prayed for…which if I was the sort of chimp who didn’t understand statistical significance, might make me think it meant something).
This is actually counter-intuitive; the group that knew they were being prayed for was created as a sort of control; the study wanted to see if there was a psychological effect; people get better for psychosomatic reasons. But instead they got worse; as if praying for them with their knowledge was too much pressure or something.
“Conclusions: Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication-free recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complications. ”
OK, if you are aware of a study that showed an effect amongst those who didn’t know they were being prayed for…bring it. Otherwise as of right now, we have a result that implies it makes no difference (psychological effects aside) but it’s the NIH and I realize that in a post-COVID world that that casts a cloud over this–without a lot of digging I neither have the qualifications nor time for, I can’t tell whether this one was done honestly or not. So we either have no evidence one way or the other…or dubious evidence that prayer doesn’t work.
I’m so glad you replied!
” In some cases my words can stand IF only “you” could mean “some of your co-religionists” but of course…it doesn’t.
I apologize.”
Apology accepted! You didn’t need to apologize but the fact that you did removes what had been a degree of uneasiness I’d had in reading through what you’d written to me yesterday in thinking that I’d misinterpreted your willingness to comfortably engage me in affiliated discourse on God vs no-such-thing/person/being as God…& that would make me sad & theoretically less likely to make certain off the cuff remarks to you that I thought were OK. Like your “Thank God I’m an theist” T-shirt level of a sense of humor, which seemed like we could interface light-heartedly & otherwise in these arenas.
“my co-religionists” could refer to plenty of people, including some on the Q-Tree who have historically been pretty dismissive of you/atheism in general. One person, in particular, comes to mind in that camp who I believe is entirely dismissive of me as a person & therefore Never responds to anything I say so I assume considers me as completely “scroll past quickly” worthy. That this person engages in conversation with others on specific threads that begin with my comment but Never interfaces with me, even in acknowledging specific personal uplifting remarks to them makes me feel dismissed in an uncomfortable way. Since they have mentioned the lesser caliber commentors as being scroll-worthy or whatever has got other Q-Treepers’ dander up at times but I just let it wash over me & take the barb with the best humor that I can muster.
I can be pretty obtuse, or alternatively obstinate, when it comes to human relationships. That dismissive “co-religionist” comes across with a distinct lack of humility & an arrogance in their expressed religious dogma that can be pretty demeaning to those of us who view faith differently. This person also rarely chooses to engage the fray when challenged in these arenas by others on the Q-Tree that this person likely also considers scroll-worthy. It’s sad, & could be damaging, but it is what it is so I try to just move along because even if I tried to engage in any of the “controversial” arenas this person would never (I assume) read what I said…or if they read it they’d never respond to me directly since I more or less don’t even exist other than to the extent you acknowledge a tic that’s burrowed in just so you can remove it without leaving it’s head embedded to cause further irritation…OK, moving along…
I’m going to try to reply as fully as I can to what you shared but am a bit limited again since I need to get back to the hospital & help my daughter & newest granddaughter so my son-in-law can leave to go help my husband & sons in moving some of their stuff into their new house…Finally…
“On the other side, however, a *negative* result can make no impression on someone who will simply make excuses like “God will not be tested.””
I’ve encountered those type of weaselly Christians who will not engage in discourse on flaws in their thinking or theology who rebuff any challenge with really dismissive dogmaticism or delusional denial of the legit issues raised. They are not much fun to talk with & cannot handle a knock-down, drag out arena of precision guided missle “warfare” (not that I am capable of such pinpoint accuracy w/ the limited munitions at my personal disposal)…OK
Now, sadly I’ve got to run, w/out checking nor completing, if that’s even possible for me, what I might say…so more later (hopefully today)…LOL
as is & yikes to hit send w/out even a Cursory double check so I KNOW my feet of clay aren’t even covered up At All!
OK, I suppose I should say here that I define “Christian” very broadly. Anyone who claims that he has accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior is, to me, a “Christian.”
This means I can let Christians argue over who is really a Christian; I can’t do more than this because I don’t know what’s actually going on inside the profess-or’s head. He might not have accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, or he may have done so but done it “wrong” somehow–but that’s a doctrinal issue, and I will let y’all argue over that. (Consider that Jesus was crucified around 30-33 AD, 1990 years ago, and for about 1989 years there have been arguments over faith vs. works–just for instance. And almost endless arguments over the nature of Christ in the early Church. Come down on the wrong side of such an argument and you are a “heretic” and presumably, therefore, Not Really A Christian.)
(This is distinct from saying “he’s not acting very Christlike” or something like that. That, at least, I could take a guess at, just based on descriptions of Jesus’s personality and character in the gospel accounts. Is this guy acting like that? Yes or no? And I imagine many would disagree with my judgment, whatever it is!)
The “He’s not really a Christian” claim, I have found, is endlessly abused. There is the occasional act of actual violence against an atheist (even here in the US), or death threats, etc. Of course this is outrageous but the curious thing is that there are always those who seem to think it is *far more important* to reassure atheists (or even theists who aren’t Christians) that no “real Christian” would do such a thing, than to actually condemn (much less act against) the violence itself. In other words, they behave as if protecting the reputation of Christianity is far more important than actually stopping the violence. Perhaps they can persuade the perp that he’s not behaving in a Christian manner…I certainly could not; the perp would never take my opinion seriously; I’m automatically wrong if I say the sky is blue, by his lights.
As for the person(s) here who mistreat atheists and ignore you, I can’t imagine the two would be connected even in their mind. Unless they’re ostracizing you just for talking to me. I’m not even sure who you’re talking about (don’t name names!) but of course I can think of two or three here who have been nasty to me on account of my worldview not including Yahweh and a divine Jesus. And a couple who used to be nasty but now aren’t–which tells me nothing about whether they still dislike me or not. (One way I can be obtuse about personal relationships is not spotting patterns that do not involve me. Sure if two people openly fight each other I will see that, but if one studiously ignores another but doesn’t actually act out, I won’t notice.)
Intriguing reply to which I’ll respond further later…Maybe tomorrow but it depends on how things go. I’m pretty beat right now after 8 hours at the hospital w/ family so need to regroup before getting back with you.
I have this conversation open in its own tab so will also further address your prior comment “later” after replenishment…
fwiw I’m glad you don’t recognize the main person I was referencing above for I thought it might have been too obvious by what I’d written. I think they disregard me for other reasons than conversations with you, though if they’ve read me agreeing with some point you’ve made that might be offensive to them I gueass (fortuitous misspelling!) I could be the proverbial baby discarded with your bathwater 😉
Hope you have a great week…in case I’m too tired to get back to our discussion sooner rather than later. Baby was supposed to come home today but jaundice issues are going to keep her inpatient at least one more day & I’m the only other person allowed back there due to criminal covid protocols other than the baby’s dad…The old gray mare & all LOL
Just don’t reply late Friday or on Saturday or I’ll never see it. (My current system makes “open tabs” a non-thing.)
OK…or if it ends up being in that time frame I’ll copy you a link to the comment in the current day’s conversation…or something…My brain has no provable way of recalling minute details at this point in my existence, sadly…or to the relief of certain people in my real life who now don’t get as easily outpaced by my “brain” 🙂
I don’t know. I hope so.
That was foolish on Mike’s part. I thought that then and think that now. I cringed when he made the offer.
I know, me too.
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CFP put these additional stories.
Thanks!
Guessing this is binding on nothing at all.
I can’t find definitive answers on that. This seems to indicate that it could block the fraudministration’s action.
https://rollcall.com/2023/04/20/house-committee-advances-disapproval-resolution-on-gun-rule/
However, some people think this resolution would have to be approved by the entire House, then the Senate, then signed by the fake POTUS. But the original ATF ban was not a law, so I don’t know.
From the House Judiciary Committee page:
https://www.congress.gov/committee/house-judiciary/hsju00
“Report to the full chamber” makes it sound as if this resolution has no teeth in and of itself.
My guess is the House would pass it.
But the Senate would never go along.
BiteMe would veto, as ordered by ValJar AND hussein.
Just add it to the debt ceiling bill?
Power Of The Purse.
R-Cons need to get on the offensive.
R-Cons will stay the course.
Hearings AND make noise. Nothing more.
Trying to remove our means of self-defense, from the time of the Revolution, the day after the Midnight Ride (the 18th) and the Shot Heard Round the World (the 19th):
https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/tensions-virginia-lead-gunpowder-incident.html
And the fact that British shenanigans happened in multiple places meant that the colonists knew it wasn’t just some weird thing going on in that weird Massachusetts place. (Which is still weird to this day.)
We have a lot of sick disgusting people in our country.
Now we have a gun control, trans right, & BLM connection all in one.
Did this satanist set up his grandfather?
My money is going to say yes.
whoa..that’s a really unsettling idea but so….horribly possible
The Klint Ludwig twitter account does not go anywhere. Which at the minimum it was a screen grab before the account was taken down.
Anyone know anything about Lauren Witzke?
Okay, she’s a Christ First 2020 GOP Nominee Senate Candidate
Following the theory that this is the left coming after the Castle Law.
Interesting vids she has. Good reason for not living in an apartment or even answering the door.
From Wiki, so take it for what it’s worth:
There is no “QAnon,” silly. 🤭 There is Q, and there are anons.
Only scary part for me is the very last. FET. Everything else seems okay unless she wasn’t a serious candidate.
Yes, don’t answer the door. We have seen that the trouble goes both ways. The person outside the door could shoot you, and they could lure you into shooting at them and changing the course of your life.
Wierd how they all coalesced like this.
Money speaking.
CORRUPT Antony Blinken Was Behind Gathering 50+ Members of Intel Community to Lie and Sign Bogus Letter on Hunter Laptop Being Russian Disinformation
(I feel like a subject of those man-on-the-street interviews. If someone had asked me, I couldn’t have told them that Blinken was the secretary of state. 😳)
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IRS Whistleblower Offers Up Hunter Biden Bombshell
Investigations going on five years…
Ya think? I hope they can prove it.
They were close to a decision in November of 2022, five months ago. I wonder how much closer they might be now. 😕
@thebias_news
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Radio host Larry Elder, who sought to replace California governor in failed recall effort, launches GOP presidential bid.
👎 Bad decision.
YUP !
Dumbass. Elder, that is. Guessing Larry needs easy money.
Unhinged Florida State Rep. Claims Girls Will Cut Off Their Own Breasts If They Can’t Get Sex Change Surgeries (VIDEO)
I haven’t read the article, but we can’t base our actions on those kinds of threats (which I don’t think have actually happened). It’s like a girlfriend or boyfriend saying they will commit suicide if you don’t continue to date them or marry them. Those are difficult situations, but people are responsible for their own actions. They need serious help.
@disclosetv
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NEW – Testimony by Ex-CIA director reveals Blinken and the Biden Campaign prompted former spies to falsely claim material from Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.”
https://www.disclose.tv/id/1649182976087916552/
@realdonaldtrump
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A great group of supportive Florida Congressmen and Congresswomen, all who have Endorsed me, will be coming to Mar-a-Lago tonight. Our support is almost universal in Florida and throughout the USA. They remember fondly all of the incredible things I did while in office, one of the most successful Administrations in History. Will be a great night!
Snatched from some TW string…
Western Experts’ New Fear: Russia is Evolving and Adapting (substack.com)
Morons (western Experts) are finally WTFU.
^^^ Russia has evolved and adapted. (Duh)
PROBLEM IS,
Russia had already Evolved AND Adapted, BEFORE engaging Ukraine.
Excellent Assessment from the Australian General.
From the leak to this Gen Hodges we seem to have a concerted effort to wake up politicians and ask them what do you want to do next or more likely, what they are going to have to do, which is boots on the ground if they want to win this. Thus we are seeing this one step backward in admitting they were wrong all along and if something is not done we loose. Without accompanying admission that Russia was baited into this proxy war, I can’t see it but as an effort to escalate through direct intervention. Here’s to hoping the political class continue to pontificate so Russia can bring this to a close, whatever that looks like. Russia is doing exactly what we would do if the old WARSAW Pact set up in Mexico.
I absolutely do not reconcile this case with baldwins charges being dropped. She had justified use of force anyway, yet look at these two and tell me justice was served in either cae.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-minnesota-police-officer-kim-potter-convicted-daunte-wright-death-freed-from-prison
Money (Baldwin’s money) talks. Dead white gal, NOT a complicating factor.
^^^ Related. Reported in separate stories, Baldwin, movie company and dead gals family settled Civil case.
My guess, dead gals family paid off handsomely. Judge SEALED judgement / agreement.
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LE – cop Baldwin had the misfortune of being a cop in Minnesota AND dead guy Black.
^^^ Hammering Whitie (LE Baldwin), simply cuz she’s white, mandatory.
Baldwin already filming and no career setbacks that we are aware of. Female cop, destroyed.
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/04/20/remember-that-after-the-primary-we-need-to-work-together-n2622112
Another day. Another R-Con disappoint…
GWP
Senators Introduce Bill to Create Digital Identity for All Americans
U.S. Senators Kyrsten Sinema, an independent of Arizona, and Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, have introduced Senate Bill 884, also known as “the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2023.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/senators-introduce-bill-to-create-digital-identity-for-all-americans/
I haven’t looked at this but on the surface it might not be a bad thing if it can cut identity theft.
We have a fundamental stupidity in our system right now where our unique identity (SSAN) is also the password. So if someone knows your identifier, they can pass as you; they don’t need an additional password.
Yet there are far two many cases where you do have to divulge your identifier.
Nor have I looked into it. Don’t plan to.
Feds like it. Slim chance it is good for the folks.
Smells like another step towards CBDC.
Senators introduce bill to create digital identity for all Americans
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Except me…
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