DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230714

The Real Mojito

Ingredients

  • 10 fresh mint leaves
  • ½ medium lime, cut into 3 wedges, divided
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar, or to taste
  • 1 cup ice cubes, or as needed
  • 1 ½ fluid ounces white rum
  • ½ cup club soda, or as needed

Directions

  1. Place mint leaves and 1 lime wedge into a sturdy glass. Use a muddler and crush to release mint oils and lime juice.mint leaves and lime wedge being muddled in a clear glassDOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
  2. Add remaining lime wedges and 2 tablespoons sugar, and muddle again to release the lime juice. Do not strain the mixture.additional limes and sugar being muddled in clear glassDOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
  3. Fill the glass almost to the top with ice.clear glass with muddled mint, lime, and sugar filled with iceDOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
  4. Pour in rum and fill the glass with club soda.a high angle view of a clear glass with rum and ice poured in on top of muddle sugar and lime.DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
  5. Stir, taste, and add more sugar if desired.an eye level view of several mojito cocktails.

How’s the weather out there?

Short one again today as a brother and nephew are visiting, and I’m spending a lot of time away from home with a Sheltie. Ying might get jealous.

Rabbit Faced Baby Found in Iowa, Buck Toothed Mom Chewed Carrots While Pregnant

Badlands News Brief – July 13, 2023

America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded

The Big Gaslight

Rep. Matt Gaetz: Don’t Haiti My Florida

New MSG “Sphere” in Vegas is remarkable, but the backstory on how it came to be is even better…

New court doc reveals Biden’s FTC browbeat an accounting firm to “punish” Elon after he purchased Twitter…

WEF: ‘Digital Cash’ Will Force Climate Agenda onto Public

Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis’

One Bubble Is About to Pop…and No One Is Talking About It

Opill, first over-the-counter birth control pill, approved by FDA

Considering that the trials for the original birth control pill were moved out of the country because too many women were dying, was it ever really safe to begin with? Those warnings on the ads are no joke.

Murdoch Outlet – Struggling DeSantis Discounts Admission Price for Rich People to Meet Him in Hamptons

Tweety Tweets:

Remember the whole push about fitness being a right wing conspiracy theory? Part of that is stories like this:

I’ve been following this guy for a while. He’s doing something about his weight and posting his daily progress complete with meals cooked, and videos of workouts. The weightlifting community has been nothing but supportive, and all the keto cooks are as well. Recently, Dave proposed to his girl, and they are getting married in November. His is not at all the only story of this sort out there. Why this is being politicized when these people are taking steps to help themselves be healthy is a mystery.

Not really, but at least they are speaking out.

Good question.

Variety is the spice of life

Creative writers do need to unite on this one. It would save Hollywood – hooked on franchise continuation – a lot of money not to have to pay human talent.

Welcome aboard, Jim.

MEME STASH:

I may have to rethink my opinion of crows.

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

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The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

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

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

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

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MATTHEW 10:16-23

16“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, 18and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles. 19When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour; 20for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; 22and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel, before the Son of man comes.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

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pgroup2

One of the closing comments from yesterday was: https://www.theqtree.com/2023/07/13/dear-maga-open-thread-20230713/#comment-1124141

To which I responded: https://www.theqtree.com/2023/07/13/dear-maga-open-thread-20230713/#comment-1124151

Allow me to posit a possible workaround. The USAF currently has at least 6 F-16s [near the end of their lifespan] that have been fully converted to remote control. In short, they are very big drones used to help train pilots.[they are designated QF-16s – there’s that letter again]

What if the F-16s that will be sent to Ukraine are drones, piloted by a USAF ‘pilot’ sitting in a console booth in Nevada? Will that be the same as ‘boots on the ground’?

Closing note – is NATO smart enough to wipe identifying insignia off the planes before they get to Ukraine?

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scott467

“Closing note – is NATO smart enough to wipe identifying insignia off the planes before they get to Ukraine?”

___________

They’ll do better than that.

They’ll dress the planes up in matching khaki pants, shirts, baseball caps, masks and sunglasses.

Cuppa Covfefe

And pink hair…

Gail Combs

Do not forget the NAZI insignia…

kalbokalbs

F-16s, regardless of who pilots them, will all be shot down OR destroyed on the ground..

US F-16s will be part of the fodder. If they are drones, piloted out of Creech, Nellis, anywhere, ARE, IMO, “boots on ground”. Absolutely doomed for failure.

Failure, UNLESS, the goal IS, WWIII.

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Regardless, believing a few F-16s, even a few dozen F-16s will help Ukraine is on par with, the rest of the lies.

  • HIMARS, ATACAMS, 155 howitzers, Bradley’s, Abrahams, DU ordnance, cluster bombs…
  • Russia deploys full spectrum warfare against Ukraine. Ukraine simply incapable.

Question. WHEN F-16s prove to be a failure, and they will, IF WWIII has not started, what is the next, US, UK, NATO escalation in weaponry?

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Honestly, it will be some kind of miracle if China isn’t occupying Hawaii by the time the Bidenese are run out of office.

ROBERT BAKER

Interesting comment Wolf. On July 4th I was at a cook out with a family that had recently (last year) moved from Hawaii. The man mentioned that Chinese, in large numbers, are settling in Hawaii.

Cuppa Covfefe

Setting up an outpost for the takeover…

Much like the Moslems here…

ROBERT BAKER

Hawaii is a strategic outpost from a military perspective. Whether Chinese or American, the facilities and location for conventional military staging is critical for the entire Pacific theater.

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep. That was my point…. we lose Hawaii, we lose the Pacific.

And we’ve been neutering California for decades now, with all the base closures/mergers/etc. Although Kalifornistan has been doing a lot of the neutering on its own… 🙁

Valerie Curren

I thought Clinton had given the Chyneze certain bases &/or ports in Kalifornistan so that they could bypass customs & bring in God only knows what into the country that way  😡 

Cuppa Covfefe

Ports, not bases. And I believe the US has taken LA/Long Beach back.

Øbløwhøle and Carter shut down the bases; probably the Shrubs did too… 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡

Valerie Curren

TY for the clarification!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

The Chinese know that Hawaii is key to Pacific supremacy.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Useful data. Thanks! Quite relevant, since Japan used Japanese Hawaiians as spy cover for Pearl Harbor.

pat frederick

don’t the obummers have a mansion in Hawaii?

kalbokalbs

On the beach, wising and swamp their newly built mansion. /s

Hypocrites, they are.

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep. They demolished the beautiful, historic mansion used in Magnum P.I. so they could build the house of the rising gaybow…

https://www.westernjournal.com/iconic-magnum-p-house-torn-environmental-laws-bypassed-build-obamas-beachside-villa

DEMONRATS indeed!

Gail Combs

OR we are into a nuclear war.

I sure hope Jon Harold is correct about Devolution and that Xi and Putin are ‘read in.’

cthulhu

Thank you, DePat, for this entire week of outstanding posts.

Hope you managed to wear out the Sheltie before you got worn out.

Have a great weekend!!!

Alison

I agree – this week was full of great reads and outstanding memes. You are such a gem, DPat, and your selections are the best! 💖🇺🇸🇺🇸

Barb Meier

I think so too. Thank you, DePat!! Even on a busy day, you give us so much interesting, important, and fun content.

cthulhu

New Schlichter —

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/07/13/day-one-for-our-next-gop-president-n2625594

Gee, it used to be he’d only do one a week, on Mondays…..

TheseTruths

Diving in to some of his columns can be stressful. 😅 Is he still promoting DeSantis?

cthulhu

I think that’s being beaten out of him, inch-by-inch. He’s currently at “We can fight about who the nominee should be and we will until the convention, when people who actually care about the country and put beating the Democrat communists ahead of their petty prejudices and feuds will unite to get our GOP nominee elected in November.” He can’t even say their names.

kalbokalbs

Charitably, Schlichter is a dumbass. Yea, I didn’t read his article(s).

  • There will be NO uniting around a GOP nominee. GOP unites nothing.
  • Americans will rally, unite around America First – Trump / Kari.
  • Trump is the ONLY path, for an “R” to win November 5, 2024.
Gail Combs

I voted Ron Paul instead of NoName McStain and I will vote TRUMP PERIOD!

scott467

The grift is strong with this one.

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TheseTruths

Election Wizard

Rush called it.

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kalbokalbs

^^^ That IS a fact.

Trump IS the ONLY America First candidate.

Aubergine

The Maha-Rushie was simply the best. And he was right, 99.7% of the time!

Gail Combs

EXACTLY!!!

Trump’s stand on the Trans Pacific Trade Treaty that RINOs like RAND PAUL supported was the clincher for me.

The Trans Pacific Trade Treaty was an European Union CLONE.

TheseTruths

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pgroup2

Excellent photoshop.

cthulhu

Photoshop?

Oh, you mean the wall sconces…..yeah, they look a bit unreal.

TheseTruths

No way…😂

TheseTruths

The detail on the edges of Catturd’s fur is amazing.

Barb Meier

Catturd after Elon does not pay him $1.2 billion.

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Barb Meier

Catturd is such a pretty kitty.

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TheseTruths

Billionaire Ken Griffin Reconsidering Support for DeSantis

Billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, who previously said the U.S. would be “well-served” with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as president, now “continues to assess the field,” according to a spokesperson.

Griffin told Politico in November that “it’s time” for Republicans “to move on” from former President Donald Trump and expressed his sentiment for DeSantis.

Now, with Trump far ahead in GOP primary polling, spokesperson Zia Ahmed said Griffin “continues to access the field” while adding that “nothing’s changed,” CNBC reported.

Ahmed denied that Griffin, a hedge fund manager, is concerned about DeSantis’ position in public polling…

The New York Times reported in April that Griffin was still evaluating the GOP primary field, and that his spokesman declined to say what Griffin thought about the presidential race…

Griffin wouldn’t be the only donor questioning his support for DeSantis.

Rolling Stone reported that media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose family owns Fox News, has been “voicing his doubts and frustrations” about DeSantis “in private discussions and calls.”

CNBC reported that several donors have told fundraisers about their worries concerning DeSantis. The uneasiness pertains to Trump’s seemingly insurmountable lead not just in the polls but also in congressional endorsements.

😀😄😃😁

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Excellent!

singingsoul1

What is Murdoch interest in trying to influence election?
Bannon pointed out the guy became citizen of US the night when he wanted to buy Fox.
How committed is the Murdoch to the US or is he a stooge for world dominance cabal or China? I refuse to watch Fox and all those money grubbing people who work there who have no principal.

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Gail Combs

CHINA…. Remember he married a Chinese woman and was going to move to Bejing.

singingsoul1

Yes the China Honey pot. Stupid men fall for it all the time .

TheseTruths

Catturd 😅

With all the fights on airplanes lately, they should serve Waffle House food.

cthulhu

When the flight attendants start putting it down like “Waffle House Wendy”, it’ll be “don’t start none, won’t be none.”

scott467

They made it though the entire segment without even once acknowledging the common denominator of who’s breaking stuff and throwing things in every fast-food restaurant brawl.

Every. Single. One.

Like the viewing audience isn’t supposed to notice.

It’s like covering a 5-alarm arson fire, and never mentioning the mob standing there throwing Molotov cocktails 😂

Cuppa Covfefe

That would have been rayyyyyyycisssssss…..

News in LA (in KAlifornistan), presented by four POC, actually FOC, so of course they won’t name names and races…

P ermanently
C razy

Also could have been a sideways dig at Waffle House, who are probably conservative, as they are always prepared, and always the first to be (or stay) open when disasters strike.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Waffle House were “preppers”, and, of course, that is anathema to “the view-type yuppettes (yuppie puppets)”…

Gail Combs

I actually like Waffle House… They serve STEAK for breakfast. 🤗😍

Cuppa Covfefe

MILES ahead of IHOP…

In LA there is (or at least was) a restaurant called “The Pantry”, where people from all (and I mean ALL) walks of life could go in and get breakfast any hour of the day, for a great price.

There was also Ships, on La Cienaga Blvd. (now gone 🙁 ) that had great food, and a googie-style architecture reminiscent of “The Jetsons”, complete with toasters at each table threatening to launch completed slices into outer space 🙂

pgroup2

Ships at 3:30 AM on a weekday was great.

Cuppa Covfefe

Crazy… if you were there in the mid 1970s, I was probably there too… small world…

Breakfasts were great, as were the chili size, Steak-a-Bobs, and many other dishes there. And the ice cream, with (hot) berry sauce…

Miss that place, along with Love’s BBQ…

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scott467

“That would have been rayyyyyyycisssssss…..”

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Think of it more like affirmative action.

When the quarterback calls a ‘restaurant brawl’ audible, there’s one group that is always ready to step up to the plate 👍

Cuppa Covfefe

And Bluto for the win 😀

TheseTruths

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GA/FL

Nice!

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep. That’s brilliant; sums it up quite nicely… current events horizon, one might say…

cthulhu

All it needs is goatse fingers.

TheseTruths

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kalbokalbs

They missed Uncle Sam, a parasite on American Tax payers.

Valerie Curren

Ka–Boom!

TheseTruths

Catturd ™

Watching the FBI and DOJ suddenly reconstruct the Ray Epps story so he can successfully sue Fox News and Tucker is hysterical.

They know their entire Jan 6 BS talking points falls apart with Ray Epps.

They think you’re stupid.

TheseTruths
Aubergine

They MUST charge him to “prove” that he wasn’t acting on behalf of the FBI.

That’s all this is.

pgroup2

Yup.

Cuppa Covfefe

How about charging him with, say, 15,000 volts at 100 Amperes…  ⚡ 

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

That would mean his resistance is 150 ohms.

Cuppa Covfefe

Putting the IRE back in wire…

He’s probably be reluctant to be there, though… 🙂

cthulhu

Ohm, sweet ohm…..

ROBERT BAKER

The BORG would say his resistance is futile.

Cuppa Covfefe

They’re just a bunch of reactionaries with a high capacity for crime, like the “Z” man… 🙂

Aubergine

Lol! I like it!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

IMO the goal is to get Epps off without any real jail time. Just as the corrupt DOJ nailed peaceful people who walked into the capitol for multi-year sentences, they are going to make sure this informant does minimal time.

Cuppa Covfefe

Funny (not) how they always keep their promises to crooks, thieves, (real)insurrectionists, and pervs….. but not anyone else…..

pgroup2

Birds of a feather …

Gail Combs

HOW do we even know he is actually serving a sentence instead of enjoying a long vacation in some other country?

mollypitcher5

Why haven’t they busted his door down with guns drawn ? I read an article that said he was informed of this intent to charge in May. It’s now mid July.

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

Is “thepeoplesvoice” a reputable site?

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/oprahs-spiritual-healer-sentenced-to-99-years-for-raping-girls-accused-of-baby-trafficking/

Oprah’s personal spiritual healer, João de Deus or “John of God,” has been sentenced to an additional 99 years in prison after being found guilty of raping hundreds of women and young girls…

“João Teixeira de Faria, ‘João de Deus’, gained a following of faithful foreigners – who call him ‘John of God’ – when he appeared on a program by American presenter Oprah Winfrey, in 2012. Among his international fans, figures like former US president Bill Clinton, actress Shirley MacLaine and model Naomi Campbell.”

But his empire came crashing down in 2018, when a scandal of gigantic proportions broke, revealing that the medium had raped or abused hundreds of women and girls who had sought his ‘spiritual help’.

Conexão Política reported: “This Monday, the 10th, the medium, better known as João de Deus, was sentenced to an additional sentence of 99 years in prison for sexual crimes.“ …An anti-child trafficking activist blew the whistle claiming John of God “ran a baby trafficking operation where children were then sold to childless couples.”

Aubergine

TT, I don’t trust it.

Some of what they publish is likely true, but some of it deserves a strong side-eye.

Cuppa Covfefe

YaWHO had 19 years, but a few Brazilian sites (OK, bunches of them) have 99 or “almost 100” years (nice round number), for example this one:

https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/justica/noticia/2023-07/em-novas-sentencas-joao-de-deus-e-condenado-99-anos-de-prisao

Fake name (John of God), fake healer, one might say…

I can’t read Portuguese, so I’m not sure what the whole article says…

Gail Combs

The Justice of Goiás sentenced, this Monday (10), the medium João Teixeira de Faria, known as João de Deus, to 99 years in prison for the crimes of rape of vulnerable and sexual violation through fraud.

The sentences were handed down by judge Marcos Boechat Lopes Filho and involve eight victims who reported abuse suffered between 2010 and 2018, during spiritual consultations at Casa Dom Inácio de Loyola, in Abadiânia, Goiás. According to the decision, João de Deus will still have to pay the victims R$ 100,000 in moral damages.

According to the Court of Justice of Goiás, João Teixeira de Faria has already been sentenced to 370 years in prison. Four lawsuits that are still ongoing could increase the penalty. In one of the lawsuits, which is related to allegations that surfaced between 2009 and 2011, the charges were dropped because the statute of limitations expired. Appeals can be made in all cases.

In 2019, the Public Ministry of Goiás (MP-GO) filed nine complaints against João de Deus, in which he is accused of crimes such as rape of vulnerable and sexual violation. According to the MP, the crimes occurred at least since 1990….

They have an English version but I could not get it to work. That is google translate

Cuppa Covfefe

More HEEL than healer; deserves HELL…..

singingsoul1

Opra lost her way a long time ago. That shows with whom she surrounded herself.

Gail Combs

She is a ‘Madame’ and was procuring young star struck teens for directors.

British Actress: Oprah Winfrey ‘Pimped Me Like A Whore’ To Weinstein

A British woman has accused Oprah Winfrey of pimping her out to sexual predator Harvey Weinstein when she was a struggling actress in Hollywood.

Following Oprah’s deeply hypocritical speech on Sunday night at the Golden Globes, a report about how actress Kadian Noble was raped by Weinstein after being coerced by Oprah to go back to his hotel room has gone mostly ignored by the mainstream media.

Nailing Oprah Winfrey As Pimp for Harvey Weinstein

I included Oprah Winfrey in my list of placed crooked celebrity women in Vol. 1 of my books..

This video summary (embedded below) by Paul Joseph Watson is excellent. Watson didn’t include the private jet meeting with the top elite that Oprah attended. That meeting clued me as to who she really is… a placed tool.

Secret billionaire club seeks population control – WND    The meeting included some of the biggest names in the … Rockefeller, Turner, Oprah, Buffett, … WND founder’s ‘masterpiece’ on ‘Israel, …

 

My point has been that every famous person we have ever heard of was MADE famous by the Rothschild controlled media that placed them in our heads and placed them in the position they have. The movie Color Purple (1985), allegedly written by ex CIA agent Alice Walker, (who worked early with CIA Gloria Steinem) helped make Walker, Winfrey, and Whoppi Goldberg famous. Walker would go on to co-opt Tracy Chapman.

Spielberg, the director of movie, was also placed, a nice Jewish boy who directs many New World Order, pro Jewish films. Tom Hanks appears in Spielberg movies, as another puppet actor. He is in club, so was made famous. They were all placed in fame because they were obedient.

The Color Purple actresses are all “feminists” placed to destroy family. Black men screamed about that movie as clearly misandry at the time. Do you remember in movie that Whoppi’s mentor, the prostitute, was suggestively bi-sexual? Second wave feminism was led by lesbians. Anti family….

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singingsoul1

It sounds she was a pimp. She has fallen no matter how rich she is she lost her soul.

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

Thank you, President Trump!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

ONLY TRUMP!!!

TheseTruths

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/70-house-republicans-voted-cut-215132928.html

● Rep. Matt Gaetz offered an amendment to the annual defense bill to cut off all military aid to Ukraine.

The measure easily failed — but 70 House Republicans voted for it.

It offered the clearest sign yet of which lawmakers support ending all aid to the besieged country.

The amendment easily failed by a 358-70 margin, with all Democrats and a majority of Republicans opposing the measure…

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, the sponsor of the amendment, acknowledged during the floor debate on the measure earlier on Thursday that the purpose of offering the measure was primarily to put lawmakers on record.

“My amendment is going to lose overwhelmingly when it is put up for a vote,” said Gaetz. “But the American people will see who wants to represent them, and who wants to represent Crimea.”

At the link is a graphic showing the 70 Repubs who voted to cut off military aid to Ukraine. (I’m not able to post it here.) A lot of them are Freedom Caucus members.

Barb Meier

My Rep, Ben Cline, was on the correct side. He hears us.

TradeBait2

Good news.

East TN was well represented with mine, Harshbarger, and the one nearby our of Knoxville, Burchett.

kalbokalbs

Amodei, moron for Northern Nevada. Uniparty.   :wpds_evil: 

Aubergine

I knew without even looking that my guy Matt Rosendale would be there.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

I note that Troy Balderson, who has been a staunch Trump supporter from the beginning, voted AYE.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Neither my prior nor current potted plant RINO is on that list.

But Lauren Boebert is.

Happy go lucky

TT this is helpful, thank you.

My rep is dumb as a rock (no offense to rocks).

Gail Combs

I LIKE rocks, the are useful and sometimes beautiful. The same can not be said of Politicians.

They are more like slime mold… Dog vomit slime mold.

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Valerie Curren

Perfec(kless)tion!

TheseTruths

Tracy Beanz is doing a great job of covering Missouri v. Biden. Her latest is a very long, detailed article in which she outlines the judge’s arguments for granting a temporary injunction which restricts social media companies from censoring speech.

https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/07/11/judge-halts-government-censorship-in-landmark-free-speech-case/

[emphasis mine]

I have been reporting on this case since the day it was filed. For those of you who may be just hearing about it, this is it in a nutshell: The states of Missouri and Louisiana, along with several private Plaintiffs, are suing the United States government, alleging that they pressured social media companies to implement censorship of Americans on their platforms.

The complaint requested expedited discovery and deposition in order to obtain a temporary injunction. This was granted…

On July 4th, after over a month of waiting, the judge finally ruled and GRANTED this injunction, which bars social media companies from engaging in meetings, discussions, etc., where the purpose is to flag content or collaborate on censorship…

The order is groundbreaking, but this case is groundbreaking. It is one of the most important civil liberties cases of our lifetimes. I implore you to look at my pinned tweet, as the thread is highly detailed and covers everything thus far. Before we continue, a round of applause for one of the only judges left with the cajoles to do the right thing. He should be commended…

We are about to go through the entire filing, all 155 pages of it, so that you can see what is ACTUALLY discussed instead of the nonsense that is being fed [by the media].

This order was painstakingly written. It has now been appealed, but there is no stay in place, meaning this order will be in effect until the appeal is heard or until the motion for a stay is granted. I am of the firm belief that no appellate court judge will be able to read this and overturn the injunction. You will see why in a moment.

Here is the link to the 155-page document we will be dissecting now. It is laid out into sections and details what each agency has done in blatant disregard for the Constitution. The information contained within is all based on discovery obtained in order to argue for this injunction in the first place.

What is so striking is that all of this is what the judge wrote in his ruling; it is not the attorneys’ arguments.

TheseTruths

In his introduction, the judge points out that the censorship almost EXCLUSIVELY targeted conservative speech. This was a point he asked about in the hearing. The government’s reply was that 99% of all “misinformation” just happens to come from the right….. Marinate on that for a moment…

He then goes on to educate the government on the First Amendment, with quotes from our founders discussing its importance. The very reason it exists, he says, is to “invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.

The case alleges several topics of censorship, and more have been added as the case has gone on, but here is the list. All of these elements have already been PROVEN in limited expedited discovery.

The topics censored and suppressed:

1. The Hunter Biden Laptop Story prior to the 2020 election

2. The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin

3. The efficacy of masks and COVID lockdowns

4. The efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines

5. Election Integrity in the 2020 Presidential Election

6. The security of voting by mail

7. Parody Content about the government

8. Negative posts about the economy

9. Negative posts about Joe Biden.

This lists incident after incident of the government pressuring social media to suppress speech, with screenshots from the judge’s ruling. It’s all there in black and white.

TheseTruths

The FBI maintains a round-the-clock “command center” to receive and deliver reports of misinformation and disinformation. There are as many as 12 FBI agents present for all of this, and before each election cycle, the FBI, CISA, and others would meet with Social Media companies to discuss “disinformation.” They also used encrypted channels to communicate.

Before the election, the FBI and others mentioned the possibility of “hack and dump” operations. In response to this, social media companies updated their policy to prove that posting “hacked” materials violates them. Couldn’t have a repeat of the Podesta and DNC emails.

From what I saw of Christopher Wray in the hearings, he has an amazing ability to weasel out of responsibility for anything. IMO it’s time to stop questioning him and to impeach him based on what is already known. I think there is plenty of evidence of FIB misconduct on his watch.

TradeBait2

^^^ This. Hearings are theater. Impeach to send the message.

Time to take sides. Refusing to push to the point of taking a side reveals what side you are really on.

Choose this day…

kalbokalbs

Yup.

Been hollering, Impeach The Bastards for a long, long time.

Cuppa Covfefe

Fey Wray… someone wicked this way (Wray) comes…

pgroup2

Your closing sentence is not accurate. Judges rarely write their own orders; the attorneys submit proposed orders for the judge to use as a base. Most of the contents of a court order or opinion is what the prevailing attorney wrote.

TheseTruths

Thank you for that clarification.

pgroup2

Just didn’t want anybody to get an inflated view of judges.  😆 

Seriously though, a team of highly qualified paralegals put that together. I have never produced anything close to that quality level and I think I’m a fairly decent paralegal [retired]. It is [IMO] a serious effort to win an appeal before the appeal is even filed. High level thinking.

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Cuppa Covfefe

Here come da judge 🙂

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

It looks like this dude is a pretty good wordsmith, in that it SOUNDS like he skilllfully molded THEIR stuff into his, without appearing to have sloppily plagiarized.

LINK: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0_1.pdf

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Valerie Curren

Similar to how CONgress rarely writes its own laws, which are written/manipulated by the lobbyists 🙁

Gail Combs

Lobbyist SHOULD BE OUTLAWED!

CONgress is supposed to represent the interest of their constituents not the interest of some foreign government or international corporation.

Valerie Curren

Absolutely!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

People will lobby so long as congress has the powers it has assumed. And Congress likes it this way.

You can try to ban it. They’ll find a loophole. Congress will leave one.

If you manage to close the loopholes, it will just go underground, and congress will make sure it never gets enforced.

Gail Combs

PLEASE post a Tracy Beanz thread reader app. Once you have that you can get access to others.

Valerie Curren

Insights from Badlands on gaymania in the culture…

Our Take: “Gay is the new cool? Well, that’s what we’re being led to believe.
We’re told it’s genetic, that people are born gay, bi, trans, etc. Then again, we’re also told that anyone can decide, by fiat, whatever they want, and then it becomes reality.
It’s all very confusing. And that’s the point.

The truth is, sexuality is one part nature and ten parts nurture.

Unlike our animal cousins, we actually build the internal structures of mind and consciousness that determine our sense of identity and resulting behavior. This internal mind and reality mapping, so to speak, occurs within the womb, all the way up to around 5 or 6 years of age.

The fact that humans can, despite our natural inheritance, choose to be gay, bi, trans, or whatever else, proves that human free will is real and that when it aligns with untruth, it creates problems. It also proves that when our culture, the nurture part of the equation, is sick and toxic, it causes distortions as we see in the LGBTQ community.

As proof of this supposition, we know that nearly all LGBTQ+ types have at least one Adverse Childhood Experience, if not many. If this was just a natural feature of humanity, why does it require a disturbed childhood to come online?

Psychologically, it’s not possible to entertain two mutually exclusive propositions at once. You can’t believe the sky is up and down at the same time—without paying a terrible price, that is.

The price?

Your soul. By this, I mean, the part of a person that has integrity, that is coherent, stable, and able to grow with time, without degrading or losing cohesion. Since the truth lasts forever, when we align with truth, in always possible, we create a stable identity, we nurture ourselves with the proper spiritual food God provided us.
But when we feed untruth to our children and develop minds via culture, we manufacture aberrant conditions in the human organism. This, I argue, is what caused the huge spike in LGBTQ+ identities within universities et al—because these young people grew up and were reared in the toxic cultural soup we’re only now becoming aware of, such as social media, porn, distorted sexual practices, gender-bending trends, and many other soul-bending influences.

That being said, we cannot discard those who were adversely affected. I would argue, we need to treat everyone the same way Jesus did, opening the door to all who are willing to walk through it, opening the truth to all in the hopes it will restore sanity.
When choices are made out of alignment with the truth, chaos, suffering, emotional turmoil and intellectual confusion are the result, visited upon the creature in their life experience. This negative feedback acts as a guide to encourage the creature to align back with the truth. If the creature persists in making choices out of alignment with the truth, the creature becomes increasingly detached from reality, leading to what we call insanity and mental illness. Eventually, they can covet anti-values, such as pedophilia, suppression of the rights of others, and the killing of the most innocent.

Sound familiar?

The culture warfare agenda has been unleashed onto humanity and it has wreaked havoc. This trend with our universities is just one of the warning signals we should pay attention to.

We have, in our good faith, ceded control of our culture to psychopaths and criminals. If we want to avoid the horrors we’re seeing now in the future, I would argue, we must learn to retake our culture, understand how it works precisely, and restore the avenues whereby each of us can play our part in the grand cultural symphony that is human civilization, for the benefit of ourselves and posterity.” — 
Justin Deschamps

https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-news-brief-3f0

Valerie Curren

from the comments, I’ve never heard of this anywhere…does anyone know if this is remotely legit or another type of disinfo to get MAGA types chasing robot rabbits?

Terry Kayser
Writes Terry’s Substack
Jul 12
My own research into vaccines led me to a profound answer I was not expecting to find or hear.
For the last 20+ years the pharmaceutical industry has been putting DNA from men and women in these vaccines.
If you were a male ready to get a set of 10 shots and six of those ten were female DNA, guess what? Yep, the DNA binds with this person and could “confuse” them into thinking they’re “gay” or “homosexual”
Honestly this and traumatic events are the cause of this massive movement.

https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-news-brief-3f0/comment/18470519

kalbokalbs

Slow guy figures, laughable. (Read the post, not the article.)

Smells like something created to “bad mouth”, folks questioning safety AND effectiveness of vaccines. The latter a legitimate concern.

Similar to what they do to folks that KNOW Covid vaccines ARE dangerous, ineffective…

slowcreekno

Sounds like the old «girl cooties» or «boy cooties» thing from grade school…

On the DNA level, the only difference between male and female is whether there is a Y chromosome. All the rest will be similar to both — after all, everyone’s set of DNA is going to be half female-origin, from their mom’s egg and half male-origin, from their dad’s sperm.

Valerie Curren

We had “girl spray” & “boy spray” on the grade school playground back in the day LOL

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Sadly, this is about as accurate as flat earth, no virus, and no nukes. Very typically “badlands”, unfortunately.

Valerie Curren

TY for weighing in on that crapola!

Hope your Summer is going well & your Honey-Do list is manageable.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

We’re getting by! Maybe a ground report later!

Valerie Curren

Waiting with bated breath 🙂

Happy go lucky

I’ve read it before but don’t have a link. Actually what I’ve read is that it’s the aborted fetal cell DNA. There’s definitely something going on IMO. I live in a university town, and there is a generational shift in how young men look, I’ll guesstimate young to mid millennials, so around 25 to say 35 year olds. They have hips and behinds like women, literally look like women from waist to knee. It seems to be not very common in the first of the Gen Z. I used to think it was soy in the food stream 🤷‍♀️

Valerie Curren

soy boi sorrows 🙁

I appreciate these intriguing anecdotes. Maybe those college towns have a higher percentage than “normal” of feminized males…for some “unknown” reason 😉

mollypitcher5

No hard work ? No corner BB games. No weekend football with friends ? No hiking ? No yard work ?

Valerie Curren
Valerie Curren

Here Code Monkey does a quick insightful analysis on Sweden, Turkey, NATO, EU, & the Quran burning,,,quick read…

https://codemonkeyz.substack.com/p/behind-diplomatic-shadows

Valerie Curren

The prevalence of unconventional warfare in this era highlights the crucial role played by psychological operations. Therefore, the cardinal principle that all messages should be rooted in truth must dictate the design of successful psyops.”

https://codemonkeyz.substack.com/p/understanding-psyops

GA/FL

Mojitos remind me of that exciting TV show – Burn Notice.

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

Valerie Curren

Yep, Sam Axe!!!

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phoenixrising

HUMOR:

via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13488 click link for images

“Hollywood actors begin the biggest strike in history. The protest will be attended by 160,000 actors, including stars of the first magnitude.

One of the main reasons for the controversy is that major film studios have offered all actors to sign contracts that allow their appearance to be scanned and used to create prototypes based on artificial intelligence. In other words, create exact copies of the stars and use them instead of the “originals”. Have you watched the new episode of Black Mirror on this topic? And the guys again predicted the future very accurately! Well, either Netflix simply stated a fact, to which, among other things, they themselves were involved.

From July 14, film studios will stop work on “Gladiator 2” with Paul Mescal and the second part of the picture “Mortal Kombat”. Filming of the next season of the series “House of the Dragon” remains in doubt. Also, due to the protest movement of artists, the Emmy ceremony may be postponed.”

kalbokalbs

Hollyweird going on strike IS great news. Hope they remain on strike, for years.

Nothing lost. America wins.

phoenixrising

Agree!

kalbokalbs

  :wpds_arrow:  Can’t see ya being in the minority on this. Secure creativity. Makes sense.

On a broader thought, I find Hollywood repulsive.

phoenixrising

I hear you DePat …

My observation of current creativity in Hollywood is that it is driven by TPTB to reflect it’s agenda (actually this has been the case for decades.) and the result is unpalatable for me, and many others I think…

I agree with regard to AI … it’s just that in this instance the two are somewhat convoluted (? sorry, can’t get right words here)… as usual, in my view anyway, the grievance is about $$$ –

Cuppa Covfefe

Interestingly enough, with HollyWeird all out on strike, more people will be available (as it were) to watch “Sound Of Freedom”…

What’s not to like? 🙂

Having said that, the thought of AI is anathema to me. Although the term itself is just lipstick on a very old pig (expert systems), first commercialized by IBM and its medical infosystem “ELIZA” (which some said would do little real work)…
It supposedly “outshrinked a shrink”…

Now it’s just got more computing power behind it, but little else.

But a lot of potential for misuse and damage, much of that due to YSM/MCM hype and misunderstanding (or propaganda). Operation Mockingbird’s dropppings all over the place yet again…

pgroup2

Tom Cruise does a good job with his Mission Impossible franchise. It seems to me that there has to be a good ‘base idea’ first, then franchise can be done well. Otherwise, it’s just more CGI.

mollypitcher5

I hope it red pills a lot of them. Things are weird . All the conspiracy theories being shown to be truth. AI threatening not only writers but the actors too…and warehouse workers, fruit harvesters, etc, etc, etc

TheseTruths

Red pills, yes. I don’t blame them for striking, and I think they’re doing the right thing. Their not working won’t affect me, though.. 😊

pgroup2

Yes it will. Movies like Sound of Freedom also will be unable to be made.

barkerjim
Valerie Curren

I don’t think the Kendrick brothers operate out of Hollywood & they created quite a few good wholesome movies like Fireproof & War Room.

barkerjim

Indy is short for Independent and hollywood is not involved.

Valerie Curren

yes TY, but I was replying to pgroup who’d only just mentioned Pedowood…

Gail Combs

Sound of Freedom and Indy films WILL be made. Perhaps on a shoestring but I think people will prefer watching REAL people and not AI

pgroup2

No movies can be made using actors that are members of the Screen Actors Guild.

Valerie Curren

predictive programming?

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

LOL! I need to watch this one!

Valerie Curren

It wasn’t a bad reboot of the Blade Runner franchise iirc 🙂

Cuppa Covfefe

One disturbing Graffito from the 1970s in the Sillycone Valley comes to mind:

“Be careful of the new-hire you’re showing the ropes to. You could be training your own replacement”…..

Happened a lot back then, and then in 2001, 2008, other “bust” years. Only the last few bunches were H-1B programmers (or the European equivalent) from India…

To be honest, artificial “intelligence” might produce slightly better pablum and drivel than the current crap crop of REAL stupidity in unHollyWeird…

Gail Combs

The top directing the ‘creation’ will still be the same. So it will be AI created REALLY stupid pablum and drivel.

duchess01

Verse of the Day for Friday, July 14, 2023

“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.” 

Isaiah 40:8 (KJV)

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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!

Happy go lucky

Isaiah is my dad’s favorite. He is so forgetful now, but he still loves to work Isaiah verses into conversation; it is truly written on his heart 🥹

Gail Combs

Try Coconut oil.

Coconut oil’s medium-length chains are easily absorbed and go straight to the liver where, unlike other fats, they’re quickly metabolized (i.e. converted) into energy as special molecules called “ketones.”

Ketones can be a great brain fuel, and have been shown to help with several brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.

Ketones can be a great brain fuel, and have been shown to help with several brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.

HOW MCTS CAN HELP WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

Coconut has been called a “potential cognitive strengthener” when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease, and it’s all because of those ketones.

Basically, your brain uses carbohydrates as its primary fuel. However, in people with Alzheimer’s, there appears to be a reduced ability to use carbohydrates in certain parts of the brain. In fact, this change has been observed in people before they went on to develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s, so that makes it even more important for all of us.

Because ketones are one of the brain’s “backup” fuels, researchers have been studying the use of ketones from MCTs as an alternative energy source for those malfunctioning brain cells.

In addition to their role as brain fuel, ketones have also been shown to help protect brain neurons from the negative effects of beta-amyloid peptide (the stuff responsible for forming the brain plaques found in Alzheimer’s patients), which can start to accumulate in the brain years before symptoms of Alzheimer’s appear…

https://neurotrition.ca/blog/your-brain-coconut-oil

Slide Show: https://restorativemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Newport.Ketones.pdf

Lion’s Mane Mushroom is another food that can help brain function (I asked Aubergine and she said it is well known.)

…This article aims to take a closer look at the Lion’s Mane mushroom. This includes what it might help with and what the science behind it says. It will also take a look at what users have to say about Lion’s Mane.

This article is mostly going to focus on decoding what the human studies are saying about Lion’s Mane and how this squares up with the anecdotal experiences of Biohackers online….

One of the biggest draws of Lion’s Mane is its neuroprotective properties. Lion’s mane mushroom can be used to help protect against the onset of dementia. In other words, it has the potential to help retain mental functions such as memory and general cognition. These mushrooms contain two compounds, called hericenones and erinacines, that are known to help stimulate brain cell growth. In animal studies, it has also shown the potential to help with serious neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease….

https://roselandj.medium.com/lions-mane-the-best-nootropic-mushroom-bc0c00c054ee

Finally, Hubby (80) was having a lot of problems with balance and falling to the point he had to start using a cane and had trouble with the stairs. HAMBURGER WORKED WONDERS! He had not been eating much of the beef I cooked because it was too had for him to chew so now he eats meatloaf. — 3 lb hamburger, cup oatmeal (Quick oats, 1/4 cup water, 3 raw eggs, spices and cook to 160F

Now I have to get him to eat the coconut oil consistently (He quit when it went liquid in this heat wave and is now back on the cane…) And we need to order Lions Mane.

https://goascentnutrition.com/products/lions-mane-mushroom
Save 15% with Promo Code DEFECTED

Defected is Burning Bright and Just Human @ Badlands.

Happy go lucky

Thank you Gail 💕

Valerie Curren

That’s so beautiful 

Happy go lucky

💕

Cuppa Covfefe

How wonderful!

Isaiah 40:31 is one of my favorite verses:

28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Happy go lucky

💕

duchess01

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.

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duchess01

BE MY VOICE

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

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RDS

Thank you for these. Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog. Be well.

Valerie Curren

God Bless YOU, Duchess, & thank you for your continuing ministry of light & love!

phoenixrising

“ Washington is trying with all its might to keep NATO cracking at the seams, but these attempts are doomed to failure ,” retired US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor said in an interview with Stephen Gardner.

According to him, the Western military bloc is reminiscent of the sinking Titanic, which crashed when it collided with an iceberg – Ukraine.

click link for vid clip https://t.me/sv_lavrov/7968
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China recalled that NATO is in “bloody debt” to Beijing

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying warned the West against trying to create an analogue of NATO in Asia . It sounded menacing.

“We have not forgotten NATO’s bloody debt to China for the bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia. The countries of the Asia-Pacific region are against the military machine, especially the “Asia-Pacific version of NATO”, which ignites bloc confrontation or a new cold war,” she tweeted.
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pgroup2

Uh-oh. They remember.

Cuppa Covfefe

Seems we’re (read: TPTB of the “West”) the only ones who don’t…..

… condemned to repeat it…

barkerjim
kalbokalbs

Great job shredding Kerry.

Cuppa Covfefe

Lurch should be a used-car salesman.

In RED China… or Ukraine…

Gail Combs

Red China…

Cuppa Covfefe

Wow. And in Michael Manniac’s backyard, as it were…

TradeBait2

Will not kill. Maim, seriously injure, whatever. There will be a response. But the petro dollar is dead as the world currency. When facilitators exist for other forms of currency exchange – the dollar gets reduced in usage and value. That is what is happening with BRICS.

phoenixrising

The world doesn’t need a ‘world currency’ … it needs sovereignty … individual national sovereignty, not the US Hegemon bullying the RoW with it’s ‘baseball bat’ the petro dollar.

Americans delude themselves thinking ‘the war is over there’ … it’s going to be very painful for Americans.

It’s my thought that BRICs will be backing their currency with a mixed basket of commodities … I think you agree TradeBait

pgroup2

That makes the most sense. However that basket will be backed by gold. Rubles already are. Most likely, it will be gold denominated rather than the gold standard the way America used to do it.

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phoenixrising

Agree …

phoenixrising

They’re in a hurry, aren’t they…

Shopping in Kroger yesterday I heard a computer voice over the PA system calling out individual employees (numbers) to pick up phone, etc. First time I’ve experienced that…

Gail Combs

I had a store manager try to get me to use an automated checkout station. I said NO!, I use cash. He then said he would teach me how to use the auto checkout, at which point I said I am NOT interested in putting people out of work AND I am NOT interested in Bank Digital currency, ‘Social Credit scores and the store recording what I buy.

I got chuckles and applause.

Valerie Curren

w/o reading the article it sounds like the precursor to an infinitely worse version of phone “customer service” hell, being routed to an AI that may just invent an answer, like that flawed AI based brief the lawyer gave to the judge. Outsourced CS to India at least allowed for Actual human interactions in theoretical customer service…

in the comments to the above…in replying to someone wanting to catalog all of Majel Barrett’s voice scenes…

@terragthegreat1752 years ago
I hoping eventually Amazon allows you to set her voice as Alexa’s. Majel Barrett recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds before she died, and AI could fill in the gaps. they’ve got to do it!

I guess that such AI functions could allow people to design their own unique computer interfaces or something…hmmm…

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Cuppa Covfefe

At its most painful and egregious extent, you end up with Eddie, from Hitchhiker’s Guide To Th Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Eddie being a creation of Sirius Cybernetics, a computer with RPP (Real People Personalities), just like Marvin, the Paranoid Android (who was a beta version, apparently).

From https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/eddie

Eddie and the Ship

Eddie is the most annoying shipboard computer in the history of science fiction, and that includes all science fiction that has not yet been written. Eddie is in charge of the Heart of Gold, including all of its doors and elevators.

When we first meet Eddie, he (or it, if you prefer) is relentlessly cheery—which is totally annoying. For instance, the doors on the ship thank people for using them: “‘Thank you,’ it said, ‘for making a simple door very happy'” (13.15). Marvin is especially annoyed by these doors, and we can’t blame him. There’s something a little distressing about a computer being programmed to enjoy being used.

(Digression: In the anthology The Anthology at the End of the Universe, science fiction author Bruce Bethke tells of a time in the mid-’80s when he was at a hotel with talking elevators that thanked people for staying at the hotel. After a few days, he noticed that someone had put up a plaque saying that the elevator was a product of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation, the same corporation that produced Eddie.)

Eddie is just the same as the doors when we first meet him—er, it. When the owners talk to it, Eddie just vomits up love and appreciation:

“Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me” (16.7).

A simple “hi” or “thanks” or “pleased to meet you” would really be enough. But the fact that Eddie and the doors go on and on about how happy they are really makes them kind of annoying.

What makes the whole thing disturbing, though, is that Eddie’s personality can be changed with a simple flick of a switch. When they land on Magrathea, Zaphod says that he changed Eddie’s personality. Instead of being happy and cheerful (the opposite of Marvin), Eddie is now, after Zaphod’s changes, like an overbearing mother, telling people “I want you all wrapped up snug and warm, and no playing with any naughty bug-eyed monsters” (19.16).

This is just as annoying—both to the characters and to us—as Eddie’s original personality. And let’s just point this out that if personalities can be changed so easily here, who’s to say that they can’t change to something truly bad? We’re creeped out. Almost as creeped out as we are when the mice ask Arthur to give up his brain—but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

(A fomer colleague of mine was probably the role model for Eddie’s personality, right down to the annoying perkiness. He moved to Silicon Valley to get away from LA, but LA wasn’t able to get away from him, so to speak…)…

HHGTTG has a wonderful description of Sirius Cybernetics, which is probably evocative of what will happen with AI eventually…

The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With.”

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,” with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”

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Valerie Curren

Fascinating! I keep meaning to see that movie 🙂 & read the book (assuming the movie is based on a book, a book almost always being better!)  😇 

cthulhu

Actually, the movie, TV miniseries, radio show, and book are all different.

Valerie Curren

The ever expanding, creative, & encyclopedic minds of Q-Treepers see & know all! 😉 TY

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I prefer the books. The one movie I saw really didn’t capture it.

Cuppa Covfefe

It started off as a radio show, then a TV show, then books (originally a trilogy) were made from that; up to five or six, now usually sold in an omnibus edition.

The scripts are available on the web as “Fit the first”, “Fit the second”, etc. and provide the unvarnished source.

It’s been translated into many languages (including German), and the British English and US English versions are different (I prefer the british one, though I can’t find my full set of either… off to the interwebs I go).

Adams has also written other books, among them “The Meaning of Liff”, which gives new meaning to city names (Skegness, for instance). Also, “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”, “The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul”, and “Last Chance To See”, a documentary about animals nearing extinction…

Brilliant, funny mind, but irreverent in many senses of the word… seems to go with the sci-fi territory, sad to say…..

Valerie Curren

Thank you for these details! I enjoy sci fi for its creativity & unusual visions of the future. I enjoy steampunk for its creativity & reimagining of a fictitious past.

I once read a young adult book that had time travel & parallel universes. In that book the Russian Revolution either hadn’t happened or had failed & the Czar & family had survived. Such a fun way to envision a past or future in a “what might have been” vision. Similarly “The Man in the High Castle” book envisioned America as if we’d lost WWII & Germany & Japan had carved up the US w/ separate regions of control & a small neutral zone buffering those totalitarian national prison camps.

Amazon Prime has done a series based on the Man in the High Castle that has such an interesting vibe. They have America arrested technologically & culturally in the ’40’s though the events are, iirc, happening in the ’60’s. It’s like seeing those old cars in Cuba & not being sure exactly when in history certain images are taken.

I like how this video portrays the ages & possibilities. I wonder what Scarlett Johansson film many of these clips are from?

There’s, per usual, lots of info here too 🙂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

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ROBERT BAKER

“I like how this video portrays the ages & possibilities. I wonder what Scarlett Johansson film many of these clips are from?”

I think there are two clips for Scarlett. The first is “Ghost in the Shell” and the second where she is sitting in a chair is “Lucy”. Lucy is quite a good film if you like science fiction.

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Valerie Curren

Thank you for this info!!! I hadn’t heard of either of these movies…Now I’m checking to see if we have access to either of them via Netflix (no but they have a couple cartoon series based on Ghost in the Shell) or Amazon Prime, they have Lucy to rent so I watched the preview for free 🙂 ditto her GitS, but there is a GitS animated film, remastered from the original we can watch for free. Both the movies look interesting!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

There was an “alternate history” where the American revolution had failed, George W had met George III and somehow hammered out the differences. In essence the British Commonwealth with multiple countries sharing the same monarch came about then, instead of later. (Benjamin Franklin actually suggested such in 1760 or so before Parliament became totally intransigent about trying to rule us.)

The book was titled The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove; the plot concerned the theft of a painting by that name by separatists just before King Charles’ visit to the North American Union (Combined Canada and US) with Alaska still belonging to Russia and Latin America belonging to a combined Spain and France.

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Valerie Curren

TY I hadn’t heard of this. I think Newt Gingrich might have written some alternative histories from the WWII era.

found this on our library system

Days of infamyby Gingrich, Newt.SummaryThe “New York Times”-bestselling authors of “Pearl Harbor” return with the second novel in their action-packed World War II historical series, which examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. Illustrated.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I don’t know if that one is related to the Gingrinch/Fortschen book 1946.

Valerie Curren

me neither…here’s Wikipoo’s take:

FictionGingrich co-wrote the following alternate history novels and series of novels with William R. Forstchen.

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

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Doesn’t sound like it, and I got the title wrong. It was begging for a sequel.

Valerie Curren

Maybe one’s in the works 🙂

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Yes, but Eddie was in the space time continuum.

Valerie Curren

Aren’t we all 😉 😉

Cuppa Covfefe

Looking for Slartibartfaster 🙂

And now, for a spot of tea…. “Share and Enjoy”  🙃 

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Dora

BREAKING: Fed-Protected J6 Provocateur Ray Epps Sues FOX for Defamation… Tucker Carlson and Revolver News in Crosshairs…
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phoenixrising

Excellent observations DePat …

barkerjim

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Also one over the cat’s mouth. It’d be yowling otherwise.

Valerie Curren

At least lizards are quiet, even if they raise a heck of a stench!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Many can hiss…which means you don’t want to try to approach them.

Valerie Curren

Fortunately Darwin has appropriated the “tame” personality of his master so has no such nasty habits! 😉

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

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Valerie Curren

hmmm

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

“Fortunately Darwin did not appropriate the personality of his master so he had no such nasty habits!”

Fixed it for you.

In all seriousness, he could get very upset, like the time I accidentally rolled
into him with an office chair. That took him about ten minutes to get over; be
fore that fingers and noses would have been fair game. Oddly enough he seemed t
o suffer no permanent injury. I have no idea to this day what part of him I hit; I just know I felt resistance and instantly stopped, and he was boiling mad.

Valerie Curren

Wow. Is he the type of creature that can re-grow body parts to some degree? That would be a bit of a safety net on injuries if so!

Cuppa Covfefe

Cat should be outside, FAR outside, taped to the wall, duct-tape-mummified…

Gives a whole new meaning to grey tabby 🙂

Aubergine

These people are morons.

It makes no difference how De Wind Sock performs. He is a cover band, and the original is still playing to record crowds.

This is not hard, rich donor-people. If you want a Republican President come 2025, get behind Trump. Otherwise, you will get whomever the commies nominate and run, even if it is Camel Harris.

You can take that to the bank.

kalbokalbs

Agree. Quite common MeThinks.

Not just Epstein related stuff. Clinton Crime Family. Briben crime Family. IRS whistleblowers.

Wherever witnessed need to be silenced – “offed” works.

To some degree, “offed”, may be replacing, destroying physical evidence by fire, flood… Or data destroyed, goes missing, like “J6 bomb” pics…

FIB AND DOJ, play their “cover up” roles. Confirming.

  • Nothing To See Here. Move Along.
Cuppa Covfefe

Have to wonder about John McAfee, too… His hangout in the islands was not too far from Epstein’s island, and he likely saw and “heard” things that TPTB would rather that he neither saw nor heard… one could say, “the man who knew too much”…

On a side note, it’s terrible what Intel and others have done to what once was a great AV program. There’s a hilarious, although likely NSFW YouTube of John McAfee explaining how to deinstall Intel’s flavor of McAfee Antivirus…

RDS

IMO, Ron DeepState was trying to be “the kinder, gentler” version of Donald Trump, and couldn’t make it stick.
Don’t know about Ron DeepState “has excelled as Florida’s chief executive — he wasn’t smart enough to realize how Disney could run circles around him regarding the tax issues? Ron DeepState had to play catch-up game on that one.

ROBERT BAKER

I think your answer is there in your nickname for the man. Most of the politicians who care about America even a little are trying to be the “inside the system” version of Trump. So far it hasn’t convinced too many ordinary Americans.

kalbokalbs

Thankfully AND never will sway MAGA types.

Gotta believe Americans in general are waking up.

OKAY, I’m hoping, Americans in general are waking up.

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mollypitcher5

The Dem party has nothing to offer by way of accomplishments. The economy is in shambles. Schools are infested with groomers and those usurping parental rights.
They’re threatening taxing miles traveled.
Housing is falling apart, owners being forced to rent to people who the govt says.
Food prices off the charts. Shortages.
Slow creep of vax injury being exposed.
Trillions of dollars for proxy war and now admitting we’ll be sending our military in.
Felons running free. Stores looted daily.

Biden is an embarrassment. Kamala is an idiot. Newsome is a slick player with his own State falling apart. Michelle O ? No way she’d give up her celebrity lifestyle now. Any number of race baiters with the tired message of oppression
They got nothing and nobody that can really run on the fumes of American destruction that their big guy Biden has brought.

phoenixrising

I gave up on who is running (yes, I know I am alone in my position here) … it’s a long time between now and Nov 2024 in terms of world events … there may not be an election … I’ll stop there.

mollypitcher5

very possible

kalbokalbs

Only two things matter there.

  1. Trump is running.
  2. Hopefully, there will be a 2024 election.
Valerie Curren

Even if Trump wins again (which he would even more massively than 2020) if the fraud machine isn’t thwarted, & it hasn’t been, how will he be seated in his legit office? I have Very Little Hope for elections. We did NOT vote the commies in so what makes any sane person think we could possibly vote them out!!!

RDS

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/07/14/washington-is-begging-for-a-preemptive-nuclear-attack-from-russia/
by Paul Craig Roberts
Yours Truly: If one is reading Mr. Roberts’ article correctly, ti appears he believes the United States government will go to nuclear war with Russia in order to protect the U.S.-funded bioweapon labs all over Ukraine.
FTA: “The Washington Dumbshits are encouraging Russia to wipe out the U.S. in a desperate act of self-preservation.”

And, not least:
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/07/14/this-day-in-history-french-revolutionaries-storm-the-bastille-1789-4/

kalbokalbs

IMO.

  • Doubtful Russia will go nuclear at this point.
  • But are capable of first strike with nuke(s).
  • US will not go nuclear, unless, Russia nukes first.

What I don’t get.

  • Why has Russia NOT published what they’ve found in the biolabs.
  • There are enough forums, that once the information is made public, it can’t be stopped.
  • Even as information is being sifted through, get past accusations.
  • Deliver known facts. Publish updates.
  • Russia COULD seize the narrative, if it chooses to do so.
phoenixrising

They published a good bit on US biolabs, and they took the case to the UN…

where it resides…

The RF will hold tribunals…

pgroup2

^^^^this^^^^

kalbokalbs

Agree. Understand. Them tribunals need to be widely watched AND International. Otherwise, they will not gain traction. Tribunals need to be successful.

Valerie Curren

Here’s hoping Scott’s take is accurate, shared yesterday here:

https://www.theqtree.com/2023/07/13/dear-maga-open-thread-20230713/#comment-1124152

Putin also knows that nuking the U.S. wouldn’t just be pointless, it would be doing the lawless U.S. regime a favor, because nobody wants us all dead more than they do.

A = lawless U.S. regime
B = Russia
C = American People

If A nukes B, it makes no sense for B to nuke C. It only makes sense for B to retaliate against A.

Attacking C accomplishes nothing for B. Instead, if B attacks C, it actually helps A.
Normally, a government represents the People of a nation, so if you are at war with a nation, you are at war with the People and their government. But the governments of the West don’t represent the People of the West in the slightest. They represent someone’s interests, but it’s definitely not the interests of the People.

Putin certainly knows who those someones are.

The whole concept of ‘mutually assured destruction’ only works if both sides are legitimately defending and protecting their own People.

If one party to the conflict isn’t, then the concept fails.

Putin is protecting his country and the Russian People, but the lawless U.S. regime obviously isn’t.

So there is no leverage behind a threat by Putin to attack the U.S. homeland, because it would not hurt the Brandon regime, it would be doing the Brandon regime a favor.
Putin also knows that Trump will win the 2024 election easily, so long as he has a plan to overcome Cabal cheating. And Putin knows that Trump doesn’t want war with anyone.

So it would appear to be in Putin’s interest to just keep doing what he’s doing, at least until the 2024 election.

The Brandon regime will do everything possible to provoke the Russian Bear, but this bear is smarter than the clown show behind the U.S. Puppetent.

The lawless U.S. regime can’t initiate a nuclear strike without becoming a global pariah, so as long as Putin doesn’t use nuclear weapons, no nuclear exchange can occur.

The lawless U.S. regime could do a nuclear strike on Ukraine though, and then blame the Russians, providing themselves an excuse to nuke Russia, in the same way that they blamed the Russians for destroying their own Nordstream pipelines and other targets, which no one in the world believes they actually did, it’s just an absurd fantasy the Western media tells themselves.

kalbokalbs

Rather sure Putin knows who the enemy is. Which starts with District of Criminals.

Valerie Curren

1,000%!

Cuppa Covfefe

He’s said it numerous times in speeches, and repeatedly stressed as well that it’s not the American people who are the problem…..

Just looking at how the Deep State and DEMONRATS (but I repeat myself) vilify everything and everyone that’s good or well-intentioned, it’s no surprise that “Russia, Russia, Russia” has been pushed for decades as the “Dark Side”, when, in point of fact, it’s just another lie manufactured by the Klowns in Action. Mockingbird redux…

scott467

“Rather sure Putin knows who the enemy is. Which starts with District of Criminals.”

______________

I’m not even sure they’re near the top of the ladder.

Hussein is above them, Sorass and Gates are above Hussein (because $$$), WEF appears to be above them, and WEF definitely isn’t the top of the food chain, just the highest (or higher) visible link.

District of Criminals are probably the equivalent of a street gang in the global new world disorder.

They can be had for $10k each. Gates has more than that lost in his couch.

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phoenixrising

I will … as soon as I wake up from it …🙃

barkerjim

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mollypitcher5

It’s clear as the glitter on your body. The ideal fit body is naked or swathed in feathers or obese wearing spandex or furry bunny suits. Formerly the military had fit members. Now many are slovenly and unable to complete the regimen.

Coding fitness as far right will be another crack in the Leftist brand. People aren’t stupid.

Dora

BREAKING: Fed-Protected J6 Provocateur Ray Epps Sues FOX for Defamation… Tucker Carlson and Revolver News in Crosshairs…
https://www.revolver.news/2023/07/breaking-fed-protected-j6-provocateur-ray-epps-sues-fox-for-defamation-tucker-carlson-and-revolver-news-in-crosshairs/?utm_source=left-rail-latest

RDS

Something interesting here — rubbery bloodclots in an UN-“vaccinated” patient who had COVID-19 infection:

https://anamhalceamdphd.substack.com/p/c19-unvaccinated-have-some-blood
“C19 Unvaccinated Have Same Blood Clotting Problem As C19 Vaccinated – EDTA And Vitamin C Prevents Blood Clotting In C19 Unvaccinated”
by Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD
July 13, 2023

Linda

Good grief! The whole country is doomed then. Unless they take nattokinase.

mollypitcher5

Is it possible misinfo to deflect from the vax facts ? That way they can point to cv not the jab ?

kalbokalbs

Yes. My first thought.

RDS

IMO, it’s a complicated issue. There’s the question of exactly what the “ingredients” are, and in what amounts, in the original Wuhan Hu1 COVID-19 virus. Then, apparently the lab work on the blood was performed in Dr. Mihalcea’s office lab.

Cuppa Covfefe

EDTA… interesting…

There’s been a lot of flak about EDTA for a few years now, as it’s a preservative in many meds (e.g. contact lens cleaning solution, etc.) and supposedly causes problems…

Could that flak perhaps be because the anti-clotting/anti-fibrin beneficial effects were known, and slated to be silenced, much like Ivermectin and HCQ….

Aubergine

Well, there is the shedding problem.

Was the person having intimate relations with a vaxxed? I ask because I not only saw personality and health changes in vaxxed people around me, but in other people I knew were not vaxxed, but were sexually involved with someone who was.

More than one way to be “injected” I think.

Cuppa Covfefe

They got a building down New York City, it’s called Whitehall Street,

Where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,

Neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one

Day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so

I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning.

‘Cause I wanted to Look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted To feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,

And I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all

Kinds o’ mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave

Me a piece of paper, said, “Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604.”

Seems like Arlo Guthrie saw it years ago…. 🙂

Aubergine

Great lyrics!

Cuppa Covfefe

From “Alice’s Restaurant”, a classic album…

Arlo also sang “City of New Orleans” about a fallen flag train (i.e. one being discontinued) “This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues”….
(the song was written by Steve Goodman – the story of how it got to Arlo is in Wackypaedia… most folks think Arlo wrote it, but he was the one who made it famous)…

Aubergine

Cool.

pgroup2

I love it when you talk dirty.  😂 

Aubergine

Lol! You kill me!

barkerjim

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pat frederick

Amen!

Valerie Curren

God Given Right=Natural Right!

Dora

I feel as if we are doomed. (Sigh)
===============
While Washington and the nation, at large, is focused on the Southern border, there is a forgotten invasion of Florida.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/13/rep-matt-gaetz-dont-haiti-my-florida/

para59r

And were not even really focused on the Southern Border which just makes matters worse. We just have to know we are going to get “Frenched” soon, either by Biden over the election or China over Taiwan. Or combo if they are working in collusion which is a strong possibility.

Seriously thinks the 3000 call up is just starters and they’ll be followed by more and thus Brandon can toss his hands up and say… “We don’t have the troops (for dealing with Taiwan or getting Frenched in General.

phoenixrising

Don’t forget the “… at one time” in Biden’s EO

Some think Americans have been and are ‘boots on the ground’

phoenixrising

And… may I add… that is with CONVENTIONAL not nuclear weapons… (Andrei is a great teacher of weapons’ abilities … been following him for over a year… Larry Johnson does too.)

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pgroup2

These 3000 are logistics troops, not combat. The US does not have combat reserves, with the exception of a couple of special ops units. This activation is directly due to the military’s failure to recruit sufficiently.

Go woke – go broke.

phoenixrising

via https://t.me/petr_tolstoy/1846

“The law on the prohibition of gender reassignment was adopted in the third, final reading. In addition to the fact that a ban is introduced on any medical manipulations for this purpose, it is now forbidden to adopt children to persons who have changed their sex, and the very fact of such a transformation of one of the spouses is the basis for divorce. An exception is made for cases of congenital anomalies, genetic and endocrine diseases that require such treatment, the decision to start which is made not by the doctor alone, but by the medical commission of a medical institution subordinate to the Ministry of Health.

As in the case of the adoption of the law banning surrogacy for foreigners (read – child trafficking), we met with fierce resistance to the adoption of this initiative at various levels. It is clear that both surrogate motherhood and gender reassignment operations are a very profitable business for some, and for LGBT communities it is a way to increase the number of perverts, a resource for growing influence. Meanwhile, for the country it is a matter of national security. The war is not only on the front line, the war is going on in the heads and souls, and we want to protect our country from being destroyed from within.

I want to thank all the colleagues who got involved in the work, the relevant committee, which did a great job, personally Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin for his tough and principled position.”
————————————————————–

^^^^THIS is what Americans want to hear from our politicians …

but their pockets are so loaded with $$$ they have no will …

pgroup2

Why is the military failing its recruitment targets? Couldn’t be people like this in there already, could it?

https://nypost.com/2023/07/14/army-soldier-craig-chamberlains-transgender-wife-found-dead-during-his-disappearance/

mollypitcher5

I haven’t had enough coffee to understand who’s who and who’s what in that story.

It appears that they’re hitting the desired recruitment targets fairly well but I think it’s smoke and mirrors to announce non citizen recruits.

kalbokalbs

Entry requirements likely lowered to accept dregs of society AND dummies.

singingsoul1

People here from the Hallows used to go into the military to serve the country. They are tough as both leather. They will not put up with transgender stuff. They are not dumb . My husband had many in his class and they are decent people what I have seen.

phoenixrising

mollypitcher5

Bad touch is any touch that makes a child feel uncomfortable, afraid or nervous. Examples include hitting or inappropriate touching of a child’s body.

https://www.utmb.edu/pedi/home/treating-children-well/2020/04/20/good-touch-and-bad-touch

“Please don’t touch my child without asking,” or, “They don’t like it when people touch them.”

Why It Works: Straight and to the point, this one pulls no punches. If someone touches your child, whether it’s to feel their hair, give them a hug, or tickle them, you have a right to tell that person to back off.

When To Use It: When the boundary violation is egregious or when you just don’t have time for BS. Also good for when your child is too young to speak for themselves.

https://www.romper.com/p/9-ways-to-tell-someone-not-to-touch-your-kids-respect-their-space-3915

The pervert in chief at it again using his status and privilege as a shield. Like many molesters who use their position…church people, scout leaders, teachers, family members, coaches. They count on no pushback.
By now anyone with a small girl in the vicinity of FJB has to already know there’s a big chance their child is going to be touched inappropriately. Would they let some saggy dude at the grocery store do this ??? nope

phoenixrising

Mama is at fault here also… imo

she should not have allowed this

mollypitcher5

Agree 100%.

kalbokalbs

May also include the dad. Both screwed up to allow it. Allow their daughter so close to Chief Pervert.

singingsoul1

You are correct.
She could have turned around. I would have told him off. Why do women allow a creep to touch their child ? I do not even let a stranger touch my dog.
Women lost their steel ovaries We always critique guys who are mushrooms😂
Women of the past had guts we protected our kids .

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep.

Inaction is acquiescence, or even approval…

singingsoul1

True

Cuppa Covfefe

Bye,Done is not just an embarrassment to Americans; he’s an embarrassment to REAL MEN, and to the human race, in general.

That pervy behvaiour is so far over the top that it beggars description or understanding…

Unless…it’s scripted????

Millstone time…

mollypitcher5

No way is that scripted. Every pore in his body is oozing demented lech . Creepy Joe

Valerie Curren

shudder, puke, repeat ad nauseum…

barkerjim
bakocarl

Gen Flynn: “May God help us in our daily lives because we’re getting to that point where only He will be able to save us.”

I understand Gen Flynn’s point and point of view . . . but, we have always been at that point where only God can save us.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Amen!

TradeBait2

You identify the primary reason I have never been able to align with this man’s thoughts and opinions.

singingsoul1

Amen

Cuppa Covfefe

AMEN!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy
Cuppa Covfefe

That’ll give them something to chew on 🙂

Valerie Curren

helpful info from comments there 🙂

vaporland
 July 13, 2023 5:38 pm

 Reply to  mycroft
I don’t know about the spiders, but, if you replace everything in a WSJ URL from the ? rightward, with this:
?mod=djemalertNEWS
you can read the wall street journal for free!
for example:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ron-desantis-campaign-trump-republicans-c129381e?mod=djemalertNEWS
when you click another WSJ link on the same page, just replace everything from the ? rightward with ?mod=djemalertNEWS
before:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-feud-freedom-caucus-641b7067?mod=hp_lead_pos9
after:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-feud-freedom-caucus-641b7067?mod=djemalertNEWS
you’re welcome!

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/13/rabbit-faced-baby-found-in-iowa-buck-toothed-mom-chewed-carrots-while-pregnant/comment-page-2/#comment-9997297

Valerie Curren

also in comments, handy AI description & below a way to thwart spiders

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ae5e03971ca4af767c55d514409aa7d4?s=64&r=g
cdquarles
 July 13, 2023 6:51 pm

 Reply to  mycroft
These things are not intelligent. They are massive if-then-elseif scripts coupled to a natural language parser (which is susceptible to error, like anything else man made). Artificial they are. Intelligent they are not. Make them throw an unhandled error ;p, like Kirk and Harry Mudd did. Mudd, the inveterate liar, except when he wasn’t.

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d80ae9fcc0a4fbb4033e5835b77b9545?s=64&r=g
zoom
 July 13, 2023 6:16 pm

 Reply to  mycroft
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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

That’s what I’m thanking you for!

Gail Combs

America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded

Feelings of being exploited. The feeling of being exploited has reached pandemic proportions in the USA. Vast numbers of people believe they are exploited by the police, by white people, by Christians, by “the system,” by men, by Wall Street, by the U.S.A., by corporations, etc. etc. There has been a significant cultural shift away from seeing America as the distinctive land of opportunity in a corrupt, poverty-stricken, and cruelly corrupt world to seeing the U.S.A. as itself the leader of this world corruption and as the instigator of the world’s major problems. 

Note he leaves out the Federal Reserve and the TAXES that feed it.

And yes, I get that he is talking about the Marxist fomented Anger and HATE by the grievance class.

Valerie Curren

Sundance using recipe code to get info out…

“Google has never, not a single time, ever, set up sweep and search parameters to protect Republicans.  Content against Obama and various Democrats was always the source material they wanted to see removed.  However, for the first time ever, Google is now concerned about criticism and research related to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. In fact, Google sweeps are now demanding the removal of content that is critical of Ron DeSantis and the RNC.

In the spreadsheet below you can see 21 CTH articles that have been flagged by Google for their extremist nature.

Research, opinion and analysis of Ron DeSantis is now labeled “dangerous”, “harmful”, and/or “derogatory” by Google.”

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“This should not necessarily come as a surprise, because Ron DeSantis is a candidate supported by all the billionaires and major multinational corporations in the U.S 2024 election.
In addition to being ideologically skewed to the far-left, the Alphabet Google corporation is owned mostly by BlackrockVanguard and Larry Page; then come the smaller institutional investment groups.  The multinationals who control Google, also control most of the donor wealth behind Ron DeSantis.

You won’t find anyone on the DeSantis team that admits this fact, but our experience with the Google content police shows they are targeting and demanding the removal of content against the interests of Ron DeSantis. Google supports DeSantis.

If you thought the Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush support for DeSantis was revealing, how much more revealing is it to realize Google is supporting DeSantis? What does that tell you?

The Google blackmail goes like this….. Remove the content above, or we will pull all Google Advertising from your website. Obviously, on our shoestring budget that sucks, but whatever… the larger point is to note how Google is concerned about “harmful claims” against Ron DeSantis.

That is quite a remarkable shift.”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/11/recipe-for-perfect-pancakes-3/

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gil00

https://electroverse.info/southern-africa-freezes-rare-snow-johannesburg-summer-snows-india-aussies-hit-by-brutal-cold-snap/
SOUTHERN AFRICA FREEZES, RARE SNOWFALL HITS JOHANNESBURG; SUMMER SNOWS SLAM NORTHERN INDIA, EFFORT UNDERWAY TO RESCUE 300 TRAPPED TOURISTS; + MILLIONS OF AUSSIES HIT BY “BRUTAL COLD SNAP”JULY 11, 2023 CAP ALLON
SOUTHERN AFRICA FREEZES, RARE SNOWFALL HITS JOHANNESBURGSouthern Africa is enduring fierce freeze this week as a blast of polar air engulfs the likes of SA, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, as well as Angola, Zambia and Malawi.

Coastal regions are struggling to climb above 10C (50F), while at higher-elevations and inland, frosts are proving widespread, with reports of rare snowfall coming out of some unusual spots such as Zimbabwe and South Africa, such as Johannesburg.

gil00

Gail Combs

I really wish Robert W. Felix had not died or that someone had kept his website, iceagenow, going. It was the one place that archived cold weather events that the Fake News never covered.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150213023941/https://iceagenow.info/about-the-author/

Some of the older articles are available here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150215052959/http://iceagenow.com/Sunspots_and_global_cooling.htm

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep. Over the last five years or so we have lost a number of beacons of truth, reason, and knowledge. Also bloggers like Pointman and (not sure if he had a blog) Larry Ledwick…

gil00

I thought this was incredible to see.

Valerie Curren

summer snow? Isn’t it technically winter right now below the equator?

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep. Midwinter, at that…

All this weather hysteria is due to the WEFfenSS (suprise, surprise)… It’s the hottest summer since, erm, last week…

People have caught on to the COVID scam, and are looking for whatever TPTB will use next. WEF have already said numerous times that they’re using Gore-Bull warming (aka CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming) as leverage for total control and total taxation…

Everything is cyclical, even the weather and climate. And their “ever” goes back only a hundred years or so, with the great majority of weather stations and their records having been shut down the last couple of decades…. fancy that… WUWT has their “Surfacestations” project, and I’m sure there are plenty more working to clean up the damage the Climastrologists have done. Also, at WUWT (and probably Chiefios, Tallbloke’s blog, and others I can’t remember right now [Help, Gail!] ) there are articles about “Climategate”… great reading (and maddening, at that). Phil Jones, UEA, the “State Penn”, Manniac, and others, with “Harry Readme” fighting for the cause of truth…

Valerie Curren

Excellent details–TY!

pgroup2

Summer snow refers to the Himalayan Mountains. It never gets warm there in the summer but snow is rare.

Valerie Curren

TY! I didn’t read the article & was just reacting to what was in those titles. I was thinking it might be referring to India which I wasn’t sure was even partially below the Equator either. My lacking education is showing (again) 🙂

Cuppa Covfefe

Seems it never snows in southern Himalaya…

cthulhu

….but monks, don’t they warn ya….

Cuppa Covfefe

Electric Monks (from “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” by Douglas Adams), segue perhaps to AI 😮

“Electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe…

The new improved Monk Plus models were twice as powerful, had an entirely new multi-tasking Negative Capability feature that allowed them to hold up to 16 entirely different and contradictory ideas in memory simultaneously without generating any irritating system errors.”

gil00

I think so but its unusual anyway.

Valerie Curren

OK thx 🙂

Gail Combs

So much for the Badlands Support of Mike Pence. I always thought he was a sleasy slimy empty suit lawyer!
Wow, Just Wow – Presidential Candidate Mike Pence Says a Collapsing USA is Not His Concern, Supporting Ukraine is Priority — SUNDANCE

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During a discussion of priorities, Mike Pence says the state of our USA is “not my concern.” Mike Pence will never recover from this.  WATCH:

Gail Combs

MORE:

Kids hit Pence with water balloons after he says he does not care about the USA.

Cuppa Covfefe

Wow! Sign that girl up!

Sing a song of sick Pence,
Sold out for a dime
With all that he’s committed,
He should be doing time…

Pence looks like he just bit into a Lemon, with a vinegar chaser…

Well, Judas Pence, that’s about what we think about you, too…

kalbokalbs

Video title, Tucker Carlson just ended Mike Pence’s entire career.

More correctly titled,

Mike Pence opened mouth, inserted foot, ending his entire career.

P U R E GOLD.

Valerie Curren

It’s creepy how Pence almost never looks at Tucker when he’s talking to him, seems disrespectful…

mollypitcher5

And what all that weird finger pointing with whole arm movements…he learned emoting from the Master Geppetto’s acting school ?

Valerie Curren

LOL!!!

Cuppa Covfefe

That’s because he’s lying.

Hypocrite that he is…

Valerie Curren

No doubt & botox’d &/or chemical peeled too–gag a MAGA(t) (yeah I shamelessly reused it) 😉

TheseTruths

Exactly. He looked as if he was just waiting for Tucker to stop talking so he could say what he had already planned. He looked disdainful and then calls what Tucker said “a routine.” Very disrespectful. Tucker looked puzzled and disturbed by what he was hearing.

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Valerie Curren

Good call & we share Tucker’s abhorrence!

gil00

All over both coasts this summer, close to shore. Guess the ocean is getting healthier?

gil00

Most of the encounters on this side socal seem to be juveniles thank goodness. Still….eek.

Cuppa Covfefe

Ahhh, the far side… (and there are probably a bunch of Gahan Wilson ones out there too) 🙂

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gil00

👍 lol.

Aubergine

And once again, Montana just ain’t having it with these woke, Marxist, queer-theory freaks:

“In an unprecedented move, the Montana State Library voted on Tuesday to cut ties with the American Library Association after its new president repeatedly claimed to identify as a “Marxist.”

The seven-member commission voted 5-1 this week to “immediately withdraw” from the ALA, making it the first state entity to leave the nonprofit, the Daily Signal reported.”

https://www.theblaze.com/news/montana-state-library-cuts-ties-with-american-library-association-after-new-president-identifies-as-marxist-lesbian-constitution-forbids-association-with-an-organization-led-by-a-marxist

Maybe more states will follow our lead.

Valerie Curren

Awesome!!!

mollypitcher5

Montana for the win !!!!!

Stepping away from the establishment is huge

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Cuppa Covfefe

Go Joe Montana 🙂 and Bill Walsh’s Niners…

Aubergine

Yes. And I am glad they took the step. We don’t need the ALA’s money. Our governor just refunded $1200 in income taxes to all Montana taxpayers because we had such a surplus. And starting in August, I can apply to have my last two years of property taxes refunded, too.

This is what happens when a conservative business man runs a state. Or a country, for that matter!

mollypitcher5

wow that’s great especially when other expenses are going up up up. I’m glad to be happy for yall…it’s good new for a change

mollypitcher5

hmm these are NOT alike   :wpds_twisted: 

Aubergine

“One of these things is not like the other,
One of these things just doesn’t belong.
Can you tell which one is not like the other?
Tell me by the end of this song.”

Cuppa Covfefe

Faerie Queen…..

Cuppa Covfefe

Looks like a Bye, Done sort of crowd…

No sellout for the sellout…

pgroup2

Per Foxnews – 5th circuit issues temporary restraining order staying the preliminary injunction in Missouri v Biden.

If it were my choice, I’d ask SCOTUS to vacate the TRO.

TheseTruths

I don’t understand why they would do that.

Cuppa Covfefe

Is 5th circus anything like the 9th circus?

kalbokalbs

Aubergine

Looks like we’ll get to keep Tucker around for a while, then. Good for him!

kalbokalbs

Had no idea, Tim Scott, was so stoopid, ill informed…

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kalbokalbs

Hilarious.

Republican candidates absolute buffoons’.

Hope to see Tucker interview these fools more often.

Likely, republican candidates will run away from Tucker.

Looking forward to the Rob DeSwampiss interview, with Tucker.

TheseTruths

Looking forward to the Rob DeSwampiss interview, with Tucker.

I can’t stand to watch, but I’ll be looking for video lowlights.

Anyone who thought Tucker was not going to ask tough questions is hopelessly ill informed. The staffs of those candidates should have been studying Tucker’s style and preparing their candidates.

“That’s not my concern” has exploded now. YUGE mistake, even if Pence comes out with a statement that he didn’t mean it “that way.”

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TheseTruths

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kalbokalbs

Absolutely.

Short of Trump, I rarely watch this stuuff.

Just the high or low lights, as you say. Too damn funny.

Buut, I do look forward to Rob DeSwampiss, low lights. 🙂

Cuppa Covfefe

Nikki Haley makes ’em daily…

kalbokalbs

The Cat Is Out of the Bag: Kamala Harris Admits Climate Scam’s Goal Is DEPOPULATION
~20 second video at the link.

https://rumble.com/v302h64-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-kamala-harris-admits-climate-scams-goal-is-depopu.html

TheseTruths

Before I watched the video, I thought it was a slip-up where she said it, or started to say it, and corrected herself. But no, she said it clearly, without stumbling and without corrections, at least in that clip. This will be great to have as ammo.

WSB

Kamala DID look exhausted, little makeup and the hair was a mess, so she may have been ad-libbing…but it is a direct quote.

After ALL, she IS Joe’s wingman.

Cuppa Covfefe

A firm a tive action Kandidate Kamel-Hoe strikes again…

WilliBrown™ and his Klown of renown…

kalbokalbs
kalbokalbs

Laughing…
FTA
CNN PINNED ALL THEIR HOPES AND DREAMS ON KAITLAN COLLINS AND HER NEW SHOW IS LOSING TO SPONGEBOB: REPORT
When CNN announced Kaitlin Collins was going to be the new Andrew Cuomo, there was much ballyhoo about the decision. CNN had so much confidence in Collins being able to carry a primetime audience, they awarded her her own town hall event with a former president of the United States. Her show debuted this past Monday, and there is both bad news and good news. And horrible news.

The good news is she was the second most-watched show on CNN!

The bad news is she was the third most-watched cable news show out of three cable news networks.

The horrible news? Instead of being the new Andrew Cuomo, she is the new Brian Stelter, falling behind decade-old repeats of Golden GirlsSouth Park, and Sponge Bob Squarepants.

https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/kaitlan-collins-cnn-debut

TheseTruths

We could have told them. And Trump steamrolling her should have been some sort of clue, but no…

Cuppa Covfefe

Spongebrain $#!tpants…

What a Kast of Klowns the left brings…

TradeBait2

I’ve really enjoyed observing Tucker’s journey through the past decade.

https://rumble.com/v302i0m-tucker-carlson-has-been-reading-the-entire-holy-bible-he-reveals-his-one-bi.html

Aubergine

I find it fascinating how very many people are rekindling their relationship with Jesus in the last couple of years, of course including me.

A couple of days ago, I had a really interesting conversation with a young woman who works with my son. She is Christian, grew up that way, but her family was more nominally Christian than devout. She has greatly deepened her faith in the last two-three years.

The really interesting thing she told me, though, was that she has had five friends with no Christian background at all get baptized in the last year. She said, and I quote, “young people aren’t just converting, they are running to Jesus.” She emphasized it just like that.

And I read a couple of days ago that in the last two weeks, 11,000 people were baptized at Pirate’s Cove in California, the place where they baptized people in the true story the movie Jesus Revolution is based on. 11,000 in two weeks?! Just WOW.

Something HUGE is happening in our world right now. And we get to be part of it and live it. What a time to be alive.

gil00

I cannot get over how big Greg Laurie has made Harvest Fellowship. Nondescript building in a kind of dumpy Riverside airport neighborhood. That was well over 20 yrs ago. I have no idea how he k.i.s.s. and grounded.

https://harvest.church/

Aubergine

Amazing.

kalbokalbs

Asa Hutchinson crashed and burned today…

gil00

And tim scott and benedict pence.

kalbokalbs

AND, Nikki. It IS great.

gil00

😎