Month: September 2023

Dear KAG: 20230920 Open Thread

Cover image: Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Badlands News Brief – September 19, 2023

London taxpayers attack surveillance vans in continued revolt

Early DeSantis Donor Backs Down, Blasts ‘Unclear’ Campaign

Has the Deep State lost its edge, or is the bench really that weak.

DeSantis Fundraises With RINO Impeachment Donor Who Works as Foreign Agent

True colors are hard to miss right now.

People with Neanderthal genes are TWICE as likely to develop a life-threatening form of Covid … here’s how you can check if you’ve got them

The Daily Mail and their headlines.

CDC Admits: Vast Majority of those hospitalized for COVID are jabbed

Voter Registration Charities: A Massive, Overlooked Scandal

Symbolic Opposition vs. Effective Political Action

The Continuing Cultural Revolution

‘Abandoned by the Democratic Party’: Behind the UAW’s frustrations with Biden

Progress.

Blowing the COVID Cover-up Wide Open

Liberals blast NBC News, Kristen Welker for ‘normalizing’ Trump on ‘Meet the Press:’ ‘Dangerous journalism’

Oops.

Male crowned homecoming queen, beating out four other girls in Missouri school

Kansas City area where everything is up to date.

When God is Silent

Ray Epps Hit With Weak Misdemeanor So DOJ Can Pretend to Do Its Job

Mark Levin names them: here are the five “cabal” members who hijacked the DOJ…

Not just birds and whales: Windmills threatening extinction for jaguars and pumas in Brazil

Tweets, X-Posts, Whatever

You all know really weird shit has been going down for awhile now, right?

The fix was in on that Hunter Biden plea deal.

Until suddenly…it WASN’T.

Hunter was walking away scott free.

What happened? Who blew their fix?

Even if you’re going to buy the coming spin that Weiss is going to make multiple indictments against Hunter Biden in multiple districts on gun, tax and FARA crimes in order to PROTECT HIM and the Biden Crime Family, might I point out the best way to protect the Biden Crime family is NOT TO INVESTIGATE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Why is this this stuff still moving forward? Why Garland end all of this 3 years ago? What would have prevented him? What prevents him from doing it now?

Why is Mockingbird Media suddenly having to prepare its audience for more Hunter indictments in DC and CA?

Watch the same Mockingbird Media/Con Inc. “News” Media outlets who’ve been leaking and selling you utter shit about the Hunter Biden case flip on a dime from talking about the ‘sweetheart deal’ Weiss was supposedly gifting Hunter with to loudly yelling “Holy shit, somebody get this Weiss guy under control, stat!”

You all know the fix was in on the Ken Paxton impeachment down there in Texas too, right? I mean, I don’t have to spell out the obvious, do I?

Paxton was as good as gone. It was a done deal.

Until somehow the deal got undone.

I heard the reports about the screaming matches that could be heard behind the closed doors before the final votes on the impeachment charges.

Their fix was in for removing Paxton.

Until suddenly…it WASN’T.

If the Deep State had total and complete control like many people think it does, none of what you saw in that Texas impeachment or Hunter Biden case should be happening right now.

The detailed scripts as to how events were to unfold were written. But then somehow the script keeps being altered.

You know who’s doing that?

Who keeps blowing up their scripts?

YOU ARE DOING THAT.

YOU ARE MAKING THAT HAPPEN.

The more people that wake up and start paying attention and start speaking up, the more the tide turns in our favor.

Events literally get away from them. They are forced into retreat and then damage control.

Whistleblowers come forward, Evidence is revealed that establishes the Biden Crime Family’s corruption. [Or in the case of Paxton – a complete lack of evidence is what is revealed, leading to Paxton’s acquittal!]

You are changing things with SUNLIGHT. The Corrupt can only fulfill their rotten scripts in the darkness.

The more people shine the light and pushback and speak up against these lovers of the dark, the more they become disorganized, confused and out of step.

YOU ARE WINNING.

Don’t listen to those who spin every damn thing that happens as another bitter black pill trap where they’re just setting us all up but we’re too dumb to see it.

KEEP FIGHTING.

KEEP SHINING THE LIGHT.

KEEP WAKING UP OTHERS, AND HELPING THEM TO SPEAK.

The stakes could not be higher, and we went through a really rough couple of years but I truly believe we turned the corner awhile back and what is coming is unstoppable, because it is the Truth.

And people who have devoted their lives to hiding and obscuring and lying about the truth on the issues that matter the most will in the end collapse from their own bitter exhaustion because the truths we spoke outshined their increasingly desperate and obvious lies.

They literally cannot keep up with us and we grow more numerous by the day.

Every kinetic war lasts longer than the people fighting it on the front lines wanted it to. An information war is no different.

We fight for the truth for as long as it takes. And as we continue to fight for and with the truth, we’ll continue to see strange things going on. We’ll see confidently written scripts fall apart. We’ll see justice at last, if we faint not.

In the end we’ll see The Dragon. And we’ll help God cast him down into Hell where his minions dwell.

Memes & Stuff

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https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1704223842674037114

Have a good day y’all.

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

And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:

Per the Boss:

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LUKE 9:23-26

23And he said to all, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. 25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? 26For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

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

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

SATIRE SECTION

Dear KAG: 20230919 Open Thread

Cover image by Jasper Francis Cropsey:

All things F-35 now that it’s been found. The memes were fast and furious:

Well…somebody started a rumor that it was in Havana.

See.

I seriously doubt it’s ALL flights. Just the ones we know about thanks to MonkeyWerx.

Quoting Samantha Baker in Sixteen Candles, “At this point, anything is possible.”

Cheers! Slainte! Oh, wait, we’re between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur…L’Chiam!

Alright, enough of Monday’s shiny red ball.

Ghosts, Ghouls and Nazis

Dr. Robert Redfield Comes Clean on Government Censorship

The Transition Integrity Project

Are the Accusations Against Russell Brand a Globalist Op to Eliminate Someone Dangerous to Them?

Of course they are.

Badlands News Brief – September 18, 2023

Globally, Air Traffic Is Booming

One theory as to where Joe Biden got his fake names

New study funded by the ‘defense intelligence enterprise’ finds national security officials with dementia could ‘create a security threat’

Imagine that.

Reprehensible Representation

Would the Roman Empire have conquered the world in high-heels and lipgloss?

The headline alone is hilarious.

Federalist Society Founder Now Says Trump ‘Isn’t Covered’ by 14th Amendment

Is the establishment accepting reality at last?

Biden Is Trying to Make Globalist Government Employees Unfireable.

Good Riddance to the Bush Regime

And just like that, Biden was too old

Tweet hopper:

And the red-pilled noticed.

.
@RobertKennedyJr
talks to Russell Brand about how the NSA was in charge of Operation Warp Speed, the history of the United States bioweapons program, and why Anthony Fauci is the highest-paid government official in history:

“The weird thing about the pandemic was this constant involvement by the CIA, the intelligence agencies, and the military. When Operation Warp Speed made its presentation to the FDA committee called VRBPAC…

It shocked everybody because it wasn’t HHS, CDC, NIH, FDA, or a public health agency. It was the NSA, a spy agency that was the top agency that led Operation Warp Speed, and the second agency was the Pentagon.

The vaccines were developed not by Moderna and Pfizer. They were developed by NIH. The patents are owned 50% by NIH. Nor were they manufactured by Pfizer or by Moderna.

They were manufactured by military contractors, and basically, Pfizer and Moderna were paid to put their stamps on those vaccines as if they came from the pharmaceutical industry. This was a military project from the beginning.

One of the things I uncovered in my book is twenty different simulations of coronavirus and pandemics that started in 2001. The first one was right before the anthrax attacks, and the CIA sponsored them all.

The last one was Event 201, which was in October 2019. One of the participants was Avril Haines, the former Deputy Director of the CIA, who has been managing coverups her entire life. She did the Guantanamo Bay and others.

She is now the Director of National Intelligence, which makes her the highest-ranking officer at the NSA, which managed the pandemic… All of these simulations were about how you use the pandemic to clamp down on censorship. How do you use it to force lockdowns.”

The Trump-Kennedy Pincer is real, whether coordinated or not.

What the Collective Mind is being made privy to through RFK Jr. is the Establishment’s blatant disregard for his safety, while also attempting to conflate threats to that safety with the MAGA, America First and Q movements, which is as contradictory as it sounds.

The fact that they’re trying to cause an artificial and preemptive divide between the Kennedy & MAGA contingents is indicative of how fearful they are at our potential alliance in the sociopolitical sphere.

They’re not afraid of Kennedy OR Trump. They’re afraid of Kennedy AND Trump.

Which means they’re afraid of us.

Salt kills germs, and the beach will ground the human body. Not hard.

She broke up with him, so….

Dr. Lee Merritt claims cancer is caused by parasites. That would explain why de-wormers work as a cure.

Unfortunately, that is correct. Hearts and minds need to be won over before that is attempted.

That is also correct.

Hearts and minds. They need to be converted.

https://twitter.com/Mlantgios/status/1703829506794873288

Conservatives are upset about Trump’s NBC interview because he structured his answers to appeal to the Center/Left.

But let’s be honest, Trump has already secured your vote. The DNC aren’t going to give RFK Jr. the nomination, so you’re voting Trump over whichever Deep State puppet they wheel out for 2024 no matter what. Whether it be Biden or a new batter.

So wouldn’t it make strategic sense for Trump to try to appeal to a broader body of voters? Wouldn’t it make sense to try to appeal to the fence-sitters and Centrists who are soured on the DNC/Biden, but not fully sold on MAGA?

Trump’s base will get their red meat from Trump rallies and Truth Social. Trump will appease to his base in the pro-Trump echo chambers, but while on left-leaning echo chambers like MSM outlet NBC, it makes sense for Trump to tone down the “retribution” talk, and to cater his message for a different audience. He is trying to secure more voters.

So for those of you freaking out over Trump’s answers about Operation Warp Speed, abortions, and the transgender issue, you have to recognize Trump’s position. Trump has already secured enough public support to win 2024, barring whatever voter fraud scheme they have cooked up. All he has to do is not fuck it up, so why would he give the Left any media talking points to smear him for? Trump was dodging bullets and NBC attempts to get a sound bite so they could say he’s “transphobic” “anti-vaxxer” “anti-choice”.

He is just appeasing the MSM demons until we get to Election Day.

As for his bragging about the vaccines… this is the only thing I can’t explain. Trump has always been anti-mandate, but he refuses to openly denounce the vaccines. Which is a problem, and which is why it’s imperative that RFK Jr. join the administration in some capacity so we can put him in charge of Pharma and bioweapon production, because to this point, Trump is either clueless, or is pretending to be clueless, when it comes to the vaccines and Deep State bioweapons production.

That many? We’ve got some red-pilling to do.

Meme & Fun hopper:

Those were the days.

This one is a no-brainer.

My dad used to sit next to it and change the channels at will.

Hasn’t happened yet. I smacked more today than I have all summer.

True or not, it’s pretty funny.

What’s more revolting: pumpkin spice Cherrios or pumpkin spice Special K. Saw both at the grocery store today.

All together now, “AWWWWWW….”

Keep ’em fed, and they’re just big, old pussycats.

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

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

A little avant-garde but good:

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

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PHILIPPIANS 2:13-18

13for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 14Do all things without grumbling or questioning, 15that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. 17Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. 18Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

JOHN 15:12-17

12“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17This I command you, to love one another.

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

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

>>148154137

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

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

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

Satire

Staccato…ha.

Dear KMAG: 20230918 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

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

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Word of The Week:

instigate

verb

  • To initiate or bring about, often by inciting.
  • To urge on; goad.
  • To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; — used chiefly with reference to evil actions.

Used in a picture (h/t Barb)

Used in a picture (as the associated noun)

Music time!

Beginning with some classical (your mileage may vary on the “sadness”)….

But check out these social media-driven “fiddle girls” – very interesting phenomenon!

To make it more commercial, just add some MTV….

So let’s finish with a string quartet of sorts!

AHHH – what the heck – I need some boy music. A song that cthulhu played Friday that takes me back. Mmmmmm, mmmmmm.

System Report

The system is back up, as of the writing of this post.

What a fight.

On the subject of “war is hell”, let the following video (set to Wheatie’s favorite music) be a reminder of why peace matters. (You have to go to the link – it’s pretty graphic.)

https://youtu.be/fnNy81CfXt0

Wasn’t Gail saying something about Prussia? I seem to recall…..

As for the present….

Has the UFO propaganda got you scared? AS IF!

No, it has you bored and dismissive. Interesting psychology – isn’t it? So why did we get all of THIS stuff first?

Enjoy the epic music set to alien invasions – or something like that.

The plugin “nonce” problem got fixed, as well as some security issues.

The fact is, we’re dependent on “plugins” that are often weak links in WordPress security AND functionality. The team fixing our commenting system seems to be small and subject to competing duties.

But we will persist.

Keep fighting the good fight. We’re back.

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20230917 Open Topic

This Rejoice & Praise God Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.

It’s also a place to read, post, and discuss news that is worth knowing and sharing. Please post links to any news stories that you use as sources or quote from.

In the QTree, we’re a friendly and civil lot. We encourage free speech and the open exchange and civil discussion of different ideas. Topics aren’t constrained, and sound logic is highly encouraged, all built on a solid foundation of truth and established facts.

We have a policy of mutual respect, shown by civility. Civility encourages discussions, promotes objectivity and rational thought in discourse, and camaraderie in the participants – characteristics we strive toward in our Q Tree community.

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In The Q Tree, we’re compatriots, sitting around the campfire, roasting hot dogs, making s’mores, and discussing, agreeing, and disagreeing about whatever interests us. This board will remain a home for those who seek respectful conversations.

Please also consider the Guidelines for posting and discussion printed here: 
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On this day and every day –

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

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

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

The Sabbath

Of the Ten Commandments that God gave to Israel, perhaps none has provoked more controversy and debate than the fourth: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8). Does the Sabbath commandment still hold today?

None of those who answer in the negative suggests the Sabbath was a second-tier command in the Decalogue, a good idea but not mandatory. No, the Sabbath served as the covenant sign between Israel and her God, unfolding a weekly drama that testified to God as mighty Creator (Exodus 20:11) and merciful Redeemer (Deuteronomy 5:15). On the Sabbath, Israel declared total dependence on her covenant Lord, a Lord more than able to uphold his people even though, for one day in seven, they hung up their shovels, laid aside their plows, and rested from their labors.

The question, then, is not whether Israel should have kept the Sabbath under the old covenant, but whether Christians should under the new. Should Christians keep the Sabbath? The question may sound nonsensical to some. We keep commandments one to three and five to ten, don’t we? So why skip number four?

Yet strewn throughout the New Testament is telling evidence that, in Christ and the new covenant, the Sabbath has found its fulfillment.

Jesus: ‘I will give you rest.’

Readers of the Gospels soon discover just how crucial the Sabbath was to the Jews of Jesus’s day. The seventh day marks the setting of so many clashes between Jesus and the Pharisees that when we read something like, “Now it was a Sabbath day . . .” (John 9:14), we expect trouble.

Strictly speaking, the only commandments Jesus broke on the Sabbath belonged to Jewish tradition, not divine law. In their zeal to define exactly what a person could and could not do on the Sabbath, Jewish leaders laid on the people’s backs a spiritual burden heavier than any physical burden (Matthew 23:4). Jesus attacked such traditions with the vehemence of one who saw more clearly than any that “the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27).

“Christ’s first coming did not abolish rest; it ushered in a deeper kind of rest than the Sabbath could ever offer.”

Yet even though Jesus never broke the fourth commandment, he did hint that a change to the Sabbath may be coming. If we could remove the chapter break between Matthew 11 and 12, we might notice, in the context immediately preceding the Sabbath controversies in Matthew 12:1–14, these arresting words: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). The rest offered on the Sabbath was now being offered in Christ.

A grand claim lies behind this grand promise: “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath” (Matthew 12:8). D.A. Carson writes,

That Jesus Christ is Lord of the Sabbath is not only a messianic claim of grand proportions, but it raises the possibility of a future change or reinterpretation of the Sabbath, in precisely the same way that His professed superiority over the Temple raises certain possibilities about ritual law. (From Sabbath to Lord’s Day, 66)

In Jesus, something greater than the Sabbath is here.

Paul: ‘Let no one pass judgment.’

Two passages in particular from the apostle Paul spell out the implications of Jesus’s lordship over the Sabbath. The first is Colossians 2:16–17:

Let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

“What Paul says here is remarkable,” Tom Schreiner writes, “for he lumps the Sabbath together with food laws, festivals like Passover, and new moons. All of these constitute shadows that anticipate the coming of Christ” (40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law, 212). And since Christ has now come, observing the Sabbath is no longer a matter of obedience or disobedience. Rather, Paul says, “Let no one pass judgment on you.”

Romans 14:5 holds a similarly striking claim. Consider Paul’s words here alongside a typical old-covenant statement about the Sabbath.

You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. (Exodus 31:14)

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. (Romans 14:5)

If an old-covenant Israelite esteemed “all days alike,” he might be stoned to death (Numbers 15:32–36). Yet Paul evidently felt no need to impose the Sabbath command on his Gentile converts. Some in Rome, it seems, wanted to keep the Sabbath (and so esteem “one day as better than another”) — perhaps Jewish Christians eager to maintain the traditions of their fathers. Paul had no issue with those Christians, so long as they refrained from pressuring others to imitate them or suggested that salvation hinged on obedience to the Sabbath (compare Galatians 4:8–11).

For the sake of Christian freedom and mutual love, Paul says simply and remarkably, “Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind” (Romans 14:5).

Hebrews: ‘We who have believed enter that rest.’

The author of Hebrews brings us closer to the heart of why the new covenant does not require a literal seventh-day rest. Christ’s first coming did not abolish rest; rather, it ushered in a deeper kind of rest than the Sabbath could ever offer.

According to Hebrews 4, Israel’s Sabbath day always pointed forward to a far greater day: the still-future day when all creation will enter fully into the rest foreshadowed and promised in Genesis 2:2–3, the very first seventh day. “So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God” (Hebrews 4:9). The ultimate Sabbath rest is coming, when God’s people will enjoy work without toil, hearts without sin, and an earth without thorns.

Yet even now, Hebrews implies, we feel the first waves of the coming rest. In Christ, we “have [already] tasted . . . the powers of the age to come” (Hebrews 6:5), rest included. For, the author writes, “We who have believed enter that rest” (Hebrews 4:3) — not “will enter,” but “enter”: fully later, truly now.

And how do we enter that rest? Not mainly by putting aside our weekly labors for one day in seven, but by believing: “We who have believed enter that rest.” Faith in Jesus Christ brings the rest of the seventh day into every day.

John: ‘I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day.’

Of course, when Christians today speak of the Sabbath, they almost never mean the seventh day, but the first day: not Saturday but Sunday. But surprisingly, no New Testament writer ever refers to Sunday as the Sabbath. When Jewish (and perhaps some Gentile) Christians observed the Sabbath, they would have done so on Saturday, as Israel had done for centuries. But that doesn’t mean Sunday held no special place in the early church. Scripture suggests that it did, only under a different name: the Lord’s Day.

The phrase “the Lord’s Day” appears only in Revelation, where the apostle John writes, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day” (Revelation 1:10). But other passages suggest that “Lord’s Day” simply put a name on the church’s common practice of gathering on Sunday. In Ephesus, Paul met with the church “on the first day of the week . . . to break bread” (Acts 20:7). Likewise, Paul instructed the Corinthians to set aside some money “on the first day of every week” (1 Corinthians 16:2).

None of these passages shows the early church resting, as if they considered Sunday their new Sabbath. Richard Bauckham goes so far as to write, “For the earliest Christians it was not a substitute for the Sabbath nor a day of rest nor related in any way to the fourth commandment” (From Sabbath to Lord’s Day, 240). The majority of these early Christians likely needed to work on the first day of the week. (Sunday was declared an official day of rest throughout the Roman Empire only under Constantine in AD 321.)

The passages do suggest, however, that Christians worshiped on the Lord’s Day. Perhaps in the morning before work, perhaps in the evening afterward, the first believers gathered to praise the one who rose “very early on the first day of the week” (Mark 16:2; Matthew 28:1; Luke 24:1; John 20:19). When the stone rolled away from Jesus’s tomb on Easter morning, true Sabbath rest arrived, and a new day dawned.

Lord of Our Days

So, should Christians keep the Sabbath?

“The world and the devil would have us work even while we rest. But Jesus would have us rest even while we work.”

In one sense, no: under the new covenant, no Christian is bound to the fourth commandment as such. We may still decide to rest one day in seven — and indeed, wisdom seems to support the practice of imitating God’s own 6-and-1 pattern (Genesis 1:1–2:3). Especially in a day when many can work anytime anywhere — answering emails after dinner, taking calls on the weekend — we may do well, even for one day in seven, to say, “I worked yesterday, I will work tomorrow, but today I rest and worship.”

In another sense, however, Christians should keep the Sabbath always. And here we do find a connection between the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Lord’s Day. Andrew Lincoln writes,

In the Old Testament the literal physical rest of the Sabbath pointed to future rest; but since Christ has brought fulfillment in terms of salvation rest, it is the present enjoyment of this rest that acts as the foretaste of the consummation rest which is to come. In other words, it is the celebration on the Lord’s Day of the rest we already have through Christ’s resurrection that now anticipates and guarantees the rest that is yet to be. (From Sabbath to Lord’s Day, 399)

Every Lord’s Day, we come again to Jesus, weary and heavy laden (Matthew 11:28). We trace the shadow of the Sabbath to its substance (Colossians 2:17). We hear again in the distance the sounds of the future Sabbath festival; we glimpse again by faith the glow of “innumerable angels in festal gathering” (Hebrews 12:22). We look again into the empty tomb and hear Christ say, “Peace to you!” (Luke 24:36). In other words, we find rest — the kind of rest that remains long after Sunday has passed.

Without regularly experiencing this kind of rest — and with special power every Lord’s Day — it matters little how much rest we give our bodies. Our rest will be restless, and our work will become a desperate attempt to secure for ourselves the rest that we have not found in Christ. Neither the sluggard (who works for the weekend) nor the workaholic (who has no weekend) has yet learned to enjoy the rest of the true Sabbath.

Not so with those who have heard and heeded Jesus’s invitation to “Take my yoke upon you . . . and you will find rest for your souls” (Matthew 11:28–29). The world and the devil would have us work even while we rest. But Jesus would have us rest even while we work. And here, in this Christ-saturated resting and working, we live out the Sabbath today.

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/should-christians-keep-the-sabbath

2023·09·16 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

Speaker Dungsmear? Or?

McCarthy 2.0 seems a vast improvement over Speaker Dungsmear. So here’s the question. Was he once a conservative with a little fire in the belly that got captured by the system and now is finding the bellyfire again? Or is this all completely under duress?

For the moment, it doesn’t matter which one. But some day it will matter, and we will have our answer.

On that note he does seem to be standing up to the press a little better this week, having an interchange with some presstitute about the Biden impeachment enquiry.

RINOs an Endangered Species?
If Only!

According to Wikipoo, et. al., the Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is a critically endangered species. Apparently two females live on a wildlife preserve in Sudan, and no males are known to be alive. So basically, this species is dead as soon as the females die of old age. Presently they are watched over by armed guards 24/7.

Biologists have been trying to cross them with the other subspecies, Southern White Rhinoceroses (Rhinoceri?) without success; and some genetic analyses suggest that perhaps they aren’t two subspecies at all, but two distinct species, which would make the whole project a lot more difficult.

I should hope if the American RINO (Parasitus rectum pseudoconservativum) is ever this endangered, there will be heroic efforts not to save the species, but rather to push the remainder off a cliff. Onto punji sticks. With feces smeared on them. Failing that a good bath in red fuming nitric acid will do.

But I’m not done ranting about RINOs.

The RINOs (if they are capable of any introspection whatsoever) probably wonder why they constantly have to deal with “populist” eruptions like the Trump-led MAGA movement. That would be because the so-called populists stand for absolutely nothing except for going along to get along. That allows the Left to drive the culture and politics.

Given the results of our most recent elections, the Left will now push harder, and the RINOs will now turn even squishier than they were before.

I well remember 1989-1990 in my state when the RINO establishment started preaching the message that a conservative simply couldn’t win in Colorado. Never mind the fact that Reagan had won the state TWICE (in 1984 bringing in a veto-proof state house and senate with him) and GHWB had won after (falsely!) assuring everyone that a vote for him was a vote for Reagan’s third term.

This is how the RINOs function. They push, push, push the line that only a “moderate” can get elected. Stomp them when they pull that shit. Tell everyone in ear shot that that’s exactly what the Left wants you to think, and oh-by-the-way-Mister-RINO if you’re in this party selling the same message as the Left…well, whythefuckexactly are you in this party, you lying piece of rancid weasel shit?

In Defense of Ranked Choice Voting

One of the biggest obstacles to direly-needed change is RINOs, and one of the weapons in their arsenal is the “Wasted Vote” argument.

Periodically a third party has arisen, trying to hold RINOs to account by putting pressure on them from outside of the party, since doing so from the inside has historically done very little good. But, even if you find a third party candidate who perfectly reflects your views, you’re likely to vote for the RINO anyway. Why? Because if you don’t, the Democrat might win, and that would be even worse. So if you vote for that third party (that few will vote for), you’re throwing your vote away and increasing the likelihood of the Democrat winning. (It’s half as much a gain for the Democrat, as actually voting for the Democrat would be. Not as much, but half as much. Because although you denied the R your vote, you did not flip your vote to the Democrat.)

The Republican Party Establishment knows you don’t love them. But they know you hate the Democrats worse, and they use that to continue to herd you into supporting them. With gritted teeth you cast your vote, but your vote counts the same whether you cast it enthusiastically. And the other alternative, pissing on the voting apparatus to express your actual feelings, is probably a felony.

But what if you could vote for that third party without increasing the chances of the Dem walking away with the prize?

This is what ranked choice voting, or instant runoff voting, can do provided it is properly implemented. (And this includes the votes, and only genuine votes, being counted honestly, of course. However, I’m going to compare it to what we have today, and pretend that is honestly done too. RCV can’t work if it’s not honestly administered, just like our current system isn’t working because it isn’t honestly administered.)

The idea behind RCV is to vote by expressing your order of preference. You could vote for the Patriot Party, then for the RINO Party as your second choice (and ignore the Democrat, the Green, the Overt Socialist Schmuckmonkey Party, etc).

What does this do? It nullifies the wasted vote argument. Your vote will be counted for the Patriot party, first, then instead of it being “wasted” when the Patriot Party loses, it ends up going to the RINO. Actually, it’s just barely possible that the Patriot Party would actually beat the RINO, if people weren’t all individually afraid to vote for it.

It’s just like the famous “Prisoner’s Dilemma” where your fear of other peoples’ actions prevents you from doing the optimal thing–and vice-versa. As long as Job Lowe is afraid to vote Patriot because he’s afraid you’ll vote RINO, you’ll have to vote RINO because you fear that Job Lowe will, because he fears you will.

So on the whole I like RCV. It gives you a no-risk way to vote against the RINO scum, and in favor of someone who deserves your vote.

The problem is, as done here in the US, it comes packaged with a “jungle primary.” A bunch of candidates get to put their name out there, and the top four (or so) candidates get onto the “main” ballot. This gives party establishments their way around the threat of a good third party bumping them off. Because they know that few people bother with primaries, and third parties don’t have the resources to run in a primary…so they throw two or three establishment hacks into the primary and they will probably beat the third party. The result is the RINOs end up with two of the four slots in the general election, and the Dems get the other two. Now there’s suddenly no third party candidate on the ballot at all.

If we were to combine RCV with the present system where each party could nominate exactly one candidate to appear on the November ballot, or at the very least, ensure minor parties could get onto the ballot with at least one candidate regardless of the primary, we would be getting somewhere, but the establishment is smarter than we like to give them credit for. They will support the jungle primary + RCV “solution” rather than the more appropriate one-candidate-per-party + RCV solution.

It’s not RCV that is the problem, it’s the primary structure grafted onto it.

Justice

It says “Justice” on the picture.

And I’m sure someone will post the standard joke about what the fish thinks about the situation.

But what is it?

Here’s a take, from a different context: It’s about how you do justice, not the justice that must be done to our massively corrupt government and media. You must properly identify the nature of a person, before you can do him justice.

Ayn Rand, On Justice (speaking through her character John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged):

Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification—that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of shining metal, so you do not value a rotter above a hero—that your moral appraisal is the coin paying men for their virtues or vices, and this payment demands of you as scrupulous an honor as you bring to financial transactions—that to withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, and to withhold your admiration from their virtues is an act of moral embezzlement—that to place any other concern higher than justice is to devaluate your moral currency and defraud the good in favor of the evil, since only the good can lose by a default of justice and only the evil can profit—and that the bottom of the pit at the end of that road, the act of moral bankruptcy, is to punish men for their virtues and reward them for their vices, that that is the collapse to full depravity, the Black Mass of the worship of death, the dedication of your consciousness to the destruction of existence.

Ayn Rand identified seven virtues, chief among them rationality. The other six, including justice, she considered subsidiary because they are essentially different aspects and applications of rationality.

—Ayn Rand Lexicon (aynrandlexicon.com)

Justice Must Be Done.

Trump, it is supposed, had some documents.

Biden and company stole the country.

I’m sure enough of this that I put my money where my mouth is.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system. (This doesn’t necessarily include deposing Joe and Hoe and putting Trump where he belongs, but it would certainly be a lot easier to fix our broken electoral system with the right people in charge.)

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2024 or 2026 is pointless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud in the system is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

This will necessarily be piecemeal, state by state, which is why I am encouraged by those states working to change their laws to alleviate the fraud both via computer and via bogus voters. If enough states do that we might end up with a working majority in Congress and that would be something Trump never really had.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

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Spot Prices

Last week:

Gold $1,919.70
Silver $23.00
Platinum $900.00
Palladium $1,232.00
Rhodium $4,650.00

This week, 3 PM MT on Friday, markets closed for the weekend

Gold $1,925.10
Silver $23.14
Platinum $937.00
Palladium $1,283.00
Rhodium $4,550.00

Things up a bit…except for rhodium.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!

Remember Hong Kong!!!

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

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

China is in the White House

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

Joe Biden is Asshoe

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

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

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

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230915

French Mojito

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a highball glass, lightly muddle the mint leaves.
  2. Mix in the remaining ingredients, as well as some crushed ice.
  3. Stir the mixture for a few seconds with a bar spoon, 
  4. Top with crushed ice and garnish with raspberries, blackberries, and a mint sprig

Badlands News Brief – September 14, 2023

Joan Rivers: A Botched Procedure or Malicious Intent?

I think we all know the answer to that one.

Germany Continues To Buy Large Quantities Of Russian Oil Through India

Green energy my backside.

BLOCKING MOVE: Lawsuits filed in Minnesota and California to keep Trump off the ballot

They’re scared. They should be.

Burisma wasn’t just paying off the Bidens. Ex-CIA directors are also on the payroll

I’m SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you.

DeSantis Spox Admits Trump’s Nomination ‘Seems Inevitable’.

BREAKING: Tim Ballard tells Congress Biden admin has become a ‘child-trafficking delivery service’

Scientists call fraud on supposed extraterrestrials presented to Mexican Congress

On this one, we probably can trust the science.

Thousands rally in Greece as anger mounts against biometric ID cards

Amazing how the powers that wannabe are clueless about the people they want to rule.

Defending America From Slippery Authoritarian Slopes

Is It Our Government? Or Their Government?

Something rather incredible is unfolding in Iowa…

India or Bharat?

Misinformation Study Is Full of Misinformation

The Return of Urban Retail Deserts

Very sad and completely preventable. I watched a local boulevard make a fabulous comeback in the late 80s/early 90s. and it got commercial, and the crime has taken its toll.

Save the Right Whales Coalition Slams NOAA and NMFS for Covering Up Big Wind’s Complicity in Whale Deaths

Falling Out of Touch With Each Other

New Hampshire Lawmakers: ‘No Legal Basis’ to Remove Trump from Ballot

Judge rejects request to try all Trump Georgia defendants together next month

Are We Fighting Two World Order Threats or Are They One in the Same?

Tweety Tweets:

That rant needs to be put into a transcript.

Jesse’s expanded thoughts on the topic above:

https://twitter.com/jejune_jmccc/status/1702278701184893426

Please, keep hammering it home, Bobby.

MEME STASH:

Ouch.

Watch to the end:

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7In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear. 8Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; 9and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

SATIRE!

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DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230914

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I apologize in advance for information overload.

First off, the Mexican alien, which appears to be what a baby born of E.T. and Yoda would look like:

Alright, moving on from the “Little Green Men” narrative until tomorrow when “NASA” gives a report…..

Badlands News Brief – September 13, 2023

Crypto Goes Volatile As FTX Liquidation Looms

Computer/data bytes are not a commodity. That should be sinking in about now, but somehow it isn’t.

Czech Republic Dramatically Increases Russian Oil Purchases

We talk about the G7, G20 countries trying to force “green” energy on everyone, and we forget that the smaller developed nations aren’t having any of it. Good on the Czechs.

Where the lawsuits attempting to block NM firearm restrictions stand

Skip this one and keep reading.

Biden Sneaks a Fast One Into Government Funding Bill, Tries to Gut ICE While Republicans Stay Silent

Lots of Red Ink at the Fed

Are we finally watching the beginning of the end?

Colleges Flunk Out

Precautionary Principle Extremism

Revenge of the Bums

Trump Taught Republicans How To Win

Republican megadonors wait for their anti-Trump champion

“Anyone but Trump” is still alive and well.

Libertarian National Committee Moves to File for Conservatorships for Biden and McConnell, Citing “Clear Incapacitation, Mental Lapses, and Deficiencies in Decision Making”

School of Assassins and Dictators

I disagree with the premise that Reagan didn’t know he was surrounded. He did, and took action that went around them on a few things. But, yeah, the deep state didn’t want him in office.

Court blocks Jack Smith’s access to many of Rep. Scott Perry’s contacts about 2020 election

Oh, this is getting good.

Federal judge blocks suspension of right to carry firearms in public ordered by New Mexico governor

TWEETS!

Being a good percentage Irish, I’m keeping a book on this. Anyone want in?

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1701791463506350256

Things that make you go hmmm…. And I am NOT a fan of the NFL:

Hold that thought for farther down.

https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1701931393595425274

Will they cross the aisle? Keeping a book on that as well.

New plot twist:

This is worth watching, IMO:

The sanitized version of what I put on yesterday’s daily:

Good for FOX on this one.

Ya think?

He’s still around?

Tootles, Mittens.

Follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

MEMES and FUN STUFF:

True story. Same for being at a funeral listening to someone butcher “Ave Maria.”

I didn’t know chickens liked mice.

Just don’t get close to his face.

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6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. 9Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

JOHN 3:13-17

13No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man. 14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” 16For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

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SATIRE

My dad does this all the time. Although, he is an aerospace engineer.

Dear KAG: 20230913 Open Thread

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Badlands News Brief – September 12, 2023

People who trust their gut are suckers for ‘bulls–t’ conspiracy theories: scientists

IOW, don’t think, anon, don’t believe your lyin’ eyes…trust us, you are getting sleepy, very sleepy….

If Liberals Voted Their Values, America Would Be Saved

The Empire Strikes Back

US sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — and there’s still 4 months to go

The Other September 11th

Not many people are that well versed in high school physics.

Forget the police, the left now has a plan to DEFUND the Supreme Court of the United States…

Jennifer Granholm went on a hilarious “electric car road trip” from HELL through red states….

JFK Is Easy, Now Do TWA Flight 800

The Unselfconscious Hypocrisy Of The Tech Mavens Who Want To Control You

Oliver Anthony Cancels Tennessee Concert over High Ticket Prices: ‘Not Acceptable’

Archbishop Viganò: Banning abortion is essential to stopping ‘the New World Order subservient to Satan’

Speaker Kevin McCarthy Announces Formal Impeachment Investigation of Biden, Led by James Comer, Jim Jordan and Jason Smith

Since they don’t have the votes, not holding my breath.

Tony Buzbee Destroys Another Paxton Impeachment Schemer, Gregg Cox

The Bushes and the west Texas oilmen really do deserve this.

Tweets, X-Posts, Whatever

Yes, that is my senator.

It was fascinating even in the face of pretty obvious evidence. The original narrative is proving difficult to dislodge.

Not saying this guy is right or wrong. Just food for thought:

Those double rainbows are pretty cool when they happen.

Minor…little…problem….

Old thread, but worth a read:

https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1701352885190033486

Being a child of the aerospace industry…that didn’t sound like an airliner, but I’m going with the bomb hypothesis.

Yeah, not holding my breath on this one, either.

Yes, he really said that.

Memes & Stuff

IDK…the Biden “presidency” is pretty bad.

Have a good day y’all.

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One other vital note:

Please, review these rules that our host Wolfm00n outlined toward the beginning of the growth of the tree itself. it won’t take long.

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COLOSSIANS 3:1-11

1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7In these you once walked, when you lived in them. 8But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. 9Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices 10and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scyth’ian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.

LUKE 6:20-26

20And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21“Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh. 22“Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man! 23Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. 24“But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation. 25“Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger. “Woe to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. 26“Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

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

Please include: President Donald Trump, the Q team, our soldiers in the field, special forces, tactical units, first responders and those working behind the scenes…and any and all people with family members in the hospital, COVID or not.

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

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

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

SATIRE SECTION

Dear KAG: 20230912 Open Thread

Cover image: Mark Keathley does poetic justice with Native Sun, with all its sentimental and nostalgic portrayals of romanticized Native American Art.

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Unmasking Nikki Haley

Tucker Carlson: The Deep State Removed Nixon, The Most Popular President Ever, To Cover Up CIA’s Murder Of JFK

Mike Huckabee: If Trump Doesn’t Win, 2024 Will Be Last Election ‘Decided by Ballots Rather Than Bullets’

Corporate Media Blasts Bill Gates for Attacking Trees… Just Kidding, They Back His Evil Plan 100%

They think we didn’t pass seventh grade science.

Are You Suffering from Learned Helplessness?

‘Sound of Freedom’ Dominates with Number 1 Spot in 18 Latin American Countries

It’s their children who are being kidnapped and sold.

Global Regulator Wants Increased Scrutiny Of DeFi

BRICS Continues “Difficult” Work Of Creating New Currency

Testing the Waters? Huge “Trump Noem 2024” Sign Flashes at Picture-Perfect Moment at South Dakota Rally

There are worse choices out there.

Badlands News Brief – September 11, 2023

Why Will No GOP Candidate Call for Banning or at Least Restricting the Jabs?

Building 7: The 9/11 Conspiracy Evidence Even Normies Can’t Deny

Poll: Biden’s Approval Rating 38 Points Underwater with Independents

Lithium deposit found in US may be among world’s largest, study finds

Apparently, lack of sales isn’t going to stop the goons from trying to force their product to market.

Trump’s Resilience Leaves Anxious G.O.P. Donors in Despair and Denial

Covid Clown World: FDA Approves NEW Jabs That Target OLD Variant Despite Being as Ineffective as Past “Vaccines”

The trouble with supermarket self checkouts

People with no business trying to use them, try to use them. They shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Personally, I’m pretty good at it.

The Essential Revolver News January 6 Reading List

Tweet hopper:

Irony at its finest.

Meme & Fun hopper:

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This is why we grill.

Live free or cook and natural gas.

Watch to the end.

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

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

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

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

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.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

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.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

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LUKE 1:39-57

39In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, 40and she entered the house of Zechari’ah and greeted Elizabeth. 41And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44For behold, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped for joy. 45And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.” 46And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, 47and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; 49for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. 50And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation to generation. 51He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts, 52he has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree; 53he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away. 54He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, 55as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his posterity for ever.” 56And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her home. 57Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son.

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

>>148154137

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

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

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

Satire

We have pictures of me sitting in the towel drawer in the kitchen at the farm having tossed out all the towels. I was a year old.

Dear KMAG: 20230911 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

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

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Word of The Week:

trinitite

noun

Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sand composed of quartz grains and feldspar that was melted by the atomic blast.

You’ll see why I chose trinitite later in this post.

OK – here is the epic orchestral Wheatie music I was looking for….

Maybe some “Celtic mystique” music?

How about “Viking folk music”? No guarantees of authenticity here.

But let’s finish with some orchestral-backed vocals…..

OK – that was inspiring!

Carl was back on Sunday! Praise God!!!

I know it has been a while since I said “Trust The Plan”, but every once in a while I realize that it’s there.

Some very interesting posts (and replies) on X. Let me give you a guided tour.

This is an oldie but goodie on an old QAnon account that does indeed put time frames in perspective.

I found the reply here terribly interesting. It’s worth looking at Brian’s full tweet.

This is also going to be big – Lara Logan’s new production on January Sixth.

Now – check this out – a long train of tweets to some fascinating references.

First – UGH – the photo on the right.

Watch the liar who swoops in from Alinskyworld…. and the response….

I tried to find the source of the photo on Tineye, but could only find an older tweet, which also had the picture in a “trans” argument.

That post notes the prior self-cutting by the young woman, visible in the photo. A pro-trans poster excuses the cutting as a result of gender dysphoria thereby requiring the surgery, while I might see the surgery as the ultimate form of “cutting”.

As an aside, I think the mom may be relieved of some guilt here. She was likely ready to believe anything that the doctors and trans activists told her. Thus, it is to some extent likely to be a kind of “Stockholm syndrome X Munchausen by proxy syndrome”.

The original poster responds with an excellent old article questioning trans surgeries.

That led to an argument that the Guardian reference was too old, and ANOTHER more recent reference, which is what you REALLY need to see.

LINK: https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/11/58371/

ARCHIVE: https://archive.ph/mjoSS

New Data Show “Gender-Affirming” Surgery Doesn’t Really Improve Mental Health. So Why Are the Study’s Authors Saying It Does?

This is an absolutely fascinating example of “agenda science” and intentional misrepresentation of data. Check out the summary of the article:

Data from a new study show that the beneficial effect of surgery for transgender people is so small that a clinic may have to perform as many as 49 gender-affirming surgeries before they could expect to prevent one additional person from seeking subsequent mental health treatment. Yet that’s not what the authors say. That the authors corrupted otherwise-excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries.

This is EXACTLY what is wrong with science all over the place now. COVID science is just like this. Mask science, too. This dishonesty of interpretation is everywhere. AGENDA SCIENCE.

Here is the full text of the article, saved from censorship.

A new study appearing last month in the American Journal of Psychiatry concluded that “gender-affirming” surgery is associated with reduced demand for subsequent mental health treatment in a sample of persons diagnosed with “gender incongruence.” Predictably, such news received wide media interest and coverage. And yet even a cursory reading of the study itself tells a far less optimistic story than the media narratives—as well as the authors’ own inexplicable confidence—have offered. Indeed, the analyses would seem to suggest the benefit of a hormonal or surgical course does not outweigh the demonstrable physical and financial costs of such treatments. Future studies might suggest otherwise, but not this one.

The study’s shortcomings have nothing to do with the data, nor the methods employed by its authors (and public health researchers) Richard Bränström and John Pachankis. The data come from the Swedish Total Population Register, a massive, longitudinal survey effort that collected information from over 9.7 million Swedes, or about 95 percent of the country. No complaints there. The analyses are high-quality: the authors tracked respondents over time and assessed their use of mental health treatment (for a mood or anxiety disorder) in 2015, as well as other related measures (such as hospitalization after a suicide attempt), as a function of time since gender-affirming hormone and surgical treatment. Its measurement precision is excellent, and would satisfy most methodological purists. So far, all good news. But then come the scholarly interpretations of the study’s results, which are remarkably out of step with the far more modest conclusions they merit.

The study found no mental health benefits for hormonal interventions in this population. There is no effect of time since initiating hormone treatment on the likelihood of subsequently receiving mental health treatment.

First, a word about the hormones: the study found no mental health benefits for hormonal interventions in this population. There is no effect of time since initiating hormone treatment on the likelihood of subsequently receiving mental health treatment. Given the surge in interest, demand, and supply of hormonal therapies to self-identified transgender persons today, you would think that it is a solution that pays obvious benefits in reduced subsequent need—over time—for treatment of mood or anxiety disorder, or hospitalization after a suicide attempt. Yet there was no statistically significant effect. In fact, the confidence intervals actually reveal a nearly significant aggravating effect of hormonal treatment on subsequent mental health needs.

It is the surgical effect, however, that has grabbed all the attention. Bränström and Pachankis detected a statistically significant effect of time since last “gender-affirming” surgery on reduced mental health treatment. The adjusted (for controls) odds ratio for this was 0.92, meaning that, among respondents diagnosed with “gender incongruence” who then received gender-affirming surgical treatment, the odds of being treated for a mood or anxiety disorder (in 2015) were reduced by about 8 percent for each year since the last surgery. In other words, it would appear that the surgery—or more typically, the series of surgeries—benefited their mental health.

But the authors discuss a “linear decrease” in seeking subsequent mental health care that is simply not visible in the study’s graphs, where post-surgical mental health treatment hovers stably around 35 percent among those in their first nine years after surgery, and then drops to only 21 percent of those patients who are in their tenth (or higher) year since their last surgery. However, only 19 total respondents reported their last surgery as having been completed 10 or more years ago. By contrast, 574 (out of 1,018 total) reported their last surgery as having been conducted less than two years ago. (Surgical treatment is clearly surging.) This means that the apparently helpful overall effect of surgery is driven by this comparatively steep drop in mood/anxiety treatment among only 19 patients. By the math, that would seem to indicate that four out of these 19 Swedes (i.e., 21 percent) sought help in 2015 for mood/anxiety problems.

While the study reports the adjusted odds ratio of the overall effect of time since surgery (0.92), which I cannot replicate without having data access, you don’t need the data to calculate an unadjusted odds ratio from the information presented there. This can tell us the baseline effect of time since surgery on receiving mood and anxiety treatment, only without the controls (like age, income, etc.). Doing this reveals the fragility of the study’s key finding: if a mere three additional cases among these 19 had sought mental health treatment in 2015, there would appear to be no discernible overall effect of surgery on subsequent mental health. The study’s trumpeted conclusion may hinge on as few as three people in a data collection effort reaching 9.7 million Swedes, 2,679 of whom were diagnosed with gender incongruence and just over 1,000 of whom had gender-affirming surgery.

The study’s trumpeted conclusion may hinge on as few as three people in a data collection effort reaching 9.7 million Swedes, 2,679 of whom were diagnosed with gender incongruence and just over 1,000 of whom had gender-affirming surgery.

An increase of just three treated individuals (from 4 to 7 of 19) brings the overall effect to zero. On the other hand, a decrease of just three treated individuals (from 4 to 1 out of 19) yields an (unadjusted) odds ratio of 0.88, which would enable a claim of a 12-percent reduction in mental health assistance from getting the surgery. These large swings in estimates are due to very small adjustments in the data. As is often the case with small samples, tiny changes lead to large fluctuations in estimated effects. But, for this patient population, you are not going to find larger data collection projects than the Swedish data. This is as good as it gets when it comes to studying transgender medical experiences and outcomes.

Another helpful statistic I calculated is called the NNT, or “Number Needed to Treat.” It’s a measure of clinical impact. In this study, the NNT appears to be a staggering 49, meaning the beneficial effect of surgery is so small that a clinic may have to perform 49 gender-affirming surgeries before they could expect to prevent one additional person from seeking subsequent mental health assistance [ref] In this case, the NNT = -1 * [1/[(OR-1)UER] + OR/[(OR-1)(1-UER)]]. Using an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 0.92 and an unexposed event rate (UER) = 0.453, I get NNT = 49 cases. The UER I employ here comes from the mood/anxiety treatment rate for “perioperative” individuals with gender incongruence, as reported in the study’s Figure 1. The term “perioperative,” however, is vague and not defined by the authors. (It could mean right before or right after surgery.) It is not, however, a control group (that is, of Swedes diagnosed with gender incongruence who have not pursued surgical treatment). However, even such a control group would have limitations, including selection bias (e.g., screening for co-occurring mental illness or a lower level of gender dysphoria). Indeed, a prospective randomized controlled trial is not possible with this population. Nevertheless, the number employed offers a reasonable baseline UER, given the available data. NNTs below 10 “usually denote a worthwhile difference when comparing one intervention with another,” notes Leslie Citrome in “Quantifying Clinical Relevance.”[/ref]. If no other treatment was available, or the treatment was not invasive and the hazards were insignificant, clinics might consider surgery a low-risk but low-payoff approach. But none of those applies here. Conducting 49 surgeries to secure one additional patient who benefits? Unheard of.

The authors are nevertheless quick to declare that “this study provides timely support for policies that ensure coverage of gender-affirming treatments.” I cannot see how such confidence is merited. Time since hormonal treatment yielded no discernible effect on subsequent use of mental health treatment, while the modest effect of surgery hinges on a handful of cases from an earlier era (10 or more years ago) when very few gender dysphoric patients pursued surgery at all. And it’s not a leap to wonder whether those who did so a decade ago are a different kind of group than those who do so today. Moreover, suicide—the threat that seems to prompt all the urgency in doing something radical to alleviate psychological distress in these patients—may well have claimed an unknown number of Swedes who had had gender-affirming surgery ten or more years ago. We just don’t know, because the study does not track completed suicides for this sample.

If this were a clinical trial seeking to establish the efficacy of a particularly invasive medical treatment in comparison with a non-invasive standard protocol, there is no way that these published results would favor the invasive treatment—in this case, “gender affirming” surgery—when the statistical difference in outcomes was so tiny and fragile. This is not, contrary to what Bränström told ABC News, an evidence-informed treatment. That the authors corrupted otherwise excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries.

Physicians should not be pushed to prescribe such profoundly consequential treatment by threat of call-out, malpractice suits, patient demand, or—in this case—the overreaching interpretations of quality data. Clinicians are being bullied into writing a radical prescription based on fear, not on sensible conclusions from empirical data.

But this reasonable position is getting more difficult to defend. Less than two months after another team of activist psychiatrists landed a weak study on “conversion” therapy in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, its lead author has commenced a movement aimed at a wholesale ban on such a notion. This is alarming, especially since the idea itself—“converting” from having become convinced you are born in the wrong body to concluding that you can live with the body you have—is nonsensical. There is no defined psychotherapeutic method for treating gender dysphoria that can be widely characterized and consistently identified as “conversion therapy” in order to be banned. Nor has there been a clinical trial evaluating specific psychotherapeutic methods of counseling gender dysphoria that could potentially demonstrate whether such methods are helpful or harmful.

This is not how normal medical research works.

Can’t end this discussion without some interesting discussion of trinitite.

Keep fighting the good fight. Were gaining ground.

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