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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 Kingdom of God

The Kingdom of God is . . . righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God.

Paul says in Romans verse 14:17, “For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Then in verse 18 Paul confirms that serving Christ like that is indeed a manifestation of God’s Kingdom because it pleases God. “Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.”

What does Paul mean by “Kingdom of God”

This is the only place in the book of Romans where Paul uses the word “kingdom.” But he uses it elsewhere and we can know what he means by “Kingdom of God.” Four clarifications:

1) First, he means the reign of God, not the realm of God. We tend to think of a kingdom as a place. But for Jesus and for Paul it almost never has that meaning. Rather it means the reign or the rule of God. You can see that here: Where the Holy Spirit is bringing about righteousness and peace and joy, the Kingdom (that is, the reign of God) is being manifested.

2) The Kingdom of God refers to His saving reign, not to His total providence over all things. In one sense God reigns over all. So you could call everything “God’s Kingdom.” But that is clearly not the way Paul uses the term. The Kingdom of God is God’s redemptive reign. His saving reign. When Jesus said to pray, “Hallowed by your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6: 9-10), He meant that the coming of the Kingdom would be the extent of God’s rule where His name is hallowed and His will is done the way angels do it—obediently and joyfully. So the Kingdom of God is God’s reign, not realm; and it’s His saving, redeeming reign bringing about the hallowing of His name and the joyful doing of His will.

3) The Kingdom of God is fulfilled partially in the present and will be consummated at the end of the age when Christ comes a second time. Paul speaks of unbelievers not inheriting the Kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9), and so treats the Kingdom as yet future. But then he also says to believers that “He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of His beloved Son,” and so treats the Kingdom as already present.

4) The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Christ are the same. He says in Ephesians 5:5, “Everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous . . . has no inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.” There is one Kingdom, and it’s the Kingdom of Christ and of God. So to serve the Kingdom of God is to serve Christ, and to serve Christ is to serve the Kingdom of God.

So Paul is saying in verse 16, Don’t use your good—your good faith and your good liberty—to hurt anyone. Don’t put that much weight on eating and drinking. It’s not that crucial. Why? He answers in verse 17: Because “the Kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

The saving, redeeming, sanctifying rule of God—the Kingdom of God—has broken into this world in Jesus Christ, the Messiah—the King—and the evidence of His rule in your lives is not eating and drinking. You may think that your liberty to eat all things is what God’s Kingdom produces. But that’s not quite right. What the Kingdom produces is something far deeper and larger than how you use your liberty to eat.

Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit (v. 17)

What does Paul mean that “the Kingdom of God is . . . righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit”? That is not immediately obvious because Paul uses at least two of these terms in more than one way. Righteousness can mean the righteousness that God imputes to us when He declares us righteous through faith even when we are guilty sinners (Romans 4:5). And it can mean the righteousness that He then, on the basis of that right standing, begins to work in us (Romans 6:13, 16, 18, 19, 20). And peace can mean the peace that we have with God (Romans 5:1) or the peace we have with each other (2 Corinthians 13:11).

Paul has in mind the second kind of righteousness and peace—namely, the kind that God works in us in relationship to each other. But it may be that he wants us to think of both and remember that our practical righteousness and peace that we work out with each other is built on the perfect righteousness that He imputes to us by faith alone and the peace that we enjoy with him.

It’s remarkable how similar this sequence of righteousness, peace, and joy is with the sequence of thought in Romans 5:1-2. “Since we have been justified by faith [that is, declared righteous!], we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through Him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” So there is righteousness imputed through faith, peace with God, and joy in the hope of His glory.

Paul is probably referring to our practical lived-out righteousness (rather than the imputed righteousness of Christ) and the practical-lived out peace with each other is the phrase “in the Holy Spirit.” “The Kingdom of God is . . . righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” This seems to mean that the Holy Spirit is working these things right now. He is ruling in us to make us more righteous, more peaceable, and more joyful. This seems to be the fruit of the Spirit now, not a declarative act back at the beginning of our Christian lives. This work is built on justification by faith. But now the Spirit is producing in us these things: righteousness, peace, and joy.

That, Paul says, is the Kingdom of God. In other words, the work of the Holy Spirit and the advancing of the Kingdom of God are the same thing. This is exactly what we saw in the ministry of Jesus, for example, in Matthew 12:28. Jesus said, “If it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.” The work of the Spirit is the presence of the Kingdom of God. Or to say it another way: The reign of God is exercised through His Spirit.

So when the Spirit rules and conquers our selfishness and pride, and replaces it with Christlike righteousness, then we will not grieve and destroy a brother for the sake of food. The Spirit of God—the Kingdom of God—creates righteousness and peace and joy. This is what the Spirit of God does. He creates righteousness and peace and joy. And when you have these, you don’t grieve and destroy a weaker brother.

Serving Christ in This Way Is Pleasing to God (v. 18)

Then in verse 18 Paul confirms this by explaining that what he has just said is in fact what pleases God. “Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God.” That is, whoever serves Christ in the way that verse 17 just described is pleasing to God.

What did verse 17 say? It said that righteousness comes “in the Holy Spirit.” And when it comes “in —or by—the Holy Spirit,” it’s the Kingdom of God coming. So if you serve Christ that way, you please God. What does that mean? What is it here that pleases God?

What pleases God is not just when we serve Christ—not just when we try to do the righteousness that He commands—but when we do it in a certain way. And that way is described in verse 17 as “in the Holy Spirit.”

There is a way to serve Christ that would dishonor Christ. That’s why Jesus said in Mark 10:45, “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” There is a way to serve Christ that would dishonor him. And there is a way to serve God that would dishonor God. That’s why Paul said in Acts 17:25, “God is not served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.”

Christ and God are dishonored if we serve with the mindset that they need us, and are dependent on us instead of us being dependent on them for life and breath and ransom and everything. What pleases God is when He is shown to be the giver in our service of him. If we serve God as though we are the giver and He is the needy one, He is not pleased. It makes Him look needy and dependent. But He is not.

So verse 18 says, “Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God.” That is, whoever serves Christ—obeys Christ, pursues the righteousness that He commands—in the way described in verse 17 is pleasing to God. Namely, the one who depends on the Holy Spirit for what he pursues. The one who serves with the deep and happy confidence that God is always serving us in our service of Him. He always remains the supplier. Always.

A text that is frequently prayed is 1 Peter 4:11. Peter exhorts each of us to be “one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.” Serve with the expectation that the strength to serve will come from God. Then God will get all the glory. Do we want our serving to be an expression of His Kingdom or of our power?

What pleases God, is when our serving is the Fruit of the Holy Spirit. This is why the writer to the Hebrews closed his book with this benediction, “Now may the God of peace . . . equip you with everything good that you may do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”

God works in us what is pleasing in His sight. And the fact that He works it in us is part of what makes it pleasing in His sight.

The Kingdom of God is not food and drink. It is righteousness, peace, and joy which come by the powerful working of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The one who serves Christ in this way—depending on the work of the Spirit for all the help you need and renouncing all self-reliance—pleases God and manifests His Kingdom in the church and extends His Kingdom in the world.

So then, let us, as verse 19 says, “Let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.” Don’t flaunt our freedom. Love our brothers and sisters. And do it not in our own strength, but in the Holy Spirit. This is the Kingdom of God. This is His rule in our midst.
https://www.gotquestions.org/kingdom-of-God.html

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TheseTruths
Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Communism and corruption go hand in hand.

Brave and Free

Which seem to be a part of our government now.

Gail Combs

Which seem to be IS a part of our government now. And has been for decades.

TradeBait2

That is the only difference IMO. For many years they hid their treason and treacherous ways. Now, they give advance notice of it and call attention to it. They dare you to go against them.

Gail Combs

THEY WANT VIOLENCE so they have an excuse to destroy us.

Jan 6th is an example.

pat frederick

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singingsoul1

As Americans we should have a rite to walk in the Peoples House. We pay for it it is our house not the FBI house not the Pelosi House it is the peoples.

pat frederick

agree…as long as we don’t go storming into anyone’s office or obstruct the congresspeople from going where they need to–in other words–staying within the velvet ropes–see above–we should be fine!

singingsoul1

So true. 🙂

Gail Combs

CORRECT. We have the First Amendment RIGHT to peacefully assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.

ALL the laws RESTRICTING the rights of Americans to gather in protest are, to my mind UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

singingsoul1

Obama was the one restricting assemble to close around the Capitol.

Gail Combs

Yeah, he got that law past.

singingsoul1

He did much damage

pgroup2

Which amendment authorizes that? Asking for an anon.

itswoot

ArroganceGate

TheseTruths
Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

What a great president!

pgroup2

What a great painting!

Gail Combs

That one is well worth owning.

para59r

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Dora

That really is great. Thanks for posting.

TheseTruths

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How could anyone not believe they’re trying to replace us or bring in illegals to vote or even to fight us? They have rolled out the red carpet for people breaking our laws while neglecting our own citizens. They’re in our faces with it now.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Demoralization. Like Bezmenov said. They’re really pushing it.

We only have 1 year more to put up with this shit.

It’s our turn to demoralize them.

I think that Chris Wray and Mayorkas get fired on DAY ONE.

I think both are walking out the door with cardboard boxes.

And I’m going to ENJOY IT.

Brave and Free

They should be walked out in shackles.

Gail Combs

Beat me to it. 😃

Cuppa Covfefe

Dragged…..

Valerie Curren

This!

kalbokalbs

Only cuz Uniparty Protects Supports Wary, Mayorkis, Garland, Austin, Hoe, Briben…

singingsoul1

The Uniparty, in my dreams, should open their homes and pay all expenses for illegals out of own pocket.

PAVACA

TheseTruths
IMO, it’s gone beyond “trying” and is, in reality, “committed” to replacing American citizens:
Planning and implementing the COVID-19 disaster, including injecting almost 80% of American citizens with the COVID-19 “vaccines” (actually, gene therapy shots that can, and will, destroy the “vaccine” recipient’s body from within);
Planning and implementing an invasion of millions upon millions of illegal aliens (the vast majority being single men of fighting age who are uneducated / unskilled, but who ALSO will be permitted to bring in MULTIPLE “relatives” under “Family Reunion” regulations);
Granting “fast track” American citizenship to this illegal alien invasion horde;
Making sure the illegal alien horde is registered to vote for the DemCommunist party.

Among other actions.
And what are the “Republicans” in the House or Senate doing to stem this disaster? Ask Sen. Lankford.

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Gail Combs

From yesterday:

 Ivan on Bards of War (Scott) podcast 1/6/2023

https://rumble.com/v45pqi6-ivan-on-bards-of-war-podcast-162023.html

These two soldiers talk about a range of topics and then Scott drops a really nasty 😡BOMB😡 at 1:16:00

Unfortunately it confirms something that I have had in the back of my mind.

Scott (Bards of War):

“…Why I think this letter is so dangerous. Flynn himself has stated every single one of these congressman is blackmailed because they do these codels. => Sex with children.

But I am going to read this to you because it is another level of darkness that they are afraid of being exposed.

“This coming for a better life, is our new ‘Safe and Effective; Mega-Lie. IT IS A COORDINATED MILITARY OPERATION. It is not the first time in history a government has hired an army when they knew the citizens would unite against the their own government.”

Here is the deal. These flow of fighting age males and the replacement strategy 

of trying to sterilize and kill off a nation and bring in people who would birth their way in that know nothing of our Constitution. Providing them fast track to citizenship. THESE MILITARY DEFENCE CONTRACTORS ARE CURRENTLY SIGNING IN INK, AFTER CONTRACTS FOR MOVING THESE PEOPLE INTO THE COUNTRY, aND ARE NOW SIGNING THE INK CONTRACTS — AND IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW — TO FLY THEM OUT WHEN THERE IS A CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP.

These people are the scum of the earth. There is no possible way this organization, with the ability to move people using private ports of entry, using at night cover. Getting big bus companies to silence their people from speaking. There is no way that did not happen without MASSIVE coordination and massive compliance. That includes unions… We are talking about a level of corruption in this that will blow most peoples minds.

And so what I think, when we start talking about a letter that says accountability with 231 signatures [now 18,463] A letter that should not rock the world….

There is more but you can listen for yourself

para59r

Anecdotal. In my area Amazon has gotten rid of many of its delivery drivers. Seeing Amazon on the roads is much less common now though they are still out there. Instead Amazon has hired on many flex driver delivery people using their own privately owned vehicles to deliver product to the door.

I come in contact with these people more often than regular drivers because of the unique factors affecting access to my community. A gate. Which Amazon drivers seem to have no problem getting through but the flex drivers never seem to be able to get through by failure to be persistent in punching in the code. I myself often have to punch the code in several times to get it to work. Anyway as a result I’ve had to go out to the gate after getting a phone call to retrieve my packages. Thus I meet the drivers.

Some of the flex drivers are fine. One pair though I’m a bit concerned with. Normally flex drivers work alone, but I have these two middle age guys of fighting age that are not American that drive together in a beat up old car. They don’t seem stupid, they just can’t get in my gate though. If I was going to lead an op into such an environment as mine I’d like to get to know the lay of the land. This is what I suspect. Perhaps a bit paranoid but this is what I suspect. That they are learning the lay of the land.

pgroup2

Only in Ukraine are military aged guys the same as middle aged guys.

mollypitcher5

Trust your gut.

singingsoul1

In the real world green card takes 8-9 months from application and citizenship takes 7 years before one apply. One needs to speak read English and some writing and know the history. How are they bypassing that? How come citizens know not English?
They also should take driver license test in English so they truly understand our laws when driving.

Gail Combs

We also need our schools as ENGLISH ONLY. Kindergarten used to be about allowing immigrant children to learn English and allowing kids to get used to being away from home.

singingsoul1

My husband learn end English playing with other kids. Once in school they took him into a speech class to get rid of the German accent. He stayed in speech class though University. Kind of funny but they made sure that the kids were totally integrated.

Gail Combs

My Father’s Mom spoke only German at home. She wanted her children to learn English from AMERICANS and not from her.

Dad knew 5 languages, German, English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek.

singingsoul1

That is how it used to be

pgroup2

Part of me is envious of you for having a dad with those language skills.

TheseTruths

Yes, solid evidence.

singingsoul1

Government is sponsoring illegals from tax payer money.
Contrast as it was for ever that individuals sponsor legals from their own hard worked money. Who do you think will be a better loyal future American citizen ?

TheseTruths

The SCOTUS Bruen decision to the rescue, again.
Ban on guns in post offices is unconstitutional, US judge rules

A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a U.S. law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights.

U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump in Tampa, reached that conclusion in dismissing part of an indictment charging a postal worker with illegally possessing a gun in a federal facility.

Mizelle said that charge violated Emmanuel Ayala’s right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, saying “a blanket restriction on firearms possession in post offices is incongruent with the American tradition of firearms regulation.”

☛The decision marked the latest court decision declaring a gun restriction unconstitutional following the conservative-majority Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

That ruling recognized for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense. It also established a new test for assessing firearms laws, saying restrictions must be “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”

Ayala, a U.S. Postal Service truck driver in Tampa, had a concealed weapons permit and kept a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun in a fanny pack for self-defense, his lawyers said.

He was indicted after prosecutors said he brought the gun onto Postal Service property in 2012 and fled federal agents who tried to detain him.

He was charged under a statute that broadly prohibits possessing a firearm in a federal facility, including a post office.

Mizelle said that while post offices have existed since the nation’s founding, federal law did not bar guns in government buildings until 1964 and post offices until 1972. No historical practice dating back to the 1700s justified the ban, she said.

☛Mizelle said allowing the federal government to restrict visitors from bringing guns into government facilities as a condition of admittance would allow it to “abridge the right to bear arms by regulating it into practical non-existence.”

Exactly. It’s about time.

scott467

“Ban on guns in post offices is unconstitutional, US judge rules”

_________

Always knew it was unconstitutional.

There’s nothing more dangerous than government, and there’s lots of government inside the post office.

TheseTruths

People go postal in there, too!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

LMAO!!! Yes, and that is why sane employees need guns!

scott467

“That ruling recognized for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense.”

__________

What did they think people were doing in the 1800s, all over the West?

Have they never seen a Clint Eastwood western?

Or John Wayne?

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?

High Noon?

Once Upon a Time in America?

If you didn’t have a gun, you better have gotten one! 😂

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TheseTruths

This is why there are almost no western TV shows and movies anymore.

scott467

“He was indicted after prosecutors said he brought the gun onto Postal Service property in 2012 and fled federal agents who tried to detain him.”

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Smart… as if his employer (the government) didn’t already have his name and address… 😂

scott467

Sounds like Uncle Sam Stalin can’t ban guns in any government facility now.

Good news, just in time for the revolution 👍😂

Gail Combs

“…can’t ban guns in any government facility” = SCHOOLS 😍

Aubergine

Yeah!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Great news. Law-abiding individuals bringing guns with them when they go into lonely, empty postal lobbies in the dead of night is a GOOD THING.

TradeBait2

Well done, judge.

kalbokalbs

Now extend this to government buildings everywhere.

scott467

Check this out, these Buster Keaton movie stunt clips are almost 100 years old!

TheseTruths

Such great physical comedy!

scott467

This one’s 101 years old, Harold Lloyd in Safety Last!

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TheseTruths

Harold Lloyd was another great physical comedian. It’s remarkable that he lost the thumb and forefinger of his right hand in an accident in 1919, so those stunts in Safety Last were done with a prosthetic glove fitted on his right hand, and he only had three fingers to grip with on that hand. He wore the prosthesis in all his movies after the accident.

The story of the accident
One Sunday afternoon, August 24, 1919, Harold Lloyd arrived at Witzel Photography Studio, in Los Angeles, to pose for a series of stills which would be used in ads for magazines, and posters.
Earlier that month, Pathe had been testing some potent bombs for a thrill sequence in a non-Lloyd film. The bombs were tested in a park, and when one proved too potent (shattering a heavy oak table), it was determined that they would be too dangerous for on-screen use, and were discarded.
At Witzel’s, along with Lloyd and some of his gagmen, was a box of props, to be used in some of the shots. Among these props were some papier mache bombs, very similar in appearance to the potent real bombs tested by Pathe earlier in the month. Somehow (and a definitive explanation has never been arrived at), one real bomb got mixed in with the fakes — most likely due to their close resemblance. One of the poses called for Lloyd, then 26, to light a cigarette from one of these phoney bombs, in a pose which was to characterize his on-screen persona: devil-may-care, never intimidated by the obstacles that life presented to him. In a twist of fate, the only real bomb in the batch was the one handed to him…
Once handed the bomb, Lloyd placed the already-lit cigarette to the wick of the thought-fake bomb. The excessive smoke, strange for a papier-mache, made Lloyd realize that the picture would suffer. He figured that they’d try again, with another bomb — as he reached to place the bomb on the table, it blew.
The force of the blast tore a hole in the sixteen-foot ceiling of the studio. [Lloyd’s gag man Frank] Terry’s upper dental plate was cracked in half in his mouth. The photographer fainted. Lloyd, still in his mark, didn’t register what happened until moments later, when the pain just started to set in. He described his face as “raw meat.” He couldn’t see out of either eye after the blast. However, more painful was the permanent reminder of this fateful day: the thumb and forefinger of his right hand were severed.
Lloyd was rushed to the Methodist Hospital, which would be his home for the next 16 days. His eyesight eventually returned, but for a while the doctors feared for his right eye. Physicians also worried that gangrene might set in on his face, and the gashes in his lips produced cracks that were very painful. Lloyd noted that “the pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.” He had good reason to be worried.
At the time of the blast, Lloyd’s reputation as an up-and-comer in film comedy was solidified, and his most important work was in front of him. He felt certain that his career was over, and sat in his bed frantically figuring what he was going to be able to do now: 26 years old, and, supposedly, out of work. He had, though, a basic optimism that transcended his character’s enthusiasm, and he realized that he did have a future in producing, or writing, or directing, either in film or in theatre. He was not about to give up — in that way he and his on-screen persona were most similar…
Hal Roach and Sam Goldwyn (who started out life as Sam Goldfish, glove salesman), teamed to inspire a revolutionary prosthetic device, which might hold the key to Harold’s returning to the screen. The prosthesis, still pretty remarkable by today’s standards, called for a rubber mold to be taken of Lloyd’s left hand. The mold was reversed to simulate the incomplete right hand. The area that was missing was cut, and fitted into a thin leather glove, and when Lloyd’s right hand was inserted into the glove, it looked complete. The index and middle fingers of the glove were stitched together, meaning that movement of the flexible rubber index finger was possible, whenever the middle finger moved. The thumb remained immobile, and logically so. The leather glove was held on, tightly, by a rubber band garter system, which fastened to Lloyd’s upper arm. When covered in makeup, the prosthesis was hard to detect, which was exactly the way Lloyd wanted it…
Harold was a natural righty — the loss of two fingers from that hand necessitated an increased mobility with his left hand. He gained that, and became essentially ambidextrous, through intensive handball training…
https://haroldlloyd.us/the-life/august-24-1919-witzel-photographers/

TheseTruths

In the Safety Last video sequence after the 5-minute mark you can see that his right thumb doesn’t move, but it’s not noticeable unless you’re looking for it. I’ve watched for it in other movies of his too.

scott467
smiley2

he was a genius at comedy.

Woody Allen thought so, too.

😀

from Sleeper (1970s)…the Escape scene…

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

LOL!!!

TheseTruths

Very interesting!

pgroup2

Lots of motion picture tricks to get that film. But still way cool.

cthulhu

The stunt with the water tower actually broke Keaton’s neck…..which wasn’t diagnosed until x-rays showed it years later.

TheseTruths
scott467

A couple of C.H.U.D.s, slithering out from the deep end of the swamp, to cover their own arses 😂

pgroup2

Now that’s quite a reference.

However, the amount of mind bleach needed for it is copious.

kalbokalbs

Uniparty shit birds. “Supporting” Lining up with the Winning Candidate.

  1. Rob should have accepted his Participation trophy. Now, Rob goes home with nothing.
  2. Mickey Haley. She goes home with her mansion on an island, paid for by Boeing.
  3. Vivek, he’ll bale after Rob and Mickey bale.
singingsoul1

Vivek will bale after he put his foot in his mouth 🙂
“To smart is dumb” that is Vivek 😂
To bad 😎

TheseTruths

HAPPENING NOW… Pro-Palestine Protesters Try to Breach White House, Violently Shake Security Fence (VIDEO)

JUST IN: Pro-Palestine protesters try to breach the security fence outside of the White House, forcing DC police to hold the fence.

If they were wearing red MAGA hats this would be all over the news.

According to @Julio_Rosas11, the fence was attacked so badly that Secret Service and the DC Police had to make repairs.

Secret Service agents are reportedly in riot gear.

scott467

“Pro-Palestine protesters try to breach the security fence outside of the White House, forcing DC police to hold the fence.”

_____________

I’m trying so hard to care… it’s just not working!

😂

scott467

I can’t be sure, but it almost sounds like they’re chanting “Buck Joe Biden”.

Guessing that’s how Palestinian Buckers call for a meeting with Joe Biden.

singingsoul1

How many of them are illegals getting an hand out from tax payers?

smiley2

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

So exactly when does the FBI do early morning raids on these Pal-Pals?

singingsoul1

I hope they captured all their text messages ? Know who organized and I wonder how many feds are infiltrated the group?

scott467

Half of them were FIB, the other half were friends and family.

Cuppa Covfefe

They’re following their dark Satanic Lord Pal-Pal team…

mollypitcher5

What a performance ! The fence was put up in anticipation of this demonstration, the protesters are well aware that PERVOTUS is not there so exactly who are they trying to impress????

pat frederick

the people that PAID them??

Happy go lucky

Thank you, bakocarl, always a help 💕

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year 🎊 I have been taking a fast from the internet and news of the world. I hope y’all are well and are hanging in there 🙏

TheseTruths

Happy New Year! I hope your time away has been beneficial to you.

scott467

“I have been taking a fast from the internet and news of the world.”

__________

The news hasn’t gotten any better while you were away 😂

smiley2

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kalbokalbs

Bacon, eggs, V8 juice, with a coffee chaser shortly.   :wpds_razz: 

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Gail Combs

Sausage (or bacon), Eggs, OJ and Tea.

Sigh, I wish I could still eat that for breakfast!

singingsoul1

A cup of mixes berries and homemade yogurt at my house. A cup of coffee 🙂

pgroup2

Oh but you can. Just limit it to once a year.  😆 

Gail Combs

It is the darn salt. My blood pressure heads for the roof.

Instead I take the least salty sausage and cut it 50/50 with hamburger. I add KCL to counter the NaCl, add mushrooms, onions peppers and then freeze in heaping tablespoon packets.

When I want an omelet, I use a packet plus shredded cheese.

It can also be mixed 50/50 with cream cheese to make stuffed mushrooms.

Cream cheese, ricotta, sour cream and fake, Wally Mart Swiss are all fairly low in sodium.

singingsoul1

I hope the wind is gone and the sun is out as it is here at my house ?
Two nights of wind gusts rain snow flurries 😳

smiley2

wind is finally subsiding.

about an inch of snow…

and bitter cold.

5 degrees right now (Monday 5 am)

singingsoul1

Winter is here 🙂 By us it is now 3:27 PM 23F .
I have steam heat and last night the steam was almost to much it was humming the whole night.

PAVACA

Happy go lucky
Nice to see you on the board! Happy New Year to you and yours. Hope you are well.

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Valerie Curren

Nice to see you Happy. Have a Great New Year & God Bless you & yours  😍 

smiley2

bakocarl…one of your best messages, very substantial.

simple, straightforward but, at the same time, profound.

if we could just stay on track, and not get so distracted by the cares of this life & this world, and all the striving we do, we would probably smile more, feeling the joy of pleasing GOD.

nothing makes a person happier than the feeling of being connected to Him.

💖 Maranatha

it seems everybody is confused, frustrated and on edge, sometimes, these days.

bullies everywhere.

narcissists, psychopaths and just plain difficult people…

we have to contend with them, and, at times, we react in the same ways !

we get triggered, we want to retaliate, we feel pushed & shoved, at our wits end !

for me, one of the best ways to deal with difficult, burdensome people is to think.

think about Yeshua.

don’t react to the abusive person.

instead, respond in such a way that we are responding to Yeshua..

I do this unto Thee, Lord.

it takes our focus off of the abusive person, and shifts it onto Yeshua by obeying Him…

instead of getting really pissed off and getting even, think of pleasing GOD.

we always have a choice.

stay empathetic.

not a doormat or a patsy or a scapegoat or a weakling…

a level-headed Believer who won’t get sucked into the malignant muck of contentions and rivalries.

it’s not easy..

unless we think it through…

I do this unto Thee, Lord.

then we will have His Peace.

Faithful and True. 💖

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TradeBait2

Beautiful post. 👍😀

singingsoul1

This is a verse that helped me when time was hard. The light burden to me is Christ’s peace. This is one of my go too verse 🙂

Matthew 11:28-30“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

smiley2

💖

Valerie Curren

Amen!!!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Very helpful! Thank you!

I am always working on this understanding – that the Kingdom of God is not just “there” – and obviously not just “here” – but now I see that HOW it is “here” is very important.

So again – thanks! 💖 🙏

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Gail Combs

  :wpds_lol: 

I just hope this time it is not a very lethal disease.

TheseTruths

I don’t know how they save themselves in the case of a very contagious disease or a lethal disease.

kalbokalbs

They line up for an mRNA injections.

kalbokalbs

Disease X Has Been Filed with Monkey Pox…<<<>>> IGNORE.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

This dude is utterly delusional!

Gail Combs

Backstabbing Never Trumpster. He even LOOKS EVIL.

singingsoul1

He went to the dark site.

Cuppa Covfefe

Ill Mitch-Hell…

kalbokalbs

Bought AND Paid For Infomercial. As are Rob’s door knockers.

singingsoul1

This guy when brain dead. He used to be Trump guy and switched in a heat bead. He is a fraught. Do people still listen to him?

para59r

Not anyone here. It’s been over two years since any one has posted him. I think he had that arguement with Tracy Bean (?) and we dropped him and worried about her.

singingsoul1

I guess I missed it. 🙄

para59r

That’s okay! It’s why we have Wolf and “This guy is delusional” comment!   :wpds_lol: 

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

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smiley2

how is it “a war” between Trump and Vivek ?

PDJT is simply stating the obvious (imo)…

Vivek is a people-pleasing shape-shifter, hoping to win ppl over by pretending to be what they want.

like a used car salesman, razzle dazzle ’em.

Vivek, BTW, also believes Jesus Christ is “a” son of God…

not THE Son of GOD.

regardless of Nikki Haley (yawn), Vivek’s pretensions need to be shown for what they are.

jmo

this is the issue…

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Can’t let him skate!

singingsoul1

Bingo

kalbokalbs

“Save Trump. Vote Vivek.”

P U R E Ignorance.

Edit.

Pure ignorance. <<< Nah. Vivek IS pointing out, Trump IS being persecuted.

>>> Vivek IS Indirectly supporting Trump. <<<

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singingsoul1

I am not into mental gymnastics 😂

para59r

If Vivek wanted to play this straight and narrow he should of ran as the break glass candidate. In other words keep me alive through the primaries in case something happens before they are called and regardless of what happens Trump will be a favorite with convictions or not, in jail or not as long as his name is on the ballot. His recent reach out has far exceeded that. He’s toast!

singingsoul1

Yes, to smart is dumb. What a foolish thing to be part off.

kalbokalbs

Chaff.

singingsoul1

Vivek started war between him and Trump. Why did he not challenge Nicki instead Trump? He began the war because Trump is winning and going after Nicki does not get him points. He wants to collect Trump voters he must think MEGA supporters are dumb.

Gail Combs

He is hoping the Deep State will take Trump off the board leaving him a clean shot at the Presidency. He is smart enough to know Trump supporters are

  1. NUMEROUS
  2. VERY VERY LOYAL.

In December 2009:
Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot – Rasmussen Reports

in 2009 a “…. new Rasmussen Reports “generic ballot” poll shows

“Democrats attracting 36% of the vote.

The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%,

and Republicans finish third at 18%.

Another 22% are undecided….”

Those leaning towards the Tea Party in 2009 became Trump Voters in 2016 and then in 2020. After 3 years of Bite-Me they are dug in and growing in number.

singingsoul1

Good points 🙂

TheseTruths

That tweet says, “Vivek is not an enemy of MAGA.”

IMO, anyone who…
• is not shouting from the rooftops that 2020 was stolen
• is running against Trump instead of trying to get him back into office
• is asking people to vote for him so he can “save” Trump (by pardoning him, I guess)
• is trying to look like Trump-lite while still running against Trump (IOW, presenting himself as a replacement for Trump)

…is not MAGA. If Vivek wakes some people up with his pronouncements, great, but he can’t be trusted, IMO.

para59r

If Trump can not get in with his America First agenda, then none of them get in. It’s Trump or bust!

kalbokalbs

Absolutely.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Never forget what they did.

Gail Combs

This ruling was actually passed in the fall of 2019 and went into effect in Jan 2020 JUST IN TIME TO DENY ACCESS TO HCQ! After that the supply of HCQ went missing.

I can not find the link to that story but there is this:

Why France Is Hiding a Cheap and Tested Virus Cure
The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the Covid-19 pandemic
By Pepe Escobar
Global Research, March 27, 2020

What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it….

Levy has a vicious running feud with Professor Didier Raoult – prolific and often-cited Marseille-based specialist in communicable diseases. Levy withheld the INSERM label from the world-renowned IHU (Hospital-University Institute) research center directed by Raoult.

In practice, in October 2019, Levy revoked the status of “foundation” of the different IHUs so he could take over their research….

𝗢𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟯 𝗔𝗴𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝘇𝘆𝗻, 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲’𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 “𝗽𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲,” 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗔𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗳 𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆. [she quit three days later.]

Dr Raoult was the top virologist in the world. THEY DESTROYED HIM FOR THIS!

Didier Raoult published new results of 1,061 coronavirus patients treated using hyroxychloroquine with 91% success rate

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kalbokalbs

G R E A T Indictment on John’s Hopkins, Feds, CDC, FDA, NIH, FauXi, Scarf Bitch, health care systems, quacks…..

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

EVIL.

cthulhu

That rat bastard.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Wokiepedophilia.

TradeBait2

Clownopedohillia.

kalbokalbs

Trying to erase history.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

PAVACA

Wolf Moon and All —
Here are some documents and articles related to the “Disease X” pandemic exercise:

One: The Johns Hopkins pandemic exercise document itself — a VERY important read:
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf
Yours Truly: This 60+ pages document outlines what the “next pandemic” could be — apparently, another Zoonotic Disease (animal to human) that originates in the Philippines. The document goes through everything from the start of infections, through various “therapeutic measures” and “vaccines” created to stem the overwhelming numbers of infections and deaths, through how governments can quash “misinformation” and “vaccine hesitancy.”

Two: This WEF link to the 17 January presentation, “Preparing for a Disease X” at their January 2024 meeting: http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/preparing-for-a-disease-x/
Yours Truly: This is is “pop-up box” summary only of the presentation listing and of the participants. I can find no transcript / summary of the actual presentation.

Three: The 2018 WEF article about “Disease X” from MARCH 2018:
http://www.weforum.org/2018/the-who-is-preparing-for-disease-x/
Yours Truly: It appears that BOTH the WEF and the WHO were speaking about “Disease X” almost 6 years ago. (The WEF link embedded in this article is broken.)

Four: The WEF article of JULY 2023 regarding “Disease X”:
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/07/diseases-pandemic-preparedness-cepi/
“Disease X – this is how we should prepare for the next big virus”
Yours Truly: CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) was founded, in part, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the WEF.

Five: The Expose News article regarding “Clade X”, how it relates to “Disease X”, and the “vaccine development” against “Disease X” that is going on in a research facility in WILTSHIRE, England (by the same Oxford University group that developed the viral vector COVID-19 “vaccine” marketed by AstraZeneca and which is close “vaccine relative” to the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 “vaccine”):
https://expose-news.com/2023/08/08/disease-x-was-rehearsed-at-clade-x-are-we-about-to-see-a-new-plandemic/

Six: The Sky News story on the activities of the UK government-run lab in Wiltshire:
https://news.skynews.com/story-uk-scientists-begin-work-on-defending-against-new-pandemic-caused-by-disease-x-12934956
Yours Truly: what one sees in the embedded video in the Sky News report, IMO, looks like safety measures that would be used in a BSL-2 level facility. And the Sky News reporter himself apparently was NOT suited up in a HazMat outfit while inside the facility?

Seven: The Johns Hopkins “tabletop exercise” of November 2023, outlining how governments can “regulate” information and activities of the “Bioeconomy”, including how to deal with “misinformation”:
http://www.jhuapi.edu/sites/default/files/2023-11/Going-Viral-Bioeconomy-Defense.pdf

Yours Truly: In sum, IMO, it appears that those who consider themselves to be “our masters” are planning to ensure that the next “plandemic” is totally controlled in every aspect — disease / virus development; release into the world; “therapeutic” and “vaccine” response; “NO contrary opinions allowed”; the (remaining) world population under complete control.

Gail Combs
PAVACA

Gail Combs
Thank you so much! You are very kind.

Gail Combs

You are very welcome. I figure we really need all the info you bring in one place for easy reference.

singingsoul1

PAVACA thank you for sharing so much into with us.

Gail Combs

We really have a great group of brainstorming – crowd sourcing people.

This is what the Cabal really fears.

singingsoul1

All of you guys are brilliant. I love you all 🙂

Gail Combs

  :wpds_oops:  Same here.

kalbokalbs

  :wpds_arrow:  Free Speech on the Internet IS OUR weak link. <<< My #1 concern.

IF we lose Free Speech on the Internet, we have a huge problem to overcome.

Gail Combs

Pgroup2 said yesterday of Tom Petty:

Leftist. After capitalism made him a multi-millionaire, then he decides socialism is superior.

>>>>>>>>>>

Pgroup2 has fallen for one of the nastiest tools in the Cabal’s arsenal, CONTROL OF LANGUAGE. If you control language you literally control a person’s thoughts or at least his ability to communicate them.

(Interesting that this AZQuQtes has been removed… I had to use the Wayback.)

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By controlling language the cabal can then herd us into an argument were neither option is a GOOD option for the general population.

Back to Capitalism vs Socialism/Communism.

ChiefIo, an economist does a dandy job of explaining ‘Capitalism’ (I have shortened it.)

EVIL SOCIALISM VS EVIL CAPITALISM

….Realize that the corporate urge is not toward a competitive market. It’s the very LAST thing any corporate wants. What a corporate wants is a monopoly where they can achieve the profit maximizing price point. Not competition. No “market” with many sellers.

….Monsanto pushing legislation to ban private traditional seeds and seed sharing, and promoting GMO products. (Why would a seed company want to ‘destroy’ a seed market? So you must come to the company store…)

EPA is used to forbid all sorts of things that can be done easily and cheaply, and where the alternative is very expensive ….

Once corporations figure out that it is cheaper and easier to get the competition banned and them mandated, than to create new products; and that they can make lots of money as the sole provider of a crappy product but not that much making good products in a competitive market; well, lets just say that the campagne contributions flow

👉𝗢𝗱𝗱𝗹𝘆, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 “𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲” 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗜𝗦 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 “𝗹𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘇 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲” 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀. 𝗔𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 “𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹. 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗔 𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗟.𝗙. 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁 “𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺” (𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗯-𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻).

The USA until about 1990 was a “Mixed Economy” with some “natural monopolies” under government “control” via “regulation”; and with many competitive markets. We’ve moved to more central planning and more central “regulation” (in some cases as a cover for the “planning” word that has gotten tied to Socialism… so is political to some extent). With the nationalization of GM and the bank “bailout” / “rescue” that was really more of a ‘take-under’ in some ways; we moved to a Lange Type Socialism.

The result of the last 50 years has been more companies in markets with Oligopolies that are essentially guaranteed by the government. Who dominates the Home Mortgage Market? Fanny & Freddy – Gov’t Corporations. Who dominates the Student Loan Market? Sally Mae – a Gov’t Corporation. Who dominates US Autos? GM – a Gov’t Corporation via Nationalization, but now being sold off. (Though Ford is doing well too.) And who “Calls the Tune” for the Banks in America? ALL of them? The Federal Reserve Bank – a Gov’t sponsored corporation. And there are a whole lot more of them. Try taking a train from coast to coast for example…

At the next tier down, we have Gov’t dependent Oligopolies. Say you wanted to make airplanes. First off, you need that dozen lawyers to work the FAA for you. Next up, you need some friends in the Military to feed you contracts. Don’t think so? When Boeing gets a $B contract to ‘study’ or ‘develop’ and you need to design your new tech from scratch on your own money: Who do you think will win? So the government basically decides how many companies it wants, and who they will be, then funds them “to plan” with contracts. (This is NOT a hypothetical… I’ve watched them flat out announce “We’d like Lockheed and Martin to merge” or “we don’t want…” usually when one of them is ‘having issues’ and the topic is raised. Then the gov’t casts the one vote that matters…)

And so it goes…

This is, dare I say it…. basically the same way the Fascist “Third Way” worked. (And it DOES work). FDR and Wilson both had high praise for The Third Way and you can see how they shifted America from a ‘free market’ toward “Third Way” government – corporation “cooperation” … It was this same process / tendency that Ike warned about in the “Military Industrial Complex” speech….

We’ve now got a “Progressive” and a “Third Way” government that IS a form of Socialism. (Now being rebranded as “Market Socialism” in the Eastern Block and Euro zones; called “Regulation” in the USA and sometimes poking it’s head up under “Rescue” as well with the most recent bits called “Social Justice”… all the pieces as slices of salami, but no overall Big Picture of it… we like to keep our socialism hidden in tiny bites with different names.)

👉𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 “𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝘆” 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 “𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺”, 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮; 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀… 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗺 “𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗱, 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱” 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻…

And that is the root cause of your pondering. Corporations are very happy under a Socialist Third Way / Progressive / Market Socialism / Fascist / “Government regulated Coopertition” (whatever you name you like to apply to the same beast) system. They are not very happy with wide open competitive markets….

To put it bluntly the Billionaire Capitalists LOVE Socialism/Communism aka NEO-FEUDALISM

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗗 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗘𝗨𝗗𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠 𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧.

(Remember JP Morgan and the munitions industry took control of the news industry in 1915. LINK)

On This Day in 1914, US Military Slaughtered Kids in Colorado and JD Rockefeller Had Media Cover It Up

On April 19 and 20, 1914, during a miner strike in Colorado, the National Guard killed dozens of people—though the exact number of casualties is disputed, most sources agree that at least four women and 11 children were among the dead. When the workers first went on strike, they were evicted from the company-owned houses in the mining town, so they set up massive tent colonies outside of the towns. The workers were protesting for higher wages and better work qualities but were making very little progress.

The largest of these tent cities was in Ludlow, just outside of John D. Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The tent city in Ludlow housed over 1,200 people, and entire families, including children, were living in these tents. The strike had been going on for months before the massacre, with tensions rising between the military and the strikers with every passing day.

Then one day, these tensions came to a head and the National Guard set up a machine gun on a hill overlooking the tent city and began raining bullets down on the workers and their families. The Soldiers then invaded the colony and began setting fires to the tents, trapping many innocent people to die inside. When news of the violence spread, miners all over the state began to revolt, and went to war with the coal companies, shooting and attacking soldiers and mine owners, as well as dismantling railroad tracks and blowing mines shut.

  :wpds_arrow: Eventually, the Army was called in to quell the uprising and the protesters went back home or back to work.

However, news of the incident was beginning to spread, tarnishing the Rockefellers’ reputation and inspiring more protests. To deal with this problem of public perception, Rockefeller hired public relations pioneer Ivy Lee. Lee was an early influence of Edward Bernays, who would later write the infamous book “Propaganda,” a textbook of mind control for tyrants and aristocrats. Bernays is often called the “father of propaganda.” If this is so, then Ivy Lee is the grandfather…

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀?
They hated them and put in place laws to limit their power.

…The origin of modern corporations can be traced all the way back to 17th century England when Queen Elizabeth I created the East India Trading Company. At first, corporations were small, quasi government institutions that were chartered by the crown for a specific purpose. If corporations stepped out of line, the crown did not hesitate to revoke their charters. Corporations generated so much revenue that they even began taking on increased political power. Corporations were also organized to finance large projects such as exploration, which leads us to the American colonies.

To say that the Founding Fathers supported corporations is very absurd. Its quite the opposite in fact.

To say that the founding fathers supported corporations is very absurd. Its quite the opposite in fact. Corporations like the East India Trading Company were despised by the founding fathers and they were just one reason why they chose to revolt against England. Corporations represented the moneyed interests much like they do today and they often wielded political power, sometimes to the point of governing a colony all by themselves like the Massachusetts Bay Company did.

But there is more evidence that the Revolutionary generation despised corporations. The East India Company was the largest corporation of its day and its dominance of trade angered the colonists so much, that they dumped the tea products it had on a ship into Boston Harbor which today is universally known as the Boston Tea Party. 

👉𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬-𝟯𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘁𝘆.

After the nation’s founding, corporations were granted charters by the state as they are today. Unlike today, however, corporations were only permitted to exist 20 or 30 years and could only deal in one commodity, could not hold stock in other companies, and their property holdings were limited to what they needed to accomplish their business goals. And perhaps the most important facet of all this is that most states in the early days of the nation had laws on the books that made any political contribution by corporations a criminal offense

Later those laws were watered down.

A History of U.S. Monopolies

The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890 in response to a public outcry over price-fixing abuses by monopolies.1

This act banned trusts and monopolistic combinations that placed “unreasonable” restrictions on interstate and international trade. The act was a hammer that gave the federal government the power to shatter big companies into smaller pieces….

  :wpds_arrow: 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝟱𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀. 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀….

SO we are arguing For Corporations (now called ‘capitalism’) or For Socialism where the Cabal wins either way. We even have one political party representing CORPORATIONS (R) and one representing SOCIALISM (D) but NONE representing a FREE PEOPLE.

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cthulhu

Although I concur with most of the above, I do have to lodge an exception or two regarding corporations.

In the course of the growth of an organization, it can go through several legal forms while retaining its essential character. A sole proprietor may hang out his shingle; he may retain staff; he may designate subordinate levels of management; he may enter into a partnership.

With partnerships, there may be general partnership interests, limited partnership interests, and managing partners. Up until recently, law firms and accounting firms had to be partnerships and not corporations.

Back in the day, partnerships could be secret. You could be wronged by “ABC Farming” and try to sue them, only to find out they were owned by the partnership of Smith and Jones. If you went to sue Smith and Jones, you had to find out where they were and serve papers on a partner, which often was difficult (especially when the the partners of “Smith and Jones” were actually Kobachek and d’Orvilles and might be overseas).

A corporation is a creation of government, and like many such have an implicit trade-off. Corporations in every jurisdiction I know have to file a form designating an agent for service of process — you needn’t be a genealogist and legal researcher to track someone down.

Many of the sins laid to “being a corporation” are actually sins of being a large enterprise. A partnership may collude with government and execute “regulatory capture”. An individual can bribe a legislator — the guy most associated with gold bar Menendez is Salomon Melgen, an opthalmologist.

That said, one of the things that corporations exist to do is kill people. Back in the early part of the 1900’s, any major construction project could be expected to lose a worker for every $1,000,000 spent. In a partnership, the worker’s heirs might assert that a partner was guilty of murder….in a corporation, not so much. That’s why corporations were used to construct Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Transcontinental Railroad, the Empire State Building, and anything else of scale.

Of course, this means corporations must be regulated, which leads to its own possibilities for abuse. Were it up to a regulatory bureaucracy, any poor sap digging a hole would have three inspectors signing off on each shovelful — each being more credentialed and higher-paid than the original laborer. These abuses are studied in a comparatively recent branch of economics known as public choice theory [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice ].

Overall, I agree with many of your citations of abusive behavior. And I also agree that many of the worst behaviors are currently performed by corporations. Where I disagree is that I don’t find these behaviors to be caused by the perpetrators being corporations. Corporations are just another way of organizing businesses.

Gail Combs

I should have been more clear.🙃 It is the equating CORPORATIONS with CAPITALISM that I have problems with.

The strawman:
CORPORATIONS =/= CAPITALISM

but by equating the two you can then use the abuses of corporations to BASH capitalism and say Socialism/Communism is good.

I like this simple explanation best.
Capitalism is an economic system where private individuals own the means of production and where production levels are based on free market competition.

The word capitalism comes from capital, which refers to resources (goods, money, property, etc.) that are used to produce more wealth. A capitalist is someone who practices capitalism by using his or her resources to make more resources.

AYN RAND

Laissez-faire capitalism, according to Ayn Rand, is not just an ideal but an unknown ideal. Few grasp its meaning, history, economics, or moral justification. In Capitalism, Rand sets out to remedy that.

Rand argues that capitalism is “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.” In practice, this means that a capitalist society is one in which the government performs a single function: it protects individual rights by banning “physical force from human relationships.”

Pure capitalism, she concludes, has never existed: but in the countries that approached it, with America in the second half of the nineteenth century leading the way, the individual was able to flourish. This is because capitalism is the only system that fully recognizes that man is the rational being who “has the right to exist for his own sake,” free from coercion by others.

….

Capitalism is defined as a social and economic system where capital assets are mainly owned and controlled by private persons, where labor is purchased for money wages, capital gains accrue to private owners, and the price mechanism is utilized to allocate capital goods between uses. The extent to which the price mechanism is used, the degree of competitiveness and government intervention in markets distinguish exact forms of capitalism…

https://libertarianism.fandom.com/wiki/Capitalism

pgroup2

As regards Petty, he certainly owns the means of production [ability to write songs and play instruments], at least until he sold his library.

Frankly, I’m at a loss to understand how my statement about Petty [whether right or wrong] has anything to do with corporations.

Gail Combs

Pgroup2 yesterday you said:

Leftist. After 👉capitalism made him a multi-millionaire, then he decides socialism is superior.

The only Petty I know races cars BTW.😜

Gail Combs

I think I blew it.

I was trying to point out that via progressive language definitions our thinking is SILOED.

We end up in arguments about ‘Capitalism’ vs ‘Socialism’ instead of about the rights to own property and produce wealth that WE KEEP vs Serfdom (You will own nothing and be happy.)

If we look at Corporations today we see they are not even concerned about producing profit anymore! Instead their goals are pushing a WOKE AGENDA that destroys the USA. WHY? because they answer to financial istitutions run by people like Larry Fink.

You can see the progression as actual American owned FOR PROFIT corporations are replaced by the Transnational corporations who have a hidden agenda, WORLD GOVERNMENT BY THEM.

Of mergers and acquisitions each costing $1 million or more, there were just 10 in 1970; in 1980, there were 94; in 1986, there were 346. A third of such deals in the 1980’s were hostile. The 1980’s also saw a wave of giant leveraged buyouts. Mergers, acquisitions and L.B.O.’s, which had accounted for less than 5 percent of the profits of Wall Street brokerage houses in 1978, ballooned into an estimated 50 percent of profits by 1988…

THROUGH ALL THIS, THE HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP between product and paper has been turned upside down. Investment bankers no longer think of themselves as working for the corporations with which they do business. These days, corporations seem to exist for the investment bankers….

  :wpds_arrow: 𝗜𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁, 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮….

THERE ARE SIGNS THAT A VICIOUS spiral has begun, as each corporate player seeks to improve its standard of living at the expense of another’s.

Corporate raiders transfer to themselves, and other shareholders, part of the income of employees by forcing the latter to agree to lower wages. January 29, 1989 http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/magazine/leveraged-buyouts-american-pays-the-price.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all New York Times

The Network of Global Corporate Control
Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder, Stefano Battiston

Abstract

The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability… We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.

In contrast, we find that only 737 top holders accumulate 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs [transnational corporations ]… This means that network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth…

pgroup2

So you’re saying I was wrong and Petty isn’t a leftist?

Gail Combs

No, I am saying he is a CORPORATIST (Fascist/neofeudalist) and was never a real CAPITALIST. It is the false idea that Owners of Corporations are ALWAYS Capitalists is what I am trying to point out.

Owners of empires like the Rockefellers, Morgans, Fords, Carnegies, Warburgs were NEVER pro Capitalism. That is they never supported YOU, the great unwashed, having the right to own property, accumulate wealth and compete against them. Heck they were the ones that FUNDED the Bolshivek Revolution and Hitler.

>>>>>>>>>>>

This is a bit sensitive for me because I can remember, in Boston, some poor high school student saying to me, I KNOW Capitalism is evil, but I really do not like socialism. That poor kid had zero idea of what capitalism really is and that there has not had it in this country for a couple centuries. What she was taught was the Corporate-Government Oligarchy was ‘Capitalism’

pat frederick

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kalbokalbs

At check out, How about businesses say.

In appreciation for your business, We are going to Round down to the next dollar.

Gail Combs

Actually my local Groc store sent us a bunch of coupons for the food I actually buy!

I am not happy they keep track, but I did like the savings.

singingsoul1

Our grocer in town is Kroger send coupons to us what we buy. Last time saved $25. I think they increase the prices so they can send coupons out make us think we are saving 🙂

cthulhu

….and each one you use chips away at your privacy….

singingsoul1

Yes they do use chips.

Gail Combs

Too true, but I am already on their radar and have been for years.

kalbokalbs

What is this privacy you speak of?

kalbokalbs

Smith’s / Krogers routinely sends out coupons.

pat frederick

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smiley2

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pat frederick

dat’s one pissed off pussy cat

Barb Meier

God made this kitty.

smiley2
Gail Combs

I think the best PREVENTION of this disease is not a vaccine but the ARREST OF THE INVENTORS, MANUFACTURERS, DISTRUBUTERS and FUNDERS.

cthulhu

In the interest of expediency, based upon time pressures that they, themselves, created, I would advise the institution of streamlined procedures minimizing the time to execution.

Gail Combs

Well The Sixth Amendment says:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

So let us put EMPHASIS ON SPEEDY, We already have copious quantities of evidence against them and if Elon does as Ivan requests, we could also have the private messages. 😋

kalbokalbs

AND, take out WEF assholes in Davos. Cut out the cancer.

Gail Combs

Those are the FUNDERS.

Cuppa Covfefe

Time to take the fun out of funding…

Cuppa Covfefe

The meetings start tomorrow, Monday 15th January… maybe there’s a convenient meteor nearby 😀

Gail Combs

A Star link satellite crashing?

cthulhu

Sadly, that wouldn’t be large enough to cause significant damage.

Gail Combs
Cuppa Covfefe

Bring back Mir 😀
(and all the hilarious Dave Barry columns about it 🙂 )…..

singingsoul1

Amen

PAVACA

smiley2
Thank you for this. Please also see the presentation that Yours Truly made on this situation further up in today’s discussion thread for more information.

Notice that the Expose News article discusses the development, apparently being pushed by Bill Gates, of a “vaccine wafer” that would dissolve under the tongue.

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singingsoul1

Bill Gates is the spawn of the devil.

pat frederick

we gave the irs $80BILLION so they can recoup $360MILLION …our gov’t in action folks

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/01/13/the-numbers-are-in-and-that-big-irs-funding-increase-is-a-disaster-n2168686

duchess01

Verse of the Day for Sunday, January 14, 2024

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” 

Philippians 4:19 (KJV)

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

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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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

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PAVACA

duchess01
Thank you for these. Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog. Be well.

pat frederick

TradeBait2

He’s just another in a long list of modern day snake oil salesmen. He’s a sound bite guy who knows the angles and methods of debate.

kalbokalbs

IF this is true, Why did Vivek post this?

  • Donald Trump was the greatest President of the 21st century… 

Vivek pointing out this truth, Trump WAS the greatest President of the 21st century.

  •   :wpds_arrow:  Folks make the obvious conclusion. V O T E Trump.
mollypitcher5

That quote sounds just like a political ad on tv..it doesn’t mention his name but uses those words almost.

kalbokalbs

^^^ Donald Trump was the greatest President of the 21st century… ^^^

^^^ Statement by Vivek IS an Endorsement of Trump. ^^^

  :wpds_arrow:  Vivek highlights Trump was a Great President AND IS being persecuted.

  :wpds_arrow:  Once I figured Vivek’s game, I can NOT unsee it.

  :wpds_arrow:  >>> Vivek Supports Trump. <<<

Then why is Vivek “running” for WH?

  • Gets attention to Vivek’s message.
  • Slap the shit out of Rob AND Mickey.
  • Does NOT trash talk Trump. Warranted / true or not, would be easy to do.
  • Vivek Will Bale, after rob and Mickey sent home as the losers they are.
singingsoul1

True if they will not let MEGA Trump into the WH they will not let Vivek into it if he truly were MEGA. He is a shill me thinks 🙂

smiley2

site maintenance Question please :

why must I keep “liking” the same daily thread each time I revisit this site ?

my little “like” emblem thingie doesn’t stay represented on Like bar at top of the day’s Post.

smiley2

yep…posted the above Comment, left the site, returned just now….and my “like”, on Like bar way at the top is gone.

doesn’t disappear on any of the comments, however.

barkerjim

Me too, sort of. My avatar disappears, but the Like button word changes to Liked.

Aubergine

None of my likes ever seem to “stick” for comments, either. Especially if I make a like from the bell notifier. It’s why you’ll see little smiley faces from me back to comments people make directly to me, so they’ll know I liked it!

kalbokalbs

Bell notifier “likes” never stick for me. Only likes in the thread. YMMV. 🙂

Aubergine

Same, I think. I haven’t checked all of them, but it seems that way.

Valerie Curren

I think you can see likes in the bell notifier from the author of the post &/or the comment but not other people’s likes in the notifier, fwiw…

pat frederick

can someone please “see Spot run” this for me.

cthulhu

Readers’ Digest version —

Jack Smith wants to know if VSGPOTUSDJT will say that his actions were taken on “advice of counsel” because he intends to invade the attorney-client relationship by subpoena-ing every discussion they ever had.

In more normal circumstances, “advice of counsel” comes up from time to time in much more limited circumstances. For instance, “I asked how much time I had to respond, and my attorney told me three days.”

Gail Combs

Nice clear explanation.

Smith is after ALL of Trump’s lawyers too. This is a method of scaring off any decent lawyers who might represent Trump.

LAWFARE at it’s finest.

pat frederick

thanks!
is that allowed?????breaching attorney-client privilege???

Gail Combs

If you are Donald Trump it is. Think Cohen and Rudy.

I should add that attorney-client privilege does not protect against a lawyer colluding with a client in a criminal enterprise. Think Clinton and Perkins Coie.

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kalbokalbs

“Defense” should NEVER have to reveal their defense to prosecutors, until During the trial.

IF Prosecutors have a solid case, they don’t need “inside information” or strategy from the defense team.

Defense team may change strategy as a case plays out in real time.

Gail Combs

I found it!

Nancy and Ivan meet at the Elevator – Capitol Hill 12/12/2023
https://rumble.com/v40wzw0-nancy-and-ivan-meet-at-the-elevator-capitol-hill-12122023.html

Compare her speed at 22 minutes to that when Ivan confronts her. At around 33 -34 seconds , as she goes around the corner you can see her do a running hop step. It is very hard to see though.

para59r

GWP has picked Ivan up. Lot of commentators are familiar with him, but he could use moar traction.
The Badgering Began With Operation Pence Card, But That’s Not Where it Stopped for Ivan Raiklin—or Any American Who Speaks Truth For That Matter
Guest Contributor Jan. 13, 2024 6:20 pm 210 Comments

Gail Combs

OH GOOD!!! Ivan is a real asset to the America First movement.

pat frederick

reading about the fanni case on yahoo–just the comments because i wanted to see how ignorant yahoo news was. 98% of the comments were along the lines of so what? what 2 people do in their private lives is no one’s business–(except that the prosecutor is enriching herself thru her boyfriend which is fraud). then they state that trump is guilty and this shouldn’t affect the case–(without a trial, trump is guilty, but fanni is not.) sigh. but then i found this one…

Big Fani bombshell!
Fani paid her boyfriend $700k, who has never tried a case anything like this, to be the lead attorney on this case. She could have gotten one of her deputies to lead this and saved the taxpayers $700k.
Fani’s Boyfriend did not file the correct disclosures after accepting this appointment.
Fani did not get authorization to spend this money. That’s a felony.
Fani took overseas vacations with her boyfriend who spent all his money wining and dining Fani. Since the money was not authorized, Fani accepted illegal bribes and sexual favors, more felonies.
Fani is being called as a witness in her boyfriend’s divorce proceedings. Conflict of interest. A Bar Ethics violations.
The Judge has the power to dismiss the case against all these defendants, including Trump.
Fani is in big trouble and may get to see the pokey. That’s not the Hokey Pokey so don’t turn yourself around Fani. Watch your back because your boyfriend is going to rat you out.

Gail Combs

Nice to know at least one commenter sees the truth. Of course that comment will disappear in 3-2-1…

pat frederick

there were even comments about trying to destroy strong African American women again–vague references to Gay…gimme a break
no ethics or morals these days

TradeBait2

This is actually quite enjoyable. 🤣

Again, we know this and hope more people will wake up to the truth.

https://rumble.com/v46seio-the-doctors-get-obliterated-over-vaccines-so-they-get-offended-to-avoid-fac.html

Gail Combs

“…Why are you antagonizing doctors who only want to help children into an early coffin…”

….

The Arrogance of that asshole Dr is breath taking. Notice HE DOES NOT ANSWER THE STATEMENT BUT GOES DIRECTLY TO ATTACK!

😆YOU LOST THE ARGUMENT AND JUST SHOWED IT!😄

TradeBait2

Becoming enraged is always one of their favorite deflections for all of the wrong doers when the truth hits them in the face, they have no factual rebuttal and their fraud is revealed. Those two are nothing but shills for the network and faux medical industry.

Busted.

kalbokalbs

Ask these quacks ONE Question.

Yes or NO. “Do they believe Covid vaccines ARE Safe AND Effective?”

Yes, they are worthless.

No, they have potential…

Gail Combs

Rep. Eli Crane has represented Arizona’s 2nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Freedom Caucus, Crane served in the United States Navy SEALs and co-founded a company, Bottle Breacher.
Ivan has a :Dec 14,  30 min. pod cast featuring Crane.

https://rumble.com/v41ag4w-the-raiklin-report-with-rep.-eli-crane.html

It is loaded with BOMBS.

A bit of a refresher:

Soviet Union-born immigrant, U.S. Army officer Alexander Semyonovich Vindman. In his House testimony about Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Vindman testified he told his twin brother Yevgeny about the call, and also told “someone” in the intelligence community. LINK

 Yevgeny Vindman  is a lawyer.
Colonel Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman, is an Army colonel and JAG Officer who was assigned as a deputy legal advisor on the National Security Council (NSC)  He was promoted to full Colonel on June 15, 2021. He retired in 2022 from the U.S. Army after 25 years of service and he is licensed to practice law in Georgia. LINK

Ivan says Vindman was actually the Staff Judge, a much more dangerous position at  Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD. A place where he could really cripple the USA military.

“Home of Innovation,” more than 21,000 military, civilian, and contractual employees at APG are responsible for numerous technical achievements in military intelligence, medical research, engineering, communications, and computer technology. APG is an economic driver and technology resource for the region. APG provides facilities to perform research, development, testing, and evaluation of Army materiel. The installation also supports a wide variety of training, including health promotion and preventive medicine, chemical and biological defense, chemical casualty care, and chemical demilitarization

 Yevgeny is the bastard who targeted Lieutenant Mark Bashaw a doctor with court martial and soldiers by denying religious exemption.. PLEASE READ: The Vindman Vindictive: The Destruction of Readiness by Military Betrayal
THAT SAME BASTARD IS NOW RUNNING FOR CONGRESS IN VIRGINIA!

Camron Hamilton, another veteran is running against him and has pledged to join the freedom caucus. This is important because numbers count and that caucus is punching well above its weight. We need as many REAL PATRIOTS in that caucus as possible. We certainly do not need this viper.

>>>>>>>>>>>

At 9:30 you can see Congressman Crane in action on the house floor. It is well worth the few minutes it takes to watch.

pgroup2

I wonder if the plot of the movie Salt was derived from these two Soviet immigrants.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944835/plotsummary/

Aubergine

Hey, this one’s for all the guys here who like actual women! This lady is a rock star!

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/first-active-duty-air-force-officer-compete-miss-america-dreams-being-top-gun-fighter

kalbokalbs

Hope she wins. Zero chance I’d ever watch a “beauty” pageant of any sort.

Filed them away with the Grammy’s, Oscars and all of them, hollyweird self licking ice cream cone, love fests.

Gail Combs

A Transgender will win. COUNT ON IT!

kalbokalbs

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Gail Combs

Aubergine,

All my Ivermectin was stolen by my House guest/THIEF.

https://www.ivermectin.com/
Only serves old customers AND NOT IN US DOLLARS. They want Bitcoin or gold.

So what brand of Horse Ivermectin is OK for humans?

I have moxidectin but putting it on my hands for X hours is not a good way of getting the correct dose.

Cuppa Covfefe

Chiefio has infos on that… he’s been “drenching” since 2020 (or maybe even 2019)..

Gail Combs

He says Ivermectin Drench no brand.

para59r

Amazon has both sheep and cattle drench but you’d have to read the label I guess to make sure your getting just basic. Then you’d have to formulate for human vs animal weight for which we had charts…personally the horse paste is good enough. One tube should get one through a sickness assuming initial dose, second dose and latter last dose with likely some left over. At two hundred pounds, it was a little less than about a third of the tube (size in pic above) per dose, though you may have some left over depending on weight.

Going off memory, dosing was the initial dose, then next day another same dose, then a week later a third dose and done.

They say it is safe to take too much. I inadvertently did that when I was getting it ready for a dose to experiment with and the wife called me for dinner. I end up injecting about twice the amount out of the tube that I wanted and since I’m a stickler for not wanting things to go to waste I took it all with no ill effects whatsoever.

Wouldn’t use it as a preventive. Too expensive. Break glass emergency use only understanding emergency could be just suspect.

I went to that first site (Ivermectin.com) and they have the link for US only vs the link for international customers. Appears they are still taking US money if you use that US link. 190 dollars for 100 tablets and 120 dollars for 50 tablets I didn’t follow it all the way through though. I remember they have this weird click thing where you order twice but get billed once. It actually works that way… but it feels like you might get billed twice for ordering twice, yet ya don’t.

They have also expanded their offerings and now have HCQ, Z pack and Fenbendazole (100 50mg tablets for 150 which seemed like a good price). Something else too I don’t recognize.

Gail Combs

Actually I stick with green tea ECGC since I drink several cups a day. I just want the Ivermectin for ‘in case’

I and Hubby ended up using moxidectin & latex gloves when we came down with covid a few weeks ago and found the Ivermectin stolen.

Killed it within a few days. We ran 100+ temps but that was about it.

kalbokalbs

This may be helpful.

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cthulhu

The thing to be most careful of with veterinary ivermectin is the other ingredients. There’s like “horse dewormer”, with ivermectin, some goop, and apple flavoring….and “horse dewormer plus” with ivermectin, goop, apple flavoring, and some other horse medication that is decidedly double-plus-ungood for humans. Do not use stuff with extra ingredients.

Back in the day, I was a fan of durvet ivermectin 1% sterile solution injection for cattle and swine (NOT INJECTED). It had, IIRC, three ingredients — one of which was ivermectin and another was GRAS. The third ingredient shouldn’t be a problem in the relevant amounts (a couple of cc’s, taken by mouth).

Besides the uncertainty with timed transdermal medication, there is also the missing catalyst action of goat spit.

para59r

Only like this with these two ingredients listed on the box. Anything that says “plus or gold” you don’t want. Besides Durvet there are 1 or 2 others selling it, but they are slightly more expensive.

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Aubergine

I use Durvet. Make sure it is the one with only vitamin I. This is it at Tractor Supply:

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/durvet-ivermectin-paste-187-608-g

And so sorry you were robbed and deceived. That really sucks.

Gail Combs

He got all my gold jewelry and the cash (7K) I had squirreled away in case the banks crashed. Now we literally have ZERO in savings.

I really HATE THIEVES! Esp those who pretend to be friends so they can case the joint before they rob you blind. We have known too many which is why we now have Zero in savings and a large debt instead of the other way round.

mollypitcher5

That sucks…so sorry to read that. Was this recently ?

Gail Combs

The week before Christmas.

mollypitcher5

#$@*&^%$.. The one that was sick and you helped? Sorry to be so nosy but this kills me..it aint right

Gail Combs

The one who was sick is a jewel. No this is a guy she felt sorry for. His Dad kicked him out, we have 4 bed rooms so we gave him a place to stay and paid him to do some if the heavy work I can not. Not that he was much of a worker, more a loafer.

He stayed about 4 weeks.

mollypitcher5

Ughh Gail..I’m so sorry. What the hell is wrong with people?!

Gail Combs

No moral compass. What is worse is the guy took us to his church!

mollypitcher5

You’re a better person than I am.That entire congregation would’ve heard about this and maybe some other stuff lol

Gail Combs

They certainly may!

PAVACA

Gail Combs
Lord God, how awful! Yeah, the ones who pretend to be friends and then turn out to be low-lifes. Have known a couple of these types.

Aubergine

Well, I haven’t been robbed, but I don’t have any savings, either!

Oh, well. Money isn’t everything.

Gail Combs

I am most worried about having a stock of food for my ponies who have no teeth. They can not survive on just grass (or hay) as my other animals can. I try to keep a few months supply, but hubby used it all up this summer and did not replace it. I can not lift several 50# bags in a day so rebuilding the supply has been slow. Esp since hubby keeps using it as fast as I can bring it in! 😩

Aubergine

I totally understand!

Pets and animals are such a responsibility. I feel it with my very old dog. He has been such a blessing to my family that I owe him the best “retirement” I can provide. But it is challenging sometimes.

para59r

Amazon still carrying the plain vit I and it seems they’ve dropped their over inflated price down sharply. Six tubes for 53 dollars or one tube for 13 dollars. Still overpriced from where it was before people started to flock to it. Apple taste is the only other additive. Not bad at all.

Aubergine

Yep.

Gail Combs

Tractor supply is $10.99/tube and we are in there every week buying feed.
Jeffers vet supply has Dechra Ivermectin Paste 1.87% Anthelmintic and Boticide for Horses on sale for $5.99
Package insert: https://www.dechra-us.com//Files/Files/ProductDownloads/US/M230045-Dechra-signed-18JAN2023-Ivermectin-Paste-187-US-Leaflet-Horse-1-7.pdf

Safety Data Sheet: https://www.dechra-us.com//Files/Files/ProductDownloads/US/Ivermectin-Paste-187_Backpack_SDS_US_January-2023.pdf

3.1 Substances See section above for composition of Mixtures.
3.2 Mixtures
CAS No. % [weight]

propylene glycol
Carbopol 974P
ivermectin
triethanolamine
titanium dioxide
The exact percentage (concentration) of composition has been withheld as a trade secret.

Propylene glycol is a water-soluble fluid that is considered by the US Food and Drug Administration safe for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.

Carbopol® 974P NF PolymerUsage Levels:

  • Oral solid dose – extended release: 5-10 wt%
  • Oral solid dose – immediate release: 0.5-3 wt%
  • Oral solutions & suspensions: 0.2-1 wt%
  • Topical 0.5-3 wt%

Triethanolamine
Appearance: colorless to pale yellow solid or liquid.
Warning! Causes eye irritation. May cause liver and kidney damage. May cause dermatitis. Corrosive to metal.
Target Organs: Kidneys, liver, eyes, skin.

Potential Health Effects
Eye: Causes eye irritation.

Skin: May cause skin irritation. Prolonged and/or repeated contact may cause irritation and/or dermatitis. Causes redness and pain. 100% triethanolamine was required to produce an irritant reaction in nonscarified skin. The highest non-irritant concentration was reported to be 50% triethanolamine. (ICI Chemicals & Polymers Limited)

Ingestion: May cause gastrointestinal irritation with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

Inhalation: May cause respiratory tract irritation. Inhalation of vapors will cause coughing or breathing difficulty. Inhalation of vapor from heated material or mist may cause irritation of the respiratory tract, experienced as nasal discomfort and discharge, with chest pain and coughing.

Chronic: Prolonged or repeated skin contact may cause dermatitis. May cause liver and kidney damage. Oral and dermal aministration of triethanolamine to laboratory animals produced liver, kidney, and nerve damage (scattered degeneration in the myelin sheath of individual

cthulhu

I would counsel that that stuff be avoided — too many ingredients.

Gail Combs

The Triethanolamine is the OH SCHIFF!

TradeBait2

This is a classic. 👍

pat frederick

Winston
SO, a government that is not just hopelessly corrupt at high levels, but also hopelessly incompetent at lower levels:
Arguendo – let’s play “mean orange hitler” and see where it takes us
JAN 13, 2024
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/arguendo
Excerpt:
One of the signs of where we are is the extraordinary recent arrest of a civilian employee of the US Army, Janet Yamanaka Mello, in Texas. Mello, a finance manager at Fort Sam Houston, allegedly stole $100 million from the federal government before anyone noticed, and used the money to build a ludicrous empire of mansions all over the country. The IRS caught her, because they noticed her buying luxury estates with no noticeable source of nine-figure income. 
But get this: Mello billed the government for youth services for six years, and did so without ever providing any youth services. She made up a program, and successfully billed ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, yes I’m shouting, for the fake thing. But the military didn’t catch her on the stealing end; the IRS caught her on the spending end. If she’d quietly moved the money offshore without making high-profile purchases, she might have gotten away with it.
More simply: The United States government paid $100 million for services that it never received, and did so without noticing.
How much of that do you think we have, out there, going unnoticed? The Department of Defense acknowledges that it has misplaced, you know, just a…few…trillion. That it can’t account for. So.

Gail Combs

How about the MILLIONS of tax refunds going to the SAME address? (Illegals of course)

(CNSNews.com) – The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).

That was not the only Atlanta address theoretically occupied by thousands of “unauthorized” alien workers receiving millions in federal tax refunds in 2011. In fact, according to a TIGTA audit report published last year, four of the top ten addresses to which the IRS sent thousands of tax refunds to “unauthorized” aliens were in Atlanta.

The IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta address; 3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a fourth.

pat frederick

GEORGIA again?
wth?

barkerjim

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para59r

Out of Asia…

Wow, four hours (one race on the ballot but still)… how long did it take the US to count the vote?

Whoops…

pgroup2

Big LoL.

singingsoul1

I used to have a dog, when cats fought in the house, he would break up the fight. They heard the dog and stopped instantly. 🙂

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Gail Combs

We lost our guard donkey this fall. She had lost her grinding teeth but refused to eat ‘glop’ like our toothless ponies do no matter what I did. 😪

Anyway I was trying to find another donkey or guard animal since we had lost 2 goats to coyotes. One of our neighbors adopted a Great Pyrenees but he has no goat or sheep. The Dog had guarded a herd but the former owner had sold the sheep and gave away the dog. She has now added our farm to her daily patrol schedule.

Last night she was camped out by the goat pen barking at something at 1:00 PM.

She is a real sweetie and comes up to be petted. So we now have a ‘dog’ but we do not have to worry about her care or what happens to her if we can no longer keep the farm.

She is now guarding the neighborhood’s horses, ponies, chickens, and sheep. A jack is guarding the cows. So we are all good. 🤗

singingsoul1

That is wonderful lucky you 😅

Valerie Curren

Sorry you lost your donkey 🙁

para59r

Moar speculation but it makes sense. Dems will obligingly look past Big Mike’s lack of qualifications knowing they will really be getting Bath House Barry back in the WH.

If it ain’t Joe.. it’s this… so I guess they don’t have much time left to pull the plug on Pedo in Chief. We’ll know soon enough.

The Plan to Put Bathhouse Barry Obama Back in the White House By Scott Lively, WND • Jan. 14, 2024

https://thelibertydaily.com/plan-put-bathhouse-barry-obama-back-white-house/

barkerjim

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Gingersmom2009
TradeBait2

Rolled this one out for some additional reading material with all of this cold weather and less outside activities. Just a shorter ground report that may be of interest to some.

https://www.theqtree.com/2024/01/14/ground-report-heartsong-resort-east-tn-tourism/

pat frederick

pgroup2

Stunning! The sheer logistics of coordinating and physically arranging so many vehicles is almost beyond comprehension.

  :wpds_shock: 

kalbokalbs

Awesome!

Gail Combs

More from Ivan.

We missed this one:
Nov 2023
(FREE STREAMING.)

𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡

ABOUT THE FILM

The Biden administration is still trying to crack down on over 250,000 brave American soldiers, sailors and airmen.

Led by Navy SEALs, and joined by fighter pilots, JAG officers, elite rescue swimmers, and thousands more, these patriots are standing up to the woke anti-American agenda that is destroying our armed forces.

Beginning in 2020 with unlawful COVID vaccine mandates, these men and women were severely punished for upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution.

Now, many of these elite warriors are leading the fight to protect America from an extremist woke agenda that is breaking our national defense and using the military for social engineering.

Many have sacrificed their careers to lawfully defeat unlawful orders, protect the integrity of the military and safeguard the constitutional rights of the American people.

pgroup2

This time, do we have any evidence? Or is it more hearsay/gossip?

Gail Combs

IIRC there was at least one wittness who said Epstien wanted her to have a baby and sign it over to him.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9686600/jeffrey-epstein-underage-sex-slave-baby-offer/

mollypitcher5

FTA~~
Mrs Roberts – now Virginia Giuffre – said she was aged 18 or 19 when Epstein made his bizarre baby proposal, reports the Mirror.

The allegations were made in a lawsuit filed in Florida in 2009 but emerged after Epstein, 66, was charged with underage sex trafficking charges, which he denies, last month~~~

Since she made the allegation so many years ago before Epstein became a sensational topic/threat I tend to believe her. It’s not so far fetched. Cult leaders have done this, Warren Jeffs basically did this..it may not be parsed out as a baby farm but all or most of the offspring are theirs..

pgroup2

But no corroborating evidence, which almost always exists in every criminal case. No felony charge that lacks corroborating evidence can survive a motion to dismiss [which means Epstein was falsely arrested unless there is evidence under seal].

para59r

It’s been out there for a while now. We posted multiple stories on it a couple years ago like the one Gail has posted below along with others.

Since no crime is broken per this happening, your dependant on the MSM to give you the facts or you can take them from our internet buddies. Your choice.

Gail Combs

I will add there was the John of God baby farms.

Disgraced Brazilian “psychic surgeon” John of God has been accused of running “baby farms” where young women were held captive and forced to produce children – then killed when they were no longer fertile.

As if the allegations that the faith healer, who shot to fame after appearing on Oprah Winfrey’s show, sexually abused more than 600 women weren’t appalling enough, Brazilian activist Sabrina Bittencourt claims John of God (real name is Joao Teixeira de Faria) ran a baby-trafficking business for years…

mollypitcher5

LOL, didn’t see your comment when I mentioned other cult leaders doing this. So many of the men that think they have special gifts want their progeny to be like litters of kittens!

para59r

Wouldn’t be surprised if all the ones pushing for 1 to .5 billion are doing it too.

mollypitcher5

Maybe but their preference might be more transhuman , their brilliance paired with an AI creation. These OGs like Epstein, John of God, Jeffs are from the archaic bone pile when little humans were still thought of as valuable …but..the massive vanity of the depop crowd might override!

kalbokalbs

JaJab!

holly

Def. Sec. Austin is still in the hospital and John Kirby says his doctors think he may need additional care.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lloyd-austin-doctors/2024/01/14/id/1149526/

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pat frederick

not to sound too out there–but have we seen ANY proof of life stuff?
we were told by the moron in the oval office that austin is sitting in bed with a laptop doing his job. i’ve not seen any proof of this

holly

Claiming he ordered the Houthis airstrikes from the hospital where he has a full suite of secure communications. Who is believing this?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-ordered-strikes-on-the-houthis-from-the-hospital-using-a-full-suite-of-secure-communications/ar-AA1mRD7k

mollypitcher5

Hmmmm so these major sensitive decisions being done while doped up…NOT believing at all but a faux secure communications kabuki set…that I can believe. The Greatest Show on Earth!

pat frederick

or (putting on my tinfoil hat) he’s dead and they know they can blame him…when the timing is right, he will suddenly succumb to his affliction. no one’s hands dirty but his

mollypitcher5

No need for the TF hat. Tick tock!

kalbokalbs

Pure nonsense. Idi isn’t an “all up round” these days. Dunno his true status. But he is NOT functioning as SecDef needs to.

mollypitcher5

Ruth B Ginsberg was like that and Feinstein…they were technically alive but others performed the duties and decisions.

kalbokalbs

RBG and ChiDiFi were needed by D-Rats.

No loss if Idi Amin croaks. Sad for someone. No consequence for DoD.

kalbokalbs

Nope. More than one report he croaked. Nothing verified.

mollypitcher5

Part of that is just physical therapy,” Kirby told CBS’s “Face the Nation”…………interesting. Never heard of physical therapy for a urinary tract infection or prostate surgery…

Gail Combs

TURBO CANCER….

PAVACA

But, but, but—
IIRC, didn’t the Defense Department put out a press release stating that Sec. Austin is “working from home’ and “is in contact with Defense Department personnel”?

holly

They lie with impunity.

Gail Combs

They would not know Truth if it bit them in their ass.

kalbokalbs

As Idi Amin’s World Turns. Another day. Another chapter Lie.

kalbokalbs

Repeating here…JaJab in Play.

Austin ought to have a few more jelly doughnuts. (Comfort zone of sorts.)

Aubergine

I think this is most likely turbo cancer. They don’t want to tell people. Jab.

para59r

Ackkk.. missed it… hopefully we’ll get another chance tonight before they climb too high.

A couple of sites that track this.

https://findstarlink.com

https://satellitemap.space/?norad=48119

kalbokalbs

Cool stuff.

para59r

🤔 Looks like Trumps Wall with some tank barriers, concertina and a service road. Gosh… we we’re almost there…. 🙄

https://rumble.com/v46ytcr-egypts-border-wall-with-gaza.html

Gail Combs

Everyone else gets a border wall (That we often pay for) but WE DON’T despite the fact we were promised via legislation during the Bush Admin.

mollypitcher5

They have a lot of antiquities to protect. Can’t have squatters camped out in The Valley of the Kings

para59r

Nice joke kid. Someone find out what school he goes too and send your kids there.

kalbokalbs

Kid done good. 🙂

scott467

Nasty Jenna talking smack. I would troll her hard, but she blocked me, before Linda Yaccarino-Hitler banned me 😁

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singingsoul1

I agree Jenna Ellis is “Nasty.” She was a pretender when she worked for Rudy.

barkerjim
pat frederick

this ccp member bought 200,000 acres in Oregon for $430 an acre back in 2015 and it NEVER was reported ANYWHERE as is mandated.
i say we seize the property and give him what he paid for it.

FTA
It’s not clear why Chen’s purchase does not appear in government records. The Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act requires foreign investors to report any new interest in American agricultural land to the Department of Agriculture within 90 days of the transaction.

Canada’s Irving family is the biggest foreign landowner in the country, owning more than 1.2 million acres in Maine.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12952121/chen-tianqiao-shanda-games-china-oregon.html

pgroup2

Let’s see — Brandon gets millions from CCP and CCP buys land with no report and nothing happens.

The first person who acts surprised at this gets tossed into Gitmo for being a spy. .

Gail Combs

If/When Trump gets back in, ALL THAT LAND GETS CONFISCATED and either sold or turned into the cities he has talked of.

pgroup2

I like the cut of your jib.  😍 

Gail Combs

This was entered into the Congressional Record by Mr Biggs Subcommitee at the National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Hearing

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https://www.militaryaccountability.com/

Backup data:
Whistleblower Report of Illegal DoD Activity_15Aug22.pdf

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para59r

Sounds almost word for word what Ivan said. Must of been given to him by Ivan or one of the other signatories. Only thing missing is this paraphrase from the Bad Lands Podcast, “Wherever possible, we aim to have sheriffs arrest and prosecute you if you step off your base.” 🤗

Gail Combs

Ivan is one of the signatories. As a lawyer I am sure he had input.

cthulhu
Gail Combs

NASTY!

A bit from my notes on volcano-sun connection.

Every major volcanic eruption has been documented with a degree of global cooling..
volcano-cooling links.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HOW_VOLCANISM_AFFECTS_CLIMATE.pdf

JimS says @ IceAgeNow on June 26, 2014 at 12:00 pm (I really miss Ice Age Now. Rest in peace Felix)

I did some quick research, and found out that on average, about 20 volcanoes are erupting at any one time. Above is a list of 31 that are now erupting.

Apparently, 2013 – last year – was a record year for volanic eruptions with about 83 occurring throughout that year. Average years vary between 55 to 60 volcanic eruptions annually.

There seems to be an upward trend in the last few years for erupting volcanoes.

Connections have been found to solar minimums
Possible correlation between solar and volcanic activity in a long-term scale (Full paper)

The Role of Explosive Volcanism During the Cool Maunder Minimum

Sun / dust correlations and volcanic interference (includes list of other papers)

Study of Dust in Ice Cores Shows Volcanic Eruptions Interfere with the Effect of Sunspots on Global Climate

Possible correlation between solar and volcanic activity in a long-term scale
Authors: Střeštik, J.

Volcanic eruptions and solar activity
Richard B. Stothers
Journal of Geophysical Research (Impact Factor: 3.17). 01/1990; DOI:10.1029/

ABSTRACT

The historical record of large volcanic eruptions from 1500 to 1980, as contained in two recent catalogs, is subjected to detailed time series analysis. Two weak, but probably statistically significant, periodicities of ~11 and ~80 years are detected. Both cycles appear to correlate with well-known cycles of solar activity; the phasing is such that the frequency of volcanic eruptions increases (decreases) slightly around the times of solar minimum (maximum). The weak quasi-biennial solar cycle is not obviously seen in the eruption data, nor are the two slow lunar tidal cycles of 8.85 and 18.6 years. Time series analysis of the volcanogenic acidities in a deep ice core from Greenland, covering the years 553-1972, reveals several very long periods ranging from ~80 to ~350 years and are similar to the very slow solar cycles previously detected in auroral and carbon 14 records. Solar flares are believed to cause changes in atmospheric circulation patterns that abruptly alter the earth’s spin. The resulting jolt probably triggers small earthquakes which may temporarily relieve some of the stress in volcanic magma chambers, thereby weakening, postponing, or even aborting imminent large eruptions. In addition, decreased atmospheric precipitation around the years of solar maximum may cause a relative deficit of phreatomagmatic eruptions at those times.

Another good paper (in full not just abstract):
Bipolar correlation of volcanism with millennial climate change
Ryan C. Bay *, Nathan Bramall, and P. Buford Price

Abstract

Analyzing data from our optical dust logger, we find that volcanic ash layers from the Siple Dome (Antarctica) borehole are simultaneous (with >99% rejection of the null hypothesis) with the onset of millennium-timescale cooling recorded at Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2; Greenland). These data are the best evidence yet for a causal connection between volcanism and millennial climate change and lead to possibilities of a direct causal relationship. Evidence has been accumulating for decades that volcanic eruptions can perturb climate and possibly affect it on long timescales and that volcanism may respond to climate change. If rapid climate change can induce volcanism, this result could be further evidence of a southern-lead North–South climate asynchrony. Alternatively, a volcanic-forcing viewpoint is of particular interest because of the high correlation and relative timing of the events, and it may involve a scenario in which volcanic ash and sulfate abruptly increase the soluble iron in large surface areas of the nutrient-limited Southern Ocean, stimulate growth of phytoplankton, which enhance volcanic effects on planetary albedo and the global carbon cycle, and trigger northern millennial cooling. Large global temperature swings could be limited by feedback within the volcano–climate system.

Although the Earth maintains a remarkably constant temperature, climate fluctuations have been identified on many timescales. On the 103-year scale, poorly understood Dansgaard–Oeschger (DO) events (1, 2), extremely rapid coolings/warmings and subsequent cold/warm periods, are best exhibited during the last glacial period [20,000–110,000 years before the present or 20–110 thousand years ago (ka)] but may extend with reduced amplitude into the Holocene (3) (the comparatively stable, warm, last ≈11 ka). Proposed causal mechanisms involve harmonics of Milankovitch (orbital) forcing, thermohaline circulation, internal ocean–atmosphere oscillations, solar forcing, and even long-period tidal resonances in the motions of the Earth and Moon. Recent work suggests that the fluctuations resemble those of a system possessing threshold instability. Rapid transitions between states are exhibited in many climate models, including those of oceanic circulation, atmospheric energy balance, and atmospheric regime change. It is becoming increasingly apparent that global climate models currently either omit some natural forcings from the simulations or underestimate the size and extent of climate response to threshold crossings, e.g., by considering the North Atlantic as the amplifier for DO oscillations and only including North Atlantic triggers in the model (4). The possibilities that rapid climate change can induce volcanic activity and, conversely, that volcanic eruptions can force millennial climate have both been suggested in the past (5). Based on evidence we have found using our optical profiles of deep boreholes in the polar ice caps, we conclude that volcanism may supply a vital missing link in millennial climate change.

scott467

Erupting volcanoes must pump bazillions of cubic feet of deadly carbon (gasp!) into the atmosphere.

To save the planet, the only logical thing to do is plug every active volcano.

But what to plug them with?

Guessing we have to plug them with Leftists, since they understand the threat religion of Globull Warming better than anyone.

If they really care, they’ll do it. Throw themselves into the volcanoes.

And we could then honor them, for their selfless sacrifice.

Everybody wins.

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Gail Combs

  :wpds_shock:   :wpds_cry:  …..   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

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Valerie Curren

This one’s from one of my roommate’s best friends 🙂

para59r

Adds additional footage. Looks like someone’s house is about to get devoured.
Another Volcanic Eruption in Iceland as Lava Flows Into Grindavík [VIDEO]

TheseTruths

Vivek is not a Trump supporter. I found his quotes in this article infuriating. He is making himself out to be like the founding fathers, “the new fresh blood,” and indicates that Trump probably won’t get over the finish line. That is not what a Trump supporter says, and neither is it MAGA. 😡

He is saying many of the right things to position himself as the successor of Trump. He’s fooling people. It is merely raw political ambition. And he isn’t even eligible to be POTUS! He isn’t a natural born citizen. So much for upholding the Constitution, or abiding by our founders’ intent.

So he puts down Trump, Trump responds, and Vivek calls that “friendly fire,” blaming Trump, when Vivek is the one who started it. He is a slippery snake. His laundry list of the ways he has supported Trump illustrates his intention all along of pretending to be supportive so he can worm his way in to replace him. Someone who truly supported Trump (and, I believe, MAGA) would not have positioned himself to run against him.

Caught on Camera: Vivek’s Controversial Pitch to Trump Voter Surfaces, Sparking Trump’s Anger — ‘Vote for Me to Save Trump, Voting for Him Leads to His Demise’ (VIDEO)
All of the following is from the article:
The controversy appears to stem from the viral clip wherein Ramaswamy is seen speaking to a voter who expresses fear over the future of Trump and the United States.
Ramaswamy appears to leverage these concerns, positioning himself as the solution, claiming that a vote for him is, in reality, a vote to save former President Donald Trump.

Voter: “They are scared of you, just they are just scared of Trump.”

Ramaswamy: “They are. They will stop at nothing. But we’re not going to let them get away with it. I’ve got fresh legs. I’m not wounded. They’re not going to let this man do it.”

As the conversation continues, Ramaswamy and the voter discuss the deep-seated fears for America’s future, with Ramaswamy positioning himself as the youthful, vibrant alternative reminiscent of the country’s founding fathers.

Voter: “We’re losing it. We’re losing it.”

Ramaswamy: “It pains me to hear that. … It’s 1776 moments. I want your support at that Iowa caucus. I’m emotional about this country. I need your support on Monday night. You do this. I’m going to do my part.

Voter: Okay. You’re picking at my shell. You are. But…

Vivek Ramaswamy: It’s about this country. It’s about this country. You want to save Trump; you vote for me. I’m telling you that. You vote for Trump; you’re sending him to his own demise… You’re falling into the trap that not only a country’s falling in, but he’s falling. You want to save Trump; you vote for me. I need your support for the Iowa caucus.

The voter, visibly moved by Ramaswamy’s impassioned plea, admits to considering the argument.
WATCH:In response to President Trump’s pointed criticism on Truth Social, Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on X:

Yes, I saw President Trump’s Truth Social post. It’s an unfortunate move by his campaign advisors, I don’t think friendly fire is helpful. Donald Trump was the greatest President of the 21st century, and I’m not going to criticize him in response to this late attack.

I’ve met tens of thousands of Iowans across 390+ events here, and they are deeply worried – and so am I – that this “system” won’t allow Donald J. Trump anywhere near the White House again. It seems they will stop at *nothing* to keep him away from power.

I’m worried for Trump. I’m worried for our country. I’ve stood up against the persecutions against Trump, and I’ve defended him at every step. I showed up at the Miami courthouse in solidarity following his first federal indictment. I filed a FOIA demand to the Biden DOJ. I submitted an amicus brief this week with the U.S. Supreme Court calling on them to overturn Colorado’s ruling. I pledged to remove myself from Maine’s & Colorado’s primary ballots if they remove Trump, calling on DeSantis and Haley to do the same.

But we have to open our eyes. Last time it was a man-made pandemic & Big Tech election interference. Now, the same billionaires funding the lawsuits against Trump are the ones trying to prop up Nikki Haley. The same MSM blasting Trump is lavishing praise on Nikki. They want to narrow this to a two-horse race between Trump & Haley, eliminate Trump (one way or other), & trot their puppet into the White House.

We can’t fall for that trap. 1 year from now, we won’t look back and say we were shocked that it happened. We’ll kick ourselves for not stopping it.

Our movement must live on. America-First didn’t start in 2016. It started in 1776. We owe it to our Founding Fathers to do the right thing for our country. I want to save Trump & to save this country. Let’s do it together. You won’t hear any friendly fire from me.

On Saturday, Dr. Ben Carson warned supporters of former President Donald Trump in Iowa to “look out for dirty tricks” during the caucuses.

Carson was the victim of a “dirty trick” when he ran for president eight years ago.
Another campaign had lied and told voters that he had dropped out of the race ahead of Iowa’s caucuses.
Carson reminded voters of the incident in a video warning posted to Rumble on Friday.

“In 2016, when I ran for president and spent many days in Iowa, some folks played dirty tricks. You might remember a false message spread on Caucus day that I was dropping out of the presidential race — even though I wasn’t,” Carson explained.
Carson told Trump supporters to “stay vigilant and focused.”
“Be on the lookout for dirty tricks and be smarter than they are,” Carson urged Iowans.

Gail Combs

Another campaign had lied = TED CRUZ! I remember it vividly.

scott467

Ted Cruz was (is) so slimy, I still can’t stand to even look at him 😂

Gail Combs

Me Too! He makes my skin crawl.

scott467

“Vivek is not a Trump supporter.”

_____________

Well, in fairness, it’s not easy to be a Trump supporter, when you’re running against him for the job 😉 😁

TheseTruths

Which is what I’ve been saying from the beginning. But since he pretends to be a Trump supporter, he has to be called out on it.

singingsoul1

Amen

pgroup2

That’s so simple it can’t be true.

/s

singingsoul1

People are so easy influenced if someone says the right thing. I have been spitting nails on that guy. I go with my gut and it does not fail.
Thank you for bringing the Vivek MEGA impersonator. He is playing on the fears of Trump supporters that something could happen to Trump. Vivek tried everything for a while and nothing did stick .

Gail Combs

His background sucked. He was more or less raised as a Brahmin (Top Class) in India. So he was raise to think he was better than others. He would fit right in with the Cabal.

A Brahmin is a member of the highest caste or varna and is an incarnation of knowledge.

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singingsoul1

That explains much

Aubergine

The guy has a used-car-salesman vibe to me, and has all along. I can’t stand to listen to him for more than 30 seconds. I expect him to start telling me about what great mileage that old junker in the corner of the lot gets, and how it was owned by a grandma who only drove it to church on Sundays.

Gail Combs

https://nitter.net/IvanRaiklin/status/1746218086892527862#m

Ivan Raiklin
@IvanRaiklin
Jan 13
Breaking! @RealSKeshel endorses the Declaration of MilitaryAccountability.com and recommends reading @RobGreen1010 book to understand many instances of the lawlessness perpetrated by DOD Failureship!

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mollypitcher5

One of the groups we were talking about last night?

Robert Baker

The obvious question is why would they show up in identifiable uniforms. That is not covert so they must have wanted to leave that impression. Is it a message from Hamas or is it merely intended to look like a message from Hamas?

mollypitcher5

In fairness, I suppose someone could buy a patch online or wherever but the person appears to be using comms so ?
I don’t think it would faze anybody in the Obama camp if it was broadcast on cnn..you know how they love to highlight cooperative movements and deny hamas is a terrorist outfit.

Robert Baker

It has come to seem prudent to me that any protest around the White House must be viewed with a skeptical eye. Since the co-opting of Jan6 every such action must include the likelihood of a propaganda false flag.

mollypitcher5

Very true.
It could be the khaki pants Fed Bois stirring pot

pgroup2

Likelihood? I’d say near certainty.

Gail Combs

CRAP….

scott467

HamISIS won’t be showing their faces in rural towns where everybody is armed and recognizes each other (as opposed to outsiders).

HamISIS will be attacking deep blue urban toilets, where psychotic liberals worship everything anti-American.

Until stupid Leftists start experiencing personal consequences for their beliefs, their insanity will never stop.

When they or their friends and family members start getting blown up by HamISIS on their way to the club or the grocery store, they’ll wake up.

mollypitcher5

baby steps…before the bombs it’s the violent raping and maybe some car b ques

Gail Combs

Maybe. I keep remembering the EU politician whose daughter was raped, tortured and killed by RapeUgees and the family asked for donations for a group that provided Muslims free stuff that the daughter had worked at instead of flowers.

scott467

See, those are perfect candidates for volcano-cloggers.

Gail Combs

  :wpds_lol: 

Cuppa Covfefe

Didn’t you have some neighbors who were cloggers? 😀

pat frederick

staffers intend to walk off the job in support of hamas
article
Top House Republicans plan to press federal agencies to punish workers who participate in a planned walk out next week in protest of the Biden administration’s support for Israel.
Why it matters: It’s the first time Congress has gotten involved in the widespread staff-level dissent taking place within the federal government over the Israel-Hamas war.
Driving the news: Federal workers across nearly two dozen agencies including the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department plan to walk off the job on Tuesday, according to the Middle East-focused news site Al-Monitor.
The protest, led by a group of dozens of federal employees calling itself Feds United For Peace, is reportedly to observe a “Day of Mourning” on the 100th day since Israel began military operations in Gaza last October.
Hundreds of Biden administration employees are expected to participate in the demonstration, the outlet reported.
What they’re saying: “Any government worker who walks off the job to protest U.S. support for our ally Israel is ignoring their responsibility and abusing the trust of taxpayers,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a statement.
Johnson said he and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) will “be working together to ensure that each federal agency initiates appropriate disciplinary proceedings” against anyone who participates in Tuesday’s demonstration.
“They deserve to be fired,” Johnson said.
Between the lines: The conservative magazine National Review made the case that the protest violates federal law, pointing to a statute punishing any federal employee who “participates in a strike … against the Government of the United States” with a fine or up to a year in prison.
The outlet noted that a strike, as defined by Cornell Law School, is “an organized and intentional stoppage or slowdown of work by employees, intending to make the employer comply with the demands of the employees.”
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/14/mike-johnson-gop-federal-workers-gaza

Gail Combs

Good way to get rid of a lot of Obama hires. At least the really dumb ones.

pat frederick

yup. gov’t work has plenty of perks, but it also has responsibilities.

scott467

“but it also has responsibilities.”

__________

In theory, in obligation and duty, but not in actual practice.

I can’t think of a single responsible thing government has done in my lifetime.

I can’t think of one.

There might be one, though I doubt it, and I sure can’t think of it.

Not one.

Gail Combs

Made life poorer and more difficult? Oh that is correct you said ” responsible thing not “responsible FOR

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pgroup2

Staff are not in charge of policy making. Fire the lot of ’em.

Gail Combs

In the Devolution Power Hour #213 @ 14:30 they are discussing the Tuesday appeal hearing in the DC trump case where Trump is claiming presidential immunity.
While listening to them it occurs to me that the Supreme Court may narrow the immunity to ONLY the time the President is in office. This would leave Clinton, Bush, Biden & Obama legally vulnerable for acts committed outside the years they were office. Up until now it seems once you were President you were home free.

https://rumble.com/v465v3w-devolution-power-hour-213-1030-pm-et-.html

pat frederick

maybe i am remembering wrong, but doesn’t congress and the judiciary enjoy immunity from bad laws they passed or decisions they made. it seems if we have 3 co equal branches, then the executive must also enjoy that immunity.

pgroup2

Well, there you go being logical again. What’s wrong with you?

Dora

Looks like an insurrection to me!

scott467

They won’t do anything, the ‘protesters’ (traitors and enemies within) are their ideological brethren.

It would be like police in any big blue city doing anything to stop the BLM or panti-fa riots.

It’s a bromance, not a law enforcement problem.

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Gail Combs

Useful as another red pill, although if you are not awake by now, you are probably a brain dead commie useful idiot.

PAVACA

SOME PROTOCOLS FOR “VACCINATED” PERSONS TO DETOX THE modRNA + SPIKE PROTEIN OF THE COVID-19 “VACCINES” FROM THEIR BODIES, IN ADDITION TO DEALING WITH “LONG COVID”:

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/if-youve-been-harmed-by-your-vaccinations-?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Yours Truly: Mr. Miller mentions the FLCCC “I-RECOVEr” protocol: https://covid19criticalcare.com/protocol/i-recover-post-vaccine-treatment/
He also lists a protocol by Daisy White, a health advocate.
One of the Replies to Mr. Miller’s article mentions the protocol of the World Council for Health:
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/resources/spike-protein-detox-guide/

The one aspect of Mr. Miller’s blog article that Yours Truly begs to differ with, is the concept that people who have been harmed by their taking a COVID-19 “vaccine” AND recognize what happened to them, should follow a “vaccine” detox protocol.
In point of fact, ANY PERSON WHO EVER TOOK A DOSE OF A COVID-19 “VACCINE” HAS, IN EFFECT, “BEEN HARMED” BY THE “VACCINE.”
ANY PERSON WHO HAS EVER TAKEN A DOSE OF A COVID-19 “VACCINE” NEEDS TO BE FOLLOWING A PROTOCOL TO TRY AND MITIGATE / ELIMINATE THE POISONS OF THE “VACCINE.”

Barb Meier

American Thinker by Clarice Feldman. “Two decades of Obama policies have led to wars in the Middle East, the destruction of our educational systems, the danger to our lives from poor management, and a substantially weakened military capability.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/past_time_to_undo_obamas_fundamental_transformation.html

scott467

Clarice Feldman. “Two decades of Obama policies have led to wars in the Middle East, the destruction of our educational systems, the danger to our lives from poor management, and a substantially weakened military capability.””

___________

Coulda told ya that two decades ago.

It’s not like it wasn’t obvious that the Usurper, the Lightbringer, the Magic Kenyan, was intent in destroying America.

It was obvious.

And it still is.

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cthulhu

When one understands his purpose in life….

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pgroup2

A bit touchy.  😂 

scott467

From OT:

Sketchy Stuff Again – This Announcement and Story Just Doesn’t Pass Sniff Test
January 14, 2024

SD: “I hate to be captain obvious again, but maybe people have not noticed this story. Something isn’t right and just doesn’t add up. The events took place last Thursday, the comments by National Security Council spokesman John Kirby are today.

Look at the contrast between what U.S. Central Command put out -vs- the first AP report on the same incident.

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[CentCom Source LINK]

Now look at the AP FIRST NOTICE reporting:

Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to three U.S. officials.

The SEALs were on an interdiction mission, climbing up a vessel when one got knocked off by high waves. Under their protocol, when one SEAL is overtaken the next jumps in after them.

Both SEALs are still missing. A search and rescue mission is underway and the waters in the Gulf of Aden, where they were operating, are warm, two of the U.S. officials said. (read more)

We are supposed to believe that two naval special force operators, Navy SEALS, doing a ship-to-ship transfer, fully kitted, fell into the water, suddenly disappeared and could not be located in the two days between the CentCom announcement (Jan 11) and the AP report (Jan 13).

Eh… nope. Sketchy!

So, here’s National Security Council spokesman John Kirby today. WATCH:”

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kalbokalbs

John “Pinocchio” Kirby is a professional liar.

mollypitcher5

borrowing Pat’s tin foil hat mentioning the odd coincidence of dates..the Seals disappearance with Austin’s alleged hospital admission.

scott467

From OT #2:

Atlanta DA Fani Willis Plays the Race Card Giving Proactive Speech at Big Bethal AME Church
January 14, 2024

SD: “Two high level takeaways. First, please pay attention to the venue {GO DEEP}, as CTH has documented for 10+ years the AME church network is the epicenter of racially driven political influence. BLM are the activist foot soldiers; AME are the network organizers. 

BLM harvest the ballots; AME are the precinct workers who scan them as many times as needed. This is the “Atlanta way,” that duplicates in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and Madison.

Second, Fani Willis must anticipate a major problem with her case and conduct if she is proactively going to the crew who will be tasked with circling the wagons on her defense. In this video soundbite Fani Willis plays the race card to her audience at Big Bethal AME church in Atlanta. WATCH:”

scott467

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18, KJV)

para59r

Wow! What’s going on here. Real fears and contingency plans, a psy op or both?

NBC News Reports ‘Deep State’ Plot to Facilitate a ‘Military Coup’ Against Trump Amidst Fear for Alleged ‘Retribution’ if Re-Elected
Jim Hᴏft Jan. 14, 2024 6:40 pm 965 Comments

Concerns are intensifying among far-left national security “experts” and Pentagon insiders over the possibility that former President Donald Trump might leverage the U.S. military to enforce his political will if he returns to the Oval Office.

In a detailed report, NBC News inadvertently admitted the existence of a “Deep State,” allegedly working to facilitate a military coup against former President Trump if he is freely and fairly elected by Americans.

The NBC article paints a portrait of a left-wing plot to disrupt military allegiance to civilian control.

Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist wrote, “NBC reports the left is plotting ways to have military not be under civilian control. This dangerous and unconstitutional usurpation of power is being framed by NBC as good because it will undermine Trump if he is freely and fairly elected by Americans.”

pgroup2

Uh, hey leftists — the name of the book is Seven Days in May.

Not January.