Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
And yes, it’s Monday…again.
But we WILL get through it!
We will always remember Wheatie,
Pray for Trump,
Yet have fun,
and HOLD ON when things get crazy!
We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:
Wheatie’s Rules:
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:
“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”
“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”
If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:
- Our backup site, The Q Tree 579486807, https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/
- Our old alternative site, The U Tree, where civility is not a requirement
- Our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178
- Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
phyllogenous
adjective
living or growing on leaves
Used in a sentence
The phyllogenous forms seem to be of a different character, but we are not concerned with them here.
MUSIC!
Not sure if I’ve used this one before, but it’s enjoyable.
THE STUFF
More on the Gab AI
I asked Gabby to do a self-portait in the outdoors, using the Watercolor interface. This is the first time Gabby chose a man – and a white man at that. Gabby consistently chose a dark black African woman in the past.
I have been studying the Watercolor engine to test its capabilities, biases, strengths and weaknesses. I will explore the results in upcoming posts.
One thing I have noticed is that Gab’s new interface tends to make each “conversation” with an engine tend to “fall into a rut”, which can be good or bad, depending on your needs. It’s good, in that it remembers what you just asked it to do. It’s bad, in that if you want bigger changes, you probably need to start a new chat. But in general, having options both ways is nice.
This tree, the prior two, and the next one were all done with the same conversation. They were all very similar, even with radically different instructions, some of which were trying to get the engine to do a “Wheatie Warrior” watercolor. I had to start completely new chats to make even some progress that way.
AI can be stubborn. Kinda like people.
Just sayin’!
And remember…….
Until victory, have faith!
And trust the big plan, too!
And as always….
ENJOY THE SHOW
W
Speaking of AI, Google’s version needs to be dismantled, IMO.
Catturd:
The Text from TeXasLindsay:
Shocked about Google’s political slandering and lies? Not me.
AI is not my friend. Some day it may be, but I doubt it it. Gotta be an upside first.
Humanizing a computer, basically a machine programmed by unknown people is a very slippery slope. Adults in 2024 are still able to work it out that AI is a storehouse of information…might be factual..it might not. Children do not have the ability to discern this. If the current trajectory of using AI for information akin to an encyclopedia or the always unreliable Wiki or using AI for it’s “opinion” on any subject is going to be a disaster.
like any computer system
gigo
Yep . It’s weird that the 2 adults that I know who’ve been in absolute awe about using it rely on it’s ‘ talents’ to not only research for them but to ‘ write’ it for them. When they talk about it one would get the idea that it was a person doing this work for them. It would be sort of degrading to use of computer program to do this…but AI..it makes it seem like their personal assistant or something.
( lol, obviously I’m not an AI fan. me thinks it can go way worse the more power and trust people give it )
i trust my own instincts.
it can only respond in regards to what it has been fed. since i didn’t feed it, i don’t trust it.
AI was fed by leftest ANTI-HUMAN TOTALITARIAN LOVING ASSHOLES.
well there ya go…GARBAGE in
Not very kind to the disabled, are you? 😂
NOPE…
Fundamentally, that’s true for people too.
Otherwise there’d be no point to censorship.
What we *can* do is be suspicious of something, but if we can’t find out more information–i.e., find a different supply of “food”–then all we can do is baselessly speculate.
Which is why stuff gets memory holed.
I used to be able to use Google Advance to look up an old comment by using my name, key words and the URL of the site.
That no longer works and it has only been during the last year or so it quit working.
I think they’ve be “trimming” the “Wayback Machine” as well…
They’re “revising” everything, from temperature records, to street and monument names, to history itself… using 1984 as a guide…
That is certainly a pessimistic attitude.
Artificial “Intelligence” based on REAL STUPIDITY…
It’s just another marketing mantra, no substance, no truth…
Back in the day it was called “expert system(s)”… e.g. IBM’s ELIZA. At least that did useful work…
gigo = garbage in, garbage out
Or like Google that hides ‘inconvenient’ info
The complete domination in SC is encouraging to me. Normally, I would expect this to happen when Tim Scott endorsed PDT and knowing the general consensus in the state. But SC is set up with willing election steal leaders such as James Clyburn, the same guy who saved Brandon during the primaries four years ago. Dems can declare as GOP and cross over in the primaries and the election steal apparatus would be in place with thousands of illegal ballots versus votes. Yet, it did not matter.
I suspect the Dems pulled back somewhat so as not to fully reveal the steal apparatus of methods/people they plan to use in the general in the fall. If you see them pull back from funding their campaigns in SC it means they will be using the funds and pushing hard for NC and GA.
Not conclusive for knowing if the white hats have clamped down the cheat appartus, helpful in seeing that patriotic Americans have figured out they need to go to vote in person on election day and raise hell about electronic voting systems with their legislators.
Any state with mail-in ballots must have its voters vote as early as possible.
An independent advisor, for beaucoup $$$, to tell them what they already know, but don’t want to hear.
How could that not work out?
😂
Leaked conclusion to Adm. Donald’s upcoming assessment:
DEI is going to murder 300+ people when one of these planes goes down. That’s going to lead to a lawsuit that bankrupts Boeing — as it should — and the company goes away forever.
So you can keep playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes, or you can start acting like &^#ing grown ups and put people in charge who actually know what they’re doing.
So glad you got hold of that leak! 😅 I hope that will be his assessment.
I have good sources 😁
GOOD!
Yes, they need to watch the stock price. And, yes, I have personal stakes involved.
Yes, it’s that day again. No, not the one with camels.
The one with the polar bear.
My personal favorite. 🙂
Also available in green, at no extra charge —
…algae growth….
That one’s named Greta 😀
Time to get the Camel filters… or maybe Camel philtres… 🙂
It used to be that was their main method.
Just ignore anything that was inconvenient. Let the comedians wreck any honest conservative.
If one of them got caught in an outright lie they could lose their job.
Now of course that latter sentence is no longer true.
His Mom says he was always such a good boy.
Din doo nuthin.
But she didn’t say so in English so how can we be sure?
I found the interview 😂
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So funny !
Those were the parents of Virgil Starkwell, a character played by Woody Allen, from the movie Take the Money and Run (1969).
I remember watching it on TV when I was a little kid, and just laughing and laughing at the sheer idiocy of Woody Allen’s character, like watching a movie version of Wile E. Coyote 😂
Ah yes that settles it then.
It’s hard to argue with someone wearing Groucho Marx nose & mustache glasses 😁
I knew someone once who said, NO we should STAY in the UN. Then put a pair of those Grocho Marx glasses on the chair at the Security Council, and a sheet of paper saying “No!” but otherwise blow it iff.
He’s not an ‘immigrant’, he’s an invader.
criminally insane foreign hispanic
and he’s butt ugly & moronic-looking, too.
I’d bet my car his IQ is below 85.
AND was in prison/mental institution before being dumped on the US border.
Likely.
I’m cornfused. Who is this?
Ted Bundy.
Famous for killing people with his unusually long right thumb.
notorious for killing nurses and other women.
and then having “sex” with their corpses.
he represented himself at trial.
That too 👍
…and he lost.
You know, Ted Bundy has a weird resemblance to that freak in Idaho, Kohberger, who killed the 4 students, and likely others.
I just couldn’t place him. Age is getting to me.
I think that’s a Miller ‘High Life’ beer carton he’s using for his legal documents.
Stay classy… 😂
GO ELON!!!
they got married to JOIN their asylum cases and look more sympathetic
Feisty Hayseed
February 26, 2024 1:18 am
Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra was free because the system is broken
Laken Riley is dead because America failed to protect her.
For every crime her suspected killer committed, he was let free.
Every chance to prevent the tragedy that unfolded was squandered.
Police say the killing of the Augusta University College nursing student was a “crime of opportunity,” but it was an opportunity provided again and again by a callous Biden administration and a justice system gone mad.
The suspect, Jose Antonio Ibarra, illegally crossed the border into El Paso in September of last year. Yes, illegally.
Despite what activists might claim, he was not an “asylum seeker.” That’s a designation for someone who is fleeing religious or political persecution.
They cross the border, then, coached by charity groups, make bogus claims of asylum.
Ibarra’s wife admits that’s why they got married, “so we could join our asylum cases,” she told The Post, and look more sympathetic.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinion/laken-riley-murder-suspect-jose-ibarra-was-free-because-the-system-is-broken/
Says he’s only 5’3″ tall.
Somehow he’s ‘white’.
You can bet it wouldn’t say ‘white’ if he was applying for gov’t benefits.
Just like Zimmerman was ‘white’ in the Fake News although his Peruvian grandma said they were part black.
Is this report from one of the AIs?
The key word is ‘terrorist’.
That means islamic groups should be at least the top 100 on the list.
What other religious groups, outside of islam, are credibly classified as ‘terrorist’?
What other religion teaches to murder everyone who does not convert to their religious terrorist organization?
Unspoken first on the list: seeee iiiiii ayyyyyy
Because they created the solution first.
Actually, because they created the problem…solving the previous problem.
final solution 😡
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/02/26/will-the-democrats-let-donald-trump-be-president-if-he-wins-n2635684
“Will The Democrats Let Donald Trump Be President If He Wins?”
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Not if Schlurt Clichter has his way.
It’s not up to them.
I see the game Schlichter is playing. Huxley (UNESCO) talked about it.
You take an idea completely abhorrent to the population and one they do not even consider a possibility (like Pedophilia) and you gradually introduce it until it becomes the norm.
Only they do not have decades to do this so BOTH sides are helping to put the idea in our heads that Trump WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO TAKE OFFICE. (And we just better get use to the idea.)
The gaslighting is getting very obvious nowadays.
Yup.
And we are getting a lot better at seeing it and calling it out,even when it comes from the ‘Right’
I’ve got some ideas about this scenario, and what we will need to do. But I’m not going there yet.
Shy as we know ya are Aubergine, Give It A Go. (Please)
I’m not saying yet because I don’t want to give the enemy a peek. We need to be more careful about giving away what we might do.
👍
Iceland showed us the way.
Iceland is disgusting. They abort ALL Downs syndrome unborn.
Yes, and they can’t seem to spell properly — but they pioneered the “jail the bankers” gambit in the financial crisis of 2008. [ https://grapevine.is/news/2018/02/07/36-bankers-96-years-in-jail/ ]
It should be noted that Icelandic jails are not five-star resorts. “Iceland’s Kviabryggja Prison is an old farmhouse bound by the North Atlantic on one side and fields of snow-covered lava rock on another.”
We should see if we have something similar in Alaska.
Here is one that is ready to go on an island even:
Another goody is Portlock, Alaska. I vote relocating the Dept of Edumacation there.
This Abandoned Ghost Town In Alaska Is Downright Bone Chilling
14 Abandoned Places In Alaska
Use Attu Island, Alaska as well.
My father was stationed there for a time in the Naval Air Force during WW II. Most Americans do not realize that the Japanese held this American territory island for a time.
I have a number of photos he took from his time there. It is a frozen, barren tundra with no way to escape and live to tell about it. The base the military built has long since been abandoned.
Pack them on there like sardines and let the polar bears have at them.
The absolutely critical question here is whether polar bears range that far south.
Just use the poley bears’ cousin…
Daily Kos: ocean-swimming grizzly bears a sign that “something’s up” in British Columbia
No, it is a sign they are a close relative to Polar bears and can even mate.
The bear blog: Grizzly – polar bear cross confirmed
What is a pizzly bear?… | The Sun
Given them GREEN Energy, DIY kits for solar panels and wind turbines.
👍🤣
And that is a place for the non-violent offenders such as these bankers. The big mountain on the peninsula across the water is Kirkjufell, 463 meters high (according to openstreetmap). And the black and white makes it look even more desolate.
Note to self: Don’t mess with the Icelanders.
From the tweet:
NEW: “President of Argentina Javier Milei will be introducing a bill to Congress to jail any Central Bank official who orders the Central Bank to print money to cover Argentina’s deficits.
Epic 🔥
Milei will be defining seigniorage as a criminal offense with the objective of not being “able to issue money to finance the Treasury.” “The bill will define seigniorage as a criminal offense and in case the Central Bank finances the treasury, either directly or indirectly, the president of the Central Bank, the board of directors, the president of the Nation and the officials who vote for it would end up in jail,” Milei said during an interview.
“We have a strong commitment in the fiscal area, zero deficit is not negotiable.”
“If you have zero deficit, you do not take on more debt. By not taking on more debt, the debt – product ratio becomes constant or decreasing and the counterpart of that is that you become more solvent.”
Wow. We need more like him.
Tick-tock. Some comments about this were negative. People are tired of announcements and say, “Just release it, already!” Loomer has seemed pretty reliable, to my knowledge. One person who has always delivered on his promised dates is James O’Keefe.
Laura Loomer:
Letitia James? Merrick Garland?
Either one will be great.
Both being tied together in their actions against PDJT would be awesome.
AND in THREE… TWO…. ONE…
Laura Loomer dies in a mysterious crash… Car or Airplane take your pick.
If she’s as smart as I think she is, there is a dead-man’s switch.
I might be way off base but I wonder if the Trump team isn’t helping her. She’s good but her investigations lately are really deep. She was at the SC rally that I went to and got a shout out from DJT. interesting
Hmmm…
I certainly hope she has very good security. The CIA can be very nasty to ‘inconvenient’ journalists.
Cia weapon – heart attack dart gun!!!! andrew breitbart…
Michael Hastings was afraid his car was tampered with
Wiki
[1] Death stalks some reporters working their beats in U.S. by Thomas Peele
Aug. 01, 2012
7 seconds long. 😂
If you don’t like being called gay, then don’t act gay. Seems simple to me.
I think he’s playing a part and the whole thing is a joke. I imagine it’s to highlight that guys who try to be women still obviously look like men, they’re not fooling anyone, and therefore they get called names because men can’t be women.
Oh.
Scott Pressler:
I find that weird – that a high up muslim would dialogue with a queer. No matter what the subject was.
Presler is the kind of person who can talk to anyone.
Apparently so. 
He also isn’t advertising being gay as a selling point to his presentation.
This is key.
This is true.
Most gay people I know center their entire existence on their sexual preference, which is very off-putting, to say the least.
Scott’s sexuality is an afterthought, something like his eye color or handedness. He doesn’t dwell on it, or make it an issue. So it rarely is one.
When most gays were like this, back before they were “out of the closet,” the world was a saner, better place.
I couldn’t agree more. 🙂
🙂
This Bitecofer chick is horrifying.
yes she is…
here’s what she’s up to…her FUSE approach…
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/26/she-predicted-the-blue-wave–now-shes-trying-to-prevent-a-big-red-one/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Shades of Ricarda Lang, Chair (extra-heavy-duty wide load) of the Greens over here…. Where do they get all these leftard crazy beached whales…
My theory is that the wind turbines are to blame. They are like a siren song to Greens. The only solution is to tie yourself to the mast- with duct tape.
Tie THEM to the
mastVANES with 9/16 nylon rope.Balance is critical. 😮 😂
Was thinking how hard getting the proper balance would be.
Tape one shitbag on each vane of the windmill.
Actually, tape five of them on each vane (they’re big enough); it should be possible to divide a group of 15 shitbags into three groups all of the same weight.
And you can always add a small trim weight somewhere if needed.
So that just leaves one more question: Head out towards the tip of the blade, or head in, towards the rotor?
Leave it to an engineer to solve the real life problems.
I think you could move them from the tip towards the center to adjust the balance.
We could call it the ‘Save The Eagles Program’
Since they would help keep birds away.
Or have them slide back and forth…
Sort of a tilt-a-whirl for perps…
True, *slight* adjustments along the length of the could be used instead of trim weights (that’s just a matter of equalizing their moments—freshman physics). I wouldn’t want to put them AT the center though because the centripetal force would be significantly less.
I personally would like to see an AI artist rendering of your concept. I believe it would sell a lot of prints. In watercolor of course.
Nice re-write. 😂 😆 🙃
The Gab AI self-portrait looks like he’s channeling his inner Woody Allen.
Yes indeed!
agree
He looks like “Where’s Waldo” in street clothes to me.
This is a recent Michael Saylor interview with a young yootoober.
I must have watched dozens of Michael Saylor interviews over the past couple years, and every one is fascinating. And different.
He may have a general framework of points he could cover, depending on where the interviewer’s questions go, but every interview is unique.
The interviewer asks a question, and you may get a 10 minute long, stream-of-consciousness answer that is interesting, coherent, comprehensive and non-evasive.
I have never seen anyone else do interviews like this. He just seems (to me) like an interesting, intelligent, well informed person who is grateful for the opportunity to talk about his favorite subject.
And it shows!
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Dominate exactly what?
“Dominate exactly what?”
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I’m sure he meant that Bitcoin would dominate the markets, i.e., that in 2024 Bitcoin will outperform any other traditional investment or asset class by at least 100%, and probably more, maybe much more.
Bitcoin was under $27k in October of last year, today it’s at $54,545. That’s up over 100% in less than four months, and it hasn’t even taken off yet.
This is the year of the halving, which occurs every 4th year, where the amount of Bitcoin mined each day around the world is cut in half.
So in April, newly mined Bitcoin supply is going to be cut from 900 per day to 450 per day.
At the same time the new Bitcoin ETFs are buying up approximately 10 times the current newly mined supply, and soon to be 20 times the post-halving newly mined supply.
Keep in mind that the Bitcoin mining companies (publicly traded companies on NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.) don’t have to sell the Bitcoin they mine, unless they need to raise cash to keep the lights on.
When the Bitcoin bull market begins (usually a couple months after the halving, this year the bull run started early), the mining companies STOP selling the new Bitcoin they mine each day, because they know the price is going up (way up) in the near future, so they hoard it.
So when the halving occurs in April, and only 450 Bitcoins can be mined each day, worldwide, the new supply could actually drop to zero, if the mining companies stop selling their newly mined Bitcoin and hold onto it for price appreciation.
At that point, the ETFs will have to buy all of their Bitcoin on the open market, which means the major exchanges, which effectively means a company called Coinbase, the same publicly traded company that has custody over the Bitcoin held by most of the new Bitcoin ETFs.
Coinbase is the ‘vault’ where most of the ETF Bitcoin is secured.
Coinbase is also the major U.S. Bitcoin exchange, where many retail investors (who want to buy or sell Bitcoin directly, instead of going through an ETF) buy and sell Bitcoin.
The amount of Bitcoin on Coinbase (and other exchanges around the world) is at or near all time lows, which has never happened before in the run-up to a halving.
The money going into the Bitcoin ETFs is only expected to increase, as more and more asset managers begin to allocate 1% of assets under management to Bitcoin (Fidelity Canada just did this recently, all the others will follow, certainly including Blackrock).
The ETFs must buy Bitcoin, regardless of spot price, within 24 or 48 hours of the time shares in the ETF are purchased.
The ETFs are averaging around 3,500 Bitcoin per day (net, after taking into account the dumpage from GBTC, the previous Bitcoin ‘trust’ that converted to an ETF, which is losing Bitcoin to the other ETFs), if I remember correctly, and that should be going up as the sales forces for the funds complete training and begin recommending a 1% to 5% allocation of Bitcoin to their clients. Many funds are waiting until the end of the 1st quarter, so they can use the ROI increase in their Bitcoin ETF as a selling point.
At the same time that all of this increased demand is happening (demand that is way over what retail investors were doing before the ETFs were launched), the newly mined supply is going to be cut in HALF (in April), and even that will mostly be held onto by the mining companies for future appreciation.
That means the ETFs will have to buy their Bitcoin on the exchanges like everybody else, at spot price. The problem is that the amount available for purchase on the exchanges is at an all time low, and if the ETFs continue buying at 3,500 Bitcoin per day, the supply on exchanges will be GONE at some point before the end of this year.
What happens when there is effectively zero supply, but demand is constant or rising?
The price has to go up, in order to entice owners to sell.
And most people who invest in Bitcoin aren’t going to sell in the middle of a bull market, because why would they sell something today that will be worth more tomorrow, and the next month, and the month after that, for the next 18 months (on average)?
Many online polls show that the majority of Bitcoin holders won’t sell until Bitcoin hits $1,000,000.
That’s only 18x from today’s current price of $54,355
I say “only 18x” because Bitcoin has done more than 18x in previous bull run cycles. There is also a theory about diminishing returns as the asset class grows, but that is based on the end of the previous bull cycle, which was cut short by the FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried) fraud.
With all of the tail winds as we approach the halving this year, there’s no way to predict what multiple Bitcoin could reach. Conservative estimates are 3x ($150k). Upper estimates are $400k. Most analysts don’t want to guess higher than that, because so many analysts’ predictions came up short last cycle, due to the FTX debacle.
There is no guarantee it will go up by multiples of the current price, of course.
But with dwindling supply, increasing demand, the 9 new ETFs (with another from Schwab on the way), not to mention regulatory clarity and approval, the halving, updated accounting rules (FASB) making it easy for corporations to hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets, and more, it’s a powder keg in search of a spark.
And it’s rolling toward an open flame around April 16th (the halving).
Bitcoin is up
$2,627 today, as of 4:05pm$2,871 as of 4:24pm.$3,019 as of 5:19pm.
As the price continues to go up, I suspect more and more people will begin to allocate at least 1% to 3% of their portfolio to Bitcoin, and the ETFs make it easy and safe to do so.
If Bitcoin goes to zero (anything could go to zero, but it’s extremely unlikely), a 1% to 3% loss isn’t going to be catastrophic to anyone’s portfolio.
But if Bitcoin does 5x, that would be a nice boost.
Approached from that perspective, there is limited downside and strong upside.
A favorable risk / reward situation.
…it’s a powder keg looking for a spark.
Sticking with stuff, I can see, touch….
….stack….
Another of my crypto analysts likes gold too.
In October 2023, the gold to Bitcoin ratio was 13.5oz of gold per Bitcoin.
The current ratio of gold to Bitcoin is 27 ounces of gold to 1 Bitcoin.
His plan is to sell a portion of his Bitcoin and buy gold when the ratio hits 100oz of gold per Bitcoin.
So if he bought one Bitcoin today for $56,000 and the ratio gets to 100:1, his effective cost per ounce of gold would be $560/oz.
If he bought one Bitcoin last October for $27k and the ratio gets to 100:1, then his effective cost per ounce of gold would be $270/oz.
My crypto youtube guy just sent out a message that today was Blackrock’s biggest inflow day yet for their Bitcoin ETF:
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“BlackRock’s #Bitcoin ETF, $IBIT, experienced a record-breaking volume of 42.55M, with a total $ Volume of $1.32BN.
Per my VOL model it likely resulted in the acquisition of approximately 8,076 BTC, or a hefty $420M in $BTC, not even including the other ETFs
There is no slowdown!”
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He’s not really a ‘crypto guy’, he worked as a professional FOREX currency trader in Europe for over 20 years IIRC. He lives in the U.S. now. He focuses on stocks, real estate and crypto, but for youtube, he covers mostly stocks and crypto.
His overall focus is on ‘disruption’ and anything that causes disruption, so that means a heavy focus on technology, Artificial Intelligence, Tesla and crypto, primarily Bitcoin, but a couple others too.
Blackrock.
Bitcoin’s low today was at $50,920.
It is now at $
56,226$56,437This is an asset with a $
1.09$1.11 trillion market cap, and it has moved up10%almost 11% so far today.He’s so serious! 😂
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yeah…too serious.
kid’s got some anger & resentment issues goin on.
look in his eyes.
frustration + anger
not cute.
No, not cute. It made me sad for him.
I just saw it as a little boy, being a little boy 🙂
I hope De Pat’s show went very, very well on Sunday. She’s probably still at the after-party, that wild-and-crazy gal!
After party is on Friday this week.
Yesterday…well…technology bites sometimes. We’re borrowing radio controlled mics for the soloists, and at the first church, on the mother system at the church that owns them, they worked fine. Yesterday, we checked them all before the show, and with an empty room, they worked like a charm. However, there were still antennas on the substitute control board, and with all the cell phones in the room….
Mine went out during my solo. Fortunately, there were a handful wired into that church’s sound system, so we improvised. I also have operatic projection, so me singing wasn’t a problem. it was the speaking parts. Some of the others just didn’t get that we couldn’t depend on the wireless.
Hopefully, Friday will be better.
Technical (Equipment) Difficulties are no fun.
Ask me how I know. 🙂
(I play in a Band)
We’re due to do a sound check at the last church (the one where I grew up) on Wednesday, but…unless we tell the house to TURN OFF mobiles rather than just silence them, I’m afraid the same thing is going to happen. Fortunately, the guy doing sound, and one of the guys playing a Disciple both know the sound system at that church well. If we have to turn on the mic at the Ambo for me, then we do. I know the room, so I don’t need amplification, but several others do.
Many wireless systems use 2.4Ghz. It often gets interfered with by local wi-fi networks and causes drop outs and/or interference with the wireless signal. I use a 5.8 Ghz wireless system for my Bass Guitar for this very reason.
I’ll have to remember that. Thanks.
Just about everything in the known (and unknown) universe uses 2.4 GHz, as it’s one of the few “open” bands.
Remote-control toys, microwave ovens, kids’ walkit talkies, FM transmitters for hearing aid broadcasts (and remote mics for performers), and a whole host of other things.
There are some solutions. Sidebands or subchannels, or digital signal encoding, which my son’s hearing assistance devices used (Comfort Audio, now bought (and ruined) by Phonak) which were pretty much immune to interference.
There are ways to get around the crosstalk and interference….
[Funny thing, there were a couple of other hard-of-hearing students in my son’s high school, and he could hear their teachers lecturing (via his FM receiver) as he was going in to class… and he could also hear the teacher(s) if they forgot to turn them off 😀 Could learn a LOT from that 🙂 ]…
Did the kiddies manage to show up?
More of them did, yes.
Yay!
The girls that live behind us…their dad brought them. He can be a total pr!ck. No one was going to mess with him.
GA/FL’s Sally Q is supposed to be getting a pacemaker installed today. They had been hoping for Friday, but her little sojourn in the arms of medical science had left her veins in a questionable state for running anesthesia. Here’s hoping that the procedure goes smoothly and is a great success.
Thanks so much, Coothie. I was wrong – it wasn’t for the anesthesia that they needed the left arm veins that are shot due to IV fluids and meds – and all manner of lab draws – they need the left arm veins to put in the pacemaker. This means they have to use an MD anesthesiologist and go into the upper arm or above with the lead for the procedure.
Thanks so much to all of you dear hearts for your prayers, advice, and encouragement. It’s been 40 years since her diagnosis – a long road of challenges – teaching me many lessons and that I need GOD and other people. You are the best of support groups in our journey and a reliable source of Truth for all our national and international trials!!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your prayers are worth more than gold to me.
We’re all pullin’ for Sally Q, her medical team, and you — her family. Let us know the news as soon as it is confirmed.
👃 that all goes well and Sally Q improves greatly.
GA/FL
Sending much Good Energy to you and to Sally Q, and much Deep Wisdom to the surgical team.
Having learned the hard way from past experience, please have a notebook with you if/when you have questions and/or concerns for anyone on the medical staff. Get them to explain things in “plain English” so you can write it down.
Please update when you can!
🙏 continuing.
Praying for you both today. God bless and keep you.
Prayers up for you and Sally Q 🙏 🙏 🙏
You and Sally Q and your ex-husband are on my Qtree prayer list each day 👍
Here is a bit more information about the lander.
It actually landed on the side but is still functioning. The only problem is with the antennas not directly pointing to Earth. This means communication is weak.
And, now, for something fun….
This was interesting. Apparently written by a former hedge fund manager who was in a position to know about these things.
If I understood correctly, one aspect of this is that nobody actually owns the securities (stocks) they think they own. That was phased out in the mid 1990s (IIRC), and the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) was changed to make it possible.
So title / ownership of all stocks are held in a ‘pool’, and when the system collapses, those securities will be transferred to creditors, and the People lose everything.
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Link to pdf book: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/1ee786fb-3c78-4903-9701-d614892d09d6/taking-feb24-screen2.pdf
Link to html version: https://mpalmer.heresy.is/webnotes/TheGreatTaking/
There is a similar situation in real estate.
The old way, everything real estate had to be filed at the county courthouse — similar to posting the banns at the local church for weddings. The thing is, if you bought your house with a mortgage and refinanced it three times, the county filing fees were a chunk of change — so the banks said that they’d do all the interim real estate transactions in a bank ledger, but promised on a stack of Bibles that they’d file the paperwork at the county when you paid off the loan or sold to someone else.
As a result, real estate titles for the last 20 years are suspended in limbo.
Not mine 😊
Nor mine. 😊
Here’s a little ray of sunshine —
https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-unfunded-liability-death-trap
^^^ Highlights a positive financial future.
Everything will be coming up roses. 
The Bitcoin thing at the end, interesting.
Personally, I don’t trust, Bitcoin.
“…Personally, I don’t trust, Bitcoin.”
Nope, Nope, Nope…
I do not think I saved it, but a prominent leftest was involved at the start.
I sure wish I had bought some when they first came about.
I think I could have bought them for around a quarter.
IIRC, pennies. Literally way way back, when Bitcoin first came out.
“Personally, I don’t trust, Bitcoin.”
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That is actually the beauty of Bitcoin.
There is no trust required, or even possible.
It is trust-less.
Other financial instruments require trust, they depend on gatekeepers, intermediaries, with multiple potential gov’t attack vectors, etc.
Bitcoin is peer-to-peer. No intermediary. No gov’t can intercept or halt or take over the system. It is outside their control.
This is precisely why Bitcoin is a threat to their entire control system.
It is a monetary system that no government controls. They can’t inflate it, or deflate it, or raise its rates, or lower its rates. All the corruption and manipulation they do to their own currencies, destroying the purchasing power and thereby robbing their own populations blind, is beyond their reach with Bitcoin.
This is why Bitcoin was created, in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.
It is decentralized, meaning there is no CEO, there is no headquarters, there is no one for any government to target or issue a ‘cease and desist’ order to. There is no one to intimidate or arrest. There are no ‘corporate assets’ to seize. There are no shareholders. No board of directors. There is no human ‘in charge’ of anything for the gov’t to threaten or arrest or murder.
Governments can try to ban it, and governments have tried (including chyna), only to un-ban it soon after, because public interest and usage only increases when people are told they can’t do something, and the gov’t couldn’t stop it, so keeping the ban in place just put a spotlight on the government’s powerlessness.
Control freak governments hate it when the public sees their powerlessness.
This is why governments (and their MSM puppets) are always lying about Bitcoin, trying to scare the public, lying about how Bitcoin is used for criminal activity (criminal activity being something the political-class and propaganda media actually know something about).
It’s the U.S. dollar that is used for the vast majority of all criminal activity and money laundering, not Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is kept on an open ledger for the whole world to see. That’s why HAMISIS was telling their ‘supporters’ to NOT send them Bitcoin after the attack on October 7th, last year.
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One of the reasons for the EARLY DEPLOYMENT of the DEPOP CLOT SHOT for the elderly and putting Covid cases in Nursing Homes.
Apparently the Lefties are having a meltdown over this mockery by Aubrey Plaza 😂
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😂 👍 ba da boom
phyllogenous happy hour with snacks …..
updated version…
Nicely done.
It’s easy to get lost in http://www.shorpy.com …..
preach it.
👍
God Help us.
We’re headed into the vortex!!!
😀
cutie pie
I am going to bring this forward from yesterday.
What Scott misses is the Left is just a very LOUD minority.
Much of ANTIFA and BLM are PAID activists. They interviewed some of the Occupy Wall Street crowd and found they were CLUELESS they were just there to party and for the excitement.
Look at the Fake News vs Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and even the Badlands.
CNN loses nearly 90% of its… | Daily Mail Online
👉548,000 viewers = 548k views! Badlands gets 1/2 that on a good day!!!
Just Human (Kyle’s rumble acct where he reads court cases and discusses them)
You are the frame. You are the support.5 months ago 8.35K views
Badlands Daily – this is a daily new show. 14 days ago 67.8K views
Defected Ep. 56 29 days ago 208K views
Devolution Power Hour #218 30 days ago 243K views
Bannons War Room 9 days ago 51.6K views
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About Died Suddenly in the younger set. We DO have the statistics they are just not from ‘official sources.’.
11/16/2022 EXCESS MORTALITY: Over 2400 Americans are DYING each day following vaccine mandates… Ed Dowd unveils alarming, evidence-based data
Brighteon.com/fedc3b74-6f5b-42c8-9386-8f8abbd8ef91
FEB 11, 2023 What funeral directors know that you don’t
In 78 years, they never had a 15 year old who died from a heart attack. In December 2022, they had 1 a week for three weeks straight. Nobody is talking about it publicly.
The Missing Babies of Europe
Nine months after mass vaccination, 110,000 fewer babies are born. In the U.S., birth data is scarce, and few mention the F word: Fertility
Gail Combs
Thank you.
These are all representative of the increasing MEDICAL TSUNAMI of COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced illnesses, injuries, disabilities, and deaths.
The FDA KNEW that these things would happen BY THE EARLY FALL OF 2020, when Pfizer-BioNTech submitted the ACTUAL data from the lab rats AND from the “human lab rats” that had been injected with BNT162b2 in the company’s C4591001 “clinical study” of this “vaccine.” And yet the FDA STILL went ahead and granted the initial EUA for BNT162b2 to be used in the United States on 11 December 2020.
The CDC CANNOT have been — nor CANNOT now be, ignorant of the damages and deaths that these “vaccines” DID DO — ARE DOING — AND WILL DO. And yet, the CDC has put these damnable “vaccines” onto the agency’s Immunization Schedules.
The fact france withdrew HCQ the fall BEFORE Covid hit SHOWS it was a world wide DEPOPULATION EFFORT>
Note CHINA never used the mRNA ‘vaccine’
What Do They Know that We Don’t?… China Has Not Administered a Single mRNA Vaccine to Any of Its 1.45 Billion Citizens
And there was that CIA report that the Chinese were favored by the Cabal because the Chinese are smart but easier to govern.
They value the group over the individual.
Prime pickings for communists/collectivists…
Human lab rat experiment.
I really don’t know what else needs to be said for people to realize our cabal involved leaders have corrupted America into joining forces with evil doers world wide.
TradeBait2
ANY person who ever took, or now takes, ANY COVID-19 “vaccine” is STILL a “human lab rat.” Especially since the FDA now uses the “Option 4″ authorization method that allows for authorization of a COVID-19 ‘vaccine” with NO animal OR human clinical trials AT ALL.
it’s going to take generations to recover.
I do know a number of people with big families who refused the shots. With all luck, their kids will help out humanity.
I think they miss-calculated. The unthinking leftist sheeple were the ones to take the Clot shot. The truly religious, those who do not follow the herd, many of POTUS Trump’s followers DID NOT.
I agree, Gail. I think they missed the targets that mattered the most.
Our daughter has contributed three to the cause.
Also after the shut downs many are now home schooling.
That’s a huge win
Yes it is.
“What Scott misses is the Left is just a very LOUD minority.
Much of ANTIFA and BLM are PAID activists. They interviewed some of the Occupy Wall Street crowd and found they were CLUELESS they were just there to party and for the excitement.”
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I’m aware of that! 👍
TY Gail for keeping this damning info before us, along w/ CV & many others. I used some of what you shared here in an email with a friend who believes the shots are good…sigh.
In the course of my communication with her I went looking for that article about the French man/doctor, I believe, who’d taken a covid shot & found his tumors significantly increased. The archived versions I saw no longer had the compelling image showing but I found it via search engine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220924122220/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/09/mrna-covid-vaccine-booster-lymphoma-cancer/671308/
We are in Never Forget territory! 😡
one down
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13126229/lord-jacob-rothschild-dies-aged-97.html
Actually that is #2 🤓
Nov 8 2022: Sir Evelyn de Rothschild dies aged 91: Financier and philanthropist who helped unite British and French arms of famous banking dynasty and was one of the Queen’s financial advisers passes away ‘peacefully at home’ — Daily Mail
good
GR
Good Riddance
R Green
February 26, 2024 7:40 am
BREAKING: Ronna McDaniel Officially Announces Her Resignation From the RNC
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/02/26/breaking-ronna-mcdaniel-officially-resigns-from-the-rnc-n2170573
About time!
Her part in the play has ended for now. I am sure she’ll return in another act. Probably to run in the vacancy Mittens is making.
As the RNC begs for donations, Rotten Ronna’s golden parachute likely hidden.
She deserves a lead parachute…