DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20240905

Cover image: Sebago Lake State Park, Maine

Badlands News Brief – September 3, 2024

Warren Buffet Dumps More Bank of America Stocks Indicating Possible Financial Meltdown

The Great Realignment

With RFK Jr. still on campaign trail, voters revisit Democrats’ COVID restrictions and censorship

Free speech on 2024 ballot because entrenched disinformation policing infrastructure, analyst says

Cable TV’s collapse deepens: ‘It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no longer any floor’

It still sucks. We can’t get the SEC network because our provider is in a price war with Disney. My dad will be lost without Mizzou football.

The Werewolf Game – Creation Myth Clues

Badlands News Brief – September 4, 2024

Will Election-Riggers Wag the Dog Again?

Kamala Harris new campaign hire attacks America as a ‘cult,’ ‘bloodthirsty imperial beast’

Another Huge Mall Retailer Closing 150 Locations

Now, Macy’s. I wrote about this on one of my personal blogs in the last week. I think the issue is oversaturation, to be honest. During the golden age of the mall, they sprang up all over. There just aren’t enough shoppers to make them all profitable.

Robert Kennedy Junior’s Greatest Red Pill Moments

The Deep State Admit They No Longer Control Public Opinion!

The Deep State’s Next Contingency

U.S. Steel shares plunge on report White House preparing to block Nippon Steel takeover

We need our own steel. End of sentence. It really is a national security issue.

TWEETS!

Psst: It’s “Walzes.” Any number of nuns are rolling in their graves.

The guy was fair in his assessment. Watch the whole thing rather than take internet armchair pundits at their opinion.

Yep. There was a home here for kids who didn’t get enough sunlight when the coal dust smothered the city.

MEMES and FUN STUFF

At least one of those guys is dead.

https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1831462242597978236

____________________________________

And now for the business portion.

Please review our HOST and site owner’s Guidelines for posting and discussion for this site. Wolf is kind enough to put up with *most* of us and our antics after thorough vetting. Violators of the baiting and deliberately attempting to divide the group rules WILL face consequences.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Company manners are appreciated. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog out discussions best saved for a wrestling mat. If, for some reason, this site is not available, head over to the UTree and visit the post at the top of the list or the closest rescue thread.

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

THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF US HERE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND PREJUDICES, ETC., SO LONG AS THEY CAUSE NO PHYSICAL HARM TO OTHERS OR DOXX OUR FELLOW TREE DWELLERS.

All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

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

  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

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

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

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

____________________________________________________

1 Corinthians 3:18-23

18Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 21So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours, 22whether Paul or Apol’los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours; 23and you are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

Psalms 24:1-6

1The earth is the LORD’s and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein; 2for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers. 3Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? 4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully. 5He will receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation. 6Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. [Selah]

Luke 5:1-11

1While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennes’aret. 2And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 4And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, 7they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” 9For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; 10and so also were James and John, sons of Zeb’edee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men.” 11And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

_____________________________________________________

SATIRE

WEEKEND STARTER

Forbidden Sour

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce bourbon
  • 1 ounce Pama pomegranate liqueur
  • 1 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
  • 1/2 ounce simple syrup
  • Garnish: orange wheel
  • Garnish: cherry

Steps

  1. Add the bourbon, pomegranate liqueur, lemon juice and simple syrup into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
  2. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
  3. Garnish with an orange wheel and a cherry.

Have a good one y’all.