What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
January 6 Tapes?
Where are the tapes? Anyone, Anyone? Bueller? Johnson??
Paging Speaker Johnson…this is your conscience calling you out on broken promises.
Evading Reality
Many things the Left believes are simply not true. Right now the focus is on the size and scope of our government, and the many many billions of dollars the government has been spending on no-one-knew-what. None of that money is going to a key role of government. Which, after all, has the sole purpose of protecting rights.
And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss this as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.
As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.
And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.
So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things, well here we go for another week of WINNING against the Deep State.
I confess that the novelty has not worn off.
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Yes, we won this time around. Not only did we win, we got to KEEP that win instead of having it stolen from us.
But no one should imagine that that’s the end of electoral fraud. Much work needs to be done to ensure it doesn’t just happen again next time around. And incidentally to rescue those states currently in the grips of self-perpetuating fraud, where the people who stole the last election, make sure it’s easier to steal the next one.
This issue, though it’s not front-and-center right now, is not going away, and if we ignore it, we’ll pay the price. See the article above about the consequences of evading reality.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Spot Prices.
Kitco Ask. Last week:
Gold $3,329.00
Silver $32.65
Platinum $976.00
Palladium $984.00
Rhodium $5,750.00
FRNSI* 160.040+
Gold:Silver 101.960+
This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.
Gold $3,320.30
Silver $33.17
Platinum $982.00
Palladium $970.00
Rhodium $5,825.00
FRNSI* 159.620-
Gold:Silver 100.099+
Gold went on QUITE a ride this week!. It came within a loud shout of $3500 but then plummeted, dropping all the way into the 3200s, and ended up almost where it began. Silver didn’t drop as hard, and Gold:Silver dropped below 100, but again it seems almost as if silver really wants to be right there at 1/100th of an ounce of gold.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
Carbon Dating
Carbon dating is when you date identical twins, one of whom is a carbon copy of the other. Generally available only to people as cool as the Fonz (who IIRC dated triplets at one point). Alternatively it is defined as dating having reached the point where a diamond is involved, possibly because uranium-lead dating or potassium-argon dating got out of hand.
OK, more seriously…it involves the isotope 14C or carbon-14 or C-14, depending on who’s writing the stuff you’re reading and how lazy they are. I’m lazy enough not to bother with the first, most technically correct, notation.
Carbon dating is generally not relevant to geologists, but is very relevant to archaeologists, who dig up human remains and/or human artifacts. Why? Timescale. The half life of carbon-14 is 5700 years (give or take 30 years). This makes it worthless for geological time; they generally don’t want to push it past 50,000 years. But it’s eminently suitable for modern humans and gets us well back into the prior ice age which ended roughly 12,000 years ago.
Even though this is supposed to be a geology series, I decided to cover carbon dating anyway because it has a number of features that make it a contrast to the other methods used. And also hopefully to immunize my readers against the next earnest-sounding ignoramus who complains about carbon-dating the age of the Earth.
Carbon, element 6, has two stable isotopes, carbon-12 (6 protons, six neutrons), and carbon-13 (6 protons, 7 neutrons). And then there is carbon-14, with six protons and eight neutrons. As noted above, it’s unstable with a half life of 5700 years (give or take 30 years). It undergoes regular ol’ beta decay and turns into an atom of nitrogen-14, which is quite stable.
Carbon dating is sometimes conflated with radiometric dating in general, especially by the general public. They talk about dating rocks, or determining the age of the Earth, with carbon dating, oftentimes with a sneer because they don’t believe the result. Ironically, they’d be right to do so if we actually tried to use carbon dating for these purposes. (It’s much more hilarious when a professional young earth creationist makes this particular blunder.) Carbon dating is radiometric dating, but not all radiometric dating is carbon dating.
Carbon-14 is not used to date rocks, it’s used to determine when something organic died. Living things ingest carbon-14 with their carbon dioxide, food, you-name it, when they die, they no longer bring carbon-14 in and the radiometric clock starts ticking.
For a number of reasons, carbon dating is the oddball method of all the ones I’ve discussed, because it does not depend on a primordial isotope. Uranium-235 and -238, thorium-232, rubidium-87, potassium-40 are all primordial isotopes, meaning what we see out there today was “with us” when the Earth formed.
Obviously this won’t be true for carbon-14; the Earth is way too old for that. So carbon-14 must be getting created today.
(Indeed, the mere fact that no short lived isotopes are around any more except in cases where we can demonstrate they are being created now, is evidence that the Earth is quite old. The shortest lived primordial (non-renewed) radioisotope is U-235 with its 704 million year half life. In general after about 40 half lives the radioisotope is effectively gone; roughly one atom in a trillion is still around. The next longest half life of any radioisotope after U-235 is samarium-146 at 92 million years. [That’s quite a gap! It’s surprising nothing other than U-235 has half lives in the hundreds of millions of years.] And sure enough 40 half lives of that is 3,680 million years…so it would be essentially gone after that amount of time. And guess what. It is in fact all gone [actually traces should still be around, we haven’t detected them yet], as one would expect if and only if the Earth is old.)
Most carbon-14 is generated by cosmic rays plowing through our upper atmosphere. This creates free neutrons, some of which will glom onto nitrogen-14 atoms, and kick out one of the protons; this replacement of a proton with a neutron is as if the C-14 to N-14 beta decay is run in reverse. This apparently happens (depending on who is doing the calculation) 16,400 or 18,800 times per second per square meter of the Earth’s surface, all at altitudes between 9 and 14 km. (As you can imagine this is tough to measure under those circumstances; hence the approximate calculations that do match what we observe later on in the process.)
The nitrogen (N2) molecule becomes a CN radical and eventually the C-14 atom ends up in carbon dioxide, where it can be sucked in by plants. Once incorporated in the plant tissue it can make its way through the entire food chain as some animal eats the plant, some other animal eats the first animal, and so on. Every living thing is constantly pulling carbon-14 into its system, replacing any that happens to decay while it’s living. When it dies, this process ends and decaying C-14 is no longer replaced. We now have something we can radiometrically date, just as we can date rocks once they solidify.
In this particular case they take their sample and count carbon-12, carbon-13, and carbon-14 atoms, and compare the ratios to what we see in atmospheric CO2 today. After doing the same sorts of calculations I’ve highlighted in previous posts, they get a date which is reported as “Before Present.” That has become a bit of a misnomer, now, because “Present” was 1950, and 75 years have since elapsed.
And therein lies the need for an asterisk. As it turns out the C-14 to C-12 ratio in our atmosphere is not constant. Not only is it not constant over time, it’s not constant over location either. Even today we can measure it’s lower near cities than out in the middle of nowhere; that’s due to the extra CO2 emissions near cities. Fossil fuels have essentially no C-14 in them, so when they burn they add purely to the amounts of C-12 and C-13, which pushes the ratio down. Time variation can be caused by anything from solar flares, other variations in cosmic ray flux, and even nuclear tests which tend to dump large numbers of neutrons, giving a big boost to C-14 production.
What effect does this have on carbon dating? Let me illustrate with an example, a made-up one. Let’s say that (for whatever reason) 43,000 years ago the C-14:C-12 ratio in the atmosphere was twice as high as it is today. At that time a Neanderthal grabs a piece of deadfall and takes it to his cave to build a fire, but for whatever reason it doesn’t end up being burned.
Today, an archaeologist finds that piece of unburned wood right next to a bunch of cave paintings, and decides he wants to know how old that Neanderthal dwelling is. So he sends it off to the lab to get it dated. What he doesn’t know is that when the tree grew, the C-14:C-12 ratio in the atmosphere was twice as high as it is today. 43,000 years is about 7 1/2 half lives of C-14; after each half life has elapsed, the C-14 count is still twice as high at that age as it would have been if the wood had started with today’s amount of C-14 in it.
So as far as the lab can tell, 6 1/2, not 7 1/2, half lives have elapsed since the sample was formed (because they don’t know the sample started out a half-life “behind”), so they send back: 37,300 (43,000 – 5,700) years old.
That’s quite a difference!
Scientists realized this was a potential issue at least as far back as 1955–in fact the first to point it out was Willard Lilly, who invented radio carbon dating! And it became an absolute certainty when samples of known ages started coming back with variant ages. So they started working on ways to calibrate carbon dating.
The unadjusted age number is now called radiocarbon years. That’s the “flag” to warn the reader that the date is not calibrated. In our example, the firewood came back as being 37,300 radiocarbon years old, even though we (with our god’s eye view) know it’s really 43,000 years old.
What is needed is a way to look up a figure given in radiocarbon years, and read off the corrected age. In our example, the archaeologist (or perhaps the lab that did the work) would look up in the right table (it turns out we need different tables for marine and land, and northern and southern hemisphere) “37,300” radiocarbon years and read off “43,000” calendar years.
So how do we make such a table? By radiocarbon-dating samples of known age, and seeing what the results return.
Of course, these are scientists. Why would they use a table when they can make a graph? Here’s an actual graph.
In actual fact, I chose that 43,000 number for the example fairly carefully. If you look up 43,000 on the horizontal axis (the true, calendar ages) and read up you hit one of the spots where the blue crooked line is furthest from the diagonal line where the calendar age would equal the radiocarbon age [no correction needed]. It’s almost, but not quite, off by a half life. So my example wasn’t all that exaggerated.
A graph is also handy because of another potential problem. If you look really closely where the squiggly line crosses 10,000 cal years…that bit of the line looks flat. What that means a bunch of numbers close to 10,000 cal years all have the same radiocarbon age. In fact looking at about 14,000 cal years, there’s almost a thousand year long stretch with nearly the same radiocarbon age.
So because of the variation, sometimes the age will come back ambiguous.
This is actually much more of a problem for recent times.
Consider the fact that these numbers always come out with a margin of error, e.g., +/- 80 radiocarbon years.
Here’s the calibration curve for things that date 1000-1400 radiocarbon years.
Looking over at the left, sample one returned (eyeballing it), a range of 1360-1380 radiocarbon years (blue lines). Reading across, we find a place where the calibration curve is steep, so we end up with a very narrow, 10 year calendar range, 1290-1300 years BP, which is to say 650-660 CE. Steep is good!
It’s shallow that can be a bit of a disaster. Look at sample two, 1260 to 1280 radiocarbon years (red lines), just one century newer in radiocarbon terms than sample 1.
But here the curve zigzags across our range! There are therefore three distinct age ranges that our sample could actually date from, roughly 1185-1190 years BP, 1205-1215 years BP, and 1230-1260 years BP. A 55 year spread, with gaps in it.
The third sample is maybe better, maybe worse depending on how you look at it. No gaps but an even bigger spread. Radiocarbon age is 1180-1205 BP, but because here the curve is very shallow, basically horizontal with ups and downs, the calendar age is is 1075-1175 years BP–a full century of uncertainty.
And even this method (which is called the “intercept” method is now out of date, there are much more complex probabilistic methods that require computing power, which we now have readily available. Here’s Wikipedia on the subject of radiocarbon calibration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_calibration
Ambiguity can be combated by working on ways to have the lab be more accurate but note that in case 2 even if we had the radiocarbon age to an exact number of years, we’d still have three answers.
OK, I showed curves, but how did we come up with those curves?
As it happens we have plenty of other ways to date some artifacts that can also be radiocarbon dated, enough that we can fill in a lot of the table (or plot points on the graph). This of course is very tedious work and whoever does it won’t get a Nobel prize, but they are unsung heroes of archaeology. It is thanks to them that we can have great confidence in our data, in most cases (and know when we shouldn’t, as in the case of the poor guys who had samples 2 and 3 in the graph above).
What are some of those ways of determining absolute ages? Actually the first attempts to do this were from Egyptology. Because ancient Egyptian records sometimes reference astronomical events happening during such-and-such reign, we know when that reign happened–because we can calculate when the astronomical event happened (good ol’ astrodynamics…). If we have papyrus from that time, we can see how old it is in radiocarbon years. This has since been extended to other civilizations.
But the most famous means used (though by no means the only one) is a product of nature: dendrochronology, which is, in essence, counting and matching up tree rings. As trees grow they leave annual rings in the wood grain. (They’re rings going across the log, otherwise, running the length of the log, they have the sort of “woodgrain” pattern you see in lumber of any kind.) In fact, this pattern will tend to have thicker and thinner rings depending on whether the tree got a lot of water or less water that particular season; more growth equals a thicker ring. Different trees from the same region will show the same pattern of thick and thin rings for the same years. And it’s even possible to match up the pattern in old pieces of wood to the corresponding years in either a) newer pieces of wood or b) trees growing today. We’ve managed to construct at least one sequence that goes back 13,900 actual years BP (i.e., 13,975 years before today).
The oldest tree-ring series are known as floating since, while their constituent rings can be counted to create a relative internal chronology, they cannot be dendro-matched with the main Holocene absolute chronology. However, 14C analyses performed at high resolution on overlapped absolute and floating tree-rings series enable one to link them almost absolutely and hence to extend the calibration on annual tree rings until ≈13 900 cal yr BP.
Bard, Edouard, et. al, 9 October 2023 as quoted in Wikipedia. (Philosophical Transactions A. 381 (2261). Bibcode:2023RSPTA.38120206B. doi:10.1098/rsta.2022.0206. PMC 10586540. PMID 37807686)
In this case we can simply date the wood taking samples from (say) every tenth or hundredth ring. We know the actual age from simple counting of the rings; we can fill in the entries of the calibration table based on the uncalibrated results the lab returns to us. We can supplement this from atmospheric gases trapped in ice cores (which also have annual layers) and organic debris in varves (layers of sediment).
And this is why I left carbon dating for last. The other sorts of dating don’t need calibration, not because ratios were constant but because we have ways of accounting for variation, built into the method. With radio carbon dating we don’t have that luxury, at least not purely by analyzing the sample, so we have to calibrate. Luckily at the short (by geological standards) timescales radio carbon dating covers we have other means of correcting what we get.
As I said before, carbon dating won’t help geologists date things in the geologic column (at least not before the very topmost thin layer), but I felt I had to cover it because it gets confused with the other forms of radiometric dating. It also has the additional complication of needing calibration; someone might get the impression from this that the other methods have the very same issue. They don’t.
(And of course if you run into someone complaining about “carbon dating” dinosaur fossils, he literally doesn’t know what he’s talking about; he’s hopefully misremembering something he heard from someone else, or [less hopefully] the someone else he’s remembering is himself clueless…or a charlatan. The good news is most of the well-funded young-Earth creationist organizations today do know better than to make this particular blunder.)
One last point to make: There are Young Earth Creationist talking points about finding radiocarbon in diamonds (up to billions of years old) or in carbon in fossils of dinosaurs (66-235 Mya). If these held up of course that would be serious trouble for old earth viewpoints, but the problem here is that there’s every sign that they’re measuring contamination. Samples are sent to multiple labs all around the world, and the reported ages are a) not far below the upper limit of C-14 dating and b) wildly different from each other, by at least a half life. Whereas what we see with properly collected samples is consistent ages. (More about this in the second video below at about 13:30.)
Bonus Videos
Here is a video by Aron Ra (as far as I can tell that’s his legal name), talking to an actual scientist (Dr. Jonathan Baker) while said scientist runs a rock sample in the lab, measuring uranium and thorium isotopes–he’s actually using a method different from any I covered, one suitable for ages less than a million years. Aron Ra is famous in atheist circles for combating creationism (all types not just Young Earth) so he does kid the scientist about his data popping out with 6000 years. Between the two of them they make the point that there are literally hundreds of studies that return consistent results.
There are some fundamental differences between this method and other methods, having to do with the fact that the daughter isotope is even more radioactive than the parent (and the parent is water soluble while the daughter is not, so it’s used for dating stalactites), but I am sure you don’t want another Saturday open devoted to that topic, so I’ll punt you over to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium%E2%80%93thorium_dating
A more general video by the same two people. Aron Ra got hit by a troll who threw a bunch of AIG talking points; he has Dr. Baker respond, and the responses are educational (not simply anti-YEC polemics). A lot of info on carbon dating here starting about 13:30 in.
Quotable line: “They do seem fascinated with carbon dating, it’s like they’re not even aware that there’s like well over a dozen, maybe a dozen and a half other radioisotopes that they would be using for dinosaurs, that they don’t use carbon dating for dinosaurs, and why they don’t. I don’t know why they insist on doing that.” Hence this “intruder” topic into a geology series.
Another line: the troll asks “Do you know that forest fires, atomic activity, volcanic eruptions, factories that produce carbon, solar flares, carbon reservoirs, contribute to the inconsistent decay rate and contamination that results to the inaccuracies in carbon dating?” and Dr. Baker responds…”uh, yes, I did know that.” But we know how to take these things into account and can often cross-check with other methods of dating (which is what he was doing in the first video).
And from Dr. Baker’s channel (Age of Rocks):
Ted Talk by a paleontologist about hunting for dinosaurs, he talks a lot about geology here (interestingly that diagram behind him in the thumbnail also appears in the prior video; I guess it’s a pretty popular graphic). Please excuse the “sixth mass extinction” stuff at the very end. (Well, at least he didn’t say “global warming.”)
We could get spoiled with repeated on-time deliveries of posts.
Keep it up, WordPiss.
I’m sure that Steve kicked the kicker-outer aside and kicked the post out himself.
Actually this time I did NOT.
I went to do so about 5 minutes after and it was already out.
Hmmmm…..
Who stole the blog and left this one in its place?
It’s still craptastically buggy in all the other ways we’ve grown accustomed to.
AMEN!
Keep ’em coming, Tom! You might also want to look at a few governors.
Then proceed to the mayor’s within said governors state.
“I have said many times within the past few months, that people can choose to support illegal immigration and not assist ICE in removing criminal illegal aliens from our communities,”
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So if you are employed in any capacity of law enforcement or government, you don’t have any duty and obligation to follow the law?
You can pick and choose which laws to enforce, and which laws to ignore?
And prison staff have no obligation to protect inmates from being assaulted or murdered?
And cops have no duty to protect & serve?
Nice country you have there.
It would be a shame if it turned into what it has become.
Police Have No Duty to Protect You, Federal Court Affirms Yet Again | MISES.Org
Did you miss the part about “don’t cross that line”?
I think he is saying – you can make that choice…but you will pay with serious consequences.
“Did you miss the part about “don’t cross that line”?”
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No, I saw it, here is more of the quote:
………………………..
“people can choose to support illegal immigration and not assist ICE in removing criminal illegal aliens from our communities, BUT DON’T CROSS THAT LINE.
If you actively impede our enforcement efforts…”
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So it sounds like he’s saying law enforcement doesn’t have to assist fellow law enforcement, like they can just choose to not help.
Crossing the line to actively impeding is a whole different thing, but why are they allowed to “choose to support illegal immigration” — which is illegal, unlawful, breaking the law, in the first place?
They can ‘choose to support illegal immigration’ in their off duty hours (regardless of how wrong that is and how it conflicts with their sworn duty, if they actually even have any sworn duties anymore), but they don’t have any right to support illegal immigration while they are on duty and being paid by taxpayers to enforce the law.
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“and not assist ICE in removing criminal illegal aliens from our communities” — which is dereliction of duty, failure to enforce the law, potentially endangering fellow law enforcement officers, etc.
That’s like calling for back up, and a fellow cop says “Nah, I don’t think I’m going to respond to that call”.
That’s insane.
When you’re on the job, you have to do the job, or you better find some other job.
Thank you for another very informative article, Steve.
So, people without a conscience are collecting psychological data on us too?
https://nitter.poast.org/DefiyantlyFree/status/1915914267078885396
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
But Trump cannot stop here if he wants to destroy the Springboard’s influence permanently.
Here’s what else Trump must do:
Permanently ban the use of ESG metrics tied to federal grants.
If federal dollars can’t be tied to “social cohesion,” “equity,” or “emotional resilience” targets, the incentive to manipulate human behavior collapses.
Withdraw U.S. participation from UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Springboard is built directly on SDG targets. Cut the tie — cut the power.
Abolish and defund federal agencies and task forces that monitor “well-being indicators.”
If a federal agency is tracking emotional resilience, trust in government, or “community engagement,” it should be shut down immediately.
Pass legislation making it illegal for federal agencies to collect psychological, emotional, or political attitude data without explicit individual consent.
No more secret databases on Americans’ thoughts.
Launch full investigations into the NGOs, universities, and foundations that partnered with federal agencies to push the Springboard model.
Subpoena their records. Expose their funders. Make collusion with globalists painful and public.
Apr 25, 2025 · 11:42 PM UTC
Amen. Make it so.
ADD:
Launch full investigations into the NGOs, universities, and foundations that partnered with CHINA! You know like GOOGLE/Zuckerbucks
October 2019 — GOOGLE PARTNERS WITH CHINA ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECT: THINK PLANETARY SURVEILLANCE
National Security Concerns Threaten Undersea Data Link Backed by Google, Facebook… – WSJ
[I really hate how Wordpiss completely ignores [Enter] space down and causes runon words!
Happy 55th Birthday to our lovely First Lady!
Charlotte99
April 26, 2025 12:52 am
Following the removal of most of U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s senior advisors recently, after several of them were accused of leaking information to the media; the Pentagon yesterday named a number of individuals who will now serve as senior advisors to the Secretary of Defense.
These include Sean Parnell, who is already serving as Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman; Justin Fulcher, a former employee of DOGE who was working at the Pentagon; Patrick Weaver, previously a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense; and finally Ricky Buria, a Marine Corps veteran who has became very close with Hegseth since the removal of Caldwell, Carroll and Selnick, previously working under Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
https://nitter.poast.org/sentdefender/status/1915837071555715558#m
Dutchman
April 26, 2025 1:14 am
Reply to Charlotte99
And the Defence Advisory Council, or whatever it was, full of former Bushies and Obammies, has been disbanded.
Some saying they were the ones that actually set up the leak stories, Susan Rice was one of them…
Funny, even with the confirmation battle, which SHOULD have been a “heads up” I really didn’t expect Hagseth to be the major attack vector: I thought Bobby Jr., or Tulsi…
DoD controls waaay more government $$.
And that there is your answer.
Fundamentals.
More wars. More weapons. More rebuilding. It’s a money making cycle.
And ‘misplaces’ TRILLIONS!
The Pentagon has been the exclusive purview of the war pigs for a very long time. And then with Obama, it became pervert central, too.
Pete Hegseth is a direct threat to the whole culture of war and perversion. And the control of more money than I can visualize.
To slightly misquote someone, “I don’t know I can visualize a LOT.”
I like the “how many football fields” analogies.
“Who’s scruffy?” 😉
Since 1913, the USA has been the Piggy Bank and the Cannon Fodder of the Central Bankers.
In that Catherine Austin Fitts was correct.
She also says BLACK PROJECTS STARTED AT THE END OF WWII. That dovetails with what Colonel Towner said about NATO, CIA and the spread of Nazi Werewolf units to many countries. These units were then used to overthrow the elected governments of 90 countries and install puppets friendly/controlled by the ‘International Syndicate‘ aka Cabal aka Transnational Corporations controlled by the financiers.
Once the puppets are installed CIA trained ‘Security Forces’ are used to subdue and possible revolts. They are trained in various methods of terrorism. Even Wiki mentioned the units placed in the overthrown countries to enforce the will of the ‘International Syndicate‘
Office of Public Safety – Wiki
The USA is NOT immune:
REMEMBER Gunderson documents the false flags the US government has used to control us for decades. He was poisoned and died as a result.
See: KMAG 20250115 Open Thread / False Flags, Pedos & Satanists
For US police involvement See: KMAG 20250409 OPEN TOPIC, + OPERATION GLADIO & POLICE
nwtex
April 26, 2025 1:06 am
What took him so long! 😉
Jake Hoffman
@JakeHoffmanAZ
🚨 BREAKING ARIZONA SCANDAL 🚨
One of @KatieHobbs
state employees at the AZ Dept. of Agriculture was arrested earlier this month for alleged HUMAN SMUGGLING of ILLEGAL ALIENS
MY STATEMENT:
“It’s no wonder Hobbs vetoes every piece of meaningful border security legislation when on her watch her own state employee is being arrested and prosecuted for the human smuggling of illegal aliens.
From cronyism to nepotism and pay-to-play to human smuggling, Katie Hobbs’ tenure as governor is proving to be one of the darkest periods in state history.
There are no words to adequately describe the obscene mismanagement occurring within @GovernorHobbs
’ state government.
As for Brierly, Hobbs’ nominee to lead the Department of Agriculture, the Nominations Committee and Senate Republicans had serious doubts about him already, this profound lack of management certainly won’t strengthen his case before the full senate.”
sunnydaze
April 26, 2025 2:03 am
And hopefully a place that is not defiled by NATO-CIA Werewolf Unit Training.😡
…
Alpha mentions a major bicycling event near a national park where a lot of people go missing. The colonel said to google Missing and National Park. There are like 1,200 people who have just disappeared. (1:23:00)
At 1:28:24 chat comment – HelpMeRhonda
FROM: KMAG 20250122 Open Thread & Operation Gladio
I forgot to mention that these werewolf units use real people to practice their torture skills on. This is why certain areas have people just ‘disappear’ never to be seen again alive or dead.
vile!
Yes it is.
So far I have seen nothing in what Colonel Towner talks about to make me think she is ‘blowing smoke’ Everything I have heard from her dovetails with other information I have come across. On top of that she references authors who have done the in depth research.
It is why I bring her information here to the QTree so often.
From my point of view, ‘Operation Gladio’, EXPLAINS everything else very nicely.
^^This^^
Who’s the one pulling his strings?
dunno. if i had to guess? whoever grabbed the skeleton bones in his closet. he’s holding them over robert’s head and making him dance.
if that client list is going to see the light the day, they certainly do not want corroborating witnesses around. this way they can say NO PROOF–could be all made up for all we know. cast doubt.
I think most of it is manufactured. In order to cover for a very few who might be guilty or embarrassed.
I’ll remind everyone that nobody has seen ANY corroborating evidence. Either there is none or this is the most leak-proof investigation ever.
In other words this could be the best bit of manufactured-for-our-benefit rabbit hole ever.
I found the initial link in the comments OT dealing with this story…
https://nitter.poast.org/WallStreetApes/status/1915998794023596495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://nitter.poast.org/Sandfort_/status/1915999119094538401#m
https://nitter.poast.org/livefreeopinion/status/1916003470228000815#m
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1915998690097147904/vid/avc1/854×476/k3-_l_XcZPMcGKsg.mp4?tag=16
Too damn convenient. Arkancide.
Another comment said it could be a cover story as she’s gone into a witness protection thing, due to all the interest about epstein stuff about to be revealed.
Nice if true but doubt it.
THAT would be amazing.
Mixed bag.
Would really like to see the perverts be exposed and prosecuted. But…
The heartbreak and trauma on her family has me thinking, nope.
I agree with you.
Agreed. There was never a cogent explanation of that car accident, never any solid explanation for the video Virginia put out, and no good information to be found about her situation. I looked.
Don’t you find that intriguing, that you could find nothing?
Yes. I think there is a great possibility that she was murdered, and that the accident was an attempt. But, I guess a cigar could just be a cigar.
This GWP article shows how she had previously said she was not suicidal, in 2019.
Epstein Accuser Virginia Giuffre’s Chilling Warning Resurfaces After Reported “Suicide” — GOP Lawmakers Sound the Alarm
In December 2019, Giuffre made it crystal clear in a public post:
I find it puzzling that she didn’t reiterate this recently. She talked about her injuries and of being near death, but she said nothing about not being suicidal.
NebraskaFilly
April 26, 2025 at 8:31 am Edit
Re: Virginia Giuffres’ death – her family claims it was suicide:
Just The News: “One of Jeffrey Epstein’s most vocal and prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, died on Thursday by suicide at the age of 41, her family announced Friday. Giuffre’s death occurred in Australia, where she had been living with her husband and children since 2019, NBC News reported. Giuffre herself was American.
“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” her family said in a statement to NBC. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.
“Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors,” the statement continued. “In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”
Further details on her death were not immediately released, but it also comes after she survived a bus crash last month.
Giuffre has been credited by other Epstein accusers with inspiring them to speak out about their own experiences with the late-financier. Epstein died in prison in 2019, while awaiting trial on charges of sexually abusing dozens of girls.
Giuffre has also sued Prince Andrew, alleging she was sexually abused by him when she was a teenager. The British prince has denied the allegations.”
She declared she wasn’t suicidal in 2019, but did not say that recently, and now is said to have committed suicide. It might be instructive to know the means of her death.
agreed.
very true!
gosh, hubby and i were rewatching The Big Bang Theory and way back then, one of the characters was about to be deported because his job at the University was over. They asked what he had been doing instead of trying to find another job and he said “checking emails and messing up wikipedia entries”. that was about 15 yrs ago…
Charlotte99
April 26, 2025 7:24 am
BOOM. WIKIPEDIA JUST GOT SLAPPED WITH A FEDERAL WAKE-UP CALL.
The Department of Justice just dropped the hammer — the U.S. Attorney for D.C. is formally accusing the Wikimedia Foundation of violating its 501(c)(3) status by letting propagandists flood the platform with disinformation.
Translation? Wikipedia isn’t just biased — it’s likely BREAKING FEDERAL LAW.
Wikipedia’s tax-exempt status is based on being neutral and educational.
Instead, they’ve been running a weaponized disinformation machine, allowing bad actors to edit facts, erase truth, and rewrite history—all while pretending to be some innocent public good.
Accountability is coming. H/t @WikiBias2024
https://nitter.poast.org/JewsFightBack/status/1915896711798788374#m
Interesting 
More confirmation of clotting issues.
https://basedunderground.com/2025/04/26/eerie-white-clots-revealed-mrna-vaccines-spawning-global-prion-crisis-scientists-warn/
Remembered this, took a while to find it as couldn’t recall details..
“AstraZeneca’s cancer R&D chief Baselga passes away, as industry chiefs lead mourning””According to local reports from his native Spain, Baselga died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an incredibly rare and fatal condition causing brain damage that worsens rapidly over time.”
(article dated Mar 22, 2021)
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/life-science-industry-mourns-death-astrazeneca-s-cancer-r-d-chief-jose-baselga
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While looking for the above came across this about another scientist, hiding sample and putting co-workers at risk…
“An investigation has been opened into the death of a scientist who was studying a transmissible and deadly disease in Spain
Three institutions are trying to ascertain the origin of the infectious Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease samples discovered in the biochemist’s laboratory. The 45-year-old investigator died in 2022”
“A prestigious Spanish researcher of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease died last year after experiencing symptoms consistent with this deadly ailment, as EL PAÍS has learned from multiple sources at the three institutions involved. Three months ago, the University of Barcelona opened an internal investigation to ascertain the origin of thousands of unauthorized samples, some of them infectious, discovered in a freezer in its laboratory 4141, where the deceased biochemist worked.”
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-10-20/an-investigation-has-been-opened-into-the-death-of-a-scientist-who-was-studying-a-transmissible-and-deadly-disease-in-spain.html
EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE
Verse of the Day for Saturday, April 26, 2025
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“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
Romans 8:14 (KJV)
COMMENTARY FOR ROMANS 8
“The freedom of believers from condemnation. (1-9) Their privileges as being the children of God. (10-17) Their hopeful prospects under tribulations. (18-25) Their assistance from the Spirit in prayer. (26,27) Their interest in the love of God. (28-31) Their final triumph, through Christ. (32-39)
0-17 If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. He dwells in the heart by faith. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. The righteousness of Christ imputed, secures the soul, the better part, from death. From hence we see how much it is our duty to walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. If any habitually live according to corrupt lustings, they will certainly perish in their sins, whatever they profess. And what can a worldly life present, worthy for a moment to be put against this noble prize of our high calling? Let us then, by the Spirit, endeavour more and more to mortify the flesh. Regeneration by the Holy Spirit brings a new and Divine life to the soul, though in a feeble state. And the sons of God have the Spirit to work in them the disposition of children; they have not the spirit of bondage, which the Old Testament church was under, through the darkness of that dispensation. The Spirit of adoption was not then plentifully poured out. Also it refers to that spirit of bondage, under which many saints were at their conversion. Many speak peace to themselves, to whom God does not speak peace. But those who are sanctified, have God’s Spirit witnessing with their spirits, in and by his speaking peace to the soul. Though we may now seem to be losers for Christ, we shall not, we cannot, be losers by him in the end.”
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL
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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
AMEN!
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
THE SPIRIT OF GOD
We each have gifts given by God at birth
These gifts like virtues expound our worth
The fruits are like actions virtues produce
These presents the Spirit comes to induce
Prompted by the Spirit the gifts bear fruit
Without the Spirit the gifts are but moot
Gifts bear fruit with the aid of the Spirit
Devoid of the Spirit we cannot clear it
The Spirit lives inside of the believer
The presence of fruits Spirit achiever
Indwelling is proof of the Spirit within
Through Him with Him the work can begin
It has been said the gifts there are seven
With the nine fruits we are blessed by heaven
Through prayer and practice our gifts blossom
And the fruits that advance are quite awesome
Understanding Knowledge and Wisdom
Counsel Piety Fortitude system
The Fear of the Lord all give a good start
The Spirit inside us blesses the heart
The action derived from the work we do
The fruits that are seen will benefit you
Filled with Love Goodness Kindness and Peace
Then Joy Patience Gentleness Faith increase
With Perseverance we cannot go wrong
Aligned with the Spirit where we belong
What wondrous ability you can accrue
When the Spirit of God lives inside of you
D01: 07/21/2023
Thank You Duchess! 🙂
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1366333
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
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Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
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TAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known As Prince) went back to just being “Prince” in 2000 from what I can see.
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) didn’t fare quite as well, it had to settle for naming itself “North Macedonia” rather than just “Macedonia” in 2019
h/t Filly
UNRWA = United Nations Relief & Works Agency for Palestine
 
They should just declare UNRWA a foreign terrorist organization.
YUP! Along with a lot of other USAid funded NGOs.
Trailer for the documentary being made of the Final Experiment.
And OBTW the professional flerfs have already gone after it. One making the boldly stupid point that there were clouds in the documentary but none when the participants did their 24 hour sun timelapses. Of course that cloudy footage was shot the next day (you blithering idiots).
That looks interesting!
is wolf okay?
Week or two ago, Wolf posted April and May he’d have periods of being away. other times, discreet visits.
THANK YOU!
i must have missed that. I can be such a mother hen sometimes…LOL
Still shaking those tail feathers? 😂
whenever i get the chance!
I noticed you are a fan of big bangs.
At least in theory.
h/t Filly
Brit Hume
@brithume
This woman, a United States Senator with a degree from Stanford, must know what utter bosh she is spouting here. The judge is charged with helping an illegal immigrant evade arrest by sneaking him out of the courthouse where she serves. That doesn’t mean she’ll be convicted but it does mean the feds had a right to arrest her.
(in repsonse to this tweet…)
Tina Smith
@SenTinaSmith
Understand what this is: If Kash Patel and Donald Trump don’t like a judge, they think they can arrest them. This is stunning — we must stand up to this blatant power grab. Republicans: How is this not a red line for you?
Tina Smith just another dumb bunny Dumrat.
Plus, she lies.
The Fiancee notes that Country Roads go to West Virginia.
Grandmother’s house: Over the river and through the woods
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/it-begins-saturday-april-26-2025
Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Time for the Weekend Edition. And just like that, another breaking story consumed yesterday’s news cycle and required a special post to correct the media’s attempt to reframe the narrative. You’re going to love it: first of all, the arrests have started. The FBI perp-walked not just one, but two judges yesterday. And the progressive world is losing its ever-lovin’ mind. Bless their hearts. Here is the real story, which you’ll have trouble finding anywhere else.
Always a good read.
HEYDONMUSICPAGE “Latest Videos & Breaking News” 4.26.25
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more from Filly
how terrible to subject our soldiers to this garbage!!!
“….how terrible [would it be] to subject [Lockheed Martin’s CEO, Jim Taiclet] to our soldiers….”
Detention of U.S. Persons as Enemy Belligerents — everycrsreport.com
CRS = Congressional Research Service.
F-35 is a bad joke. On par with US Navy shipbuilding.
list of deportees SCOTUS has temporarily halted.
FTA
The Trump administration on Saturday made public the identities, photos, and criminal charges of several suspected members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), who are currently held at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas.
The release followed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier that day, which temporarily halted the administration’s efforts to deport these individuals using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Among the individuals listed:
– Henry Jose Romero-Gonzalez faces pending charges for three counts of assault,
crimes against a person, and unlawful possession of a weapon. Photos show him
with cash, a gun, and tattoos, including one taken in a sports car while wearing a reflective vest.
– Alessandro Benedikt Parades-Worwa is charged with aggravated assault with a
weapon and pointing a firearm at a person. Photos display various tattoos.
– Cristian Andres Andrade-Vargas faces charges related to larceny and dangerous
drugs. A tattoo above his left eyebrow is visible in the images released.
– Norge Yunaifer Rosales-Ceballos was convicted of criminal flight to avoid prosecution
and is charged with alien smuggling and resisting an officer. One photo highlights a
neck tattoo behind his right ear.
– Felix Josue Rendon-Garcia faces charges for possession of drugs and dangerous
substances. Images show a tattoo with a date below it.
– Darrin Moises Daza-Segura has been convicted of burglary and larceny. Photos show
tattoos on his knuckles spelling “VIDA.”
– Ronny Javier Rodriguez-Tovar has multiple convictions, including hit-and-run, battery,
possession of stolen property, DUI, and shoplifting. He also faces new charges for
battery, resisting an officer, and assault. A photo shows a device inscribed with
“T.D.A.” and “Venezuela.”
– Howard Emis Omana is facing charges for aggravated assault with a weapon.
Social media posts show him posing with a gun and making gang-related gestures.
– Angel Ignacio Cardenas-Bravo is charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement
officer, child neglect with great bodily harm, resisting an officer with violence, domestic
violence battery, and multiple weapons-related offenses.
https://wokespy.com/trump-admin-releases-details-on-some-gang-members-scotus-wants-kept-in-the-u-s/
Totally agree with his article.
In the last paragraph SD has his own conspiracy theory…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/26/the-awakening-look-carefully-at-this-picture/
Sundance says:
And that certainly agrees with the information I have brought to the QTree about the Nazi-CIA connections and Colonel Towner’s revelations about Operation Gladio.
Check out the other wise ass
Looks like PDJT told little Macron that he’s not invited to this conservation.
whoa…from tcth
rhcrest
April 26, 2025 1:42 pm
So what are you saying Sundance? I don’t understand. Is Trump giving control to the CIA and our voting means nothing? That’s what this sounds like to me. I’m so exhausted from these mysterious CIA people. WHY CAN’T PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST FIRE THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM!!!!! I am so sick of this entire situation! Again I ask, are these CIA people supernaturanl immortal people who cannot be fired because they are not human or are they mere mortals like the rest of us? It feels to me like they are superhuman based on your posts. For the love of God, please can these people be FIRED ONCE AN FOR ALL!!!!
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April 26, 2025 2:46 pm
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You are likely not astute enough to participate in this website.
Depart with warmest regards.
We have a better tree.
MUCH BETTER!
Open discussion allows us to grow intellectually.
That allows every person to grow instead of their having to look to one person who wants them to think he knows much more than he is revealing or can reveal.
What I love about this site, is the variety of people who have such different backgrounds. It brings a richness to the table.
Yes! I learn from everyone here.
My HS English teacher told me that I could always be useful as a bad example. Gawdhepme – I hated that man back then. Now I’m a bit more mellow.
What a terrible thing to tell a student!
I had an accounting professor in college tell me that I wasn’t meant to be a CPA.
Which, to be fair, was possibly accurate — I wasn’t meant to be a 1970s CPA….but the profession would change in the 1980s.
Amen!
agreed!
that post has at least one other comment (from SD) in the same vein. and i have only looked at one page of comments. smh
Yeah, that genius, who can’t even see shadows in a photo.
Well, at least they didn’t get the Q treatment.
A crowbar to the back of the head. 😠
This X 1,000,000
Alpha Wolf pack Rules!
Look who’s talking.
“…. WHY CAN’T PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST FIRE THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM!!!!! …”
MHO is because he FIRST has to defang the CIA/NATO/Cabal.
IF a lot of these Terrorist gangs are, as Colonel Towner has indicated, actually CIA trained assets, that would explain a lot of the current fight over deporting these SOBs.
I think POTUS Trump and his team are deactivating a major ‘bomb’ [the CIA Werewolf units] with the least amount of danger to US civilians.
Do not forget that Biden admin flew these ‘military aged men’ into every corner of the USA. Essentially the USA is now now ‘Occupied’ by a foreign ‘Army’ of CIA controlled terrorists.
Yup – again – the border is being militarized not just to keep invaders out. It is to also capture enemy combatants trying to escape.
Had not thought of that. It certainly makes sense!
Thanks for that nugget of info.😉
Shhh! Don’t tip off the enemy! 😎
How time wise did the biden uptick of illegal border crossing coincide with the start of the SMO.
Quick search indicates, SMO started February 24, 2022. (Ideally accurate.)
Illegal invading US started January 20,2021.
Thanks, I had the impression that it got worse later on, like throngs of (supposedly) walking overland turning into blatant plane loads being delivered.
Actually, I think your post above IS Spot on.
My post was simply when the two started.
IIRC. Illegal invasion of the US, under Maggot and Cue Ball, got increasingly worse, encouraged over the years.
Plane loads, apps encouraging illegals, massive NGO funding, USAID abuses.
“Do not forget that Biden admin flew these ‘military aged men’ into every corner of the USA. Essentially the USA is now now ‘Occupied’ by a foreign ‘Army’ of CIA controlled terrorists.”
This appears to be the deeply disturbing truth 😡
Ohmygosh, is that real⁉️⁉️⁉️
When I saw Steve’s reference to a guy being told to leave SD’s site, I thought he was referring to something in the past.
This confirms everything I have thought and observed, in spades. People still have to walk on eggshells and do obeisance over there. And that guy wasn’t even being critical, just asking questions and expressing frustration with the C_A. Unbelievable.
Same thing happened to me at KD’s site – asked a question and BOOM!
Wow. I guess it is real AND SumDunce deleted it. Can’t find it. Maybe I missed it.
Hmm. Maybe he has some self awareness after all.
still there..along with this one
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Sundance (
April 26, 2025 2:45 pm
Reply to Ted
This is not a website for you.
The clarity is in the article; you just don’t want to accept it.
page 3 of his “awakening” thread
Maybe there’s going to be another great purge.
SD in a bad mood today. Push back is unacceptable in SD world.
If asking him for further explanations is “push back” that says something about HIM. And that something is not good.
Fits SD reputation.
It makes it appear that his goal is not to communicate and/or have a discussion. Then I wonder, what is his goal?
If he wants your opinion, he will give it to you.
I suppose one could call that “communication” (I’m telling you what to believe), but it’s not very productive communication. It’s certainly not a discussion.
It’s not a clarification, either. There appears to be no desire to do that for his readers.
Menstrual cycle?
😂
My bad. Surely is there. I clicked on the Report flag, on both SD posts, for fun.
YOU’RE MY NEW HERO! LOLOLOLOLOL
Then you’re next. 😂
Can’t post OT. Can click on “report”. Booted years ago.
I was quietly booted for a comment I made here that our comment count for a rally was larger than CTH’s, despite CTH having many more users.
This despite adhering to CTH’s speech code on CTH — including with regard to Q.
I considered it petty at the time and still do.
Did they tell you that was why, or is it just inference?
They didn’t tell me anything.
SD prefers the people in his silo to not talk to people in other silos.
How C_A of him.
Sundance is a moron sometimes. In the article, he claims the “setup” was to favor Zelensky, with his back to the light/sun. Except you can clearly see that Trump’s back is to the sun, from the shadows.
DUMB ass article, in my humble opinion.
i thought the sun was at the President’s back as well
From OT, to be followed by a couple questions or observations:
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The Awakening – Look Carefully at This Picture
April 26, 2025
SD: “From the outset of the Ukraine -vs- Russia conflict I have been saying this is “world war Reddit”. CTH awakens today to this photo, blasting across the geopolitical landscape.
I want you to look carefully at this picture; think about it and elevate yourself to understand exactly what this picture represents in the biggest framework of our ongoing discussion.
The image origin: “Photographs released by the Ukrainian presidency showed the two leaders huddled in close discussion without aides in the ornate surroundings of St. Peter’s Basilica.”
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This scene is purposefully staged.
This scene is staged by the control agents who control the Ukraine conflict, the intelligence community.
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended the funeral of Pope Francis to pay their respects on the international stage.
Let me be clear. The people around President Trump do not and did not align with this photo-op, it’s genuinely in poor taste and bad form given the nature of the background event, the funeral for Pope Francis. However, fearless President Trump knows exactly what this represents just as businessman Donald Trump knows how the seating is arranged in high stakes business negotiations; the sun at the back of the person wanting to be in the power position.
Again, we should stay elevated and see the bigger picture here because it is incredibly important.
When it comes from CNN, it’s coming from the PR firm of the State Dept., and who controls the State Dept, the CIA.
CNN: How the pope’s funeral format allowed for Trump-Zelensky talkThe meeting occurred just outside the Baptistry Chapel, which is inside St. Peter’s Basilica near its entrance, and the talk hadn’t been telegraphed in advance.
Ahead of the president’s brief visit to Rome, officials had downplayed the prospect he would meet with Zelensky or any other world leaders, pointing to the truncated time frame for the trip and its solemn purpose of memorializing the late pope.
Trump had originally selected Saudi Arabia for his first stop abroad of his new term and will visit there next month. But when Francis died those plans changed, and instead Trump made his first foreign stop in Europe, a continent he’s railed against frequently.
The seating chart and crush of fellow leaders made brief interactions possible, including with leaders Trump had seemingly been avoiding since taking office.
He engaged briefly with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, with whom he hadn’t spoken at all since returning to office amid trade and defense disputes with the European Union. [SOURCE]
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President Trump, a man of respectful honor, indeed would expect to engage in polite and quiet conversation with Zelenskyy, Macron, Starmer et al, at the funeral. Yes, he would quietly have a conversation in a private room with the principals to quickly discuss political affairs. That’s his style. That’s the way he operates, retaining focus and respect toward the purpose of the gathering, holding quick conversation in private and retaining emphasis on the purpose.
THIS IS NOT THAT.
This is a stage set for the optics of a geopolitical conflict that involves Ukraine and Russia, and this stage is set up by the same controlling agents who have been in control of the events since the outset. This stage is why CTH instinctively knew the conflict was World War Reddit.
What are we seeing?
The intelligence communities’ control western government. The government does not control the intelligence communities. This reality is the core of the great awakening that reconciles every facet of the conflict present and visible.
When things do not make sense; when things are unnatural and fraught with irreconcilable datapoints stemming from traditional perspectives that no longer align with what is visible; that’s because the intelligence apparatus is in control of it. Every example you can cite returns to this basic truth.
All of the western government systems, the “new democracy” as it is called, stem from a radically different construct. The intelligence services control the government; the government does not control the intelligence services.
The conflict in Ukraine exists because western intelligence services are controlling it. The reality is this “war” is not the Russian government -vs- the governments of various western nations in support of Ukraine. The true conflict is the western intelligence community vs the Russian government.
Vladimir Putin does not hate Americans. The Russian President hates the CIA.
When envoy Steve Witkoff is representing President Trump in his discussions with Vladimir Putin, Witkoff and Trump represent the government. However, the government is not the real control agent and Putin together with Trump/Witkoff know this.
Vladimir Putin and Donald J Trump are mutually aligned entities in a fight against western intelligence services. That’s the core understanding that must be at the forefront of any review or intellectually honest analysis of what is taking place.
The vulnerability within the position of the Western Intel Services, is that they must hide this reality. The IC must retain the illusion that government is in control of geopolitical events, because if that control mask is dropped everything changes. And I do mean EVERYTHING.
Everything that was irreconcilable suddenly starts to make sense when you accept that government is not in control, the government does not have the power. The intelligence services control government and the intel agencies are currently the source of geopolitical power.
The politicians are the illusion of representative democracy that must be retained.
That’s what this image should represent to everyone!
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….”Once you see the strings on the marionettes you can never return to that moment in the performance when you did not see them.”….
♦ If the United States President pulls all USA support away from Ukraine and instructs all elements of the USA government to withdraw support for the conflict, and yet the conflict continues with ongoing CIA operations, then what does that say about who really is in control?
Can you see the stakes at play for the CIA?
♦ When Marco Rubio says, repeatedly now, that “this is not our war” and “we didn’t start this war,” having previously asserted, “It’s been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted, stalemated conflict,” Rubio said. “And frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine, and Russia,” is the former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee being honest now, or is Secretary of State Rubio attempting to clean up the inconvenient truth he said originally?
Can you see the stakes for the CIA?
I digress…
There are corporations and financial systems that intersect with the politicians; and those politicians are controlled by the Intelligence Community.
That is the very essential baseline for The Great Awakening!!
[ps. If you really wanted to join me in the rabbit hole; and knowing how important this moment is to the control agents; meaning how much they needed to get back control after Trump threatened to walk away from the conflict; then please accept I am 50/50 on how Pope Francis died. Was it really a natural death or was it the result of the IC needing a geopolitical event -like a funeral- to bring all of the principal actors together.]
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SD: “This stage is why CTH instinctively knew the conflict was World War Reddit.”
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What does “World War Reddit” mean?
He uses the term regularly, but he never explains what that is supposed to mean.
I don’t know how it helps his cause to speak in coded terms without at least occasionally explaining what his coded terms mean.
This way he can look smarter than us.
As an illustration, you and I need to have a conversation about Jacobi constants as used in astrodynamics.
If you can’t keep up maybe you need to go elsewhere (as SomeDunce said to that one guy who Pat F quoted).
[I kid of course. And one difference is, I did not just make my example up.]
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I made it halfway through that and had to stop. How many times does he nèed to tell us the IC is in control of the government? SD seems to need reassurance of his opinions, or he must think we’re all dumber than a box of rocks.
My BIL gets on reddit just so he can argue with the left 🙄, yeah he’s a little weird, and not very informed about the conservative side of politics either.
I agree with Steve, SD has to prove he’s the smartest guy at the table. That in itself shows you alot.
What makes it worse is he has to fake it to show he’s the smartest person at the table.
I wouldn’t mind someone having to show he was the smartest person at the table if he actually was the smartest person at the table. But if one has to fake it, one isn’t.
Yea, you do know he’s the smartest person in room, right?
He banned most all of US!! So, There’s that, right?
Do you know what Reddit is? I only know that it’s an online site. I see references to it, always disparaging, on the patriots.win site. Here are some headlines of comments from a search:
“Do you know what Reddit is? I only know that it’s an online site.”
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Yes, I stumble across it all the time in ‘search results’ from search engine inquiries.
I have clicked on it to see what it is, and it appears to be a gigantic blog where everyone can start their own thread about anything.
Apparently it was / is as controlled and censored regarding conservative and/or covid info as FB, yootube, etc.
I used to call it the garbage pile of the internet. I had friends who were obsessed with timing their posts so they would trend instead of getting buried under the next 20 posts in that “subreddit” within the next five minutes.
When I have gone there I’ve found it frustrating to navigate as any reply to a reply ends up going to another page. Even “opening in new tab” is less than satisfactory. You have to jump around and load a zillion pages to follow the entire thread of a post, which means if I ever ask duck duck go something about linux, python, Jinja, saltstack, etc., and reddit pops up I only go there as a last resort.
search.brave.com digs up some useful info off of Reddit sometimes when it’s serving up answers to my queries.
Reddit doesn’t like my VPN so I can only read it’s content through a 3rd party like brave search.
It’s interesting that you still use duckduckgo now instead of Yandex
In the early days of Reddit, it was often seen as one of the go to sites for smart politico’s to share their voice. At one time it used to be home of multiple Q sites. All that changed fast when the sight began to ban certain political points of view. Q sites were among those targeted and to this day Reddit still bans speech it does not like. It may of also played a role in Sun Dunce’s sudden fear of Q being the type thing that would get him shut down.
Epstein’s handler, Maxwell, was a top Reddit moderator IIRC.
:0) Sundance forewarned that the Ukraine/Russia conflict would be a war that is fought on social media. He termed it “World War Reddit”….I myself termed it “Hashtag Ukraine”…
Sundance was correct. The propaganda during the Russian Military Operation both in word and through photos and videos has been astounding to recognize.
General Flynn’s Fifth Generation warfare?
Is there a TL;DR or Cliff’s Notes explanation for 5th Generation warfare?
I haven’t read Flynn’s book(s).
Couldn;t resist!
MY HERO!!! 😍
https://www.generalflynn.com/5gw
General Mike Flynn explains 5th generation warfare (5 minutes)
Essentially it is a “War of Stories” where the war is for control of the MINDS of the target country.
So we have the lies put out by the fake news and out education system.
We have ‘Conservative’ Limited-Hangouts for those who escape the brain washing of the Fake news.
And then you have the real researchers whose information, with luck we bring here.
If the guy gets suicided, like Andrew Brietbart (CIA heart attack gun?), Phil Haney, Theodore Gunderson who was poisoned with Arsenic, Congressman McFadden poisoned on the third assassination attempt, Michael Hastings Car hack… he probably had info the Cabal does not want the public to know.
Thank you Gail!
Glad to help.
Did social media influence how the fighting commenced? Did it influence the strategy or the willingness or unwillingness to negotiate to end the conflict? Does anyone in their right mind think Putin would be influenced by social media when it comes to doing what he thinks best for his country?
:0) Did social media influence the masses? How many millions started wearing the Ukrainian flag pin? How many millions started to denigrate Russia and exalt Ukraine simply because an algorithm showed them only what their governments wanted them to see? How many people rushed to provide private funds and how many Hollywood has-beens rushed to proclaim their dying loyalty to Ukraine?
In February 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigations was using Twitter as it’s agent. It had embedded high level FBI authorities into Twitter. The Administration was censoring views right and left. From 2014 through 2022, 14,000 human beings were tortured and murdered by Ukrainian government approved neo-nazi militias. Nary a peep on social media. But by golly, the Bucha massacre was a coverup of the mass murder of Ukrainians who assisted Russia soldiers during their initial tank divisions while they were politically halted 30 miles north of Kiev.
So yes, social media influenced the masses. And no, I don’t think social media changes the minds of politicians and government leaders, but I do think it allows them to use social media to skew thought processes and deliver distorted information, which is deadly in its own right..
Yes, but that’s not the question I asked.
Sorry These Truths…I thought I answered your question at the end.
No need to apologize. 😊 You said:
I agree with this, but I don’t see what it has to do with what SD wrote about this being a war fought on social media.
Social media can be quite influential, but I agree with you that it has not changed the minds of politicians and government leaders. It can be a propaganda tool, which we have all seen. So I am once again brought to the thought I almost always have after reading SD: The obvious has been stated, and its significance has been magnified to try to make a point, which it fails to do. Just my opinion; some will disagree with me.
SomeDunce actually appears to think that the war is NOT REAL.
That it is a pretend war that we think is going on because of social media.
Because SomeDunce has been to Russia, dontcha know.
Yes, that was sarcasm.
And that highlights the problem of his not clarifying for people. Apparently you and Scott and a lot of other people, including me, are just not smart enough to be there, which is fine with me.
Actually, I am allowed to comment on CTH. Long story. But I am.
I weaseled my way in thinking it might come in handy someday.
And it’s not that we’re not smart enough to be there. We’re too smart; we intimidate the guru.
Thank you!
Good grief, I get so tired of all this cloak-and-dagger bullshit.
It’s a war. Ukraine had a color revolution, bombed their own citizens for almost a decade, Putin had enough, we had a weak pResident, Putin took Crimea, Zelensky is a wanna-be dictator putz with a terrible Napoleon complex so he won’t surrender, Putin is going to fight to the last Ukrainian because he has ten times the soldiers and weaponry.
It’s a war over territory. That’s it.
Well said! That’s a summary for the history books. 😁
Thanks! It’s just what I remember. I have been alive for the last 15 years or so 🙂
“:0) Sundance forewarned that the Ukraine/Russia conflict would be a war that is fought on social media. He termed it “World War Reddit”….I myself termed it “Hashtag Ukraine”…”
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Thank you litenmaus!
So does this mean that kinetic war is not actually taking place?
That should be verifiable, IIRC, SD himself traveled through Ukraine during some recent trip.
Satellite images should easily be able to show whether cities in Ukraine have been demolished.
Russian obituaries should give a good idea about how many Russian soldiers have actually been killed in combat, if combat is taking place, and the entire conflict is not just a social media construct.
Combat is taking place. PDJT and a host of military and cabinet people would know if it were not.
“Combat is taking place. PDJT and a host of military and cabinet people would know if it were not.”
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Of course, but if they were going along with the ruse, if the false construct was advantageous for some reason, then the false construct would become the battle space, and they would pretend it was real just like propaganda media.
I don’t know why it would ever be to the white hats’ advantage to accept and go along with such false constructs, that just seems to be the assumption for a lot of the ‘Brian Cates’ and similar influencer viewpoints about the ‘movie’ we’re all supposedly ‘watching’.
That makes it easy to always say “You don’t need to know what’s going on, because if you did, so would the black hats, so just trust us because Q said there are thousands of sealed indictments” or similar.
And not one person in the countries of Ukraine or Russia, or anywhere for that matter, would let the cat out of the bag that there was really no fighting going on. The world media would be in on it.
All the Ukrainian refugees who fled to other countries, some of whom I know about personally, just did it for a lark or because they were paid, or something.
This goes in the “Ruth Bader Ginsburg died months before her death was announced, and someone pretended to be her (successfully) at SCOTUS” file.
“And not one person in the countries of Ukraine or Russia, or anywhere for that matter, would let the cat out of the bag that there was really no fighting going on. The world media would be in on it.”
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I’m not saying that’s what is happening, only that based on so much other disinformation and control, one has to wonder how much of what we hear and see is real, and how much is completely fabricated.
For instance, I used to watch Col. MacGregor, usually interviewed by Judge Napalitano (sp?).
For what seemed like nearly a year, every time MacGregor was asked how many Ukrainians had been lost, it was 300,000 men.
It never changed.
Was he unaware that the number of dead never changed? Did he think we wouldn’t notice? It’s like watching the cat walk by in The Matrix.
Trump says ‘millions’, but we all know DJT uses hyperbole as a tactic.
Where is Ukraine getting all of these people?
It wasn’t long after the war started that we were seeing lots of stories about Ukrainian military going door to door, dragging fighting aged men out of their homes and putting them on the front lines.
To fight against professional Russian soldiers with combat experience, and against the mercenaries employed by Russia (I forget the leader’s name), who also had plenty of combat experience.
Nothing about any of it ever adds up.
And then Zelensky himself. He’s a comedian. How does he ever end up in power? It would be like Pee Wee Herman taking over America.
And that it’s taking place in a part of the world that was once dominated by Communism, and all the insanity that came with it, which is described in films by Polish film makers, like Krzysztof Kieślowski (for example) and Russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky.
And there is no Western media in the combat zones, unlike every other war or conflict, so we have no visual confirmation of anything.
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“And not one person in the countries of Ukraine or Russia, or anywhere for that matter, would let the cat out of the bag that there was really no fighting going on. The world media would be in on it.”
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As for people (individual citizens) keeping it a secret, how much of that is (or would be) suppressed by Big Tech?
We were exposed to desired propaganda by Google and youtube and FB, like the Chynese people randomly walking along and falling over dead in the street from covid — none of which was true, nobody died like that from Covid.
And look at how effective Big Tech was at suppressing dissent over Ivermectin, and HCQ, and every attempt to publish papers disputing the official narrative.
How much easier would it be to bury reports by individual citizens from Ukraine, supposing we would even know where to look to find them?
People in Europe can’t say anything that contradicts the official narrative on social media without being arrested.
So I have no idea, personally, what is going on in Ukraine.
There is no reliable information source that I am aware of, and access to any information necessarily flows through control choke-points.
Of course, we also lost one semi-reliable reporter when he was killed by the Ukrainians — Gonzalo Lira.
“All the Ukrainian refugees who fled to other countries, some of whom I know about personally, just did it for a lark or because they were paid, or something.”
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I didn’t know you knew anyone personally who fled Ukraine! 🙂
I don’t, but I have talked with someone who has Ukrainian refugees in their neighborhood. They came here with basically nothing, and the community has been helping them.
I don’t think anyone has claimed that the war was PURELY in social media.
Any war of any size will be fought both on the battlefield and as a propaganda effort; in today’s circumstances that latter will be on social media.
Yes, I was referring to Scott’s question:
And you say:
To which I say, of course. Which brings me back to the thoughts I almost always have after reading SD’s meanderings: He is stating the obvious and putting some spin on it.
You are I are in common agreement on SD.
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Sundance has certainly implied just that.
Crap Scott…I sent a longish, for me, reply but it appears it got lost in the ether…….Short story, yes, the Kinetic combat is taking place, but social media at the beginning was totally inundated by Pro Ukrainian propaganda. Ukraine was and continues to be the Heroic Victim on social media.
That much is certainly true…and singers at concerts are plugging it too, just for instance.
My brother is anti-Russia in this conflict and I honestly can’t blame him. You can look at the history two ways honestly; and to them it looks like this is just the latest Russian effort to reconquer the other fourteen soviet Republics (starting with dismembering Georgia under Yeltsin). NATO being extended? All the countries near Russia fear it and deservedly so because of what it’s doing and they don’t want to be next… and so on.
Obviously the thing to do is to find out who misbehaved first and blame them but the problem is, it has been escalating, people doing edgier and edgier things, until someone crossed a line. And people will put that line in different places.
I’ve taken no side in this other than to say that this mess is not unambiguously the West’s fault.
Great Reply …. oh, BTW, we have not dog on this hunt.
SD: “Let me be clear. The people around President Trump do not and did not align with this photo-op, it’s genuinely in poor taste and bad form given the nature of the background event, the funeral for Pope Francis.”
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Then why would he / they agree to do it?
DJT could very easily said “No, this is silly to meet in a big open area, just outside the Baptistry Chapel. It’s not an appropriate place to meet, and it’s not an appropriate time. We can meet privately in any one of the many rooms throughout this building.”
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SD: “However, fearless President Trump knows exactly what this represents just as businessman Donald Trump knows how the seating is arranged in high stakes business negotiations; the sun at the back of the person wanting to be in the power position.”
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Okay, so fearless President Trump knows exactly what this represents, and apparently SD knows exactly what this represents, so how about SD lets the rest of us in on it, instead of just assuming everyone else lives inside his head?
Is he suggesting that DJT got the better of them, because despite being ‘forced’ to meet under such poor circumstances, he one-upped the CIA by making sure to sit with the sun at his back?
Did everyone else on earth catch that, or just Sundance?
And if it was just Sundance, then why do it in the first place?
What if Sundance wasn’t here to interpret it for us?
And that’s the (pseudo) value he supplies. Only HE can understand the bullshit he’s slinging.
Steve, I cordially disagree. I think Sundance’s knowledge when it comes to politics is rare and he shares that with millions who have no clue as to the political games and the backgrounds of the corruption that exist. And speaking to that is incredibly valuable.
Does he though? When he goes out of his way to give the impression he’s privy to stuff he won’t share, he comes across to me as a grifter.
I am so sorry that you feel that way Steve. But I respect your stance.
Also, have we ever heard from the Great SD about the BANNING OF SO MANY OF US??
Yea, Crickets…
If one ever feels the need to say something on there all one needs is a different email address than the one used previously, that is all they check.
I would be banned again in about two seconds. Plus, after seeing this from over there…
…I’m in the “not astute enough to participate in this website” group. And PROUDLY so.
In that case, given that we need more stutes, it’s just as well.
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“And that’s the (pseudo) value he supplies. Only HE can understand the bullshit he’s slinging.”
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He frequently strikes me the way many teachers do, in the sense that he clearly seems to know a great deal, but like so many teachers, he is not gifted with the ability to clearly express or articulate what he knows in a way that is helpful to others.
There is even a term for it, but I can’t remember what it is.
People have a tendency to assume everyone else has a similar knowledge base, when they don’t.
This leads the teacher to skip over important points, making it impossible for the students to connect the dots, because too many dots were skipped by the teacher when he constructed the outline.
A good teacher doesn’t skip any of the dots, he doesn’t assume the students know everything the teacher knows.
Some students will know some of the things the teacher knows, and some students will know other things the teacher knows, but none of the students know everything the teacher knows.
So the teacher can’t just skip over stuff, no matter how repetitive certain aspects might be to the students who do know a specific detail.
Instead of seeing that as a problem, a good teacher finds a way to include all of the dots, so all of the students can complete the picture, and do it in a way that even those students who do know most of what the teacher is saying, don’t get bored in the process.
Most teachers don’t do this, and I suspect it’s not because they can’t, it’s because they don’t realize how much their audience doesn’t know.
Because even in an audience that is generally educated on the subject matter (like the commenters in SD’s articles), there is still a wide disparity of knowledge among them, where some people know or remember or are aware of some things SD talks about, and others are aware of other things.
But nobody lives inside SD’s head, so nobody is aware of everything SD refers to or alludes to or uses coded language for.
So there is a constant disconnect between SD and his readers, and it appears to stem from the common problem most people have, which is assuming the audience already knows what we know, so we can just skip a lot of important details because the audience already knows that stuff.
And it just doesn’t work like that. It’s poor communication, and it’s self-defeating. It makes all of one’s diligent efforts moot, if the audience cannot follow or grasp what you are trying to communicate.
Indeed.
I have to ask one question though, since I certainly do not plow through the comments over at Banhammer Central. Do people ask him to clarify these things?
If so, there’s no excuse for him not covering them, or at least linking to where he has covered them in the past. And that’s assuming positive intent on his part; in actuality I think he’s doing this deliberately to make his audience think he’s super smart.
“I have to ask one question though, since I certainly do not plow through the comments over at Banhammer Central. Do people ask him to clarify these things?”
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I don’t spend much time reading the comments section either, but when I do skim through it, it’s not uncommon to see people questioning things SD has said.
But I don’t see SD participating much in the comments, certainly not like he used to, before the big banning.
It could be that there are just too many people in the comments section for SD to address them all, so at some point he stepped back from participating in the comments section.
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“If so, there’s no excuse for him not covering them, or at least linking to where he has covered them in the past.”
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That would seem like a monster undertaking. Even searching my own posts (and posts I replied to) here, which I have copied and pasted to a word processor — which are only a fraction of what I have posted — has grown to hundreds (and hundreds) of pages.
The document is 2,471 pages long as of today, but it includes lots of other information too, it’s like a notepad for keeping track of things I might want to recall later.
I can do a word or short phrase search and usually find what I’m looking for, after cycling through to all of the various search results until I find the right one, but it takes time.
Imagine doing that for people asking you questions, and having to search through maybe 15 years’ (or however long CTH has been up and running) worth of articles.
I wouldn’t have time to do that for dozens of questions in the comments section either.
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“And that’s assuming positive intent on his part; I think he’s doing this deliberately to make his audience think he’s super smart.”
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I guess it’s just hard for me to understand why anyone would go to the trouble, to put in the time and effort, to construct what would essentially be an elaborate ruse, for what amounts to vanity.
It seems unlikely (to me) that anyone who is not in a position of power or authority (e.g., government), and who goes to the trouble to do what SD does, and who puts in the time and effort SD has, would do so primarily, or even in large part, out of vanity.
It seems like the kind of thing one must be driven to do, which, given that he seems to be a good person (e.g., he is always helping people after hurricanes and such, and turns the whole website into a hurricane help center during such events), would seem to indicate honest motives or intentions.
In other words, it seems like more of a personality conflict (to me), than nefarious intent on his part.
SD has a personality type, and there are aspects of his personality (at least as it comes through in writing, which may be different than in person) that irritate me.
His personality type (or at least some aspect of his personality type) takes an iron-fisted approach to website management, and that doesn’t work for most of the people here.
It didn’t work for us when we were at CTH, and it was the emergence of ‘Q’ that exposed the rift in a way that he decided had to be dealt with in a scorched earth manner, by banning what may have been 100 (or more) long time members in a short period of time.
It was almost like he was losing control of the narrative, too many of his readers were asking too many questions, about something (Q, and all the questions raised by Q) which, for whatever reason, he did not have ‘ears to hear and eyes to see’.
Rather than investigate Q and either refute it or be changed by it, he chose to ignore it, forbid discussion of it, and banned anyone who talked about it.
At least that’s my basic recollection. It was a long time ago, and I don’t think about it very often.
Whatever one may think about that, it was not an intellectually honest approach, it contradicted ALL of the sayings in the header at the top of every CTH webpage, and many of the people who were banned were understandably not happy about his chosen response.
He has always had a short temper and a fast ban-hammer, that’s why it was always like walking on eggshells in the CTH comments section.
It was a constant challenge to try to express oneself in a way that said what one was trying to say, without saying it in a way that might offend SD to the point of suspending or banning you.
That’s just self-censorship, it’s exhausting, it creates resentment, and it was a relief in many ways to get away from it.
And many of the people who remained at CTH probably never experienced any of it. They never felt like they had to walk on eggshells, they never felt like they had to self-censor or say things in a roundabout way to avoid getting banned, because they never disagreed with SD about much in the first place — for whatever reason.
A lot of that seems personality or psychology driven, it doesn’t necessarily mean that SD is engaged in some large scale subterfuge to mislead people or prop himself up as an expert to a group of online ‘faithful’ out of vanity.
Fair points for the most part.
I see plenty of sites whose whole motif is to build up a liar into a sort of cult leader. So you may not be able to see the point of SD stroking his own ego like this, but apparently it’s quite common. These Truths has said a lot more on this.
You are correct. Smoke and mirrors to make people think he is a super-genius.
That’s an interesting take, but it’s not the impression I get. Instead of there being holes that he doesn’t fill in because he assumes his audience knows as much as he does, or because he isn’t aware that not communicating certain things prevents clear understanding, my impression is that the holes are placed there to make the audience think he knows more than they do. It keeps them hanging on his every word, even if they don’t understand what he’s saying.
What you wrote is, IMO, exactly what he wants people to think: that he’s smart and knows a lot more than you do, and therefore you should heed what he says.
That to me seems the correct interpretation.
Which is why I asked Scott if anyone asks for (using your metaphor here) the holes to be filled. If they do, and he doesn’t, that argues in favor of your/mine interpretation (though there are other possible explanations as well…maybe he doesn’t read the comments, for instance).
I agree. One problem is that it’s taking a big risk to ask questions or to try to get clarification. This is illustrated on this thread in Pat’s comment where SD (or someone?) bans someone for asking questions.
So the fact that (often) people aren’t allowed to question, to get clarification, or to explore further, IMO, supports the view that the “holes” are placed there on purpose. I could be mistaken, but I don’t see the “holes” as coming from an intellect that doesn’t understand how to communicate clearly; instead they are there to keep from communicating clearly, for the purpose of appearing to know more than others do.
Another item that argues against Scott’s offered interpretation is that he told one commenter it was explained perfectly in the post; the commenter was just being obtuse.
Someone unknowingly leaving holes probably wouldn’t take that attitude unless he truly has no awareness and thinks he’s a perfect teacher.
I could be wrong about this but my behavior with my science posts is quite different (if it’s not I hope someone will tell me).
Good points.
Yes, you strive to present information clearly, and you are open to questions and will provide clarification when asked.
“Which is why I asked Scott if anyone asks for (using your metaphor here) the holes to be filled. If they do, and he doesn’t, that argues in favor of your/mine interpretation (though there are other possible explanations as well…maybe he doesn’t read the comments, for instance).”
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I don’t read the comments there regularly, but when I do scan through them, I do see some pushback and some questions.
But SD rarely seems to interact in the comments section. Seems like he used to do so much more, back before we were all banned.
Instead, what seems more common now, is for SD supporters to answer for him.
And frequently it is the fawning supporters (brown nosers), who attempt to use the equivalent of peer pressure to intimidate or shame the questioner into silence.
Not a good sign.
This!
Sadly, people like that think that if they silence those with questions or different opinions, then they have “won” the argument.
Bringing mutual understanding through respectful dialog is far more likely to open up the possibility of arriving at better thinking on a topic.
Maybe when Bill Maher tried to demonstrate that to the leftists recently it was the first time in a long time that a lot of people saw what that could look like.
“my impression is that the holes are placed there to make the audience think he knows more than they do. It keeps them hanging on his every word, even if they don’t understand what he’s saying.”
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I’m trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, looking for an explanation that fits the circumstances without requiring nefarious motives.
What you suggest is certainly possible, but imagine how hard it would be to manage that on a long term basis.
To purposely write in an intentionally obtuse or unclear manner, making it clear enough to be coherent generally, but obscure enough to always leave questions hanging.
And not just random questions, but specific things which wind and weave in and out of different articles in an ongoing basis.
And to weave all of that together without contradicting oneself endlessly from article to article, and always remembering what you have intentionally hidden, so you don’t accidentally reveal something you have decided to obscure in another article months earlier.
And to what end would one bring all of this needless complexity and subterfuge?
It’s not necessary to build a website or increase readership. In fact, if that’s what he is doing, it would seem to accomplish the opposite.
I don’t think it would be difficult at all, and that he does it all the time.
In theory, it keeps people hanging on because they are given the impression that he knows more than just about anyone, so they have to keep checking there. People love a mystery, and if they think this guy has insider knowledge, they will want to keep looking to see what he comes up with next. They will view what he says through a filter. I’ve watched it happen.
Indeed. I tried to say the same thing but was much clumsier at it.
Ironically, it’s just like Q.
Yes, it is, except that Q is polite. 😅 I also think Q actually does have insider knowledge.
Yes, I agree.
Just a thought, but it could be an elaborate limited hangout type site.
I’ve thought controlled opposition a few times.
“What you wrote is, IMO, exactly what he wants people to think: that he’s smart and knows a lot more than you do, and therefore you should heed what he says.”
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But that approach will only appeal to people who don’t think for themselves, people who don’t ask questions, and it will drive away those who do.
Which leads back to the same question, why do that?
It seems like a needlessly complicated thing to do, which inherently limits the size of his readership, which seems counterproductive to the whole point of having his website in the first place.
I have been following the pyschology of flat earth for a while, and when people leave, they invariably say they thought they were doing critical thinking while in flat earth. When instead they were in a bubble, refusing to look at anything contrary to flat earth and hanging onto the words of the professional flerfers.
Although his deal isn’t comparable to flat earth, it may have psychological similarities.
He has an audience that no doubt prides itself on being able to think critically (because they reject the yellow/”main”stream narrative), but relies on him.
That’s not how it works. Smart people do keep going back for more, all the time. They ask questions outside of that site, as you have done here today.
TT: ““What you wrote is, IMO, exactly what he wants people to think: that he’s smart and knows a lot more than you do, and therefore you should heed what he says.” (boldface mine)
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Me: “But that approach will only appeal to people who don’t think for themselves, people who don’t ask questions, and it will drive away those who do.”
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TT: “That’s not how it works. Smart people do keep going back for more, all the time. They ask questions outside of that site, as you have done here today.”
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I am unsure whether I am a good representative sample, in the sense that:
A) I am in the habit of checking CTH periodically for breaking news, and I don’t know how many other people are. I check there because if a breaking news story is something big and worth spending time learning about, it’s usually there and easy to find, since he only usually has maybe 3 or 4 articles per day.
Whereas someplace like Gateway Pundit or even Breitbart may have 20+ stories on the front page at any given time. Some may be clickbait, some may be dramatic but unimportant (gossip), some may be interesting but not particularly relevant, and some are important.
B) I am almost compelled to question things I disagree with, especially if it is someone on our side who I more or less align with on most issues.
I don’t know if that’s normal or not, or if it is normal, to what degree, and where I fall on that spectrum.
By contrast, I’m not really compelled to question Leftists, except for sport.
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And specifically to your first quote at the top of this post:
But we are not heeding what he says, we are attacking it, or at least the parts of what he says that we disagree with.
Most of the members at CTH are heeding what he says.
Most of the people here are questioning things he says.
I’m not sure about that. There IS a group here that doesn’t hang on his every word and often criticizes him, but there are others who do seem to heed what he says and bring his articles or links to them here. That’s their choice.
In addition, I have no respect for someone who treats people with the lack of consideration I’ve seen over there, and quoted here. That rudeness is uncalled for, and I consider it abusive.
Do we cry and get out our crayons and snuggle bunnies when someone is mean to us or to someone else? 😅 Of course not. Do we notice that someone is routinely rude, comes across as arrogant, and does the opposite of what a good writer or blog host does: i.e., refuses to answer questions or elaborate? I certainly notice that. Then each person makes their own choice about whether the attitude and abuse are worth it. For me, they are not.
If SD were a leftist writer, people would be calling him a 7-letter name that starts with “a” and ends with “e.” 😂
YEP. You are correct.
Nostradamus.
Overly sensitive egomaniacal Controlled Opposition?
Yes. I was going to post this in my reply to you about Reddit:
I disagree with SD about the photo and the meeting. If PDJT had not wanted it to be that way, it would not have been. I think that having people see Trump meeting with Z is only a positive for Trump.
We wouldn’t have to trudge through his self-serving, “I-know-something-you-don’t know” essays? (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
We don’t have to anyway, except that some people bring them here.
But even then there’s the scroll wheel.
Exactly. This one caught my eye because of the photo of Trump and Z, which is iconic IMO.
For me, there is plenty of useful info posted at CTH, lots of stories I would not see otherwise, unless someone posted about them here from another source.
So in that sense, CTH is like a mini news aggregator, like a more narrowly focused and much smaller version of Drudge Report.
Some of SD’s commentary is helpful, some of it is conjecture that doesn’t seem to withstand critical scrutiny.
Like any other information source, we have to run it through our own mental filters, separate what is useful from what is not, etc.
If PDJT had not wanted it to be that way, it would not have been. I think that having people see Trump meeting with Z is only a positive for Trump.
Yes.
For anybody to suggest otherwise is just silly. PDT does what PDT does. The man has been maligned, abused and shot at. The days of suggesting he may be manipulated or duped should be over.
^^^^This.
Sundance frequently behaves as if President Trump is a dupe. I have serious doubts about SD’s motives.
SD: “When envoy Steve Witkoff is representing President Trump in his discussions with Vladimir Putin, Witkoff and Trump represent the government. However, the government is not the real control agent and Putin together with Trump/Witkoff know this.
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Okay, let’s suppose that’s all more or less true.
Then why would Putin bother meeting with DJT, if DJT is the equivalent of a figurehead who has no power or control over the ‘western intelligence services’?
How does that conversation go?
Putin: Hello President Trump, good to see you.
Trump: Hello President Putin, good to see you as well. Can you believe what the CIA is doing? It’s just crazy. I wish there was something I could do, but I’m only the President, and the Constitution doesn’t give me any authority over the CIA or the rest of the ‘intelligence community’.
Putin: Yes, I know, I learned that from a blog on the Internet, published by some anonymous person in Florida who calls himself ‘Sundance’. I make all of our own intelligence agencies read his blog now, so I can understand what in the world is going on with your government.
By the way, there is one thing our best people haven’t been able to figure out.
Do you know WTH ‘World War Reddit‘ means? 😂
😂
😁
SD: “Vladimir Putin and Donald J Trump are mutually aligned entities in a fight against western intelligence services. That’s the core understanding that must be at the forefront of any review or intellectually honest analysis of what is taking place.”
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Okay fine, but then that begs a few questions, the answers to which are never even hinted at.
Why doesn’t DJT identify which agencies are rogue, and cut off their funding?
If they are all rogue, why doesn’t he fire the leadership and put his own people in place?
If his own people are in place, why don’t they fire all the traitors in their respective agencies, and replace them with patriotic Americans?
If for some yet to be explained reason none of that is possible, then why doesn’t DJT create a new agency that he actually does have control over, and authorize that agency to dismantle the other agencies?
The authorized agency has official power and authority to do their job, while the shadow agencies have to operate in the shadows. DJT can just draw them out into the light at will, and they can do nothing in that scenario, according to SD’s own analysis.
So why doesn’t DJT invite the heads of the CIA, the FIB, the NSA, and the rest of the rogue intelligence agencies to a presser, and have his own selected people who head those agencies expose those agencies as rogue, independently operating agencies which, despite their best efforts, have eluded all attempts at bringing them under control?
If the light of truth is the disinfectant which the ‘intelligence community’ cannot abide, then why not drag them out into the light, like Dracula at the end of half a dozen old vampire movies?
You can’t just postulate that ‘western intelligence services’ are in control of all Western governments, including the U.S. government, without explaining how DJT could overcome that in order to become POTUS.
And if he overcame the ‘western intelligence services’ to become POTUS (not once, but twice), then clearly he must have some kind of power or ability that is formidable enough to have accomplished such a thing, in the face of overwhelming opposition by every one of those ‘western intelligence services’.
And having been sworn in as POTUS, he certainly has more power and authority as POTUS than he did when he was on the outside looking in.
If he shows the world that the ‘western intelligence services’ have usurped the governments of the West, that would instantly and very publicly empower the militaries of the Western governments to openly do to the ‘western intelligence services’ what the ‘western intelligence services’ have secretly done to the Western governments.
You put the United States Marines and Military Intelligence and the Navy and the Army and the USAF against the ‘western intelligence services’, and the military is going to wipe them out.
It won’t even be a contest.
You can cut off all funding to the rogue agents and agencies, you can freeze all accounts, you can cancel all passports, cancel all security clearances, lock all rogue agents out of physical buildings and computer networks…
You could simply EXPOSE the names and photos of ALL ROGUE AGENTS and let the intelligence services of our adversaries eliminate them for you.
This is the overwhelming advantage ‘operating in the light’ has over those who must necessarily operate ‘in the cover of darkness’.
And POTUS Donald Trump has the full power and authority of the Presidency and the Constitution behind him, along with the very popular support of the clear majority of Americans and hundreds of millions of people around the world.
The ‘western intelligence agencies’ don’t have any of that. All they have is secrecy and darkness.
Their secrets can all be exposed at any time by the POTUS.
And the lights can all be turned on, eliminating the darkness the ‘western intelligence services’ require for life support.
There is a ‘move – countermove’ aspect to everything.
SD presents a ‘grand scheme of things’ without supporting it. The observations above are just a few obvious ones that ought to be addressed and answered directly, not with assumptions or allusions or terms and expressions only the author knows the meaning of.
Speak clearly.
Just to your first point, it has long been obvious that the IC has been developing their own sources of funding — frequently involving drugs or human trafficking, with probably a side order of blackmail.
Yes, so expose that.
This is the super power that the legitimate government has, that the shadow government can never possess.
All the legitimate government has to do is throw a light switch on any nefarious activity, expose it to the public, and not only does that specific activity instantly become worthless (like exposing a source, or an agent, or an enterprise, or a smuggling route, or a safe house, or on and on and on), it also exposes the larger agency engaged in that activity.
If there really is a ‘war’ going on between the legitimate Trump government and the illegitimate ‘intelligence services’, then the legitimate government has the overwhelming advantage of being able to operate in the light of day and in the shadows.
While the illegitimate ‘intelligence services’ can only operate in the shadows.
And the legitimate government can turn on the light switch at any time, in any room in the entire government mansion, no matter what room(s) the illegitimate ‘intelligence services’ are hiding in.
“…If there really is a ‘war’ going on between the legitimate Trump government and the illegitimate ‘intelligence services’, then the legitimate government has the overwhelming advantage of being able to operate in the light of day and in the shadows….”
Scott,
THEY BOUGHT THE MEDIA IN 1915!!
They started the take over of the school system in the late 1800s
How John Dewey Used Public ‘Education’ to Subvert Liberty
The went after the Churches.
And then they DELIBERATELY broke up communities right after WWII.
And finally Obama and Biden intentionally destroyed the US military.
…..
WHOA!!!
I just got the message:
WOW, it looks like I have now ARRIVED!
Gail Combs
Wow. I don’t know if “Congratulations, you’ve hit the big time” are in order.
I consider it a ‘badge of honor’
It is not the first time.
I understand, and stipulating all of those things are true, Trump and his team could reveal it all, and there is nothing the media or the intelligence services could do to stop them.
They have had years to prepare for this, and they have the assistance of A.I. to take the whole sprawling whiteboard mess and break it down into digestible bite-sized pieces, connecting each branch of the spider web.
If the CIA is literally at war with the administration, then blow the cover of every single CIA operative in the agency.
BOOM.
They’re done.
Not a thing the media or anyone else can do about it.
They can’t go anywhere or do anything without getting arrested or taken out by a foreign intelligence service.
That’ll put a hitch in their giddyup.
If the entire CIA is not at war with the administration, if it is just isolated cells, then have a powow with the entire agency.
Bring everyone in from the cold for a big sit-down.
Anyone who doesn’t show up is an enemy agent, so blow his cover.
Assuming you know who the bad guys are, arrest them when they show up for the meeting.
The administration, by virtue of law and ability to exercise legitimate power, can do things the ‘intelligence services’ can never do.
So it is practically impossible to believe that the ‘intelligence services’ can stop a determined good guy, like DJT, or Nayib Bukele in El Salvador.
And the fact that they both were able to get into power in the first place appears to support that belief.
And once in power, the good guy has the overwhelming advantage of legitimacy, of the rule of law, of control of the military, of support of the People, and only in recent years, the power to entirely go around the MSM and communicate directly to the People.
So if the Trump administration wants to defeat rogue intelligence services, it seems that they could certainly do so, if they have the WILL to do so.
I hope Wolf sees your notice. Since I’m in catch up reading mode if you haven’t heard from him maybe you might consider sending him your “blacklist” stuff in a private message so he’s “sure” to see it 🙂
EXACTLY!
That is what Colonel Towner’s videos on Operation Gladio are all about.
Also it is not JUST the USA. It is now world wide.
Anyone heard from Wolf in a while? I’ve been rather busy with those hospital runs for Josiah, family gatherings, & now tomorrow a memorial service for the 50-some year old daughter of a friend who “died suddenly” in her sleep, almost for sure a clot shot casualty as she worked in healthcare…sigh…
I haven’t read everything here in a few days so maybe I missed a Wolf sighting.
Blessings to all!
Wolf warned us a bit ago that he was headed into a busy spell over the next couple of months.
Yes I recall but was wondering if anyone had heard from him “lately”. As it’s about time for his Monday post to drop maybe he’ll be checking in, one could hope! TY 🙂
Valerie Curren
I’m sorry to hear about this young woman. IMO, if she had taken the “vaccines”, it may well be “vaccine”-related. May she rest in eternal Peace, and may her family find Comfort.
TY PAVACA. Her memorial service was crowded & uplifting, including sharing the Gospel with attendees. Her mom & step-dad, our friends, & her husband who we’d never met before held up quite well considering the circumstances. She was much loved & will be mightily missed, including especially by her 3 20-something sons.
EVENING PRAYERS
A Powerful Evening Prayer for Peace and Serenity
Dear Lord,
As the day gradually transitions into the comforting embrace of night, I humbly come before you, seeking the precious gifts of peace and serenity. Please, dear God, enfold me in your tranquil presence, and help me find respite from the storms that may be raging within my heart and mind. Grant me the serenity to gracefully accept the things I cannot change and the courage to change what I can. May your divine light shine upon me as I seek rest and tranquility, knowing that your unwavering love and guidance are my constant companions.
Amen.
A Powerful Evening Prayer for Strength and Guidance
Dear God,
In these twilight hours, I turn to you, my unwavering source of strength and guidance. As I reflect upon the day’s challenges and triumphs, I seek your divine intervention. Grant me the courage to face the uncertainties of tomorrow and the wisdom to make sound decisions along the way. I earnestly request that your radiant light illuminate my path through the darkness, and may your steadfast strength be my refuge in moments of doubt and weakness. Lord, help me navigate life’s complexities with unwavering faith in your unwavering presence.
Amen.
A Powerful Evening Prayer for Gratitude and Thankfulness
Heavenly Father,
As I pause to contemplate the events of this day, my heart brims with profound gratitude for the countless blessings you have graciously bestowed upon me. I thank you, dear Lord, for the boundless love of my family and friends, for the opportunities that have enriched my journey, and for the valuable lessons I’ve gleaned from life’s experiences. As I lay down to rest, may my heart overflow with thankfulness, recognizing that your grace continually sustains me and that even in the challenges, your love remains unwavering.
Amen.
https://strengthinprayer.com/powerful-evening-prayers/
AMEN
Amen
Sure has been good waking up to non-trail skies every day for almost a year. Nice having normal weather patterns as well.
https://100percentfedup.com/woman-confronts-chemtrail-pilots-goes-viral-2/
Very interesting.
I have been watching, off and on, a very long online debate about chemtrails.
Thus far it has largely been marred by the parties sparring on whether “chemtrails” should or should not include things like cloud seeding. The anti-chemtrail side is conceding that cloud seeding does occur; they want to focus on “airplanes deliberately dumping poison into the atmosphere to harm people on the ground, and the dumps look like contrails.”
I wonder where Bill Gates efforts to block the sun fit in.
Arrest him!
And anyone who complies with his order.
He is putting the state employees at risk of life-changing arrests and prosecutions. IMO he should be taken out (arrested) first.
Well that’s real mature 🙄
This is sedition.
Any state employee who follows this directive is also committing sedition.
This^^^^^^^^^^ It’s not ideology or even politics…it’s sedition. It seems a blatant example.
EXACTLY.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to Streamline Permitting Time from Years to One Month
In this connection, I saw a few days ago a thumbnail on youtube claiming the Trump/Doge had done something–killed a project of some sort–that crippled any chances of nuclear making a comeback.
Unfortunately I can’t find it now, but I’m keeping my eyes open. It’s possible our side did f*ck something up in their zeal to cut spending.
Looks like something we need to know more about.
Steve it may be this:
From Yandex
https://yandex.com/search/?text=Trump%2FDoge+kill+nuclear+energy&lr=113479
Trump administration fires and then tries to rehire nuclear…cbsnews.com
(I have to kill my Brave Ad remover to actually see this.)
Trump administration tries to rehire fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal — ABC
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers…nytimes.com›2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-…
DOGE Just Ended Nuclear in America [video] | Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com›item?id=43789699
Published day before yesterday
I didn’t get the impression that they were talking about weapons (as your text starts by indicating).
However, that IS the thumbnail I saw. So now I can watch it. Thanks!
Glad I could find it for you.
I am very much a fan of nuclear power esp thorium.
In the not-too-distant future, I expect that coal will be mined for its extractable thorium, and then the thorium will provide the power to crack the coal into chemical products and gasoline.
[Note…..there is a big, big difference between coking coal and general burning coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical_coal . Coking coal will likely continue to be used as it is today.]
What I’m reading here implies you think that will be the primary purpose of mining coal. Maybe, maybe not but I could certainly imagine it being a byproduct, just like the PGMs are often a by product of mining nickel.
No, I see the chemical products (and gasoline) being the primary purpose of mining coal. Thorium allows you to run the chemical plant on-site.
I always considered burning petrochemicals/coal as a shear waste of chemical precursors.
It is a very convenient and reasonably efficient method of storing and using energy.
Years ago, I read about a pilot plant next to a nuclear power plant and a poultry processing facility, where they subjected all the cast-off turkey guts to heat, steam, and catalysts, and essentially output crude oil — which they could then further on to a petrochemical plant and make into gasoline.
Agreed…but for now it’s what we’ve got.
OK where he seems to be going with this: Apparently they killed something called the Loan Program office which is supposed to give out loans that banks would be too risk-averse to give out. And that (I am guessing, I’m barely into the video) has made it difficult to finance attempts to use the (strong) force.
Halfway in, and he pretty much said that in the first minute, and has been ranting about how stupid it is ever since. I stopped watching halfway in. At least he got to the point quickly before rambling instead of the other way around like that gun guy Scott posts.
This goes to the rare earth mineral mining and refining so China no longer has a weapon over the USA.
And not just rare earths.
Of course not, but that was one of China’s major weapons.
From a month ago. Ivan explains WHY we will never see the unaltered Fedsurrection Video footage and lots of other goodies.
On-site Investigation of the J6 Pipe Bomber and the Fedsurrection Part 1 (13 minutes)
https://rumble.com/v6q6pxw-on-site-investigation-of-the-j6-pipe-bomber-and-the-fedsurrection-part-1.html
One of the comments
On-site Investigation of the J6 Pipe Bomber and the Fedsurrection Part 2 (9 minutes)
https://rumble.com/v6q6qfc-on-site-investigation-of-the-j6-pipe-bomber-and-the-fedsurrection-part-2.html
Ivan shows all the cameras covering the path to the RNC pipe bomb. Also the RNC security guy was FORMER CAPITOL POLICE.
On-site Investigation of the J6 Pipe Bomber and the Fedsurrection Part 3 (32 minutes)
https://rumble.com/v6q6qtg-on-site-investigation-of-the-j6-pipe-bomber-and-the-fedsurrection-part-3.html
Ivan explains the Sargent at Arms, who are part of the Captol Police board (Incharge of releasing footage) Probably has dirt on the hanky panky by Senators and Congressmen.
He also mentions the Congress Sargent of Arms has been there long term, including under Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan is on the Fox News board. Tucker got TOSSED just when he was going to interview Chief Sund of the Capitol Police. Ivan has talked to him and said Tucker has NEVER released the info. 🤔
Also
https://revolver.news/2025/01/trump-goes-full-revolver-asserts-fbi-knows-identity-of-pipe-bomber-implies-coverup/
When Does A Bird Sing,Judge Arrested,Nobody Is Above The Law,Future Direction Confirmed – Ep. 3628
April 26, 2025 x22report
https://x22report.com/when-does-a-bird-singjudge-arrestednobody-is-above-the-lawfuture-direction-confirmed-ep-3628/
The [CB] is now attacking the Secretary of the Treasury, they know what is happening and they will begin to push back. Trump is getting ready to drill for oil and he is removing the regs. The fake news will use shortages from China on Trump, but the window is closing. David Sacks wants banks to make Bitcoin mainstream. The [DS] is panicking, the first arrest has been made and it was a Judge that was aiding and embedding an illegal. The Judge did not follow the rule of law.The Direction is confirmed, nobody is above the law. Virginia Giuffre has allegedly committed suicide after her accident. She put out a note a while back saying she wasn’t. What if she didn’t and she is protected by the good guys, when a bird sings.
Ep 3628a – Trump Sets The Stage To Drill, Banking Sector Will Open Up To Make Bitcoin Mainstream
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3628a-trump-sets-the-stage-to-drill-banking-sector-will-open-up-to-make-bitcoin-mainstream/
Ep 3628b – When Does A Bird Sing,Judge Arrested,Nobody Is Above The Law,Future Direction Confirmed
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3628b-when-does-a-bird-singjudge-arrestednobody-is-above-the-lawfuture-direction-confirmed/
One of the tidbits from X22 that is of interest:
It seems there should be prosecutions for encouraging this invasion and endangerment of the American people.
I think there are. Whether they apply to Biden’s cabinet or not I do not know. If Biden was NOT mentally able….
8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
Compelling even if she appears at one point to read from a script.
SteveInCO
Thank you for today’s post!
I had no idea that carbon dating results could show up on a graph as curves — my impression was that carbon dating results went in straight lines of some sort.
All due to the weirdness of having to compare parent isotope to another isotope of the same (parent) element (isochrons compare parent and daughter to a different isotope of the daughter element), which means you have to know the initial ratio of the two…which it turns out varies with time. Isochrons relieve you of that responsibility, but it’s unavoidable here.
The fact of the matter is if you see some popular science statement about an object being carbon-dated to X years; it is most likely a calibrated date; they’re not going to stop and spend paragraphs talking about the distinction; they’re going to leap straight to the final answer.
Which means you’ll likely never see this unless, of course you’re a Q-treeper.
SteveInCO
Thank you. Good heavens, it almost sounds like Mendel.
Would be great if DOGE could examine UN funding.
At a minimum, funding the US send the UN.
Then roll on to NATO, for a financial cavity examination.
Final?
How ’bout the WEF, or the Chamber of Commerce?
Wherever USG funds flow, 100% DOGE audits should be mandatory. No access, funds recalled / canceled.
Libtard Judges Have Lost Their Minds.
BREAKING: In Act of Defiance, Wisconsin Judge Says She Won’t Allow ICE to Take Anyone From Her Courtroom – Claims She’s Willing to ‘Get Arrested’
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Judge Claims Trump Deported 2-Year-Old American Citizen with “No Meaningful Process” – Here’s What Really Happened
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/clinton-judge-halts-deportation-tren-de-aragua-gang/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
Good that she’s willing to ‘Get Arrested’, ’cause that’s what’s on the menu. Have to wonder how fond she’ll be of ‘Get Fined and Jailed’.
Absolutely. I hope their is a flood of judges arrested over obstructing ICE / LE.
Quickest way to stop this BS. Arrest AND Prosecute.
And get rid of woke judges. I don’t know if these judges are elected or appointed, but here’s a chance to replace them.
Another judge offers himself up to be shitcanned. 
Florida Judge Who Oversees Substance Abuse Cases Arrested For DUI, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia… Cocaine Residue Found in Wallet (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/florida-judge-who-oversees-substance-abuse-cases-arrested/
So the judge who handles civil cases, including substance abuse, is himself guilty of substance abuse. 🙄
According to this article, he was appointed by Ron DeSantis.
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/crime/martin-county/2025/04/25/party-animals-new-details-in-arrest-of-circuit-judge-assistant/83271781007/
More details about the judge’s behavior, relationships, and drug deals at the link.
hahahaha using his bank card to chop the coke to snort. Love it for him.
It’s sort of refreshing to see robed activists protesting ICE instead of antifa AND they’re getting arrested unlike the majority of drugged up violent thugs in antifa
Perhaps the General at ~2:40 is Russian. Certainly NOT US military.
Further down in the replies there’s this, looks like him…
https://nitter.poast.org/jj_talking/status/1916190506809487540#m
Could very well be AF.
Winning. Taking longer than any of us like.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/bill-melugin-operation-tidal-wave-leads-approximately-800/
DAG Todd Blanche makes it clear they WILL go after judges obstructing ICE.
Great news!
Looks like they have their act together and are now going after the Lawfare judges.
ABOUT TIME!
Start with these idiots and work your way up to the big names.🤓
Good news continues rolling in.
UPDATE: Masked Man Who Robbed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Arrested – Expected in Court Next Week
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/update-masked-man-who-robbed-dhs-secretary-kristi/
After reading the propaganda, check out both pictures.
Pravda news never fails to suck.
LOLF winning.
Kennedy Center Cancels Pride Month Events, Angering LGBTQQIAAP2S+ Cultists
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/04/26/kennedy-center-cancels-pride-month-events-angering-lgbtqqiaap2s-cultists/
The drag bunch was not family-friendly, I don’t care how “classy” it was. If this is their idea of what families should be exposed to, then I applaud their “safe space(s)” being eliminated. lIMO it’s a societal problem that they’ve been allowed to feel safe in the general public with these perversions.
Isn’t Ric Grenell currently in charge of the place?
I think he’s one of a group. I don’t know his stance on drag shows, but my guess is would be that he’s opposed to them in settings where shows are performed for the general public. If they want to have a drag-only location, like it used to be, they can do that.
I trust Ric and his discretion. Funny (and telling) how Monica Alford tries to go “over his head” and argue it in the public sphere.