Dear KMAG: 20250820 ✾ Wolfian Wednesday Persnickety Placeholder and Open Topic


Gail Combs is off tonight due to the tragic death of her neighbor, as well as the insurance company coming after her home, and other assorted trials and evils. Please join me in praying for Gail, her husband, and their neighbors. May they be strengthened in their hour of need by the Almighty.

We must endeavor to persevere with this placeholder.

This is a placeholder.

Most of this post is boilerplate, but with sprinkles of minor mirth.


Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Wolfian Wednesday Persnickety Placeholder and Open Topic, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Wolfie’s WOO-WOO Wednesday, due to the author’s expected rambling about his most WOO-WOO opinions. Please bear with us!

We are living in an episode of The Outer Limits.

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s WEDNESDAY…again.

So are we halfway through the week? Is this really HUMP DAY?

Let’s try that again.

OK – maybe Wheatie’s rules need to be posted on Wednesday, too.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.


If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a pure placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday Wednesday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

How did Q put it? Ah, yes.

“Enjoy the show!”

W


OK – y’all got a real placeholder on the Monday upon which this post was saved. We’re gonna try to give you some actual fresh content today.


(1) Beware Charybdis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis

Pot may not kill you, but it has friends like jet engines who are willing to do the job. Stay safe out there, mellow tokers!


(2) The Far Out Dude Prophesies

How did the 1970s get the future so right by warning us about what we shouldn’t do wrong, and then somehow failing to stop it?


(3) Pick a Number – Any Number!

Not so easy, when you think too much about it! Welcome to the “axiom of choice” – which fixes everything and breaks it, too.


(4) Dark Energy Is A Placeholder!

No, I did NOT say that Placing Holder Under Arrest is a Dark MAGA Energy. Nor did this lady. But she did say that “Dark energy is a placeholder for a lack of knowledge of what leads to the expansion of the universe.”

Actually, she said a whole lot more. If you want a good general explanation of the state of modern physics in words and no numbers, this gal can provide, during the first half hour.

After that, you enter the arena of physicists fighting each other. Grab some popcorn!

(PS – as you can see by the image on the video, these new AI anti-wrinkle creams and age-reversing formulas for men and women really work!)


(5) Does This Research Smell Sweet or Stink?

“Scent of a woman’s tears brings calm to men”

Remember – the Weizmann Institute had some researchers who straight-up lied about some covidian stuff, IIRC. This would mean that there are simple volatile chemicals that pacify human aggression. Are they putting those in everyday products? And if not, why not?

This was brought here a long time ago by somebody – and sat in my tabs forever.

LINK 1: https://studyfinds.org/womans-tears-calms-men-down/

LINK 2: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002442


So – we got some massive tab-clearing done. But there is still more to do! See you next time!

W

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cthulhu

As Valerie knows, the source for powerful mood-altering pheromones is Beninia.

cthulhu

…..and to double-down on the comment, I had been after Val to read John Brunner’s novel “Stand on Zanzibar”, and she had just completed it.

The MacGuffin for this book was a mysterious African tribe that “stole the soul” of invaders over centuries. At the end, it is revealed that they possess a unique pheromone in their sweat that pacifies would-be conquerors.

Valerie Curren

And even though I read that book “recently” you have a better grasp AND recall of the material, per usual. I used to have a brain, but now I have kids LOL

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Valerie Curren

“knowing” something is risky business 😉

kalbokalbs

Time travel is real.   :wpds_razz: 

pgroup2

So is stupidity.

I don’t recommend either one.  😉  🙃 

TheseTruths

Thank you, Wolf. Prayers for Gail and her neighbors in these difficult times. 🙏

cthulhu

Indeed, prayers for Gail and those around her.

Valerie Curren

Amen

Firefly

Amen🙏

TheseTruths

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pgroup2

I must be missing something. Cause I don’t get it.

TheseTruths

Pres. Trump is preventing WWIII (disabling the “bomb”) while the Dems, instead of supporting his efforts for peace, try to make him fail.

The “jab, jab, jab” is a nice touch with a double meaning, IMO.

pgroup2

Well, that explains everything.

pgroup2

ThanQ.

TheseTruths

TheseTruths

WATCH — @ScottJenningsKY has to remind CNN that slavery existed, but has been eradicated in this country.

“Are we going to be defined by the worst…mistake we ever made? Or are we going to be defined by what we’ve done moving forward…to become the greatest nation on Earth?

pgroup2

With all due respect, slavery was not a mistake.

Rather, it was the only workable solution to the wealth disparity between the industrial North and the agricultural South.

Beyond the factual reality, there is also the morality issue …

TheseTruths

As I listened, I thought Jennings was saying what he thought had to be said in order for the rest of his comments to be heard. If he hadn’t done that, the panel would have erupted and talked over each other and him, and he could not have gotten his point across.

pgroup2

He should have done that. If talked over, stand up and walk out.

cthulhu

While I agree that slavery was not a mistake, I find it (like, for instance, cannibalism and human sacrifice) to be part of the nature of man — found the world around among all peoples, and not nearly as far in the past as is generally supposed.

That said, it was the Anglosphere that took the lead in eradicating these practices worldwide…..which seems to have left everyone else with a certain degree of resentment.

I find it particularly troubling that the industrial North lays all the blame for slavery on the agricultural South after the Civil War. Massachusetts abolished slavery in 1783. Vermont abolished it in 1777. In 1787, it was abolished in the Northwest Territory (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin). In each of these cases, there was some forewarning, and slaveholders (who had a significant portion of their wealth in their slave holdings) could hurriedly sell their slaves into regions where abolition had not yet taken hold [being “sold down the river”].

For the North to then say, “you eeeeevvvviiiilllll Southerners, you have slaves!” could be immediately countered by, “yes, you sold them to us.”

TradeBait2

I have not always stated in the stories, but the vast majority of our founding fathers and their associates had slaves even in New England. Many did not release them before they personally died as they were concerned with the individuals bing able to survive in society without their assistance. Some did, but it was well into the 1790’s and beyond in some cases.

Slave trading was on its way out in the middle of the Revolutionary War. Few ask how it was established in the first place because they do not seek the answer that it was mercantilism of primarily the northerners. Yeah, that is the inconvenient truth. Most of the slaves entered the colonies through the port of Charleston, SC. From there many went to work on the plantations to produce cotton and other farm products for who? Yup, mercantilists living in the north who were trading with Europe. The more polished or preferred were shipped north to those same mercantilists and communities to work as slaves in their homes and on their farms. Others worked in the sweatshops of those same mercantilists.

I am so sick of the holier than thou BS. They were all in on it and profiting from it. They built great fortunes using them.

They leave out the much larger number who were not African who would sell themselves into servitude for periods of time to be able to leave the oppression and squalor of their ugly existence in Europe to have a shot at living free here in America. There were far, far more of them.

It is way past time for Americans to move on. We are all the same regardless of skin color or background. That was then, this is now.

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pgroup2

I am heartened by the number of Q-tree denizens who know truth.

singingsoul1

Often people who came from Europe were engendered servants. They came here to the US and had to work off they ship fair. They got very little often they got food left overs. My mother in law was that person worked long hours very little pay often was hungry and only got once a month half day off. She had a group of friends girls who came here at the same time who became her family here. All were 19. The life was miserable until she met my father in law at age 34. Some girls had horror stories were abused did not get the salary promise even though it was $25 after they paid their ship fair. I call it slavery and accommodations were not clean or livable to today standards. Still she loved this country.

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TradeBait2

Exactly. Thanks for posting.

para59r

True, and the North would have kept their slaves much longer if it made economic sense to do so, however caring for slaves in Northern climes is prohibited-ly expensive. Meanwhile, I was under the impression we don’t do morality issues here?

Are you trying to trigger me?  😆 

Tareq Abu Azzoum

Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza (obviously next up to be joined to the dead journalist list. He says 24 minutes ago… )

Neighbourhoods in Gaza City are coming under some of the fiercest Israeli attacks we have seen in recent weeks.

What is taking place is the full destruction of residential homes, the decimation of infrastructure, a full dismantling of civilian life.

What is so alarming is that Israel is encroaching its tanks into the beating heart of Gaza, not just the areas near the borders.

People have been repeatedly told by the Israeli military to flee – but this time, not to the western end of Gaza City but to the southern part of the Gaza Strip (well, its been the plan along), which has also been heavily bombarded in the last few hours.

Despite this, a large portion of the population is still in Gaza City – they are refusing to leave their homes and communities.

Anyway, Scott Jennings should likely hold off on the fretting about “past mistakes” as he attempts to wash the so called “original sin of our founding” away (his words, not mine) while were still busy staining our hands in another more grim. Maybe give it another year or 5 or however long it takes to cleanse Israel of 7 million Arabs. Okay just a thought.

Oh here’s another cool thought. Death counts in Gaza (now above 62,000) are only recognized by the international community if the body can be delivered to a hospital and verified through that means. Anything else is not counted. Not many hospitals left now so numbers are expected to steady soon. \ 😁 /

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kalbokalbs

I was under the impression we don’t do morality issues here?
Damn. Slow Guy missed another memo.

Assuming it exists.   :wpds_unamused: 

pgroup2

Stiletto humor. So sharp you don’t know you’re wounded until you see blood on the floor.

Valerie Curren

Unless worn by Melania!

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No eye bleach required!

Valerie Curren

(if) looks could kill 😉

Robert Baker

This photo supports my theory that most girls dreamed of being a ballerina when they were young.

Valerie Curren

I don’t know how she does it–she must have an Extremely high tolerance for pain!

pgroup2

You better tell kalbo that.

Firefly

Never heard that one either! Not buying it!  :insane: 

TheseTruths

Of course such a “memo” doesn’t exist. Those kinds of snide comments (not your comment) are what some of us have pointed out as causing strife, but such admonitions fall on deaf ears.

It’s easy to just post items of interest. That’s what almost everyone does. There is no reason for an undercurrent of negative comments unless that is what someone wants to bring here. The question is why they would want to do that.

Aubergine

“The question is why they would want to do that.”

You are inching closer to the reality of what is going on, I think.

para59r

Spoilers work when you don’t try to make them fail

Why inch when you can take leaps and bounds. 😮

Candance Owens likely the worst person to quote, but it demonstrates it’s a thing and yes she got attacked for it, but the comment is fair.
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comment image The bottom line is often used as an excuse but so is the talk in the Talmud used as an excuse. No wonder we made them burn most of their books, but it appears they wrote some of their stuff back in… just for debate purposes I’m sure.

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Not entirely true. Christians made Jews censor the book that they did not burn. Some Jews even self censored their books so they could keep their stuff. In truth only a small amount of Jewish writings were ever overtly supremist. However it is to these that it seems some in power seem to relate to? It’s a dicey hot topic they’d rather not to get into.

One excuse offered is besides being a minor comment in the Talmud, the Talmud is also a humorous book. Also in the earliest book burning days we weren’t exactly nice to these people.

Still stumbling about… this talk on the law mirrors what we see in the West Bank

This is just weird, but has heard it mentioned.

The book being referenced from is Peter Schaffer’s
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I had more for this, but refreshed my page and the comment went away… alas… maybe later. Some of that needs more explanation. Not entirely bad as it seems… but still it demonstrates a certain mentality that many still exist.

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para59r

Interesting. more info on one of the tweets above.

TheseTruths

Do you know how to use the spoiler?

Aubergine

Yes. Doesn’t care. Wants to incite people.

I’m out. I’m tired to death of dealing with someone who has spiraled completely out on a subject, to the point where it is just a propaganda troll parade every day. It’s ridiculous.

para59r

I don’t trust spoilers any more. The last one broke and I haven’t noticed anyone open the ones that didn’t. Put the posts out in the open seems okay. Maybe less?

TheseTruths

I don’t know what you mean about the spoiler breaking. People use it frequently with no problems. There are several examples on this page.

para59r

No no, someone said they wanted to see some DNA information and I had already put that into a spoiler but like always it wasn’t read. So I packed some more into a spoiler and Grok kept trying to tell me there were only 2 million Arabs in Israel and I knew that wasn’t right I started to go back and forth with Grok until I got Grok to admit there were 7 million Arabs in Israel and 7 million Israeli’s so that was a tremendous break through with Grok and I posted it all. Unfortunately it was so much information that it broke out of the Spoiler and Wolf had to stick it back together again My estimate 50 pages, all of which I had read. Might of been less but it broke the spoiler and the contents were spewed across the page…. quite terrible actually.

Here’s the summary on that.
Summary

  • Total Population (Pre-October 2023): Within Israel’s borders (pre-1967 + East Jerusalem) plus West Bank and Gaza, the total population is ~14.7–14.9 million, including:
  • Jews: 7.208 million (48–49%).
  • Palestinians: 7.1–7.2 million (48–49%) (2.1 million Gaza, 2.8–3 million West Bank, 346,000–351,570 East Jerusalem, 1.734 million Israeli Arab citizens).
  • Others: 554,000 (3–4%).

Unfortunately the question was about DNA, so I posted on everything.

The population numbers are important in a genocide don’t you think? 2 million or 7 million?

kalbokalbs

Spoiler broke.

  • Perhaps use the “edit feature” AND Fix it.
  • Break it up into two or more spoliers.
  1. No one can tell if a spoiler has been expanded.
  2. WP provides no indicator.
  3. Those that get opened, may, or may NOT warrant a reader comment.
  4. Disinterested reader(s), may just scroll by.
  5. Personally, after expanding a spoiler, I always close it. Makes follow on scrolling for posts, easier.

Some posts, I use multiple spoilers.

None of this is rocket science or difficult to understand.

  :wpds_arrow: “Maybe less?” <<<<<<<<<

  • OBVIOUSLY, as it’s been suggested many, many times.
  • Considerate. IMO.
para59r

“Morality Issue” is in reference to Scott Jennings saying Slavery is a our original sin, so yeah, no memo, but I guess you only figure out the things you want to figure out and hopes the chips fall your way.

Since folk don’t like talking about Israel and the on going genocide, mass starvation, ethnic cleansing thing they have going on over there I connected the two with wry humor. You then feign not to understand? While I hope some might understand that Slavery pales in comparison to what’s happening right now.

Hey! Look neat thing… now all those Arabs getting their land stolen makes more sense.

TheseTruths

I guess you only figure out the things you want to figure out and hopes the chips fall your way.

…You then feign not to understand? 

Your mind-reading and judgment calls about me are, as usual, way off. If you would address the things I have actually said instead of adding superfluous material like that, we might be able to talk. As it is, it’s probably best that we don’t due to what Wolf has said here.

And here’s a tip: What you call “wry humor” comes across as anything but.

para59r

Fine, but it goes right back to right back to time you and Abuergine shared a joke about me being
“the Retard. ” it began here: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/06/24/2025-05-13-daily-thread-american-stores-when-in-the-course-of-human-events-part-18/#comment-1479481

With your post by Dr Eli David in which he named Tucker Carl Retard of the Year.

I asked you which on is the retard? You finally answer back it’s not Trump it’s Tucker. I answer back the answers between Tucker and Eli Bard and told you to try again. Your evasive answer back led me to believe you chose the Neo Con Dr Eli David. Meanwhile Aburgine is making jokes about there is a third choice. Your answer back to her is ISWYDT.

I’d continue but it gets convoluted. Bottom line is if a pack is going to attack me, they’ll be an appropriate response. What you all really should do is attack me on the issues. But there seems to be some unwillingness to engage. Can’t help you there. The only one who’s scored is Auberguine with the Covenant applying to any and all who have converted regardless to time and place Though the Christian Church does not see it that way.

TheseTruths

I did not call you a retard, and I did not say that I agreed with what Aubergine implied. I apologize if it came across that way.

Your evasive answer back led me to believe you chose the Neo Con Dr Eli David. 

This is what I’ve been saying to you over and over. You can’t know what I’m thinking unless I make definitive statements. You can’t make judgments about what issues I care about or what I think about them. (And the same goes for others here.)

There is no attack, nor is there any intent to attack, on my part. I haven’t responded to the substance of your extended posts with attacks.

But there seems to be some unwillingness to engage. 

If that is how it appears to you, does that tell you anything? According to what I just wrote, judgments can’t be made about me regarding whether I agree or disagree, whether it’s a topic I know much or little about, or anything else except that I’m not engaging. There could be many reasons why, and you are not privy to those reasons, and I don’t have to defend myself in that regard.

If someone is not engaging with you on something, do you think you should keep pressing the subject, or do you think it would be a good idea to leave them alone?

Do you think you can write this ⬇️, with its imperious, commanding tone, and not have people react to it? As I have also mentioned over and over, people do not respond well to this and to the numerous other jabs about “sensitivities” and the like.

Fail. The choices were Tucker and Dr Eli David. Try again.

Now which of the two are the retard?

This means you get to defend Tucker or defend the Neo Con. Choice is yours. Which is it?

After that you may proceed back to my post.

Aubergine

THANK YOU for YOUR attention to this matter!

Valerie Curren

Ka-BQQM!

Prairierose

If I could “like” this comment, I would! 100%!!

mollypitcher5

LOL…same from me!

pgroup2

The skills of a Wallenda are needed when you get annoyed!  😂 

para59r

Wolf your the board owner, do as you will.

In the meantime since 23-24 June specifically and the start of the 12 day war I’ve seen more than my fair share “Retard”, “Screws coming Loose” “Scroll on by” etc… and not a peep from the boss. I can’t say I’ve responded in kind but I’ve certainly been condensing when warranted with a good dose of rye humor but never over the line. You can go back and strip out comments but if you look at the context you might end up wondering what the fuck it is your doing.

The issue at stake is one that everyone appears to think does not matter. However I wasn’t raised that way and I’m fairly sure many others weren’t either. When I think people are confused or misled by this issue I’m going to speak up. The charges are Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide and I don’t need to wait for a President captured by AIPAC to speak on this,(though he’s already acknowledged the starvation despite Bibi insisting there is none) the evidence is is in our face if we examine it fairly. The situation is not getting better, it will get worse, and will be with us for quite some time until 7 million Arabs are delt with wrongly in a home they’ve lived in since Canaan first existed, or Israel desists.

Everyone can cry 7 Oct but that is not washing well. There’s a host of information that indicates the Arabs were led down this path since the Zionists first arrived.

Various intel reports were collected before 7 October 2023. Some that alleges reports were made that between 200 to 250 hostages were to be taken in a raid. That passed on by Egypt and and latter confirmed by Israeli military whistle blowers. Additionally intel observers reported full scale rehearsals the days just before the raid. Additionally, an order not to conduct patrols was issued at 5AM instructing the patrolling unit responsible for a breached section of Gaza’s wall not to start patrols until 9AM. The raid happened at 7AM. Additionally there was a 7 hour stand down before the IDF started to respond to the raid, with the exception of a few units close to the area. Additionally the Hannibal Directive was issued that instructed military to disregard civilian causalities while striking at Hamas, accounting for at least 40 deaths and likely many more. Additionally Israel knew they were paying for tunnels and appox 50,000 truck loads of supplies were sent in to Gaza years before. Additionally 1.4 Billion was paid to Qatar to be smuggled into Gaza to pay for Hamas and fend off the West Bank Palestinians from involving themselves in Gaza’s elections.
None of these allegations have received a fair and formal look and such is not expected to happen until Bibi is out of power.

That’s one small aspect concerning my posting. There’s obviously many others to include how Arabs have been treated since settlers first arrived in the 40’s. 1,500 BC mentality vs 700 AD mentality and the two opposing forces look very similar in almost all aspects from violence to perversions.

Enough of that. Won’t try replicate posts and what else I have is too much for this space so leaves you with this conversation for whatever it might be worth.

It goes 12 comments deep after you land.
https://www.theqtree.com/2025/08/12/2025-09-02-daily-thread-america-stories-trust-trump-with-some-many-things/#comment-1498357

Valerie Curren

Solomon-esque Wisdom on display–Thanks!

Aubergine

Dude, the north had slavery long after the South was defeated and the black slaves were freed. It was just covered by paying “wages.” Irish immigrant children worked 16-18 hour days in factories, for pennies, or sometimes for no pay at all, just “room and board.” From Google AI:

“Irish immigrant children, along with children from other immigrant groups and poor American families, were unfortunately a significant part of the child labor force in Northern US factories during the Industrial Revolution. These children often worked grueling 12 to 16 hour days in dangerous conditions for very little pay, often a fraction of an adult’s wages or even no pay at all. 

Here’s a breakdown of what that experience likely involved:

  • Long Hours: Children in factories worked exceptionally long hours, with 16-hour days being common, and some instances seeing shifts extending up to 18 hours, according to Study.com.
  • Dangerous Workplaces: Factories of the era were typically dimly lit, poorly ventilated, and filled with dangerous machinery that children, due to their small size, were often employed to operate or repair in tight spaces.
  • Low Pay or No Pay: Children earned significantly less than adult workers, and their wages might go to their parents or be used to cover their room and board.
  • Health and Safety Risks: The long hours, hazardous conditions, and lack of breaks contributed to high rates of injury and illness among child laborers.
  • Lack of Education: Child labor prevented most working-class children from attending school, perpetuating a cycle of poverty and limiting their future opportunities. 

It’s important to remember that child labor was widespread during this period, and many factors contributed to its existence: poverty, the demand for cheap labor, the belief that children should be productive, and the lack of strong regulations to protect children. The fight against child labor was a long and difficult one, facing opposition from both employers and some parents, who relied on their children’s earnings for survival. It wasn’t until the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 that nationwide child labor restrictions were successfully implemented, according to History.com”

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Black slavery was a thing in early America because it was a thing all over the world.

pgroup2

Your comment proves that those children were much smarter than today’s children. At least to me it is proof.

pgroup2

Allow me to point out that the constitution does not mention slavery. It uses the term ‘involuntary servitude’ which puts any labor that is voluntary outside the scope of the amendment.

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Aubergine

Sorry, but “voluntary” doesn’t include six year olds.

TradeBait2

Great, accurate post.

Around here it started first with timbering and became the coal mines.

My Scots Irish ancestors did the indentured servant thing to get here. Timbering and saw mill stuff. Then coal mines began opening. The company camps were set up. Workers were paid with company minted coinage that was used to buy company provided goods in the camps, which grew into small communities. Some of those old remnant mining camp communities still exist throughout Appalachia.

My paternal great grandfather left a saw mill to go into the mines. It was all my grandfather and his siblings ever knew – that was a decade or so before 1900. My grandfather went to the company school through third grade before he started working in the mines as a water boy at age 10.

The owners of the companies for some reason were usually from the northeast and had iron and steel mill ownership. The first start ups of the mines were people who moved down from the north and built the camps, towns and communities. Later they would sell out to the wealthy industrialists.

Imagine that. Living high off the backs of indentured, children and other poverty stricken people.

singingsoul1

Who were the people who owned slaves? Where they immigrants were they natives or were they first generation from where? who were the rich landowners who owned slaves?

Aubergine

Some of the slave owners were black. I’ve seen them on early censuses, especially in Louisiana. But other states, too.

Valerie Curren

yes, this fact has come up several times, embarrassingly, on Finding Your Roots episodes I’ve seen…

Aubergine

I find it hilarious, because it points out the insanity of “reparations.”

Slavery in the 1600-1800’s was just an accepted practice. People think slave traders went over to Africa and invaded the place to kidnap victims. The truth is, slave traders bought their ships-full of people from slave markets. Africans sold other Africans into slavery.

History is ugly, and inconvenient.

Valerie Curren

100%

GA/FL

They need to be reminded of CURRENT DAY SLAVERY.

  • human/child trafficking, exploitation and abuse
  • drug trafficking – addiction is slavery
  • indoctrination of children in schools – stealing and distorting their identities – gender mutilation surgery/drugs
  • government and media promulgating lies to deceive people about climate, covid, vaccines, drugs that harm.
  • taxes and inflation – corruption and misuse of taxpayer dollars – keeps people enslaved to government abuse.
TradeBait2

👍 Yup – anther inconvenient truth. Slavery has many forms.

Firefly

Bravo   :cheers: 

scott467

They will never give up the slavery narrative, because it is a weapon they can always use to shame, humiliate and oppress white people. They can always play the ‘slavery card’ to shut white people down.

At least those white people who are afraid to call them out as the racist haters they are.

Reminds me of a woman I saw in a video about a week ago. She was telling a story about a recent wedding she attended, and how she got into a fight with her husband (again) because when the two of them were married, she didn’t get the wedding she wanted.

She says her husband was afraid to stand up to his Mom, and as a result, their wedding was at the wrong time of year, at the wrong place, and her family couldn’t attend.

And they have fought about it ever since, for 30+ years, because she brings it up every time they go to a wedding.

Because she will never, ever let it go. She will hound him all the way to the grave.

She’s a marriage counselor, if I remember correctly. She was talking about how people she counsels can’t let go of past disputes, and how it damages their relationships.

As she tells the story, she appears to be completely oblivious to the irony of her own refusal to let go of a dispute about her wedding three decades earlier.

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cthulhu

Immediately after my mom and dad got married, my uncle (dad’s bro) mustered out of the Marines….and he came to live with them for several weeks before he found his own place.

Forever afterwards, it was a sign that a parental disagreement was getting vicious when my mom brought my uncle into it.

Valerie Curren

I don’t think he should have conceded the point that “slavery is our nation’s original sin”.

We have to look at that issue in the context of the times when the nation was forming and all the compromises that were taken to ensure that America would not ultimately be stillborn…AND slavery is an ONGOING SIN of Islam, which is rarely if ever addressed  😡 

Also they pretty much always conflate “slavery” with “racism” & assume it was always whites enslaving blacks & for racial reasons when the topic is examined tritely.

I’ve watched many episodes of Finding Your Roots, hosted by “beer summit” “luminary” Henry Louis Gates (iirc) who pretty much always reveals his own racial bias at some point in each episode. He’s a mixed race black man who appears to have only embraced his own black ancestry & identity while marginalizing &/or maligning his white ancestry, similar to how Soetoro came off, at least to me.

Anyway many episodes of Finding Your Roots delve into the slavery issue, based on the specific ancestry of the various guests. What fascinates me is how many times Gates would have to qualify his remarks about a Specific Slave Scenario connected to the ancestry of a guest & the presumed “orthodox” slavery narrative that’s widely accepted, for rarely did the real world example align with the “orthodox” approved view.

I think it was Aubergine, and perhaps others here, who pointed out that their ancestors were in effect “white slaves” via the indentured servanthood route or other processes.

In researching my husband’s genealogy I discovered a prominent line in his background, a Quaker family surnamed Shoemaker, were in fact white slaves in the Caribbean, as they made their way from Europe, where they’d been persecuted for their faith, to the New World. I haven’t dived deeply into this family history but was surprised to learn that Hubby has “slave” blood in his veins, but not necessarily black blood.

A mild example of this “doesn’t quite fit the narrative” situation unfolds at around 4 minutes in the video at this link:

https://www.pbs.org/video/finding-your-roots-education-slavery-north/

TheseTruths

Peter Bernegger:

BREAKING: President Trump signs Executive Order requiring an audit of every NGO relying on federal funding.

Huge: this has been a major way in which the liberal communists have been stealing our money, right from the US Treasury.

Better yet: it’s also been a major way corrupt politicians and Washington DC bureaucrats have been stealing it. Including US Senators and US Congressmen – this is how in a nutshell:

they form an NGO, obtain US govt. funding, put in place their wives, relatives or close friends. Those then get big annual salaries, think in the millions of dollars! Or payout to “subcontractors”….which in some way they are tied to.

Bonus: NGO’s have also been funding liberal communist campaigns, and Antifi (don’t hear much from them any longer do we? https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f602.svghttps://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f923.svg) And foreign governments, and offshore bank accounts.

This one Executive Order is going to shut down tons of liberals, liberal organizations, because they are not doing true non-profit type work – but either stealing the money or using it for political purposes to harm our country.

TradeBait2

Follow the money is always a great plan. But doing something to stop it and incarcerating those who commit crimes is even better.

We have known this stuff has been going on for decades. At least now they are stopping it. But the job will not be done until those who did it are in prison or executed for treason.

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TheseTruths

WOW! Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just revealed that President Trump’s deal with Ukraine may RECOUP all of our needless spending in aid to Ukraine.

Yet another mess Trump cleans up.

“Since he got into the Oval on January 20th, President Trump has been talking about not sending any more money to Ukraine. We did this economic partnership, which once this conflict stops, could pay off big for the American taxpayer. We can recoup our investment.”

“If Ukraine does well, we do well. The conflict stops, and the conflict’s got to stop for the economic partnership to really kick in. We’re going to start with some investments.”

“I think President Trump is very vigilant. Right now, we are selling arms to the Europeans, who are then selling them on to the Ukrainians.”

PLEASE make this happen. We have spent far too much already.

TheseTruths

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Aubergine

That’s both funny and horrifying.

TheseTruths

HUD makes English the sole language for department services: ‘Speak with one voice and one language’

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner on Tuesday confirmed his department is making English the sole language for its services, which comes after President Donald Trump designated English as the official language of the U.S.

Trump signed the executive order in March, and the Justice Department last month said it would lead the federal effort to implement the order. Before the order, the U.S. never had an official language.

“Following [the president’s] Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The United States, HUD will solely use English for all Departmental business and services,” Turner posted to X. “We are one people, united, and we will speak with one voice and one language to deliver on our mission.”

…The housing department said there will be some instances where other languages may be permitted to comply with federal law, including accommodations required under the Americans with Disability Act and the Violence Against Women Act.

The department said that before Trump’s order, it accommodated over 200 languages and had an interpretation line for individuals unable to speak English proficiently, the outlet reported.

The HUD guidance is expected to go into effect immediately. 

TheseTruths

More about HUD…

Wall Street Mav:

Trump HUD has proposed kicking out able-bodied adults after two years on Section 8 housing subsidies, which currently have no time limits or work requirements.

TradeBait2

Perfect. That will end the current culture of dead beats who are donkey azzes in that area.

barkerjim

“That area”. We have Section 8 housing everywhere. I would even venture a guess that many of the properties purchased by Blackrock etc became Section 8 for the guarantied rent from our taxes.

pgroup2

This is false. Section 8 pays 70% of the rent; the tenant pays 30%. The tenant’s share is from employment, and all income must be verified yearly. Section 8 is primarily for able-bodied adults. Ironically, I am completing my yearly Section 8 verification form tonight [which is the last day – hurray for procrastination].

WallStreetMav might be confusing Section 8 with Public Housing [projects].

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singingsoul1

How do people become citizen without knowing English? There is a required English test.

TheseTruths

I’m guessing these people are not citizens.

singingsoul1

That is it

TheseTruths

Incredible that the country had to live with four years of Biden. This is so obviously fraudulent.

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TradeBait2

Data and statistics are what they are unless the collectors and counters are criminals or totally incompetent.

Aubergine

Hell, we all know. I get so mad when I think about it, I just can’t think about it.

I have since come to realize, though, that I think God did it/allowed it for good reason. Trump has far more power now than he would have had he won then.

TheseTruths

HOLY CRAP! Washington DC residents are flooding in support for President Trump’s federalization of the District – this is absolute nightmare fuel for Dems.

“As a moderate, as a centrist, I think something needs to be done. I have three kids. I’m about to start teaching next week. I want it to be safe.”

“It’s a good thing because it actually reinforces the fact that America is secure, safe, stable.”

ANOTHER RESIDENT: “I ENJOY having extra security. I think it’s a good thing…you wanna feel safe when you’re out and about, especially females.”

This is in stark contrast to the nearly all-white paid protesting crowds who appeared in DC over the weekend. These people actually live here. And they support it – imagine that.

scott467

ANOTHER RESIDENT: “I ENJOY having extra security. I think it’s a good thing…you wanna feel safe when you’re out and about, especially females.”

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Oh, especially!

Men love getting robbed, beaten, stabbed, car-jacked and shot by roving gangs of fatiguers.

But females… not so much… 🙄

cthulhu

*snicker*

TheseTruths

Surely you know what she was referring to, that generally, females are more vulnerable than males when it comes to crime. They are preyed upon more, and in general they are not as strong and are less able to defend themselves.

Valerie Curren

guns are a great equalizer!

scott467

They are, but if you’re confronted by 5 or 6 guys with guns, or even 2 or 3, and they’ve all killed several people each before — then even if you’re carrying, you’re probably dead.

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Valerie Curren

You’re right. I was just thinking of a “weaker” woman with a gun being able to stand up to a “stronger” man without one…

GA/FL

We’ve seen lots of gangs of violent AA females attacking and even killing people.

TheseTruths

Yes, females can be feral, and men can be in danger. But in general, it used to be that men escorted ladies and wanted to protect them. It was known and acknowledged that women are the weaker sex and that they are preyed upon by unscrupulous men. The Left has done a good job of trying to change everything that is normal.

scott467

Surely you know what she was referring to, that generally, females are more vulnerable than males when it comes to crime.

_____________

That’s the perception, but when gangs of fatiguers are on the hunt for whitey, they don’t care if the target is male or female.

And please don’t call me Surely… 😂

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They are preyed upon more, and in general they are not as strong and are less able to defend themselves.

_______________

The nature of modern pack animal attack groups means that even if you’re Chuck Norris, or Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Rambo, strength and ability to defend oneself doesn’t matter.

That’s why they do it.

I was thinking about this when I woke up today. I saw a video by Anton Daniels recently. Anton is a Christian black man, who does regular commentary on the problems of black culture, both male and female black culture.

He often does group conversations, where he has 5 or 6 women on, frequently (but not always) all black, and he challenges them as to the choices they have made, and how they have become the way they are, and why. And what they think about men. And about white people. It’s all straight from the horse’s mouth, unfiltered.

In the video I watched recently, Anton was talking to another black man who appeared to be a friend of his. And he asked his friend, if a gang-banger rolled up on us, got out of his car and shot me, would you call 911, would you call the police and get me an ambulance and save my life?

And his black friend laughed, hemmed and hawed, and said I ain’t no snitch, Anton.

Anton wasn’t asking him to be a snitch, he was asking are you my friend? Are you my brother? Are you willing to call the authorities to save my life?

His ‘friend’ gets defensive at this point, ‘I ain’t no snitch, do me like that Anton’.

And to his credit, Anton told him if you won’t save my life, while I’m bleeding out on the street, then you aren’t my friend.

And he’s right.

That guy is not his friend, and Anton isn’t going to pretend otherwise. He’s not going to accept that ‘social contract’. He’s not going along with, or enabling, that aspect of ‘black culture’.

‘Snitch’ is prison terminology, and that’s what black culture has become, it’s a prison culture.

It occurred to me that so many black people have done prison time, that black culture has become prison culture.

It explains a lot.

I haven’t spent a lot of time in prisons, mostly because I try to avoid doing things that would get me sent there, but I have seen a number of videos by an ex-con who spent 10 years in a state prison for the armed robbery of a convenience store. He does regular videos on Karmelo Anthony and other high profile people who are likely going to prison, and what they can expect.

And much of what he describes about prison behavior is pretty much how many black people act all the time, outside of prison.

Every encounter is a dominance confrontation that leads to immediate violence if you are in the wrong part of the prison yard, or if you don’t have your posse with you.

Aubergine

Women get rapists, scott. I doubt you’ve had to deal with that particular kind of trauma, but it’s life-changing in a significantly different way than a car-jacking.

scott467

Men get raped in prison, it’s homo rape, which is a whole different kind of vile and disgusting.

Many women joke about that and cheer it on whenever some high profile man is going to prison, regardless of whether he’s a sex offender or not.

Prison should be a place where you lose your freedom and do your time, not someplace where you go to get murdered, or to get gang-raped every day unless you join a gang and follow orders to extort, smuggle drugs and kill other people, or die trying.

I don’t think that rehabilitates anyone, but it would probably make them a lot more dangerous when they get out.

If a white man defends his life against a fatiguer attack, his own life is probably over, regardless of the outcome. If he survives the confrontation, he will likely be arrested and prosecuted, and unless there is video of the incident and he lives in a conservative county in Texas, that white man is going on trial for his life.

Even if he is found not guilty, he’ll have to move his whole family, probably have to change his name, and spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.

That’s the best case scenario, for defending his own life against an unprovoked fatiguer attack.

Which is exactly what a white man has to anticipate in the current environment, anytime he encounters a fatiguer.

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Aubergine

I understand about prison. My ex-husband was a prison guard for a time. I’ve heard stories. But that’s prison; I’m talking about just walking to your car in a parking garage, or taking a jog through the park.

If you are attacked by a lone male, you have a hell of a lot better chance of fighting him off than I do.

As for your last scenario:

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TheseTruths

HOLY CRAP

The illegal alien truck driver who kiIIed 3 people, FAILED an English Language Assessment, getting only 2/12 answers right and identifying only 1/4 highway traffic signs.

It was also discovered that WA and CA issued Singh a commercial driver’s license despite not being eligible for it.

Authorities in New Mexico also failed to issue ELP tests when Singh was stopped there for speeding..

This is the mindset fostered by the Biden fraudministration and the entire Left: rules don’t matter, let everyone in, law and order and safety don’t matter, chaos and filth and disorder are fine. And I don’t think they care at all that people are dying because of their policies. Many of them want people to suffer and die.

patfrederick

that is a dangerous road to travel–did not know it was wrong to do it. how many legal residents would be allowed to get away with that excuse? it should not even be said. i don’t want more loopholes to avoid responsibility. I want them ALL held responsible. the clerk who gave him the permit to fill out, the person who took his money and issued his phony cdl license and HIM and any middle men I am not aware of!

sorry…mama’s in a mood.

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kalbokalbs

Momma’s B A C K.

  :pepper:   :banana-mario:   :cheers:   :banana-mario:   :banana2: 

patfrederick

LOL…

singingsoul1

Amen missed Pat 🙂

TradeBait2

Finally. Get your tail in here and start being you! We have missed you.

patfrederick

thank you. been reading here. silently sitting on the sidelines waiting for Steve. (but don’t tell him that…lol)
trying to lure him back…maybe some WGTT’s??

Valerie Curren

maybe some WGTT’s??”

Wolf already put out the bait  😂 

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patfrederick

i don’t think Steve is a camel guy…LOL

Valerie Curren

maybe more like this

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patfrederick

thinking more like this…but I don’t know if she smokes…LOL

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Valerie Curren

I can’t see your image but part of it’s URL is intriguing…hmmm
Belly_Dancer_Geneva_Dancer_cleavage_pierced_navel

patfrederick

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Valerie Curren

naughty AND nice 😉

Tatonka Woman

I just checked with Mr. TW.
He says she is smokin’ – for sure!

patfrederick

LOL

Valerie Curren

…smokin’…see about 1:30 here: 😉

pgroup2

Which says a lot about you.

He’d never dare say such a thing if you weren’t better than her.

barkerjim

I get 403 forbidden error

patfrederick

I didn’t realize that till i posted it…so i posted another…

singingsoul1

I miss Steve also  😉 

pgroup2

WGTTs should do the trick.

Go get changed and take some selfies.  😂 

patfrederick

what makes you think I already didn’t?
LOL

singingsoul1

Yes we did

TheseTruths

that is a dangerous road to travel–did not know it was wrong to do it. how many legal residents would be allowed to get away with that excuse?

No one should be allowed to get away with that excuse because ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.

patfrederick

agreed!

Aubergine

Amen!

Brave and Free

Well we have the Morgan and Morgan ads constantly advertising if you’re hurt in a car reck to call them. There’re the largest firm in America, recovering billions of dollars, blah, blah, blah. So annoying, as they drive auto insurance up.
They’ll never touch it though, the owners a big leftist. How would they justify going after there own?

scott467

“This is the mindset fostered by the Biden fraudministration and the entire Left: rules don’t matter [unless you’re a white man], let everyone in [unless you’re white], law and order and safety don’t matter [unless you’re a white man], chaos and filth and disorder are fine [unless you’re white]. And I don’t think they care at all that people are dying because of their policies. Many of them want people to suffer and die. [especially white men]”

👍 🙂

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Brave and Free

And lots of black youths, they’ve a constant new incident to be used again and again. In their quest for more $$.
The train keeps rolling along, never stops.
That’s one of the reasons why they hate PDJT, he wants to stop the violence. If he does, they’ll have to find another gravy train.

scott467

And lots of black youths, they’ve a constant new incident to be used again and again.

_____________

Yes, but unless the black youths are innocent bystanders, they don’t count, in the same way that when a mass-shooter kills himself or is killed during the crime, he’s not counted among the victims.

Because he’s the perp.

Aubergine

Unbelievable. Good grief.

pgroup2

Don’t they need a medical card also?

Calling Valerie.

Valerie Curren

You rang?

K1tt7-fzn

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
5h
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon reveals that the massive medical bill totals insurance companies send to you are really “fictitious numbers” that don’t represent real money anyone is being paid

He just did a surgery for a patient, the insurance company said the procedure cost $170,000. The patient gets a bill and thinks that’s coming from the doctors office, it’s not

The bill is coming from the insurance company, on the $170,000 bill for the surgery his office only gets paid $2,000

So he says none of this makes any sense because none of these huge bills are actually ever paid to anyone

“The procedure was approved by insurance and it led to, according to their billing statements, $170,000 claimed. The total hospital billing for which our practice was reimbursed, $2,000.

So just amazing, the bizarre discrepancy. And where does the rest of it all go? Fortunately, you know, this patient doesn’t account for nearly that amount for their payment because their insurance does cover a significant portion of that as well as it not actually total billed to that amount. But it just illustrates some of the madness that there is in healthcare billing practices, because one, nobody knows what the bills are before we do them, including doctors. We have no idea

And then patients get this astronomical number that is really kind of a fictitious number that doesn’t get represented by real money that anyone collects”

This sounds like a racket and outright fraud. How do the insurance companies getting away with it

GA/FL

Like toilet paper math…

or DC Congressional math….

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pgroup2

… DC Congressional math …

That’s probably where they learned it from …

kalbokalbs

Anyone that has read a statement from their insurance company, including Medicare KNOWS the “billed” amounts are bullshit.

  • Some outrageous fee, for which a miniscule amount is paid by health insurance.
  • The amount that may be required by the patient, typically small.
  • The amount the patient actually pays, usually small. (Yes some are obscenely huge.)

nobody knows what the bills are before we do them, including doctors. We have no idea

  • Trump 1.0 tried to fix this. Patients had to be told the cost, before a procedure.
  • Theory being, patients could quack shop, hospital and clinic shop.
  • Common sense.

Medical care systems, quacks, hospitals get richer via their racket.

Hopefully Trump 2.0 has this on his “punch list” of abuses to fix. I’d bet on it.

Perhaps after prescription costs get fixed.

pgroup2

It’s about profit/loss. Losses don’t pay taxes OR dividends.

K1tt7-fzn

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
2h
Illegal from China arrested for running an international weapons ring out of Gavin Newsom’s sanctuary state California

“A Chinese national accused of stockpiling weapons and military equipment”

“The house behind me that the man lived in was a revolving door, people in and out. But the one thing that remained a constant was this van used to transport all those weapons authorities say was going to be used for a surprise attack on South Korea — A search of his home, including a van parked outside of his home, we found over 50,000 rounds of ammunition”

cthulhu

“Fifty thousand rounds? These are rookie numbers.”

kalbokalbs

Ontario based. Likely NV sales in play.

Ammunition. Just another area, CA is FUBAR.

pgroup2

One trip to the gun range?

TradeBait2

We don’t need no gun ranges in hillbilly land. 😀

K1tt7-fzn

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
56m
It actually happened, cars are now being sold with their full horsepower locked behind a paid subscription

“Volkswagen just did something that should make every car owner furious. They’re selling their electric ID3 with its full horsepower locked behind a paid subscription. 

The car comes from the factory with 228 horsepower, but if you don’t pay a monthly fee, it’s software limited to just 201. For about $22 a month, they’ll flip a digital switch and unlock the power that was already inside the car that you paid for. 

First, BMW tried to sell you a subscription for heated seats. Now VW is selling you a subscription for your engine. Their defense? It gives customers a sportier driving experience without a higher initial purchase price. But this isn’t just about cars. This is the future they want for everything. 

Imagine a monthly key to use the high heat setting on your oven or the fast cycle on your dishwasher. You don’t own the product. You’re just renting its best features.”

pgroup2

Well, that just created a cottage industry … for ‘puter hackers.

Fast track to filthy rich.

eilert

A version of the WEF ‘Build Back Better.’
You will not own anything, BUT you may be able to rent it for a FEE.

Firefly

Grief!   :wpds_evil:   :wpds_mad: 

K1tt7-fzn

DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
10h
My head is overflowing with research today, so forgive the philosophical mood.

What everyone keeps asking, implicitly, is whether there exists some hidden Leviathan; a single Rockefeller-style manifesto that lays out the master plan for one world order. That’s how people expect ideologies to work: communism gave us its manifestos, its “scientific truths,” its cults of personality. Monolithic systems are easy to trace because they tell us what is the “truth” and demand obedience.

But globalism is of a different species. It is pluralistic by design, self-consciously so. Karl Popper spoke of the “open society” as a Pantheon; no one has a monopoly on truth, everyone contributes their piece. Soros echoed this: nobody holds absolute knowledge, so institutions must be designed to keep multiple truths in circulation.

So if we extend the metaphor: how would such a Pantheon of gods govern?

They would not issue a single manifesto. Instead, they would agree over time to build common institutions: temples, rules of ritual through which their collective will could be enacted. Those temples are the IMF, NATO, the UN, the WTO, the OSCE. Each god retains individuality, but each also consents to empower the Pantheon as sovereign.

The unspoken covenant is: whatever disagreements they might have, every god advances the authority of the Pantheon itself. Bush, reluctant in Bosnia, still upheld the system. Albright, more zealous for intervention, pushed it forward. Soros was a disruptor who accelerated the Pantheon rule.

Freedom exists for common people, but only within this sacred order. You may worship freely, so long as you worship within the Pantheon’s terms. To reject the gods entirely is to be autocratic — because to reject the Pantheon is to reject pluralism. 

And because it is pluralistic and dynamic, the Pantheon naturally evolves and strengthens once in place. Institutions accumulate power. Each generation of gods adds new layers, from Cold War containment to post-Cold War enlargement. The vocabulary shifts, but the structure grows more durable.

The paradox is that over time, the Pantheon hardens into the same monolithic tyranny it claimed to transcend. What began as a pluralist coalition ends as a self-justifying orthodoxy. To question the Pantheon, to question the legitimacy of NATO expansion or “democracy promotion,” is to brand oneself a heretic, an enemy of “democracy.”

In short: the open Pantheon has become its own closed Leviathan.

pgroup2

Regarding your closing sentence – a crude way to state that is one’s head in own butt.

cthulhu

So, I recently got a Lenovo micro-case computer off of Woot. This is my second attempt, because they previously sent me a tower computer instead (which I elected to keep). It came with Win10P, and I just converted it to Ubuntu MATE, and it works fine. I’ll just need to set it up to run headless and I should be off to the races.

The previous error computer is destined to be a Jellyfin server. I want to make it dual-boot (default Ubuntu MATE) and I got hung up on that. Hopefully, it will go smoothly with the same Ventoy thumbdrive I just used to subvert its cousin.

The Fiancee is ditching a laptop which I am also trying to subvert, but it doesn’t want to shrink the existing Windows partition. Needs some research.

This has left me running a bunch of long computer processes (this computer needs to go from Jammy to Noble), but I’m pleased with the progress.

kalbokalbs

Hump day successes are a beautiful thing.

Imagine the bullshit Bingo card(s) computer geeks could create.

  • Lenovo, micro-case computer, Woot, tower computer, Win10P, Ubuntu MATE, Jellyfin server, dual-boot, default Ubuntu MATE, Ventoy thumbdrive, laptop, subvert, Windows partition. Jammy, Noble AND of course, Free Space.
  • Need a handful more to fill out the Bingo card.
pgroup2

Go to jail; go directly to jail; do not pass GO; do not collect $200.

note: it’s Free Parking, not free space.

kalbokalbs

Oh. Nice job.

Started out as bingo AND shifts to Monopoly. Excellent capitalists strategy.

100% endorse this.   :wpds_razz: 

Valerie Curren

 😍 

Valerie Curren

I thought Lenovo was Chyneze connected, which might have you steering clear  🙄 

cthulhu

A good point. I would be seriously hesitant to buy a Lenovo router, where the software doesn’t get changed very often. Instead, this is a Lenovo Linux system.

Valerie Curren

Knew you’d be on top of it somehow 🙂

pgroup2

He’s BSing you. The problem with CCP ‘puter stuff isn’t software – it’s hardware. If he’s on top of it, I’d sure like to know how.

Unless he’s leasing time and space at a chip-manufacturing plant.

Valerie Curren

He’s BSing you.”

A Q-Tree staple around that proverbial campfire methinks 😉

cthulhu

No BS. Just keep it in a walled garden.

Firefly

So if a Lenovo has Linux Mint on it instead of Windows it’s ok?

Firefly

Aha! Click! Many Thanks Wolf!

cthulhu

Oh, I do — but the hardware has to be triggered somehow and connect outside. Linux can limit these.

patfrederick

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kalbokalbs

Several LOLF in them two posts. Thanks.

patfrederick

laughter is my personal disarming.

pgroup2

Don’t forget –

Lots of thugs ain’t smart enough to have a sense of humor.

patfrederick

I meant for me personally. laughter gets me out of the worst moods.

Brave and Free

I suppose you could insert O’bummer for macaroons in that meme.

patfrederick

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pgroup2

Why is it unacceptable?

Because some country figured out a slick way to make money?

Or is it because a country isn’t putting America first without compensation?

We’re starting to sound like the neighborhood shakedown artist.

patfrederick

slick way or disgusting way?
price gouging isn’t acceptable morally. profit is one thing. price gouging is way different than that.
what’s to prevent India from buying some other commodity (food) and gouging it and starving nations have no option but to pay the high price? sounds worse than gouging, sounds like extortion. if they can do it with oil, what prevents them from doing it with food or medicine?

pgroup2

Your premise [gouging] is that there is no other source. I disagree.

patfrederick

in a world filled with “sides” for plenty of countries there is only one source.

kalbokalbs

Reminds me of federal projects. Pay some entity. They lift a profit, then pay another entity to get the job done. Rinse. Repeat.

Or. Chinee exports to Canaduckstan. Only to be sent to the US. Trying to avoid tariffs.

Lots of way to polish it.

Valerie Curren

Stanley Kubrick, the visionary director behind cinematic masterpieces like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining, didn’t merely die of a heart attack in 1999—he was murdered in a ritualistic execution orchestrated by the CIA, according to a chilling deathbed confession from one of the agency’s own officers. This explosive revelation, detailed in files passed to alternative media outlets before the confessor’s death in 2020, paints a picture of a man who dared to peel back the curtain on the depraved rituals and pedophile networks of the global elite through his final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Just days after delivering what he called his “greatest contribution to the art of cinema,” Kubrick was silenced forever, his work mutilated to bury the truths he sought to reveal.”

https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/08/19/the-shocking-assassination-of-stanley-kubrick-a-cia-hit-to-silence-the-exposure-of-satanic-elites/

TradeBait2

Thanks for the placeholder, Wolf. Many prayers for Gail, family and friends.

Valerie Curren

amen

Valerie Curren

Valerie Curren

https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/08/20/aap-big-pharmas-corrupt-puppet-sacrificing-kids-for-endless-profits/

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Multiple links at Whatfinger article too…

Brave and Free

Why not give them the vaccine? They’ll have a revolving door of young patients for life. /s

Valerie Curren

Yup…Demons!   :wpds_twisted: 

Valerie Curren

  :wpds_mad: 

Valerie Curren

Valerie Curren

Valerie Curren

I wonder what Naomi had to say if the full clip were playing?

Valerie Curren

He might have been a trial balloon/buffoon of sorts  😠 

Valerie Curren

I read The Third Terrorist, iirc, by Jayna Davis, years ago so this caught my eye. Having recently moved from OK the story was a focus of my young married life at the time…

https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/08/19/the-deep-states-deadly-deception-was-the-fbi-the-real-mastermind-behind-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/

Many links for further research at the above article…

In related news:

FBI, DOJ, Caught Lying about Oklahoma City Bombing Footage, Pics of Security Cameras on Murrah Building Highlight 30 Years of Courtroom Lies. Utah Attorney Jesse Trentadue believes his brother was interrogated and tortured to death in August 1995 because federal authorities mistakenly thought he was “John Doe #2” in the Oklahoma City Bombing…. – Gateway Pundit
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/fbi-doj-caught-lying-about-oklahoma-city-bombing/

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Valerie Curren

It’s amazing what we can see looking back with all we’ve learned in recent years  😮 

Valerie Curren

There’s some good stuff in this whole thread:

https://nitter.poast.org/MatrixMysteries/status/1957773887984562536

Thread with images…hopefully

MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
Illusions don’t end when we stop believing them. They end when reality makes belief impossible. – George Orwell

A Thread Exposing The Illusions We Were Soldhttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f9f5.svg

1. Beauty Didn’t Change. The Narrative Did.comment image
Aug 19, 2025 · 11:57 AM UTC
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
Advertising’s Quiet Return to Reality

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg Inclusion was never a moral revolution—it was a marketing campaign. Corporations discovered that virtue could trend, and they rode it until the metrics collapsed. Consumers weren’t persuaded; they were exhausted. And when sales tanked, the mask slipped.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg In the end, profit—not politics—won. What was framed as “progress” was just a strategy. When the numbers came in, they didn’t expose the audience. They exposed the lie.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
2. Feminism: The Lie They Sold as Equality

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg What began as a fight for women’s rights slowly became a weapon against the nuclear family. Motherhood was framed as a burden, masculinity as a threat, and tradition as oppression. The result wasn’t liberation — it was decay.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg The only real winners were corporations. By doubling the workforce, they halved the value of labor, doubled the taxable population, and gained a generation too busy, divided, and exhausted to resist. Feminism didn’t break the system — it fed it.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
3. The Death of Masculinity

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg Strength was never the threat — but strong men were. So masculinity was rebranded as toxic, fatherhood as optional, and leadership as oppression. Boys were medicated. Men were silenced. And the world was told to celebrate their absence.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg A society without strong men is easier to steer. Masculinity had to be dismantled — not for equality, but for compliance. When protectors fall, predators thrive. And in the vacuum, the state becomes father, protector, and god.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
4. The Climate Change Hoax

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg Climate change isn’t a crisis —it’s a business model. The narrative has been weaponized to push carbon credits, green taxes, and endless “solutions” that enrich the few and burden the many.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg Behind every doomsday headline is an economic or political motive. The goal was never to save the planet. It was to sell you fear, restrict your choices, and enforce compliance under the illusion of moral responsibility.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
5. The Death of the Media Propaganda Machine

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg The press once commanded trust as if it were a permanent asset. Today, every headline is met with instant skepticism, fact-check threads, and independent journalists dismantling their narratives in real-time. The monopoly on truth didn’t erode—it evaporated.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg The louder the media screams “misinformation,” the clearer the signal becomes: they no longer decide what’s credible.
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
6. The Business Of Disease — “A Patient Cured Is a Customer Lost”

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg “Trust the experts” was less about medicine than it was about market share. Behind every press conference sat lobbyists, settlements, and quarterly goals disguised as public health. The result? Skepticism became survival instinct.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg Now, people don’t need theories—they have evidence. Every scandal, every payout, every hidden memo burned away the illusion. What was once unquestionable authority is now a brand with permanent damage.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
7. Divided by Design: The Identity Trap

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg Identity politics replaced unity with fragmentation — turning shared struggle into competing grievances. You were taught to see yourself through race, gender, or sexuality before seeing yourself as a human. Victimhood became virtue, and common ground disappeared.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg This wasn’t progress. It was misdirection. Real power structures remain untouched while people fight over language and labels. Division is profitable. Polarization is control. And while the public turns on itself, the system tightens its grip.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
8. The Porn Pandemic

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg They told you it was natural, healthy, even empowering — a safe outlet in a digital world. But porn didn’t liberate desire. It hijacked it. It rewired your brain, numbed your instincts, and trained you to crave pixels over people.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg This wasn’t about freedom. It was about control. A distracted, desensitized population doesn’t build families, lead communities, or challenge systems. Porn was never just a product — it was a weapon. And it’s being used on you.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
9. School: Still Running on the same 100-Year-Old Blueprint

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg School was designed for efficiency, not growth. A system built to mass-produce workers — not develop minds. Bells told you when to move. Desks told you where to sit. Silence was rewarded. Questions were discouraged. It wasn’t education. It was conditioning.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg Real-world skills were replaced with memorized facts. Creativity was punished. Curiosity was standardized. You weren’t educated — you were processed. And the system worked exactly as intended: it prepared you for a job, not a life.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
10. “The World Is Overpopulated” — A Manufactured Crisis

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg You were told humans are the problem — that more people mean more poverty, pollution, and collapse. But this fear was never rooted in truth. It was engineered to justify control, sterilization, and social engineering on a global scale.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f539.svg The real crisis isn’t overpopulation — it’s underpopulation. Birth rates are crashing, families are shrinking, and future generations are vanishing. The lie wasn’t about numbers. It was about obedience.comment image
MatrixMysteries
@MatrixMysteries
Aug 19
Thanks for reading.

If you found value in this thread, follow for more: @MatrixMysteries

edit: I couldn’t (easily) get the images to show, so see the nitter link for all…

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TheseTruths

That’s a good thread, and ewwwww….

Valerie Curren

ikr 😉

Valerie Curren

eilert

Valerie Curren

occupy warsaw?

Valerie Curren

LOL

TheseTruths

I’m glad Elon is doing this, but why Vance and not Trump? Maybe it’s so he doesn’t appear to be returning with his tail between his legs, but this makes it look as if he is holding onto a grudge.

Firefly

See the last paragraph https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/interstellar-object-3i-atlas-appears-to-emit-its-own-light-harvard-scientist/

“Loeb pointed out to The Post that earlier this year, NASA claimed to discover a new asteroid which turned out to merely be the Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space.”

singingsoul1

Peter Thiel is friends with Elon. JDV has been supported by Peter Thiel. See what I see?

kalbokalbs

Elon Musk is now considering joining forces with JD VANCE instead of going all-in on a 3rd party, per WSJ.

  • News Flash. 3rd party was DOA – Dead On Arrival. Many months ago.
  • Elon lashing up with JD is, 100% Warning Will Robinson.

Either Elon is America First – MAGA, OR Elon is part of the problem.

Trump is the America First – MAGA LEAD engine. JD supporting role. As are all other America First – MAGA types.

kalbokalbs

Elon Musk Denies Wall Street Journal Report That He’s Scrapping Plans For Third Party


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/elon-musk-scraps-plans-third-party-will-instead/

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Valerie Curren

eilert

Valerie Curren

That tweet is in the thread that I shared below from Nitter, but NOT ALL of those Videos were visible via Nitter…hmmm…

Valerie Curren

patfrederick

h/t Filly
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Valerie Curren

singingsoul1

That is a crime and RFK should know better what a fraught. Sorry I am harsh.

Valerie Curren

No one can be harsh enough when it comes to the planned poisoning of people!  :wpds_mad: 

singingsoul1

True

duchess01

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 Wednesday, August 20, 2025

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” 

John 10:10 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR JOHN 10

“The parable of the good shepherd. (1-5) Christ the Door. (6-9) Christ the good Shepherd. (10-18) The Jews’ opinion concerning Jesus. (19-21) His discourse at the feast of dedication. (22-30) The Jews attempt to stone Jesus. (31-38) He departs from Jerusalem.” (39-42)

(10-18) “Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were careless in their duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt. Bad principles are the root of bad practices. The Lord Jesus knows whom he has chosen, and is sure of them; they also know whom they have trusted, and are sure of Him. See here the grace of Christ; since none could demand his life of him, he laid it down of himself for our redemption. He offered himself to be the Saviour; Lo, I come. And the necessity of our case calling for it, he offered himself for the Sacrifice. He was both the offerer and the offering, so that his laying down his life was his offering up himself. From hence it is plain, that he died in the place and stead of men; to obtain their being set free from the punishment of sin, to obtain the pardon of their sin; and that his death should obtain that pardon. Our Lord laid not his life down for his doctrine, but for his sheep.”

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.

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Verse of the Day – August 20, 2025 | Psalm 46:1–2

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



duchess01

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.

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN

BE MY VOICE

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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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duchess01

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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.

duchess01

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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duchess01

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

Have you noticed evil increased on earth
The arrogance and flagrancy sheer girth
We are told to pray daily without end
We must not quit give up or even bend

What makes evil so blatant in plain sight
What can we do to curtail this and fight
We must don our Armor of God so fine 
We must be Prayer Warriors divine

We must empower others do the same
In His Precious and Most Holy Name
For whatever we ask of the Father
In Jesus’ name compares to no other

We must stand and be bold in all our ways
We must hold onto Him all of our days
We must not accept what’s meant to deter 
Redacted refracted revised to infer

We will find truth in His Word as put forth
We will discover knowledge for its worth
We will discern understanding in time
We will reap wisdom its purpose sublime

Saturated with lies and dire deceit 
We exhaust ourselves in fighting replete
Instead of uniting under His banner
We’re distracted in discordant manner

To God be the Glory forever amen
To Him be our allegiance now and when
We fight the good fight and are welcomed in
To our heavenly home purified within

D01: 08/04/2023

duchess01

PRAISE AND WORSHIP

EYES ON JESUS – Soaking Worship Instrumental | Time With God | Prayer & Meditation

duchess01

Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing

#psalm91 #psalms #prayer

Pray Everyday

https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html

Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.

#faith #god #psalms

prayeveryday777

https://rumble.com/v57jvfg-sleep-well-with-psalms.-psalm-91-psalm-121-psalm-3-psalm-4-psalm-139.faith-.html

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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!! ❤️❤️❤️



duchess01

WARRIOR WEDNESDAY – DEDICATED TO STEVIE

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RISE UP PRAYER WARRIORS

In the morning when you arise
Thank God for the lovely sunrise
Thank God you have the eyes to see
Thank God through Him you are set free

So many are suffering in various ways
From family problems to general malaise
From discouragement to deep depression
Hearts, minds, and souls suffer repression

Each day God asks you to boldly come
To the Throne of Grace and beat the drum
Sing Praise to our God – Sing Praise
To our Deliverer – Our voices we raise

God told us to pray unceasingly
Give Glory Honor and Praise to He
Bring our petitions and lift them up
So that all may drink from the Blessing Cup

When you are troubled the Body suffers
Take it to God and pray for others
When we reach out and pray for one another
We bless father mother sister and brother

Our own concerns become less of a bother 
When we reach out and touch another
So Rise Up Prayer Warriors and shout
Defeat the enemy roundabout

Send him back to the dry places of doom
Back off and prevent his message of gloom
Declare your victory over all that prevails
Defeat his plan and all it entails

Our nation has been attacked mercilessly 
Over a long span of time most relentlessly
It is time to defeat that father of lies
It is time for Prayer Warriors to rise

‘Go To The Quiet’ if it need be
To replenish and refresh on bended knee
You must be courageous and strong
To fight this battle all the day long

Rise Up Prayer Warriors and come to their aid
For many who are lacking let hope be staid
For those who are allegedly down and out
Sing Praise – Declare Victory – and Shout

Decked in your Armor fight the good fight
Send our enemy and his minions to flight
Give it your all and you will soon see
And taste the blessings of Victory!!!

D01: 11/18/2022

duchess01

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Kurt Shore – We Are Warriors ft. The One Who Sings

21,433 views Jun 7, 2023

An anthem for warriors in all walks of life, to stand up for what we believe for the sake of humanity and our children. The song was written, arranged, and produced by Top 10 producer, Kurt Shore and also features South African artist “The One Who Sings” (formerly Zolani Mohala). We invite you to sing to this, and make your own versions, share with everyone to do what we must do to save humanity from the anti-human globalist agenda!



barkerjim

WP made me log in again today at 9:17am.

barkerjim

Using Brave, no shields, yep almost two days exactly, just after 9am here then, too.

barkerjim

I leave the post up and running until the comments stop, may refresh, but never close, just switch to the next post. My 9:17 is CDT here it would be 10:17. I was reading through “new” comments and clicking like, when suddenly was getting a red warning that it wasn’t allowed. I have been here a long time without ever having to re-login. just started a few weeks ago.

barkerjim

Will try it.

barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/moral-holidays-wednesday-august-20

Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! In today’s packed roundup: Tulsi Gabbard purges three dozen more “nonpartisan” deep state intelligence operatives and media gets the vapors; Anti-Weaponization czar Ed Martin tells NY AG Letitia James she should resign, sparking fury from the left; New York Times breathlessly warns pastors not to start endorsing candidates for office even though the IRS said it’s okay; Times Editorial Board makes a stunning admission about post-pandemic crime but then advises readers not to worry about it; and the post-pandemic court cases are starting to stack up at astronomical cost to the covid sellouts.

PAVACA

THIS IS “GAME OVER” TIME.
HHS SEC. KENNEDY, JR.: DO YOUR JOB. REMOVE ALL COVID-19 “VACCINES” FROM THE MARKET. NOW.
FIRE DR. MAKARY (FDA). FIRE DR. PRASAD (FDA-CBER). FIRE DR. MONAREZ (CDC). FIRE DR. BHATTACHARYA (NIH); DR. JEFFERY TAUBENBERGER (ACTING DIRECTOR, NIAID — career NIH employee)

ARREST: ANTHONY FAUCI; FRANCIS COLLINS; DEBORAH BIRX; ALBERT BOURLA; STEPHANE BANCEL; RALPH BARIC; PETER DASZAK (FORMER CEO, ECOHEALTH).

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/houston-we-have-another-problem-unvaccinated
“Houston, We Have Another Problem: Unvaccinated Children Born of Post-Vaccinated Mothers, Despite Never Contacting Covid….Are Now Dying at 77% Excess—a 24 Sigma Event”
20 August 2025
Yours Truly: That which Yours Truly has warned about (the effects of COVID-19 “vaccination” of pregnant women on the unborn children they carried) — is now starting to come to pass: children born of mothers who got COVID-19 ‘vaccinated” during pregnancy — children who never themselves had a COVID-19 infectionare dying at an excess rate. A big excess rate. 2nd Smartest Guy in the World is quoting the new report from The Ethical Skeptic, who has the stats, who analyzed the data, and who created the charts. (https://theethicalskeptic.com/2025/08/19/houston-we-have-another-problem/)

The issue is that the COVID-19 “vaccine” spike protein CROSSES INTO THE PLACENTA of the expectant mother and THUS ENTERS INTO THE BODY AND BRAIN OF THE FETUS SHE IS CARRYING.

The fetus is BASICALLY UNABLE TO FIGHT OFF THE “FAKE COVID-19 INFECTION” THAT THE “VACCINES” INDUCE AFTER THE SPIKE PROTEIN CROSSES THE PLACENTA AND ENTERS INTO THE FETUS’ BODY. The fetus’ VERY immature immune system simply doesn’t have the cells or the strength to fight off this “fake COVID-19 infection.”

This is ASIDE from the fact that the COVID-19 “vaccines” ARE DESIGNED to turn the body of the “vaccinated” person (AND OF THE “INVOLUNTARILY-
VACCINATED” FETUS of a pregnant woman who gets COVID-19 “vaccinated”) into “FOREVER FACTORIES” FOR THE SPIKE PROTEIN.

This is ASIDE from the fact that the COVID-19 “vaccines” ARE DESIGNED TO DAMAGE / DESTROY THE NATURAL IMMUNE SYSTEM OF THE “VACCINATED” PERSON’S BODY (and this INCLUDES THE BODY OF A FETUS CARRIED BY A COVID-19 “VACCINATED” EXPECTANT MOTHER.)

The salient chart from The Ethical Skeptic, as seen in the 2nd Smartest Guy in the World article:

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https://www.frontiersin.org/ chart regarding what COVID-19 “vaccination” does to the expectant mother and to her fetus (and to the child that she nurses):

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The paper: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2021.735394
“COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy and Lactation: Current Research and Gaps in Understanding”
Lydia L. Shook, et al.
15 September 2021

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Aubergine

“Elon Musk – Man-child,” a one-act play:

Trump: “Sorry, Elon, I know you love your electric cars, but it has to be this way.”

Elon: “You suck! Rules suck! I’m running away from home!”

MAGA: “Can we help you pack?”

Elon: *silence*

Elon: “I’m going to start a new party against you meanies!”

MAGA: *shrugs*

Trump: *carries on like an adult*

Elon:

“Now, a new report from the Wall Street Journal, citing sources, says Musk has dialed back plans to launch a political party to challenge Trump ahead of next year’s midterms.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-reportedly-scales-back-america-first-party-plans-possible-detente-trump

patfrederick

I wonder how much was play acting. I’m sure elon didn’t want tesla stock/purchases to crater and POTUS wouldn’t want that either. so a little tantrum…a little outburst…get the left off his back and then mellow back out.

bakocarl

Poet’s Quandary
 
My words flow from my heart’s own spring,
To weave a world where dreams take wing.
Each joy, each grief, my every care,
My life’s own breath, I freely share.
 
The grand old bards of yesteryear,
I read their works in tomes now near.
I see them smile, I hear them moan,
But are my words now all my own?
 
The books of rhyme, with rules precise,
Their meters strict, their forms entice.
If I should lean on their old art,
How much is mine, how much their part?
 
The web, a vast and endless stream,
Serves fresh new prompts to spark my dream.
Its boundless lore, a click away,
Whose voice then speaks in what I say?
 
AI astounds with crafted verse,
Its lines profound, its rhymes diverse.
It paints with fire, it stirs the soul –
Am I the poet, in part or whole?
 
To shun all aids, from code to page,
To lock my craft in verbal cage –
Would that preserve my voice’s truth,
Or starve the muse of vibrant youth?
 
A sigh escapes, my heart grows still,
No final truth shall crown this hill.
My pen, my soul, with doubts entwine,
Yet still I write – this verse is mine.

TheseTruths

We can’t help but be influenced by prior great works and the things we see and hear. Some of the great musical composers borrowed from others, and some paid intentional tribute to others.

Valerie Curren

Love it!

TheseTruths

Fighting Back Against The 65 Project – Time to Give the Lefties Some Serious Pain

…You will remember the 65 Project is – continues to be – a bare-knuckled attack on attorneys who defended anything to do with Trump in 2020 or the subsequent years.

Read that again – attorneys who did their job – representing people around Trump, were harassed by a Leftist-funded group – The 65 Project, to make sure no lawyer in America would do what they were sworn to do – be an advocate for a client.

It is still happening.

…Now, remember, the 65 Project is just a couple of Lefties with tons of funding from NGOs – and the Omega guys track every NGO – watch our videos.

The Omega data team, who loathes political types, and would rather fight than sleep, immediately said yes [to a lawyer who was being harrassed by the 65 Project].

Follow along, there is a much bigger story brewing here.

First, we reposted our videos from the Omega4America.com site of the 65 Project funders – you can see it here.

Then we called some of the lawyers who the 65 Project already hassled and chatted with them. They said they wanted to band together to take these Lefties down.

That’s a fight and we don’t have to be asked to join – we’re in!

Forgive us for not getting the lawyer stuff down but here is the skinny. This is going to be good and Omega is in the thick of it, where we usually end up.

When you are the 65 Project guys and you publicly go out and say these 65 lawyers – one is a governor, a bunch are Attorneys General or other high office holders – like Ted Cruz, Alan Dershowitz – you say they should have their reputations ruined and their ability to earn a living stopped – you have crossed the line.

It’s not our line, it’s the tortious line.

It’s OK to say that Billy Bob – some elected official is an incompetent fool – there is no legal action from that – first, because the law protects that speech and second because if he or she is a politico it is probably true.

All that stops when you say Billy Bob is an attorney, and we are deliberately going to screw up his life so he cannot make a living – because he represented a client.

That is the “tortious line.”

At the end lies a pot of gold – like the rainbow.

Wise combatants would screw up Billy Bob’s life – they would not publicly say so – which the 65 Project guys did.

They said, on their site and publicly, they were going to destroy people for doing things they found to be not their thing.

They aren’t trying to get these lawyers disbarred for sex with an underage child. They aren’t attacking these lawyers for embezzling client funds.

The Project 65 kids publicly state they are ruining prominent lawyer’s lives, destroying their livelihood – because these lawyers represented a client they found abhorrent – who is the President of the United States – to boot!

In law, my legal guy said this – there is a thing called tortious interference. Tortious means it was done in an evil, deliberate manner.

When you hear the word tortious there is a string attached to it. The string ties to another word = damages.

There is even one more string, it ties to punitive damages.

If you screw up my life, on purpose, because you disagree with me, to hurt me, I can collect damages. In many cases damages get into punitives – which can be 3x or more of the award – not where you want to be as the defendant.

…We are now working with a number of these lawyers – hunted by the 65 Project – and we are the hunters.

This part is complicated, but it’s the fun part so hang on.

The 65 Project is just a couple of kids, with no or few assets.

You can sue the heck out of them but you won’t get much. Hang on.

Who funds them?

Aha! Fractal technology opens doors never before opened (watch the videos).

We show there are not just 4 or 5 organizations funding these 2 kids – they are part of a “galaxy view” of 10,000 organizations who fund each other – constant money flows, and our lawyer pals think they could make a claim against over 10,000 organizations.

Omega can show these orgs are intertwined in a vast set of formerly invisible connections – thus each of them was behind the two kids. And these organizations have billions of dollars in assets – like cash, in the U.S.A. which can assuage the feelings of 65 very pissed off lawyers.

Punitive damages – against the entire Lefty financial ecosystem. In one Fractal swoop!

Think billions – so who wants to roll those dice?

You have to watch the videos to get it – it’s too long to type here, but with Fractal analysis we can show NGO A, gave dough to NGO B, who gave dough to NGO C – who gave dough to the 2 kids on the 65 Project – and thus they are all liable because the ties show they all support those nefarious activities.

Uh Oh!

We are looking at BILLIONS in damages plus punitives – from obscure orgs who fund this crap for decades.

It gets better.

Because we are Fractal, we aren’t limited by the government 990 IRS records – we can get into the people – by name – who fund these NGOs. Thus, their personal assets are up on the Black Jack table for our Project 65 guys to take a swap at.

The Omega Dark Money System turns on the lights – and all these thousands of NGOs are now at risk..

I included a lot of this for clarity and because it’s satisfying to think about going after those people. There are more details at the link.

Valerie Curren

That’s amazing!

TradeBait2

Great post, TT. This is very encouraging and believable. There is a legal pathway to doing it as described in my opinion.

pgroup2

They are trying to do this to the attorney I’m helping. Bar discipline hearings at the same time as an appeal. But we’re hanging in there.

Aubergine

This would be the greatest thing for freedom since I don’t know when. This kind of shit is just flat-out wrong.

PAVACA

Wolf Moon
Thank you for creating a Placeholder post for today. One hopes that everything works out OK with our good Gail Combs. IIRC, she’s also still dealing with getting her husband feeling better.

TheseTruths

Chris Cuomo declares the Democrat Party is DEAD

Cuomo tells me elitism, open borders, socialism and defund the police killed the modern Democrat Party.

Cuomo says the Democratic Party that his father was apart of “no longer exists” and he “doesn’t know why” his brother still registers as a Democrat.

“My brother’s a Democrat. I don’t know why, but he is. My father was a Democrat. But his party doesn’t exist anymore.”

“Now it’s the left arguing for a cultural elite. This is how you will talk about people, Benny. This is how you will raise your kids. This is what you will tell them is okay. This is what you will say and not say.”

“There are socialistic aspects to our constitutional republic within a capitalistic model that work. They work for the collective. But it’s a capitalistic society. No Democrat ever argued for anything else. No Democrat would have argued for open borders. None of this. My father would have done none of this.”

“And while I had disagreements with my father about different issues, I knew what principles were guiding him.”

Wow. Well said @ChrisCuomo

Valerie Curren

Is CC being Red Pilled?

TheseTruths

That would be a good thing. I’m glad he’s saying these things (and others), but suspicious cat is ever present. I hope this is not part of a Dem plot to appear to support some of the Right’s key issues.

Valerie Curren

 👍 

Tatonka Woman

The Hildebeast Strategy

PAVACA

WOLF MOON AND ALL —

The Health Friday post for this week is finished, and will publish just after Midnight on Friday morning.
Yours Truly is astonished at how someone in a high-level position of federal government “medical officialdom” can write something so off-the-chart offbase and have it appear in the media.

duchess01
TheseTruths

Target’s Woke CEO Resigns Amid Declining Sales
…years too late. But:

[He] Cornell will stay on as executive chairman. He took over in 2014 and revitalized Target, overseeing a strategy to remodel stores and strengthen the chain’s online business to compete with Amazon.

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

BREAKING: Trump Calls on Biden-Appointed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to Resign After FHFA Director Pulte Sends Criminal Referral to DOJ for Mortgage Fraud
She listed two different locations as her primary residence.
She started renting out one of them.
She didn’t report any rental income.

She should be in major trouble.

Valerie Curren

Because if they are dem(on)s no one ever calls them on it…until The Don!

TheseTruths

Bingo!

eilert

TheseTruths

(VIDEO) JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller Visit National Guard at DC’s Union station – Speak to Reporters About Success of DC Crime Crackdown and Shred Protesters Chanting “Free DC”

Vice President JD Vance, flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, visited Washington, DC’s Union Station on Wednesday to meet and have lunch with National Guard troops who are stationed at the transit hub. 

The three officials greeted the troops, shook hands, and bought them lunch at Shake Shack.

After reporters left the station, Vance, Hegseth, and Miller stayed for lunch with the National Guardsmen and women.

Protesters could be heard screaming inside the station, heckling and chanting “Free DC!”

Vance later told reporters, “We hear these people outside, screaming, ‘Free DC.’ Let’s free DC from lawlessness. Let’s free Washington, DC, from one of the highest murder rates in the entire world. Let’s free Washington, DC so that young families can walk around and feel safe and secure. That’s what we’re trying to free DC from.”

Vice President Vance roasts reporter and anti-Trump protesters at Union Station:

“Obviously, DC has a terrible crime problem. The Department of Justice statistics back it up…Let’s free Washington, DC from one of the highest murder rates in the entire world.”

kalbokalbs

POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: Tulsi Gabbard Slashes Over 40% of the Office of Director of National Intelligence Staff
Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday said she is reducing the Office of Director of National Intelligence staff by more than 40 percent.

The spy agency is expected to go from more than 1,800 employees to approximately 1,200.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/political-earthquake-tulsi-gabbard-slashes-40-office-director/

TheseTruths

The article says it’s about redundancies and cost-cutting, but I hope this means the ODNI knows who the problem people are and that they are getting the boot.

kalbokalbs

(VIDEO) JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller Visit National Guard at DC’s Union station – Speak to Reporters About Success of DC Crime Crackdown and Shred Protesters Chanting “Free DC”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/video-jd-vance-pete-hegseth-stephen-miller-visit/

kalbokalbs

Pentagon Responds with Fire as Washington Post Doxxes Sensitive Info About Pete Hegseth’s Security Detail – Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Demands Investigation: “Treason Won’t Hide Behind a Press Badge”

In the wake of two assassinations attempts against President Trump, ICE agents facing a 1000% increase in assaults, and repeated threats of retaliation from Iran for striking their nuclear capabilities, it’s astonishing that the Washington Post is criticizing a high-ranking cabinet official for receiving appropriate security protection, especially after doxxing the DHS Secretary last week.

Any action pertaining to the security of Secretary Hegseth and his family has been in response to the threat environment and at the full recommendation the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID).

When left-wing blogs like the Washington Post continue to dox cabinet secretaries’ security protocols and movements, it puts lives at risk.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/pentagon-responds-fire-as-washington-post-doxxes-sensitive/

kalbokalbs

LIVE-STREAM VIDEO: Texas Legislature Votes on New Congressional Maps – Leftist Protesters Gather in Rotunda
The new map will eliminate 5 Democrat seats in the state. Republicans will pick up 5 seats.

TX House Redistricting Map

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/live-stream-video-texas/

pgroup2

Bannon calls this a RINO surrender.

Says Abbott already admitted 9 was well within reach.

kalbokalbs

@StephenM COOKS the deranged pro-crime protesters in D.C.: “We’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old.”

pgroup2

Can I be in that 90 group?

TheseTruths

Let’s see yer ID. 😅

GA/FL

At last, a group I’m too young to join!

Robert Baker

As the Bible says, “In the fullness of time.”

mollypitcher5

  :wpds_lol:    :cheers: 

TheseTruths

This is about only one case, which involves diplomats being “subject to the jurisdiction,” but it’s a good ruling. It doesn’t speak to babies born here who do not have parents who are diplomats, but does refer to “birthright citizenship” as if it were legitimate (which I don’t see as a positive).
Biden-Appointed Judge Shockingly Rules Against Birthright Citizenship — Ninth Circuit Says Children of Foreign Diplomats Are NOT Automatically U.S. Citizens

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that a man born in New York City in 1950 is NOT an American citizen.

The court affirmed what the Constitution’s framers and generations of Americans have always understood, the Fourteenth Amendment does not grant automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to foreign diplomats.

The case involved Roberto Moncada, who was born in New York City in 1950 while his father served as a Nicaraguan attaché at the United Nations.

For nearly seventy years, Moncada lived as an American, holding passports and even swearing oaths of allegiance multiple times.

But in 2018, after reviewing records, the government discovered that his father had served as an attaché, a diplomatic position that carried full immunity, not a simple consul as previously believed.

That detail changed everything. Under the Fourteenth Amendment, only those born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States are citizens.

Children of foreign ministers and diplomats are explicitly excluded. Moncada’s father’s immunity meant his entire household, including his newborn son, was outside U.S. jurisdiction.

The court reviewed conflicting evidence, including records listing Moncada’s father as both “Deputy Consul” and “Attaché.” But after weighing the record, most importantly the State Department’s “Blue List” identifying him as an attaché with full diplomatic privileges, the panel concluded that the government had proved by clear and convincing evidence that Moncada was never a U.S. citizen

Moncada filed suit in 2019 to challenge that decision.

Judge Anthony Johnstone, a Biden appointee, wrote in his opinion:
The government repeatedly affirmed that Moncada’s father’s apparent status as a Nicaraguan consul did not confer diplomatic immunity on his children. So, the government explained, Moncada was born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States according to the Fourteenth Amendment. U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1. And under the Constitution, citizenship was his birthright. But the government was, as the district court put it, “wrong all along.”

In 2018, the government reviewed its records and found that Moncada’s father served as an attaché, not a consul, when Moncada was born. Unlike a consul, an attaché and his family possess full diplomatic immunity.

So, the government now asserted, Moncada was not born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. Therefore, he was not a birthright citizen. The government revoked Moncada’s passport and told him he “did not acquire U.S. citizenship by virtue of [his] birth here.”

Moncada sued for a declaratory judgment that he is a citizen. The Secretary of State responded by producing a recently executed certification of Moncada’s diplomatic immunity at birth (“Certificate”).

The Secretary argued that this Certificate was conclusive evidence of Moncada’s lack of birthright citizenship and was therefore binding on the district court. The district court declined to recognize the Certificate as conclusive.

Still, based on the underlying record of government documents, it held that the Secretary established by clear and convincing evidence that Moncada was not born a citizen because it found, as a matter of fact, that his father was an attaché with diplomatic immunity when he was born. We affirm.

Here, Judge Johnstone reflects many of the arguments raised by the United States in its case. The only difference is that he is applying the same logic to one of the three categories named in Wong Kim Ark. But for that, this could have been an amicus for the Government. pic.twitter.com/FGbenqwVwY

— Eric W. (@EWess92) August 20, 2025

scott467

The court affirmed what the Constitution’s framers and generations of Americans have always understood, the Fourteenth Amendment does not grant automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to foreign diplomats.

_______________

That has always been my understanding.

It was the whole reason McStain was allowed to run for POTUS, because even though he was born in the Panama Canal zone (Coco Solo Naval Air Station), his father was stationed there as part of the U.S. Navy, with his wife, and so their child John, born there in 1936, was born to Americans serving on a U.S. military base and therefore John was an American.

If it were otherwise, John McStain would have been a Panamanian citizen.

Likewise, if the UK Ambassador to the United States is living in the United States with his wife, and they have a child, their child would be a citizen of the U.K., not a U.S. citizen.

This was apparently affirmed when McStain ran for POTUS, because the insane Left challenged his eligibility.

The insane Left never challenged Hussein’s eligibility, and actively covered up his birth certificate, sealed his college records, and claimed that he wasn’t born in Kenya, even though the bio section of his own book proudly stated that he was born in Kenya.

“Here’s Obama’s full bio from the 1991 brochure:

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation.

He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/born-kenya-obamas-literary-agent-misidentified-birthplace-1991/story?id=16372566

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Valerie Curren

Wong Kim Ark” was discussed A Lot in the Natural Born Citizenship, or lack thereof, analysis of Soetoro’s ineligibility to be POTUS iirc

kalbokalbs

Brave and Free

Ed’s going to squeeze Little Adam until his eyes are popping out. Oh wait they already are. 🤣

duchess01

EVENING PRAYERS


Healing Prayers

Prayer for Restorative Rest

Healing Hand, as I lay in my bed this evening, I pray for Your restorative power to touch my life. Mend what has been broken, soothe what has been hurt, and heal what has been wounded. May I find in sleep the healing that my body and spirit need and wake to a day of renewed health and vitality. Amen.

Evening Prayer for Wholeness

Gentle Healer, with the night’s calm, I seek Your healing for my body, mind, and soul. Where there is pain, bring relief; where there is fatigue, bring restoration; where there is distress, bring tranquility. Wrap me in Your peace as I trust in Your loving care to make me whole. Amen.

Prayer for Comfort in Illness

Lord of Comfort, as I face the trials of illness, I pray for Your healing touch. Ease my discomfort, calm my anxiety, and deliver me from my afflictions. In Your mercy, may I find the comfort that leads to a peaceful rest, knowing that You are with me, sustaining and healing me. Amen.

Nighttime Blessing for Healing

Divine Physician, under the canopy of the night sky, I pray for Your healing blessings. Let Your life-giving energy flow through every cell, every nerve, every aspect of my being. May my rest be deep, my healing complete, and my faith in Your power absolute. Bless me with the gift of health, and let my gratitude be a testament to Your mercy. Amen.

Serene Prayer for Recovery

Merciful Restorer, as I seek repose in the stillness of this night, I ask for Your healing hand upon my life. Guide the hands of those who care for me, provide wisdom for the paths of recovery, and grant patience for the journey. In this serene hour, let Your comfort envelop me, as I place my trust in Your plan for a full recovery. Amen.

https://enlightio.com/evening-prayers-for-today

Brave and Free
scott467

DJT: “Georgia Meloni. I love her. I told her and Elon that if they ever had a kid, they better name him Eloni Meloni.”

😂

scott467

DJT: “Ursula… I like that she calls me ‘Daddy’. They all should, when you think about it. “Good day, I come to see my American Daddy, thank you very much.” 🤣

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Aubergine

I’m not saying I believe it, but IF this is true, it is NOT what I expected:

“FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin drops a bombshell on the Alex Jones Show, revealing the Trump administration may soon replace FBI Director Kash Patel with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.”

https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-exclusive-trump-admin-preparing-to-sack-kash-patel-replace-him-with-missouri-ag-andrew-bailey-according-to-fbi-whistleblower-kyle-seraphin/

I don’t know much about Seraphin at all.

TheseTruths

This is literally all I know about Seraphin.

On 7/1/25, he said:

I’m not NOT a Trump supporter either. I actually mostly voted against John McCain because he spoke at my college graduation and my Dad and I made a deal in 2005.

And I don’t have a link for this one:
7/8/25

Clearly a better choice. Read what I said. The people who LOVE Trump make me sick. Trump is a mixed bag, and doesn’t bother me. It is the retards that make me doubt everything.

So he is not a Trump supporter. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a scoop, but it does make me think he would throw Pres. Trump and his administration under the bus to get attention.

TheseTruths

He says he’s “not NOT a Trump supporter,” but the people who love Trump make him sick. I consider that to be not a supporter. I’m not sure if he’s calling those who love Trump “retards,” but if so, that’s all I need to know.

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kalbokalbs

Not making sense to Slow Guy.

Related post after Aubergine’s above.

TheseTruths

I found this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/conservative-ex-fbi-agents-kash-patels-ear-rcna189611

When President-elect Donald Trump announced that he wanted Kash Patel to be the next director of the FBI, one of Patel’s first moves was to reach out to three conservative former special agents who have been critics of the bureau and its sprawling investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The former agents Patel spoke to refer to themselves as “The Suspendables.” They have claimed whistleblower status, and Republicans have called two of them (along with an FBI analyst) to testify before Congress. Patel, through his Kash Foundation, provided financial support to several of them during their suspensions, they testified in 2023.

Kyle Seraphin, 43, a military veteran who is a member of the group, said Patel reached out to the three “Suspendables” the night Trump announced that he wanted Patel atop the FBI; Seraphin was busy getting his kids asleep and couldn’t join the discussion…

kalbokalbs

Have not finished listening to the video.

>>> Couple things are Not Making Sense.

OK, Bongino does Not know how FIB operates, before arriving.

So, a sidekick is reportedly brought in, to be a co-deputy director with Bongino.

Like magic. Stop focusing on Bongino AND focus on Kash.

The guy they report will replace Kash, Is An AG. NO FIB experience.

Precisely what they claim is wrong with Bongino at FIB.

Yea, Slow Guy missing a lot.

duchess01
kalbokalbs

Seven months in. Dumrats AND Pravda have zero clue how to deal with Trump 2.0.

Exclusive — Harrison Fields: Trump White House Momentum Leaving Democrats and Media ‘with No Idea How to Stop It’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/20/exclusive-harrison-fields-trump-white-house-momentum-leaving-democrats-and-media-with-no-idea-how-to-stop-it/

TradeBait2

😂 👍 🇺🇸

Valerie Curren

duchess01

FOR GAIL AND ALL WHO ARE HURTING WITH HER – 🙏 🙏 🙏

OUR PRAYER

We come to Your Altar on bended knee
In the name of Jesus – we pray to Thee
One of our loved ones is in peak peril
Demons they have her over a barrel
Another test will be taken real soon
Could sink hope or take her over the moon

By the Blood of the Lamb – we are healed
By His sacrifice – our fate – it was sealed
Protect her from all danger hurt or harm 
We’re calling all Angels – set the alarm
Warring Angels by the dozens dispatched
Go after those demons – get them detached

Comfort Angels dispersed to quell the fear
Through Faith – we command fear disappear
Healing Angels anoint her with the oils
Cover her completely before she spoils
Relaying Angels with a message from God
Rest in His Arms – prepare to be awed

We take authority over our friend today
By the Power of the Spirit we humbly pray
We unite in our prayer – strengthen her
To guide those in charge of her to concur
Set all instruments so accurate they be
By the Power of the Spirit command them we

Take care in your analysis – through Hope
By your training and insight help her cope
God has given you the means to infer
A possible treatment that will deter
The failure of systems rightly attached
Your expertise surely cannot be matched

Let the Hand of God guide competent hands
To do what must be done – what He commands
As we lift her up to the Heaven on High
We give it all to You – and breathe a sigh
She is in good hands – the best there be
The Angels surround her – a sight to see

We lay our petition at the feet of Your Son
Whose victory over the cross He surely won
We know in control – You must ever be
We pray for a miracle for all to see
God can fix anything – He has the clout
The Power of God is awesome no doubt!

D01: 07/02/2019

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duchess01

MOST WELCOME !!! ❤️ 🧚🏻‍♀️ ❤️



K1tt7-fzn

https://www.financialexpress.com/business/investing-abroad-big-crisis-for-indian-h-1bs-viral-post-red-flags-perm-sabotage-can-spark-layoffs-3948201/

‘Big crisis for Indian H-1Bs’: Viral post red-flags ‘PERM sabotage,’ can spark layoffs
A viral post on an anonymous professional forum voiced concerns about a big ‘Indian H-1B crisis’ due to arising setbacks for many during the PERM process in the US.

TradeBait2

Elon’s going to be big mad and FYITHF over this one.

Valerie Curren

FYITHF?

find you in the hot furnace?

kalbokalbs

 😂  😂  😂 

COMING SOON to Nebraska: Cornhusker Clink. Today, we’re announcing a new partnership with the state of Nebraska to expand detention bed space by 280 beds.

Thanks to Governor Pillen for his partnership to help remove the worst of the worst out of our country. If you are in America illegally, you could find yourself in Nebraska’s Cornhusker Clink. Avoid arrest and self deport now using the CBP Home App.

Firefly

❤️ Cornhusker Clink!   :cheers: 

Valerie Curren

“Corney” 😉

kalbokalbs

The wench is in no position to demand anything.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Demands End to ICE Raids that Captured Illegal Alien Child Molester Working at Car Wash
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/20/l-a-mayor-karen-bass-demands-end-ice-raids-captured-illegal-alien-child-molester-working-car-wash/

kalbokalbs

Floundering Dumrats…  😂  😂  😂 
Scarborough: Gavin Newsom Attempts to Troll Trump Are ‘Quite Embarrassing’

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/20/scarborough-gavin-newsom-attempts-to-troll-trump-are-quite-embarrassing/

kalbokalbs

Interesting. A few minutes in. Vide is cued.

Schweizer: Putin ‘In a Pretty Desperate State,’ but ‘Both Sides Are Going to Have to Give’ to Get Peace
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/19/schweizer-putin-in-a-pretty-desperate-state-but-both-sides-are-going-to-have-to-give-to-get-peace/

Brave and Free

Just because

Valerie Curren

TradeBait2

SD has feelings…

kalbokalbs

Abandoned by his father to a troubled single mother; eventually raised by grandparents. He is then recruited from an Ivy league law school by shadow figures, a specific billionaire and a network of interests. He changes his name, writes a book about his life story, and with the support of the aforementioned – who eventually pays for the assembly of a strategic campaign influence network, becomes a Senator for 2 years before being quickly elevated into position in the White House.

Many people reading that paragraph would be familiar with the life story of Barack Hussien Obama.

However, that paragraph doesn’t describe Barack H Obama. Nope, it is the right-side version of the exact same storyline, James David Vance.

TradeBait2

Thanks – I was trying to add it when it said I had waited too long. I guess less than 60 seconds is too long.

pgroup2

WordPissWorkAround.

TheseTruths

I’ve seen that before. I don’t know if SD had posted it before and someone brought it here. I hope he doesn’t start repeating it over the next three years.

kalbokalbs

Catturd. Man, do I love this.

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kalbokalbs

Toss in NOT approving wind and solar destroying deserts.

It’s obscene what they’ve done to desrts in CA, NV, AND I assume AZ, NM…

pgroup2

Bird choppers.

bakocarl

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The Path I Took

This lovely path, this grand display,
I am so glad I came this way.
Life bursts with colors we don’t see,
Till God’s own Light has set us free.

Now we’re able to see God’s hand
Working His will across our land.
There’s evil, yes, and ever more,
That God allows upon our shore.

But such is life. We see the lost
That sell their souls and pay the cost,
Who’ll never come to see God’s Light,
With two eyes closed, they have no sight.

But we of faith will see God’s Day
And rise perfected from the clay.
Enrobed in white, perfectly clean,
To grand colors we’ve never seen.

We can’t picture that grand display,
On God’s path, His Holy Way,
Fully filled with Shekinah Light,
In Peace and Joy, our new birthright.

duchess01

All Of The D Judges Blocked The Epstein Files, Sec Clearances Removed, Castle Clean – Ep. 3713
 August 20, 2025  x22report

https://x22report.com/all-of-the-d-judges-blocked-the-epstein-files-sec-clearances-removed-castle-clean-ep-3713/

The EV manufacturers are losing a lot of money, there was no demand for their products, it was an illusion and most of these manufactures will go out of business. The Trump admin will not approve wind or solar for any state. Fed Gov Cook lied on a mortgage app. Trump calls for her to resign. Trump is setting the precedent to fire Fed Govs under 12USC242. The Fed in the end will cause inflation. The [DS] tried to push Russian collusion 2.o using the Epstein files. Trump called their bluff and said he wanted the grand jury info declassified. All the D Judges blocked the release of this info. Tulsi removed the security clearances for more [DS] actors. Scavino sends a message that the castle is now clean.

Ep 3713a – In The End The Fed Will Cause The Inflation, Trump Sets The Stage For Cause
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3713a-in-the-end-the-fed-will-cause-the-inflation-trump-sets-the-stage-for-cause/

Ep 3713b – All Of The D Judges Blocked The Epstein Files, Sec Clearances Removed, Castle Clean
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3713b-all-of-the-d-judges-blocked-the-epstein-files-sec-clearances-removed-castle-clean/

scott467

The EV manufacturers are losing a lot of money [edit: except for Tesla], there was no demand for their products [edit: except for Tesla], it was an illusion and most of these manufactures will go out of business [edit: except for Tesla].

😁

scott467

Fed Gov Cook lied on a mortgage app. Trump calls for her to resign.

_____________

Why isn’t she being prosecuted?

When did resigning, or even being fired, become the penalty for breaking the law?

Have all of the laws become optional?

Or is it just that enforcement has become optional?

And if enforcement has become optional, why do the most wealthy and connected, like Fed governors, get a free pass?

Does everyone else get a free pass too?

scott467

“The [DS] tried to push Russian collusion 2.o using the Epstein files.”

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I remember that!

The DS commandeered Bondi’s body, and Kash and Dan’s bodies too, and made them go on TV, over and over and over again. Bondi teasing everyone with imminent revelations and lists of prominent pedos with major influence over government, while Kash and Dan insisted that Epstein really killed himself.

Never seen the DS take physical control over the bodies of Trump officials before.

It was certainly memorable.

Hopefully they’ve fixed whatever sort of glitch in the matrix that was.

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kalbokalbs

Scavino sends a message that the castle is now clean.

Wondering which castle.

  • Cuz bottom blowing scum sucking Deep State has a long ways to go.
kalbokalbs

But yes, significant progress, given we are only seven months in.

Valerie Curren

I think you’ve explained this “bottom blowing” Navy term before but I only can imagine Explosive Diarrhea!

kalbokalbs

Bottom Blow slang for, get rid of, trash…

Valerie Curren

TY 🙂

scott467

From OT, more wonders of multiculturalism and alien invasion:

Big Problems Erupt in Angola – Chinese Citizens Flee as Anger Erupts Due to Belt and Road Consequences
August 20, 2025 

SD: “HatTip to Ben for calling attention to this remarkable story.

Essentially China’s “Belt and Road” initiative is a system of China putting massive infrastructure investment funds into a targeted country in exchange for their ability to extract resources needed for Chinese expansion. However, several nations are now rising up against the Chinese influence as it surfaces in the lives of the citizens.

Angola is a case study in China investing billions and with the investment a large number of Chinese citizens arrive set up businesses there. Over time resentment against the Chinese has been building. Then a flashpoint with a massive jump in gas prices.

Suddenly, anarchy erupts, and all the Chinese businesses are looted, some even killed in the violence.

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[READ STORY HERE]

China is now evacuating some of the 300,000+ Chinese citizens from the region, and the Chinese embassy is urgently warning people about the escalating crisis.

Remember when Tunis erupted at the origin of the “Arab Spring”? That was a combined economic and cultural flashpoint. This escalating problem in Africa has a similar theme to it.”

(much longer article at title link)

K1tt7-fzn

kalbokalbs

More entertainment, at the expense of Dumrats.

JUST IN: Biden-Appointed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Lashes Out at Pulte Over Mortgage Fraud Allegations – And Pulte Taunts!
“I learned from the media that FHFA Director William Pulte posted on social media that he was making a criminal referral based on a mortgage application from four years ago, before I joined the Federal Reserve,” Lisa Cook said in a statement.

“I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet,” she said. “I do intend to take any questions about my financial history seriously as a member of the Federal Reserve and so I am gathering the accurate information to answer any legitimate questions and provide the facts.”

Pulte taunted Lisa Cook.

“Lisa Cook says she will answer all legitimate questions. Let’s start with this. Are these your signatures on Mortgages?” Pulte said on X later Wednesday.

X’s From The Article

Lisa Cook says she will answer all legitimate questions. Let’s start with this. Are these your signatures on Mortgages?

U.S. Federal Housing FHFA, alleges in a Criminal Referral to the Department of Justice that Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa D. Cook, committed mortgage fraud by designating her out of state condo as her primary residence, just two weeks after taking a loan on her Michigan home where she also declared it as her primary residence.

When someone commits mortgage fraud, they undermine the faith and integrity of our System.

It does not matter who you are – no one is above the law.

We have sent a Criminal Referral to the Department of Justice with regard to the allegations against Ms. Cook, and the DOJ should go wherever the facts may lead them.

Here is the Criminal Referral Letter on Lisa Cook, the current Fed Governor.
https://xtwitter.com/pulte/status/1958138434171629636

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/biden-appointed-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook-responds/

TheseTruths

“I learned from the media that FHFA Director William Pulte posted on social media that he was making a criminal referral based on a mortgage application from four years ago, before I joined the Federal Reserve

That stood out to me. It doesn’t matter whether the offense happened before or during her tenure. She broke the law, regardless. Nice try at deflection, I guess.

scott467

She means business!

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Wiki: “Lisa DeNell Cook is an American economist who has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since May 23, 2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to sit on the Board.”

She demolished those glass ceilings. So unfortunate that she had to commit mortgage fraud while being the first African American woman and first woman of color to squat on the Board.

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Wiki: “Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve Board, she was elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.”

Chicago, known for its D-rat machine politics and the corrupt politicians who run the machine.

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“Cook was previously a professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University and a member of the American Economic Association’s Executive Committee. An authority on international economics, especially the Russian economy, she has been involved in advising policymakers from the Obama Administration to the Nigerian and Rwandan governments.”

Because her background in Chicago politics is perfect for expertise in Nigeria and Rwanda.

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“Her research is at the intersection of macroeconomics and economic history, with recent work in African-American history and innovation economics.”

Sounds like amazing bafflegab.

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“Cook is regarded as one of the few prominent black female economists”

Well either she is, or she isn’t. Because we can be certain that if there are others, they’re not being disregarded by nobody.

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“…and has attracted attention within academia for her efforts in mentoring black women and advocating for their inclusion in the field of economics.”

Is that how one gets attention in the white marble halls and ivory towers of academia?

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“On January 14, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Cook to serve as Federal Reserve governor; she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 10, and took office on May 23, 2022.”

Bidenista… say no more…

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bakocarl

Two Styles

In poetry, I write two styles;
A straight narrative, for a while.
In this older one, I talk to you,
And hope my meanings all come through.

I didn’t write with flowery words,
I want God’s message to be heard,
Not all wrapped up in colors bright
But there, all open, in plain sight.

God’s Word stands clear, alone this way,
So we will hear, and never stray.
His Word, His Will, revealed to man,
To love God, and follow His Plan.

My newer style, harder for me,
Grand words, grand thoughts, grand poetry.
Chosen words to set the right tone,
Deeper meanings, like kings enthroned.

Some short stories went this way, too,
Painting clear scenes for you to view.
Scenes that take you far, far away;
Life scenes in a fairy tale way.

A few of those were fun to write,
I like my heartstrings tugged just right.
I felt good reading my own tale,
A nice reward, when goodness prevails.

So I’ll keep on with both styles now,
With God’s Word first, that must be how.
But, we’ll see, every now and then,
Heart tugging tales may leak from my pen.

kalbokalbs

Cracker Barrel has some big problems. Signage is NOT one of them.

Brick Suit chimes in.
New CEO of Cracker Barrel decides to scrap a nostalgic, beloved logo that reminds people of simpler times and replaces it with a souless “improved” logo.

SMDH.

TheseTruths

A blockheaded move. IMO she should be let go before she does any more damage.

kalbokalbs

No idea how long this dumb bunny has been CEO. Agree, she needs to be let go. As in fired with no golden parachute.

She is a wokester, embracing LGXYZ.

scott467

What has she ever built, in her lifetime, which qualifies her to be the CEO of a company that was built by someone else?

K1tt7-fzn

Wes Harman
@wesharman
2h
From the Reddit truckers group, an account of yet another trucker taking US 129 –the Tail of the Dragon– with a 53′ trailer despite repeated warnings in English for truckers to avoid this route.

You’ll never guess what sort of footwear he had on.

#TruckingELP

#TruckerLife

Brave and Free

That must of pissed off the car clubs and bikers that come from near and far to ride that stretch of 129.
I’ve done it a few times in the wife’s IS. Not for the faint of heart if you push your cars limits.

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kalbokalbs

For the Slow Types, like Slow Guy, IS?

K1tt7-fzn

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
1h
While the media peddles lies, DHS delivers facts. WATCH as we set the record straight:

Valerie Curren

She still in high school?

kalbokalbs

Newsum’s Press Office reply to below: “We thought Bed, Bath, and Beyond no longer existed.”

“This Isn’t About Politics – It’s About Reality” – Bed Bath and Beyond’s CEO Announces Company is Closing All Retail Stores in Newsom’s California – Newsom’s Press Office Releases Sneering Response
Official statement regarding @BedBathBeyond

We will not open retail stores in California.

This isn’t about politics — it’s about reality.
California’s system makes it nearly impossible for businesses to succeed, and I won’t put our company, our employees, or our customers in that position.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/this-isnt-about-politics-its-about-reality-bed/

K1tt7-fzn

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
1h
🚨 BREAKING: JD Vance reveals how President Trump called Putin at 1AM after the European leader meeting – SHOCKING all of the leaders in the room, who thought Trump meant he’d call Putin NEXT WEEK, not that same NIGHT! 🔥

“It was like one in the morning Moscow time and they had no anticipation…the president says ‘you know, we’ve had a pretty good meeting. I’m gonna go call Vladimir Putin, see what he says about it.’ And everybody’s like, ‘Oh you’re gonna call him next week?’ And he’s like, ‘No, what time is it in Moscow? Let’s call him right now!'”

“He cuts through the BS of some of these diplomatic protocols, and just says ‘I’m gonna get things done. If I want to talk to somebody, I’m gonna talk to somebody.'”

“You had a lot of the Europeans who were saying, ‘no, no, no, there needs to be proper vetting, and the teams have to prepare the phone call, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.’ And the president was like, ‘no, no, I want to talk to the guy. I’m going to talk to the guy.'”

That kind of style is EXACTLY what I voted for.

K1tt7-fzn

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
1h
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump will tomorrow sign an executive order cracking down on BURNING THE AMERICAN FLAG.

Trump will be directing AG Pam Bondi to look into bringing charges under existing laws like public nuisance, disorderly conduct or environmental violations, for burning the flag, per NewsNation.

👀

TheseTruths

Yay! 🇺🇸

Public nuisance, disorderly conduct, environmental violations…I would think all of those apply.

scott467

Public nuisance, yes. Disorderly conduct, probably.

But environmental violations?

Let me guess, the 3-horned aquatic salamander is adversely affected by flag smoke?

K1tt7-fzn

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
2h
🚨 BREAKING: The Texas House has just PASSED the new U.S. House Maps, which will add up to FIVE Republican U.S. House seats

HUGE WIN for Republicans! All of that Democrat whining did absolutely NOTHING.

kalbokalbs

Ninth circus comes through.

The pace of daily winning is breathtaking. But I, We, can handle it. Dumrats not so much.

9th Circuit Court Overturns Radical DEI Biden Judge’s Ruling — Gives President Trump GREEN LIGHT to Strip Legal Status from 64,000 Migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/9th-circuit-court-overturns-radical-dei-biden-judges/

scott467

Make ’em all strippers!

TradeBait2

Courtesy of Brian Cates

As I have pointed out continuously they rewrite the narratives and change history.

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Valerie Curren

Maybe this will let it show

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@NewsTreason
Interesting that the Smithsonian and history is coming into the narrative right now….

Our history is a lie and MUST be corrected.

An upcoming 8/28 delta tells us to focus on WWII history.

Now think about some of the comms and symbolism around the meeting between Trump & Putin. Is it just about Ukraine or is it about something much larger?

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kalbokalbs

Wow! Just W O W !

Biden-Appointed Judge Shockingly Rules Against Birthright Citizenship — Ninth Circuit Says Children of Foreign Diplomats Are NOT Automatically U.S. Citizens

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/biden-appointed-judge-shockingly-rules-against-birthright-citizenship/

TradeBait2

Things be habbenin’…

TradeBait2
Aubergine

When I was a kid, I read “The Diary of Anne Frank,” like pretty much every kid back then did. At church, we heard about Moses, and Egypt, and “let my people go,” and all the Old Testament stuff. When I got older, I learned about WWII, saw pictures from the camps, and read about Auschwitz, Mengele, Hitler, and all the rest.

Later, I saw “Schindler’s List.” The more I read, heard, and saw, the more it puzzled me that this group of people, because of their religion, apparently, generated hatred in so many others. It was very weird to me. No other ethnic group had such a sustained level (or any level, for that matter) of hatred against it. There is nothing like the hate that exists in so many quarters for the Jews anywhere else in history. It made no sense.

Given the events and posts here over the past month or so, I have given this even more thought. And I have to say, I still find it weird. It’s like this mental block that just takes over some people’s minds or something. They just hate.

Oh, they say it’s not hating. They say today’s Jews aren’t really Jews, or they are doing something terrible (they say genocide). Of course, if any other group were doing it, it would be ok. because it isn’t a genocide at all. It’s self-defense. But this time it’s those Joooz. They’re bad, evil, cruel; it’s always something. My son says haters gonna hate, but this hate is really something special.

The only thing that makes sense to me is, it must be that the Jews, being God’s Chosen People, have the temerity to actually claim to be God’s Chosen People. They don’t demure, prevaricate, or evade it. They own it. Their written history precedes Christianity by two thousand years, Islam by twenty-seven hundred. Of the world’s religions, their history with God is the most well-documented, archeologically supported, unbroken timeline of any group. And I think that’s why some people hate them.

God Himself chose the Jews. They have remained, they have persevered, they have even thrived. And that makes some people absolutely wild with hatred.

It’s still weird to me.

P.S. Don’t give me any shit about “bloodlines” please. I have explained multiple times that whether today’s Israeli Jews descend from the bloodline tribe of Judah makes not a hill of beans of difference Biblically. Which is all that matters.

Linda

I believe it’s satanic hatred – i.e., inspired by Satan in his earthly minions. Satan knows that if he can somehow kill off all the Jews, then what God has prophesied can’t happen, and he won’t meet his prophesied end. Prophecy says that 1/3 of the Jews will be saved in the end and Satan will be cast into the lake of fire for all eternity. Satan has been getting nations and dictators all through the ages to try to annihilate the Jews, but God will never allow that to happen.

Valerie Curren

amen

Aubergine

I like that theory. It makes all kinds of sense to me.

scott467

“No other ethnic group had such a sustained level (or any level, for that matter) of hatred against it.”

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Christians do. Not an ethnic group, but I am nearly certain the hatred and persecution (and deaths) are far greater for Christians than any other group of people since the 1st century.

But Christians don’t have influence or control of media or the narratives therein.

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Aubergine

Interesting thought. I would have to do some research to document it. I do know for certain that Christian sects have persecuted other Christian sects down through the ages. That’s how we got a whole lot of early American colonists.

Aubergine

And many of mine. I had Quakers, Dunker Baptists, and I even recently discovered a Puritan. George Whitefield, who we read about just a few days ago, successfully converted a whole bunch of them to his “New Light” Baptist faith.

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cthulhu

Slackers!!

cthulhu

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bakocarl

H/T cthulhu
Vengeance is Sweet . . . like Honey
 
In the charming little town of Willowby, where picket fences gleamed whiter than a politician’s smile and every lawn was mowed to manicured perfection, people had a peculiar habit of dropping dead. Not in a dramatic, blood-splattered way, mind you – just quietly, mysteriously, often with a teacup in hand or a half-eaten scone on their plate. The townsfolk, ever polite, chalked it up to “the way of things,” as one does in charming little towns everywhere. After all, Willowby was the sort of place where bad things only happened to people who probably deserved it, or so they whispered over chamomile tea at the weekly book club.
 
The first to go was Mr. Clarence Tuttle, the bank manager who’d foreclosed on half the town’s cottages during the Great Recession, chuckling as he signed the papers. He was found slumped in his leather armchair, a jar of honey – charmingly labeled with a hand-drawn bee and a looping “From Mabel’s Garden” script – sitting open on his desk. The coroner, a nervous man named Dr. Peebles, muttered something about heart failure and scurried off. Nobody thought much of it. Clarence was a miserable old git, and heart failure sounded about right for a man whose heart was mostly made of compound interest.
 
Then came Mrs. Agatha Pimm, the gossip who’d once spread a rumor that the vicar was secretly a nudist. She keeled over mid-sentence at the garden fete, her teacup spilling Earl Grey onto her prized petunias. Beside her, another jar of Mabel’s honey, tied with a pink ribbon, glinted in the sun. “Natural causes,” Dr. Peebles stammered, avoiding eye contact. The townsfolk nodded sagely. Agatha’s tongue had been sharper than a hedge trimmer; maybe the universe had finally snipped it.
 
By the time the third victim – Councilman Reginald Snoot, who’d tried to bulldoze the town park for a strip mall – expired with a spoonful of honey halfway to his mouth, people started to talk. Not loudly, mind you – Willowby wasn’t that kind of town. But whispers fluttered like moths around the teashop, where the air smelled of lavender and suspicion.
 
The common thread, it seemed, was Mabel Pritchard, the town’s sweetest octogenarian. Mabel lived in a cottage so charming it could’ve starred in a postcard, with roses climbing the walls, lavender swaying in the breeze, and a garden buzzing with bees. Her honey was legendary, gifted in little jars adorned with ribbons and her spidery handwriting. Everyone loved Mabel. She’d bake scones for the church bazaar, knit scarves for the orphans, and smile so warmly you’d swear she was your own granny. But lately, folk noticed, her honey only went to certain people. The ones who’d crossed her, back in the day.
 
Take Clarence Tuttle. Decades ago, he’d swindled Mabel’s father out of his farm, leaving the family penniless. Agatha Pimm? She’d spread lies about Mabel’s late husband, claiming he’d run off with a barmaid when he’d actually died in a tragic tractor accident. And Reginald Snoot? He’d once fined Mabel’s mother for growing “unsightly” wildflowers, then laughed when she cried at the council meeting. Mabel never forgot. Mabel never forgave.
 
The townsfolk, bless their nosy hearts, began piecing it together at the teashop one rainy afternoon. “It’s the honey,” whispered Betty Crump, the librarian, clutching her teacup like a lifeline. “Mabel’s bees feed on that oleander in her garden. Poisonous, it is. I read it in a book.”
 
“Nonsense,” scoffed Tom the butcher, who’d never crossed Mabel and thus never received her honey. “She’s a sweet old dear. Wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
 
“Flies, maybe not,” Betty muttered. “But what about that time she told me, ‘Betty, dear, some folks reap what they sow, and I just help the harvest along’? I thought she was talking about carrots!”
 
The teashop buzzed with theories, but nobody dared confront Mabel. She was too beloved, too frail-looking, with her lace shawls and twinkling eyes. Besides, the victims weren’t exactly mourned. “Good riddance,” muttered the postman, who’d lost his house to Tuttle’s foreclosures. “Serves ’em right,” agreed the florist, who’d endured Agatha’s gossip for years. Mabel, it seemed, was settling scores nobody else had the guts to touch.
 
One evening, as the sun dipped low and painted Willowby in shades of peach and gold, young Jenny Harper, the baker’s daughter, crept to Mabel’s cottage. She’d always liked Mabel, who’d taught her to braid daisies into crowns, but curiosity – and a touch of teenage bravado – drove her to snoop. Peering through the window, Jenny saw Mabel in her rocking chair, humming to her bees. The air shimmered oddly, like heat rising from pavement, and the bees swirled around her in a golden cloud. “Time to move on, my dears,” Mabel murmured, her voice soft as honey. “This town’s clean now. Plenty more weeds to pluck elsewhere.”
 
Jenny blinked, and the world seemed to shift. A mist rolled in, thick and glittering, swallowing the cottage. When it cleared, the garden was empty. The beehives were gone. Mabel was gone. Only a single jar of honey remained on the doorstep, labeled “For Jenny, with love.” Jenny, who’d once tattled on Mabel’s secret recipe to win a baking contest, felt her stomach lurch. She didn’t touch the jar.
 
By morning, Willowby buzzed with the news: Mabel had vanished. Some said she’d died, others that she’d moved to her sister’s in Cornwall. But Jenny, and a few sharp-eyed others, knew better. They pictured Mabel, her bees humming like a choir, drifting through the mist to some new town, some new garden. There’d be oleander blooming, and jars tied with ribbons, and richly deserving miscreants who’d soon learn what Mabel’s sweetness really meant.
 
In Willowby, life went on. The teashop stayed busy, the fences stayed white, and nobody died mysteriously anymore. But every so often, someone would find a wildflower on their doorstep, and they’d smile, thinking of Mabel. “Good luck to her,” they’d say, raising a teacup. “And good riddance to the rest.”