This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
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 Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
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 THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

- 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 placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

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Thursday’s video entertainment is here!
(1) Anybody else here a fan of OLD CALIBERS? You’ll enjoy OLD (30-30) vs. OLDER (45-70) – but in nice, new, modern lever actions!











New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/01/22/can-you-feel-the-excitement-kamala-is-back-and-in-the-lead-n2669804
Just from the headline, that’s just peachy. 😅 It might be a good thing for our side.
If the Dems are foolish enough to go with her twice…… SO BE IT.
Love this line!
LOL! Love the spinning Roddenberry!
Best response to Woke Star Trek is this!
But if you want to see the woke stuff, it’s in a spoiler!
Like the one they did with Lord of the Rings, LOL.
Can’t stop laughing! AI is redeeming itself.
Sulu’s ridin’ shotgun on the mower deck
and Tribbles (pronounced “tribals”) keep a-cloggin’ up the septic tech
LOOOOOOOL
I don’t remember details about this.
Osatan always undoes himself – BECAUSE SATAN!
Good ol’ oxycodone pain pills.
I had no idea Massie’s had remarried. His new young wife was a Rand Paul staffer.
His bizarre ugly turn politically is in perfect timing with when he hooked up with her after his first wife died. Even his physical appearance changed.
Who knew that grieving a dead spouse had such weird side effects.
Best take-down of Massie yet!
Click on the SPOILER at the end, for the full tweet text.
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Well, it seems like I have to spend my morning correcting these fucking liars…
Thomas, you duplicitous, grandstanding fraud…
First, the oil isn’t “stolen.”
It’s lawfully seized Venezuelan crude from Maduro’s criminal regime…tankers and cargoes violating U.S. sanctions that Congress itself authorized through multiple statutes (CAATSA, VERDAD Act, and repeated appropriations for OFAC enforcement).
The executive branch, under IEEPA powers Congress delegated, blocks, seizes, and forfeits sanctioned property.
This isn’t theft; it’s enforcement of law against a narco-terrorist state that starved its people and funded Hezbollah.
Calling it “stolen” makes you sound like a Maduro apologist or a useful idiot…pick one.
Since you are a fucking libertarian I’ll go with both…
Second, the proceeds aren’t being funneled into “Trump’s personal piggy bank.”
That’s a venomous, baseless smear worthy of MSNBC, not a sitting Congressman.
The funds from these sales are parked in a protected Qatari account precisely to shield them from predatory creditors (ConocoPhillips, Crystallex, etc.) who hold billions in valid U.S. court judgments against Maduro’s regime.
The goal: preserve the money for the Venezuelan people under a future legitimate government, not let it be siphoned off by vulture funds in U.S. courts.
This is textbook sanctions policy…neutral offshore escrow to prevent asset dissipation.
We’ve done variants for Iran, Russia, Afghanistan. It’s strategic, not corrupt.
Third, your hysterical screech about “only Congress can appropriate money” is constitutional illiteracy wrapped in performative outrage.
These aren’t U.S. taxpayer dollars drawn from the Treasury requiring annual appropriation.
They are forfeited foreign assets…proceeds of sanctioned property.
The executive has longstanding authority to manage, liquidate, and direct such funds under existing statutory frameworks without new line-item appropriation each time.
If every seized tanker sale needed a separate vote, sanctions would be toothless. Your purported “originalist” reading collapses the moment you touch reality.
You’re not defending the Constitution, Thomas.
You’re posturing for clicks while undermining a policy that starves a brutal regime of revenue and preserves resources for Venezuela’s liberation.
This is the same spineless isolationist reflex that leaves tyrants untouched and Americans exposed.
You lecture about fiscal restraint yet clutch pearls when the executive uses delegated powers to crush a hemisphere-threatening socialist kleptocracy.
Wake up yourself, Congressman.
Your selective outrage isn’t principle…it’s cowardice dressed as conviction. America First demands strength against dictators, not impotent whining from the cheap seats.
The Republic endures despite quislings like you.
In other words, get your fucking head out of your fucking ass… Thomas.
This is 🔥🔥🔥👍🏼🇺🇸
DHS website traffic surges 68% as thousands use Trump’s self-deportation app for voluntary departure
They should get the device ID and location data of every alien invader who clicks on that website and go bag and tag ’em for deportation.
What are you – the Prince of Procedure?
Why on earth would we do anything to delay their departure?
Deportation is not the same as Removal. Deportation is shorthand for the admin proceedings that can result in an order of deportation. Removal is a state of being ordered to leave where there is no option to re-enter the admin process.
Tend to agree, but there is further genius to what Trump is doing, that deserves to remain a mystery!
I agree. That describes one facet of how Trump operates, but it’s too simplistic to think that is everything.
It’s a never-ending chess game, and Trump just stays in it for bigger wins coming next. And THAT is real ‘Merica.
LOL!!!
Yikes.
Nicholas Hulcher, MPH:
Thank you for bringing this!
This is actually fantastic. It’s a very smart attack.
KIrsch’s presentation of this is phenomenal and extremely convincing.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/parents-doctors-and-chd-sue-aap-in
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KIRSCH:
Executive summary
Hours ago, Sacramento attorney Rick Jaffe filed what is arguably one of the most important lawsuits ever filed in modern medical history.
The plaintiffs accuse the AAP of operating as the central coordinator in a racketeering enterprise involving pharmaceutical manufacturers (Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Pasteur) and affiliated organizations. The alleged purpose:
They argue that this has:
The Core Allegation
The suit claims AAP knowingly misrepresented both safety and efficacy evidence by asserting that the childhood vaccine schedule:
and that none of these statements are supported by actual cumulative outcome studies.
They accuse the AAP of:
The AAP is accused of:
The suit is filed under:
The plaintiffs seek:
The lawsuit
You can download the full 55-page AAP lawsuit for free here.
It was written in plain language for the public to read and learn. It’s devastating.
The historical significance is unprecendented
RICO, racketeering, conspiracy for profit! This is huge. Discovery should be very interesting.
We’re in uncharted territory.
There may be money people behind the scenes who decide to sacrifice the “woke wymynz” who are running AAP, along with some kind of settlement that allows them to be among the first to “escape” the downfall. IMO the money will drive what happens.
I must admit that this Tesla thing is reliably pulling off more “idiot evasion” moves than I have pulled off.