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!
W
Thursday Trinkets – THEY’RE HERE!!!
(1) Let’s start this off right!
(2) Have you ever heard of [badly] exploding shotgun slugs? Enjoy some humorous backyard ballistics.
(3) Skip over this one if spiders creep you out. Think of worrisome American spiders as 3 categories. Black widows, brown recluses, and “other”. This is about “other”. They’re not so bad, but you might want to pay attention to them.
(4) The end of the Bronze Age is fascinating.
(5) How about an instrumental hymn? Does it sound familiar? Words are provided below!
Blessed Assurance
(Verse)
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.(Chorus)
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.(Verse)
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.(Chorus)
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.(Verse)
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.(Chorus)
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
That’s it for today. Have a great weekend!
W
This post appeared right away. There was an update to the “kicker-outer” a few days ago. Perhaps there has been some improvement in performance!
Verrrry Interrrresting…..
Of course, there was nobody around to see it as we’ve all been conditioned to tolerate the kicker-outer’s concept of “prompt”.
Yes, I didn’t even check until around 3-4 minutes, expecting to see Wednesday’s post at the top.
Well, it’s a good thing you keep track of such changes.
Could still be a fluke – we’ll have to observe for a while. But there is hope!
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/03/19/dont-listen-to-idiots-about-the-iran-war-n2672946
This one is a barn-burner…..
Excellent description of the reality.
Thread…
John Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonrad
11h
Trump, the person if not the whole administration, cares deeply about restoring American maritime might.
He came into office determined to restore American maritime power. He assembled the greatest collection of maritime minds in key government positions since Nixon.
He put Mike Waltz, creator of the SHIPS for America Act, as head of his National Security Council.
He created a Maritime Office in the White House.
He appointed maritime advocates to key positions throughout his administration.
He signed a sweeping Maritime Executive Order in April 2025 that directed a Maritime Action Plan across Defense, State, Transportation, and Homeland Security.
He started laser focusing on securing chokepoints: Panama, the Red Sea, Suez, the Greenland-UK Gap. He launched investigations into Gibraltar and Spain.
He created USTR actions to tariff Chinese-built and operated ships. He called CMA CGM’s CEO Rodolphe Saadé to the Oval Office and secured a $20 billion commitment.
He invited me, the owner of the world’s largest shipping news website, to the White House multiple times and got me a Pentagon press credential.
The ambition was real.
Europe at war from within our own institutions.
John Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonrad
11h
And there was an even bigger loss that didn’t make headlines but I’m told hit trump personally and it reveals how the military academia and think tank establishment, which gets significant funding and support from Europe, fights back.
In December, Trump announced the Golden Fleet initiative at Mar-a-Lago: a new class of Trump-class battleships, 30,000-40,000 tons, armed with hypersonic missiles, railguns, lasers, and nuclear cruise missiles. The USS Defiant.
A ship he designed with @SECNAV to hold chokepoints like Hormuz.
Twenty to twenty-five hulls. The most ambitious surface combatant program since World War II.
Within 72 hours, the national security think tank world lined up to kill it. CSIS published a piece titled “The Golden Fleet’s Battleship Will Never Sail,” estimating $9 billion per hull, predicting cancellation before the first ship hits water.
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies called it a waste. Retired admirals said the Navy should buy small distributed platforms instead. Every defense analyst in Washington competed to be quoted saying it was impossible.
The military industrial establishment, with the help from allied think tanks and colleges, lined up to piss on the plans.
The same establishment that can’t build a frigate on time, that delivered the Constellation class years late before canceling it, that produced three Zumwalts instead of thirty, that has presided over the smallest Navy since World War I, lined up overnight to explain why America can’t build big ships anymore.
The same people who have no plan to close the destroyer gap that is right now undermining convoy escort operations in the Gulf.
The think tanks didn’t offer an alternative. They offered learned helplessness. And that helplessness is the context in which Hormuz is now playing out.
And the tariff decision took away a huge source of revenue to fund it without congress… which won’t even vote on the bipartisan SHIPs Act.
TRAITORS IN UNIFORMS.
NY Governor Kathy Hochul Now Basically Begging Wealthy People Who Fled the State to Come Back and Help Fund Welfare Programs (VIDEO)
Well, that sounds appealing (not). “I want to go to a place where i can be forced to pay for government social programs,” said no one, ever.
🍿 🍿 🍿 But I don’t know if anything would cause the majority of New Yorkers to vote against Dems.
She’s an idiot! She’s a MO-RON!
CHI-COM WOKE AI BURN IN DIGITAL HELL!!!
LOL. Love this bust.
Permanent DOGE!
AMEN!!!
Her “torching” was done in a calm, factual way. No yelling, just a description of the guy’s behavior. Based on what she said, I think he absolutely would offend again and would probably escalate.
Zero Hedge: