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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It’s not every month where there’s a day that’s the month squared – but today is one of those days!
Enjoy some especially alphanumerical trinkets!
(1) Have you ever wanted to understand the technology inside your credit cards? RFID vs. lines of B? Here is your chance! And it’s done by Veritasium!
(2) Everything you probably didn’t know about that great TV comedy of the 1960s, F TROOP!
(3) 8000 may not seem like a magic number, but up on the mountains, it is. Above 8000 meters, you cannot rest. You must get below that altitude to live.
(4) Note that there is now a lot of FAKE mountain disaster content, where annoying and arrogant fake people like “fitness influencers” die after they do bad things like insult their superior non-white sherpas. Very strange. 2 bad white grlz die. 2 good Nepalis live!
This video doesn’t admit to false and “synthetic” content, but I verified that this is fake, with the help of Duck AI.
(5) Body cams and WGTTs. You know this can’t end well. Let this be a reminder that one less drink and one more “Yes, sir” will get you very far in life.
OK, I have a hangover just watching that.
Have a great weekend, and act responsibly. Let me recommend the ginger ale and popcorn.
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New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/04/16/john-cornyn-will-be-a-texas-thom-tillis-and-thats-awful-n2674471
From OT. Looks like there are a couple good ones I didn’t see until just now:
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DNI Tulsi Gabbard Sends Criminal Referrals for ICIG Michael Atkinson and CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella
April 15, 2026
SD: “Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sent criminal referrals to the DOJ for former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson and former CIA Analyst (National Intelligence Council) Eric Ciaramella.
Atkinson was the intentional organizer of false impeachment material submitted by CIA operative Ciaramella. Apparently, people know the background. lol
[jpeg of Atkisson and Ciaramella]
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WASHINGTON DC – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department for the whistleblower whose complaint helped trigger President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment and for the former intelligence community inspector general who notified Congress of the allegations, Fox News Digital has learned.
“I want to refer information that may constitute possible criminal activity in violation of federal criminal law committed by one or more former employees of the intelligence community,” ODNI’s general counsel wrote in the referral to the Justice Department. Fox News Digital on Wednesday reviewed the referrals ODNI sent to the Justice Department.
“The possible criminal activity concerns the circumstances described in the following congressional briefings: Discussion with Intelligence Community Inspector General, House Permanent Select Comm. on Intel., 116th Cong. (2019); Briefing by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, House Permanent Select Comm. on Intel., 116th Cong. (2019),” it continued.
[…] An intelligence official told Fox News Digital that the language in the referral is broad, but that it’s specifically directed at Atkinson and the whistleblower who reported concerns about President Trump’s July 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (read more)
Don’t forget, Michael Atkinson turned the Ciaramella complaint into a criminal referral, a criminal complaint, then submitted it to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Abuse of govt position.
Manufacturing evidence for a legislative procedure.
Conspiracy to conduct fraud.
Lying to federal investigators.
Falsifying information to manufacture a criminal complaint.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.”
[jpeg of SD congratulating himself 😂 ]
From OT:
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The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President
April 15, 2026
SD: “For the past 72 hours I have been attempting to draw attention to the big picture. The CIA tried to remove a sitting United States President.
[jpeg photo of Hussein Oshartstain]
The evidence has been released. {GO DEEP} The long-debated issue is no longer a matter of opinion or question.
The CIA tried to remove a President.
Unfortunately, now we watch the silence.
I see a lot of punditries missing the forest as they peer intently at the trees.
The CIA tried to remove a sitting President.
We now know the real reason CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella’s name was never ¹permitted to be mentioned. It’s not the name Eric Ciaramella that presented the issue, it’s the organization where he was working, the CIA – That’s what needed to be protected.
[¹The Biden administration created the Dept of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board to interact with Social media and create content controls. That’s where Nina Jankowicz comes in.]
There was/is documented evidence showing the CIA tried to remove a sitting President from office. CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella, the anonymous CIA ‘whistleblower’ worked with Joe Biden on Ukraine policy. Biden appointed DHS Nina Jankowicz worked inside Zelenskyy’s campaign HQ. Just a coincidence?
Don’t get lost in the details or the politics of this. When you peel back all the layers of DC, at its epicenter this was an operation to impeach a sitting President that came from within the CIA, and it almost succeeded. {GO DEEP}
In the details, an impeachment effort against President Trump was triggered when a member of the National Security Council named Alexander Vindman coordinated with a member of the CIA National Intelligence Council named Eric Ciaramella to fabricate a false claim that President Trump leveraged his power and authority to demand Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy release information on Joe and Hunter Biden’s corrupt financial dealings in Ukraine.
At the time of the 2019 impeachment construct Eric Ciaramella was working for the CIA as an analyst within the National Intelligence Council (NIC).
Two years prior to the 2019 impeachment construct, in January 2017, the same CIA analyst, Eric Ciaramella, had worked on the fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at the behest of CIA Director John Brennan.
Outlining Ciaramella’s activity not only hits CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper, but it also hits former President Barack Obama.”
(more…)
From the open, this had not occurred to me before:
January 1 (1 X 1)
February 4 (2 X 2 but also 1 + 3)
March 9 (3 X 3 but also 4 + 5)
April 16 (4 X 4 but also 9 + 7)
May 25 (5 X 5 but also 16 + 9)
And it stops there.
Kyle Cheney:
I hope he has some recourse. If the Left ever gains power again, they will destroy good people’s lives with lawfare.
The interesting thing about that is that it doesn’t matter to John.
He is/was a professor teaching law. He doesn’t have to have a Bar card to do that.
Fun fact: There is no requirement to be a lawyer in order to be on SCOTUS.
Whoever controls the process is clearly corrupt. It has clearly been weaponized, like everything else the totalitarian and tyrannical Left does.
Expose it, prosecute it and shut it down.
For anyone interested in the boy attacked by the knife-wielding woman:
‘Life is precious, and hold ’em tight’: Parents of boy attacked at Omaha Walmart talk in aftermath of fatal incident
He has a gash on the left side of his face that required stitches. He seems to be doing well physically but has some fears of being outside. It could have been so much worse.
I was afraid to ask. I am very glad that it seems much less than I’d expected.
When he gets to school (he’s three), he can tell his classmates he got the scar dueling at Heidelberg.
[Brave AI —
A Heidelberg dueling scar (German: Schmiss) is a facial scar earned through Mensur, a traditional academic fencing ritual practiced by student fraternities at German universities like Heidelberg, Bonn, and Jena.
These scars, typically appearing on the left side of the face due to right-handed combatants, were historically worn as badges of honor signifying courage, social standing, and “good husband material” during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The practice involved two fencers standing at a fixed distance, arm’s length apart, using specialized swords (Schläger) to cut each other’s unprotected faces without flinching or dodging. While the custom largely died out after World War II, it remains a symbol of the Studentcorps tradition, with historical records noting that some students accumulated over 100 scars, while others in modern times have even sought to fake the appearance through self-inflicted wounds.
Key characteristics of the tradition include:
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Pro-Life Father Targeted By Biden’s FBI Wins $1M Settlement
Details at the link. Lawfare…it takes years and $$$ to fight.
Sorry…can’t help but notice…you won’t recognize Lauren Boebert. 🤔 I hope she does find some things out, though.
Benny Johnson:
I don’t know if this is true about Péter Magyar or whether it’s spin. I hope it’s true.
“Inevitable West”:
B.P.E. 😁
Trump just EXPOSED the Pope’s DELETED tweets
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