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Still not quite up to it, but doing exercises and the like.

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Marco Rubio was impressive on Wednesday.

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1879553592861905122

@JerryDunleavy

The opening statement given by Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio just now eviscerates decades of failed U.S. foreign policy: “Out of the triumphalism of the end of the long Cold War emerged a bipartisan consensus, and this consensus was that we had reached ‘the end of history.’ That all the nations of earth would become members of the democratic Western-led community. That a foreign policy that served the national interest could now be replaced by one that served the ‘liberal world order.’ And that all mankind was now destined to abandon national sovereignty and national identity, and we would become ‘one human family’ and ‘citizens of the world.’ This wasn’t just a fantasy — we now know it was a dangerous delusion.

Here in America, and in many of the advanced economies across the world, an almost religious commitment to free and unfettered trade at the expense of our national economy shrunk the middle class, left the working class in crisis, collapsed our industrial capacity, and has pushed critical supply chains into the hands of adversaries and of rivals. An irrational zeal for maximum freedom of movement of people has resulted in a historic mass migration crisis here in America but also around the world — it’s one that threatens the stability of societies and governments. Across the West, governments now censor and even prosecute domestic political opponents. Meanwhile radical jihadists openly march in the streets and sadly drive vehicles into our people.

While America far too often prioritized the ‘global order’ above our core national interests, other nations continued to act the way countries always have and always will — in what they perceive to be in their best interest. And instead of folding into the post-Cold War global order, they have manipulated it to serve their interests at the expense of ours. We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into the global order, and they took advantage of all its benefits, and they ignored all its obligations and responsibilities. Instead, they have repressed, and lied, and cheated, and hacked, and stolen their way to global superpower status, and they have done so at our expense and at the expense of their own country.

In our very own hemisphere, despots and narco-terrorists take advantage of open borders to drive mass migration, to traffic women and children, and to flood our communities with fentanyl and violent criminals. In Moscow, Tehran, and Pyongyang, dictators — rogue states — now sow chaos and instability and align with and they fund radical terror groups, and then hide behind their veto power at the United Nations Security Council and the threat of nuclear war. The postwar global order is not just obsolete — it is now a weapon being used against us. And all this has led to a moment in which we must now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical instability and of generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive today.”

MEMES and FUN STUFF

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Hebrews 3:7-14

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, when you hear his voice, 8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’ 11As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'” 12Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today, ” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,

Psalms 95:6-11

6O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker! 7For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice! 8Harden not your hearts, as at Mer’ibah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 9when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. 10For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.” 11Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.

Mark 1:40-45

40And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” 41Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I will; be clean.” 42And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 43And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once, 44and said to him, “See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to the people.” 45But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.

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SATIRE

WEEKEND STARTER

Snowflake Martini Recipe

Ingredients

(makes one drink)

• 2 oz. vanilla vodka
• 2 oz. Godiva white chocolate liqueur
• 1 oz. white creme de cacao
• 1 oz.  half and half
• Lemon wedge
• Sanding sugar

Directions

1. Cut a lemon wedge and rub it around the rim of the glass. Dip the rim in the sugar to coat evenly.
2. Add the vodka, chocolate liqueur, creme de cacao, and half and half into a shaker filled with ice.
3. Shake well and strain mixture into glass.
4. Serve immediately, and enjoy with your favorite seasonal tunes next to a toasty fireplace!

Have a good weekend, y’all.

Have a good one y’all.

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Badlands News Brief – January 8, 2025

Trump’s Lawyers Have Assailed Jack Smith. They Could Soon Have Power to Go After Him

California wildfires live updates: At least 5 dead, over 100,000 forced to flee

But not the Getty Museum. Not surprising as most modern museums have massive fire suppression systems.

Comedians Begin to Admit They Were Pressured Into Pushing the Leftwing Propaganda Line

Exclusive — Andrew Huff: Preemptive Pardon of Anthony Fauci, if Accepted, ‘Incriminates Everyone’

MKUltra Documents Declassified

Doug Casey Exposes the Real Issues Behind the H-1B Controversy

Pfizer’s secret documents reveal that their COVID vaccine actually made you 8.7% more likely to get COVID

TWEETS!

Just one to set the record straight.

https://twitter.com/CarloMVigano/status/1877041960189366605

@CarloMVigano

The “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is a decision that the State can legitimately take, and this is a principle dictated by Natural Law even before positive civil law or Canon Law. Conversely, the “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is certainly and indisputably incompatible with the network of pseudo-charitable organizations in the hands of the Bergoglian Hierarchy, the Democratic Party and the NGOs attributable to George Soros, and with the system of complicity between the deep state and the deep church, both of which are actively engaged in the dissolution of the social, economic, cultural, and religious fabric of the Nations in which they have taken control of the institutions. Stopping illegal immigration would make them lose an inexhaustible source of profit, paid for by citizens’ taxes. The “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is certainly and unquestionably incompatible with the subversive plan of ethnic substitution shared by the globalist elite, because it thwarts it and prevents the creation of the premises for social revolt that are intended lead to a further restriction of fundamental freedoms. When we hear representatives of the deep church (i.e. the Bergoglian “church”) or the deep state speak, we ought to realize that these people are emissaries of the subversive globalist lobby, and that every word they say is false, because behind an apparently acceptable excuse they actually hide unmentionable criminal purposes. Let us not be surprised then if “Cardinal” McElroy – appointed by Bergoglio as “Archbishop” of Washington, heir of the serial abuser and right-hand man of the Argentine Jesuit, Theodore McCarrick – is so busy with immigrants, LGBTQ+, the environment and vaccines: these are the points of the Agenda 2030, which the Bergoglian “church” has been promoting since the Mafia of St. Gallen managed to have a puppet of the World Economic Forum elected “pope”. And let us not be surprised if what the exponents of the deep state and the deep church have in common is corruption, vice, and perversion.

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True story.

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Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors
3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

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1 John 4:19–5:4

4 19We love, because he first loved us. 20If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also. 5 1Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child. 2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

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SATIRE

‘This Is Worse Than The Holocaust!’ Shouts Sunny Hostin After Barista Forgets To Put Cream In Her Coffee

New Check Engine Light For Women Will Show Ryan Gosling’s Face So They’ll Actually Pay Attention To It

Mike Johnson Calls LEGO To Order Another Set Of Hair

‘It’s Too Expensive To Have Kids,’ Says Woman Whose Ancestors Raised 11 Kids In A Two-Bedroom House

WEEKEND STARTER

Tanqueray Almond Cocktail

Ingredients

• 1 ounce gin
• 1/2 ounce amaretto liqueur
• 1 dash bitters
• 1 splash sour mix
• Maraschino cherries, for garnish

Steps to Make It

1. Gather the ingredients.
2. In a snifter with ice, pour the gin, amaretto, and bitters.
3. Top with a splash of sour mix.
4. Garnish with maraschino cherries. Serve and enjoy.

Have a good weekend, y’all.

Have a good one y’all.

Cover image: Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin

Interview with Captain Seth Keshel

Unmasking the Military Industrial Complex

Majority of Justin Trudeau’s caucus calls on him to quit

Chief Justice Roberts condemns elected officials for intimidating judges 

It’s The Hill, so take it with a grain of salt.

The Argentine Miracle

The Atlantic Beefs Up Politics Coverage Under Trump

TWEETS!

Not much out there that didn’t deal with the New Orleans ordeal.

https://twitter.com/DrJudyAMikovits/status/1874470644009893962

@DrJudyAMikovits

They exploded inflammatory diseases and called it COVID! https://therealdrjudy.com/judy-mikovits-transcripts/f/they-exploded-inflammatory-diseases-and-called-it-covid… Because that’s exactly what they’re doing to create the myocarditis. Remember when I showed in the Vaccine Education Summit that young woman that looked like she had lupus, well, Suramin is an antidote, if you will, to the mechanism of action, which is: inhibit reverse transcriptase because we know this COVID-19 isn’t a vaccine, it’s a manufactured virus. And they put Syncytin. They put the XMRV envelope spike protein, that alone causes all the diseases that could qualify as COVID, Long Haul COVID, they knew exactly what they were doing, and they published, in January of 2020 a review of all the wonderful cancers and viruses, and everything that suramin inhibits. And it was all of our work and all we tried to say for almost 30 years since I first worked with it in 1986 with HIV AIDS. Now you hear, Oh, AIDS is coming back. Oh, black man. And you know, we’re going right back to the game is the same. We could have cured AIDS in 1986 with things like Suramin and Ivermectin and cancer. They’re making money. Turn on the TV now, then you see 15 new COPD drugs, and they’re blaming us for our bad behavior, and they exploded inflammatory diseases and called it COVID. Judy Mikovits, PhD – 08/03/2022 Ernest Hancock interviews Dr Judy Mikovits:

MEMES and FUN STUFF

Government message to us.

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Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors
3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

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1 John 2:22-28

22Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23No one who denies the Son has the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25And this is what he has promised us, eternal life. 26I write this to you about those who would deceive you; 27but the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him. 28And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.

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SATIRE

History Made As NBA Teams Play Entire Game Without Dribbling

White House Insists Jimmy Carter Is Still Sharp And Focused Behind Closed Doors

FBI Confirms Terrorist Attack By Stating ‘This Is Not A Terrorist Attack’

WEEKEND STARTER

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces gin
• 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 2 ounces hot water
• Cinnamon stick, for garnish

Steps to Make It

1. Gather the ingredients.The Spruce Eats / S&C Design Studios
2. In a wine goblet, brandy snifter, or glass mug, add the gin, lemon juice, and sugar.The Spruce Eats / S&C Design Studios
3. Add the hot water and stir well to dissolve the sugar.The Spruce Eats / S&C Design Studios
4. Garnish with a cinnamon stick. Serve and enjoy.

Have a good weekend, y’all.

Have a good one y’all.

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Syria Comms, UHC Shooter, Gold will Destroy the Fed

Biden, Inc. Flips

Badlands News Brief – December 18, 2024

Ready to be blown away? Here’s the ‘secret sauce’ to identifying 60 years of US psyops…

Tucker reveals Trump’s most important appointment… probably not who you think…

The real reason Rome fell… it wasn’t disease or famine, it was LOW BIRTH RATES…

It’s not just us.

TWEETS!

https://twitter.com/TheReal40_Head/status/1869249637452038526

@TheReal40_Head

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/12/17/doj-inspector-general-says-schiff-and-swalwell-behind-russia-hoax-leaks/… Major news coming out of Capital Hill. Rep Adam Schiff and Rep Eric Swalwell were confirmed to have been leaking classified information to the press. The FBI knew they were doing this because of lawful orders to surveil them. But the FBI did nothing with their discoveries, and the DOJ did not press charges. There is full knowledge, with proof obtained by the top law enforcement agency in the nation, that these people betrayed their oaths of office and at the very least are guilty of committing sedition. Those whose DUTY it is to hold these people accountable are not doing so. You need to ask yourself why? It looks like a total of 41 individuals on Capital Hill were being surveilled due to various suspicions against them. Devices were monitoring their phone calls, texts, and emails. Major H/T to @drawandstrike for this link.

https://twitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1869177519322120414

@MJTruthUltra

23andMe is Facing Bankruptcy and Anyone that Ever Used it, Their DNA Could end up literally anywhere… • medical facilities • pharmaceutical companies • foreign nations? • crime scenes? Spit in a cup, get a family tree and genetic predispositions. Cool, right? • Sounds cool until you realize your DNA can be sold & weaponized against you. • Sounds cool, until you realize that is a mechanism meant to be a front end for a massive information-gathering operation against an unwitting public. • It’s cool, until you realize that Bill Gates, mega corps, and China all have their hands in it. • It’s cool until you realize one of the founders of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, was married to Sergei Brin, the founder of Google. • China specifically, through the BGI Group, has sold millions of COVID-19 test kits outside China since the outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic, including to Europe, Australia and the United States. They collected, stored, and exploited biometric information from COVID tests. There is a race to collect Americans’ DNA to win a race to control the world’s biodata.” Who knows what else.

https://twitter.com/MAHARFKJr/status/1868821854208815399

@MAHARFKJr

“Mammograms Are A Billions Dollar Business. They’re Only Useful For Profit & Always Do Terrible Harm To The Patient.” Dr John McDougall “Do Mammograms harm? ALWAYS. Should Mammograms be done? NO.” Mammographic compression causes cutaneous bruising, haematoma, rupture of breast implants & cystic masses. Repeated exposure to 3D Radiation causes Cancer. Current 3D Mammography delivers 3X more radiation than 2D mammograms of the past. For every 2,000 women, 1 woman’s life is saved. But, in the process 5 to 50 women will be treated unnecessarily with surgery, chemo & radiation. 600-1,000 of every 2,000 women who undergo Mammograms, will go thru more radiation screening & biopsies for potential diagnosis. Repeated radiation exposure causes deaths from heart disease, lung cancer & other cancers. These iatrogenic deaths are not counted as breast cancer deaths. Quote by World Renowned Cochrane Collaboration: “The best thing a woman can do to lower her risk of becoming a breast cancer patient is to avoid a Mammogram, which will lower her risk 33%.” “If Mammograms had been a drug, it would have been withdrawn from the market long ago. Very few women if any, will benefit, whereas many will be harmed by Mammography. Mammography screening should be stopped because it is harmful.” The screening that promotes health & not harm & doesn’t cause cancer is Thermography & QT Ultrasound Imaging, which has 40 times the resolution of MRI. Lifestyle Cancer prevention to Metabolic Health is thru a Ketogenic Low Carb Way of Eating, eliminating seed oils, Ultra Processed Foods & excess sugar. And avoid synthetic hormonal birth control.

https://twitter.com/WorldNews_X_/status/1869012171231051970

@WorldNews_X_

HQ Close-Up Video of UFO: Mystery Drones in New Jersey High-quality footage captures a close-up of a mysterious UFO spotted in New Jersey. The strange object, resembling advanced drones, has sparked curiosity and debates. Is this alien technology or something man-made? Watch the captivating video and share your theories!

MEMES and FUN STUFF

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The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Company manners are appreciated. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog out discussions best saved for a wrestling mat. If, for some reason, this site is not available, head over to the UTree and visit the post at the top of the list or the closest rescue thread.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF US HERE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND PREJUDICES, ETC., SO LONG AS THEY CAUSE NO PHYSICAL HARM TO OTHERS OR DOXX OUR FELLOW TREE DWELLERS.

All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors
3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

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Luke 1:5-25

5In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechari’ah, of the division of Abi’jah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years. 8Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, 9according to the custom of the priesthood, it fell to him by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 10And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense. 11And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12And Zechari’ah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. 13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechari’ah, for your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth; 15for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. 16And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God, 17and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Eli’jah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.” 18And Zechari’ah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.” 19And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news. 20And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things come to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.” 21And the people were waiting for Zechari’ah, and they wondered at his delay in the temple. 22And when he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he made signs to them and remained dumb. 23And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home. 24After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she hid herself, saying, 25“Thus the Lord has done to me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.”

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SATIRE

Newborn Starting To Suspect There’s No Milk In This Pacifier

Congress Warns Failure To Pass Spending Bill Might Delay Destruction Of The Country

WEEKEND STARTER

Jingle Bell Smash

Ingredients

• 2 ounces cranberry juice
• 2 ounces bourbon
• 1 ounce rosemary simple syrup*
• 1 ounce lemon juice, or orange would be great too!
• Fresh cranberries and rosemary for serving

Instructions 

• In a shaker or cocktail mixer filled with ice, combine the cranberry juice, bourbon, simple syrup and lemon juice. Shake/ stir to combine.
• Strain into a cocktail glass, garnish and ENJOY!

Have a good weekend, y’all.

Have a good one y’all.