Dear KAG: 20220816 Open Thread

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You’re Un-American

“If your ‘belief’ in our country,” Goldberg writes, “is so fragile and pathetic that you will lose ‘hope for our nation’ unless Donald Trump is given free reign [sic] to cleanse the land of evildoers, then you don’t actually believe in this nation. If your love of country is contingent on your preferred faction being in power, you’ve confused partisanship for patriotism. Taken seriously, all of this banana republic talk is un-American.”

Meanwhile, here is a tourist interviewed yesterday in the New York Post as she watched Donald Trump arrive for a grilling by the New York state attorney general: “In Argentina this is normal, usual, the rule. The party in power tries to put the other side in jail. Now the vice president who was president two times is being investigated in 10 separate investigations by the opposition party. But I didn’t know they do this in the United States.”

Medical Science is Faked

Around 70 percent of all medical science trials are faked.

Mar-a-Lago raid gave Trump a 10-point boost over DeSantis with Republican primary voters, poll shows

The Basic Math Problem that Undoes Global Warming Hysteria

If the climate alarmists truly believe there is a climate emergency, then they should be able to answer the first basic question about “the plan.”  Are the numbers in the plan even remotely achievable?  Remember: based on their screeching, we have only twelve years before we all die from “man-made climate change.”

To answer that question, let’s break part of the plan into the most basic math problem: can we replace 25%, 50%, or 75% of the cars on the road in ten years?  To understand the theoretical possibility, we will simplify this to how many years will it take to replace all vehicles on the road in the U.S.

Monkeypoxing Around with ‘Don’t Say Gay’

Buckle Up: Tough Times Are Coming

The war, started by the establishment, ramped up when Trump arrived on the political scene in late 2015.  Trump’s nascent America First movement was, quite correctly, perceived as what’s fashionably termed an existential threat.  It’s been a hot cold war ever since, and it promises to grow hotter and nastier in the coming days.

Democrats and their allies are in their desperate hour.  Theirs isn’t an ascendant movement, but a faltering one.  Resorts to strong-arm tactics, illegality, and conniving are indications.  Ascendant movements enjoy broadening popular support.  Majorities form around them and create mandates.  Democrats enjoy no such backing.

With each passing day, Biden’s and Democrats’ failures become more apparent and painful to average Americans.  The economy is shaky; inflation and energy costs will resume rising.  Crime spikes in big cities.  Woke and sexual indoctrination of schoolkids is meeting with growing backlashes.  Democrats’ police state gambits repel people who’d otherwise take a pass on politics.  Their sheer incompetence, serial failures, and tyrannical overreach are undercutting their authority.  So Democrats and the establishment are afraid and anxious.

A Token of the Managerial Age Bewails Trump’s Surge

Monday’s FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach residence, was probably the single biggest boon to his stature among voters since he left office in January 2021, bigger even than the partisan witch hunt over which future CNN hostess, Liz Cheney, has been presiding with such ostentatious zeal.

This is obviously a concern among the beautiful, well-pressed people with white collars and clean fingernails who hate Trump. Employing a ju-ju they recognize but do not understand, Trump has time and again demonstrated an uncanny ability to goad his would-be attackers into contortions of self-immolation. 

Missouri AG Questions Need For Potentially Armed IRS Army

WHO IS JOHN DOE?… Mysterious, Anonymous Power Broker is Attempting to Block Gateway Pundit from Accessing Epstein Client List

At the end of July, The Gateway Pundit reported on our legal efforts to unseal the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex clients – the men and women with whom Epstein traded sex with minors for favors or money or both.

TGP Lead Counsel Marc Randazza of the Randazza Legal Group and TGP General Counsel John Burns moved to intervene in the Ghislaine Maxwell case in the Southern District of New York.

However, in the last week, something truly bizarre and unexpected happened.

An anonymous John Doe – literally styled by his lawyer as “John Doe” – filed an objection to TGP unsealing the sex client list … and the Court SIDED WITH THE JOHN DOE over the interests of the press and public to know what happens in one of the most remarkable court cases in US history.

“This just seems odd,” said TGP Attorney Marc Randazza.  “An anonymous party – not any actual party to the suit – is the only one who cared enough to file an objection, and the Court took their position, even without ruling on whether the John Doe could proceed anonymously.”

Too little, too late: Disband the CDC now

Whistleblowers revealed widespread FBI misconduct ahead of Trump raid

Prior to the FBI’s raid Monday on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, a string of whistleblower reports alleged that senior officials at the FBI exhibited a pattern of bias in their handling of politically sensitive investigations and also reclassified cases without justification to substantiate the White House’s public narratives on crime and extremism.

Infiltrate, Provocateur, Frame: FBI Fedbois Activate!

The COINTELPRO programs of the 1960s targeting civil rights and political organizations in the United States first started to stain the reputation of the FBI. This program wasn’t known publicly until 1971, and while the government claimed to terminate the program in 1971, domestic spying on American citizens and infiltration of truth & freedom movements has undoubtedly continued to this day.

While details are scarce, the surfacing of another FBI domestic espionage program lets us know that their infiltration actions most definitely continues to this day. This program was called PATCON, which the FBI launched in 1991 to track patriot groups that they labeled as “right wing extremists” (sound familiar?). The details of PATCON did not surface publicly until FOIA requests were filed by the author J.M. Berger in 2007. He has a detailed write-up of PATCON on the internet, and the Epoch Times is one of the few media outlets who was written about the story. COINTELPRO in the 60’s, PATCON in the 90’s, we can only imagine what covert programs might be going on today.

Then we have the mass shootings, and not much needs to be said about how so many mass shootings in the U.S. over the last few decades seem to have the smell of FBI around them. Often times the shooter is previously known to the FBI before the shooting happened. That’s not suspicious at all. /sarcasm/

And Monday’s Mar-A-Lago raid twist in the narrative:

FBI Seized President Trump Passports During Raid on Mar-a-Lago

Tweet hopper:

That’s actually today.

https://twitter.com/ad_tua/status/1559193287524622336

All in an effort to homogenize humanity.

Please, be sure the disposal does not end up in the water supply.

https://twitter.com/AlbertBikaj/status/1559126443765932032
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1558601991391174659

Meme hopper:

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

https://youtu.be/0ybxA1SPsIc

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HEBREWS 12:1-4

1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

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Anonymous ID: hHkrVD7x No.148156632 
Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)

Anonymous ID: pqW40Wgk No.148156518 
Nov 5 2017 20:05:48 (EST)

>>148154137

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, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20220812

Thank you all for understanding that some weeks life just happens. I think I’m good now.

Cocktail…

Fire and Ice

Pour vodka in a highball glass. Fill balance of glass with cider, stir, and serve. Add ice cubes if you like.

Best served in a Highball Glass.

Now that we have that out of the way, I stumbled upon a video on GAB, which is a MUST WATCH for people with teenage and young adult women in their families. I can only link the post, but PLEASE watch a dad point out what was found on his daughter’s car that is a marker for human traffickers.

HERE’S THE LINK AGAIN

Okay, tab clearance night.

RSBN TO EXCLUSIVELY LIVESTREAM TRUE THE VOTE’S ‘THE PIT’ WHICH WILL REVEAL ‘DEVASTATING’ INFORMATION ABOUT 2020

Congress is Supersizing the IRS. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Everyday Americans

Japan’s government resigns in its entirety

It Was a Trap

‘Healthy at any weight is an unchallenged lie’

COUNTRY PARTY REPRISE

Should We Emulate the Table Flipping Jesus?

Report: China Destroying Myanmar with Rare Earth Mining for ‘Green’ Energy

HUGE DEVELOPMENT: Report Alleges FBI “Had Personal Stake” in Mar-a-Lago Raid – Agents Were After Spygate Documents Trump Was Holding That Likely Implicated FBI

With every new development, the story gets stranger. Jonathan Turley agrees.

FBI Raid on Mar-A-Lago: ‘The More We Know, the More Confusing It Gets’

Justice Department’s ‘No Comment’ Lets Trump Team Set Search Narrative

That’s been amended…sort of…but still, the Trumps have driven the commentary from the beginning of the ordeal.

Breaking: DOJ source calls raid a ‘spectacular backfire,’ claims AG Garland didn’t approve it

Now Garland says he did approve the operation, but still, if it was a deep state maneuver, it backfired. Big time.

The FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago, and I Have Questions

Putting aside the legality of the whole thing, I have a bunch of questions.

  • Did President “Return to Normalcy” approve this, or is America now run by a shadow government?  Biden claims he didn’t know about the raid.  If true, that’s even scarier than the raid.
  • Has Merrick Garland erased any doubt that the Deep State is a genuine threat to our republic?
  • Is there any need for more evidence to fire Chris Wray and impeach Merrick Garland?
  • Has anyone made a stronger argument than Merrick Garland for limited government?
  • Does this raid undermine or reinforce the notion that we now have a two-tiered justice system?
  • If searches of ex-presidents are now accepted practice, who has the most to hide: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, or Joe “Ten Percent for the Big Guy” Biden?  It’s a valid question because they’re all fair game now.
  • Is it just a coincidence that Director Wray cut his Senate testimony short, and skedaddled out of Washington just days before the raid?  Might he have been worried about a leak concerning the raid while he was still seated before Senator Grassley?
  • Do we have enough now to at least start talking seriously about disbanding the FBI?
  • Is this the “return to normalcy” that the Democrats promised us?
  • Has this action “red-pilled” any traditional Democrat voters? Has this action shamed any of them, similar to how the FBI has shamed former agents?
  • Will this raid encourage or discourage Democrat voters from going to the polls in November?
  • Has this action gotten any independent voters off of the fence?  If so, are they likely to fall left or right after news of the raid?
  • Are people suffering through stagflation getting sick of the Democrat party’s obsession with the last election?
  • Will this raid enhance or poison future legislative cooperation?
  • Will this be the “crossing of the Rubicon” that actually forces RINOs to take a side?
  • Did the NeverTrumps not see the character of the people they were climbing into bed with?  Do they see now that they should have used protection?
  • Is this the kind of banana republic b——- that the NeverTrumps meant to unleash on America when they sided with the Dems?
  • Where do the NeverTrumps stand on the raid?  Are they against or in support of the action?  Do they have any principles left, or has hatred burned their consciences to ashes?
  • What is Liz Cheney’s position on the raid?  Does her hatred of Trump outweigh her love of country?  I have the same question for Kevin “Real Man” Costner and Senator Pierre Delecto.
  • Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood that The Donald will run again?  I’m sure the Dems have contemplated this question a lot.
  • Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood of The Donald being re-elected?  I’m pretty sure the Dems didn’t spend much time thinking this one out.
  • Did the Dems consider that this action might actually help to rehabilitate Trump’s image?  They created an America in which victimhood is admired — and they just made Trump public victim number one.
  • Has Merrick Garland converted Trump from a mean-tweeting ogre to a sympathetic martyr yet?
  • Could the Biden administration have possibly done anything more potent to maximize Republican turnout in November?
  • Has this angered average Americans?  If so, how are they likely to respond?  Did the Dems devote even one brain cell to that question?

These are not rhetorical questions.  I have suspicions about the answers — but I don’t know for sure.  I am pretty sure the Democrats don’t know, either — which makes this raid seem all the more desperate.

Tesla deploys swimming pool at Supercharger station

Getting ahead of those long wait times with a luxurious rest stop.

And then….

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557779172113752064

Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips urges fellow Democrats, independents in Wyoming to back Liz Cheney in primary

Liz Cheney Lights Herself on Fire — Again

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557154128299806720
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557506826060660740

“Sometimes you have to SHOW the people.”

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1557547445604782081

PAY ATTENTION! GRASSLEY CORN COMMS!

Your guess as to what this means is as good as mine, but the corn field behind a cousin’s place in Southern Illinois had a lovely looking crop on Wednesday ready to be picked.

https://twitter.com/toxMasQulinity/status/1557724756996005888
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557768012140249088
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1557821330308960271

Whatever. The sane people have moved on.

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ISAIAH 12:2-6

2“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” 3With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. 4And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations, proclaim that his name is exalted. 5“Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth. 6Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

SATIRE!

Have a great weekend.

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20220811

LONG day today. Will be back with a full Friday daily. Tomorrow.

TWEETS:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557529032950009857

MEMES:

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4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

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JOHN 15:4-10

4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

Dear KAG: 20220810 Open Thread

Headlines:

Okay, so, Depat had a big day and there’s not much in the hopper. Enjoy!

Amazon Buys Roomba Company, Will Now Map Inside of Your House

CBS News Censors Its Own Documentary Exposing How 70% of US Funding of Ukraine is Wasted

Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas

Republicans, after a shocked silence, speak out against the Mar-a-Lago raid

Tweets!

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1556702321584791552
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1556693274571702275
https://twitter.com/AmazingPosts_/status/1556193627101171713
https://twitter.com/VitruvianKulak/status/1556661772802818048

MEMES!

zzzz

Not today.

Have a good day y’all.

(I don’t remember who brought this to a daily in the comments, but thanks.)

And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:

Per the Boss:

This came on the radio today. It is movie theme song day.

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6The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work. 9As it is written, “He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever.” 10He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

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SATIRE SECTION

Dear KAG: 20220809 Open Thread

Cover image: Norman Rockwell, Election Day, 1944. Watercolor and gouache, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Museum purchase, Save-the-Art fund, 2007.037.1.

“Election Day, 1944″, watercolor on paper, 28.25″x36.75″ overall, 36.75″x44.75” framed, studies for Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Chamber of Commerce collection, photographed 10/30/06. CRMA #S2006.001, CRCC #L1983.15.4

I took some time away over the weekend to recover from Friday, and some other stuff, so this is not going to be quite as loaded as it could be. For a thorough discussion on the FBI’s Mar-A-Lago “raid,” please see yesterday’s daily. This could easily be a shiny red ball meant to keep the cats looking at laser pointers away from inflation, Ukraine, The Pit, the Yankees sinking like a rock…..

https://twitter.com/pups_Puppies1/status/1556562141460795399

Here we go:

Beyond Meat Sales Decline As Customers Choose Less Expensive Real Meat

During an earnings call, Beyond Meat Chief Executive Ethan Brown told investors that as a category, meat substitutes have been hurt by rising prices, which have caused customers to trade down, buying cheaper real chicken and beef.

Brown noted that in the second quarter, according to data from numerator, US household penetration of plant-based meat contracted for the first time in more than four years.

The real truth wouldn’t be that the stuff is revolting, now would it?

Karl Marx, Liar and Corruptor

Throughout the 1800s, the world’s dominant philosopher was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1830).  He thought the universe was a logical machine, like a steam engine.

Hegel and his contemporaries agreed that Nature contains an underlying structure.  The Hegelian dialectic was all the rage for a century.  These philosophers wanted to sound scientific and mathematical.  First thesis meets second thesis, producing third thesis.

Karl Marx (1818–1883) absorbed this thinking and concluded that history itself is a logical machine, like a cash register.  Events do not happen randomly.  There are laws — and Marx alone could explain them.

For Marx, the big predictions were about capital — i.e., money.  He probably wrote a thousand pages, but his answers came down to a simple diagram.  Capitalism works almost too well.  Industrialists could acquire fortunes, but that is the trap.  Capitalists are greedy bloodsuckers who reduce workers not just to poverty, but to starvation and desperation.  Inevitably, according to Marx, workers rise up in righteous wrath, kill the industrialists, and divide the money among the workers, ushering in a communist paradise.

The problem for communism is that Marx had a flimsy theory to promote, and he could be reckless about it.  Almost everything done in his name, as we’ll see, was dishonest.  He hacked his own history machine.

Patriotism Is Kryptonite to America’s Communist Class

Something is surely rotten at the Bureau when it is more than willing to “take a knee” in a Marxist show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter anti-American anthem protesters but denigrates pro-American emblems as evidence of violent extremism.  Independence Day celebrations each year must be grueling for federal agents trying to protect the nation from its own rebellious past.  Now that patriotic displays of affection for the country have been relabeled as potential signs of domestic terrorism, hot dogs and fireworks require a new national security threat assessment.  All agents, be on the lookout for Americans engaging in too much fun on the Fourth of July.  Be advised: children with patriotic face paint, persistent Liberty Bell ringing, and unexpected outbursts of support for freedom may warrant further investigation.  Should you encounter any reference to the 1773 Boston Tea Party, the modern Tea Party Movement, or strong distaste for tea, in general, immediately call for backup.  This much is clear: when the FBI honors America-haters and vilifies American patriots, love for America is perceived as not only suspect, but also dangerous to the Deep State.  That says a lot about our current predicament. 

What’s a Gun Got to Do with It?

The arguments for gun control are familiar to most.  The anti-gun stance is that no guns means no mass shootings at schools less violent crime generally.  In support of this position, the figure of fewer deaths by guns in nations where guns have been banned is often cited, while violent deaths by other means are typically ignored.  Alternatively, the pro-gun position draws attention to 1) declining violent crimes in America for nearly three decades (Antifa/BLM riots, state D.A. criminal leniency, federal prison purges, etc. are altering this trend); 2) armed citizens for criminal deterrence; and 3) on-the-scene armed citizens preventing crime and apprehending criminals before police arrive.  Think of the recent Indiana mall “good Samaritan.”  In this article, we’ll explore the anti-gun side.

To underscore the U.S.’s unhealthy obsession with violence, anti-gun activists are aghast to learn that more guns exist in America (400M) than Americans (330M) — as if large numbers of inanimate objects somehow animate them.  It would be akin to shuddering over the number of chainsaws in hardware stores for fear that one might somehow self-start and kill someone.  What anti-gun activists don’t shout from their rooftops is that as the number of modern sporting rifles (MSRs) sold in America has increased over the past quarter-century — to include high-capacity-magazine, automatic high-powered rifles, etc., which they argue pose the greatest threat — the number of violent crimes has declined.

NPR is shocked that GOP governors aren’t making it easy for sanctuary cities

Perhaps the best thing of all is NPR’s shock and horror at how mean Abbott and Ducey are being. According to NPR, when they put those people on the bus, they had no plan: “GOP governors sent buses of migrants to D.C. and NYC—with no plan for what’s next”

That’s so wrong, of course. Gov. Abbott totally had a plan: It was to show that the last thing virtue-signaling leftists want is to live with the consequences of their open-border immigration policies.

The Enemies of Their Enemy

In “They Can’t Let Him Back In,” Anton depicts the class war that is erupting around Trump. His antagonists, the people who insist he was inciting an “insurrection” on January 6, represent the permanent political class and their globalist allies. These actors are committed to international free trade, “endless wars” to benefit the arms industry, and keeping the Washington establishment in clover. Although Trump as president did not consistently work against these interests, he did appeal to a class base that is revolting against American elites. It is therefore necessary, according to Anton, to destroy Trump’s reputation and political career to protect those who control public administration, the secret service, the media, the educational system, and the culture industry. 

Yes, Intrinsic Human Value is a Christian Idea, But Do You Really Want to Argue Against It?

The pro-life argument, in its foundational form, is simple:

  1. It’s wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings.
  2. Abortion intentionally kills innocent human beings.
  3. Therefore, abortion is wrong.

The first thing to do when someone accuses you of making a religious argument against abortion is to clearly state the premises and conclusion of the argument and then ask, Which premise of this argument is religious?

A Curious Case of Transferred Battery Technology

The issue surrounds a new product technology called a vanadium redox flow battery.  Essentially the U.S. government funded scientists to develop an advanced battery that could store energy without degrading.  After success, the technology was then sent to China for manufacturing.  China then invested heavily in the product and used the technology to mass manufacture the battery for the global market. The United States is now behind in the product development and manufacture.

As the story is told in NPR, “the Chinese company didn’t steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer.”  Except that’s not what happened at all.  There is some major ‘ass-covering’ in that false narrative.

The lead scientist working on the vanadium redox flow battery project was a man named Gary Yang.  Mr. Yang was born in China and emigrated to the U.S. becoming a U.S. citizen.  Yang worked with U.S. scientists to develop the technology and was funded by a multi-million research grant from the Dept of Energy.

After their initial success, according to NPR, “in 2012, Yang applied to the Department of Energy for a license to manufacture and sell the batteries.”  The Dept of Energy license was granted, and Yang launched UniEnergy Technologies as the parent company to develop the commercial application of the product.

The Fall of CNN: A Cautionary Tale

CNN should have learned that around the clock anti-Trump coverage is not a sustainable programing strategy for a company that claims to be a news network.

CNN’s viewers are leaving, and its revenue is following them out the door. Apparently, it was beyond Jeff Zucker’s understanding of the industry that you can’t sell time on a network that nobody watches. It turns out advertisers are a bunch of greedy capitalists that don’t understand the social importance of the work being done by the Commie News Network.

Leftists overdo hive-mind discipline, but conservatives could use a little more

Kimball has noticed something that I’ve noticed too:

Over the last year or so, I have noticed an innovation, at once stylistic and substantive, that has taken root throughout the regime media. It is this: whenever referring to Donald Trump and the 2020 presidential election, be sure to insert editorial comments to the effect that any concerns about the fairness of that election are “baseless” or the result of “lies.” 

He’s right. Outside of conservative media, no leftist or Never Trump article is content to say something along the lines of “Trump again alluded to his claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent.” Every time, the author will throw in that one- or two-word editorial:

Just one example: in a column Saturday about Donald Trump’s weekend rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the writer claimed Trump “spent much of his speech focusing on his baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election” (emphasis added).

The Tyranny of the ‘Current Thing’

For a while, the Current Thing was #MeToo. From 2016 until 2018, the Current Thing was Russian collusion. After that scheme unraveled, we moved through a series of Current Things, each of which was said to compound the grave threat Trump supposedly posed to Our Democracy: in March 2020, it was Covid-19; for a few months that summer, it was systemic racism; then, it was the Delta variant; finally, for a stretch of early 2021, it was the January 6th “insurrection.” And when Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukraine became the Current Thing. You knew it was the new Current Thing because all the smart people suddenly changed how they spelled and pronounced “Kiev.”

Falsely Teaching Our Children That America is Evil

On Friday, Gary Bauer reported that the Oklahoma Board of Education decided to downgrade the Tulsa Public School District’s accreditation. This is because in Tulsa, they’re still teaching Marxist critical race theory — which is now against the law in the Sooner State.

Oklahoma’s Secretary of Education is Ryan Walters, who told Fox News: “What we’ve got to do is go back to teaching our history and ensuring that every young person has the ability to be successful and be inspired by our history.”

He added, “We’re the greatest country in the history of the world, and our kids need to know that.”

But how will children in Oklahoma, and all the other states, learn to appreciate our country when so many have been brainwashed with a false view for so long?

BREAKING: WA-3 Candidate Joe Kent Has *HIS OWN BALLOT* Rejected After Wildly Delayed Election Count.

Kent is currently running 0.1 percent behind establishment Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach President Trump. Critics wrote off Kent’s chances on election day, but the former Green Beret who served 11 combat tours and won six bronze stars has clawed his way back as the votes have trickled in.

https://twitter.com/TrumpStudents/status/1556803417984552960

Pfizer Spends $5.4 Billion Cash to Purchase Company That Specializes in Treatment of Blood Disorders

Gee. Imagine that.

Tweet hopper:

https://twitter.com/wowinteresting8/status/1556479839376482304
https://twitter.com/CatchUpScoop/status/1555512271383990272

Hmm…. What are the odds of TWO record breaking rainfalls in the USA weeks apart?

One of those you gotta see it to believe it deals.

https://twitter.com/albertlandis3/status/1556436979289571328
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1556735498663694338
https://twitter.com/Wehawke2/status/1556441493006589957

Meme hopper:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1556693274571702275
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1556702321584791552

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

Your weekly reminder to take the pledge:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

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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.

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Chapter 18:

At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? [2] And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, [3] And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [4] Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. [5] And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

[6] But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. [7] Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. [8] And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. [9] And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. [10] See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

[11] For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. [12] What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray? [13] And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray. [14] Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. [15] But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

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Anonymous ID: hHkrVD7x No.148156632 
Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)

Anonymous ID: pqW40Wgk No.148156518 
Nov 5 2017 20:05:48 (EST)

>>148154137

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, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20220805

After two hours at the state license office with nothing to show for it because the word “saint” is not spelled out on a piece of ID, I need one of these:

Summer Sunset Cocktail

Equipment Required to Make a Pitcher Of Summer Sunset Cocktails
Pitcher
Long spoon/skewer to mix
Measuring spoon/spirits measure for alcohol

Ingredients Required for Summer Sunset Cocktails
Vodka
Peach Schnapps
Lemonade
Cold orange juice
Cold fresh cranberry juice
Lots of ice cubes

Directions To Make A Pitcher of Summer Sunset Cocktails
First, put some ice into the empty pitcher. It is preferable to have almost a quarter of the pitcher full in order to keep the drink cool while drinking, which adds to the fruity ice-lolly flavor, which makes it taste so sweet and summery.

Pour in 1/2 cup vodka, then add 1/4 cup Peach Schnapps. Fill the pitcher half full with lemonade and stir. Mixing is essential as is makes such the alcohol is evenly distributed and is not just sitting at the bottom amongst the ice.

The rest of the pitcher should be filled with orange and cranberry juice, about half of each. The volume of each depends on the size of the pitcher used, but 2 cups of each is average in a 2-liter pitcher. This is about the size of an average carton of store-bought fruit juice.

If you wanted to make the cocktail a bit fruitier, you could add orange slices added to the pitcher.

Any questions?

Great. Let’s see what we’ve got.

“There was a guy named Frank Gannon, who wrote speeches for Nixon and was a very close friend of his, and weirdly he became the guy who books comedians on Letterman, and when I moved back to New York, being on Letterman was all anybody wanted so Gannon was the most important person in comedy at the time. He was a strange guy who was very serious, and he would just come and he would watch you, and if he liked you he’d get more of you to come and maybe you’d be on the show…so he liked me, he never got me on the show but he liked me, so I went to Letterman’s office and met him, and asked him about Nixon – cause he co-wrote Nixon’s big autobiography “RN” – and he told me that when you get a few drinks in Nixon, he says ‘the same people who got the Kennedys got me’, he says it’s the same machine that took out John and Robert came after him, they just couldn’t use bullets anymore because it was getting too…they were on….he says that Watergate was something that happens all the time, and still does, it’s how things are done…so that was Nixon’s story, he didn’t say it in public, but…”

Eleven people appear in court charged with taking part in ‘child sex abuse ring involving witchcraft, Ouija boards to summon spirits and demons and the killing of animals’

These people are sick.

Don’t shoot the messenger on this one:

Trump ally Navarro sued for alleged unofficial email account

SERIOUS MUST READ:

Issue #1246: The social tipping point is here

Do you feel that, anon? That lingering feeling deep in the pit of your stomach that something has gone awry? That the things you are being told by “authority figures” simply are not computing with the reality in front of your face? If you’ve been reading this rag this feeling has probably been lingering for some time now. But it seems as though the global consciousness has reached a tipping point. The pressure being exerted from every angle from those who would like to cattle herd humanity into a dystopian hellscape coupled with the unprecedented access to information that we are afforded today has caused something to crack.

They tried to do too much too quickly and people have started to develop pattern recognition on the go that allows them to recognize when the unproductive class is attempting to manipulate their minds.  This pattern recognition is accelerated and enhanced by our ability to communicate directly with each other in real time over the internet. If you want to get a better understanding of the driving force behind this acceleration I highly recommend you take some time to comb through the thread linked above.

Why We Lost Trust in the Expert Class

Recently, a group of 55 distinguished pro-administration economists assured us that Joe Biden’s massive borrowing and new entitlements agenda were not inflationary. In September 2021, these economists with 14 Nobel prize winners among them declared that Biden’s inflationary policies would actually “ease” inflation. 

Last month, inflation spiked to an annualized rate of 9.1 percent. None of these “blue-chip” economists have offered any apologies for lending their prestige to convince Americans of the absurd: that inflating the money supply, spiking new government spending, incentivizing labor non-participation, and keeping interest rates artificially low would not cause inflation.

The IRS about to go ‘beast mode’?

The Wall Street Journal has a shocking lead editorial titled “The IRS is About to Go Beast Mode” about the particulars of its $80 billion expansion of the IRS, which is six times the size of the tax agency’s current $12.6 billion budget:

The $80 billion is more than six times the current annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion. The money will be ladled out over nine years and comes with few strings attached. The main Democratic command is for the tax agency to bring the hammer down on taxpayers.

The bill earmarks $45.6 billion for “enforcement,” including “litigation,” “criminal investigations,” “investigative technology,” “digital asset monitoring” and a new fleet of tax-collector cars. The result will be far more audits, civil suits and criminal referrals.

The main targets will by necessity be the middle- and upper-middle class because that’s where the money is. The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official tax scorekeeper, says that from 78% to 90% of the money raised from under-reported income would likely come from those making less than $200,000 a year. Only 4% to 9% would come from those making more than $500,000.

The IRS knows the super-wealthy employ lawyers and accountants who make litigation time-consuming and risky. It also knows that Democrats would howl if the agency pursues fraud in the earned-income tax credit program, despite what the IRS has estimated are $18 billion in improper payments each year.

So the target will be the middle class, particularly small business start-ups, whom Joe Biden would like to see a lot less of. They’re the entities about to be audited up the wazoo.

The Failure of Our Expert Class on China Cost Us Dearly

The expansion of China’s power is one of the most remarkable developments of the second half of the 20th century, rivaled only by the Cold War remaining cold and its peaceful end. In 1980, China’s gross domestic product of $191 billion. In 2000, it was about $1.2 trillion. Today it is approximately $17.7 trillion and the equal or just a bit below the size of the U.S. economy. 

The Brew: Trump’s Endorsement Clout Shows He’s Still the Bouncer in the Republican Party

Trump’s influence continues despite the open hostility of GOP elites, once-dominant conservative media outlets such as National Review and Fox News, and the efforts of the Deep State and its political front, the January 6 committee, to criminalize him and his supporters….

In case our elites are wondering why angry populist candidates are doing so well, one answer might be: the people are angry. They have every reason to be, as their children are targeted by teachers promoting radical, crackpot, sexually degenerate ideologies in school.

Biden’s Shameless Makeover as a Border Wall Champion

Imagine the disappointment and anger among rank-and-file social justice warriors at the news that Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has been discreetly filling in gaps along the border wall in the Yuma Sector of Arizona. In their world, this is not just a shift in policy, but a betrayal of decency and light and an embrace of wickedness.

One of two things is likely going on here. Despite its total mismanagement of the country these last 18 months, the Biden White House might have at least a few advisors with a semblance of concern for the consequences of their policies. These advisors, unlike the rest of their co-workers, may actually care for the good of the country. They have witnessed the catastrophe at our border and have urged for some kind of deterrence to be implemented before the situation becomes an irreversible humanitarian crisis on a level far higher than it is currently.

The other scenario could be that someone in the White House, despite its general dismissal of polls showing Biden at record levels of disapproval, has realized there is good reason to be terrified that its record of far-Left governance and failure will be poison in the upcoming midterm elections. Desperate for a fig leaf to claim it is actually moderate, this White House will point to the wall construction as evidence that it is driven by practical concerns and not appeasement of its fringe radical supporters.

Russian MIL Declares Ukraine Origin of C19! DNC Globalists Created Covid!

The Russian MIL have been studying biological samples from surrendered Ukrainian soldiers, and what they have been finding is beyond disturbing. Approximately 20% of them carrying West Nile pathogens, which were being studied “by the Pentagon as part of the Ukrainian UP-4 and UP-8 projects”. Suggesting that Ukrainian soldiers are being subject to involuntary biological experimentation and exposure to biological weapons (think Nuremberg).

In addition to carrying pathogens, nearly all of the surrendered Ukrainian soldiers carried traces of a wide variety of narcotics and opioids, including Meth and Codeine….

Russia goes on to cite that this methamphetamine Ukraine are using, Pervitin, was also used by US soldiers during Vietnam and Korea. It’s designed to reduce the psycho-emotional burdens of war.

However, an intended side effect is excessive aggression, which Russia alleges is one of the main factors for the Nationalist Ukrainian forces displaying “extreme cruelty” to civilians and the shelling of their own people in Donbas. Ukraine are using mind-numbing agents on their forces to make them more susceptible to carrying out heinous acts.

Something hinky is going on in Ukraine, that’s for sure.

The Brew: If You’re Reading This, World War III Hasn’t Started Yet. Because You Still Have Electricity.

Since election night 2016, when our elites howled at the sky in primal rage that the vulgar, Deplorable people dared to vote against their instructions, the Democrats and their RINO sock puppets have been acting like angry monkeys. They just keep hurling their poop at the wall to see what will stick. What will distract the voters from the fact that arrogant, sneering elites wish to impose viciously unpopular, coercive laws and policies on helpless citizens? Which sleight of hand will work?

From Putin’s alleged hack of our voting machines, to phony Russia collusion, to fake charges against Mike Flynn, all the way to the show trials of the January 6 protestors. It never ends. And our media join the chatter, gibbering excitedly in the hope that this piece of poop or that won’t slide the wall to the floor of their cage. If it does, they just lose interest and root around for the next one.

The Religion of America Is Freedom

American religion is an anthology, not a meld. Like any great collection of fiction, it will be diminished by every story removed. Also, like any good anthology it has a theme. The collection is not random. From the very beginning of American history this place attracted people of many faiths. And it flourished. The distinctions of its religions prompted a political acceptance uncommon elsewhere. Other countries in the Americas attracted diverse populations: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, for example. But these failed to make good on the possibilities inherent in the differences.

The theme, of course, is freedom. The problems overcome by converting such a theme to practice were manifest in a Constitution. Until recently, all this was accepted as a sort of American dogma. However far we strayed politically, this was the touchstone.

To accomplish a break with this past, those of a different religion—socialism—have set about their work with a diligence that, in retrospect, is breathtaking. Indeed, literally, having taken the breath of many millions in its path. A socialist world order cannot abide a rogue nation offering an alternative of freedom. No other country in the world posed such a threat to the success of their faith. Socialist conferences as long ago as the 19th century recognized this and focused their attention here.

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1554867997713600516
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1554957172752240640
https://twitter.com/PPathole/status/1554532916663054337
https://twitter.com/JosephJFlynn1/status/1555154530387599361
https://twitter.com/PECoach75/status/1555173466676101122

RIP, Maximus.

That’s called winning.

MEME STASH:

Not much here today.

https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1554891781547900928

Oh, wait, a different sort of live.

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

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.

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, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

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.

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NAHUM 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7

2 1The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength. 3The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance. 3 1Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty — no end to the plunder! 2The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! 3Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end — they stumble over the bodies! 6I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock. 7And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nin’eveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?

DEUTERONOMY 32:35-36, 39, 41

35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly. 36For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free. 39“`See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. 41if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me.

MATTHEW 16:24-28

24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life? 27For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done. 28Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

SATIRE!

https://youtu.be/Wz2f2y8YyLU

Josh Hawley visited my neighbors who were flooded out this week. As far as I’m concerned, he’s a righteous dude.

Such a toxic male….

This isn’t satire so much, but…. Skip to the two minute mark if you do not want to hear a Catholic ad.

Have a great weekend.

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20220804

First things first:

Kari Lake Pulls Ahead in Arizona, Trump-endorsed Candidates Run the Board

As it currently standsTrump-endorsed Blake Masters appears to have easily won the GOP primary in the Senate race and will now face Mark Kelly.  The comprehensively corrupt Rusty Bowers, the Arizona state House speaker who was insistent upon retaining corruption as a political business model – and a favorite of the J6 committee in DC, has thankfully lost his bid for a state senate seat to Trump-endorsed David Farnsworth.

Additionally, Trump-endorsed Kari Lake (pictured above last night) has taken a sizable lead in Governor’s primary race over decepticon Mike Pence-endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson.

Meanwhile, Arizona voters have overwhelmingly selected Trump-endorsed Mark Finchem as their candidate for the secretary of state’s office.  Perhaps Finchem, if he succeeds in the general election, can finally fix the insufferable mess of Arizona elections.

Kari Lake’s victory, if certified, is a profound set-back for the two UniParty wings of the political club.

No doubt RNC Club Chairwoman Heavy McD (Ronna McDaniel) ate a few extra slices of red velvet cake for breakfast before throwing the coffee pot at the trembling concierge hiding behind the spa door.  For the Arizona contest, Ms Kari Lake raised about $3.8 million in mostly small dollar donations, while Ms. Taylor Robson -a billionaire club member- raised more than $18 million. The one thing Arizona voters and Heavy D would agree upon, is that Arizona rebels are revolting.

Although, I do agree with Sundance that the establishment still is entrenched.

The People Have Spoken

Not only did the Trump-backed candidates steal the show; we can see evidence of fraud, and the America First candidates STILL won. Most notably in the AZ Governor race, which is the epicenter of fraud from 2020 (Maricopa County) and the barometer to gauge Trump’s influence going into the midterms.

Tears from the other side:

In sad news, baseball announcing legend Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday. Here’s his voice from the grave.

Gotta love it.

Pelosi Drawing Attention to Her Own Insider Trading?

The most recent chapter in the Pelosi/Taiwan saga has me perplexed. She’s meeting with Taiwan’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, which confirms A LOT of Trump narratives. Most important of which, is that she is openly engaging in insider trading. It’s like she’s not even trying to hide it.

I would have expected her to do these dealings, but not on the books. But she’s publicly visiting with manufacturers, despite the fact that her insider trading has recently been in the media spotlight and Trump has been putting her on blast for it. Why wouldn’t she lay low? Why wouldn’t she make it so public?

A Few Good Headlines:

Okay, just headlines:

EXCLUSIVE | Gen. Mike Flynn: ‘The Constitution Itself Is At Risk’, The Patriot Act Must Be ‘Constantly Reviewed’ Or ‘Removed’

I vote for “REMOVED.”

A Declaration of Dissolution: Wisconsin Supreme Court Fires the Starting Gun

“If elections are conducted outside of the law, the people have not conferred their consent on the government. Such elections are unlawful, and their results are illegitimate.” — Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley, writing for the Wisconsin Supreme Court majority in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

A court of law has finally confirmed it: The 2020 election was “illegitimate.” And all the demands for sufficient evidence of voter fraud to reverse the outcome were a red herring.

The truly dispositive factor, as stated by a Republican Wisconsin state legislator in a March hearing and affirmed in the opinion: “If a vote is cast in an illegal process, it’s an illegal vote!”

BREAKING: Maricopa County Election Day Incompetence – PRINTERS NOT WORKING, Voters Told They’ve ALREADY VOTED, Polling Locations Not Seen On AZSOS Webpage – UPDATES

Same [excrement], different election.

FBI Whistleblower LEAKS Bureau’s ‘Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide’ on ‘Militia Violent Extremists’ Citing Ashli Babbitt as MVE Martyr

This has been brought to the Q Tree in the comments, but deserves space in the daily.

Get paid to spend the rest of your summer taking retro beach vacations

My kind of job. Think I should apply?

PROOF: Google does not want anyone to find out how deadly the vaccines are

Kansas Overwhelmingly Votes to Uphold Abortion ‘Rights’

How much of this was the Kansas City suburbs?

COVID Vaccine Injuries Quietly Being Compensated Around the World, Are You Eligible?

Me? Yeah, no. I might sign up a number of relatives, though.

Why Is Saying Monkeypox Is a Disease Primarily Suffered by the Homosexual Community a Problem?

For a time, you couldn’t say the vaccines didn’t work. You couldn’t even discuss how other medications might help your COVID-19 infection along. You can’t call a man a man when he thinks he’s a woman. You can’t even call a recession a recession.

Now, our society refuses to label the monkeypox outbreak what it is; a disease primarily suffered by the homosexual community.

Here are the facts.

According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the monkeypox virus is indeed making its way across the nation but 98 percent of those infected are either gay or bisexual men.

Doctors Criticize Fauci for Saying COVID Vaccines Induce ‘Temporary’ Menstrual Irregularities

A master at the slow drip of truth and misinformation, Fauci declined to say more, stating only, “We need to study it more.”

Professional criticism of Fauci’s policies and medical conclusions are mounting. Dr. Christiane Northrup MD, a former fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told The Epoch Times:

“Unfortunately, the menstrual problems we are seeing are far from transient and temporary. Many women have been bleeding daily or having heavy, irregular, painful periods for an entire year. And some of these are well past menopause. Something is way off here.”

The Epoch Times report also noted the comments of Dr. James Thorp, an “extensively published 69-year-old physician MD board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as maternal-fetal medicine, who has been practicing obstetrics for over 42 years”:

“The significant and dramatic changes in menstrual patterns occurring after COVID-19 vaccines should not be marginalized. It is indicative of major adverse effects on women of reproductive age. The stakeholders claimed that the vaccine would remain at the injection site in the deltoid muscle. This was misinformation.”

The natural thing is bad enough. Now, these monsters have made it worse.

Reading Room picks:

The Covid ‘Vaccine’ Scam

The unvaccinated wanted to know what’s in the “vaccines.”  Are they inactivated vaccines or attenuated vaccines?  No one knows because there are no documents to attest the EUA concoctions are Wuhan wet market sewer water or the biological equivalent of the FDA Approved vaccine or something else, like mRNA.  It is revealing that the pharmaceutical companies have been unwilling to reveal the contents of their mRNA EUA “vaccines.”  They want to wait 75 years before telling anyone.  Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA technology said the vaccine is gene therapy

When you have to be poked, prodded, pressured, persuaded, cajoled, guilt-tripped, shamed, lied-to, coerced, threatened, criminalized, dehumanized, and destroyed, you have a tyrant on your hands.  If all of this is necessary to gain your compliance, then you can absolutely be certain that what is being promoted against your will and common sense—no voluntary informed consent allowed—is not in your best interests.

Ten Conservative Principles

It is not possible to draw up a neat catalogue of conservatives’ convictions; nevertheless, I offer you, summarily, ten general principles; it seems safe to say that most conservatives would subscribe to most of these maxims. In various editions of my book The Conservative Mind I have listed certain canons of conservative thought—the list differing somewhat from edition to edition; in my anthology The Portable Conservative Reader I offer variations upon this theme. Now I present to you a summary of conservative assumptions differing somewhat from my canons in those two books of mine. In fine, the diversity of ways in which conservative views may find expression is itself proof that conservatism is no fixed ideology. What particular principles conservatives emphasize during any given time will vary with the circumstances and necessities of that era. The following ten articles of belief reflect the emphases of conservatives in America nowadays.

Neither a God Nor a Beast

Reflecting on the so-called “death of the novel” and the meaning of art, Vonnegut said that the “practice of art” is “a way to make your soul grow. So you should do it anyway. And what Bill Gates is saying now . . . ” Well, this is where the conversation gets interesting and where it has great relevance for us today. 

Vonnegut says, “Gates is saying, ‘Hey, don’t worry about making your soul grow. I’ll sell you a new program and, instead, let your computer grow year after year after year . . .’—cheating people out of the experience of becoming.”

Democrat Logic: Reduce Inflation with More Inflation!

What could be dumber than spending $433B that we don’t have during an inflation crisis? Raising taxes by $739B during a recession, that’s what.

The Big Lies We Cannot Question

The biggest lie allegedly spread by Republicans, now called “The Big Lie,” is to claim the 2020 election was illegitimate. But even if the 2020 election was not compromised due to a relentlessly hostile and partisan media, endless political persecution designed to damage Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, voting rules that were violated and manipulated in swing states, Zuckerbucks, and possibly much more, this assertion still isn’t a Republican “lie.” For better or for worse, there are diverse opinions within the ranks of Republicans. Some think it was a stolen election; others don’t.

Armageddon Looms for the Democrat Party

With the November 2022 midterm elections just weeks away, early projections point to a Republican Party electoral tsunami that could bury the Democrat party for the next several voting cycles.

That would be nice.

This one is worth a read. A lot of people are muddied and/or vindicated in it, meaning that the waters are muddied some more.

Matt Pottinger: The Intelligence Agent Who Shut Down America

The Fightback Against Racial Quotas

The B.S. Ticket

Realizing that Vice President Word Salad is a total flop and can’t do much besides cackle (even if identity politics is supposed to be supreme), they absolutely have to turn elsewhere. Kamala Harris’ ratings are even lower than Slow Joe’s, if that is possible. The blue-state governors are one possible option. Brain-impaired sociopath Gavin Newsom, from the increasingly deadly homeless haven of California, or Two-Ton Pritzker  of Illinois, likely won’t cut it, at least not when they’re fully vetted.

The progressives therefore should conclude that now their best ticket is . . . the B.S. choice.

Yes, Beto and Stacey

God help us.

TWEETS:

Avoid orgies. Got it. That I can do.

It’s a cover-up. No-brainer.

Yeah…not moving to Kansas anytime soon.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1554831028916654080

Take the day off. Have a tailgate party with a fire pit and s’mores…there’s not much more American than that.

Does this mean that land can be returned to grazing territory?

Gird your loins, people.

Just in time for the midterms.

Did she bother to READ Justice Alito’s opinion??????

Don’t answer that.

Thanks for the images and videos of the purest of the pure. They lightened many a heart in dark times.

MEMES:

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JEREMIAH 31:31-34

31“Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. 33But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, `Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

MATTHEW 16:13-23

13Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesare’a Philip’pi, he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that the Son of man is?” 14And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Eli’jah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” 20Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ. 21From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” 23But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men.”

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So, there isn’t much in the way of satire out there today other than the Babylon Bee writing about St. Anthony complaining about people not able to find their car keys (he’s the patron saint of lost things). So, here’s LUCY!

Dear KAG: 20220803 Open Thread

Establishment dirty tricks. The late push smearing Greitens with the lies that were proven untrue in court….

[INSERT DIRTY WORDS HERE]

More on elections:

Michigan RINO’S Shipping off Ballots to be Counted by Liberal Cities

UPDATE: Elections Operative Who Deleted Maricopa Database Before Machines Were Turned Over to Auditors DID NOT HAVE PROPER ACCESS to Room – Knew Exactly What to Delete!

The FBI Twice Interfered in the 2020 Election to Sabotage Trump. Now What?

Headlines:

Russia Supports the PRC and Reveals the Alliance!

There is one HUGE detail in there that tells us EVERYTHING. Russia makes it very clear, that they only recognize the People’s Republic of China as the legitimate government representative of China. That seems to be the same narrative being pushed by Pompeo and Grassley with their odd tweets. The narrative is growing that the issue is the CCP, not the PRC. And white hats are making it clear there is a distinction between the two.

George Soros Vows to Keep Funding ‘Woke’ Prosecutors: ‘I Have No Intention of Stopping’

He’s a wanted man in Hungary. Can’t we extradite him?

UN Declares War on ‘Dangerous’ Conspiracy Theories: ‘The World Is NOT Secretly Manipulated By Global Elite’

No, this is not satire. They really are claiming that the world is not run by a cabal of God wannabes.

GOOGLE HANDS OVER HOME SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE TO POLICE WITHOUT A WARRANT

Smart homes…dumb owners.

MSNBC calls for new “energetic atheism” to combat Christian “theocracy”

Archbishop Vigano takes Bergoglio to the woodshed. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Abp. Viganò on Papal Trip to Canada: “The Martyrs of Canada” are “Outraged” by the Pope’s Recent Conduct

So are a lot of the flock.

Reading room items:

US Freedom Flyers: Safety & Liability

The Perfect Storm

A few weeks ago on July 6, Josh Yoder and Dr. Kevin Stillwagon appeared on a show called American Media Periscope to give us an update on where things stand. When Covid hit in 2020 and air travel effectively ground to a halt, the airlines ran calculations as they offered early retirement to pilots who were nearing the end of their careers. Pilots with thousands of hours of flight experience under their belt were grounded, some of them forever. The airlines ran their calculations based on how many were retiring, how many new pilots were coming through the pipeline in the coming years, and how quickly they expected air travel to return to what it was. 

What was NOT included in their calculation was the number of young pilots who would cease flying due to vaccine mandates, vaccine injuries, and early death. A perfect storm of disasters has converged, causing severe crew shortages all over, with the vaccines and the mandates smack in the middle of all the chaos. 

First, We Establish a Moral Ascendancy

Okay, so the “transitory inflation” wasn’t really transitory and the current mild recession isn’t really a recession. Yes sir, Mr. Ruling Class.

Still, the Fed raised interest rates twice in the last two months and the stock market is… Wow, ticking up!

Now over at Conservative Tree House, Sundance thinks it’s all a cunning plan by the Davos jet set. Hey, they knew that inflation wasn’t transitory; it’s all part of the plan.

I don’t agree: I don’t think that our lords and masters are that smart. Janet Yellen? Jerome Powell? Ron Klain? Klausi baby? Anyone? And I think the “tell” is all the fuss and feathers about whether inflation is transitory or not, and whether the recession is really a recession or not.

Cute that the writer thinks those are the people really in charge.

Their Party’s Call

While their Republican counterparts are occasionally prone to deviate from the party line, as in a recent vote on “gay marriage,” the House Democrats under the influence of Hollywood and Silicon Valley money have demonstrated a perfection of discipline unmatched since that of the deputies of the French Communist Party during the reign of Maurice Thorez, who required them to surrender their salaries in return for living allowances paid on condition of good behavior. Party responsibility is a fine and necessary thing, but not when it is carried to the point of requiring legislators to support sight unseen voluminous bills the size of telephone books.

Phone books…. Yeah, that’s something we will have to explain to grade school age kids. They actually get booster seats. We sat on phone books at the dinner table.

George Soros Gaslights On Crime

Seriously. Can’t we find a country willing to toss this man – and I use that word only in a biological sense – in a dungeon somewhere?

The Earliest Days of the Italian Pandemic, or: Why Nobody Wants To Talk About February 2020 Anymore

The Real Story Behind the Grassley FBI Whistleblowers

This story is about more than a few random whistleblowers stepping forward to allege political corruption at the DOJ while using the names of those accused. This story began more than two years ago, as Senators Grassley and Johnson took on the daunting task of actually investigating Hunter Biden’s ties to Burisma, how that looped into Ukrainian corruption, and how Biden was involved.

Remember, this began as the sham impeachment trial of President Donald Trump was ongoing. The impeachment was launched because people in the Washington establishment have so much to lose should their Ukraine slush fund end. They couldn’t risk the truth about Ukrainian involvement in Spygate and the 2016 election coming out. Dirty Democrats, NGOs, and Republicans alike wanted nothing more than to taint the Biden/Ukraine story as the ramblings of a President guilty of pay-to-play. They figured it would grant them the ability to cast out all information that could potentially be released in the amount of time people cared. If the Ukraine cow stops producing milk, the soulless and corrupt order ceases to be fed. If the numerous dirty dealings perpetrated in Ukraine by government officials, NGOs, and private citizens came to bear, they’d run out of jail cells to house them all in.

If the world found out, say, that the United States was using Ukraine to run secret dirty bio-weapons labs, or if they found out that George Soros had most of his major operations there, or that the children of politicians were laundering money through energy companies to do the bidding of China, or that Ukraine was an arm for part of the “Russiagate” scandal that destroyed two years of a Presidency and split the country in two, or, or, or… Well, you could see why that may pose a bit of an issue. However, Grassley and Johnson wanted to know what was happening with Hunter in Ukraine, so they launched an investigation to find out.

Republicans attack Matt Walsh for telling the truth about slavery

Fast forward from 2019, when The 1619 Project broke, to July 30, 2022, just three days ago. Commentator Matt Walsh had just finished reading Dean King’s Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, about an American ship that wrecked on Africa’s shores in 1815. The survivors were sold into absolutely brutal slavery, although a few were finally ransomed. The memoirs that Captain James Riley wrote about the experience, Sufferings in Africa, became a massive bestseller in early 19th century America. (I’ve long owned the book but never had the stomach to read it.)

Inspired by the book, Walsh put out a series of tweets pointing out that slavery in America was the end of the line for slavery. This was because the combination of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the Enlightenment caused Westerners to recognize that a universal practice (humans have held slaves at all times and in all places) was a moral evil:

And congrats to Matt Walsh and his wife Alissa on their newest effort to raise the birth rate.

Americans who don’t know their geography can’t understand the Ukraine war

Laszlo Bernat Veszpremy is a Hungarian historian and the editor of a science journal called Corvinak.  Writing in The American Conservative, Veszpremy has provided a geography lesson for Americans in an effort to help them understand the Russian-Ukraine war.  The article is titled “The Inexorable Crowbar of Geography,” and in it Veszpremy urges Americans to “put maps and encyclopedias back on their tables” so they can understand the “central geographic reality” of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

What Americans Can Learn From Viktor Orbán’s Courage

Tweets!

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1554188306782588930

Cabal hacks….

https://twitter.com/ChristianWalk1r/status/1554418558012076034

MEMES!

Have a good day y’all.

(I don’t remember who brought this to a daily in the comments, but thanks.)

And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:

Per the Boss:

This came on the radio today. It is movie theme song day.

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JEREMIAH 31:1-7

1“At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.” 2Thus says the LORD: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, 3the LORD appeared to him from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. 4Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with timbrels, and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers. 5Again you shall plant vineyards upon the mountains of Sama’ria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit. 6For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of E’phraim: `Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.'” 7For thus says the LORD: “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, `The LORD has saved his people, the remnant of Israel.’

MATTHEW 15:21-28

21And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.” 23But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying after us.” 24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26And he answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” 27She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” 28Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.

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In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.

SATIRE SECTION

JP on Tuesday released one…not political, and um, a minefield of marriage things, so we’re going to skip it.

Matt Walsh took a stab. Sort of.

Dear KAG: 20220802 Open Thread

Cover image: no title is given, but the artist is a Joe Garnett.

Greetings from the great state of Mizz-er-y where the big primary for U.S. Senate is today. (Thank Heaven. The political ads are back to back on every broadcast medium.) President Trump did endorse a trio of representatives. The thing is, the establishment is pushing one candidate pretty hard for Blunt’s seat, and some of the MAGA people in the know are calling baloney on the polling coming out of that camp.

Strategists: Fake Missouri Poll Underestimates Trump Support in 2024 Primary

Remington Research Group, a political firm associated with Schmitt’s top consultant Jeff Roe, published a poll showing Trump leading the 2024 presidential primary field at 42 percent. The survey shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 18 percent, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) at 6 percent, and other candidates combining for 17 percent with 17 percent undecided. It was conducted from July 27 to July 28 by surveying 818 likely voters in Missouri.

While that sounds impressive for Trump—he is leading the potential 2024 field absolutely and even a fake poll cannot hide that fact—several in-the-know strategists told Breitbart News that the poll is obviously fake because it actually undercounts Trump’s support. In reality in Missouri, several GOP strategists told Breitbart News, the former president is much closer to 70 percent or higher in Missouri, and DeSantis is more likely than not in single digits.

“This is a completely fake poll commissioned by the RINO establishment who are looking to move on from President Trump,” a national Republican operative who advises candidates in both Missouri and Florida among other places told Breitbart News. “There is no way Missouri, a deep Trump state, would ever vote for someone like Ron DeSantis. President Trump is dominating the state and every other state in the country.”

And the establishment includes Attorney General Eric Schmitt. Unfortunately, Schmitt has several Republicans known to this writer bamboozled. Hoping Greitens can pull it out tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/EricGreitens/status/1554235285973655552

Hmmm….

Okay, on to other election stuff:

Thanks to the effort that brought us “2000 Mules” regular Americans are getting into the act of safeguarding elections.

The information groups that brought the mules data to the fore have something planned next week where they are going to see MAGA movement influencers face to face to deliver news without electronic, government and mainstream media subterfuge (hopefully). The reality is that the other side WILL infiltrate and cause trouble at every turn. Our own Gail brought us this from Friday’s Flannel Friday and commentary from Gregg Phillips:

Gregg Paraphrased:

The left pulled crap at a Turning Point USA event in Tampa with Trump and DeSantis. Across the Street was an ‘anti-life’ pro-abortion rally that got violent and was dispersed by the cops. Within a few minutes, coming from the same direction the left just left from comes these guys with NAZI FLAGS and the media was trying to portray them as part of Turning point USA. And within a few minutes Whoopie Goldberg is on her show saying Turning Point USA brought the NAZIs out to defend them.

Well guess what. We have the GEO DATA, and we can tell you who these people are and we are going to track them down and we are going to follow their patterns of life and we are going to explain this to America and better than that we are going to bring the Anon researchers in and let them see HOW we do our Geo fencing, Let them see how we create the polygons and let them see what it looks like when you build a pattern of life. And we are going to INCLUDE THEM IN THIS and that is what Patriot Games is about.

Things are most definitely getting interesting.

I’m just going to clear tabs. There was a lot out there this weekend:

Why Do South American Drug Runners Keep Getting Caught With Uranium?

Trump Lays Out Platform to ‘Make America Safe Again’

Beyond Meat’s Stock Falls As McDonald’s Concludes Lackluster Market Test Of McPlant Burger

No comment from McDonald’s. It was a flop.

Twitter May Lose To Elon Musk Because Of Slavery

Twitter is presently suing the electric car maker in a Delaware Court of Chancery, for “Specific Performance,” a remedy which would force Musk to complete the sale. However the problem which legal analysts are pointing to is that Twitter is not suing Elon Musk the company, but rather Elon Musk the individual citizen, and this raises issues in regards to the country’s 19th-century prohibition of slavery.

Analysts further point out that while there is precedence for specific performance in the Delaware Court system, the Musk-Twitter deal has a unique aspect. To date the one case where specific performance was issued as a remedy, was in a case where a corporation was ordered to purchase another corporation.

So far the Court of Chancery has never ordered an individual citizen to complete such a deal. Although from a legal perspective, corporations are considered persons, with many of the same rights and legal protections, there are some rights which are unique to natural persons. The 13th Amendment prohibition of slavery, is considered one of those rights, and it is considered one of the reasons the enforcement of specific performance is so rare.

Beyond American Carnage

I’ve always been a Nixonian optimist, and I prefer the thick Americanism of the ’68 convention speech. There is the same hard realism there, the same “rock-em, sock-em” style, the same disdain for the nation’s enemies and the drivers of its decline. Yet it was paired with a sunny vision of the best of America and the hearty communitarianism for which our 37th president once was so beloved.

It is remembered as a seminal “law-and-order” speech, but it was so much more than that. Even in 1968, Richard Nixon could still speak without irony about “a great American city,” about the silent majority of Americans who had not lost their minds, about a future in which the good life would be attainable for the average citizen.

I wanted to believe in 2017 that we could still do the same. Maybe everything has fallen apart in the last half-decade; maybe I just moved to Washington, D.C. Either way, when President Trump returned to the capital this week to deliver a kind of sequel to the “American carnage” speech at the America First Policy Institute, I found myself a whole lot more receptive. 

Crime and Punishment

The question, then, is not when a fetus becomes a human life, but when hers becomes a life worth protecting with the same fervency as her mother’s—whether both lives have the same value. It is the same question Raskolnikov asks, or attempts to answer, when he murders the old pawnbroker and her sister, two old women who are not merely insignificant but perhaps even harmful to their society. Is it not just, he argues, for extraordinary men as himself to remove such obstacles to their higher goals? It is the same question that Nietzsche would ask a few decades later.

The Manchin pressure campaign: CEOs, labor bosses and Bill Gates

When Joe Manchin balked at the clean energy incentives in Democrats’ expansive spending bill two weeks ago, the corporate C-suites and union boardrooms jumped into action.

With hundreds of billions of dollars of incentives for manufacturing, electric vehicles, nuclear power and carbon capturing technology hanging in the balance, executives from some of the nation’s biggest companies and labor unions made their case to the Democratic West Virginia senator: The next generation of clean tech needed Washington’s backing to take off.

Clean energy manufacturing companies with plans to set up shop in Manchin’s state helped orchestrate the 13-day effort to change his mind, more than 20 people involved in the effort told POLITICO — eventually helping to get his backing for the $369 billion in incentives in the newly dubbed Inflation Reduction Act, H.R. 5376 (117). That push — which two of the people said included a call from Bill Gates, whose venture capital firm has backed a West Virginia-based battery start-up — was taking place alongside a campaign by other senators along with economist and inflation hawk Larry Summers to convince Manchin of the merits of the bill.

“It was across the board,” said National Wildlife Federation CEO Collin O’Mara, whoaccording to other participants was central in organizing the campaign to persuade Manchin to restart talks. “He heard from a wide range.”

Follow the $$$$$.

AGRICULTURE AS ART

Trump Stays in the Picture

For some time now, Michael Anton has been saying that the Establishment—Democrats tout court, of course, but also large swaths of the testosterone-challenged GOP—are dead set against allowing Donald Trump to run for president again. It’s been obvious from its beginnings that the January 6 committee—an illegally constituted kangaroo court—was interested in one thing and one thing only: eliminating Trump and his followers from the metabolism of American political life. The fact that its public face is Liz Cheney, a soon-to-be cashiered anti-Trump RINO, underscores Anton’s point, or part of it.

It’s not just the Democrats who cannot countenance Trump. It is the entire certified political class, what Anton calls the bureaucratic “uniparty” that runs the government and maintains the Overton Window that determines what is and what is not acceptable in the political life of the country. Donald Trump is not in the picture frame.

Donald Trump Is Each of Us: A Farm-Raised Salmon Forced to Swim Upstream or Die

Fighting the Great Reset One Inch at a Time

This fight against Great Reset communism is a struggle that many Americans did not see coming.  As such, they’re just now “awakening” to the massive globalist threat of the World Economic Forum’s planned New World Order.  They went to bed one night believing that most Americans shared a common sense of values, an appreciation for American history, and a patriotic dedication to liberty and freedom.  They rose in the morning to discover that their Founding Fathers were now considered racist; their education system could no longer distinguish boys from girls; the national security surveillance state monitored all their moves; and socialism had taken over the free market economy under the guises of central bank money-printing, unsustainable government spending, ESG manipulation of stocks, racial redistribution programs, COVID-1984 fear campaigns, and apocalyptic tales of “climate change.”

The barrage of so many crises at once is alarming.  It is also intentional.  Sowing rampant doubt and uncertainty among a population creates opportunity for any hostile force.  A disoriented and fractured society is a society ripe for conquering.  Before every great invasion, target nations are first pounded with a cacophony of cannon blasts and blinded with a curtain of sulfuric smoke to create confusion, crumble defenses, and cripple resolve.  That’s what we have today.

The Real MAGA Movement Does Not Back Down

While I am all for converts, I’m always skeptical of grifters. It should have been obvious that the GOP had gone off the rails prior to Trump. In the Bush years, the country lost its way fighting endless wars in the Middle East while abandoning all fiscal discipline. The fully Republican-controlled federal government presided over the continuing deindustrialization of America and did nothing to stop the disunifying policy of massive, sustained immigration. In 2008 and 2012, the Republican establishment ran sketchy neoconservatives for president, even though neoconservative policies had authored George W. Bush’s failures. 

This record of failure and disrespect for voters’ repeatedly stated grievances is why so many people gravitated to Trump. He exposed the Republicans’ lame agenda of corporate giveaways and forever wars, while being equally critical of the Democrats’ treachery and counsel of weakness.

Pelosi Being Used as Bait?

Not anxious for a kinetic World War Three, that’s for sure.

Tweet hopper:

I like chardonnay.

https://twitter.com/jedi_kungfu/status/1553358288351281153

Some of them, yes.

https://twitter.com/ZerkeeB/status/1553597420054929410

And I thought it was bad when Porsche came out with an SUV four door. This is just unAmerican.

Meme hopper:

Okay, that made me dizzy.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1554175118116589569
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1553027871169462278

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

Your weekly reminder to take the pledge:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

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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.

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  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

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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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LUKE 1:26-33

26In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” 29But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. 30And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

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Anonymous ID: hHkrVD7x No.148156632 
Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)

Anonymous ID: pqW40Wgk No.148156518 
Nov 5 2017 20:05:48 (EST)

>>148154137

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, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20220729

Shall we?

Death in the Afternoon

Death in the Afternoon is a cocktail made with absinthe and champagne invented by the writer, Ernest Hemingway. The name comes from his book, Death in the Afternoon, and was first published in a cocktail book in 1935.

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce (2 tablespoons) absinthe
  • 1 teaspoon simple syrup
  • 4 ounces (½ cup) Champagne or Prosecco

Instructions

  1. Pour the absinthe and simple syrup into a cocktail glass. Top it off with the sparkling wine.

Open Tab Headlines:

Twitter resumes purge of scientists, critics of gender ideology after Musk pullout

Cats classified as ‘invasive alien species’ by scientific institute

Mostly Ignored Regulatory Regime of Joe Biden Is Crippling the USA

They Can’t Let Him Back In

The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again. In fact, they made this clear in 2020, in a series of public statements. Simply for quoting their words in an essay for The American Mind, I was mercilessly mocked and attacked. But they were quite clear. Trump won’t be president at noon, Jan. 20, 2021, even if we have to use the military to drag him out of there.

“Anti-Trump hysteria is in the final analysis not about Trump.”

If the regime felt that strongly back then, imagine how they feel now. But you don’t have to imagine. They tell you every day. Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert, has said that the 45th president is literally the greatest threat facing America today—greater than China, than our crashing economy, than our unraveling civil society.

REPORT: 83% Of Americans Concerned About Election Integrity In Midterm Elections, 75% Concerned About CHEATING – Majority Also Believe The 2020 Election Was STOLEN

Rasmussen no less.

Don’t Let Them Reset Society to Make You Into a Bug-Eating Serf

When did it become okay for Americas to live like mere Europeans, to settle, to compromise, to not expect that tomorrow will be better than today? When our country started being run by the pack of establishment weasels that makes up our garbage ruling class. They stopped being loyal to us and started being loyal to a global ideology that demands a “Great Reset” which, when imposed, would leave us impoverished serfs instead of prosperous citizens. But we don’t have to take it, and we’re not going to.

Europeans actually eat rather well.

No, America Isn’t Over

Each of the eras Piereson describes was formed by the creation of a national consensus around a set of policies and cultural imperatives that informed the times, a consensus both major political parties generally wedded themselves to.

Piereson says, in fact, that it’s more accurate to say America has operated on the basis of a one-and-a-half-party system rather than a two-party system through most of its history, because the dominant party will set the agenda for a given era, and the opposition then has no choice but to adapt to the times and take on a “me, too” approach to its search for political power.

Are the Woke Morally Superior?

The Culture War Is a Myth

Cannibal Communists Crave Kids

Public Health ‘Authority’? Please

‘Dirty’ Oil

Southern Exposure

Republicans take another run at Lucy’s football

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PaulSperry30/status/1552370283843043330

Tell that to my neighbors who are drying out their garages today, and suddenly we get spring like thunderstorms.

MEME STASH:

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

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.

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, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

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.

_____________________________________________________

JOHN 11:19-27

19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary sat in the house. 21Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22And even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” 23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world.”

SATIRE!

Have a great weekend.