“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
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Grab your popcorn, my fellow “anti-intellectuals”!
A special treat for us “science deplorables” who are arriving as barbarians at the gate, questioning the leftist sacrament of peer review!
Watching scientific peer review being demoted from censorious gatekeepers, back to “free speech” standards for both authors and critics, is truly enjoyable here.
(Just watch from 11:00 to around 20:00 if you want the part about peer review. If you want the full brutal fight in evolution, that is 2 1/2 hours long, beginning to end!)
But wait! There’s more! Evolution is having a food fight!
Likewise, many of us hillbillies who have always thought “hey, that prehistoric ape can’t be fully human” will enjoy watching this fight within evolution, in which a bunch of us evolutionists cry out either “hey, that dubious ape-like member of genus Homo likely didn’t practice burial and art” or “hey, let this guy prove his case” or even “hey, I need more popcorn!”
Seriously, I’m not sure which side I’m on with these papers – probably all three! But notice how evolutionists are now free to have a public dispute over edgy (and possibly wrong) science. “Decorum” is no longer the top priority, and “unity in the face of critics” is no longer the “stop vaccine hesitancy at all costs” of paleoanthropology.
I’m impressed. Trump is fixing things even more than I thought! And I’m giving Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. some credit, too!
Ah, yes. The clutching of pearls by all involved in academia is most satisfying!
In other news….. there is a LOT of WINNING.
Have a wonderful 4th of July, people! Patriots ARE in control, and this is exactly what we prayed for – AND voted for!
Yes, our prayers were answered, and I ask all of you this 4th of July to be thankful for what has transpired.
If you are a believer like me, I ask that you earnestly give thanks to God for our deliverance from leftist insanity.
We are undeserving, we must try to be more deserving. Reach out with the Good News – let people know why you are thankful! Let this Fourth also be another Thanksgiving – for the blessings we have received – and for the patriots who helped this winning happen!
From deceptive acts used in the the sausage making of legislation in our current days to the deception by an author with the use of pen names, this thread is also about one very prominent founding father. It is safe to say that without his dedicated efforts in a foreign land during the Revolutionary War we may not have a reason to celebrate our nation’s independence today.
As previously discussed the Federalists and Anti-Federalists used the media of that day to publish their views in an attempt to sway public opinion their individual direction. So it was with this incredible founder many decades before the patriot movement in the colonies, except he did not always have political motives with his written words.
Sometimes his tranny alter ego took over.
Benjamin Franklin
Now you may ask, Trade, why would you disparage such an important American patriot? Brilliant Benjamin, or as he signed his name – B. Franklin, or “B” from this point on – was the master of using pseudonyms for his authorship. As a result he would sometimes choose fictitious ladies to write letters to newspapers by names such as Polly Baker and Silence Dogood. It was a way to get around the heavy censorship of the period, especially relating to subjects that were generally not accepted by society and political leaders.
Censorship in media inspired by government forces? Say it ain’t so! Yup, going back 300 years or so between these shores it was done in similar ways using whatever methodology they had available at the time. A reminder of Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NASB) is appropriate. “What has been, it is what will be, And what has been done, it is what will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.“
In one of B’s letter stories it seems Polly was an unwed mother with several illegitimate children who would opine about separation of church and state matters. She believed that having children born out of wedlock was not sinful. She saw herself before a fictive court making a defense without benefit of a lawyer whom she could not afford anyway. She believed that she deserved a statute in her honor instead of the whipping that authorities wanted to administer. She was basically pointing out the double standard of society’s treatment of men and women. The satire used is really humorous.
Silence was the first of B’s cast of characters. She was a middle aged country widow of a minister who once went after society not providing the same opportunity for education for the poor that the wealthy had. She loved men and the clergy while having a particular penchant for reproving others satirically. B snuck letters from “her” into his older brother’s newspaper without his knowledge.
Even the names he used for his women authors were funny. Besides Polly and Silence, there were Caelia Shortface, Martha Careful, Alice Addertongue and Busy Body all contributing. The latter penned gossip and a lot of hilarious looks at relationships between men and women.
His cast of names of men authors were noteworthy as well. Of course, most folks know that B used the name of Richard Saunders to produce Poor Richard’s Almanack as a young man. This publication continued for 26 editions and averaged around 10,000 copies issued per year. There also was the funny married life portrayals of Anthony Afterwit. Later in life in England he wrote under the pen name of Benevolus to dispel rumors about colonists that were being printed in the British press.
Needless to say B had an amazingly observant, creative, and intelligent mind. We should all be thankful he was a patriot because there was a long period of time before the war when he was a British loyalist. Some of those who did not care for him for a variety of reasons even accused him of being a British spy. However, as the oppressive Brits began to tighten down on the colonies, he flipped to being a full throated patriot. From his works we also see a founding father who was way ahead of his time when it came to seeking gender equality, access to education for all, scientific endeavors, and seeking fair dealings in all endeavors.
Biography
There is not enough time to detail B’s biography here. This extraordinary man left an incredible legacy in so many areas of life. I will not attempt to summarize, it would not do him justice. I have provided a shortened version of his bio in the first link below. The second link goes into a bit more information that hits the higher points of his life. I have followed that with a very good, more detailed version for those who want to know more in the format of an autobiography in the man’s own words that he chronicles to the year 1757.
Now that you probably know more about the man than you probably ever desired to know, we can focus on some of his more notable interactions and relationships during the founding years of our nation.
Will start with a political cartoon he published in his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, in May 1754.
He basically told the colonies to work together to become unified or die. The image was widely used leading up to the war.
He was a devoted freemason throughout his life. He joined in Philadelphia in 1730. It nearly cost his freedom and did damage his reputation for a time due to a stupid hazing incident that cost a man his life. B was dragged into the resulting negativity. Below is a published accusation, B’s response, and a witness statement. He testified in the criminal trial on behalf of the prosecution.
There is some nasty freemason shiz in that accusation that led to a conviction of manslaughter for the offender.
He aligned more with Thomas Jefferson in his political, governmental, and societal views. Similar to Jefferson, he embraced the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and in particular in France. This philosophy led several leaders who formerly claimed to be Christians to becoming Deists. In Jefferson’s case it appeared he did not stay in the Deist camp later in life. The two shared much in common in their beliefs about humanity and governing. The link below describes the relationship and their times well. It is from the Jefferson Monticello organization.
B left for France as a traitor to Great Britain at age 70, just months after signing the Declaration of Independence. It is safe to say that the colonies would have never won the Revolutionary War and independence without France becoming fully immersed in the struggle and strongly supporting the efforts of the colonies. Which shows everybody how things can change over time on the world stage. Big bad France of those days is a mess today.
B was very famous and a celebrity in France the entire nine years he lived there. He was known throughout Europe to have discovered electricity and for his inventions such as the flexible tubed urinary catheter. His manner fit in well with leaders and aristocracy in the nation. As we now know he also designed the first known pair of bifocals upon his return to the states.
He was never in a hurry, he took time to visit and understand the people and their motives. He took every meeting that was requested of him while in France. As it applied to meeting the war time needs of the colonies he was very good at bluffing and blowing smoke up the rears of French leaders when it came to the military prowess of the colonist military. He was patient when it came to securing the needed assets to help the colonial war efforts, which drove many of his contemporaries back in America crazy. He did not push hard for assistance until he had something to sell, which turned out to be the colonist victory at the Battle of Saratoga and subsequent capture of Gen. Burgoyne and his men. Ironically, Benedict Arnold led the colonial forces that accomplished it. That victory was all that was needed for France to sign treaties of alliance and jump in. More good information is in the article below.
As discussed in the linked article and in my previous post, John Adams and B were not best buddies. B’s deliberate manner and celebrity status drove John Adams crazy. However, they tolerated each other to accomplish important work for America. After a time, Adams was sent to Great Britain as the war ended as previously noted in the post about him. He was much happier and more effective there as he fit in with the British royals and aristocrats with his background and manner. This was the opposite of B’s previous experiences in Britain. The British royalty and aristocracy never really accepted him despite his attempts to fit in. They respected his accomplishments, but having been a commoner with little standing in society and formal education, B was considered beneath them.
B. Franklin’s Family and Death
This is a good place to end this Part. B’s marriage and children reflected an absent husband and father who was not all that into family life. It just goes to show that famous legends in history sometimes lead just as wanky of personal lives as many of the rest of us. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the grunge.com link below due to their spotty track record, although this article appears accurate compared to other historical accounts. They do reference Smithsonian documentation among other reputable sources in several spots. I have also linked the applicable Smithsonian one that applies to the following theory of the primary cause of the couple’s estrangement. If it is accurate, it sheds light on a brilliant, often times conflicted man who had a penchant for walking on the dark side at times in his life.
If the theory holds, B could never reconcile to wife Deborah’s refusal to inoculate for small pox their four year old son, Francis, from which he later contracted the disease and died. Long periods of time and distance apart did not make B’s heart grow fonder for Deborah and their daughter, Sarah, which made reconciliation less likely to occur. In fact, during Deborah’s latter years alive while B was in Great Britain he would send letters to her delaying his return even though he was well aware she was gravely ill. He waited to return until she passed away in 1774.
Cold, not only to her and Sarah, but also to older son, William, who was reported to be B’s from an extra-marital affair. William was well provided for and raised by the couple into adulthood. He was very close to his father for a time and considered Deborah his mother. There is speculation that Deborah actually was his mother, that William’s birth was from a period when she was estranged from her first husband. The couple were very secretive about William’s origins such that even his birth year was questioned. William went on to a distinguished career as an attorney, politician and soldier. However, he remained a British loyalist and became a nemesis to B and the founding fathers in his twenties. So much so that he was imprisoned at the start of the war for two years. He was released and immediately began organizing loyalists to fight the colonists. A few years later he was exiled to London and never returned.
Needless to say B harbored bitter resentment against Deborah, which may or may not have been founded on truth over a subject of vaccinations that is still a divisive issue centuries later.
Please note what this (restored as of 2016/2017) plaque near his grave states.
As it states, he wrote it earlier in life with no intention of it actually being used. Will leave you with one of B’s better American Patriot quotes of the ages to live by.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
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Have a happy Independence Day, folks. We have so much to be thankful for as we head into The Golden Age of America. Be blessed and go make something good happen!
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Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
plegometer
noun
instrument for measuring the strength of a blow
device for measuring the force of a blow or stroke
Used in a sentence (from 1897)
In 1839, a meeting of the Miners’ Society was held at Redruth, and a wish was expressed that the duty might be calculated on a stroke measured by a plegometer instead of the method of ascertaining the number of strokes by a counter.
Not shown in a somewhat related video
MUSIC!
Some cool Wheatie epic orchestral music during this hot summer!
THE STUFF
This bears watching again!
The importance of Truth is clear to Elon, and he’s spreading the word.
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
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We’re almost done clearing YouTube tabs!
Here are a couple from a rather friendly Indian physics student who does the scientific equivalent of music reaction videos, when he finally figures something out.
Enjoy!
(1) The Speed of Light – Could it be Even More WTF Than We Thought? Yes!
(2) What the Heck is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
How about some smart kid math problems? You remember those gangling geeks with their Brillo-pad hair, buck teeth, pop-bottle-bottom glasses, high-water pants, and out-of-date dresses. Let’s look at what they did for fun!
After the miscue and recall of this post a few weeks ago, it is now time to return to the mission. Today we will spend all of our time on one of the key Declaration signers and founding fathers in our nation’s history, John Adams.
John Adams
Much time has already been spent in this series on the person, importance, events, and interactions of the great American Patriot, John Adams. There are loads of historical articles and biographies that readers can source to learn more. I will only hit on a handful of the major points of his biographical information. Instead, I will focus some of the information on his interactions, observations he made, and quotes of interest.
Adams was born in 1735 in Braintree, MA to John, Sr. and Susanna Boylston and two brothers. John, Sr. came from a long line of Adams that immigrated to America in 1638 from England. His father was a deacon in the Congregationalist Church and was a farmer, cordwainer (shoemaker) and officer in the militia. Susanna was from an area family that were leaders in the medical field. John had a good relationship with his family and great respect for his father.
He was first educated in a “dame” school, which were private schools for children aged 2-5. He then went to a local Latin school that focused on the language, logic, rhetoric and math. John ran into truancy problems with a dislike for his teacher partially because he preferred to farm with his father, but his he made him stay in school. At age sixteen he entered Harvard College, graduating at age twenty. During the period he developed a fire for studying the works of ancient writers in their languages. He became a teacher for four years as he personally debated his future profession. His father desired he enter the clergy, however, over time he felt the honor and respect earned in the practice of the law to be his calling. From Wiki there is this interesting quote from that time period, “He decided to become a lawyer, writing his father that he found among lawyers “noble and gallant achievements” but, among the clergy, the “pretended sanctity of some absolute dunces”. He had reservations about his self-described “trumpery” and failure to share the “happiness of [his] fellow men”. He even felt guilty at age nineteen when the French and Indian War began that he was not a soldier in the militia like his family members had been as he found it to be more fitting to him than even being a lawyer.
He began law studies in 1756, earned an A. M. in 1758, and was admitted to the bar a year later. He was quite good at his profession and was a leader for the colonists when the Stamp Act was imposed. His points were simple and applied to all British subjects – taxation only by consent and that all were entitled to a jury of their peers if charged with an offense.
He first met his future wife who was a cousin, Abigail, when she was fifteen years old. It was not love at first sight. However, over time they grew very close and married in 1764 when he was 29 and she was 19 years of age despite her mother’s objections. Adams’ father had died in 1761 and left him a small farm with a home. The couple moved in and lived there until 1783. They had six children together and four survived to adulthood. They had three sons, two became alcoholics, but one was successful and a future POTUS, John Quincy Adams.
The legal career of Adams was hugely successful with many notable cases during the period that included successfully representing John Hancock and the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre. Despite that he was an antagonist against the British Parliament ‘s Acts as well as moves of the Crown at every turn. He found the Boston Tea Party to be the “grandest event” in the history of the colonist independence movement. Yet, he was constantly struggling with living arrangements. He found the rural area of the Braintree farm and home to be filled with vulgar people unacceptable to raising his family, so he moved them to a home in Boston near his law practice; only to move them back to the farm a couple of years later due to the turmoil in Boston.
His activities during the Continental Congresses, votes and signing of the Declaration of Independence are well documented, sourced and legendary. I will not repeat them here as it would take too much time. However, none are more explanatory of his thoughts and devotions than the following letter to his wife, Abigail, dated July 3, 1776.
He knew what it all meant and the risks. He knew our nation was dependent on God’s Providence as written in the Declaration document he and the others signed. He was willing to risk it all for what would come of it.
For more detail of his life, including those of his person versus accomplishments, please read the following link,
It is remarkable to me that many of our founders soon visited the nation that oppressed them after the war. Adams was no exception to this as he returned there for health reasons and because he could not get along with Benjamin Franklin in France the year the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the war. He even attended a meeting in Parliament and heard King George III recognize the independence of America. He brought his wife and family there and became the first minister (ambassador) to Great Britain from 1785-88.
As a result he desired to stay neutral with the war between Great Britain and France. However, he felt it necessary to achieve what we now know as “peace through strength” with a military build up in our homeland as well as strengthening our central government through the new Constitution and increased revenues to support it all. That would become very important with the War of 1812 looming in the not too distant future.
With his coziness with Great Britain, being a perceived antagonist of France, and the passage of the highly unpopular Alien and Sedition Acts that he promoted; it all eventually cost his political career. With his fall, the Federalist Party generally disappeared from existence after the War of 1812. In his later years, Adams reconciled with Anti-Federalist Thomas Jefferson as we discussed in a previous Part, thanks to the efforts of their mutual founding father friend, Benjamin Rush. The scars of politics and governance had healed enough for both to find perspective, put aside differences, and rekindle their friendship.
Quotes
Nothing sheds more light on the life of this patriot than his personal quotes. However, if you expect consistency in thought and word, you probably need to move on to future Parts and other signers. Nobody could flip flop better that John Adams in my opinion. He was always quick with a remark and had an opinion on every subject or person. The problem was that at times his opinion changed depending on the audience, interactions, and season. That being said, many are memorable and relevant to patriotism. Below is a sampling of quotes on various subjects.
Quotes on Government,
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
“When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.”
On Freedom and Democracy,
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
On the Constitution,
“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
“Human passions unbridled by morality and religion…would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.”
On Power,
“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.”
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
On Law and Politics,
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
“In politics the middle way is none at all.”
On Religion,
(The next two are dandies – TB2)
”Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.”
“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.”
“Now I will avow, that I then believe, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God; and that those Principles of Liberty, are as unalterable as human Nature and our terrestrial, mundane System.”
I could go on and on as he had quotes for years. Just one more, it is well noted, and is 100% truth.
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”
America will not be enslaved by sword anytime soon. It was being enslaved by debt. Which is a Biblical statement of truth (Proverbs 22:7) that John Adams may have agreed with (or not) depending on situation, audience, day of the week, weather forecast…
Conclusion
Normally, I would end there. I would stay on topic, which in this case would be about John Adams and something he did or said. This great patriot achieved the highest office in the land and risked everything for liberty. He lived to 91 years of age and had a very close relationship with his wife, family and many contemporaries. As previously stated he had son who became a POTUS as well. However, I am not sure he had the relationship I would have wanted for him to have with Jesus Christ. I believe his life would have played out somewhat differently and he would not have been so polarizing and sharp of tongue. That would have led to reason and less contentiousness that sank his career in public service. I contrast him with another fiery founding father below, who was a contemporary of Adams, and who made the statement below. From the Trumpet Voice of Freedom,
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
– Patrick Henry –
May it always be so.
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Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
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Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
procerity
noun
tallness
loftiness
height of stature
an archaic word meaning height or tallness, derived from Latin procerus, meaning high or tall
Used in a sentence
Procerity Inc. is a company that provides strategic and financial consulting services to senior levels of client organizations. Some of their clients include Royal Bank of Canada, Marsulex Inc., Ontario Provincial Police and private clients.
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MUSIC!
Always remember Sunday!
THE STUFF
Patience is a thing, if you want to work in the mines of Neutrinoville. Welcome to the job. Take a seat and relax. You’re gonna be here a while.
This video may be three years old, but in Neutrinoville, that’s like yesterday. Speaking of which, what’s up, down at the mine?
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
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This is an X thread that I told Aubergine about a while back, which I thought would be of interest to her because it borders on her metaphysical beliefs about time, God, and the universe.
The thread concerns a cosmological hypothesis which demonstrates that not only is time not absolute in our universe – the relativistic nature of time has resulted in UNEVEN AGING within the universe, due to the uneven nature of matter. There appear to be differences of age of billions of years between different parts of the universe, just according to their own clocks.
To be clear, the ages are still billions of years everywhere, but they’re different billions. Time has run faster (more billions) in the voids, and slower (fewer billions) near concentrations of matter, like clusters of galaxies.
Not only does this finer-grained look at time offer more physical and cosmological certainty about the rate of expansion of the universe – it helps us think more precisely about time at a metaphysical level. When we realize that time isn’t even homogeneous within our universe, it helps us to break free from the assumption that any kind of time, corresponding to our own, much less an absolute time similar to our own natural reckoning, necessarily exists beyond or outside of our own universe. When we try to consider a God capable of existing “outside of time”, we should consider the possibility that “time” itself may not even apply.
Try to follow along with this fascinating thread, which has sat in a long-preserved tab which I can now close!
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This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology.
The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong.
The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies.
The standard workhorse of cosmology for the last 25 years has been the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) which assumes the universe is roughly homogenous.
Originally Lambda was Einsteins 'fudge factor' to explain why the universe wasn't collapsing under its own weight pic.twitter.com/vyHS4eUoxh
In 1929 Edwin Hubble made an incredible discovery: the further away a galaxy was, the faster it appeared to be moving away from this.
He was able to determine this by measuring Cepheid variable stars, which have a consistent relationship between their brightness and pulsation… pic.twitter.com/T3kucYJacc
In 1929 Edwin Hubble made an incredible discovery: the further away a galaxy was, the faster it appeared to be moving away from this. He was able to determine this by measuring Cepheid variable stars, which have a consistent relationship between their brightness and pulsation period, and so they can act as excellent distance markers. Using these markers Hubble found that the more distant a galaxy was, the more red-shifted its spectrum of light became, meaning it was moving away from us at a higher velocity. The further the distance to a galaxy, the faster it was receding. Therefore, the universe was expanding.
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The fact the universe was expanding meant Lambda was no longer necessary to balance out gravity, and Einstein called it his 'greatest blunder' pic.twitter.com/haDwARAwDk
If you run this expanding universe backwards in time, it seems like everything is expanding from a single origin point, and in the 1960s astronomers detected faint radio signals coming from all directions in space.
This model of the universe, where things started from a single origin and uniformly expanded outwards, dominated for decades until the 1990s. Astronomers were looking at Type Ia supernova at high redshift to see how the expansion of the universe was slowing down over time Type 1a supernova are useful as ‘standard candles’ because they have constant brightness, since they form by a star stripping mass from its neighboring binary partner until they reach the Chanradesekar limit from below, at which point they expldoe. So, they always explode with the same energy and brightness.
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Instead, at high redshift they found that supernova were much dimmer than expected than if the expansion had been slowed down by gravity.
On the contrary, the rate of expansion appeared to be accelerated. Lambda, the cosmological constant, was so back. pic.twitter.com/X4wZI3iVmo
This is the current mainstream cosmological model. Dark Energy, a mysterious unknown entity that makes accounts for 69% of the total energy constant, drives a constant volumetric expansion of space. More space means more expansion, which is why the size is accelerating. pic.twitter.com/1sLWsMTmn0
Mass curves spacetime to produce gravity. But, there's no difference between being accelerated by gravity or accelerating from a rocket.
This is called Einsteins Equivalence principle, and applying it to inhomogenous cosmology may eliminate Dark Energy altogether pic.twitter.com/dfmnphnf7n
This is because the further down a gravitational well you are, the slower clocks run compared to clocks further up-well.
You can reason this yourself if you consider bouncing a photon between two mirrors at the top and bottom of an accelerating rocket. Exercise for the reader pic.twitter.com/eSry9h7vdu
The important thing is this: In the voids between large galaxies time runs much faster than inside galaxies, and these voids are inhomogenous.
If you had an initial expansion of the universe from the Big Bang, more time has elapsed in the voids – possibly billions of years more pic.twitter.com/WqzWAccwtu
The researchers behind the Timescape model, as its known, used the familiar Type 1a supernova as standard candles and compared a goodness-of-fit Bayesian statistics to assess how timescape versus LCDM model can explain the observed redshift pic.twitter.com/WHoqjkz4x9
Now, you can do a lot of statistical trickery to get a favored result to your own pet theory. Why should Timescape model be taken seriously? Two big reasons:
– The universe is emphatically not homogenous, and so void regions DO have a faster clock-rate than galactic… pic.twitter.com/KIBHAxUqwT
Now, you can do a lot of statistical trickery to get a favored result to your own pet theory. Why should Timescape model be taken seriously? Two big reasons: – The universe is emphatically not homogenous, and so void regions DO have a faster clock-rate than galactic superclusters and filaments and this should be accounted for in any model of expansion. – Dark Energy is supposed to make up ~2/3rds of the universe’s energy content yet doesn’t correspond to anything we’ve ever observed experimentally. It solely exists to explain this anomaly of distant supernova redshift. In the timescape model, the universe very well may be slowing down in expansion after some initial Big Bang event – its yet to be determined. The future fate of the cosmos seems still to be determined as advances in cosmology regularly demand we revisit our models.
So there you have it. Does it make sense?
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PS – something extra.
Aubergine posted this tweet…..
NEW: The man with the world's highest recorded IQ says he believes Jesus Christ is God and is "the way and the truth and the life."
"I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life."
NEW: The man with the world’s highest recorded IQ says he believes Jesus Christ is God and is “the way and the truth and the life.” “I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life.” YoungHoon Kim of South Korea is pointing to quantum physics to support his belief in God and afterlife. Kim was recognized by the Giga Society in April 2024 as having the highest IQ in the world at 276.
One of the replies included this image, alleging that it was from Werner Heisenberg.
Having been made too dubious by so many liars, I tracked that down to a source, which includes even more interesting material.
Yup, I said we would start back on Declaration signers today. Going to need to postpone that to next Tuesday’s opener. If I do not discuss the following I will probably forget and it is sneakily more important to the big picture of what our VSGPOTUS is doing than many realize. It is the industry in which I made my living as readers of BIMD will remember.
Small Business Acts of Importance
These links are short summaries – will not take long to read.
Let’s answer that question with a simple statement that has been true for many, many years. Approximately half of the employed people in America work for who the federal government classifies as small businesses.
Must be kind of a big deal, right?
I am focusing on CEASE because of industry knowledge and experience. However, all seven Acts are very important and part of the much larger puzzle of what PDT is piecing together. Notice that all seven passed out of Committee along party lines at 15-11.
America should really stop pretending that bipartisanship can exist consistently. That idea is trash. It was promoted by the Uniparty for decades as a means for selling their dedication to American citizens, which we now know was hogwash. If you hear the word being sold by a politician or media propagandist you know what side they are on. Full stop.
Concerning all of the Acts passed in the committee, please notice that they are not all about small business necessarily. The SBA as an agency is a means to an end with some of the acts. It is also about using the agency as a weapon against illegal voter registration, against sanctuary cities, to cut regulatory burdens, and against climate change related scams.
Some on here will remember my recent posts about a fellow co-worker from my tree that took over a small business lending department for a bank in our area after I retired. He recently called and was distraught; considering early retirement over what Brandon and cronies did to the industry. They had opened the floodgates for borrower loan requests over $1 million and did not care if they were citizens or not or even if they were creditworthy. As a result fraud was rampant, delinquencies and defaults were soaring, and the agency was not honoring their guaranties on defaulted loans of even the honest lenders on a timely basis. In fact, they were trying to renege as often as they could. It had all turned into one giant clusterf–k.
i told him to be patient as I felt it would be addressed soon by the Trump admin and MAGA elected officials. Many of them experienced great heartburn over PPP program fraud that was administered by SBA during COVID. We see the results of their and the banking industry’s concerns in the bills linked above. We also see greatly improved internal policy decisions that reflect the changes below. Effective June 1, that hammer fell. All SBA lenders and small business borrowers must comply with the following revised, common sense, sound credit parameters and requirements to obtain SBA guaranteed loans.
Most were parameters that were already required in some format and/or amount during my career that effectively ended on a full time basis 17 years ago. That they were not followed in the years since simply points to the systematic destruction of critically important financing options for small business owners who do not ordinarily qualify for conventional financing options at banks and other lenders. Brandon’s bunch desired the opposite to increase funds for the woke and money launderers.
The primary purpose of this private/public partnership between banks and the federal government is to provide capital to small businesses that need and deserve support. In turn they grow, provide products and services to the public, pay taxes, provide incomes and benefits to owners and employees, play important parts in communities and so on. In summary, they participate in the American Way. Many successfully become larger businesses and iconic brands that employ even larger numbers of people. However, it is true that many big businesses do not want increased competition. As a result they play politics with their smaller competitors to retain market share.
Which leads to the Main Street versus Wall Street tension that SD at TCTH discusses as well as in discussion within our federal government today. The former party of big business only is now the party of Main Street as well with the America First policies of the MAGA movement, thanks to the efforts of the patriots in league with PDT. The internal tension within the GOP will be to keep the playing field level for both big and small business. Which makes the next topics encouraging for us Main Street types.
CEASE Act
Some may ask why would an act be necessary to limit the number of non-bank lenders who could be active in SBA lending programs? Here is what led to it,
The truth is some of the non-bank small business lenders with licenses, SBLC’s, typically are bottom feeders. Some only meet minimum capitalization requirements and receive funding from other wholesale lenders at a higher cost of funds than banks typically realize. They also are not subject to regulatory scrutiny of the banking industry. That can lead to some shady dealings at times.
As a result some SBLC’s typically take more risk and charge borrowers higher interest rates to counter. As a natural consequence they experience higher delinquency rates and loan defaults. Like many other bank lenders in the program, they sell participations in the SBA guaranteed portions of loans to investors such as hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, credit unions, etc, that are usually represented by investment brokerage houses. The lack of credit worthiness of some of their customers impacts the overall performance of the pools of loans that go into securitizations that are sold to the end investors. This reduces their value over time, which reduces the premium offered to all lenders in the programs. It is not fair to thousands of banks that a handful of SBLC’s acting in bad faith are allowed to spoil the debt market barrel for the product. Not to mention the extra work created for SBA’s liquidation area on defaulted loans.
This is a weakness for all types of debt markets on Wall Street. it was the underlying cause of the debt market collapse of 2008 leading into The Great Recession. So what is the primary that weakness that can cause a nation’s economy to crumble? The Wall Street buyers of all types of loans are not “credit” people as bankers view credit. For example, bankers view credit from the perspective of the 5 C’s of credit, which bank regulators like from the FDIC understand and consider in their reviews. Those categories are character, capacity, capital, collateral and conditions. Commercial bankers are trained in the long established methodology of making loans to borrowers who are most likely to repay the bank back on time. This is the Main Street view – know your borrower and how they handle their business.
Wall Street sees credit differently. They do not drill down into individual loans to determine viability. They view historical performance of industries (SIC codes) and locational aspects along with loan pool average interest rates, terms, collateral, industry concentrations, etc. as the credit of the overall deal. They rely on rating agencies – S&P, Moody’s and Fitch to ascertain their overall rating of each pool of loans. The ratings agencies typically only review a small sampling of loans and are more interested in the documentation being correctly executed. To Wall Street, those are the factors that provide the credit worthiness of the macro pool of loans, not the micro individual loans themselves.
In my opinion this void in understanding credit was a major cause of the Great Recession because it happened in every type of debt instrument – residential mortgages, car loans, credit cards, commercial real estate, etc. This led to the banker version of credit being undercut by the crappy underwriting of non-bank lenders in all of those business segments, industries, and locations. Wall Street purchased huge volumes of loans from those sources in many overheated markets. When the borrowers began tanking on their loans in large numbers as the economy and job markets cooled, caused by politicians primarily, the funding for new loans in even stable industries also dried up. The institutional buyers were deservedly spooked and sought safe harbor in treasuries and other more stable investments. All of the insurance coverage with hedges, swaps and such went down with it. The Great Recession kicked in.
As it applies to SBA lending, when lesser performing SBLC’s provide lower quality loans to a mixed pool involving other lenders, they can taint the whole pool and hide crap loans. SBLC loans are mixed into pools with those of banks. Everybody is affected. As you will see below, they rack up some profits short term and once the crap begins to hit the fan – poof – they are gone.
Current Status
Below is the list of active SBLC’s as of 1/29/25 with authorization to make loans up to $5 million.
Alaska Growth Capital BIDCO, Inc. Nationwide Arkansas Capital Corp. Nationwide Centerstone SBA Lending, Inc. Nationwide CRF Small Business Loan Company, LLC Nationwide First Western SBLC, Inc Nationwide Grow America Fund, Inc. Nationwide Harvest Small Business Finance, LLC Nationwide Lendistry SBLC, LLC Nationwide Lendstream Small Business Finance, LLC Nationwide Port 51 Lending, LLC Nationwide Readycap Lending, LLC Nationwide VelocitySBA, LLC Nationwide
Notice anything about the current list? There are 16 licenses authorized by the past act before Brandon and gang removed that restriction, at which time it went up to 19 approved lenders when they approved three new lender licenses. I will address an even worse atrocity associated with the 2023 changes involving the creation of special purpose lending companies later in this text below.
Currently, it is back to 16 authorized SBLC licenses again, yet, there are only 12 licensed lenders as of the beginning of PDT’s term of office. What happened to the four that were approved in the second half of 2024 – Cooperative Business Services (CBS), A10 Capital, Lafayette Square and Stonehenge Capital as replacements for four others who dropped out previously? They are not on the current list.
This is because their applications did not get activated with required Congressional approvals in time before PDT assumed office, so they lost out with PDT coming in. We also know one of the current licensees, Lendstream, has not made any SBA loans since 2022. They should not even have the license if they are going to be inactive, so something is “off” there. We also know that one of Brandon’s newbie three, Funding Circle, closed its operations soon after it started. Two were added that are still on the list, Alaska and Arkansas. So, sometime in 2024 they also replaced two that dropped off the list. That means a total of 6 lenders were approved to replace 6 on the list in 2024 and three were added above the former 16 limit, one of which failed. That is a movement of 9 non-bank licensed lenders in a year. That leaves 11 that are actually making SBA loans out of 16 authorized slots in 2025.
Needless to say making fraudulent loans to formerly ineligible customers (i. e. illegals) by criminal enterprises using federal guaranties on the majority of the loans that create extra profits for the subject non-bank lenders is a recipe for disaster for the programs, SBA and Americans. The current admin is taking the approach of eliminating that possibility in opposition to Brandon and the Uniparty who had that as their MO for SBLC’s since banks are more controlled by Congressional acts as well as regulatory authorities.
Hypothetically, let’s say you are a higher up in a cartel and you have established some seemingly legit businesses to launder cash through. In the past you could invest into an SBLC with the Brandon regime’s approval through a shell company or other legit business. You would then have the ability to influence or otherwise approve loans to other connected businesses to pull cash and/or launder money. In those businesses there would probably be hordes of illegals as employees who were given some form of legal resident status by Brandon’s crims, which undoubtedly also led to some being illegally registered as voters, Medicaid recipients, Social Security recipients and so on. All of the above would support Dem politicians and designees.
Is some of this making sense now? SBA is just one agency of the federal government that was used for these type purposes, there were many more.
In my personal opinion, that cartel/crim scenario probably applied to more than one of the exited licensed lenders including the ones discussed in the link below. The legit SBLC’s generally make enough good loans to help cover for the excessive bad loans of the crims, who have lower loan volumes as they attempt to stay under the radar. The loan volume of the better lenders is higher and they have received SBA’s highly desired Preferred Lender status rating, which means they do things right. I know several of the leaders of these quality lenders; did business with one CEO when he was employed at a well known SBLC from BIMD.
The following SBA press release from a month ago gives clarity and examples of an explosion of the new special purpose SBLC’s that Brandon’s crims put in place.
From the link; “However, in 2023, the Biden Administration revived Community Advantage and approved more than 140 new, unregulated lenders for the program, selectively certifying groups including “The Progress Fund,” “PeopleFund,” and “Black Business Investment Fund.” It then attempted to increase the loan limit for the program from $250,000 to $500,000 – or up to $2 million to fund climate-related projects in support of the Green New Scam.”
SBA as an agency and the industry was a goner if PDT had not won. Obviously the agency was a major source of fraud and money laundering using leftist scams and illegals.
Conclusion
All of these current congressional activities tell me the Trump admin is all over it and knows the game the crims have been playing. The plug is being pulled and it is a GREAT thing for America in many areas of concern.
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Time for more dumping of tabs!
(1) The Hafnium Bomb and/or the Nuclear Battery
A nice explanation of nuclear isomerism and why some people like DERPA are interested in it.
(2) Chess Game Reported Like College Football
You may have never seen anything like this. That’s OK – stick with it – it’s fun! The “sports reporter” is a hoot! I had no idea these people existed.
(3) Gravity, Inertia, and the Gravitational Constant
TL;DR – The gravitational constant pops out of the theory and I love it, but I still have to be skeptical that it might be an artifact.
Did we actually miss the solution to “what is gravity?” and “what is inertia?” when they were solved in the 1950s? Just listen to the guy – the equations are too small to read, but the explanations start to gel. At the very least, the opening / final cartoon is readily understood when you get to the end!
(4) Enjoy Some Relaxing Math & Fiddle Music
This is supposedly an exam question for Haaaaaahvaaaaaahd. Or you can just listen to the calming folk violin.
(5) Two Solutions to the Three-Body Problem
First, the no-solution solution, presented by that annoyingly perky British chick who is not Veritasium or the German one.
Now, Valerie Curren’s solution using string theory.
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I am going to toss up some of my old notes plus stuff I have just gleaned from the Qtree and from commenters on X. I am not always going to include names, so Hat tips to everyone, especially the Meme Makers and other researchers on X.
OLD NOTES
I want to include this information as background. Some of the links may be dead.
Given recent happenings this should be of interest.
“FBI Uncovers Secret Gangs of Tattooed Los Angeles Deputies
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched a probe into multiple gangs hidden within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The Banditos, Spartans, Regulators, and Reapers are literal gangs that exist within the roughly 10,000 members of the Los Angeles law enforcement agency. The investigation was triggered by allegations of abuse by the Banditos in March.
Each member of the Banditos is tattooed with a skeleton wearing a sombrero, bandolier, and pistol. Allegations against them include using gang tactics to recruit young Latino deputies, and punishing those who reject their advances.”
As a 30+ year resident of this town, I know first hand the ineptitude of these “officers.” Disrespectful to peaceful people, thuggish attitude and general incompetence are their trademarks. The liberal courts have neutered the force into poverty managers, with racial and sexual setasides for the otherwise incapable applicants. Meanwhile enormous homade tents are erected on every public sidewalk while these “officers” ride on by, doing their community policing (ie fistbumping gangbangers).
Then we go to one of the Operation Gladio videos I wrote about recently. OPERATION GLADIO – CHAPTER 47 – “USAID-Office of Public Safety” PART 5 – EP.394
24:45 Colonel: A little bit about that international police academy you just read about. This is the one set-up in DC.
The OPS-operated International Police Academy (IPA) was instituted in 1963, and provided training to 7500 senior officers from seventy-seven countries in total.[1][15] Its first class included sixty-eight police officers from seventeen different nations.[16] The officers were trained at the Georgetown Car Barn in Washington, D.C.[17] Until the early 1970s, selected candidates could also receive training from CIA officers at the U.S. Border Patrol academy in Los Fresnos, Texas, including the making of bombs and incendiary devices.
Role of the LAPD
The OPS conducted a form of international knowledge exchange by recruiting ordinary US police officers for ‘short-term tours of duty’ on overseas police assistance projects. The LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) was a major source of such officers, partly because a significant proportion of them spoke Spanish.[21]
LAPD officers were sent to Venezuela in 1962 to train local police officers and assist them in repression against the Armed Forces of National Liberation (AFNL).[10] Officers were also sent to the Dominican Republic in the same year; there was significant popular unrest following the CIA-backed assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and Dominican police were struggling to keep order and train officers.[22]
27:15 Colonel: LAPD was not the only one, but it was one that was used. So basically they are sending US police officers TDY, to this locations. Wait until you hear what they do. So our police officers were being exposed to the CIA and probably often times recruited into being informants for the CIA while still being police officers. Because we know that is to hide the drug trafficking and stuff like that and if they catch one of the CIA guys in the drug network, it is just a matter of calling up one of your buddies that went on a deployment with you from the LAPD and saying Dude, he is one of ours leave him a lone. That is why they never get prosecuted.
28:05 Alpha: And just so everybody knows, that this really happens, I have been on the receiving end of those phone calls before. Where I was told Hey, and this is from some of the people you have worked with in the federal task force. And they say Hey, you have got one of ours, he is on our paperwork man. So do not hit him with new charges. Do what you are doing but don’t do this. And you are taking it like this. I have know this guy for years, we have been on teams together, I have got one of their informants. I do not want to compromise their informant. I do not want to compromise their investigation, so of course you go along with it.
And then you have to look back and wonder, did I stop one of their Gladio assets. And more scary than that Colonel, LAPD is one of the police department here in California that is giving badges to people who are NOT US CITIZENS.
29:05 – 29:30Colonel: After they train people in foreign countries to do all kinds of horrendous things…
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Back to my older notes:
The Illegals goal is ANNEXING USA TERRITORY as shown above. It is no secret.
Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called for mass immigration to the United States during a speech Tuesday declaring it a “human right” for all North Americans....
La Raza’s goals are to bring California, Texas and other southwestern states into Mexico. ‘re-conquista of land’ BOUGHT from Mexico after the war. They have explicitly said they intend to remove or kill all people not of “The Race” in this area. Here is the extent to which they have achieved infiltration of these areas.
Note the fact that the La Raza Lawyers Association links to the National Council of La Raza on their websites “community” section and it has very few such links. These are the lawyers down in Mexico helping the invaders.
Reconquesta
Check out the schools and read about what they’re taught in their “chicano studies” — to invade and weaken US to “take back their Mexico” La Raza/MEChA receives federal funding including 30 million in CA alone to TEACH this crap to Hispanics.
…Conference on March 15 – 18, 2001, the official “MEChA Philosophy” was ratified. An excerpt from the document states: “as Mechistas, we vow to work for the liberation of Aztlan.”
The MEChA Clubs on each of the Santa Barbara high school campuses are not the only ones. MEChA groups exist on 90 percent of the public high school, college and university campuses in the Southwestern United States...
MEChA has three guiding documents: El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, El Plan de Santa Barbara, and the Philosophy of MEChA. These documents outline our principles and ideology, and help all MEChistAs work toward the common goal of uniting all Raza.
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan
In 1969, the National Chicano Youth Conference’s agenda was to begin the formation of an identity and an ideology for the Chicano Movement, the result of which was El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan. The plan concluded that what would truly solidify the Movement was the ideology of Chicano Nationalism. El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan states: “Nationalism, as the key to organization, transcends all religious, political, class, and economic faction boundaries. Nationalism is the common denominator that all members of La Raza can agree upon.” In a word El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, created and gave direction to the Chicano Movement. It is this document that we as MEChistAs look back upon as a reminder of why we continue to fight for social justice….
El Plan de Santa Barbara
As a result of the Chicano Coordinating Council on Higher Education held at UC, Santa Barbara, the goal of El Plan de Santa Barbara was to develop a master plan for the creation of a curriculum and the related structures and services that would facilitate Chicano/a access to institutions of higher learning. This was significant, because it was the first opportunity for Chicano/as to implement the ideas of El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan. El Plan de Santa Barbara set the framework for the establishment of Chicano Studies programs and the creation of MEChA, the student arm of el Movimiento Chicano/a that would keep la causa moving forward on school campuses….
“…Chicano is our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that we…should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot…Aztlan was the legendary homeland of the Aztecas … It became synonymous with the vast territories of the Southwest, brutally stolen from a Mexican people marginalized and betrayed by the hostile custodians of the Manifest Destiny.”
(Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006)
We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.”
“That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.”
I have 21 pages of old notes, but I think that sampling gets the point across. Now on to the present day and the various X accounts brought to the Q Tree.
Taxpayer-Funded Nonprofit Behind the Anti-ICE Riots in Los Angeles. Over the past two days, ICE agents have conducted targeted operations across the Los Angeles region, detaining more than 40 suspected illegal aliens.
These enforcement actions triggered large-scale demonstrations, some of which turned confrontational, with reports of vandalism, blocked traffic, and physical clashes with federal agents.
The unrest has prompted questions about who is organizing and funding these protests.
One of the organizations at the center of the resistance to ICE is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a Los Angeles nonprofit that has long provided legal and advocacy services to illegal aliens.
CHIRLA is known for radical positions on immigration—for example, it led a campaign to abolish ICE in 2018. Yesterday afternoon, as clashes with federal law enforcement were heating up, CHIRLA Executive Director Angelica Salas held a press conference during which she announced that the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network’s hotline had received more than 50 calls reporting ICE activity and sightings of “men in military garb.”
LARRN is organized by a coalition of nonprofits, and CHIRLA plays a central role, using its main phone line as the hotline number. LARRN’s hotline is one of the communication systems that allows legal observers, volunteers, and other activists to be quickly dispatched to the scene of immigration enforcement actions.
During her remarks, Salas referred to SEIU California President David Huerta as her “brother,” highlighting CHIRLA’s close ties to organized labor in California.
Huerta had been arrested during one of the protests for blocking the path of an ICE vehicle, as shown by video footage released by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.
Governor Gavin Newsom expressed his unequivocal support for Huerta, claiming he was only “witnessing” the action, while Essayli announced his intention to file criminal charges.
For her part, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has defiantly opposed federal immigration enforcement in the city, stating on social media Friday, “We will not stand for this” and “No vamos a permitir estas acciones,” (“We are not going to permit these actions”).
She added that her office would collaborate with community-based organizations that serve immigrants. She has a long relationship with CHIRLA and bragged last year about obtaining federal funding for CHIRLA’s programs.
That grant is part of a broader stream of public dollars that the organization receives from government sources. In fact, according to a financial audit submitted to the state, the CHIRLA organization received nearly $34 million in revenue from government contracts during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, with 96% of that funding from the State of California.
That figure marks a sharp increase from the prior year, when it received around $12 million in government contract revenue. Agencies contributing to CHIRLA’s funding during this period included the California Department of Social Services, the California Arts Council, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Notably, as mentioned above, a DHS contract funded CHIRLA to provide citizenship instruction and naturalization services.
With $100,000 remaining on CHIRLA’s contract, DHS froze the remaining funds in February.
CHIRLA responded by suing. The court denied their motion for a preliminary injunction on May 29.
This is one of two lawsuits CHIRLA filed against DHS this year. The other was dismissed for lack of standing and is on appeal. To sum up how this works:
Your tax dollars fund an organization that organizes efforts to directly interfere with the federal government’s lawful exercise of authority. Then, through its lobbying arm, that organization helps get Democrats elected to office, who then repay the favor by ensuring increased funding. This is the nonprofit industrial complex at work.
kalbokalbs brought this. And this is where things get interesting. Remember from my above notes, the previous Mexican President was encouraging Mexicans to invade the USA.
Mexico’s president-elect just said: “If necessary, we’ll mobilize. We don’t want taxes on remittances from our fellow countrymen. From the U.S. to Mexico.”
A head of state openly calling for protests in the U.S. This is unprecedented. pic.twitter.com/JqFETt5NKr
For decades, Mexico’s foreign policy has been guided by the principle of non-intervention — respect for other nations’ internal affairs. Now, Sheinbaum threatens to organize mobilizations inside the U.S. She’s breaking one of Mexico’s most fundamental diplomatic doctrines
Arne, I’m not defending or in agreement with @Claudiashein , but the mobilization and protest are due and against “immigration raids within USofA” and not a mobilization against US tariffs. Claudia is not calling or instigating Mexicans in United States to a riot against tariffs. Do not distort the news. MENTIROSO !
All that really matters is she is directing HER CITIZENS in the USA to defy OUR PRESIDENT on top of the previous president instructing Mexicans to invade our country. Stealth invasion with the goal of taking US territory anyone?
MAGADAD SAYS THE IMPORTANT PART OUT LOUD. It was fairly far down in the replies.
MAGA_DAD @Das_rooster Replying to @arnemx
That should fulfill the part of the Alien Enemies Act that requires a foreign government’s direction.
Mexico’s deliberate facilitation of illegal mass migration into the United States, if proven to be state-sponsored with intent to erode U.S. sovereignty, blatantly violates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), particularly Article XI’s implied commitment to mutual border integrity. By enabling unauthorized crossings, Mexico undermines the hard-won territorial settlement that saw the U.S. secure approximately 950,000 square miles—nearly half of Mexico’s pre-war territory—while returning 250,000–300,000 square miles of occupied land. This provocative act disrespects the treaty’s border delineation, threatening the sovereignty of the U.S., which expanded to 3.2 million square miles after the war, and mocks the sacrifices made to establish clear boundaries.
In Mexico, many already call her the “vice president” — not because the role exists, but because she takes orders from her predecessor. And let’s not forget: that predecessor is widely seen as a servant of the cartels, not the people.
Here is the heart of it. Trump must put a 100% tax on all remittances leave the US for Central America. This will cut-off the reason most illegal aliens are here and they will go back.
Exactly — this is the core issue. A remittance tax isn’t just revenue. It’s transparency. The @IRSenEspanol could finally see who’s sending money, and why — legal, illegal, or criminal.
The Local Multiplier Effect (LME) is a very valuable, hidden feature of our economies. The term refers to how many times dollars are recirculated within a local economy before leaving through the purchase of an import. Famed economist John Maynard Keynes first coined the term “Local Multiplier Effect” in his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
A Hypothetical Example
Imagine a hypothetical influx of money, say one million dollars, entering a local economy. Now imagine these dollars are spent on local goods and services. Imagine that each of the local vendors who earned those dollars then re-spends that money on more local goods and services. Envision this cycle happening several times before this money is finally spent on imports – goods or services from outside the region.
In this case, those one million dollars recirculating eight times would act much like eight million dollars by increasing revenue and income opportunities for local producers.
Now another scenario: picture that same amount of money being spent immediately at stores (or online) with businesses headquartered in other regions on imported goods. These transactions would add very little or no value to the local economy; one million dollars would act just like one million dollars instead of several million dollars.
History and Impact
Over the past 50 years, the expansion of national businesses into local domestic markets has diverted this vital monetary stream and redirected it to centralized corporate coffers….
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 9, 2025
From Data republican (small r) a thread bring the financial data. All of the following is a quote from her. https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/1931508083127362024
WHO’S BEHIND THE ANTI-ICE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES?
Hundreds took to the streets this weekend: blocking roads, attacking federal officers, even burning flags. But this wasn’t “spontaneous outrage.” This was organized. Funded. Coordinated. Here’s a breakdown of the groups, the money, and the people pulling the strings.
Patience as I assemble the thread and verify information in real time
A number of NGOs have been implicated in this. Foremost is Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights or CHIRLA, and the photos of signs show they were printed by PSLWEB / Party for Socialism and Liberation.
CHIRLA has the EIN of 954421521. Most of its private funding appears to be from DAFs, which are the hardest to trace. However 34 million of its reported 45 million in revenue are from government grants.
In their most recent year, CHIRLA jumped from 12 million to 34 million in government grants. Nice!However, this is probably from CA – “only” 450K in federal grants.
These are their two federal grants, both completed. Now moving onto PSLWeb…
The group which printed the signs for protests, Party for Socialism and Liberation, is not a nonprofit – they are a literal Communist party.
Finding financials is tricky, but I did find a Wiki reference to “ANSWER Coalition”
ANSWER Coalition is mentioned on their Wikipedia page to have significant financial overlap.
It is tough to find backings on either group, as they do not have a nonprofit associated with them. Both claim to be funded entirely by members. ()
However, I did find a NY Post article claiming that both are funded by billionaire socialist Neville Singer. [Correction Neville Singham -GC]
Singham also financed the People’s Forum – giving it over 20 million dollars. All 3 Singham-financed organizations were also heavily involved in the Columbia protests.
The SEIU-CA president got arrested. I researched SEIU’s financials, but they are mostly dues-backed.
Moving onto other organizations: it appears as though the Million Voters Project was involved in promoting the project.
Here’s the magical D-word… Democracy … on the MVP website.
Million Voters Project gets their funding from a variety of grants, no taxpayer funding.
That’s the end of the deep search. Overall, my guess is if we had to finger a culprit behind all this – it’s Neville Singham. He will be fertile ground in my feed in the coming days.
I’m going to wrap up the thread here. Thanks for following.
Just who is Neville Singham?
One last word: I normally don’t pass on “gossip”, but a credible source leaked to me that Qatar is heavily involved.
However, I haven’t made that particular connection yet.
End of Data republic’s thread.
TheseTruthsbrought
President Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act.
Americans confront millions of illegals who pose an existential threat to the American Republic.
Given the size and scope of what is coming POTUS MUST ACT NOW to bring back ALL US GROUND FORCES FROM overseas and employ them… https://t.co/NCKr8k2Zut
— Douglas Macgregor (@DougAMacgregor) June 8, 2025
President Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act.
Americans confront millions of illegals who pose an existential threat to the American Republic.
Given the size and scope of what is coming POTUS MUST ACT NOW to bring back ALL US GROUND FORCES FROM overseas and employ them at home to restore the rule of law and execute mass deportations.
He must also mobilize the Army National Guard and federalize [NOPE do not want to set precedence– GC] all of our law enforcement.
This is the War Americans must fight and win if our country is to survive.