Dear KMAG: 20250922 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

pudu

noun

  • small Chilean deer
  • either of two species of very small deer (Pudu mephistophiles or P. puda) native to South America, having a stocky reddish-brown body and short, unbranched antlers in the male
  • A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes, having simple, spike-like antlers only two or three inches long

Used in a sentence

The chevrotains (mouse-deer; Tragulidae) are smaller than the pudu, but they are not true deer.

Shown in a picture

Shown in a video


MUSIC!

A Chilean rock band named after the pudu? Say it ain’t so!


THE STUFF

My favorite “intuitive explainer” does tensors (basically by refrying one serving of Feynman’s Lectures on Physics), and makes them almost as easy to understand as the straight line. Or maybe two straight lines.

Heady stuff.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W



2025-09-20, Simply Saturday.

Administrivia stuff.

What Wheatie said. 

3.  If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.  <<<  T H I S.

2.  No running with scissors. 

1.  No food fights.  (Launching dinner rolls encouraged.)

AI generated stuff posted, requires a link, identifying the source. Common Courtesy suggests the following.

  • Grok questions and the like commonly generate lengthy answers. Suggest paste the exact question in the reply. >>> THEN use the spoiler(s), for pasting Grok’s blathering.. Perhaps multiple spoilers for extended Grok blathering.
  • Or a link to Grok’s answer. Which may be accurate AND likely has programmed bias.

Select guidance from Wolf. 

  1. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s).
  2. Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.     
  3. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for whatever they post. 

This and future Simply Saturdays will post 12:01AM EST.

 

Slow Guy

Fresh Stuff.  May be worth a read, listen, or scroll on by.

APMEX https://www.apmex.com   Bitcoin https://www.bitcoin.com/

Prices pulled last evening.

Gold $3,699.92.  Silver $43.33.  Bitcoin $115,763.00.

News, X’s you tube, or simply, different. In no particular order..

Investors likely feeling good…

Dow, S&P 500 close at fresh records, log big gains for the week after Fed rate cut: Live updates

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

This one is DIW – Dead In The Water.  Trump will never fund either.  Cry’n Chuck is still pissed he caved to Trump months ago. 

I didn’t waste my time clicking on it.

Schumer shutdown bill gives $500 million to NPR and free healthcare to millions of non-citizens.


Betcha, Trump, DOJ, HLS, DOS are looking into trashing Omar.

EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would ‘do what she had to do to get him “papers” to keep him in U.S.’, reveals Somali community leader

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8013283/Ilhan-Omar-DID-marry-brother-reveals-Somali-community-leader.html

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This one will cause a ruckus.

Trump admin signals Congress will need to consider all options as insolvency looms in 2034

Frank Bisignano issues statement after TV appearance saying Trump administration will ‘always protect Social Security’

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-admin-signals-congress-need-consider-all-options-insolvency-looms-2034

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White House press secretary Leavitt given Secret Service protection: report

The protective detail comes after the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/leavitt-given-secret-service-protection-report

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Jab news makes me dizzy.  Unless I’m reading PAVACA’s explanation

CDC vaccine panel unanimously votes to end universal COVID shot recommendation

The CDC panel voted to change the universal guidance, which previously recommended the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine for most adults, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr still needs to sign off on the change.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/cdc-vaccine-panel-unanimously-votes-end-universal-covid-shot-recommendation

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Should be a no brainer to pass this one.  Well, Collins, M…ski are loons. 

Blackburn introduces bill banning transgender procedures for minors

“No child should be pushed into irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation under the guise of so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’” Sen. Marsha Blackburn said

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/blackburn-introduces-bill-banning-transgender-procedures-minors

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Notable.

A little observation point. Here in Arizona, in anticipation of the memorial service for Charlie Kirk; I know NINE people in my immediate circle of friends and family who are planning to attend the memorial. They range in age from 23–72. These nine individuals have never been to a Turning Point event (including AmFest) or a political rally— ever. The assassination has deeply affected people. There is a lot of self realization taking place in real time. Triggered by trauma for some and grief for others. I don’t know how this plays out for the near future or long term. What I do know is there has been a societal shift. Be it spiritual, political, or both— it is monumental at least in this moment in time.

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Paging TB.  Guessing this one is bad news.

This is the $SPY vs Banks Reserves/FED Total assets, do you notice the tight correlation? Since mid-July, banks’ reserves have been going down fast while the $SPY kept rallying. There is a pretty ominous divergence here

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Oops…Cry’n Chuckie’s promises are like rubber checks.

Schumer’s plan to fund lullabies for illegal aliens just got a wake-up call from fiscal reality.

Paging BLM ass wipes.

BREAKING: President Trump just announced he will be designating OTHER leftist groups as terror organization, in addition to Antifa https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1969155858476024139/video/1 GOOD! “We have others we’re going to designate too, but we’re going to look at the people that FUNDED Antifa, see who they are, where they came from and why they did it.”

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FA FO More great news.

ON VIDEO: U.S. Military Forces conducted a strike against a designated terrorist organization engaged in narcotrafficking. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics and was en route to poison Americans. The strike killed three male narcoterrorists.

Hilaroius, MeThinks.  Dumrat politician man handled AND tossed like a rag doll. 

Kat Abughazaleh (D) just fcked around with ICE and found out

^^^^ I’m still cracking up over this KAREN getting tossed like trash. ^^^^

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This one ends with a happy message.

If you are shocked at the disgusting reactions to the murder of Charlie Kirk, you should see how often people express public disappointment that my cancer hasn’t killed me yet. America is approximately 10% wicked. And they like to be heard. P.S. I’m feeling great lately.

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Busted up over this one…Wait For The Closing Line.

It Is A Wonderful World.

Guys can be slow.

Cowboy Rides Away

Night crew, your nickel.

Slow Guy

Dear MAGA: 20250918 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic


This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.


Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.


If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W


So – what is happening on YouTube? Four samples!


(1) Check this out and let us know what you think. Yeah, it’s clickbait, with a clickbait thumbnail image.

SO – is this AI-generated anti-human propaganda – or nasty truth – or both? You can read the comments on the video, too.


(2) Chicks With Tats – How to Deal With Them


(3) Chick with XY blueprints and XX construction – in other words, transed by nature, so to speak.

I had heard of this genetic anomaly – rare but real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_gonadal_dysgenesis

The TRANS-pusher left uses the existence of such people to justify their ideology, but the clear truth is that leftists are using medical sympathy to normalize sterilization of kids, and the medicalization of human sexuality.

I also have a theory about why “they” are pushing TRANS in Utah – and why the CIA basically set up camp there. I believe that they are trying to push the “right side” of the Overton Window on TRANS. The left is already stretched so far, as to have reached a breaking point. They need CONSERVATIVE buy-in on their “progress” agenda. The Mormons are a captive institution now, and can be used like a giant Charlie Manson or Jim Jones cult to lead the way on the CONTROLLED RIGHT. Much CIA research on converting conservatives goes on in Utah, IMO.

If this is correct, there should be other examples of this strategy, to say nothing of the “fake conservatives” on CNN.


(4) Big asteroid flyby today – with room to spare – so no need to be worried. Still, I’m glad they’re keeping an eye out for these things!


Have a great weekend!

W

KMAG 202050917 OPEN TOPIC, Psych-Ops & Charlie Kirk


Stolen from Patfrederick

I want to start with this. A little something each of us can do – Boycott Progressive businesses.

Scott: “…Is there an aggregate website, a sort of one-stop search?

We could choose to eliminate all Leftists from our lives to the extent that is possible, by not doing business with any of them, whether medical professionals, or anyone else.”

Aubergine: “ Fill in the search parameters on this page, and voila! LINK

Jeff Childer’s gifted us with J D Vance’s hosting of Charlie’s show. Here’s a link to yesterday’s show on Rumble (2:06:12).”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

On the 13th, I was sitting here wondering what in the world I was going to write about. The assassination of Charlie hit me hard and left me weepy.

Prior to Charlie’s death I had been thinking about covering Alpha Warrior’s pinned video from a year ago:
PSYOP WARFARE -5TH GENERATION WARFARE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – GEN. FLYNN & BOONE CUTLER – EP.255

It is an hour and a ½ and I just didn’t have the heart to go thru it the way I normally do. However here are a few notes about the most important parts.

At 18 minutes Flynn give an example of what CAN be done LEGALLY. Pay attention to and support the Sheriffs who we voted for. They actually have a lot more power than they realize vs the Police installed by the Politicians who control them.

SEE: The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association

At 47 minutes Alpha talks about the trailers for movie “leave the World Behind” and then “Civil War” where soldiers ask a car full of Americans “what kind of American Citizen’ Alpha then asks Boone about ‘Predictive Programing‘ Boones says it is CONDITIONING. Via ‘entertainment’ you are told what is RIGHT and what should be demonized. Then they go into AI driven psychological programming.

1:06:45 Influencing the influencers. Example of the sneaky tricks the CCP uses for Tik Tok influencers..

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Scott Adams expresses what we are all feeling. HOWEVER it is not the DemonRat Party, it is those who FUND AND CONTROL the DemonRats who are the real enemy that must be completely destroyed…. LEGALLY.

And then, when I was wondering what I should do for Wednesday, I read K1tt7-fzn Comment bringing this You-tube to our attention.

Also K1tt7-fzn said the next day:

It actually came from a x post from General Mike Flynn where he recommended the video that Sylvia posted. I was watching the x post and then all of a sudden, it stopped and I wasn’t able to get to the x post again through a browser (it was asking for me to log in). But I had the link, so tried with xcancel which worked. Just in case, I decided to search if there was a youtube link. As he mentions in his video, don’t know how long it will be there (before they decide to censor it).

As Chase Hughes said we have to step back and LOOK at who is behind this mess. He also points out that this video will probably get scrubbed because it is too revealing. Therefore I am going to post the cleaned up transcript at the end of this article as well as the video.


This Chase Hughes video should be linked to this Promethean Action video (12 minutes)


And this 10 minute Promethean Action video


Like me, the ladies have repeatedly pointed to the British Empire [European Royals] as the source of the problem. After WWII the world was restructured such that groups that hated each other were grouped into the same country instead of different countries.

This is sets the table for the Strategy of Tension.

The Strategy of Tension

So why does what a bunch of people in wonderful shoes [Italy] did during the “Years of Lead” matter today?

Because: just how other deep state programs involving press manipulation, censorship social intimidation, physical unease, and financial pressure that were supposed to be only used overseas but ended up being used right here at home.

What happened in the U.S. over the past decade or so was the implementation, albeit in a somewhat softer vein, of the same strategy of tension.

There are many definitions and permutations of this strategy, a strategy that has been used by various governments of varying shades over centuries.

But the best description comes from someone who was involved: far-right bomber Vincenzo Vinciguerra…

In a prison interview (see video above) he said the entire strategy was about creating fear in order to allow the Italian deep state to step in and offer more security – in exchange for less freedom.

Author Giovanni Fasanella offers a background theory as to why the concept “worked,” as it were.

In order to regain entry into the western club, Italy had to at least “appear to be a normal democracy,” even though – due to the control still exerted by the United States and other Ally victors – it really wasn’t as its intelligence and military communities were not under the actual control of the government but operated essentially independently (and/or in coordination with outside forces – think the CIA and MI-6 then, the WEF/globalist/socialite socialist statists now.)

Which the rest of the west knew and seemed to think was just fine and willing to go along with the charade.

The reason the strategy of tension has so much relevance in the United States now is tri-fold.

First, many of the less blowy-up but still direct public control strategies were put in place during the pandemic and, informally, before with the nightmare of woke cancellation, a movement supported by various government agencies (State, USAID, etc.) through their support of “private” groups.

Second, this tension still exists despite the election of Donald Trump. While right now a rear-guard action, the public deflections and obfuscations to protect the deep state at all cost are coming fast and furious, from Democrats defending absurd waste to government health officials who resign being made martyrs by the press even though they were actually dangerously unethical, to the continuation of the years of lawfare, save this time it’s not about Trump personally, just every policy he tries to enact.

Oh – and Tesla fires and “resistance” protests and…

The deep state fears that maybe Trump has figured out how to end their Gordian Knot grip on perma-power –just cut it. (i.e. the 11 week maelstrom.)

Third, and most succinctly, we go back to Vinciguerra’s description of the heart of the strategy of tension:

Destabilize the public order in order to stabilize the political order.”

Sound familiar?

Hopefully for not much longer.

Alpha & Colonel  Towner talk about how the problem was set up in the USA.

OPERATION GLADIO – CHAPTER 70 – “THE REFUGEES”- EP.457

When a CIA coup fails or the pendulum swings back to a more sane government, the radicalized people who overthrew the government for the CIA are no longer ‘safe’ so they are imported into the USA as ‘Refugees’ (Legal or illegal) THINK AFGHANISTAN!

These would be CIA trained trouble makers. They are then settled AS A GROUP in an USA city.

8:30 The colonel noticed that ICE is ‘bagging’ older people and not the young men that were hyped as crossing the border. So she did some digging.

12:00 The colonel goes thru Ice’s documents and finds these illegal trouble makers are from countries where the CIA overthrew their government previously.

It is worth a listen from 8:30 to 20 minutes to see the pattern she is pointing out.

This subversion of the USA will take a multi-prong attack. POTUS Trump is attacking the top end. Cutting off the money supply and targeting the donors who fund terrorism. He is even targeting the worst cities. Now combine General Flynn’s point about Sheriffs and Kurt Schlichter’s suggestion.

I Have a Solution to Crime

…Understand that this is not a matter of cops alone. It’s a matter of will throughout the system. Do we have the will to enforce our laws and punish evildoers? Democrats better find the will and exercise it if they want to avoid a blowout in 2026. You can feel the zeitgeist changing. People are done being told they have some sort of racial or social obligation to shrug off being victimized. That’s done, finished, over.

Now, that’s the moderate option, where we enforce laws, refuse to tolerate public disorder, and punish criminals with tough but reasonable sentences. It’s a good deal – the left should jump at it. The left should jump at it because the hard option is on the table. We are talking vigilantes. We are talking cops off the leash, dispensing street justice as they see fit. We are talking two-strikes laws and the noose for a lot of things, without endless appeals. You think that’s not possible? Think again, because if the choice is young women getting their throats cut by guys who have had a dozen close encounters with the cops or degenerates like him, either locked away forever or swinging from a gibbet several felonies ago, I can tell you how that will come down….


Without honest elections, you will not see Schlichter’s solution because our hidden rulers do not WANT orderly civilized cities. Their goal is to remove our guns and rights by convincing us that is the only means of achieving safety. Thomas Wictor’s Algerian Strategy
is an example of the Cabal’s plan for us in action..
archived version.

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What I found interesting is the entire first page of comments on Alpha’s interview of General Flynn are ATTACKS against the general. 🤔

Chase Hughes gets similar attacks.

Who is Chase Hughes? The Lies of the Alleged “#1 Expert in Behavior and Influence”


@AtelierNo.7
LINK does a very nice job of destroying the arguments in that video. I know nothing of Hughes but I find it interesting that both men are the subject of such attacks.

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Ed Dowd nails it. H/T kalbokalbs LINK


To actually destroy our hidden enemy we have to IDENTIFY IT. Fighting with the oligarchs’ cannon fodder may feel good but in the long run it gets us no where. We have to change the system they have created and eliminate the string pullers. POTUS Trump’s attack on crime in our big cities is one method. TradeBait2 on
September 15, 2025 19:53 documents another method of attack.

Gang – shiz is fixin’ to get real throughout the education “industry” in our nation. Not only through Turning Point USA – it will also be through the efforts James O’Keefe.

And it is OUTSTANDING. Got this a little while ago.

ANNOUNCEMENT:In honor of Charlie, OMG in partnership with Citizen Journalism Foundation, will be distributing hidden cameras nationwide to those who are witness to abuse in their school and who are willing to expose it. 

On Thursday we will be hosting a livestream all afternoon where we will put campus corruption on blast and issuing a clear call to action: it’s time to rip the rot out of America’s education system. 

And the day after the funeral, we will be conducting an in person training in Arizona. More information will be made available shortly as we finalize the details.

At one of the first Turning Point USA annual conferences in 2015, at a then-holiday Inn in West Palm Beach, Charlie called on me to train his college students to record abuses on their college campuses and expose corruption or evil within schools, at both a high school and college level.

We are answering that call. 

He is mobilizing TPUSA students and anybody else to take down the corruptors of the minds of young people and America within out schools and colleges.

This is getting this old man excited. Do it for CHARLIE!


Eilert brought this


I pray that POTUS Trump and VP Vance manage to survive the coming battles because the danger to them is turned up to 11.

H/T Jeff Childers for the image.

H/T to Jeff’s blog commenter Yuri Bezmenov who posted:

How To Stop the “Both Sides” False Equivalencies

 from How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov — A dissident’s guide to modern urban progressive life through sarcasm, memes, and data.

TRANSCRIPT

Charlie Kirk is dead and it exposed something vile and horrifying that I want to share with you right now just kind of candidly. He was murdered while he’s speaking in public to a group of college kids. And there’s one part of this that I think should horrify you to the the deepest parts of your very soul. Instead of a universal outrage, instead of every decent person saying this is insane and this is wrong, the internet seemingly lit up with these celebrations and cheers and memes and people actually laughing and and celebrating the murder of a man because he wore a different political jersey. So, let that sink in for a second. And I don’t think any of this is about Charlie Kirk, the person.

And I don’t think it’s about whether you liked him or hated him or didn’t even care. I think it’s about the fact that political murder is somehow just another headline nowadays. And we scroll right past it. There is a whole new low for where we could go. And you have people online cheering like it’s their team winning a Super Bowl. And what you’re seeing is an evil evil mask slipping. This is a signal. And it’s a signal that we and I do mean we all crossed into something that is a lot a lot darker than just politics. This right here what we’re seeing is what happens when violence becomes part of a political conversation. when actual TV networks air over and over clips that encourage people to see the other side not as neighbors that we might might disagree with, but as enemies that need to be destroyed, as the threat to society. And you’ve seen it. I have no doubt. We all have seen this. People in the media saying these people are a threat. These people are dangerous. Maybe some violence is justified. And it’s not fringe anymore. This is mainstream. And there are thousands of these clips out there aired to millions of people kind of nudging, suggesting, maybe planting seeds that maybe a fist, maybe a bullet is a legitimate form of political debate.

[2:11 Examples:]

You resist the temptation to run up and ring her neck.

Biggest terror threat in this country.

I’d like to punch him in the face. I said, “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of them.”

Punch some people in the face.

When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?

They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. And that’s a fact.

A lot of people don’t have the attention span to maybe stick with this, but I pray that you do because I’m going to expose something here that’s going to change everything for you if you stick around. But here’s the irony and what I think is a absolute concrete law of history. It’s concrete law. The minute that your ideas require violence to enforce or spread, they are already completely bankrupt. Every tyrant, every failed ideology, every social collapse starts the exact same way. The debate dies, then violence takes the place of debate. And you can’t argue with a gun. You can only kill with it. And when killing is the substitute for a conversation, society as a whole starts falling off a cliff. And we all, myself included, we all have been sold the biggest con of our entire life.

And this is that the problem is left versus right or Republicans versus Democrats. And that is the distraction fireworks show that they want us screaming about while they’re doing something else. And this is a magician’s trick. And I’m about to really show you what Charlie, God rest his soul, has kind of exposed here. If you turned on cable news today, you go into your living room, turn it on, maybe you scroll social media, what are you going to see? The absolute fringe, they’re going to show you the loudest, dumbest, most cartoonish people from the other side blasted in your face 24/7. You’re not being shown your neighbor or your coworker or the mom next door who votes differently. You’re being shown a bunch of professional lunatics that are handpicked to make you think one thing. And the one big thing that they want you to think is, “Oh my god, these people are insane. They are the enemy. That’s the reason that we’re going downhill.”

And none of this is an accident. This is word for word textbook psychological operations in military scops manuals literally describe how you isolate a target audience then you pump them full of a bunch of outrage. You create a tribal us versus them identity. This is straight out of a scops textbook. So why would we want to do this or why would SCOPS want to do this? Cuz once you’re locked into tribal thinking, you’re going to swallow anything. You’re going to believe any lie about the other side. You’re going to cheer when other people suffer. You’ll excuse things that you would never excuse in your own

neighborhood if you watched it right in front of you and it was one of your neighbors.

This is exactly the playbook on how you get otherwise decent, kind people laughing at a murder on the internet. That is how you radicalize a country without firing a shot. And let me tell you something that you’re not supposed to think about right now. You share more in common. You share more with somebody across the aisle than with a billionaire donor or some media executive pretending to speak for you. I don’t think they want you to see that. They need you divided. They have to have you blind and full of rage because a united, sane, connected public is the one thing that they actually fear. So, how does a normal person, just a regular person, a guy who loves his kids, pays his bills, maybe argues politics at Thanksgiving, how does he turn into somebody who cheers at the assassination of a political opponent on the internet? This does not happen overnight. It is a formula, and I’m going to lay it out for you very plain right here. Number one is isolation. And this is where you don’t

just disagree with people anymore. You’re told not even to interact with them. You don’t have friends on the other side. Don’t date them. Don’t work with those people. you need to cut them out of your life. That is step one. And if you’re paying attention, that’s also step one of joining a cult. So step two is echo chambers. You surround yourself only with opinions that sound just like yours. Social media makes damn sure of this. And algorithms serve you more of what already pisses you off. And this has been proven and documented in

research. So that rage gets recycled and concentrated like moonshine, like a moonshine still. And if you haven’t caught on yet, this is step two of building a cult, a dangerous cult.

So step three here is the tribal script.

This is the us versus them narrative. Your side is righteous, their side is evil. Every single issue is framed like a holy war. And it doesn’t matter if it’s taxes or healthcare. It’s suddenly life or death and it’s good versus evil. And if you add outrage and righteous superiority and our brain chemistry starts going bonkers crazy, that cocktail makes people feel morally justified in hating and silencing and celebrating violence. That is true radicalization. That’s how you turn regular people into basically a sleeper agent without them even knowing. The bad news is that what I just said is only the beginning and it’s happening on both sides of the imaginary aisle. Here’s the truly horrifying part. All of this, it’s not just a result of some advertising and algorithms. This is deliberate and I would stake my reputation on it. This is not just some accidental byproduct of politics. This, what we’re seeing right here, is engineered step by step to keep you outraged and blind and keep you just kind of stabbing and punching at shadows. All the while, this real power, the people who profit from division, stay completely untouchable. So, keep this in mind while we’re talking. You have more in common with someone who voted different than you did than the people that you see parading their narratives on TV.

Please keep that in mind forever if you’re able to.

An absolutely brutal truth that nobody really wants to face. Assassinations that especially like we saw with Charlie Kirk, assassinations are not usually about stopping some kind of evil. They’re about stopping ideas. You don’t kill somebody because their argument was weak. You silence them because you were terrified that their words are working on people. Think about Martin Luther King Jr. He wasn’t murdered because he was irrelevant and he had bad ideas. He was killed because his vision of racial and economic unity and equality was gaining traction in the country. If you look at President Kennedy, John JFK, he wasn’t taken out because he had no power or had crappy ideas. He was killed right as he started poking holes in this weird dark systems grip on our war and defense and and secrecy. Mr. Robin, this guy Rabin, I think, assassinated in Israel. Nobody did it cuz he was a joke, cuz he was a laughingstock. He was killed cuz he was pushing in Israel for peace. And peace threatened power. Peace threatened power. History is unbelievably clear on this. If debate dies, when open conversation gets replaced with suppression or intimidation and ultimately violence, society walks into a death trap. There is not an exception to this. So the ideas that require censorship or intimidation or blood to survive, they are 100% of the time poison. An idea that can’t survive in the sunlight has to live in the shadows. And that is the death spiral that we are in if we don’t stop this right now.

So let’s look at the other hand in this magic trick. Remember we talked about there like there’s some misdirection going on here. For decades, the press, the media was supposed to be our watchdog. They’re going to find all the facts. They’re going to hold the powerful accountable. They’re going to keep people informed. And again, you can see this with your own eyes. It’s not right versus left. Look closely at the media. It’s not right versus left. This is darkness versus light. The media is a circus tent with a lot more in common to a casino. This is a a propaganda machine just churning out outrage. Let me just tell you exactly how this works. Facts are boring to people. outrage is more likely to sell. It’s more likely to keep you looking at the screen. That’s their metrics. That’s what they get paid based off of. So instead of showing you some kind of reality, they’re showing you this carefully curated nightmare reel of the absolute worst of the other side. They’re not giving you the whole picture. They’re giving you the most extreme clips that they can find because they know that you’re going to watch. They know that you’re going to get pissed off when you see it all and you’re going to come back for more tomorrow. In fact, to me, if I’m very honest, if something doesn’t fit their narrative, it is completely ignored. But if a story can be kind of twisted into a a blame game, then it is. So, they’re not showing you reality in any sense. They’re showing you a story designed to keep you loyal to your tribe, addicted to whatever their version, twisted horror movie version of reality really is.

And what’s truly disgusting, what I am genuinely nauseated by, we tend to think, oh yeah, the media is trying to sell ads for some pharmaceutical stuff

and they’re trying to sell some car

commercial breaks and things like that.

That’s not it. This is more about distraction. The reason is while they get you frothing at the mouth over some clip of a protester screaming nonsense, the real enemy to all of us, these entrenched people that you have nothing in common with whatsoever, who decide the narratives, they bankroll politicians and they write the rules and you know that they win no matter who wins, right or left. You know that they’re the ones getting the checks. They’re laughing at how stupid we are. So, let’s stop with the doom and gloom for a second here. And let me just kind of bring this back. If you strip away all of the slogans, all the hashtags, the little talking points of the media, what do regular people want? What do regular people, you and your neighbors, even the people that voted differently than you? We want our kids safe. We want a roof that doesn’t leak. We want food in the fridge. We want a job that doesn’t crush our freaking soul. And we want some goddamn honesty from the people who claim to represent you, to represent us. And guess what? That guy that you don’t like with the bumper sticker down the street, he wants the same thing. The woman with the MAGA hat at the grocery store that you thought was an idiot, she wants the same thing. The mom who was too busy working three jobs to even care about politics, she wants the same thing, too. But what do they not show you on TV? What is the one thing? It’s that. It’s that you have that much in common with the people who voted different than you. They will never never show you that. They show you the screaming protester with the purple hair threatening to burn a bunch of stuff down. They show you this red-faced conspiracy guy spitting at the camera talking about crazy stuff. They show you the absolute fringe because fringe pisses you off. Fringe makes you hateful and angry. fringe makes you think that the other half of the country has lost its freaking mind. There are absolute real studies on this. There’s hard data proving that these algorithms and the media deliberately push exactly what’s going to piss you off. Is the more enraged you are, the longer you’re going to stay hooked. And they’re literally feeding you a diet of enemies instead of neighbors. They’re programming you to see the world through some kind of warped carnival funhouse mirror where these loudest weird ass 1% of extremists look like 160 million people. And it’s not. It is a lie. It is a lie. And if that’s a lie, then let me say one thing that’s true. And let me give you the truth here. You and that weird uncle that you argue with at Thanksgiving, you’re not enemies. You’re both being played. you’re both being manipulated. And the second that you realize that, the second that you look across the aisle and see a fellow human being instead of some caricature cartoon is the moment that the scam starts to collapse.

I think I know what you might be thinking here. So, if it’s not left versus right, then who the hell is is pulling all these strings? Who benefits? So, let me ask you, who benefits from you hating your neighbor? Cuz let’s be honest, regular people don’t profit from this chaos. regular people don’t, but someone does. And that someone is what I personally call the covert elite.

Because we have elite and then we have covert elite. And these aren’t like a bunch of Looney Tunes cartoon villains in some underground layer. These are CEOs and mega donors to political campaigns. And you notice how they donate to both sides? These are political lifers, media conglomerates. These are the people who cash big ass checks no matter who wins the election. They operate on both sides of the aisle because the sides pay out. They don’t care about your values. They don’t care about your family or your future. They care about one thing and that’s control. And let me tell you, division is the cheapest, most effective tool ever invented for that. Look at how SCups are described in military doctrine. You identify your target audience. You feed them carefully selected information and you push their emotion until their behavior changes. This isn’t theory. That’s written down in black and white.

16:00 — And it’s the same exact playbook that’s being used on you and me, my family, my parents, all of us. Except this time, the battlefield isn’t in Afghanistan. It’s not some country in the Middle East. It is your living room. It’s your Twitter feed. It’s your nightly news. It’s right here where you’re looking at my face. Whatever device you’re watching this on, this is the battlefield. This is why both parties, you’re hearing them scream about each other non-stop, but they never really seem to touch the things

that matter.

You ever notice how there’s always money for war, but there’s never money to fix our roads? You notice how billionaires always seem to fund both sides of the elections. And if you’ve ever noticed, if you take a good look, corruption is a bipartisan issue. That’s not incompetence. So whatever it is for the elites, they need you locked in this tribal us versus them tribalistic warfare. Because if you ever woke up and you started to realize that you share more in common with the other side than a single millionaire donor on your own side, the entire game starts to collapse instantly. And I think if you realize this, you’d stop fighting each other. You’d start realizing that the right versus left is fake. And I think that purely terrifies them. So, who knows how long this video is going to last on YouTube. But let me be crystal clear about one thing. The real enemy isn’t your Democrat neighbor with the yard sign that pisses you off. It’s not your Republican uncle who posts stupid memes on Facebook. The real enemy is entrenched power. And it’s an entrenched power that thrives on one piece of fuel.

And that fuel is chaos. The real enemy is those people who profit. when you are divided and distracted and most importantly when you are dehumanizing your your fellow Americans. This was never about left versus right. It was always about the people versus the powerful. So here is the starting point. It’s just sanity. Just plain everyday common sense sanity. And ask yourself, do you genuinely want political opponents murdered in the streets? Do you want your neighbor dragged through the mud because they voted differently? Of course you don’t because you’re a sane human being. And that means that you’re okay.

And sanity right now is the most rebellious act that you can commit in this country for right now. Sanity is refusing to let CNN or Fox News or Twitter decide who your enemies are. It’s looking across the aisle that’s probably imaginary and saying, “You know what? I disagree with your ass, but you’re not the devil. Sanity is is truly openly saying violence is not politics. Violence becomes the death of politics. And true sanity is seeing just the weird idiots on the news and realizing that’s not the norm. That is a cartoon that’s curated for you. And the second that you stop playing the outrage game and you refuse to cheer for blood, which I hope you didn’t do, you’re already breaking the spell if you’re there. I genuinely believe in my heart that sanity is contagious. And when one person refuses to take the bait, the echo chamber starts cracking a little bit. 10 people refuse, it starts breaking open a little bit more. And let me be super clear here. When millions of people, if this were to happen or were to refuse, the machine will collapse. I guarantee it.

19:30 — We don’t need permission to stop being pawns on the board. The minute that you decide right now that you will not be programmed into hatred, then you have started to win. And that’s the first step to being sane and it starts with you. Mr. Charlie Kirk, his death was a mirror for all of us. And it’s a mirror showing us how that we have fallen because when we see murder being celebrated, when we see neighbors that are treated like enemies, that’s the signal. And I think the good news here is that the machine only works if we feed it. It only runs on our clicks and our outrage and our willingness to see half of this country as a horrifying monster. If you starve this, it’s going to die. It’s as simple as that. Just think about your neighbors. Look at the people around you. Your neighbors, your co-workers, the parents at your kids school. Do they really look like these that you see on TV, on social media? Do they actually match these memes and all the screaming clips and stuff? Hell no. They look like you. They look like me. We’re We’re tired and overworked. We’re worried about bills.

We’re praying for a future that isn’t just bonkers. Batshit crazy. That’s the America that cameras don’t show you. Because if they did, you’d stop hating people. You’d start seeing reality. So, here is the pledge. Here’s my one thing that I want to give to you here. And you can say this pledge out loud if you need to. I will not let anything electronic decide who my neighbor is. I will not let political violence become normal. I will no longer let propaganda tell me who to hate. I will never cheer for blood. I will choose sanity. I will choose unity. I will choose to see the humanity in people before I see their politics. And if enough of us take that stand, the whole entire rotten, nasty structure starts to fall. Because the truth is very simple. There are more sane people than there are psychopaths. What we’re seeing online is fake. There are more of us than there are of them. And the second that we remember that, the second we refuse to be divided against each other, which is fake, the game is permanently over. And I say this as the brainwashing expert and the scops expert. The choice is absolutely ours right now. Do we keep this programming? Do we keep going? Do we keep letting them program us into sociopaths? Because that’s what’s happening. I just my previous video right before this one was about this or do we break the script and take back our sanity and just finally remember that we are one people. We’re not two tribes. And I want you to remember this. If something online pisses you off, now you know for sure that you are witnessing social engineering. That’s all that is. And let me end this with a a quote from Martin Luther King. The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral. Begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. I love you. Please, please, God, send this to somebody that you know.

Take care.

2025.09.16 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 27

Why has New York become so leftist, even communist in its governmental approach? Granted this is directed more toward the urbanites of the Big Apple and surrounding areas, but look at the vote totals each election. Upstate and rural areas are much more normal and patriotic based on my observations and relationships. However, I observed in my business career as well as with extended family who live in the area, (said in my best hillbilly vernacular), a lot of them ain’t right in the head. The absolutely bizarre behavior you see from supposedly “elected” officials and administrators of law there is actually not unusual. It has been their modus operandi for many years. For a people who have benefitted from capitalism and the actions of patriots as much or more than anywhere in America, they sure have a strong inclination to run toward and embrace criminality, communism, and slavery.

A Google provided AI response to the “why” question is below,

New York’s liberal leanings stem from its diverse population, history of progressive movements supported by strong labor unions, and a political system that has historically allowed for influential third-party politics, such as the Working Families Party, which champions policies for working-class families. The state’s large urban centers, particularly New York City, have long been centers of social reform and progressive ideology, attracting and fostering a populace that values social justice and government intervention. 

Key Factors Contributing to New York’s Liberalism:

  • Diverse Population:New York is a melting pot of cultures and experiences, and this diversity has historically fostered progressive and liberal viewpoints. 
  • Strong Labor Movement:A powerful labor history, particularly with unions like those in the garment industry, has supported liberal politicians and policies that benefit working-class families. 
  • Influential Progressive Parties:The state has a history of strong third-party movements that have promoted progressive agendas, like the Working Families Party, focusing on issues like inequality and opportunity for middle- and working-class families. 
  • Urban Centers and Social Reform:New York City and other urban areas have long been hubs for social movements and progressive ideas, creating a political culture that supports policies aimed at social and economic justice. 
  • Historical Liberalism:The Liberal Party, though now defunct, once wielded significant political power, demonstrating the historical presence and success of liberal politics in the state. 

I found the response to be observationally reasonable and justified. As you can tell, none of that screams tradition, patriotism and American exceptionalism. In fact, much of it is misdirection to funnel support away from American traditional values. The very premise of each of the bullet pointed statements assumes America’s historical values are insufficient or wrong headed. There is no emphasis on assimilation in being in a melting pot today. In fact, there is an increased emphasis on polarization and division that is exploited by Democrat Party political leaders as they build their support models and fund raising opportunities. Division and manipulation appear to be the code words. They cobble together coalitions and alliances among the groups listed above and others in their efforts to circumvent the Constitution, laws, regulations and so on for their benefit. If laws, regulations and so on can be made to bend to fit their aspirations, that’s how it goes with no regard or acceptance of the original intent. If a law or regulation covers something they do not like, they ignore it if they are in power.

Simply, they employ “relative truth” as their modus operandi with power and money being their gods. Everything described above by the AI response to the question can demonstrably be proven corrupted – and for a very long period of time in that state. It is not exclusive to NY, but is a dominant feature there.

The overwhelming majority of its urban citizenry are immigrants or children of same who left their homes to relocate to America for good reasons. Primarily, it is because things were not working out in their favor where they previously lived. There may have been really good reasons they were encouraged or forced to leave. Who wants to keep up criminals and other wackos when they can be dumped on America? In the case of the criminal Dems they represent more opportunities to increase their power. Once the immigrants (legal and illegal) arrive they proceed to hive with other people similar to themselves. Which is when the criminal Dems and their minions step in to “help”, frequently through the use of taxpayer dollars to build alliances and coalitions that the colluding politicians eagerly provide.

All of that leads to…

Slavery Of The Masses

Many years ago a friend once told me the sheeple described above were useful idiots. They are allowed to live and be supported as long as they are useful. Since the described activities have been going on for a couple of centuries in America, it is clear they are just modern day slaves.

Many have been recruited and otherwise lured to our shores with offers and promises contingent upon their performance of certain actions which often requires selling their souls. The slave traders may not be trolling Africa for helpless victims as in the past, however, these modern day counterparts are trafficking in a similar manner. They do not need force and shackles to make the capture, they use promises, false narratives and money. The force comes later if these modern day slaves do not do what is required. The slave traders recruit criminals, terrorists, revolutionaries, and poverty stricken participants with promises of a better life, more money, and freedom. They sell a false image of America that has been created to circumvent the one our patriot founders sacrificed their blood and lives to create.

It is not just confined to NY by any means. Look at Hyundai in Savannah, GA. Same deal.

The criminals are not recruiting people to assimilate into America’s melting pot who can add to society. They are recruiting to tear down our culture, create chaos, and work to achieve their ends. But once here and assigned their tasks, failure to comply with the terms of entry results in harsh punishment, personal death, or deaths of loved ones. I hope readers realize this invasion has not been about paying coyotes to escort invaders across the border and the latter not having responsibilities to fulfill while living here. They are picked up and taken by soldiers of the left (traffickers) to their next destinations where they are given ID, basic supplies and their future assignments. Then they are transported to their handlers, given shelter and put to work. Which should tell all of us that the employers using them are as bad as the slave traders who secure and traffic them.

It is no wonder their children continue that way of life; it is all they know.

You have seen how this all works first hand, you know now. As an example POTUS Trump and patriots compelled the whole nation to watch in real time with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. A MS-13 human trafficker, wife beater, and alleged child porn lover with an outstanding deportation order was caught by the highway patrol in my state, with the officer making the stop recording the event. He radioed in for instructions and his department supervisor was then told by the Brandon administration to send him on his way. They had no interest in sending ICE to arrest the Maryland Man and his traveling illegal companions. Once addressed by ICE with POTUS Trump’s election, Democrat Senators and Representatives have gone insane protecting their boy, making their support of criminals even more obvious.

This was happening in every state in America for years. How much of it did you see in the fake news media? Yup, nothing until President Trump was elected and the Dems needed to find something, anything to try to create disunity within our population.

Knowing this today, we turn our attention to patterns that developed over a couple of centuries in New York (and other colonies turned states) to establish a basis of fact versus fiction. Please read the link below from The New York Historical Society,

https://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/history.htm

Now consider what happened on those slave ships that brought those poor souls to our shores. Don’t pass this one up. The misery they endured is worthy of your time to read it if you value the pursuit of truth. It is not for the faint of heart.

https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2023/2/22/a-history-of-slavery-in-new-york

We see wealth built and power attained on the backs of the poor and oppressed with total disregard for the person. It is a tale as old as time, similar to what can even be found in the Old Testament that extended into the Roman Empire and New Testament of the Holy Bible. Human beings treated worse than vermin for thousands of years. We just do not like to think about it happening here in America, in a time period of our nation’s founding by people we have been taught and grown to revere for all they gave toward our independence.

Which is exactly what continues today through the trafficking and other forms. It turns out there are many ways to enslave. Some slavery is intended to be permanent, other forms are purpose intended and may have limited periods of service.

My advice is to never be sucked into a belief or argument that equates slavery with skin color. That’s a non-starter. Slaves have been of all skin colors throughout world history. Slavery is achieved through domination of cultures and groupings of people without regard to skin color. Some cultures and people groupings are developed for the purpose of producing slaves. Others devolve into weakness that makes is easier to be dominated. In America the left has been developing its own culture of weak sheeple who serve as their slaves. They are incapable of being able to critically think and analyze. Logic totally escapes them. That is why they resort to violence, sexual perversions, drugs, corruption and more.

They indoctrinate people like Tyler Robinson into being their willing slaves.

What Now?

With what POTUS Trump and patriots are accomplishing in a short period of time with great cooperation from much of the world’s leadership; is there any doubt that the primary role of America First MAGA is to release all mankind from slavery? I really see no legitimate counter to that statement.

So, what is it that the Declaration of Independence was authorized to say 250 years ago, oh yes, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The point of government is to serve that end as it further says in the next sentence, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”.

Did you notice that nothing is said about the colonies or any country in particular in those two statements? They are about universal truths and principles for mankind’s existence on this planet. They pointed to the Creator as the author. The vision of the Declaration is far bigger than any one group of people or nation. So why was it viewed acceptable by the people who wrote those words to enslave other people? Did they not view the slaves as people? How about the indentured servants who were viewed as lessers and also frequently abused? Were they really just property to them, like livestock?

That is something to ponder. We will address more of this important issue as we venture on. However, it is now time for another NY Declaration signer.

Francis Lewis

Once again we turn to the motherland to determine the birthplace of Francis Lewis. We are fairly certain he was born in Llandoff, Wales in 1713. However, sources diverge a bit at that point. Most all of them messed up some details and timeline of events, even the Descendants site. So you are receiving the TB best guess interpretation.

😂

Despite its issues I primarily used the Descendants site, which has corroborating statements from other reputable sites. Then I reconstructed a timeline from all sources. This is yet another example of not blindly accepting Wiki as accurate.

Young Francis was the son of Rev. Francis Lewis and wife, Amy Pettingal. His father was Episcopal clergy and his mother was the daughter of clergy. Young Francis was orphaned at age 5. He lived with his wealthy aunt who made sure he received a good education, first in Scotland and later at Westminster School in London.

After graduation he went into the mercantile business. At the age of 21 he sold some property his father left him, purchased merchandise, and shipped out to America. He landed in NY, went to Philadelphia briefy and returned to NY, having set up a mercantile business with Edward Annesley. He next became involved in shipping with trade in Europe and Africa primarily. In 1745 he married the younger sister of his business partner, Elizabeth Annesley. They had seven children, but only three survived to adulthood.

During the French and Indian War, Lewis supplied British forces with clothing. During one period in 1756, the fort where he was located came under attack and its commander killed while standing next to Lewis. The Brits surrendered and were assured safety. However, the Indians were given the opportunity to take 30 from the British side to take captive or kill. Lewis was one of those chosen. Fortunately, he was able to communicate with the Chief due to similarities with the Welsh language of his youth. The Chief liked him and released him back to the French in Montreal with recommendations for his release. Instead, they sent him to France as a prisoner. He was released in 1763 in an exchange of prisoners. To compensate him from his years in captivity, the British authorities gave him 5000 acres of land in NY upon his return.

Apparently, within a two year period he made an absolute fortune. So much that he was believed to have been the fifth wealthiest founding father to sign the Declaration. At the end of the two years he retired at the age of 52. Other than helping a son get established in business, he turned his attention to government and the independence movement, attending the Stamp Act Congress. He is believed to have been one of the leaders in the Sons of Liberty. He joined the NY revolutionary related committees and later helped set up the state government. He had a strong sense of detail and accounting, so he was very valuable in securing supplies and arms for the continental army through the Secret Committee.

He became a member of the Continental Congress. Due to strong Tory influence in the colony, he was instructed to not vote for independence, however, once the Declaration was approved he signed without reservation. Later that same year the British moved on NY. They destroyed his home in Whitestone (aka Flushing today) and took his wife captive. She was later released in an exchange with British wives, however, the hardship cost her health. She passed away from the effects in 1779. Apparently, he remained a staunch ally of George Washington even through the Conway Cabal mischief of Gen. Horatio Gates that was sandwiched around Valley Forge. He was one of 16 Declaration signers who also signed the Articles of Confederation.

With the death of Elizabeth, Francis grieved and took a step back from governmental activities in 1781. After the war he served for three years as a vestryman of Trinity Church (Episcopal). He spent the last 20 years of his life enjoying his children and grandchildren. He passed away in 1802 at the age of 89. He is buried in the Churchyard at Trinity.

Francis is also famous for being the father of son, Morgan Lewis. Morgan was a highly accomplished patriot who graduated from Princeton and served as a Major under Gates. As an aide to Gates he was named the quartermaster-general of the northern Army and had a part in the Gates led victory of the colonists at Saratoga. He returned to law practice after the war, was elected into the assembly and later became a judge. He was elected Governor of the state from 1804-07.

President Madison asked him to serve as Secretary Of War, but he declined as he wanted a more active role in the War of 1812. He was appointed quartermaster-general of the armies instead. He was promoted to major-general a year later and led forces in victories against the British. Afterwards he became a founder of New York University.

We give a big salute to the Lewis family and in particular, Francis, for his commitment to the efforts of patriots. Despite the hardships, he persevered and left a lasting family legacy that benefited America.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Dear KMAG: 20250915 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

otolith

noun

  • calcium concretion in inside of vertebrate’s ear to aid in equilibrium
  • calcium carbonate crystals or grains that help vertebrates sense linear acceleration and gravity
  • small, calcium carbonate structure found in the inner ear of vertebrates, including fish, that helps with balance and hearing

Used in a sentence

The otoliths (ear-stones) are small structures located in the inner ear used to register gravity and linear acceleration.

Shown in a picture

Explained in a video

Discussed in a linked article

https://dizziness-and-balance.com/anatomy/ear/otoliths.html


MUSIC!

Another classic. DIG IT!


THE STUFF

Beware STATINS! Here are some of the worst possible side effects.

Yeah, it’s AI, and the voice is annoying, but it’s potentially useful information.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W



2025-09-13, Simply Saturday.

Administrivia stuff.

What Wheatie said. 

3.  If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.  <<<  T H I S.

2.  No running with scissors. 

1.  No food fights.  (Launching dinner rolls encouraged.)

AI generated stuff posted, requires a link, identifying the source. Common Courtesy suggests the following.

  • Grok questions and the like commonly generate lengthy answers. Suggest paste the exact question in the reply. >>> THEN use the spoiler(s), for pasting Grok’s blathering.. Perhaps multiple spoilers for extended Grok blathering.
  • Or a link to Grok’s answer. Which may be accurate AND likely has programmed bias.

Select guidance from Wolf. 

  1. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s).
  2. Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.     
  3. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for whatever they post. 

This and future Simply Saturday Posts.

  • Scheduled every Saturday, 12:01AM EST. IF I screw up, I’ll kick it ~5:15AM. 
  • More likely, Wolf will kick it, as he is usually online.
  • Point is. Please don’t fret, Simply Saturday will get posted.

Simply Saturday boiler plate is to ensure, at a minimum, there is a Saturday post. Several will be scheduled in advance. Fresh stuff added on Friday AND rescheduled.

At about this point the typical, Simply Saturday boiler plate, wraps up with…  Slow Guy

Slow Guy

Carrying forward from last evening.

Erika Kirk: “Two days ago, my husband went to see the face of his Savior and his God… Now, and for all eternity, he will stand at his Savior’s side wearing the glorious crown of a martyr.”

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Fresh Stuff.  May be worth a read, listen, or scroll on by.

APMEX https://www.apmex.com   Bitcoin https://www.bitcoin.com/

Prices pulled last evening.

Gold $3,601.90.  Silver $41.27.  Bitcoin $116,153.00.

Irrational exuberance?  Metals & Bitcoin owners embracing, the upswing. 

News, X’s you tube, or simply, different. In no particular order…

STOP the scroll wheel.  Charlie & Erika happier days.

In loving memory of Charlie Kirk, a fearless patriot & man of unwavering faith who dedicated his life to America. “It’s bigger than you, I want you to remember that… It’s bigger than me – you are here to make somebody else’s life better, the pursuit of liberty & freedom.

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Maggot not even drawing fleas.

“No Way”: Democrat Donors Balk At Donating To Maggot’s Library. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna230452

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Great news by me.

$7 trillion ‘wall of cash’ worry is looming for investors once Fed interest rate cuts start

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/7-trillion-cash-money-market-yields-fed-interest-rate-cuts.html

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More good news by me.

PANIC MODE: Stephen King Scrambles to Apologize After Realizing His Defamatory Smear Justifying Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Could Cost Him MILLIONS in Court

…deranged clown from one of his own bad novels: “He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.”

No fact-check. No context. Just pure, unadulterated blood libel…

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Hear Ye.  Hear YE!

Ht LP, K1tt7-FRN. 

PLEASE LISTEN I am tagging just as she asked, and I would ask all of you to please repost and tag …this needs to be done ASAP!

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Virginia Republican Nick Freitas’s Epic Response to Democrats Following Charlie Kirk’s Assassination “Do not expect us to go quietly into the night” (Video)

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Hoping for a TwoFer.  Memphis AND Chicago.

Trump Says He Is Sending National Guard To Memphis Next

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JUST IN: ICE Officer Left Severely Injured After Illegal Alien in Chicago Resists Arrest, Drags Officer with Vehicle During Traffic Stop – Alien Shot and Killed

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Another great Trump idea, for Bondi and Kash to get hot on.  Likely already are.

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Elon Musk got DOGE’s mission “backward,” Lutnick says

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Utah Guvner cox is a piece of shit, back stabbing, asshole politician.

MAGA Slams Governor

Utah governor Spencer Cox basked in praise for his ‘unity’ plea at Friday’s FBI press conference — but the man whose alleged assassin he was discussing once wanted him expelled from the Republican Party.

Cox dominated the podium detailing Charlie Kirk’s murder just three years after the TPUSA founder branded him a ‘weak moderate’ who ‘should be expelled from the Republican party’.

The 2022 social media blast came after Cox vetoed a bill banning biological males from women’s sports — a move that infuriated Kirk and conservative activists.

Now friends of the slain activist find it ‘ironic’ that the same governor Kirk wanted kicked out of the GOP pushed aside FBI officials to control the narrative around his death.

The feud ran deeper: Cox also threatened to veto a statewide ban on transgender surgeries for minors, prompting Kirk to accuse him of being ‘paid off by Big Pharma who make billions off hormone blockers and chemical castration’.

Yet on Friday, in a stunning about-face, Cox opened the press conference by claiming he was ‘inspired by Kirk’s writings and beliefs’ — urging the dead activist’s followers to let their ‘anger fade’.

The governor’s sudden reverence for a man who’d savaged him as corrupt rang hollow to those who remembered their bitter public battles.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15093527/spencer-cox-steve-bannon-charlie-kirk-assassin.html

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Ho hum…  Pecked in “nails”.  Endless fingernail stuff.  As bad as walking in a store, looking for guys clothes, when most of the store is gals centric.

Saturday’s music mix.

Great story.  Great music.

This guy’s stuff cracks me up.

Happy Trails Folks

Night crew, your nickel.

Slow Guy

Dear MAGA: 20250911 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic | Statement on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk


This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.


Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.


If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W


Here is what I had planned for today.

(1) A music reaction video!


(2) Clash of the Young Titans in Chess!


(3) CNN TRANS Propaganda Crashing, Burning, and Utterly IN FLAMES!


I had specifically decided NOT to talk about 9/11, although I later considered posting that video Gail cited, called Codex 9/11, which is here:

However, I am now forced to address something which is deeply tied to 9/11, the assassination of our leaders, and the attempt upon the life of our President, Donald J. Trump.


Statement on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

I now find myself in a remarkable state of – as Sundance once put it – cold anger.

Indeed, I almost feel no true “anger” in this emotional state. I feel a “detachment toward what is necessary”, you might say.

In some ways, this is the emotional average of where I was, loving and hopeful, and where I should be, which is righteously angry. I had been very hopeful for imminent reconciliation with the left. I was hopeful for easy peace. Sadly, I don’t think that is to be. I pray I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.

The left is devolving into 100% “people who willingly choose to exit badly.”

I feel a kind of resignation. It is very unlike the anger that I felt on 9/11/01 – and more like the determination I felt when I stood still on our statehouse steps, with eyes closed in prayer, and allowed screaming, violent, BLM radicals to shout obscenities in my ear, as corrupt state police supporting them did nothing but watch me for any excuse to arrest me.

Perhaps I am too much the student of history. Perhaps I have read too much about the Spanish Civil War, the latest point about which I just read today, interestingly enough. I definitely read too much about the very similar but very obscure Finnish Civil War, likewise the result of inappropriate leftist ambitions to change and rule a country against the will of the populace.

Spaniards and Finns don’t like to talk about their civil wars, and I don’t blame them. Civil wars are horrible and unnecessary. And yet, when the mobs that want them, get them, they drag people like me into the matter, and I don’t like it.

The left starts killing the people who stand in their way, and what do you know – those people do something about it, and put it down. Whoda thunk? Right? The problem is, a lot of innocent people die in the process.

If history serves, the left will make big moves at some point, so YOU need to be prepared.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is like a test case. That’s all. They’re testing us. They’re seeing if we figure it out. They’re seeing what we do. It’s a PAWN MOVE in the chess game – before the bigger piece exchanges that MUST COME.

The left’s violent coup will be timed to surprise everybody, so don’t be surprised when it happens. Instead, be ready.

IMO, the reason we’re not seeing a lot of activity from the leftist pols is that they are very busy with secret activities. They are resigned to a violent coup of some kind, possibly with foreign assistance.

I am still holding out for peace, but we may be talking about a kind of “relative” peace, rather than an absolute one.

That’s OK.

Now – it’s time to bring this to specifics.

We have roughly three years, as a baseline, in which our right to bear arms is more or less protected, outside of the communist states. We need to maintain situational awareness at all times, against both leftist political violence, and leftist-supported “regular” violence, which they use as a deniable tactic against us.

Treat ALL violence as being directed against you by the left. It is ALL an intentional assault upon you. Treat ALL violence against anybody else as being directed against THEM by the left.

ALL violence in America is THE LEFT’S responsibility. ALL OF IT.

The left must be blamed relentlessly, to diminish their numbers. As people realize the DANGER that the left in power poses for them, their parents, and their children, people will flee the left, and we can help.

We must not let up. The left both IS violent and ENCOURAGES violence by criminals.

Leftist judges must be impeached, defeated, and driven from office. They must be shamed, mocked, ridiculed, and their evil made naked to the world.

This requires an uprising of the population. Not a violent one, but an uprising just the same.

Ask yourself – are you prepared to ride out a violent leftist coup that brings everything to a halt for WEEKS or even MONTHS?

In ALL cases of “stand up or go along” with criminal violence, we must stand up. That means being ready to SHOOT and KILL anybody who raises a knife or gun against the innocent. Hopefully the dear perpetrators live and face trial, and meet Jesus in prison, but we must save the innocent at every opportunity, and if a fatal shot is the only way, then it must be done.

Get your concealed carry license. Get some training. Learn how to shoot. Learn WHEN to shoot. Learn how to win peacefully, and hopefully you will never have to pull your gun (a badge of honor, IMO), but be prepared for that moment when you DO have to pull your gun, because leftist violence is increasing, and the left is increasingly justifying violence of all kinds.

Tony Moon is correct.

https://twitter.com/RoofKorean7/status/1965862170627072456

That’s not showing – here is an image…..

Dr. Lynn Fynn-derella is correct.

Daughter just got home from (Christian) school. She said one of her teachers was watching the video in slow motion and celebrating, jumping up and down with two leftist students. Gr👀ming much?
I have the president of the school on speed dial. I’ve just reported her actions. It’s just as important we turn these “educators” in as it is to try the perpetrator.

Meanwhile, we must destroy the contamination within our intelligence agencies which is behind these assassinations. Tulsi Gabbard has clearly (IMO) driven these sick and evil traitors to desperation. Some sort of IC op – either pro/patsy, or MK shooter, or both, will have been involved here.

I like this theory.


RedLegLeader68

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My take:

#1 – shooter was a hired, drop dead professional, which means he had an escape hatch that no one else knew about + he would hold a lot of black mail info on his paymasters. He’s gone and won’t be found.

#2 – shooter was a highly trained (maybe MKUltra) type that was committed to the “cause” and carried out the deed. He’s now dead. No loose ends.

#3 = If #2’s correct, then some patsy will be trotted out to take the fall. Soon, he will be dead.

RIP Dear Charlie!!


Yup. What they did was nasty. Worse yet, it was SATANIC.

And just in case they try to delete it…..

Jezebel Scrambles to Add Editor’s Note to Article Boasting About Paying Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk Two Days Before His Assassination Jezebel added an editor’s note to an article where they bragged about paying Etsy witches to place curses on conservative activist Charlie Kirk, just two days before he was assassinated at a Turning Point USA event. The original piece, published on Monday, detailed how the outlet hired online spellcasters to hex Kirk over his criticisms of modern feminism and women’s independence. The article, bylined initially to writer Claire Guinan but later changed to simply “Jezebel,” was titled “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.” In it, the author lambasted Kirk as a “far-right misogynist with a bad haircut” who promotes “regressive rhetoric” and idealizes the 1950s for women. The editor’s note reads: Editor’s Note: This story was published on September 8. Jezebel condemns the shooting of Charlie Kirk in the strongest possible terms. We do not endorse, encourage, or excuse political violence of any kind. While Jezebel’s note attempts to distance the outlet from violence, critics argue it’s too little, too late, especially given the gleeful tone of the original piece. https://jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk


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And it has been archived.


As Aubergine has said about the Epstein stuff, at the root, this is spiritual. There is coordination on the psychotic, satanic, evil left. Whether the gals at Jezebel actually knew anything was coming or not, doesn’t really matter. Somebody knew it was coming. This has all the hallmarks of an “event” – and these “events” are always complex evil meant to demonstrate evil power.

But we have God on our side, and we have Jesus leading the way. Never stop being approved workmen and workwomen of GOOD.

We’re not getting out of this easy. But we ARE getting out of it with GOD on our side.

Plan. Prepare. Pray.

W

2025.09.09 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 26

We move to neighboring New York to begin the next reveal of the remaining Declaration signers. So let’s open with some famous New Yorkers and NY related songs to get us warmed up. There are Goober Gump sightings in this one.

OK, went back in the time capsule for that one. In fact, I saw him in concert in Vegas a few years previous to this performance. Yes, I’m old.

Let’s go with a more current NY music entertainer, albeit a now older guy who is having his own health issues and stepping back from the limelight.

Well, now that you asked, I also saw this guy in concert in 1973; the year Piano Man came out following the Cold Spring Harbor Tour. He excitedly announced on stage that the song was going to be released in about a month along with a planned album later. The response from the thousands in the crowd after hearing the song was like thunder. As we now know, that song is timeless Americana that will be forever associated with Billy Joel.

Then there was the following New York bred music entertainer, Harry Chapin, that some may know, or barely remember, or may not know at all . Yup, saw him the same year. Hands down one of the best concerts I have ever seen. He held the crowd in his hands with his stories, humor and talent. His brother, Tom, sang the high female voice part. Tom also did a cool Saturday morning children’s TV show called Make A Wish that won an Emmy. He played six instruments in the band. In addition, Harry’s bass player was the baritone voice heard as Mr. Tanner in the song of that name. That song was based on a real person and event with the actual name, location and occupation changed to protect the described person. Years later the person learned about the song and was very happy that Harry had remembered him.

Harry’s life was cut way too short at age 38 in an auto accident on the Long Island Expressway. So, here is one in his memory…

However, as much as I enjoyed and was musically influenced by the NY entertainers above, the following expresses my personal thoughts and feelings about New York itself. That is not a slam to the many fine people who live in the state or some of its more beautiful environment. It is directed at just how far the state in general has strayed from its founding and service to America. That has led to the virtual destruction in the quality of life one should expect. I will address more of my thoughts on that issue in a future part.

Yeah, as he toured the south I saw this Philadelphia area singer songwriter, Jim Croce, who would not be recognized by many as a classically trained music student at Villanova as a young man. Yes, the concert I attended was in that same year. It was held less than two weeks before his plane went down with his bandmates traveling to a concert in Louisiana and he was lost to all of us. What the world did not know at the time was that he was choosing to give up his promising entertainment career to write short stories and movie scripts. While on this last tour he had written his wife a letter describing his decision. It arrived after his passing.

We never know as we wander through life what is in store. Time to get busy.

New York Revolutionary War Militia Involvement

The following in the link below is priceless for historians and genealogists as it was published in 1904 and archived by the State of New York’s Office of the Comptroller. It contains documents and records from the Revolutionary War period in the state that includes names of militia members in every regiment and area of service. I found it interesting, especially the fact that the Comptroller at that time documented the fact that NY provided more than double the number of military members during the Revolutionary War than credited by historians up to that point. The two figures are starkly different at 17.8 K officially versus 43.6 K with this revision. Yet, another proof that history and narratives are frequently wrongly stated. Readers should keep that in mind when trying to learn more and should not take statements of historians as gospel without first personally investigating and consulting numerous sources.

https://archive.org/details/newyorkrevolution01statrich/page/n63/mode/2up?view=theater

So why is this adjustment important? It is hardly surprising that Massachusetts earned the honor of having the most members in our military. But few might know that with this documented revision that New York would be second on the list. It gives readers an indication of the commitment of the residents in each state toward the cause of liberty during the period. You learn that NY’s involvement represented approximately 20% of the total estimated participation of 200,000 men give or take. Even with the information provided there is cause to believe there were a great deal more men involved in the conflict based upon the records of pensions granted to members who were injured in the conflict whose names do not appear in any other records, indicating the original enlistment records were lost. Such is the case with NY.

Included in the first 25 pages or so of text are descriptions of war efforts, battles, conflicts with Indian tribes who were stirred up against the colonists by the Brits/loyalists, pay, rations, service requirements, attire, weapons, training and so forth. This quote was also very interesting – “Quakers, Moravians and United Brethren were enrolled, but exempted from service upon payment of money, which varied in amount as the war progressed until, in 1780, they were obliged to pay £160 per year.

So some could legally buy their way out of serving. I guess money was tight and patriot lives were cheap for everybody else.

Another interesting quote relates to slaves – All slaves ‘killed in the service were to be paid for. In time of invasion, any slave, not in the military service, found one mile from his master’s abode, without a certificate from his master showing his business, might be ” shot or otherwise destroyed without fear of censure, impeachment or prosecution for the same.” In 1781, it was provided that any slave who should enlist and serve ” for three years, or until discharged,” should be declared a freeman of the State.

That might burst some holier than thou bubbles.

So, even if I am not a big fan of New York today as the state has clearly lost its way for quite some time and still creates millions of slaves of a different sort, I salute the commitment to the patriot cause of its forefathers. We will now turn our attention to one such Declaration signer. As we will learn, the cause of liberty was met with challenges, violence, death and misfortune for many; which included some of our founding fathers who we celebrate and thank today.

Phillip Livingston

Phillip Livingston was born in Albany, NY in 1716. He was the fourth surviving son of Phillip and Catherine Van Gogh Livingston. His father emigrated from Scotland and mother was Dutch. His father lived in the Albany area in 1673 and later owned a large rural estate as a 2nd Lord of the Manor, some 160,000 acres located along the Hudson River about 40 miles from Albany. He received the estate for his faithful service to the Brits in political appointments such as Secretary of Indian Affairs, in his fur and other trading activities as well as in his close associations with the Dutch due to their family’s background and ability to speak both languages. This established him into the aristocracy of the region and the estate was granted him by the royal governor for his efforts. The manor later became known as Clermont and was held by seven generations of the Livingston family until the year 2000. A photo and link about them and it is below.

https://www.friendsofclermont.org/the-livingstons

Young Phillip spent his time between his father’s Albany townhouse and the estate. He went on to Yale and graduated in 1737 before returning to begin a mercantile apprenticeship under his father. He served in clerkships in the Albany government before moving to New York City to begin a career in the import business trading in the West Indies. He was very successful through the years that followed and became wealthy. He made much money providing British military provisions, slave trading, and privateering. For those who do not know what privateering is; it is a government authorized form of pirating. The privateer was authorized to violently attack shipping interests, usually foreign, to seize the cargo on behalf of the government. They would split the goods and/or profits. In 1740 he married the daughter of a British Colonel, Christina Ten Broeck. They went on to have nine children together.

Phillip gave back to the region with his finances and time. He advocated for the founding of a school that is now Columbia University, for a Professorship of Divinity at Yale, helped in the building of the first meeting house for the Methodist Society of America, and helped organize the New York Public Library. He then entered public service as a New York City alderman. He served three terms on its Provincial Assembly. He was slow to join the independence movement, but over time he saw it as the right way as the oppressive British tax acts began accumulating. He was adamantly opposed to taxation without representation as he still considered himself to be a British citizen accorded all rights of the nation. He would be elected or chosen to positions within the Provincial Assembly only to meet British opposition and removal. Eventually, in 1769, the royal governor dissolved the city’s Assembly.

In response he became a member of the Committee of 51 that chose him as one of five delegates from the state to attend the First Continental Congress in 1775. At the same time he served as President of the New York State Provincial Assembly. He signed the Olive Branch Petition to try one last time to move the King away from his push for more control and taxes in the colonies. The King refused as we know. This led to the Declaration of Independence, which Phillip approved and signed on behalf of the state.

As a person Phillip could be gruff and irritable at times in his political and business dealings. However, he was known to be very kind and loving with family and friends. He was reserved and spent a great deal of time reading. He was a deacon and elder in the Dutch Reformed Church throughout his life.

However, like many wealthy mercantilists during the era he participated heavily in the slave trade and personally owned some for a number of years. There is a report that indicated he was involved in at least 15 shipping transactions of hundreds of slaves that were brought to the NYC area for sale. As another example, in one article there was discussion of him advertising and offering a reward for the return of his property, a slave who had escaped. This bit of history and other slave trading related accounts have often been deleted or glossed over in the many historical accounts of Phillip as well as other northern founding fathers.

I must interject here as I find what has been happening with the rewriting of history to be tragic. This series has been a real eye opener for me. There is no call for this type narrative based rewriting of history that I am seeing repeatedly. In my view it means the rewriters have ulterior and probably nefarious motives to do so. In regards to the subject of slavery, what was an acceptable and legal practice during that period in time is no longer so. Just observe, recognize the truth, and move on. Chalk it up as a wrong that has been righted.

The Livingston extended family were prominently involved throughout New York state and colonial government. Phillip’s first cousin, Robert, was even appointed to Chancellor of New York State, its highest judicial office. He was a framer of the Declaration of Independence and later administered the oath of office to George Washington as President. He served as Minister to France in negotiations for the Louisiana purchase in 1803. We must note that he and the other American negotiators figuratively struck gold on that one. Some twenty Livingston kin of Phillip served as officers in the Continental military. The family was patriot to the core.

Both Colonial and British forces occupied two of his homes in the city at various times, First, Gen. Washington used one as his headquarters before the colonists lost battles around the city, at which time the Brits used it to house military members as well as his second home as a hospital. Phillip and his family fled from the fighting to their home in Kingston, NY. When this happened his slaves escaped and some were thought to have joined the British forces to later earn their freedom. The Brits eventually burned all of the town of Kingston to the ground. The family escaped again back to the safety of their native Albany area.

Phillip was chosen as a state senator while remaining a member of the Continental Congress. In fact, he served up to the actual day of his death while working in the same assembly in 1778. He died from the long term effects of dropsy (edema) at age 62. Members of the Continental Congress attended his funeral and there was an official one month mourning period. He is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, PA. The prominence and dedication of both Phillip and his cousin, Robert, are noted with several memorials in Washington, DC. With the British destruction he had lost most all of his properties and holdings while still having debts owed from his estate. The sale and repayment took nearly 25 years to resolve. His wife, Christina, remained in the Albany area surrounded and cared for by family for the rest of her life. She lived to the age of 82.

Phillip Livingston gave all he had for his country, family and friends. His family legacy was faithfully served by his efforts as well. We have great appreciation for this patriot founding father.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Dear KMAG: 20250908 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

farouche

adjective

  • Wild
  • Unpolished
  • Unsociable or shy and socially awkward
  • Disorderly or intimidating in appearance or behavior
  • Outrageous or extreme

Used in a sentence limerick

There was a young pol named LaRouche
Who some folks thought was quite farouche
Others thought he was clever
In his POTUS endeavor
But I thought the guy was a douche.

Shown in a picture

Shown in a video


MUSIC!

When I was a kid, I had a young Ozark-bred hippie neighbor kid who loved these guys. My neighbor was a good guy. Probably took too many drugs, but he was OK.

Speaking of this song, I’m wishing Daughn well, wherever she is now!


THE STUFF

This is one of the best testimonies of belief in Christ that I have ever seen.

I always liked this lady on OAN, but now I know a bit more about her.


OK – let’s have some music history to go along with that music!

He was always an interesting guy.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W