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This Sunday our Dear MAGA Open Topic is especially dedicated to creating a place to share prayers for the safety of All those working to Bring Good to the World.
Think*3
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We pray for safety, blessing, wisdom, unity & more of God’s Kingdom for:
Our Lion President Donald J. Trump with all of his administration,
our much appreciated blog host Wolfmoon,
the White Hats in Law Enforcement, the QAnon Team,
all Unborn and Born children of the world and those fighting to protect them,
our Spouses, Families and Local Communities,
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† Lorica of Saint Patrick †
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through a belief in the Threeness,
Through confession of the Oneness
Of the Creator of creation.
I arise today
Through the strength of Christ’s birth and His baptism,
Through the strength of His crucifixion and His burial,
Through the strength of His resurrection and His ascension,
Through the strength of His descent for the judgment of doom.
I arise today
Through the strength of the love of cherubim,
In obedience of angels,
In service of archangels,
In the hope of resurrection to meet with reward,
In the prayers of patriarchs,
In preachings of the apostles,
In faiths of confessors,
In innocence of virgins,
In deeds of righteous men.
I arise today
Through the strength of heaven;
Light of the sun,
Splendor of fire,
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of the wind,
Depth of the sea,
Stability of the earth,
Firmness of the rock.
I arise today
Through God’s strength to pilot me;
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s wisdom to guide me,
God’s eye to look before me,
God’s ear to hear me,
God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me,
God’s way to lie before me,
God’s shield to protect me,
God’s hosts to save me
From snares of the devil,
From temptations of vices,
From every one who desires me ill,
Afar and anear,
Alone or in a multitude.
I summon today all these powers between me and evil,
Against every cruel merciless power that opposes my body and soul,
Against incantations of false prophets,
Against black laws of pagandom,
Against false laws of heretics,
Against craft of idolatry,
Against spells of women and smiths and wizards,
Against every knowledge that corrupts man’s body and soul.
Christ shield me today
Against poison, against burning,
Against drowning, against wounding,
So that reward may come to me in abundance.
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in the eye that sees me,
Christ in the ear that hears me.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through a belief in the Threeness,
Through a confession of the Oneness
Of the Creator of creation
I had no idea that Justin Raimondo had died. I was wondering why I never saw his tweets any more. Usually it was REPLIES to famous people, sometimes as retweets, where Justin would show up in my Twitter feed. SMART, insightful, replies or retweets, taking people to task for positions that were going to get us into another Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
I quickly scanned down his old timeline. It has been fully taken over by the staff at AntiWar, who now bring back some of Justin’s old columns, and keep his memory alive.
One of the tweets led me to this great article.
Well worth a read. Particularly if you believe my almost unbelievable theory that Justin’s strong and unwavering support of Trump, and his influence over the “intellectual libertarian and antiwar” segment of the potential Trump bloc, was ESSENTIAL to Trump’s victory in 2016.
The first place I ever read this guy was some guest column on WorldNetDaily during the Clinton administration. Justin was a gay conservative who looked like “the Fonz” and had his own website (kind of a big deal back then) called “AntiWar.com“. Well, it wasn’t really “his” site, but he was the Freddie Mercury of AntiWar. It sometimes SEEMED like his site. And yet, it was all about ANTI-WAR – not about him.
Justin was respected by Joseph Farah of WND – and that was enough for me. I paid attention. Justin and Joseph didn’t always agree, but they both cared enough to agree or disagree with each other, outside the stifling chorus of UniParty shills who kept up the FAKE NEWS that neither one had time for.
One of Justin’s best articles – the one that I never forgot – was the one where he took the entire LGBT movement to task for calling gay “normal”. His position was utterly logical. Gays have rights like everybody else, but the reason they are a minority – and a small one at that – is because they are FAR from “normal”. To call gays “normal” was, to him, robbing the very essence of what gays were – DIFFERENT. It was not just illogical to Justin to try to “normalize” gayness – it was DISHONEST.
See why I might like this guy? BRUTAL honesty – even with himself.
But “gay” was not the big issue to Justin. It was a minor aspect of his life – a reality that he simply dealt with, and accepted as a libertarian. The big issue for Justin Raimondo was WAR. But NOT as a typical libertarian. Raimondo was – oddly – very conservative for a libertarian, more so for a gay one. Justin was also too tough to be a simple peacenik, yet he wasn’t one of those horrible “bully pacifists”, either. He considered himself a “conservative paleo-libertarian” – which I interpret as going back to the most “limited government and keep the HELL out of foreign entanglements” people of all – the FOUNDERS.
And Raimondo had that same SPUNK that the Founders did. A kind of patient and determined yet hopeful RELENTLESSNESS – a refusal to give up. In that era, he would have fought alongside my own DAR ancestor against the British. He would have simply kept his “odd affections” a secret. Well, who knows. Maybe not. But he would have been a PATRIOT either way.
And YES, the idea of an ANTI-WAR patriot is somewhat contradictory, but then, so much of this nation’s founding BRILLIANCE was contradictory – back when were had discernment, and didn’t all have to believe exactly the same things to be patriotic Americans.
Justin was very similar to Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Pat Buchanan, and other libertarians and paleo-conservatives on the idea of war. And – unlike me – he was NOT FOOLED by the Bush clan.
But after George W. Bush, Justin would make the same mistake as me – voting for Obama in 2008. I think we did it for the same reason. McCain was itching to get us into a war. We both knew it. McCain helped sell Obama – exactly as intended.
Justin was a TRUMP supporter from the beginning, too, because he remembered Trump’s stand on IRAQ. This is EXACTLY where I was, too. There were many times that I retweeted Justin in his defenses of Trump, or tried to echo his wisdom to my followers.
And Raimondo was NOT A FAN of Crooked Hillary. NOT AT ALL.
Justin was a WEE bit too automatically defensive of Russia for my taste, but he was not a dupe. I could respect him when his anti-war knee jerked in time with the Kremlin’s, because I knew it was still under his control.
There were, however, times that I strategically backed Trump on bringing neocons into his campaign or administration, which is something Justin could never stand. Justin could NEVER believe that association with John Bolton was a good idea, even merely as a spokesperson and media ally of Trump. However, Justin was a kind soul, and he simply held his tongue when I tried to convince him that it would all be OK – that Trump could handle Bolton.
The thing is, I don’t think Justin TRUSTED Trump in the same way I did, and that fact is, at its core, probably RELIGIOUS. Trump, Pence, myself, and most other Trumpers TRUST GOD TOGETHER, so we tend to TRUST EACH OTHER. That makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Justin was raised a Roman Catholic, but he later described himself as “not a believer”, per Wikipedia.
However, if one goes back to THIS article about Pope John Paul II, and gives it a read……
…..one sees a few hints that “you can take the boy out of the church, but you can’t take the church out of the boy“.
So who knows. I would love to once again have the opportunity to celebrate the amazing, glorious, common-sense and ANTI-WAR Trump administration with Justin Raimondo on some ethereal form of Twitter.
After all, they say that with God, all things are possible.
I’m not just a classic liberal – I’m a PALEOLIBERAL. Which in these incipient socialist times means that I now resemble a “classic conservative”.
Yeah, it’s complicated.
But the bottom line, is that I want America to be conservative enough that it’s MORALLY SAFE to be a wee bit liberal again, championing such radical things as a “wide interpretation” of the BILL OF RIGHTS.
You know – so I can be a flaming liberal moonbat like RAND PAUL!
OK – that’s not working. Let’s try something else.
This is a BOOK REVIEW. Of a GREAT BOOK. By a GREAT THINKER.
William S. Lind is a name I had heard of before, back on some blog we now call OT, otherwise known as CTH, or The Conservative Treehouse, or The Last Refuge. Lind’s name came up in the context of two great ideas, both of which I was heavily schooled in, by several of the sharp conservatives hanging out at Sundance’s place. Those ideas were:
4GW – short for 4th Generation Warfare
Cultural Marxism in America
But if you look these up on Marxypedia, and search out any connection to William S. Lind, you will get the impression that he’s an unknown crackpot of some kind. HA! More deception by the communist occupation.
Lind is not without controversy, as BOTH of his claims to fame have been vociferously criticized by people who typically get FOUR OR MORE Suspicious Cats from me.
You know – like THE DAILY KOS.
The criticisms of Lind, in my opinion, give away his importance.
So as you might imagine, Lind’s name and his self-description as a “paleoconservative” on the back cover were very attractive to me – just as attractive as the 4GW paleo-hottie featured on the front cover of his book.
TIME WARS.
Cunning stuff, from the master of 4GW.
Yes, retroculture looks a bit like cultural retreat, and that is indeed part of its brilliance.
Retroculture is an extremely disruptive idea that was just waiting for somebody to BRAND it.
Retroculture was with me every time I grabbed OLD AMERICAN HARDWOOD AND STEEL HAND TOOLS from one more estate sale, to replace CHEATIN’ CHINESE POT METAL JUNK that broke during the first few uses.
Retroculture was with me and the wife, when we purchased our dear abode, which looks, how shall we say – “OLD-TIMEY”.
Retroculture was with me when I proposed to my dear wife, whose very old cultural roots were a bit n00by compared to some of mine, but were still old enough to guarantee retention of TIMELESS values.
I always wanted to CALL these thoughts of LONG-TERM AND PROVEN VALUE something.
RETROCULTURE is exactly what that something is.
Retroculture is, incidentally, the very idea that got Trump elected.
Really? Why?
BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE WISH THEY COULD GO BACK TO A BETTER PAST, THE MAN WHO CAN ACTUALLY HELP THEM PULL IT OFF IS THEIR CHAMPION.
TIME TRAVEL TRUMP. Yeah. There is a REASON he seems so “timeless”. HE IS.
For those of you who REMEMBER, there was an episode of Original Star Trek called “All Our Yesterdays” – in which people on a planet facing a supernova ESCAPED INTO THE PAST.
This idea was unsettling. BUT what is quite possibly bothering you EVEN MORE right now is the EVEN MORE unsettling idea that this plot actually sounds better NOW than it did THEN.
ADMIT IT.
Let’s take a stroll……
But before we do, just a word of warning. Yeah, we know that Star Trek is filled with the usual Hollywood satanist and Illuminati symbolism, including Spock’s ears, but just keep your hat on for the duration of the ride. It’s not ALL satanic, demonic, and ugly. It’s. Just. Hollywood.
Here we go.
Kirk and the boys end up on some planet that they were thinking might need some HELP, and it turns out that everybody seems to be GONE.
Those old guys are lookin’ pretty good right there, AM I RIGHT? With age, comes discernment. You stop seeing things as “dated” and “old fashioned”, and you see past that stuff. SO……
If “old” Star Trek is lookin’ good to you now, just wait.
All our Star Trek hereoes get “accidentally or on purpose” lost in the past of this planet. Including Spock, who ends up going EXTREME RETRO. And who does he meet?
Remember Mariette Hartley? You kinda missing her right now? Think things mighta been better in Hollywood back then? This was TV, mind you.
Don’t get me started about the Westerns.
You ain’t seen nothin’. Watch this.
We weren’t racists back then. It’s a LIE.
We had INTER-SPECIES LOVE IN PRIME TIME. And I watched this as a KID with my PARENTS IN THE ROOM.
Yeah, the satanic ears probably sailed a lot of this stuff past the Hollywood creeps who would have otherwise nixed some ground-breaking sci-fi and “preppertainment”, but still – ignore for the moment. Factor it out. This wasn’t “The Gong Show”.
Lind correctly identifies the 1960s as where things started going to hell, but not without a valiant attempt to go where things SHOULD have gone – very likely under media victim Barry Goldwater.
Note how the Uhura-Kirk kiss wasn’t the only groundbreaking “civil rights” on television. How these proggies can claim we were racists back then is beyond ludicrous – it’s horsefeathers.
They LIE to us about our past, so they can drive us into THEIR vision of OUR future.
Just ONE random old TV show from the 1960s, betraying the relative innocence of America in only the EARLY Marxist takeover of Hollywood….
Ironically envisioning both PALEO PAST and RADICAL FUTURE…..
And yet it ALL seems so much more NORMAL and DESIRABLE than the INFLICTED INSANITY OF NOW.
Or maybe THIS is more your style. Hold that SCARY THOUGHT that PBS liberals might very well yearn for RETROCULTURE every bit as much as you do.
I mean, you don’t think that William “4GW” Lind would come up with an idea that wasn’t ACTUALLY dangerous to the dark side of the force, do you?
OR THIS….
https://youtu.be/_C25CwNlVjA
Note that this isn’t “real” in most senses – it’s actually a dramatization of code-breaking basics that the World War II code-breakers knew from the start. More than that, it’s also filled with PC encouragement of women to enter STEM. But THAT isn’t the point, either.
The point is that this movie, which I JUST. KEEP. USING. to demonstrate point after point about information warfare, is ULTIMATELY RETROCULTURAL, and that is why it works SO. DARN. WELL. People love retroculture because HISTORY proves its VALIDITY.
Retroculture throws all of our current chaotically ridiculous social and technical problems BACK IN TIME where they are SENSIBLE and SOLUBLE (including REJECTABLE) in a proven framework where GREATNESS WAS ACHIEVABLE.
And this brings up an important point which Lind addresses over and over, so that it gets past our ALINSKY FEARS – those fears that it’s all just some kind of “reenactment” written as large as our whole lives.
Retroculture is not mere NOSTALGIA, nor is it ABOUT nostalgia, although our current CULTURAL NOSTALGIA is indeed a SIGN that we are actually IN NEED OF retroculture.
Retroculture is something bigger and more profound.
Retroculture SOLVES PROBLEMS. And not necessarily in ways that socially damaging, urgency-foisting progressives want.
Retroculture is more about classic VALUES and LIFESTYLES than about the mere outward trappings of those times.
Retroculture is not any kind of “running away”, into the past. Retroculture is ENGAGING THE FUTURE on solid ground.
And SOME OF US on this very site may actually be a bit “ahead of the curve” on this stuff. Ya know? Look at all our own retrocultural symbolism and take comfort.
The idea of RETROCULTURE as the PROPER COURSE OF PROGRESS of America is such a BIG and profound idea, it escapes any attempt to box it in, and Lind knows this. Lind does not merely remind us that this sort of cultural re-examination and emulation of our classic past has happened before – and was GREAT for humanity – even great for HUMAN PROGRESS. Lind is actually able to make some easy yet startling predictions about what things might look like as this idea of retroculture takes over and defines the rest of this century.
You can’t read this book and not feel your head fill up with YOUR OWN IDEAS about what this means. Here is some of my thinking, inspired by Lind.
Retroculture is MOVEMENT, but it’s BIG MOVEMENT – more like a cultural paradigm shift. Political movements like MAGA and fads like steampunk fall like snowflakes within the mountain range of retroculture and the YEARNING for it, as tiny derivations and exemplars.
Retroculture is also something that I am quite sure scares the hell out of our faux “progressives” – seemingly better described as “regressives”. Why do you think our crypto-socialist social media czars, at the behest of Adam “Pencilneck” Schiff, banned the ultimately retrocultural “Natural News”?
Retroculture might actually be MORE POSITIVELY “progressive” than progressivism. This is shocking to even contemplate, but yet it seems likely. Part of retroculture’s 4GW appeal is that – no matter what liberals SAY, THEY TOO will find value in the past – and likely more than in the current, modern, incompetent, and faulty visions of progressivism.
Retroculture amounts to popular selection of principles by LIVING THEM, not just by TALKING about them. It is validation of tenets of both conservatism and liberalism which PROVE THEMSELVES WORTHY TO RETAIN – voted on BY PEOPLE with their very lives.
Retroculture is selective rejection of the present – of what things are NOT QUALIFIED to become part of our past – our LIVING, INTELLIGENT PAST.
What liberalisms DIE IN THE NOW are fads. What liberalisms are retained by THE PEOPLE are judged WORTHY and maybe someday CLASSIC, possibly enduring who knows how long.
Retroculture is the FINE SIEVE of a truly free and truly equal people which judges and chooses WISELY, not POORLY.
Retroculture is a rejection of CONTROLLING TECHNOLOGY and CONTROL BY TECHNOLOGY. It demands CONTROL OF TECHNOLOGY. It is utterly HUMAN.
Retroculture, embracing what the dishonest subset of modernists tell us must be rejected, instead REJECTS their lies, their fakery, and their deceptions, by CHOOSING what they FALSELY say is dead, and which therefore becomes alive by our mere act of CHOOSING TO LIVE IT.
Retroculture, free and selective, falsifies controlling globalism by its very existence. And yet retroculture, AWARE and never IN DENIAL, retains what powers – moral, cultural, and technical – are needed to defend itself. It’s pure and utter allegiance to TRUTH insures that it will never – can never – be destroyed. RETENTION OF TRUTH is in accordance with CREATION ITSELF.
But that’s JUST ME – running away with Lind’s amazing ideas, in my own directions. It is far more critical to simply take a look at LIND’S THINKING, which I can only begin to address here. And – as a way to share his thinking without stealing his thunder, I think his CHAPTER HEADINGS tell you everything you need to know, to understand that Lind wants you to (1) decide if retroculture is right for you, and then (2) implement a retrocultural lifestyle in the ways that are right for you.
If you are conservative, or old-fashioned in any ways, you are likely doing much of this already. However, Lind is offering you ways to UP YOUR GAME. Particularly if you’re more of a “crypto-retrocultural” like me, hiding behind modernist gimmicks which pass me off as unremarkable despite ANCIENT values. Lind challenges you to WEAR THE SIGNS and SPREAD THE FAITH.
Signs of Change [observations on the rise of overt retroculturalism]
Retroculture [defining retroculture and understanding its origins]
Getting Started [answering your real and basic questions about retroculture]
Retro-Homes [how retroculture can be happily expressed in your living space]
Retro-Families [how retroculture will flower in your most basic relationships]
Retro-Clothing [how you can brand yourself openly as part of retroculture]
Retro-Entertainment [how retroculture replaces the hated “fake entertainment”]
Retro-Manners [how retroculture changes our personal interactions and principles]
Retro-Travel [how your retro lifestyle can be expressed smartly in travel choices]
Retro-Business [how to do business according to older, more honest standards]
Retro-Service [how retroculture sees SERVICE as an honorable, moral, GOOD thing]
Retro-America [the promise that retroculture holds for America and Americans]
Now – let me go a bit beyond Lind and explain why this book is so dangerous – and how to make it even more dangerous.
If *I* was ARKTOS, the publisher, I would have about TEN versions of that cover. Why? Because everybody wants to either BE on that cover, or be ATTRACTED to the person on it.
Sure – jumping right out with that 1950’s white blonde in a dress was utter genius and a perfect thumb in the face of all that is PC, but trust me – EVERYBODY is going to want to get in on the act. RETROCULTURE lets everybody BE WHO THEY ARE WITHOUT GUILT, in beautiful and validated lifestyles that ACTUALLY WORK.
The very next cover, if I were doing it, would be some historical version of Candace Owens. Then maybe a young, swoonable Elvis Presley type. Then more. No matter what, it would show the IN YOUR FACE attractiveness of retroculture and retrosexuality to EVERYBODY.
YES – that genius cover is more than just retrocultural – it is specifically RETROSEXUAL.
This is why I admit that I’m not just a retrocultural – I’m a RETROSEXUAL. Our restrained yet artfully constructed, sexually dimorphic past – GUILTLESS in its beauty- was AWESOME. Sure – now we’ve learned not to be MEAN to well-behaved sexual minorities – but why are we demonizing NORMALCY as part of it? We were doing it right before, more or less, with just a few things that we can EASILY FIX NOW with reterocultural MANNERS (see the book).
That’s the whole POINT of retroculture. It’s not the past. It’s LIKE IT, only BETTER.
And I’m not just an activist – I’m a BACKTIVIST. I’m saying that the direction FORWARD is to ACTUALLY GO BACK. We have been DECEIVED FORWARD, so the PROPER ESCAPE from this WORLD OF MISTAKES we are in, is to simply GO BACK.
Do you see how amazingly dangerous this idea of RETROCULTURE actually is, to phony progressivism and spatially and temporally monolithic globalism? This is jumping the track to ALTERNATE HISTORY where Martin Luther King, Jr. NEVER DIED, and REFUSED – absolutely REFUSED to support racial quotas and all the other stupid stuff that the communists forced upon us.
RETROCULTURE leads to a world where all of the mistakes that were forced upon us after they killed Kennedy just plain NEVER HAPPENED.
RETROCULTURE IS TRUE REBELLION AGAINST PAST ERROR BY ADMITTING IT AND THEN GOING BACK TO FIX IT.
How could we not want this?
The truth is, WE ALREADY WANT THIS.
“Nothing can stop what’s coming.”
Look at your life. I will bet MONEY you are already adopting retrocultural memes, but are just shy about it, or even feeling a bit GUILTY.
Stop feeling guilty!
Here you go. List FIVE unfashionable, out-of-date, out-of-style, quaint, or old-fashioned things that you LOVE, timeless as they may be, but in some cases may feel that you can’t openly love them as much as you would like to love them.
Deep down – EVERYBODY LOVES THIS STUFF. EVERYBODY WANTS THIS STUFF.
They just need to embrace it guiltlessly while the cabal VAINLY tries to stop it.
The fashion and luxury industries LOVE this stuff, too. Reinventing the past with greater and greater authenticity yet adding some form of “new and shiny” polish is their DREAM COME TRUE.
Retroculture subverts all of the mistakes of the past and present – and it does so without being stupid or gullible.
NOW – we have to be ready for the commie cabal to counter with their own schtick, OR their usual criticisms. I’m sure there is some way they can gerrymander retroculture into “appropriation” of some kind, but that criticism is weak sauce – just ignore it. Humanity is too far along to worry about spreading good and classic ideas.
The greater danger, in my opinion, is a kind of faux retro that leads right back to progressive error.
To see this, you have to dig into Lind’s personal vision of Retroculture. These are not things you will assume at first have to be a part of Retroculture, but the fact is, any self-consistent version of Retroculture DOES HAVE THESE THINGS, because retroculture simplifies life, culture and technology.
Retroculture VALUES things like WALKING, and TAKING THE TROLLEY, and CONSERVING ENERGY, and BEING HEALTHY and GETTING BACK TO NATURE.
BUT HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!
One can almost envision Alexandria Ocacio-Cortez jumping up and down in her CIA white dress, biting her old-timey ruby-red lips, raising her hand excitedly, and saying “WE’VE GOT THAT!!!”
Yes, she does. But that’s not all there is to TRULY conserving retroculture. At the same time, retroculture embraces ALL of the smarter past, including HIGHER SMARTER VALUES like GETTING BACK TO GOD, and HIGHER SMARTER TECHNOLOGY for everybody when they want it – not just for a TECHNOCRATIC ELITE.
Retroculture includes the FEARLESS ADMISSION OF TIMELESS TRUTH.
So let’s be fearlessly BLUNT.
Their “Green New Deal” is really the GREEN NEW STONE AGE, ruled over by a political elite, supported by a technocratic elite, and based on LIES.
Retroculture – in America’s case – is a TRUTH-BASED RETURN TO CLASSIC VALUES ACROSS AMERICAN HISTORY AND ACROSS THE POPULACE.
THAT is a much bigger, better, and brighter thing.
You don’t think Lind and his editors put that plane in the picture for NOTHING – do you?
Of course not. SMART, MORAL retroculture is not about to get fooled ONE MORE MINUTE by shifty-eyed progressive techno-hoarding and communist privilege rationing.
Retroculture is not simply the past – it’s the FUTURE, too.
Now – you probably have a million specific questions, PROBLEMS TO POSE, and “whataboutisms” which you feel need to be addressed. LIND ADDRESSES THEM. JUST BUY THE BOOK.
The book is cheap. Eight dollars on Kindle, or nineteen dollars in paperback.
Get it, read it, and make your RETROCULTURAL PLANS.
Thanks to our QTreeper realsauce who posted a great Tom Petty video, Won’t Back Down, here: LINK: https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/speech-protecting-the-red-flags/comment-page-1/#comment-230851 Suddenly I remembered one of my FAVORITE videos of all times – the one where Tom Petty understood FAKE NEWS, FAKE ENTERTAINMENT, FAKE SCIENCE and FAKE HISTORY literally DECADES before we did. Here are the original lyrics, …
Wolf, August 15, 2019
It didn’t end there. Thursday night, I thought about doing ANOTHER “audio visual” production like it, using another great song. However, I stopped myself. I knew it WASN’T ENOUGH.
Yes, it would have been powerful, but it was not going to WIN. It was not getting DEEP ENOUGH on the problem. Not deep enough to MAKE THIS MOVEMENT SUCCEED. And I believe that each of us needs to FIND WHAT IT IS that we can do to make this movement WIN and WIN BIGLY.
Maybe I’ll come back and do that musical “meme-stream” someday. But not tonight.
There is something welling up in me – a kind of urge to scream FUCK YOU at the people who have screwed up this world by TAKING what was not theirs – who used not only RIDICULE, but DECEPTION and TRICKERY to grab the steering world of this planet and drive it into a kind of ongoing TRAIN WRECK, from which, instead of accepting their own mistakes, they merely demanded MORE POWER and MORE CONTROL.
Do you know what I’m saying? What I am feeling is RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION.
This isn’t merely an intellectual argument – it’s a CULTURAL ARGUMENT – an EMOTIONAL ARGUMENT – even a SELF-CRITICAL ARGUMENT – an argument grounded in our FAILURE to engage the enemy – an enemy which mocks us from the TRASH HEAP of their own mistakes.
These people deserve FAR WORSE than what we have the RIGHT to do – which is to THROW THEIR ASSES off of their trash heap of not just mistakes, but LIES, TRICKS, and CRIMES – and FORCE THEM to help us clean it all up.
THERE. Now that I’ve GOTTEN THAT OUT – it’s time for STORK to BITCHSLAP MY ASS.
Now – I could put that in the hilarious context of the original movie, and THAT is, indeed, part of the answer.
But let’s not go there yet. Someday, perhaps, in a full post. The cultural deconstruction of Animal House over time is a great way to look at both cultural Marxism and reaction to it, as BOTH are embodied in the film. And THAT is something we need to understand. But not right now.
Tonight, I was going through replies in my notifications, and thinkthinkthink pointed out a video which is, ultimately, the whole point of this post.
This is a STILL from the video. Clicking on it won’t make it play. Nevertheless, the image is worth a closer look in zoom.
If there is NO OTHER 1-hour video that you watch this year, then I would recommend that THIS BE THE ONE.
This is possibly the SMARTEST discussion on the right since the 2016 primaries.
What you have here are two of the GREATEST intellects and culture warriors on our side not quite agreeing on things – maybe even not quite getting each other. What results is FAR, FAR BETTER than if they were just high-fiving each other in total understanding. They are trying to convince each other of two perspectives of the SAME THING, and what that paints is a STEREOSCOPIC PICTURE of a NEUTRON BOMB for WINNING THE CULTURE WAR.
What that thing is, is CORE ANDREW BREITBART. Eventually, Bannon actually brings up Breitbart, and recommends Righteous Indignation as the must-read book for this moment, and particularly for a deep understanding of cultural Marxism.
There was a film back in the day – My Dinner with Andre – that was one of those artworks you never forget. This was 1981 – three years after Animal House. The movie is just two people talking about things that have nothing to do with the setting, so you have to use your imagination to tap into the RICHNESS of what they are talking about. AND IT WORKS – in a huge way.
There is a person you never see – central to the discussion – who is like the THIRD STAR. Not exactly a new technique – both Shakespeare and Hitchcock loved it. But when the cast is this small, it has a wonderful effect. It is DEEPLY SATISFYING.
THIS video of Candace and Steve has the same effect. And what is even more wonderful, is that – along with the “stars” of this video, you get to “discover” that the je ne sais quoi they are trying to put their finger on actually IS Andrew Breitbart himself.
WE NEED ANDREW. And we need him NOW.
NOW – before I make everybody RUN AWAY in horror, thinking this video is merely some kind of “rightstream intellectual art flick bullshit“, let me confidently estimate that there are HUNDREDS of game-changing and actionable political ideas here, that will make a huge difference in winning not just 2020, but 2024 and 2028. So THIS NEEDS TO BE WATCHED. By as many people on our side as possible.
But savor it. You don’t see stuff like this every day.
It’s bizarre as hell. These two geniuses could be talking on a park bench in New York City, a dock in Florida, or a picnic table in Wyoming. The setting doesn’t matter. Yeah, the border figures into some of what they talk about, but ignore it. The TRUTH of what they’re saying – especially toward the END – is amazing.
This strikes home for me, because it really tells the tale of how I ended up over at CTH, as a TRUMP SUPPORTER seeking shelter at a TRUMP BASTION, before we all came here with Q.
I was all over Disqus and Breitbart for years, under Obama. I knew that we HAD to STOP the Obama insanity, soon to become Hillary insanity, in 2016, or we were in real trouble. And I was absolutely unsure WHICH Republican presidential hopeful was the one to END the Prog-Nazi insanity that we were all slowly marching toward.
I was probably behind EVERY one of the GOP presidential hopefuls for at least 30 minutes, some for 30 hours, and a few for 30 days or more. Significant among them:
Rand Paul
Ted Cruz
Ben Carson
John Kasich
I even had a few flirtations with Carly Fiorina until learning about her strong CIA associations, and “feelings” toward Marco Rubio, until I realized that he was being strongly manipulated by others (neocon pool-boy). I tried to talk myself into “acceptance” of Jeb Bush a few times, as a feasibility test, and I learned to love Chris Christie as he warmed up to Trump.
However, it was TRUMP who stole my affections from the four listed above, and from TED CRUZ most of all. TED actually stayed on top of my list for quite a while, until Trump came along. Indeed, speaking up nicely but a bit too strongly for TRUMP got me kicked off of The Right Scoop. Imagine that.
Ultimately, I agree with Sundance – only Trump had the special street smarts to get past the cunning communists.
ANYWAY….
We have all been through a lot of fascinating shared history with Trump. But I think it’s time for me to quote myself on this, for the very first time:
Get used to it. Trump speed is the new normal. Some will call it flip-flopping, but that’s not what it is. Trump is dodging and weaving through reality faster than the reality can react to disrupt his plans.
I was explaining this to my wife. This is a roller-coaster now. Trump is no longer waiting for people to keep up. He is taking his bewildering art-of-the-deal campaign schtick into geopolitics, and for a lot of people who can’t keep up or hold on, it will be a rough ride.
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They can’t keep up, either.
Neither can many around him. I think that half of the problem with advisers crashing into each other is they don’t realize what Trump is doing.
And people will trash you, and they will trash me. Get used to it. I’ve already caught plenty of people mocking me. Well, just wait a week in Trump time. Look stupid and conned by Trump one minute, and you look like a sage three days later.
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Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
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I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!” 😀
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Remember what Q said about CANKLES and BEELZEBUBBA? Our TREASONOUS former White House landlords who HELPED the Chinese military for CASH?
I was trying to think what this meant.
Well, now I know what it DOES mean. DISINFORMATION.
The only reason I figured this out was DISCERNMENT, which involved first SKEPTICISM of social media, THANKS TO FAKE NEWS, and then trust in LOCAL MEDIA, which provides REAL NEWS.
The Democrats have been playing tricks on us. They are also FLAILING and hoping we don’t figure out what’s going on.
Let’s begin with the charge of the “doctored video”:
This is actually some rather extraordinary propaganda, and people need to keep an eye on the names of these reporters, because I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot more BULLSHIT from them.
First of all, let me just say that I found it weird as hell that the left suddenly announces this doctored video and then refuses to take it down, which is their usual tactic. That just seemed very unlikely.
Why are they leaving it up? To appear “fair”? To appear non-censorious? And then they take down that anti-MAGA HAT art on Facebook? I don’t get it. Something is weird about what they’re doing right now.
To me, they’re FLAILING. Jerking us one way, and then another. CONFUSION.
But then I actually saw both the “undoctored” and “doctored” videos on OAN, and was really confused, because I found the ALLEGEDLY DOCTORED ONE more understandable and less slurred than the ALLEGEDLY UNDOCTORED ONE. Also, there seemed to be weird lighting differences that made one of them more blue than the other.
Frankly, it looked to me like nothing more than THE POWER OF SUGGESTION and a FORMAT CHANGE of the video by somebody’s plain old video software doing normal video software stuff. Speed up? Slow down? It was MICROSCOPIC IF AT ALL. Who cares? It’s almost not noticeable, and actually BACKWARDS to me.
It seemed more like PROPAGANDA than reality.
And to top it off, a PRISTINE VIDEO of the entire incident captured ON TV by our wonderful Karli Bonne – who uses the lowest of all possible technology by taking PHONE PICTURES OF HER TELEVISION – shows that frigging Nancy Pelosi appeared DRUNK or DEMENTED in the original footage itself – as aired on TV – with absolutely no possibility of dirty tricks.
Those who say Narco Nan's slurred speech and confused affect are the result of TAMPERING – you know, people like CIA-WaPo and CIA-CNN and Brian D. N. C. Stelter – can deal with Karli and Fox News live coverage. Your hastily constructed STRAW MAN defenses are NOT HOLDING, CIA! https://t.co/8XiHOmdIPq
Allow me to record both Karli’s tweets AND screen shots, since they are constantly throwing this woman off Twitter for her HILARIOUS real-time recorded TV viewing, which mercilessly mocks the Soviet Fake News.
So – the charge that Pelosi’s behavior was just due to a SLOWED VIDEO was clearly bullshit. BUT – and this is key – the whole affair left me suspicious. And that was GOOD.
Because then I saw this tweet here, in a VIGOROUS discussion of Hillary’s health…..
First THIS ONE, in which a woman appears to be assisting Hillary Clinton and gripping stuff in one hand that LOOKS like it could be an epi-pen……
Kinda like “ARE YOU OK, HILLARY?”
And then THIS ONE, in which Hillary looks like she has some kind of TERMINAL PALLOR AND EDEMA….
People HERE were thinking the broad on the LEFT was actually CHELSEA CLINTON, all fat and preggers. HOLD THAT THOUGHT. But Hillary – WOW. Not exactly a flattering pic.
Folks – this looked like an open-and-shut case of #HillaryHealth.
People online were questioning whether it was even HILLARY, and falling YET AGAIN for the infamous STUNT DOUBLE DISINFORMATION THEORY….
NOW – this all made me very suspicious. The old #HillaryHealth fight was FILLED with disinformation. At its height, Democrat shills covered up Hillary’s PILL-ROLLING TREMOR of her right index finger during Debate 1 with some theory about “secret scrolling” of hidden notes being shown to her on the podium.
Yeah – it can get that bad. One REALLY HAS TO DIG INTO THIS STUFF to find the truth.
So I blew up that second photo, and realized that the facial shape was really fairly unchanged, with just a lot of make-up on, and we were really dealing with apples and oranges. But still, she really looked a lot better in the speech photo, than she did in the parade photos.
The whole thing was starting to smell like the “power-of-suggestion disinformation” used against #HillaryHealth researchers back in the Parkinson’s days. BUT we still have to be careful.
Hillary really DID look bad in those two parade photos with the Tweet – which I suddenly suspected were DOCTORED.
I mean – COME ON – look at her! The woman looks like she has CANKLES OF THE FACE!
SO – off I go – happily – absolutely certain that this is a DOCTORED PHOTO of her – and looking for the originals.
So I start digging into search engines, and I find THIS photo:
What the heck???!!! She doesn’t look so bad here! Where did THIS picture come from?
This was a LOCAL reporter doing a story in Chappaqua. Let’s look more closely at that photo.
First of all, NO WAY is that Web Hubbell’s daughter! That is NOT Chelsea Clinton being towed along by CANKLES!
But then look at Granny Mao! She looks NOTHING like that terrible picture above!
SO – what I did next was to go looking for more pictures of Hillary from that parade, and I found a whole SLIDE-SHOW of them from this Tania Savayan gal. That slide-show was syndicated to a bunch of mainstream newspapers on the web.
I pulled out ALL the Hillary photos.
It was interesting, but try as I might, I could not find a bad image of Hillary in the slide show.
I then looked specifically back at the ORIGINAL ARTICLE in the LoHud. There, I found a VIDEO. You can see it below, scrolled to the “best” (meaning clearest) picture of Hillary.
Looking more closely:
I’m sorry – she just doesn’t look that bad in ANY of these “good” (clear) photos from the rally. Sure, a little sag, a little aging, a little “I’m going for a walk in the morning and yeah I’m not exactly looking like I just left the stylist.” But it just ain’t that bad.
Here is the ABSOLUTE WORST FRAME from that video, blown up. What I did was CATCH Hillary in the middle of speaking while walking, so that I could get the WORST POSSIBLE FACE.
I mean, I made this woman just look ILL. That’s right. “ILLARY!”
Compare that again to the “bad Hillary picture” from the tweet that started this:
To me, this picture was CHOSEN to make Hillary look BAD. It MAY be doctored, but why doctor pictures when SELECTION of bad frames from videos provides both WHATEVER YOU WANT and AUTHENTICITY AS WELL? Or maybe it’s just a bad still picture selected from a bunch of them.
The point is – NOT FLATTERING.
And we KNOW there were plenty of more flattering pictures available. No excuse to publish this one.
So who is this David Buchwald guy? Hey! He’s the guy in the picture with Cankles!
SO – if one analyzes the situation without any accounting for DECEPTION, then it just looks like AW SHUCKS he picked an unfortunate video grab and “some aide will require some discipline” or something like that. Because RETWEETS prove he “DINDU NUFFINS”.
Riiiiiiight?
BUT – if you realize that PUTTING his tweet in front of EXACTLY THE RIGHT PEOPLE means that the RIGHT PEOPLE are going to go “OMG – look at Hillary! POOR SICK HILLARY!”…….
Are you starting to see how this works?
We were SUCKERED, people. AS Q WARNED US.
That Q guy who knows ALL ABOUT TWITTER.
Are you starting to see why the incestuous relationship of Social Media and the DNC actually MATTERS?
Are you starting to see how the combination of OPAQUE ALGORITHMS and DATA WITH HIDDEN PAYLOAD and SECRET TREATIES means HIDDEN TARGETED INFLUENCE?
This 2 Q Tuesday open thread is 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 world.
You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.
Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.
Keep it civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.
Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:
I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.
Our movement
Is about replacing
A failed
And CORRUPT
Political establishment
With a new government controlled
By you, the American People.Candidate Donald J. Trump
Candidate Donald J. Trump
Also consider Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
OK – how about those Q drops? WOW!!!
This is LONG, so I will add the TEXT VERSIONS of the individual drops after publication.
3176 People Know Fake News Media is Totally Biased, Political and Controlled Q!!mG7VJxZNCI25 Mar 2019 – 1:28:14 PM D2f0WVmX0AAbret.jpg the-printed-cover-image.jpg PEOPLE around the WORLD are ‘WAKING UP’ to the FACT (NOT FICTION) that the CORPORATE [[D] party politically controlled][6 CORPORATIONS OWN 90%] MEDIA [FAKE NEWS] IS NOT unbiased journalism but POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AND CONTROLLED. [STATEMENTS NOT FACTS] THINK FOR YOURSELF AND STOP BEING A SHEEP TO THEIR NARRATIVE. THEY WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. NOBODY WALKS AWAY FROM THIS. Q
Q Post 3176
3177 Patriots in Control: Rod Rosenstein Retained for Optics Q!!mG7VJxZNCI25 Mar 2019 – 1:35:27 PM >>5882614 (/pb) Why didn’t POTUS fire [RR] after reporting re: offer to wear wire? Why did WHITAKER/BARR retain [RR] to the END? Who signed off on the MUELLER summary report submitted by BARR yesterday? Who signed fraudulent FISA warrants? WHO APPOINTED MUELLER AS SPECIAL COUNSEL? WHO HAS FULL CONTROL? OPTICS ARE VERY IMPORTANT. Q
Q Post 3177
3178 The Only Way to Regain Trust in Government Is to Provide Truth, Transparency and Prosecution Q!!mG7VJxZNCI25 Mar 2019 – 1:43:27 PM THE ONLY WAY TO REGAIN THE TRUST (RE: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW RE: WH RE: INTEL RE: FBI RE: DOJ RE: SENATE RE: CONGRESS RE: FVEY RE: OUR GOV’T) OF THE ‘MAJORITY’ OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS TO PROVIDE TRUTH, TRANSPARENCY, AND PROSECUTION OF ALL THOSE WHO ‘KNOWINGLY’ TOOK PART IN THIS ILLEGAL MANUFACTURED EFFORT [ATTEMPTED COUP] TO TAKE DOWN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES [1]. [1] OPENS THE DOOR. THE GREAT AWAKENING. Q
(repost – all pics) Another 60k recipient from Maga Coalition
Website gone, however look who it was owned by! (pic related) Notice HQ city!
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3189 Polls Show Fakes News Coverage of Russia Collusion Hoax Impacted 50% of US Voters in 2018 Q!!mG7VJxZNCI25 Mar 2019 – 7:09:56 PM Anonymous25 Mar 2019 – 6:32:31 PM Solomon Tweet re 2018 Election Interference 3-25-19.png 1 Hill Solomon re 2018 Election Interference 3-25-19.png 2 Hill Solomon re 2018 Election Interference 3-25-19.png 3 Hill Solomon re 2018 Election Interference 3-25-19.png John Solomon’s Latest Trump-Russia collusion story did affect an American election … the one Dems won in 2018. My latest column thehill.com/opinion/campaign/435700-trump-russia-collusion-did-affect-an-american-election-the-one-in-2018 twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1110304960246362112
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Q Post 3189
Sarah Sanders: "They literally accused the President of the United States of being an agent for a foreign government. That's equivalent to treason. Thats punishable by death in this country." pic.twitter.com/nz5fsKTW7F
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