Category: Daily Thread

Dear KAG: 20230307 Are We There Yet? Open Thread

Cover image: Wild Flowers by Rebecca Flott

We begin today with a review of the beginning of last week’s daily:

ARE WE THERE YET?

Have we arrived at the Great Awakening? Clif High offered an opinion last week:

THE FLIP is NEAR!

Have you felt it? Are your spidey senses tingling yet?

Look around you, now. Are your co-workers nervous? Anxious? Are they talking about #5GUW yet?

The reason is the FLIP into the PEAK of THE BIG UGLY!

The BIG UGLY is a time of the upending, and overturning of the giant iceberg of public opinion as the 5GUW (5th Generation (global) Unrestricted War) emerges into public discussion.

The BIG UGLY is a time of ‘collective expression of knowledge’, that will produce an ‘upending of the social order’. The ‘upending’ will be spectacularly fast. It will scare the piss right out of you it will be so quickly consuming of YOUR social circle.

Don’t trust what I am writing here? Sure, that’s understandable…I am just some nutty techie guy with a high school education & a twisted mind who was into crypto before BTC was even 1 CENT.

BUT, I could be wrong, after all, I have been forecasting this period since last July.

Are we there yet? Let’s take a look at what I found published and where and then ask that question again:

Mark Levin? Really? He’s calling out the elites and their lies. The media got it too.

Disinformation and the Wuhan Lab Leak Thesis

It has been a bad week for patronizing crusaders who seek to bar controversial speech on the grounds of “disinformation.” On February 26, the Wall Street Journal broke a story regarding a classified Department of Energy report that the Covid-19 virus most likely originated with a leak from China’s Wuhan lab. FBI Director Christopher Wray echoed the DOE’s conclusion in a February 28 interview with Fox News. Such developments should be a monumental embarrassment to numerous figures in both government and the establishment news media who worked diligently in 2020-2021 to block accounts that endorsed—or even favorably considered—the lab-leak thesis.

The new bombshell revelations will likely create turbulence in multiple respects. It will exacerbate already contentious relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Xi Jinping’s government made every effort to prevent an independent investigation of Covid’s onset, and PRC officials were aided by Western medical bureaucrats who insisted that it was virtually certain the virus came from nature. The already tattered reputations of those bureaucrats have taken a new hit and may now be damaged beyond repair. That is especially true for Anthony Fauci, who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the Covid pandemic and was the principal spokesperson for U.S. government policies.

DHS has a program gathering domestic intelligence — and virtually no one knows about it

That piece is from POLITICO. POLITICO which apologizes for deep state shenanigans all the time. This is BIG.

And then there was Twitter:

Okay, this was not on a mainstream network, but it’s important:

The pieces are being put together by normies, not just anons and autists. This is a VERY positive development. So, are we there yet? Stay tuned. This is going to be a long turn.

In the meantime, Tucker Carlson gave us a taste of the January 6 tapes:

This video, which will not embed, provides the entire episode.

Are We a Population or a People?

Chef, What Is a Cheeseburger?

Blockchain, Good. Blockchain Voting, Bad.

7 Ways the WHO Pandemic Treaty Will Obliterate Far More Than U.S. Sovereignty

People Behind Biden Announce Creation of Formal National Surveillance State, Yet No One Seems Bothered

Vox Populi – Legislator Be Advised 2023 ~#13

Badlands News Brief – March 6, 2023

“Will Dr. Fauci walk free, or are we finally about to see some long-awaited justice served?

Remember, Fauci is just one of many. The unspoken “pandemic industrial complex” employs legions of individuals from many different industries and nations; not all of them aware of what they were participating in.

Of course, Fauci certainly played an important role, as did Bill Gates, Tedros Ghebreyesus, Peter Daszak, Shi Zhengli, Rochelle Walensky, Albert Bourla, and many, many others. Going after Fauci is a fine place to start, so long as he doesn’t become the sacrificial lamb to placate the masses while the monster he helped to create continues on, unabated.

The $3 Trillion SubStack on How to Destroy Pfizer in Court

UK GOV. confirms Unvaccinated had lowest Mortality Rate per 100k in 2022

US suspects cranes of spying for China – WSJ

Tucker Carlson Calls Out the ‘Professional Christians’

#TransWomenAreConMen goes viral after Hershey allows a man to take the place of a woman

China becomes a roach motel for foreign investors

A surveillance politics storm is building — and Mark Warner’s at the eye

Another one from Politico. Does the water need to be checked over there?

Here’s the Ugly Truth About Why Middle Class Kids Aren’t Getting Into Harvard

Unchecked and Unbalanced

A Zelensky in a G-string!

AP Promotes Unfounded and Non-Evidenced Israeli Claim That Pro Trump Twitter Accounts Are Bots Attacking DeSantis and Haley

The Schedule F Imperative – Part 1

Can A “Trump Was Right” Slogan Be A Winning Theme In 2024?

Tweet hopper:

Meme & Fun hopper:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1632015064960991232

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

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

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

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

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MATTHEW 23:1-12

1Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples, 2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; 3so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. 4They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. 5They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, 7and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men. 8But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. 9And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ. 11He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; 12whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

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

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

>>148154137

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

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

Satire

A lot of them are still wearing masks.

Dear KMAG: 20230306 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to board Marine One with first lady Melania Trump en route to his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida following the release of the Mueller report at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria – RC1F20A769B0

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!!!

Swingingly!

Happily!

Laughingly!

Dedication

Image: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e5/ad/d5e5ad861f1fc08b93a6d511ed5ff19f.jpg

WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL

by Duchess01


Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know
That you had left us with armor in tow
We had no idea with what you dealt
We did not know the pain you felt
And now we can only imagine
With you what really did happen
Cause rarely did you complain 
And/or share your personal pain
Of one thing we are most certain
You are flying high behind the curtain
Watching over us above the crowds
Our Warrior Angel above the clouds
Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us
While you were here among the fuss
We miss you dear you have no idea
Since time began in the pangaea
With you there was no time
In your wisdom you would chime
To clarify and magnify
The what where how and why
We did not question when you left
We were not slightly bereft
But over time we wondered why
You did not at least stop by
Now we know where you have gone
With the break of this new dawn
We could be angry but are not
Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot
Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear
Send us a sign that you are near
A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain
From your love do not refrain
God sends Angels to watch over us
And now we have an Angel Plus
A Warrior Angel of Magnificence
From today and forward hence

LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/comment-page-2/#comment-917655

The Rules

TL;DR –

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.

MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1

Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.

SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.

As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.

YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..

OTHER THAN THAT…….

The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.

Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.

SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]

We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.

Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.

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

That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.

We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).

We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.

If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.

We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.

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

A Moment of Prayer

Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.

Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.

You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.

Musical Interlude

In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.

Here are three “placeholder” videos, selected from old Wheatie posts.

1.

From Dear MAGA: 20190222 Open Topic

2.

From Dear MAGA: 20190223 Open Topic

3.

From Dear MAGA: 20190427 Open Topic

Ah, yes! I remember those days!

Call To Battle

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 Day Year Week:

placeholderama

noun

  • the second year of placeholder posts on The Q Tree
  • Wolf’s collection of dummy posts that he alters if he gets the chance
  • justice for more than one swamp rat in Washington

Used in a Sentence:

“OMG, they’re not only placing Eric Holder under arrest – they’re arresting all his cronies – it’s a veritable placeholderama!”

Used in a Picture of Women Prison Guards Watching Eric Holder in Solitary in DC Gitmo:

ENJOY THE SHOW

Have another great week!

W

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230303

BRIGHT AND RAINY

INGREDIENTS

  • 1.5 oz gin
  • 0.5 oz peach schnapps
  • 0.25 oz lime juice
  • 3 oz ginger beer/ginger ale

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Stir all ingredients over ice in a rocks glass. Enjoy!

The end of the week. I’m ready.

Belarus President Lukashenko Visits Chairman Xi, Affirms Support for China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

You would think that Lukashenko violated a war commandment from NATO, the World Economic Forum and the Western alliance when you read the apoplexy from the media describing how he stood next to Chairman Xi during his Chinese leader’s first comments in public about China’s peace proposal.

When you look at the big picture, you realize how strongly the western alliance needs to maintain a NATO expanded war with Russia as the only possible path forward. Anyone like Viktor Orban (Hungary) or Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus) who propose anything, except expanded war with Russia, are immediately attacked by the entire apparatus of western media.

It’s a remarkable dynamic to watch.

Badlands News Brief – March 2, 2023

At G20 meeting, India’s Modi says ‘global governance has failed’

A Subtle Way for Establishment Republicans to Sabotage Trump

The Death of Expertise

I’ve long despised the “expert” culture. May it be cremated so as to never rise again.

Blame the Science

More vaccines -> higher infant mortality

Why are young liberals so depressed?

Unmet unrealistic expectations. Happens to every generation.

Leftist Billionaires: The True Beneficiaries of Biden’s “Green Economy”

Do We Have a Contract With the Federal Reserve?

Inside the James O’Keefe ouster at Project Veritas

This all got blown out of proportion. Still, both sides left out a few points.

The Rise of the Right-Wing Peacenik

‘I realized that my own side was led by a bunch of incompetents and ideologues who had taken our country down a path of destruction. And for what?’

We won’t be smoking weed, and looking for free love, but war better have purpose above and beyond enriching the Military Industrial Complex.

Trump Proves The Establishment Wrong Again As He Surges In Another Major Poll

Asymmetric Linguistic Trend Analysis

Twitter File Release #17 – Matt Taibbi Outlines Obama’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) Labeling U.S. Accounts as “Foreign Actors” to Promote Media Narrative

Been there. Done that. Not doing it again.

Widespread public distrust in media baffles mainstream pundits

Disinformation Inc: Congress receives classified briefing on conservative blacklist group

BREAKING: Unsanctioned Russian Billionaires Discussed ‘Favors’ With Then VP-Biden After Going Property Shopping With Hunter

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1631121343482859520

I wish the COVID news wasn’t so morbidly depressing.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1631092444115742725
https://twitter.com/SantaSurfing/status/1631194089667567621

Anybody hear anything about this?

And counting, I’m afraid.

Will S’mores taste the same if we use Ghiardelli?

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1631361952801857537

We don’t know what we don’t know. It’s that simple.

Twitter files #17 dropped. It’s not the Fauci files, but it is interesting. The thread is broken on Twitter itself, so this starts in the middle.

https://twitter.com/nada88564211/status/1631434982366298112
https://twitter.com/ronin19217435/status/1631234821828616194

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1631100957206478849
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1631116952113491968

MEME STASH:

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1631106911566274560

https://youtu.be/ZJtQ4NwsA-g

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

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

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

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion. In that spirit, though, threats of violence real or hypothetical are out of bounds.

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

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

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

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

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

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EZEKIEL 18:21-28

21“But if a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness which he has done he shall live. 23Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? 24But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die. 25“Yet you say, `The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just? 26When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die for it; for the iniquity which he has committed he shall die. 27Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his life. 28Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

PSALMS 130:1-8

1Out of the depths I cry to thee, O LORD! 2Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! 3If thou, O LORD, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? 4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. 5I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 6my soul waits for the LORD more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. 7O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plenteous redemption. 8And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

MATTHEW 5:20-26

20For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 21“You have heard that it was said to the men of old, `You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.’ 22But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, `You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire. 23So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison; 26truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

Dear KAG: 20230228 Are We There Yet? Open Thread

Cover image: Misty Shoreline by Laura Paray, Oil, 20 x 30 x .75

Today, I’m starting out a little differently as events in the last few weeks really gelled into a genuine question every American kid on a road trip used to annoy the heck out of their parents.

ARE WE THERE YET?

Have we arrived at the Great Awakening? Clif High offered an opinion last week:

THE FLIP is NEAR!

Have you felt it? Are your spidey senses tingling yet?

Look around you, now. Are your co-workers nervous? Anxious? Are they talking about #5GUW yet?

The reason is the FLIP into the PEAK of THE BIG UGLY!

The BIG UGLY is a time of the upending, and overturning of the giant iceberg of public opinion as the 5GUW (5th Generation (global) Unrestricted War) emerges into public discussion.

The BIG UGLY is a time of ‘collective expression of knowledge’, that will produce an ‘upending of the social order’. The ‘upending’ will be spectacularly fast. It will scare the piss right out of you it will be so quickly consuming of YOUR social circle.

Don’t trust what I am writing here? Sure, that’s understandable…I am just some nutty techie guy with a high school education & a twisted mind who was into crypto before BTC was even 1 CENT.

BUT, I could be wrong, after all, I have been forecasting this period since last July.

Have I felt it? Yes. In fact, after all the revivals going on around the nation, and walks for Jesus and increasing numbers of men’s Rosary rallies around the world, Cardinal Dolan of New York making priests available from 7 am – 7 pm in St. Patrick’s Cathedral for distribution of ashes to anyone who wanted them on Ash Wednesday last week – 40,000 people received – I’m convinced something is happening and it’s of God.

This video (it won’t embed) makes the case that the end of the totalitarian reign is near – at least in the Church. It looks to be on the verge of being over in the political realm as well. Once the people are awake, there is no going back. And the people are waking up:

Sunday Question – The Inversion and Awakening

In the Trump -vs- DeSantis storyline the following data points are generally agreed:

♦Approximately 75% of the Big Con “INFLUENCERS” (Big $) and punditry Support Ron DeSantis
♦Approximately 25% of the Small “Influencers” (Small $) and Indy punditry Support Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, amid the voting base the inverse is true:

♦Approximately 25% of the conservative, working-class, base voters support Ron DeSantis
♦Approximately 75% of the conservative, working-class, base voters support Donald Trump

Reconcile this inversion.  What does it mean?

It means the people are on to the uniparty crap.

And then there’s the COVID implosion:

How did that actually get broadcast? If that made it on the air on NBC, something is going on that hasn’t hit the headlines yet.

The next day, the entertainment media were calling him out about spreading conspiracy theories, but it’s getting too big to hide:

With The Lies Behind COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts Collapsing, U.S. Government Now Says Wuhan Lab Leak Likely

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal broke a story highlighting a significant change in the SARS-CoV2 origination narrative.

Apparently, with increased admissions the COVID-19 mitigation protocols were all useless, and with actual harm from the vaccine mandates now taking space in the mainstream media narrative, conveniently the Wuhan Lab Leak conspiracy theory is now becoming an official likelihood position from the U.S. government.  Funny that….

The shift in the official government position on the crisis origination now seems like a finger-pointing distraction, and effort to avoid accountability for their totalitarian exploitation and dictatorial fiats used in the process of taking advantage of it.

And Just Like That, Natural Immunity is No Longer a Conspiracy Theory

And that’s not the only place the narratives are being challenged.

As Juanita Broderick put it: BRAVA! And…why wasn’t the feed cut?

Something’s happening, and it’s just not visible yet.

Also, this came up over the weekend, was discussed in the comments, and I’m leaving it here again if you haven’t watched/listened to it.

Okay, moving on. I took most of the weekend off with a family event on Saturday, and then a Sunday fast of everything but Twitter, so this is more selective.

Sort of.

This first substack is all about how we need to be careful investing time and energy into any one story in the conspiracy world. Jordan Sather does us all a favor in sorting out what really does make us all sound like tinfoil hat wearing lunatics.

NESARA/QFS: A Long Running Internet Scam

Detailing the background, history, and current frauds being run by internet influencers using “NESARA Law” and “Quantum Financial System” disinformation

February 24 Badlands News Brief

February 27 Badlands News Brief

It’s happening. Really happening, but it’s not in the headlines. Yet.

Chinese Jet Fighter Shadows U.S. Aircraft Over South China Sea

Hunter’s Burn Notice: Miami & Houston Edition

A Great American Music Lesson

Media Demands Darkness, Not Sunlight, on January 6 Tapes

Laboring in Vain

The Steering Wheel of Civilization

The National Divorce has begun

Hawley: ‘No More Welfare for Europeans — Let the Europeans Take the Lead on Europe’

The Puzzle That Is Kevin McCarthy

“Rationing” Is the New Globalist Buzzword as They Normalize Scarcity Ahead of Manufactured Collapses

Somewhere in this house we have my great-grandmother’s ration books from World War II.

The Pandemic Treaty Is Far Worse Than Even Conservative Media Is Portraying

Bombshell cartel allegations against Katie Hobbs may be false… but the reality is much darker…

Viral Catholic Prayer App Beats Google, Facebook, TikTok to Top of the Charts

That’s because there was a concerted marketing campaign last week starting on the weekend. All of a sudden, there was a banner, and hand out ad stuff in the back of one of the Churches where I sing. I doubt it was the only one. Also, Mark Wahlberg talked about using it. It’s not free, so I haven’t gotten it. Yet.

The Golden Arrow – President Trump Announces Economic Agenda 47 Which Includes “Universal Baseline Tariffs”

Easily one of the best Watters’ World to date:

https://youtu.be/CWPtPsZ7WkE

Tweet hopper:

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I saved so many tweets over the weekend….

https://twitter.com/LeadingReport/status/1629598798770065409

Willful murder with malice. Nothing less.

Meme & Fun hopper:

Again, LOTS of memes.

That guy is all in for DeSantis. I’m seriously wondering how much he’s being paid to fail at persuading his followers.

Grammar error…minor problem.

https://twitter.com/DarwinAwards_/status/1629204261031772160
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1629604979060121602
https://twitter.com/WonderW97800751/status/1629476915420577794
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1629930906264690688
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1629709699053412352
https://twitter.com/HumansNoContext/status/1630070393263251456
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1630008921271173120
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1630070325386829824

Maybe tomorrow will be lighter.

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

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

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

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

__________________________________________________

ISAIAH 55:10-11

10“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

PSALMS 34:4-7, 16-19

3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! 4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed. 6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. 15The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry. 16The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.

MATTHEW 6:7-15

7“And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11Give us this day our daily bread; 12And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors; 13And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. 14For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; 15but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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

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

>>148154137

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

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

Satire

Dear KMAG: 20230227 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

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!!!

Albeit perhaps with some excitement…..

Stylishly, of course!

But no matter what, just HOLD ON!!!

Dedication

Image: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e5/ad/d5e5ad861f1fc08b93a6d511ed5ff19f.jpg

WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL

by Duchess01


Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know
That you had left us with armor in tow
We had no idea with what you dealt
We did not know the pain you felt
And now we can only imagine
With you what really did happen
Cause rarely did you complain 
And/or share your personal pain
Of one thing we are most certain
You are flying high behind the curtain
Watching over us above the crowds
Our Warrior Angel above the clouds
Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us
While you were here among the fuss
We miss you dear you have no idea
Since time began in the pangaea
With you there was no time
In your wisdom you would chime
To clarify and magnify
The what where how and why
We did not question when you left
We were not slightly bereft
But over time we wondered why
You did not at least stop by
Now we know where you have gone
With the break of this new dawn
We could be angry but are not
Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot
Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear
Send us a sign that you are near
A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain
From your love do not refrain
God sends Angels to watch over us
And now we have an Angel Plus
A Warrior Angel of Magnificence
From today and forward hence

LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/comment-page-2/#comment-917655

The Rules

TL;DR –

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.

MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1

Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.

SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.

As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.

YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..

OTHER THAN THAT…….

The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.

Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.

SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]

We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.

Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.

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

That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.

We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).

We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.

If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.

We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.

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

A Moment of Prayer

Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.

Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.

You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.

Musical Interlude

In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.

First, some “epic orchestral steampunk adventure music”!

OK – now for an awesome mix of ACID ROCK and GEEZER ROCK!

And if you want some rock history which pays brief tribute to Blue Cheer, check this out…..

But after that, I’ve gotta do a deep cleanse!

And here’s one for Litenmaus, Tradebait, and our dearly departed sister from Indian Territory!

OK – gotta do JUST ONE MORE…..

Call To Battle

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.

Watch this – and steel yourself for what must come.

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 Day Year Week:

cartel

noun

  • A combination of independent business organizations formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods by the members.
  • A combination of independent commercial or industrial enterprises designed to limit competition or fix prices.
  • A group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market.
  • An official agreement between governments at war, especially one concerning the exchange of prisoners.
  • A written agreement between belligerent nations.
  • A group of parties, factions, or nations united in a common cause; a bloc.
  • A combination of political groups for common action.
  • A group of individuals united in a common cause.

Used in a Sentence:

“I want to be crystal clear. The drugs in this room and the drugs that are flooding Arizona every single day are sourced primarily by one evil entity, the Sinaloa drug cartel,” said Cheri Oz, DEA special agent in charge.

Used in a Tweet:

Used in a Meme:

ENJOY THE SHOW

Have another great week!

W

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230224

Bijou Cocktail

The Bijou was popular for a few decades, but fell out of style after Prohibition. Unlike its popular cousins the Manhattan and martini, the Bijou was unknown until it was rediscovered in the 1980’s. The ingredients in a Bijou cocktail are equal parts:

  • Gin
  • Sweet vermouth
  • Chartreuse liquor

As a note, some people like to change-up the ratios to use less Chartreuse. We decided to stick with the 1890’s equal parts recipe, and we’re glad we did.

Once you’ve got your ingredients, this three ingredient drink takes only 5 minutes to make. Here are the main steps to make a Bijou cocktail:

  • Stir together all ingredients in a cocktail mixing glass. This is a classic “stirred” cocktail where you stir the ingredients together instead of shaking them. Shaking dilutes the drink with ice. Because this drink is all liquor and no juices or mixers, you stir it.
  • Don’t have a mixing glass? Use any glass or container you like to mix the drink, then strain it into the serving glass. Or, grab yourself a cocktail mixing glass. (Plus, it just looks cool.)

Doing this late, so the commentary will be sparse. Maybe

Badlands News Brief

Seriously, this is daily reading.

Sounding the Alarm Over the WHO’s Attack on American Taxpayers and Sovereignty….

New Forensic Expert’s Report Out of Allegheny County, PA Shows Duplicate Ballot Scans and over 50,000 “Non-Unique Tabulator CVR Numbers

Bill Gates buys nearly $1B Heineken stake — despite not being a ‘big beer drinker’

From Anonymous Conservative:

If you want to put recombinant proteins, or mRNA or DNA, or even living micro-organisms in people, beer is an excellent choice. It is just a big brew of living yeast cells you can put all sorts of stuff inside. I would bet he didn’t go with yogurt, because most of those consumers were the types who could just be told to take the new medical thing, and they would line up, and even screech at everyone else who didn’t do it.

Biden Family Key Partner Eric Schwerin to Flip in House Oversight Probe

NYC auctioned off $200 million worth of COVID gear for a small fraction: report

Higher Cognitive Ability, Less Concern for Political Correctness – Study Finds

No kidding.

A Great Awakening Decades in the Making

Taking Back America

Get In the Box, Peasant

Dark to Light: An Interview with Kari Lake

Odd “Coincidences” Surround Plane Crash That Killed Five People on Their Way to Ohio

Naive, much?

Shared Interests

Mystery Solved: Left-Wing Billionaire Pierre Omidyar Bankrolls Shadowy Anti-Musk Group

NPR to lay off 10 percent of staff in ‘major loss’ as ad revenue drops

Parents Increasingly Move Back In With Their Kids, What’s Going On?

Pooling resources. Needing help as parents age. It’s happened in my family and circles my whole life.

Georgia jury forewoman throws Trump investigation into chaos after admitting it would have been ‘awesome’ to subpoena him

Toxic Wastewater From Ohio Train Derailment Headed To Texas

WIRED Magazine Exposes the Social and Environmental Costs of the “Green” Agenda

DeSantis Hosting Donors and Social Media Influencers During 3-Day Palm Beach Event

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1628592369359618048
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1628608370302238720

Shall we dance?

It was a new standard alright. A new standard of low, and how to kill people.

https://twitter.com/OldRowSwig/status/1628752732923338758

Hmm…. Wonder what he knows.

Oh…thank you.

And how many legions does the UN have?

MEME STASH:

They were fun to climb on before I had an ipad.

🤮🤮🤮

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1628782340347494400
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1628538054100000768

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

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

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

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion. In that spirit, though, threats of violence real or hypothetical are out of bounds.

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

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

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

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

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

_____________________________________________________

ISAIAH 58:1-9

1“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. 2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God. 3`Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and thou takest no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. 4Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. 5Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD? 6“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? 8Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you, the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. 9Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. “If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

Dear KAG: 20230221 Open Thread

Cover image: Edward Willis Redfield (American, 1869-1965), First Spring Thaw, On the Delaware. Oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 50 in.

Wow. What a Monday. The big news, as was mentioned in Monday’s Comments, first:

James O’Keefe Resigns from Project Veritas – UPDATE, Forced Out: “I have been stripped of my authority as CEO and been removed from the board of directors.”

Not the first time I’ve heard of this sort of thing happening. The reality is his board was infiltrated. It seems that this is a modus operandi of the opposition.

The people are standing with James O’Keefe and dropping subscriptions and follows across social media.

As of this writing, PV has lost at least 100,000 followers on Twitter alone.

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1627842304374439936

The other big piece of news not in Ohio today:

Now, let’s see what he does with it.

Ready?

Constant Government Lies Spark Resistance Movements

The moral gap between left and right is widening

HERE WE GO: VANITY FAIR CLAIMS RON DESANTIS IS MORE ‘DANGEROUS’ THAN TRUMP, COMPARES HIM TO…GENGHIS KHAN?

Landmark Study Vindicates Everyone Who Touted Natural Immunity to COVID-19

Exploring Hermeticism

Risky Business: Government-Funded Group Targets Conservative Sites as “Riskiest Online News Outlets”

End of the Electoral College is in sight if Democrats keep getting their way

Word games and wishful thinking. The end run attempt will fail in the end. Popular vote is a courtesy to the people. Not a requirement.

The Perils of Historical Ignorance

Some Are Wondering Why Sex Has Disappeared From Movies

Where Do You Score on the Deep State/Aliens/World War III/Vaccine Insanity Test?

Not exactly satire, but close.

Strengthening Our Faith Is the Most Important Thing We Can Do to Prepare for What’s to Come

Concerning the State, There Are No Accidents, No Coincidences, and No Natural ‘Emergencies’ or Threats: All Is Planned

The Widening Scandal

Congress takes first shot at federal censorship: a moratorium on DOJ payments to social media

From Badlands Media:

Our Take: “One thing should be clearly understood, which is often not well understood in the modern age: For most of human history shadow men controlled the masses by keeping a stranglehold on any and all information, the sharing of information, and the interpretation of information, whether these shadow men were royalty, the priest class, bureaucracy or what have you.

But approximately 400 years ago, a shift toward a free-range system began; at least this was the appearance. Today, it seems like we have incredible freedoms, which we do, in a way, but we’re also just as controlled, if not more than we were in the past.

The truth is, the agenda to control society by controlling information and as a result, human behavior never truly died, it evolved. The use of opposition groups (which appear independent) but were in fact cabal-set up and sponsored became the norm. Big tech is the latest version of that subversive information control system.

The government, which was thoroughly taken over many decades ago, uses taxpayer money (our money) to pay other citizens to suppress free speech and thinking. This is wrong on many levels. But within the legal framework established by the constitution, it is unconstitutional.

The fact that the government was paying big tech social media companies to suppress free speech is an open and bold violation of our rights and the laws of USA. As odd as this may sound, this is beneficial. Why? Because, we’ve blinded ourselves to the truth of our freedom-suppressed society, so much so, we have lost our capacity to identify the loss of our freedoms. But the boldness of cabal-controlled big tech and gov is making an already bad situation easier to see and recognize for WE THE PEOPLE.

As such, the sleeping giant that is the American freedom-fighting populace can all the better rise from their slumber to begin the process of uprooting corruption, not only online, but everywhere it might have planted roots.” — Justin Deschamps

The Great Reset the Space

Gallup: Fifty Percent of Americans Believe Media Lies to Promote Agenda

Excellent. That’s progress.

Nationalism Is the Antidote to One-World Government

SCOTUS will reconsider the Brunson case

“Educatin’ With Satan”: Corporate Media’s Attempt to Normalize After School Satan Clubs Is Dangerous

CHRIS HEDGES: RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE SPEECH

Tweet hopper:

We found out it was actually the railroad company that did that.

Laundry….

Meanwhile, in Canada:

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1627317824841568256
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1627250603129991171
https://twitter.com/gregjgordon/status/1627410152008863744

It’s out in the open now.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1627128129096454146

Meme & Fun hopper:

The party of tolerance.

SOUND UP!

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1626916526090596355
https://twitter.com/DarwinAwards_/status/1626724002369802242
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1626709753664774144
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1627009558680829953
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1627046807703326720

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

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

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

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

__________________________________________________

SIRACH 2:1-11

1My son, if you come forward to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for temptation. 2Set your heart right and be steadfast, and do not be hasty in time of calamity. 3Cleave to him and do not depart, that you may be honored at the end of your life. 4Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient. 5For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation. 6Trust in him, and he will help you; make your ways straight, and hope in him. 7You who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and turn not aside, lest you fall. 8You who fear the Lord, trust in him, and your reward will not fail; 9you who fear the Lord, hope for good things, for everlasting joy and mercy. 10Consider the ancient generations and see: who ever trusted in the Lord and was put to shame? Or who ever persevered in the fear of the Lord and was forsaken? Or who ever called upon him and was overlooked? 11For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sins and saves in time of affliction.

PSALMS 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40

3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security. 4Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 18The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will abide for ever; 19they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance. 27Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever. 28For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. The righteous shall be preserved for ever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. 39The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their refuge in the time of trouble. 40The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked, and saves them, because they take refuge in him.

MARK 9:30-37

30They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” 32But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him. 33And they came to Caper’na-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest. 35And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” 36And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them, 37“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

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

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

>>148154137

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

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

Satire

Dear KMAG: 20230220 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

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!!!

Possibly with some minor philosophical discussions…..

Possibly with some good times…..

And possibly with some screaming!

Dedication

Image: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e5/ad/d5e5ad861f1fc08b93a6d511ed5ff19f.jpg

WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL

by Duchess01


Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know
That you had left us with armor in tow
We had no idea with what you dealt
We did not know the pain you felt
And now we can only imagine
With you what really did happen
Cause rarely did you complain 
And/or share your personal pain
Of one thing we are most certain
You are flying high behind the curtain
Watching over us above the crowds
Our Warrior Angel above the clouds
Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us
While you were here among the fuss
We miss you dear you have no idea
Since time began in the pangaea
With you there was no time
In your wisdom you would chime
To clarify and magnify
The what where how and why
We did not question when you left
We were not slightly bereft
But over time we wondered why
You did not at least stop by
Now we know where you have gone
With the break of this new dawn
We could be angry but are not
Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot
Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear
Send us a sign that you are near
A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain
From your love do not refrain
God sends Angels to watch over us
And now we have an Angel Plus
A Warrior Angel of Magnificence
From today and forward hence

LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/comment-page-2/#comment-917655

The Rules

TL;DR –

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.

MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1

Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.

SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.

As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.

YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..

OTHER THAN THAT…….

The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.

Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.

SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]

We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.

Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.

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

That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.

We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).

We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.

If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.

We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.

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

A Moment of Prayer

Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.

Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.

You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.

Musical Interlude

In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.

Bringing back some more old tunes from two years ago!

Original Wheatie Post:

https://www.theqtree.com/2021/02/22/dear-kmag-20210222-joe-biden-didnt-win/

This is a great one right here – beautiful electronica.

And one of my favorites…..

AHRRRRR, MATEY!

OK – one more LINUX MUSICAL MEME VIDEO for the road!

Call To Battle

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 Day Year Week:

binary

adjective

  • Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components; twofold.
  • Of or relating to a system of numeration having 2 as its base.
  • Of or relating to a system of encoding data using only 0’s and 1’s.

Perl 5 Definition:

Having to do with numbers represented in base 2. That means there’s basically two numbers: 0 and 1. Also used to describe a file of “nontext”, presumably because such a file makes full use of all the binary bits in its bytes. With the advent of Unicode, this distinction, already suspect, loses even more of its meaning. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#binary

Woke Definition:

[Gender] Binary – This is the idea that people are born either male or female, with no other ways to identify – a viewpoint that excludes non-binary and transgender people. How can you dismantle this? Add your preferred pronouns to your email signature. That way, you’re helping to normalise gender discussions while signalling that you aren’t making assumptions about how other people identify. Which could potentially be seen as a sort of clicktivism, but we won’t go into that here.

Source: https://www.menshealth.com/uk/mental-strength/a38051454/do-you-speak-woke-a-glossary-of-the-terms-you-need-to-know/

Used in a Whole Bunch of Sentences:

Unfortunately the drive industry looks likely to continue marketing the decimal rather than the binary definition.
Is it enough to measure binary oscillations of semiquinone to characterize damping of period four oscillations of oxygen evolution?
Computing individual hexadecimal digits using that formula relies on a venerable technique known as the binary algorithm for exponentiation.
Twenty years earlier Gordan had proved the finite basis theorem for binary forms using a highly computational approach.
Dividing by two and then taking the remainder gives us a number’s last digit in binary notation.
Both the original design and the modern version of one-time pads are based on the binary alphabet.
Also, relativistic advance of periastron has been studied and confirmed in certain binary stars with elliptical orbits.
When performing binary addition, just like for addition in base ten, we need to reserve two spaces for our result.
Because the loss of territories was not a completely binary variable, we did not test for significant differences between groups.
We also discuss the implications of the methods in locating genes underlying complex binary traits by use of samples from natural populations.
The first equation that was estimated for each ethnic group included early substance use to estimate its binary effect on school completion.
More specifically, we ask the question whether the open conformation found in the binary complex is also accessible to the apo-enzyme.
This technique allows to image domains in binary or ternary mixtures of lipids in monolayers and bilayers.
The single-layer perceptron can be used with multi-value input and output in addition to binary data.
Identity and equality are two fundamental binary relations which relate expressions of a given type.
During balanced growth, cells undergoing binary fission must double the number of every kind of RNA and protein molecule every cell cycle.
The method elicits multiple binary choices for paired items in a choice set.
A particular concentration is on a binary structure present in many myths, focusing on the complementary elements.
The set includes the composed sequence obtained from the preliminary binary signal.
The first step in the process is a binary scanning of the hypsographic separation of the original map.

Explained in a Video:

SOURCE: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/sentences-with-the-word/binary.html

Used in an Online Calculator:

https://www.calculator.net/binary-calculator.html

Used in an Sticker:

Used in a Meme:

ENJOY THE SHOW

Have another great week!

W

HEY, CHINA JOE! GET OUT!!!

2023·02·18 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

A Caution

Just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. (Or we might not. The record is mixed even though there is more MAGA than there used to be.) But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled–I suspect it’s RINO), don’t get replaced.

State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhorses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.

Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!

SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

Spot Prices

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Last Week:

Gold $1,866.50
Silver $22.08
Platinum $956.00
Palladium $1,614.00
Rhodium $12,950.00

So here it is, Friday, 3PM MT after markets closed and we see:

Gold $1,843.20
Silver $21.81
Platinum $930.00
Palladium $1,583.00
Rhodium $11,900.00

Everything trending down. I don’t think I’ve seen palladium or rhodium this low in a long, long time. And those are likely to be good economic indicators as their uses are industrial.

Hyperbolic Orbits

We now turn to the remaining two-body case, the hyperbolic orbit. This is the sort of orbit an object is in whenever it is moving at above escape velocity.

You get a hyperbola whenever you slice through both “halves” of a cone. It doesn’t have to be vertically as shown in this diagram, the plane just has to be “vertical” enough in the diagram to not miss one of the two “halves” of the cone.

More formally, it’s going to look like this:

Note that this curve has two parts. An orbit will only be one of these two lines–the other is physically meaningless–and the focus for that line (F1 if it’s the right line, F2 if it’s the left) will be where the primary is. You can sketch a hyperbola by crossing two lines (the asymptotes) as in the diagram, then drawing a curve that never quite reaches the asymptotes (it gets closer and closer without ever reaching it, which is where the term “asymptotic” appears, as in “Trump’s administration asymptotically approached being able to actually arrest one of the people in the Deep State”) on either the left or right side of the X. Actually a not-uncommon trick is to draw a rectangle, make the crossed lines the diagonals of the rectangle, then sketch the hyperbola, with the vertex touching the middle of the sides of the rectangle. That point where it touches (and is closest to the focus) is the vertex and of course corresponds to periapsis. Apoapsis is at the ends of the line…which is infinitely far away. Mathematically speaking one end of the line is infinitely far in the past, the other infinitely far in the future, but of course in reality the object has to have come into being more recently than that, and closer than infinity, too.

Another way to draw a hyperbola is to graph the function 1/x. At 0, it’s undefined (or infinite, if you want to stretch a point), the line drops down from infinity until it reaches x=1, y=1, then zooms off to the right…but never reaches y=0. Though it can get so close you’d never be able to tell it wasn’t straight there. The asymptotes are the X and Y axes, and of course the thing is tilted at a 45 degree angle counterclockwise to the one in the diagram above.

And yet another way is to plot all of the points, whose distance from F1 minus their distance from F2 is some constant…and that constant is the distance between the vertices, or 2a. (And a here functions in many ways identically to the a in an elliptical orbit.) This is weirdly analogous to an ellipse, where the sum of the distances from any point on the ellipse to both foci is 2a.

The net effect of a “flyby” on a hyperbola is the object’s direction of travel is bent at some angle (the angle between the two asymptotes). To try to make this visualizable, imagine you are that object, just zipping along through space. If not interfered with, you’ll go in a straight line, at a constant speed (no friction to slow you down). But as it happens some large object (a star, say) is almost in your path. As you get closer and closer, it is pulling you towards it, so you speed up, and you pull off your path a bit; as you get closer and closer, you move faster and are pulled more and more off that straight line you were moving along. Then you fly past it. At that moment you’ve been bent pretty far off your former straight line path, and you are moving really, really fast. But now the process runs in reverse; the object pulling at you almost from behind slows you down and bends your path even more…but once you’re far away, you’re back to traveling a straight line, and nearly constant speed. But it’s a new straight line; the star bent your path.

You can determine whether or not you are in a hyperbolic orbit by measuring your speed and distance from the primary; just plug that distance into the escape velocity formula from last week; if your speed with respect to the primary is higher than that, you’re in a hyperbolic orbit, and you will escape from that primary. And furthermore, this is the only time you’ll encounter it. (To know the exact trajectory an object will follow, of course we will need its direction at that time, best determined with multiple measurements.)

This was famously demonstrated by ‘Oumuamua, an object that zipped through our solar system in a hyperbolic orbit back in 2017. It came from some other star, or maybe from the interstellar void. It was the first time we detected anything like that. It was discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope on Maui (which spends a lot of time searching for comets and asteroids). ‘Oumuamua is the Hawai’ian word for “scout,” which was a perfect choice.

Here is a video AND a static diagram.

And here is another view…zoomed out quite a bit, Neptune’s orbit at about 30 AU is visible, whereas before Mars at 1.52 AU is the outer orbit in the diagram above. Mars is red in both diagrams. In the diagram below ‘Oumuamua is about to leave the upper left side of the picture. Also note the vertical lines which help give you a sense of ‘depth’ looking at the picture. The lines end at the plane of the planets’ orbits.

Here, from Wikipedia, are the orbital elements plus a few other things. The “epoch” for this is the 23rd of November 2017. (Other objects will pull on ‘Oumuamua and alter its orbit…I’ll have more to say about that sort of thing in future posts.)

Perihelion0.255916±0.000007 AU
Semi-major axis−1.2723±0.0001 AU[b]
Eccentricity1.20113±0.00002
Average orbital speed26.33±0.01 km/s (interstellar)[10]
5.55 AU/year
Mean anomaly51.158°
Mean motion0° 41m 12.12s / day
Inclination122.74°
Longitude of ascending node24.597°
Argument of perihelion241.811°
Earth MOID0.0958 AU · 37.3 LD
Jupiter MOID1.454 AU

An AU is the average distance between the Earth and the sun, so basically this thing got four times closer to the sun than Earth does; this was inside the orbit of Mercury. Note the inclination, the longitude of the ascening node, the argument of perihelion, all explained in past posts. And the eccentricity is greater than 1, just like for any hyperbola. The kicker, though, is the average orbital speed…26.33 kilometers per second. But that was its speed “way out there” (‘Oumuamua will spend 99.99999999999% of its existence out there) not its speed as it flew by the sun! Its maximum speed was 87.71 kilometers every second. To put that in perspective, earth’s orbital speed is about 29.7 kilometers per second. When it was the same distance from the sun as Earth is, it was moving at 49.67 km/sec–comfortably above the escape velocity here which is about 40 km/sec.

This encounter bent ‘Oumuamua’s straight line trajectory by 66 degrees.

Even at its interstellar speed of 26.33 kilometers per second, it covers 5.5 AU in a year, which means it covers the distance from the Sun to Jupiter (5.2 au) in less than a year.

The MOID numbers are how close the line of the orbit of ‘Oumuamua comes to the line of orbit of Earth and Jupiter. This is not how close the asteroid came to either planet though, because when ‘Oumuamua was closest to those orbits, those planets were nowhere near that point in their orbits. (MOID is used to assess the possible future risk of a collision. When both objects are in elliptical orbits and keep coming back to the same place time after time, they could, sometime perhaps millions of years from now, be at the points nearest each other’s orbits at the same time.)

‘Oumuamua turns out to be quite a puzzler. They’re not sure what it is made of; it didn’t outgas much like a comet would, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t made largely of ices; nitrogen ice is a candidate. And we simply don’t know whether it formed near some other star and got ejected from that star’s planetary system, or whether it might have coalesced deep in the interstellar void far from any star. (Wikipedia has more info than I have time this evening to read, much less relate.)

And that touches on a topic. I’ve described these orbits as if they will persist forever. They would, actually, if only there were just two bodies–primary and satellite–involved (there would be a minuscule amount of energy slowly radiated away by gravity waves, an effect not accounted for in Kepler’s and Newton’s work, but that is immeasurable over billions of years for planets and the like).

So how do things get ‘ejected’ from planetary systems? How do comets get kicked into the central part of the solar system where they get to play pinball with planets? How do comets’ orbits get altered so they are short period comets that come back again and again every few years or decades?

One answer, that applies mainly to comets is that as they heat up and outgas, the jet of gas acts like a rocket and nudges the comet into a slightly different orbit.

But that’s not the full explanation, nor even one that applies in all but a minority of cases (though it did affect ‘Oumuamua).

Satellites in orbit around Earth will be affected by the equatorial bulge; this effect can sometimes make 500 miles’ difference after one day of orbiting. The bulge affects, and is very definitely acted on by, the moon. But those effects are small for large orbits, like those of the planets around the sun.

No the real explanation is that there are more than two bodies in the universe, and sometimes that can make a big difference. And, just to make life interesting, those calculations are very time-intensive to do. (As the joke goes, “This is why God made computers.”)

We’ll take that up next time.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

China is in the White House

Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.

Joe Biden is Asshoe

China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230217

King Cake Martini

What you need to make a King Cake Martini (and cinnamon vodka)

Cinnamon-Infused Vodka (Makes 8 servings)

  • 4 oz. vodka
  • 2 cinnamon sticks

King Cake Martini (Makes 1)

  • 1 ½ oz. hazelnut liqueur
  • 1 oz. white crème de cocoa
  • ½ oz. cinnamon vodka
  • ¼ oz. coffee liqueur
  • 2 ½ oz. club soda
  • Green, purple and yellow decorative sugars, for the rim of the glasses

Instructions

Make the Cinnamon-Infused Vodka

  1. In a mason jar, measure out the vodka.
  2. Add the cinnamon sticks, breaking in half if too large for the mason jar.
  3. Infuse for 5-7 days, then remove the cinnamon sticks and strain using a fine mesh strainer.
  4. Transfer to a clean mason jar, and store until time to make the drinks.

Make the King Cake Martini

  1. Add the colored sugar rim to the martini glasses: Dip the martini glasses in a shallow dish holding water. Sprinkle the three colored sugars onto a plate, careful to keep them separate. Dip the glasses’ rims into the sugar, and remove. Set aside.
  2. In a cocktail shaker, combine the hazelnut liqueur, white crème de cocoa, cinnamon-infused vodka and coffee liqueur and add ice.
  3. Shake vigorously until combined.
  4. Pour the drink into the prepared martini glass.
  5. Top with club soda, and enjoy immediately.

Wow that was a challenge to copy and paste.

Alright, let’s see…what have I got….

Small Clues, Sealed Cases, Future Shock

We Need a New “Church Committee” to Curb Massive Intelligence Agency Criminality Ranging From Illegal Surveillance to Torture and Assassination

Meet Samuel Armes – Groomed by the CIA and FBI and Author of the Original “1776 Returns” FED-SURRECTION Document – That He Reportedly Told a Friend to Send to the Proud Boys to Set Them Up

What it’s like to use Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing

It’s a pain in the a–.

U.S. Bishops Silent After FBI Claims Conservative Catholics Are ‘White Supremacists’

They’re silent about a lot more than that. Cowards. Zero spine in most of them.

By Forcing Americans Into Electric Vehicles, Leftists Ensure Road Trips’ Demise

That did cross my mind. The DS people must be regular drivers on I-95. Most crowded highway I’ve been on…well, other than the Pennsylvania turnpike.

Trust in media is so low that half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them

I call this progress.

Why not a ‘He Gets Us’ campaign for traditional values?

‘Isn’t Fear News?’

No, it’s a base emotion used for control in the news by those who either don’t like us, or want to sell something.

No, Slaves Didn’t Build This Country

A lot of immigrants did, though.

Is the Asbury Revival Real? That’s Not the Most Important Question To Ask About It

I’ve been seeing stuff about this revival. Is it real? The better question is will it last.

MEDIA IGNORE SEYMOUR HERSH BOMBSHELL REPORT OF US DESTROYING NORD STREAM II

Of course they are ignoring it. It destroys their narrative.

MacIntyre: Progressing toward decay: How the modern leviathan state destroys living humans in the name of a theoretical ‘humanity’

NO ACCIDENTS: The oblivious masses have no idea they are being systematically EXTERMINATED by a series of planned disasters

While this is true, the waking up is in progress. Just listening to the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, talk reflects this.

SCOTUS Will Decide Whether to Take up a 2020 ‘Rigged Election’ Case on Friday

Writers at another website I follow think the Brunson case is DOA. We’ll see.

The Republican Big Club Are All In to Have Culture War and Anti-Woke Efforts Dominate 2024 GOP Primary

Maybe they do know something about the base. Do they care? That’s another question.

Is the Federal Reserve a British Institution?

Jekyll Island is in Georgia. That’s where the creature was spawned…by people with ties to the British banking empire.

Excess size caused train to break down in days before it derailed in Ohio, employees say

Actually, after reading the article, it sounds like excess weight. It was too heavy. As someone who lives in a metro area where every American train line has a presence, getting stuck at a train crossing with a two mile long one happens. A lot. But, a lot of times those long dudes have a lot of empty coal cars or empty automobile carriers, and extra engines in the middle. 9,300 hundred feet is not quite two miles. Sounds like it was heavy.

No Vaccine No Food? Grocery Industry Merging with Big Tech and Big Pharma

Yet another reason to pay cash.

Naomi Wolf: Autopsies Revealed Catastrophic Lesions On Many Organs Likely Caused By Covid Vaccine

Tweety Tweets:

Some of us who are close to rail lines AND major waterways in this nation are NOT happy. It could happen to any of us and not just hit the northeast, but a whole lot of farmland.

https://twitter.com/OneAddyAdds/status/1626105538042908674

As a matter of history, the New River runs through Charleston, West Virginia, which is in a valley where EVERY major chemical company has a plant. That valley is called “chemical valley” for a reason. My dad claims that dead fish were a regular feature of the river in the late 1940s and 50s. By 1997, the last time my family was there to bury my grandmother, the New River had recovered, but it took decades. This will pass, but it’s going to take time.

Now we know why ObamaCare installed that massive online chart system. It’s handy for ER doctors who are dealing with drug addicts, but can be used for nefarious purposes.

In the comments, someone explained that this is a short spur of sorts, not a main line. From observation, the main lines are quite well maintained. The tracks themselves are not an issue.

I’d settle for potholes being filled. The streets in the city are a mess. Tell me again why we poured asphalt over the bricks that are still functioning fine on the back streets, side streets, and allies.

Uh-oh.

Getting that idea.

Damn straight I agree with her.

Easier said than done. It’s a side effect of the shot, and may not be related to any drug. And…long COVID is real. Really real.

Apparently, it’s only one car that didn’t turn over. But, still….

https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1626031499958190080

The people are working on it.

Reminder from yesterday on SIDS happening over 90% of the time the week after a vaccine:

And the discussion on putting babies on their backs to sleep…a relative of a relative lost a baby who spit up and aspirated the spit in the middle of the night. I will NEVER put a baby on his or her back again.

https://twitter.com/MichaelDeLauzon/status/1626360961710817280

How much did the Big Club pay the people in the seats for their appearance?

https://twitter.com/Rothbard1776/status/1626327375578337282

Close enough.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1626073196012179458

MEME STASH:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1626302273138614277
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1626269533995425792
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1625979904415133696

https://youtu.be/RZMUkhRyUPk

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GENESIS 11:1-9

1Now the whole earth had one language and few words. 2And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. 6And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9Therefore its name was called Ba’bel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

PSALMS 33:10-15

10The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 11The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! 13The LORD looks down from heaven, he sees all the sons of men; 14from where he sits enthroned he looks forth on all the inhabitants of the earth, 15he who fashions the hearts of them all, and observes all their deeds.

MARK 8:34–9:1

8 34And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? 37For what can a man give in return for his life? 38For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” 9 1And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!