Category: Dear MAGA

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230831

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Badlands News Brief – August 30, 2023

A Country Worth Conserving

Docs Offer Glimpse Inside Censorship Industrial Complex

Saving the Environment from Environmentalists

Bill Barr

Disney Finds Out: Stock Down Almost $200 Billion as America Rejects Woke Perversion of Walt’s Legacy

Was it really a perversion? That’s a legit question.

Macron: BRICS expansion threatens the existence of the “Western” world order

And fiat currency.

Angry Indians: Yet another instance of Native Americans having it up to here with the left

The New Socialism Is a Public-Private Partnership

Paul Sperry drops three juicy rumors on Jack Smith’s flimsy case against Trump…

‘I Mean This With Due Respect’: Vivek Ramaswamy Calls Out MSNBC Host For Linking Climate Change To Major Hurricane

The on air coverage was so over the top, it was disgusting. All of my family members in Florida survived unscathed. And about the flooding…try living near the Mississippi River.

Major Offshore Wind Company Takes Huge Losses After Struggling To Get More Biden Bucks

And Save the Whales gets a boost.

Gaetz Demands Tracking of US-Trained Coup Leaders in Africa

TWEETS!

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1696563109769498774

Things are going to be different this time around.

Last time, they created J6 and C19 to justify censoring and purging all dissenting voices from the public sphere.

It gave them complete power over all public discourse. Anyone who said anything negative about masks, vaccines, man-made origins of the virus, etc., all of these things would get you banned immediately, under the guise of “public health disinformation”.

They won’t have that luxury this time. Elon is at the helm of public discourse now, and he is keen to their plans. By the public having a platform to discuss freely, the enemy’s mask, vaccine, and pandemic propaganda will not work. Too many voices with global reach are driving the conversation and we are winning the court of public opinion. People aren’t buying the bullshit this time.

Humans have a deep fear of being alone or ostracized. Many wanted to speak out against the bullshit last time, but stayed silent and complied because they didn’t want to be the outcast. Now that truth-tellers have a massive platform and are dominating the public conversation, those who feared to stand up last time will be emboldened to stand up this time, because they do not feel alone.

That’s why each and every one of us has to stand up at every battle we are faced with. No more putting on a mask to appease employers or a public business. No more going along with the official narrative because you are avoiding confrontation. We have to stand up to it everywhere, and our courage will spread to others.

MEMES and FUN STUFF:

Yeah…not going there.

For a couple of my cousins, that would be called dinner.

Or after dinner at my parents’ house when my one brother is in town and there are three empty bottles on the table – white wine, red wine and Jameson. Happened over the summer.

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And now for the business portion.

Please review our HOST and site owner’s Guidelines for posting and discussion for this site. Wolf is kind enough to put up with *most* of us and our antics after thorough vetting. Violators of the baiting and deliberately attempting to divide the group rules WILL face consequences.

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

THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF US HERE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND PREJUDICES, ETC., SO LONG AS THEY CAUSE NO PHYSICAL HARM TO OTHERS OR DOXX OUR FELLOW TREE DWELLERS.

All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

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, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

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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1 THESSALONIANS 3:7-13

7for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith; 8for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 9For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God, 10praying earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith? 11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you; 12and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you, 13so that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

MATTHEW 24:42-51

42Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. 44Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. 45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 46Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing. 47Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 48But if that wicked servant says to himself, `My master is delayed,’ 49and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with the drunken, 50the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, 51and will punish him, and put him with the hypocrites; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.

Sang this one for the first time in A LONG, LONG, LONG time over the weekend.

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230825

Undead Gentleman

Ingredients

  • Absinthe blanc, to rinse
  • 1 1/2 ounces blended aged rum (such as Appleton Estate Reserve or The Real McCoy five-year-old)
  • 1 ounce black blended overproof rum (such as Hamilton 151)
  • 1/2 ounce grapefruit juice (white or pink), freshly squeezed
  • 1/2 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
  • 1/2 ounce John D. Taylor’s Velvet falernum
  • 1/2 ounce Smuggler’s Cove cinnamon syrup*
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters
  • Garnish: lime twist
  • Garnish: grapefruit twist

Steps

  1. Rinse a chilled cocktail coupe with absinthe blanc.
  2. Add the blended aged rum, black blended overproof rum, grapefruit juice, lime juice, falernum, cinnamon syrup and bitters into a shaker with cracked or cubed ice and shake until well-chilled.
  3. Double-strain into the prepared glass.
  4. Garnish with intertwined lime and grapefruit twists.

*Smuggler’s Cove cinnamon syrup: Put 2 cups of water in a saucepan. Add 3 halved 6-inch pieces of cinnamon stick to the water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Add 4 cups of granulated sugar and stir with a whisk (or an immersion blender) until dissolved, about 1 minute. The liquid should become clear such that you can see the bottom of the pot. Immediately remove from the heat. Cover and let sit at room temperature for 12 hours. Strain through cheesecloth into a bowl, and then use a funnel to pour into a lidded bottle or other sealable container. The syrup will keep, refrigerated, for several weeks. Makes 4 cups (32 ounces).

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Badlands News Brief – August 24, 2023

So long as he’s dropping red pills, he’s on our side. Otherwise, still not voting for him.

Trump and the Tower of Lies

‘Liberalism’ itself is now fading in Germany

Can Cuppa confirm this?

Some thoughts, all cynical and sour, about the Republican debate

So, I sat through all two hours of the debate amongst the Republican primary candidates, although I was very irked by Larry Elder’s absence. Having said that, he didn’t miss much. It was like watching a junior high school debate, complete with the cool kids asking stupid questions and the geeks fighting on the stage. I hated every minute of it, thought it was embarrassing for all involved, and found it insulting to the American voters.

‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ is dangerous to the Democrat party

Grading the First Peanut Gallery Debate

Not that any of them stand a chance.

Some MAGA fans think a pro-Trump rally outside the Atlanta jail is an FBI setup

Well, it probably is. It’s been known to happen.

BRICS Economic Bloc Expands Adding Iran, Argentina, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Ethiopia During Summit

The whole point of BRICS is to go back to the gold standard, not cave on digital currencies.

Who won the GOP debate? President Trump

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/austerrewyatt1/status/1694674201192403051

MEME STASH:

And he grew up not too far from where I live, actually.

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1694302756083814595

That song is a total earworm, but I like it.

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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MATTHEW 22:34-40

34But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sad’ducees, they came together. 35And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him. 36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230824

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Badlands News Brief – August 23, 2023

BRICS Bank May Add Five New Members

‘Unmarked Indigenous Mass Grave’ Detected Under ‘Abusive Catholic Residential School’ Excavated in Canada – Turns Out to Be Just Rocks

And, yet, the Church was raked over the coals for an atrocity no one committed, and there will be no apology.

Germany Building ‘Mass Surveillance Apparatus’ Similar to the Nazis & Stasi, Historian Warns.

I get the idea it’s here in the west just about everywhere.

The Frame of Reverence

The Blunt Truth about Global Warming Models

Leftists Dig a Memory Pit for School Vaccine Mandates

Warning: They’re Trying to Normalize the Cancelation of the 2024 Elections

Hilary Epilogue: How Easy It Is to Panic Americans

Christianity and the Globalist Agenda

Project Veritas’ Financial Woes Go Beyond Layoffs

No James O’Keefe, no profits. It’s that simple.

Bring on the Counterrevolution

More rehabilitation of Nixon’s reputation. Hmm….

The Progressive Benefactor Who Makes U.S. Barriers to Foreign Cash Look Like Swiss Cheese

Deep State Spotlight: Victoria Nuland

Chessboard of Shadows: Prigozhin’s Deception

Putin plays for keeps

The Adversary Is Shifting Strategies and We Must Do the Same

TWEETS!

And what we all waited for……

MEMES and FUN STUFF:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1694389032678002855

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And now for the business portion.

Please review our HOST and site owner’s Guidelines for posting and discussion for this site. Wolf is kind enough to put up with *most* of us and our antics after thorough vetting. Violators of the baiting and deliberately attempting to divide the group rules WILL face consequences.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Company manners are appreciated. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog out discussions best saved for a wrestling mat. If, for some reason, this site is not available, head over to the UTree and visit the post at the top of the list or the closest rescue thread.

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.

THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF US HERE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND PREJUDICES, ETC., SO LONG AS THEY CAUSE NO PHYSICAL HARM TO OTHERS OR DOXX OUR FELLOW TREE DWELLERS.

All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

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, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

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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REVELATION 21:9-14

9Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10And in the Spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, 11having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed; 13on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230818

Plain Killer

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces El Dorado 15-year-old rum
  • 1 1/2 ounces pineapple juice
  • 1 ounce orange juice, freshly squeezed
  • 1 ounce Coco Lopez coconut cream
  • Garnish: nutmeg, freshly grated

Steps

  1. Add the rum, pineapple juice, orange juice and coconut cream into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
  2. Pour the contents, including the ice, into a Tiki mug, and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.

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Badlands News Brief – August 17, 2023

Avoid the Avalanche, Protect Your Mind

One Year After Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s MAGA Movement Won’t Be Silenced

In Georgia, President Trump and the 18 Defendants Can and Should SUE Fani Willis For “Malicious Prosecution”

How President Trump Can Use Political Pressure to Defeat the Biden Witch Hunt

Here’s What The Democrats Should Expect If a Republican Wins Back The White House

Progressive Religion May Be Dying But the Gospel Is Thriving

Black man calls out Trump indictments as ‘two-tiered justice’ that will usher in a surge of black support

Media pundit blames widespread rejection of Bidenomics on Americans’ unwillingness to accept candidates that aren’t ‘warm and fuzzy’

National Review crashes and burns over “Rich Men North of Richmond”

End of the Dollar: South Africa Says Over 40 Countries Want to Join BRICS

UPDATE: Project Veritas Lays Off Most Employees Cutting To Skeleton Staff

Can You Feel It? Ten Signs That Things in America Have Reached a BREAKING POINT

Which Countries Are Interested in Joining BRICS?

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/hugh_mankind/status/1691985186265698413

“Experts” again.

You REALLY want to ask that question?

IDK, one of my brothers had a bug that presented as Lyme Disease and did damage to his heart. Could it have been a tick bite? Sure. HIV? No. The thing is, he had a pacemaker put in at the age of 32 due to severe arrhythmia.

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1692129439419695229

MEME STASH:

Sat on one of those many a time.

Made with Square InstaPic

IDK…there’s a lot more demonic activity out there.

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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JOSHUA 24:1-13

1Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God. 2And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Your fathers lived of old beyond the Euphra’tes, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods. 3Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac; 4and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Se’ir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. 5And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it; and afterwards I brought you out. 6Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 7And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did to Egypt; and you lived in the wilderness a long time. 8Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan; they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. 9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel; and he sent and invited Balaam the son of Be’or to curse you, 10but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you; so I delivered you out of his hand. 11And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the men of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Per’izzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Gir’gashites, the Hivites, and the Jeb’usites; and I gave them into your hand. 12And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow. 13I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you dwell therein; you eat the fruit of vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant.’

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230817

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Badlands News Brief – August 16, 2023

Fitch Warns It May Need To Downgrade US Banks Soon

‘Clockwork’: Four Trump Indictments Drop After Four Damning Biden Business Revelations

Yes. Many of us out here on the fruited plain noticed. Weeks ago.

Three military services now without Senate-confirmed heads for first time in history

Curious.

The Democrats are Certain They Will Never be Held Accountable for the Trump Indictments and Biden Cover-Up

The Impeachment Chorus Needs to Cool It

Why is Ron DeSantis faltering in the polls?

Because he’s been outed as a deep state hack.

America Under Attack: Massive Blaze in Pensacola Marks NINTH Recycling Plant Fire in First Half of August Alone

The Erroneous ‘Underpaid Teacher’ Claims

It seriously depends on the school district.

How Unions Have Betrayed America

The Unforgivable Ivermectin Swindle

‘Sound of Freedom’ Director Calls QAnon Labels ‘Heartbreaking,’ ‘Not True,’ Debunks With Details of Film’s Origins

Trump’s momentum shows few signs of waning despite growing legal storm

The deep state cabal really doesn’t know the American people at all.

Like Pigpen from ‘Peanuts,’ criminal charges cloud Trump. Had enough yet, GOP voters? | Opinion

Keep bringing it, and the lawfare becomes really transparent to the people who are still asleep.

Eastman Decries Fulton County Indictment: ‘This Is A Legal Cluster-Bomb’

Tucker, Twitter, and the Truth Community

NOW Is the Time to Share the Evidence of Massive, Widespread Voter Fraud

President Trump claims it’s coming on Monday. We’ll see what the media conjures up to bury the story.

BREAKING: Apple removes ALL of Glenn Beck’s podcasts from iTunes

What did he do to tick off the cabal this time?

TWEETS!

He might be borderline uniparty, but he does have a way with words.

MEMES and FUN STUFF:

____________________________________

And now for the business portion.

Please review our HOST and site owner’s Guidelines for posting and discussion for this site. Wolf is kind enough to put up with *most* of us and our antics after thorough vetting. Violators of the baiting and deliberately attempting to divide the group rules WILL face consequences.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Company manners are appreciated. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog out discussions best saved for a wrestling mat. If, for some reason, this site is not available, head over to the UTree and visit the post at the top of the list or the closest rescue thread.

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.

THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF US HERE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND PREJUDICES, ETC., SO LONG AS THEY CAUSE NO PHYSICAL HARM TO OTHERS OR DOXX OUR FELLOW TREE DWELLERS.

All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

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, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

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.

____________________________________________________

MATTHEW 18:21–19:1

18 21Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” 22Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. 23“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. 24When he began the reckoning, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents; 25and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, `Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ 27And out of pity for him the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. 28But that same servant, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat he said, `Pay what you owe.’ 29So his fellow servant fell down and besought him, `Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ 30He refused and went and put him in prison till he should pay the debt. 31When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. 32Then his lord summoned him and said to him, `You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you besought me; 33and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ 34And in anger his lord delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all his debt. 35So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.” 19 1Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan;

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230811

Dirty Shirley

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces vodka
  • 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
  • 6 to 8 ounces lemon-lime soda, to taste
  • 1 to 1 1/2 ounces grenadine, to taste
  • 1/2 ounce maraschino cherry syrup from the jar, optional
  • 1 to 2 maraschino cherries, for garnish

Steps to Make It

  1. Gather the ingredients.Ingredients to make a Dirty ShirleyThe Spruce Eats / Julia Hartbeck
  2. Add the vodka and lime juice to a tall glass. Top with plenty of ice.A glass with lime, vodka, and iceThe Spruce Eats / Julia Hartbeck
  3. Add the lemon-lime soda, then top with grenadine and maraschino cherry syrup, if using. Stir to combine.A glass of lime, vodka, soda, and grenadine being stirredThe Spruce Eats / Julia Hartbeck
  4. Taste, adding more soda or grenadine if desired. Garnish with a maraschino cherry or two and serve immediately.A Dirty Shirley garnished with two maraschino cherries

Badlands News Brief – August 10, 2023

Growing Number of Leprosy Cases Reported After COVID-19 Vaccination

That’s one that’s really curious. Although, Leprosy did pretty much disappear once immune systems were stronger than in Biblical times.

Target hit with shareholder lawsuit after Pride backlash damaged stock price

A Modest Proposal to Defeat the Political Class

There should be nothing modest about it. It’s all or nothing at this point.

Evil Never Takes a Holiday

The petty totalitarians have moved from a marathon’s pace to a sprint not because the finish line is just ahead, but because too many ordinary people have begun to figure out what is going on around them. The left has been slowly herding Westerners like a flock of sheep to a pen down the road, but now the sheepdogs have begun nudging the herd toward a different direction. In the process, it appears that there are a lot more sheepdogs hiding among the sheep than anybody ever knew. That is a problem for the wolves who have assumed that they could lock everyone into a new cage and begin feasting without a fight. The wolves have become visibly authoritarian because unexpected resistance has made them foolishly desperate.

Fighting the Flying Monkeys

Political Prosecution: A Constitutional Crisis In The Making

For Washington Post’s Feared ‘Pinocchio’ Fact Checker, Forthrightness Dies in ‘Updates’ to Biden-Burisma Story

Legal expert says 2020 election interference was ‘Deep State FBI’

At this point, anything is possible.

Could walking extend your lifespan? – study

Oh, man, I hope so.

COVID-19 is ‘heating up all around’ this summer. Should we be wearing masks again?

Like it worked so well the last time.

Liberal Republican donors are souring on DeSantis because of his pro-life, pro-family record

Somehow, I don’t think that’s why.

7 Trends That Indicate Economic Disaster Is Approaching Very Rapidly

So the FBI’s Los Angeles and Portland field offices also helped out with targeting Latin Mass Catholics?

“There’s a Fresh Wind Blowing” For Religious Freedom in America

EV startup Lucid is losing over $500,000 for every car it sells

Everyone who wants a car run on batteries already has one.

Biden Corruption Context and The Lightbringer

I think Sundance will be surprised at just how much gets exposed.

Bidenomics – Multiple Key Performance Indicators Spell Trouble Ahead

Nothing new, just another voice to add to the Greek chorus.

Snarky and Brilliant – President Trump Will Travel to Iowa State Fair With 9 Florida Republicans Who Endorsed Him, On Same Day DeSantis Will Attend

He he he

Tweety Tweets:

If it actually happens….

I swear to God that this division in the republican party is going to cost us the election. I have friends voting for DeSantis. I’m not going to try to change their mind, but many DeSantis supporters are all up and down my feed screeching like liberals.

Literally repeating the same thing over and over. Trump isn’t going to win. There’s no way. Might as well vote for DeSantis. Trump is selfish. If he cared about the country, he would back DeSantis.

Who tf are you trying to convince here? Apparently not confident enough to keep regurgitating the same thing over and over.

You’re not changing my mind or other Trump supporters’ minds.

You will cost us the election.

I put a half a pound of those in my fruitcake every year.

Not good.

Amen.

Can any North Carolina peeps confirm this?

MEME STASH:

Yeah, I know. GONG!

Yuck. And it’s teflon, too.

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JOHN 15:4-10

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

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230810

Badlands News Brief – August 9, 2023

The WHO’s Last Stand

US Credit Card Debt Passes $1 Trillion For First Time

Almost have mine paid off.

Trump likely to face gag order after he targeted prosecutors, witnesses, and judges online, experts say

Good luck with that.

Turning California Purple

Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind

LEAKED Secret “Cypher” Catches Biden Red Handed In Ouster Of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan

The Biden Crime Cartel strikes again. I have a feeling what we know now is just the tip of the iceberg.

Rogan says “No f**king way” to digital currency, “That’s game over”…

Agreed.

Is America an open-air insane asylum?

The trouble with battery-operated cars

Who is Michael Jones?: FBI Informant Planted in Proud Boys Caught on Tape on January 6

Breaking: NIH Secret Third-Party Royalty Database Uncovered

Joe Rogan and Patrick Bet David Begin to Figure It Out – “There Are Trillions at Stake”…

TWEETS!

https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1688831915329982464

There is a massive energy shift going on.

It feels like we have reached a tipping point in the normie-waking campaign. S

o many people are now outspoken about the lies and deceit, that it’s given others the courage to do the same.

This effect has compounded across the globe. Now it’s considered socially acceptable to be a “truther”. It’s the counter-culture now.

It’s cool to be anti-establishment. Now that a large enough portion of people have begun to reject establishment narratives, many of the sleepers will join with us, simply because of their natural human desire to fit in.

In other words, we have been dominating the culture war, and now it’s starting to bear fruit.

I really wish people who post online would learn proper punctuation. A period NEVER is supposed to be outside quotation marks. Ask my mother the grammar nazi.

I agree. We need to get organized.

It’s time she retires, at the very least.

I know people with this issue.

Haven’t had a microwave in seven years. Some days it is missed…especially when the double boiler doesn’t get cleaned out right away.

MEMES and FUN STUFF:

Made with Square InstaPic
Made with Square InstaPic

That movie touched a nerve.

Probably not the cheese….

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  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
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2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-10

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

PSALMS 112:1-2, 5-9

1Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! 2His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. 5It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice. 6For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered for ever. 7He is not afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD. 8His heart is steady, he will not be afraid, until he sees his desire on his adversaries. 9He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn is exalted in honor.

JOHN 12:24-26

24Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26If any one serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also; if any one serves me, the Father will honor him.

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SATIRE

So, it wasn’t Sue Ellen’s sister?

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230804

Lemon Cooler

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 ounces dry vermouth
  • 1 ounce gin
  • 1/4 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
  • 1/4 ounce grenadine
  • Bitter lemon soda or lemon-flavored club soda, to top
  • Garnish: 1 lemon wheel

Steps

  1. Add the dry vermouth, gin, lemon juice and grenadine to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
  2. Strain into a Collins glass filled with fresh ice.
  3. Top with bitter lemon soda or lemon-flavored club soda and garnish with a lemon wheel.

Arabian Nights

True or not, that’s a fascinating read.

Badlands News Brief – August 3, 2023

Anons aren’t moving goalposts when we react with excitement to each new indictment, and follow with anticipation each new ‘walls are closing in’ deployment by media shills.

We’re acting this way because we were seeded with these ideas far in advance, so that we might act as the frame and support for the psychological battles and revelations to come.

To wit: many of us were saying this before the FIRST indictment.

As a result, a lot of Con Inc. doom merchants who never lost their blue checks are suddenly doing an about-face on how the walls are closing in on Trump because they’re realizing Anons have been right for years.

FOX News Crash-and-Burn: Only One-Third of Conservative Voters Now Trust FOX News

Progress

CIA moderating Wikipedia – former editor

That was a given considering that most of the pages are open to be edited by just about anyone.

Tweety Tweets:

MEME STASH:

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

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MATTHEW 9:35–10:1

9 35And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity. 36When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” 10 1And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230803

Badlands News Brief – August 2, 2023

Additionally, whether the Trump-DeSantis feud is for narrative purposes or genuine, all DeSantis is doing by rushing to the timely defense of Trump is demonstrating to Trump’s supporters that the powers behind him are looking to wear the America First movement as a skin suit in order to co-opt the messaging of the man who sparked it all in the first place.

It’s not going to help Establishment polling, while it’s going to continue to launch Trump into the stratosphere.

Judge rules Trump protected by presidential immunity for claims doubting election while in office

Jonathan Turley Warns: Biden Allegations ‘Shaping Up to Be One of the Greatest Scandals in History’

Biden was just the bagman. Somebody else was running the show, like whoever was running Obama.

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Asks Judge To Block The Release Of Secret Jeffrey Epstein Files; Feds Claim It Would Mess Up The Jury Pool In ‘Possible’ Ghislaine Maxwell Retrial

Right. Sure. It’s not about WHO is on the client list, now is it. Nope. Might contaminate the jury pool. That’s a good one.

Dr. Robert Malone: COVID jabs were a CIA operation to depopulate the world

At least this is getting attention.

Bernie Sanders leads lawmakers demanding DOJ prosecute fossil fuel companies for climate change

Would someone please put this old fool out to pasture.

Biden Preparing to Declare Pandemic-Like ‘Climate Emergency,’ Energy Industry Insiders Warn

Why a kinder, gentler Trump cannot exist

Beyond Weaponized: The Department of Justice Is a Domestic Terrorist Group That Calls Good Evil and Evil Good

That’s one way of putting it.

Cancel culture is getting canceled and it’s about time

Yes, but it took the extremes to get the people to really vote with their wallets.

The Trump Indictment Criminalizes Political Dissent

They want us to think that, anyway.

‘I STAND WITH TRUMP’ MOVEMENT STRENGTHENS AFTER THIRD INDICTMENT AND BIDEN DOJ INTERFERENCE ALARMS AMERICANS

Maybe so, but a lot of us are not enjoying the show. At all.

Conservatives Shred Mike Pence After He Issues Statement Supporting Trump Indictment: ‘Should Never Be President’

Shed like a snake skin.

The Media’s Key Demo is Abandoning It

Gee, I wonder why.

Just the intro music…. The rest of it…. zzzzzzzzzzz

TWEETS!

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1686711432555958273

MEMES and FUN STUFF:

https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1686702131720445952

For all those who saw “Sound of Freedom”, does anything here look familiar?

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All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

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, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

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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PSALMS 84:3-6, 8, 11

2My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. 3Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. 4Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! [Selah] 5Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. 7They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion. 10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

MATTHEW 13:47-53

47“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind; 48when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad. 49So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, 50and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. 51“Have you understood all this?” They said to him, “Yes.” 52And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” 53And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there,

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230728

Apposta Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1 750 milliliter bottle gin
  • 2 cup Aperol
  • 2 cup sweet white vermouth
  • ⅔ cup fresh lemon juice, strained
  • 4 ounce (1/2 cup) grapefruit soda, chilled
  • fresh thyme and orange peel, optional

Directions

  1. Combine all ingredients in a pitcher and serve in glasses over ice. Garnish with thyme and orange peel.

Badlands News Brief – July 28, 2023

Our Government Has Been Covering Up Its Crimes For A Very Long Time

The normies are figuring it out.

Eliminate Fraud with Patient-Controlled Healthcare

Human-Trafficking, Mind-Control and the CIA

Dear Hollywood: Learn to Code

I’d actually like to see a lot of them give it a go without the studios. The studios are stifling creativity, and there’s too much talent out there to waste it.

Anheuser-Busch to lay off hundreds of employees after Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney disaster

I’m now pretty convinced that the whole thing was done specifically to destroy A-B. This wasn’t the people at the top being unaware. They knew exactly what they were doing and how the American people would respond.

Is this summer’s extreme heat the new normal?

In these parts, it always has been normal. Frankly, here, the summer of 2013 was worse. So was 1988. My grandmother claimed 1934 was really hot. Hot summers happen.

“We’ve got dead aliens, but no Epstein client list?”: Americans unimpressed with UFO hearings…

Earlier this year, a number of sites and accounts I follow claimed that the U.S. Government was going to trot out the “little green men” narrative to cover for all the scandals. Darned if the “insiders” weren’t right.

Starbucks Hired Eric Holder To Conduct a ‘Civil Rights Audit.’ The Policies He Blessed Got the Coffee Maker Sued.

Another detransitioner speaks.

It Turns Out the Driving Range of Electric Vehicles Is Even Worse Than Advertised

Ya don’t say.

Check out the bar behind her. That’s some stock from the very people who demonize booze, and have psyched out a lot of people on the topic.

SCOTUS Rules Gas Pipeline Can Be Built, Slamming Bribery Biden’s “Green” Agenda

REVEALED: Mitch McConnell Recently Had a Major Fall at DC Airport – Also Reportedly Using a Wheelchair As a “Precaution” in Crowded Situations (VIDEO)

Report: Hunter Biden Appeared Agitated, Worried as Plea Deal Fell Apart

WATCH: Democrat Patty Murray Urges Befuddled Dianne Feinstein to Say ‘Aye’ During Appropriations Vote

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1684329826524577795
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1684355362969772034
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1684604337425612800
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1684624323955343360

Amen.

MIC DROP:

@PaulaYScanlan DESTROYS @RepCohen on biological men using women’s facilities

“By Rep. Cohen admitting that we need barriers [in women’s facilities] acknowledges there are biological differences between men and women.

And by acknowledging that we need to have private spaces that are separate from each other, why can’t we just use the locker rooms that we’ve always used – the men’s and the women’s?

If you’re acknowledging that we need protection and privacy from these men, then you’re acknowledging that the locker rooms we’ve always used are the correct ones.”

MEME STASH:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1684307786325262343

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.

_____________________________________________________

PSALMS 19:8-11

7The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 8the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. 10More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

MATTHEW 13:18-23

18“Hear then the parable of the sower. 19When any one hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart; this is what was sown along the path. 20As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. 22As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the delight in riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 23As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the word and understands it; he indeed bears fruit, and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

SATIRE!

As a child of the 80s, LOL!

Have a good weekend!