Category: Dear MAGA

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230413

Starting with Sundance:

Sea Island Senator Tim Scott Announces 2024 Exploratory Committee

The Battle…

Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Florida Media Outlet Conducts a Poll – DeSantis Floor Collapses, Donald Trump Promotes DeSantis Poll

Badlands News Brief – April 12, 2023

Elbridge Colby Wants to Finish What Donald Trump Started

5th Generation Warfare Is Waged In The Mind, The Heart and the Soul

Laughing at the Lies of the Left

Let’s start with the fact that lying is a survival skill for the left. Over the millennia, lies have been the only way they can stay alive. Their skills of deceit and deception are akin to the mottled pattern of coloration on a snake to keep it hidden on the forest floor. Deceit has become ingrained in their psyche and their skills have been polished and perfected over generations.

Project Icebreaker: The Beginning of a One World Digital Currency System

Reversing The Destruction of a Generation

The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities

NATO Generosity Betrays Institutional Obsolescence

NATO has one purpose: keep the Military Industrial Complex flush with cash.

Here are the 7 biggest revelations from the US leaks so far

The news is fake, but the leaks are real. Trying to decide on this one.

President Trump dropped several BOMBS on Tucker during his first interview since the arrest…

Two Men Hospitalized After Monopoly Game Ends in Sword Fight

It’s just a game.

Biden Supporters Triggered By Viral Video Showing Kids Chanting ‘Let’s Go Brandon’

Surprise! The COVID vaccines were never tested for safety

Just in case anyone didn’t know this already.

Surviving the storm

How Rejecting Biblical Masculinity Turns Men From Protectors To Predators

It’s Turtles All the Way Down

WOMEN WHO HAVE CELEBRATED GIRLHOOD FOR LONGER THAN DYLAN MULVANEY WANT TO KNOW WHERE THEIR BUD LIGHT DEAL IS

All the news that’s fit to pimp: Mockingbird corporate media no longer even pretends to be unbiased

Super Computers in the Info War

Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta

FTX’s Bankruptcy Lawyers: ‘The Dumpster Fire Is Out’

DNC Parts Ways With Marc Elias, the Clinton Campaign Lawyer Behind Steele Dossier

TWEETS:

Information forbidden, apparently.

https://twitter.com/OldRowSwig/status/1646167521383333890

The rest of you all can come, though. We’ve got a bit of everything to accommodate most tastes.

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1645930042524946433
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1646027871171887105

I’ve been listening to WAY too much First Wave.

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  2. No running with scissors
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LUKE 24:35-48

35Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. 36As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them. 37But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. 38And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? 39See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.” 41And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took it and ate before them. 44Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 47and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48You are witnesses of these things.

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230406

And…we’re off!

Badlands News Brief – April 4, 2023

“TikTok Bills”: Do Americans Need Big Brother’s Help to Restrict Apps?

Former NZ PM Jacinda Starts New Job… Combatting ‘Online Extremism’

Ready Yourself for the 2024 Storms

Republicans Need a Tech Manhattan Project

Trump gets the Nixon treatment

The GOP Has an Obligation to Protect Its Voters

The GOP is more interested in preserving their $$$ than anything else.

How Climate Alarmism Killed Real Environmentalism

Group steers Swiss billionaire’s money to liberal causes

Accomplished psychiatrist says demons, demonic possession are real

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Says he is No Longer Interested in ‘Pleasing’ the United States

GET WRECKED: Elon Musk’s Twitter Labels NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’

The Money behind the Transgender Movement

Know What to Expect: The Death of the Dollar Is Coming

Donald Trump’s arraignment day a throwback for news outlets

The Death of the Dollar and the Rise of the “Digital Dollar” Is Why Central Banks Are Buying Gold and Silver

What they’ve seen for a while, and what many American citizens are finally starting to see, is that gold and silver will be the only “safe haven” during the transition from physical fiat currency to Central Bank Digital Currencies. In other words, they want physical precious metals on hand as the U.S. Dollar crashes under the weight of the Biden-Harris regime’s intentionally awful fiscal policies.

Fascism is X and Not-X

The Emptying – transgender fetishism in a post-factual era

The War on Maga And The Republic Accelerates – Trump Ready to Fight the Indictments

This Is What You Need To Remember When It Seems Like The World Has Completely Gone Mad…

Why the Population Scare is Nonsense…

Vox Populi – Legislator Be Advised 2023 ~#17

Metaverse Fashion Week had big brands but few people

America Has An Egg Problem And It’s Creating Weak Men

Glenn Greenwald and Stephen Miller reveal dark, underlying reasons Biden’s regime is criminalizing MAGA…

Alvin Bragg Gets More Bad News As Trump Indictment Continues To Be Torn Apart By Legal Analysts

Sundance speaks:

“His Kind” Is YOU !

McConnell DeceptiCon Foot Soldier Roy Blunt Takes Role with DC Lobbying Group

A Message

Entirely Apropos – Team DeSantis Promote 2024 Endorsement from Thomas Massie that Massie Himself Doesn’t Promote – Because He’s Positioning to Replace the AWOL Mitch McConnell

That explains a lot.

TWEETS:

It looks like this freak-a-zoid is renting himself out to kill brand names.

Dude, when you do high kicks, the legs need to be straight, and the toes pointed. Every REAL girl out there who actually has been on a dance or cheer squad or has taken ballet knows this. If you’re serious about passing yourself off as a girl, gain some weight. Go eat ice cream if you can’t get a date. That’s far more realistic.

The sad thing is, this Christian Soriano (Project Runway designer) offshoot is probably making more money with this schtick than highly trained dancers.

Enough of him. Giving him attention is encouraging this crap.

THIS:

I can go along with that.

Stormy Daniels got short changed.

https://twitter.com/Pipspiper2/status/1643652207861018625
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1643721322948591618
https://twitter.com/FiatLuxGenesis/status/1643671587185467403

Honestly, I think most of them are depressed and have PTSD of some sort.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1643709549772242945

Hmmm……

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1643368783791177728

Nauseating is a little closer. I’m getting dizzy.

I’ve been listening to WAY too much First Wave.

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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.

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JOHN 13:1-15

1Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel. 5Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. 6He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.” 8Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in me.” 9Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “You are not all clean.” 12When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

Where (There Is) Charity And Love

Christian Hymns & Songs

Where there is charity and love, God is there

We are gathered as one in Christ’s love

Let us rejoice, and be glad in that

Let us fear and love the living God

And from our hearts is the upmost sincerity

Where there is charity and love, God is there

Therefore, when we are gathered as one

Let us not be divided in mind (spirit), Take care

Stop malicious disputes, stop fighting

And may Christ, Our God be in our midst

Where there is charity and love, God is there

Together with the blessed we see

Your face in glory, Oh Christ, Our God

The joy that is vast and virtuous

Through ages, for endless ages

Amen. (I believe).https://lyricstranslate.com

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SATIRE

Actually, they’re called brew maestros, and when the geniuses at InBev bought AB, they didn’t have the ones they laid off sign non-competes, and several of them started microbrews here, which are arguably more popular when one is not going to a parade, on a float trip, or to a fish fry.

Ummm…no.

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230331

Grand Slam

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces Flor de Caña 7-year-old grand reserve rum
  • 1 ounce Gosling’s Black Seal rum
  • 1/2 ounce Pierre Ferrand dry curaçao ancienne methode
  • 1 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed  
  • 1/4 ounce grenadine
  • Garnish: orange twist

Steps

  1. Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
  2. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over crushed ice.
  3. Garnish with an orange twist.

Sorry about the brevity of this post. I was downtown for opening day festivities for part of the day.

That doesn’t mean there wasn’t big news:

New York Times: President Trump Has Been Indicted by Manhattan Grand Jury – Indictment Under Seal, Terms for Arrest Ongoing

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641566996482408448

Other stuff:

Team DeSantis Say They Have Been Hoodwinked by Disney Inc. as Orlando Board Changed Covenants Before New Officials Appointed

Rand Paul Shreds Josh Hawley Over “Restrict Act” While Blocking Unanimous Consent and Reminding About Constitution and “Bills of Attainder”

Badlands News Brief – March 30, 2023

Jamie Dimon To Be Deposed Over JPMorgan-Epstein Relationship

The drug being readied for the avian flu plandemic causes side effects that include BELIEVING false narratives, making it perfect for social control

Given the source, I’m not sure this is real, but it makes a great headline.

Could the RESTRICT Act Criminalize the Use of VPNs?

The Digital Iron Curtain: How the RESTRICT Act Threatens to Devastate Privacy and Crush Free Speech Online

The Nosedive of Ron DeSantis

How Much Longer Can Western Governments Spit on Their People?

The Cultural And Political Forces Driving Violence In The Black Community

How the Media Doubles Down on Falsehood

The Source of ‘Too Big to Fail’

Learning from Our (Bank) Failures

Josh Hawley plays fast and loose with internet freedom… Rand Paul gets it…

Board transferred all its power to Disney shortly before DeSantis’ appointees took over

Durham Unveils Smoking Gun FBI Text Message, ‘Joint Venture’ To Smear Trump

Trump Knows

From Trans Supremacy to AI, How Wokeness Seeks to Replace God

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641188069821804546
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641220051150807045

Who said life was fair?

MEME STASH:

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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.

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JEREMIAH 20:10-13

10For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him.” 11But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten. 12O LORD of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause. 13Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

PSALMS 18:2-7

1I love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. 4The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me; 5the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me. 6In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

JOHN 10:31-42

31The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?” 33The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, `I said, you are gods’? 35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken), 36do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,’ because I said, `I am the Son of God’? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39Again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. 40He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John at first baptized, and there he remained. 41And many came to him; and they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42And many believed in him there.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230330

Today is opening day.

Jeremy really is the organist for both the Cards and the Blues, plus he has a church job.

I guess I better find out who made the final squad.

Can it be true?

JUST IN: Senate Votes 68-23 to End Covid Emergency

Most Americans moved on long ago, but why not make it official.

James O’Keefe Starts Looking at Fraudulent Campaign Donations – FEC Reported Donations Via Act Blue Appear to be Money Laundering

It’s about time SOMEBODY looked into this abuse of the non-profit tax code…now if he would look at the rest of the non-profit tax code.

Jacob’s Limp

Badlands News Brief – March 29, 2023

BREAKING: Jury in Douglass Mackey trial tells judge they cannot come to a unanimous decision

A hung jury in the meme trial is actually good news for about all of us.

The End of the Cult of Free

Maybe in social media, but not in America, that’s for sure. The novel I authored that’s free is downloaded about forty times more often than the rest of the ten novels with a price tag combined.

Dr. Anthony Fauci sells memoir for ‘just under $5M,’ book insiders say

That’s not much for a money laundering payoff. Maybe there’s something going on behind the scenes.

161 House Republicans Voted to Abolish Education Dept., 60 GOP Voted to Keep It

Just make it go away.

Europol warns ChatGPT already helping folks commit crimes

Criminals will use any and all tools they can find to achieve their objectives.

Ukraine and the FBI: Profiles in Corruption

Overcoming America’s Political Paralysis

Time to End the Veil of Secrecy Inside D.C. Kangaroo Court

Like ChatGPT, Google’s ‘Bard’ ChatBot Peddles Left Bias

The Cross of Code

The danger of A.I. is not that it becomes like us, but that we become like it.

XI’S ‘CHILLING’ REMARKS: WHAT THE NEW MULTIPOLAR WORLD MEANS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

China Circles the Wagons Around TikTok

Watch: Rand Paul Claims Fauci Is Not Really Retired

The Men Behind the Curtain – Part 6

The Metaverse Is Quickly Turning Into the Meh-taverse

Exclusive: FAA Quietly Updates Guidelines to Clear Some Pilots Previously Diagnosed With Guillain-Barré Syndrome

There’s a good reason why there are two pilots on every commercial flight. I have it on good authority that pilots will fly on airlines other than the ones they work for on a regular basis, so there is always a good chance there’s a spare in the cabin.

Watch Teens Attempt to Carjack Man, But Can’t Drive Manual Transmission to Get Away

Minor…problem….

The Next Phase Of The War – Trans Terrorism

TWEETS:

Yeah, really, oh, really. This has been noticed:

If these lefties aren’t careful, they will be facing felonies. Oh, well.

https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/1640813615086293020

Still some rats to catch, Elon.

Yep.

I totally agree. AI is more of a threat than not.

Amen, Abby.

Watched that live. What a liar.

Rumors are lung infection – don’t forget the real Bergoglio only has one complete one – or heart attack. Either way, may he have the best of care…and don’t forget that the Lord moves in mysterious ways.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1640825751887912961

MEMES:

Proof that good comedy is universal:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1641192094445232131

Murphy lives at the raptor sanctuary in west county here. He’s quite the character and LOVES water.

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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.

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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.

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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GENESIS 17:3-9

3Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, 4“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. 5No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you. 7And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” 9And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

PSALMS 105:4-9

4Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually! 5Remember the wonderful works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, 6O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones! 7He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 8He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, 9the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

JOHN 8:51-59

51Truly, truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death.” 52The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, `If any one keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ 53Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you claim to be?” 54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God. 55But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him and I keep his word. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.” 57The Jews then said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” 59So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230324

The Green Man

  • 2 oz bourbon
  • 1 oz Cointreau
  • 2/3 oz Fernet Branca
  • 1/4 oz lime juice
  • 3 sprigs mint

Muddle mint with the bourbon. Add other ingredients. Shake with ice. Double strain into a glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint.

  • Nose: Mint, orange, bourbon, menthol
  • Palate: Fresh mint to start, orange and bourbon on mid-palate, followed by a nice bite of acidic citrus just after that. Finishes with slightly astringent camphor and more mint.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1638786870451802112

Before getting too into the weeds, this is France:

https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1638934052790226948
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1638969339784355840

I’d say the French have had enough. And this was over a new retirement age.

Badlands News Brief – March 23, 2023

SHOCKING REPORT: DOJ Embedded an FBI Informant Inside the DEFENSE TEAM of Non-Violent Jan 6 Prisoner and Former US Marine Zachary Rehl

Why is this shocking? The other side will stop at nothing to get their way.

SCOOP: GAO to Investigate Dubious FBI Surveillance Practice

With a strongly worded letter to follow.

Red states flee bipartisan voter roll cleanup group, blame its left-wing election agenda

Ohio and Iowa withdrew from the Electronic Registration Information Center last week, and Florida, West Virginia and Missouri did so earlier this month. Alabama canceled its membership in January, and Louisiana withdrew last year.

Alaska’s election chief is also eyeing the exit, and legislators in Texas are pushing for an out, too.

Well, at least SOMETHING is happening at the state level.

Kari Lake scores win as Arizona Supreme Court sends part of her lawsuit back to trial court

Much more on this in the tweets.

Trump Wants to Create ‘Spectacle,’ Appear in Handcuffs if He’s Arrested: Multiple Sources

Given the author of this piece is someone known to me on a first name basis for over ten years now (we both wrote on another blog years ago), this is pretty much his opinion. Mike has been a never Trumper from the word GO! He was convinced in 2016 Hillary! would win. It was all he harped about on Facebook the whole year.

New Report Shows Extensive Biden Admin Collusion to Classify Parents as Terrorists

Biden’s DOJ is quietly trying to orchestrate taxpayer-funded bailout of Moderna

Oh, hell to the no. Not. No way, Jose.

Philadelphia will PAY women to get pregnant: Expectant mothers will be entitled to $1,000 a month ‘with no strings attached’ amid falling fertility rates and rising baby deaths

I saw something a couple years ago or more about being prepared for birth control to be illegal and incentives for parents to have more than 2.3 children coming in the future. It’s started already.

STOLEN VALOR: Top Ukraine ‘volunteer’ soldier revealed to be fraud, heavily promoted by Adam Kinzinger, Malcolm Nance

It’s the Spanish American War thing all over again. The reporting was pretty much all fake, but it sold a lot of papers.

Ex-House ‘Russiagate’ investigator Kash Patel sues Politico over impeachment lies

Evil Medicine

The Worst Prison Is the One You Don’t Know You’re In

Government Isn’t the Victim; It’s the Perpetrator

Why a Flat Tax Will Never Get Off the Ground

A flat tax would destroy the accounting industry. That seems to be the bottom line.

Irreconcilable differences but no divorce?

Can We Call It an Invasion Now?

The War on Humor

Rooting Out Election Corruption

Tweety Tweets:

This is a big deal. The lawsuit is still alive and the Arizona Supreme Court more or less told the lower court that their rationale for their ruling was not correct.

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1638642792242061313

Catturd ™

@catturd2

Democrat policies 101 …
1) Create a problem that doesn’t exist like GLObAl WaRMinG.
2) Use fake scientists, fake news, fake data to support your hoax.
3) Use over-the-top fear tactics to scare people into believing it (the earth is going end in 12 years and all the cities will be underwater in 5 years, etc – if we don’t act NOW!)
4) Use your fake news propagandists to amplify the fear.
5) Use your fake fact checkers on the Left owned social media platforms to ban anyone who tells the truth.
6) Demonize the truth tellers.
7) Rake in trillions on the hoax that doesn’t exist – so you and your friends can get filthy rich and gain power. (you don’t have to spend a dime on the hoax because it doesn’t exist.)
8) Rinse and repeat on the next “end-of-the-world” made-up fake crisis.

8:05 AM · Mar 23, 2023

Another example of lampoon the idea in the name of comedy so that the sheep will not believe that he’s actually telling the truth.

I looked it up. This is a study from 2012. Could it be that all these depression issues in women resulting in wanting to be a man might stem from going vegan or vegetarian? It’s worth considering as a contributing factor, IMO.

https://twitter.com/AnthonyDeWitt7/status/1638746686322520064
https://twitter.com/chrisabraham/status/1638974057164177408

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1639005201402085378

MEME STASH:

Buh-bye!

https://twitter.com/DarwinAwards_/status/1638994804662231040
https://twitter.com/puppiesDoglover/status/1638897125512871937
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1638650065420951552

No wonder the occult has adopted them.

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  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.

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Author note: Wisdom is one of the Old Testament books not included in Bibles following Martin Luther’s version of it.

WISDOM 2:1, 12-22

1For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end, and no one has been known to return from Hades. 12“Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. 13He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. 14He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; 15the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. 16We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. 17Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; 18for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. 19Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. 20Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.” 21Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them, 22and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hope for the wages of holiness, nor discern the prize for blameless souls;

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230323

Welcome to the daily where the $#!+ show never seems to end.

So, about the indictment of President Trump:

https://twitter.com/AnnaApp91838450/status/1638514665914351617

Bragg Hit the Brakes – Manhattan Grand Jury Told to Take Day Off, Delaying Any Indictment of President Trump

I actually agree with this assessment:

I didn’t think it was going to happen from the beginning. And, anyway:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638639843411410950

Bombshell 2018 Letter From Cohen Attorney to FEC *SHOULD* Collapse Pretext of Alvin Bragg Nonsense Case Against Donald Trump

Okay, the link list:

Badlands New Brief – March 22, 2023

Did Donald Trump break the Koch machine for good?

Democrats see downside in Trump’s N.Y. case

One of the reasons it’s probably over.

How Donald Trump’s team wants to capitalize on his arrest, indictment 

There’s no such thing as bad publicity when you’re Donald Trump.

Spies tell Page Six that The Donald is in “high spirits” in advance of his possible arrest and indictment this week.

Sources even say Trump wants his potential arrest to be a high-profile affair for maximum exposure.

Anyone who has studied 300 level and above PR knows there’s no such thing as truly bad publicity. Thanks to OJ Simpson and a car chase Ford got LOTS of free publicity one evening and sales went up without them spending a dime.

The U.S. Government Is Building A Vast Surveillance And Speech Suppression Web Around Every American

FAUCI: ‘We Need To Break’ Will Of ‘Republicans,’ Make Them Get Vaxxed

Is new strain of paranoid leftism making American teens, young adults sick?

Tens of millions of American teenagers are miserable. Teenage girls, according to a recent CDC report, published on Feb. 13, are particularly miserable. 

Roughly 60% of U.S. teen girls have persistent feelings of sadness and despair — double the rate of boys. Close to three million teenage girls contemplated suicide in 2021, according to the extensive report. 

The social isolation imposed by harshly restrictive COVID-19 mitigation strategies certainly made things worse, but rates of teen depression were rising long before the pandemic brought the country to a screeching halt.

Unrealistic expectations in a lot of ways will do this also.

Poll: Plurality of Republicans Do Not Believe Ukraine Is ‘Vital’ U.S. Interest

‘They don’t respect women’: Fox News producer says she was set up in Dominion case

SCOTUS Nullifies Lower Court Ruling Giving Teen The Right To Seek An Abortion Without Parental Notification

BREAKING: Trump SLAMS globalist establishment for supporting endless wars

There Are Compelling Pragmatic Considerations Behind Supporting Trump Or DeSantis

There are no reasons to support DeSantis at this juncture.

Philosophy Professor: ‘Don’t go to College! Become an Electrician.’

Union trades do provide good income.

Good news sucks for climate cultists

There’s a war against happiness.  Climate alarmists bury good news and exaggerate bad news.  They have made up their minds to be miserable, and they’re determined to take the rest of us down with them.

For example, have you heard that over the past 30 years, there has been a 14-percent increase in the Earth’s green vegetation?  Deserts are getting smaller, and forests are getting lusher.  That gain even has a name: “Earth Greening.”  Not surprisingly, 70 percent of it stems from the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere!  Zaichun Zhu, one of the scientists who measured the greening, says it’s equivalent to adding a new continent of green vegetation twice the size of the mainland United States.

The benefits of the increased vegetation are widespread: “It means more food for insects and deer, for elephants and mice, for fish and whales.  It means higher yields for farmers; the effect has probably added about $3 trillion to farm incomes over the past 30 years, so less land is needed to feed the human population and more can be spared for wildlife instead.”  We’ve given a raise to all commercial farmers around the world.  Increased supply eventually results in reduced prices.

Where is the GOP united front opposing Bragg’s politicization of the justice system?

The Right Doesn’t Have to Agree on Everything—Only on Fighting the Left

History Unremembered

Play the Game

Have you ever noticed the conservative establishment is always compromised in the same way?

The Unraveling of the U.S. News College Rankings

They’ve always been a joke. The size of a school’s endowment is one of the ranking factors.

Beyond George: Other Soros family members helped push Manhattan DA Bragg into power

The Decade We All Became Slaves

COVID States Project Gives New Hope to Unvaccinated

Mexican President AMLO Hits Biden Over Likely Arrest of Trump, While Pushing Back Against Dangerous Cartel Narrative

TWEETS:

Reminder:

https://twitter.com/ReOpenChris/status/1638254567396634628
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1638187389058424834

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638341530648825857
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638322387958616065
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638585485554589724

MEMES:

That’s actually titled “Global Stupidity.”

https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1638325793569882117
https://twitter.com/AnimalNoContext/status/1638296409966346251

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EXODUS 32:7-14

7And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves; 8they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'” 9And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people; 10now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I will make a great nation.” 11But Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, “O LORD, why does thy wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians say, `With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self, and didst say to them, `I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.'” 14And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

PSALMS 106:19-23

19They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image. 20They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass. 21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, 22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea. 23Therefore he said he would destroy them — had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

JOHN 5:31-47

31If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true; 32there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true. 33You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved. 35He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me. 37And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen; 38and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent. 39You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; 40yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. 41I do not receive glory from men. 42But I know that you have not the love of God within you. 43I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? 45Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope. 46If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. 47But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

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SATIRE!

Fox News Ratings Plunge After Hiring Non-Blonde Anchor With No Cleavage

DEAR MAGA: TGIF St. Paddy’s Special Open Thread 20230317

Cocktails on the Feast of St. Patrick?

That is all.

Okay, I’m going to be MIA much of the day celebrating, so please hold down the fort.

Let’s see…what’s on the link list this afternoon. 😏

The mother WEFfers are losing.

Clif High is trying to watch his mouth. It never seems to work.

Prominent Writer Says Conservative Commentators Shouldn’t Have Opinions On Vaccines, Climate Change

A prominent writer and podcaster declared Wednesday that conservatives “should not have opinions” on topics like climate change and vaccines.

“We’re swimming in a sea of misinformation, where you’ve got people who are moving the opinions of millions of others, who should not have an opinion on these topics. There is no scenario in which you should be getting your opinion about vaccine safety or climate change, or the war in Ukraine, or anything else that we might want to talk about from Candace Owens, right?” Sam Harris, an author and podcaster, said, referencing the Daily Wire host who clashed with former President Donald Trump over vaccines in a December 2021 interview.

Um, Sam, in case you haven’t noticed, the “age of the expert” is over.

Badlands News Brief – March 16, 2023

The Accomplishments of President Trump Part One – Government

Ron DeSantis has a Florida problem

From Politico. Looks like the other side is attacking already…not that DeSantis has a chance.

DC Rumor: Mitch McConnell Might Never Return to the Senate

It’s a rumor, yes.

There’s a Growing ‘Trad-Wife’ Trend That’s Making Feminists Furious

Anything that contributes to that cause is worth it.

Elections Have Consequences; Stolen Elections Have Catastrophes

Understatement.

How DIE kills the American Dream

Feminism is deeply rooted in Satanism and the occult…

And according to the exorcist I was listening to on the treadmill Thursday morning, women are possessed at rates much higher than men for some reason.

[VIDEO] Charlie Kirk reveals more disturbing bombshells in the Douglass Mackey “meme trial”…

Our Knowledge of History Decays Over Time

Rasmussen Poll Shows 55% of All Voters Agree that DC Republicans Worked With DC Democrats to Keep Trump From Being Reelected in 2020

I call that progress. People are waking up.

Pentagon Mobilized to Support Tech Startups After Bank Failure

Records: Missouri County Used Taxpayer Money To Join Democrats’ Private Election Takeover Scheme

For reference, UM Columbia is in Boone County. Boone touches the county where Jefferson City is.

We Shouldn’t Have to Write This, But Yes, Mike Pompeo Sucks

Big Banks Agree To Historic $30 Billion Unsecured Deposit Injection In First Republic Bank

Emails in 2020 blow the covid PCR test scam out of the water

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1636110154688020483

I’m not that optimistic, but it does demonstrate the sort of person he is.

Dude…really…who are you and what have you done with the real Kevin McCarthy.

MEME STASH:

Conservatives actually do pick up their own trash.

https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1636038489857839105
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1636119935649738754
https://twitter.com/HumansNoContext/status/1636153689692930050

Yeah, my brothers would do that.

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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.

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HOSEA 14:2-10

2Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept that which is good and we will render the fruit of our lips. 3Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses; and we will say no more, `Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In thee the orphan finds mercy.” 4I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. 5I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, he shall strike root as the poplar; 6his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. 7They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden; they shall blossom as the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon. 8O E’phraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress, from me comes your fruit. 9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

MARK 12:28-34

28And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” 29Jesus answered, “The first is, `Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this, `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that he is one, and there is no other but he; 33and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any question.

SATIRE!

So far, that’s worked for a lot of people.

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230316

Where to start?

We’re more likely to follow the money, but, hey, we all need to follow something.

Okay, here we go:

Badlands News Brief – March 15, 2023

The American Diet Has a Sandwich Problem

Since when have government standards on nutrition been right?

The American Banking Crisis & The Faustian Bargain to Come

Unless one was asleep, for a couple of days to three years, the United States had yet another crisis brewing to a froth over the past weekend. The results of Slaughterhouse Ten, those banks declining by -10% on the Casino Stock Exchange, will be ongoing amid the septuagenarian-led responses at the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and by the Commander-in-Chief. This assured crisis is left to the tired and inflexible bones of three persons never known to be particularly creative, gifted with crisis management, or messaging to guide a country through the assured hardships that lay ahead. Unlike others, I will not continue to lay blame at their doorstep (in totality, this time) however. The overt wasting of our Founders’ inheritance, the rights and liberties that came at a dear price (not always perfectly shared across The People), is actively and maliciously attributable to forces within and international actors that grip us like a boa constrictor.

University Asks Judge To Block Release Of Documents Related To Dangerous Coronavirus Research

University of North Carolina tries to hide from the past.

Stanford Advises Students That They Can Seek Support from the DEI Dean Who Supported Their Denial of Free Speech

In what may constitute the most tone deaf response to an academic scandal in history, Stanford University is advising conservative students involved with the recently cancelled Federalist Society event that they can “reach out” to various resources, including DEI Dean Tirien Steinbach who helped shutdown the event. It is akin to the Oscars telling Chris Rock that Will Smith is available as an emotional support coach. You know what is emotionally therapeutic for those denied free speech? Free speech.

Even Jonathan Turley is waking up to the baloney.

Inside the Coming Wall Street Journal Shake-Up

The J6 Committee’s Obstruction of Justice

Britons Skipping Meals, And Living In Cold Houses To Cope With Inflation

Put that with COVID shots, and it sets up some REALLY unhealthy living in the UK.

RFK Jr. Says CIA Is Connected to 2001 Anthrax Attacks

Leahy and Daschle? Both are Dems. What did they know?

Sure enough, NewsGuard gets federal funding

Texas Border Sector Reports 10K Known Border Crossers in Single Week

Trump Proven Correct As Over 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters Removed From LA Voter Rolls

Imagine that.

The Democrat-Media Insurrection Myth

At Wellesley College, Students Vote to Admit Trans Men

Go woke, get raped. Wait for it.

How to Separate Fact From Fiction

Study: Vitamin D Reduces Dementia Risk by 40%

Nonprofits push startup diversity aims during Silicon Valley Bank crisis

As Silicon Valley Bank’s customers panicked about their money stuck at the lender last week, some deep-pocketed nonprofits, including major foundations, privately floated an unorthodox idea: Giving cash infusions to startups in exchange for their agreement to certain diversity and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) principles, people familiar with the matter said.

The government’s move on Sunday to protect all uninsured deposits made those funds unnecessary. But the proposal reflects the growing, opportunistic demands of venture capital investors, like university endowments and nonprofits, which have been sending questionnaires to VCs they back about diversity numbers, greenhouse gas emissions, and other governance issues.

Rep. Chip Roy Formally Endorses DeSantis For President Although He Has Not Announced

The swamp is actively pushing for a man the main street voters in the blue collar world would rather have as a player to be named later.

And now for the it’s just too coincidental to be a coincidence from the Ides of March:

Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump: War against the Elite

The COVFEFE Dig

Both pieces revolve around the efforts to rid the nation of central banks and bankers. Andrew Jackson succeeded and that lasted about eighty years. President Kennedy gave it a shot and was publicly executed for his efforts. President Donald Trump also would like to see the end of the central bank known as the Federal Reserve. For some reason, the author of the second Substack piece seems to believe that Trump would be pushing us toward Bitcoin – famous for the Pepe frog – rather than a currency backed in a commodity. Some of us think President Trump is smarter than that, but that’s the supposition of the author.

Along the way, it is noticed that BOTH pieces were published on March 15, the Ides of March, and the deadline for tax payment in the Roman Empire. Yes, Julius Caesar was stabbed on the date, but there is more significance than just his death.

March 15 also happens to be Andrew Jackson’s birthday.

Put all that together along with a lot of tweeting that happened on March 15 over the years, and the author of the second piece makes some really rather out there arguments for the importance of the numbers 3,1, and 5 in the coded communications being passed around by Trump and others for which we in the cheap seats do not have a decoder ring. Along the way, said author takes us down numerical gematria lane. For many years, I discounted much of the idea of gematria, until I heard the famous, and AMAZINGLY knowledgeable Jimmy Akin explain that the number of the Beast in the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) is/was gematria in multiple languages for Nero. Listen to his explanation here if the reader likes. I should have it cued up to 44:47 where the question regarding the Beast is asked. (And, yes, Fr. G.R., my sophomore religion teacher, did tell us that the Beast was Nero and Nero’s Rome.)

TWEETS:

Now they tell the people. [FACEPALM]

https://twitter.com/PTRUMPFORTX2020/status/1635941485051891714

He created the world’s most popular operating system? Which was ripped off from another operating system, and he strong-armed computer makers to put HIS system on their product exclusively? With VISTA I managed to crash the internet in an entire building one time.

The Sacramento Bee has apologized, and Charlie is considering legal action.

ICYMI:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1636053543290372097

Did I already post this?

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1635770292415913984

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1636094226617212928
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1636107673878904832

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And now for the business portion.

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  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

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JEREMIAH 7:23-28

23But this command I gave them, `Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 24But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. 25From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day; 26yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers. 27“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 28And you shall say to them, `This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

LUKE 11:14-23

14Now he was casting out a demon that was dumb; when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people marveled. 15But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Be-el’zebul, the prince of demons”; 16while others, to test him, sought from him a sign from heaven. 17But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. 18And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Be-el’zebul. 19And if I cast out demons by Be-el’zebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 20But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace; 22but when one stronger than he assails him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoil. 23He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

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SATIRE!

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230310

Blood and Sand

Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ ounces Scotch
  • 1 ounce Cherry Brandy
  • 1 ounce Blood Orange Juice (freshly squeezed)
  • 1 ounce Sweet Vermouth

Directions

  • Pour all ingredients into a shaker.
  • Fill with ice. Shake vigorously.
  • Strain into cocktail coupe.
  • Garnish with a brandied cherry or enjoy straight.
  • Cheers!

On Thursday, there were two stories really overshadowing everything else. One was the hearing featuring Matt Taibbi of Twitter Files fame of the Congressional Subcommittee on the Weaponization of [Government] Stuff. Talk about a dumpster fire. WOW where do the Democrats come up with these people?

Thankfully, Jim Jordan was presiding. Here’s the majority of it rather than putting in countless tweets, people can just fast forward. Sorry to just link it, but the darn thing won’t embed and as of this writing that is the longest video available. This is the FOX feed which will also not embed.

Lowlights here:

From Sundance:

A Familiar Brand of BS from Former DOJ Lawyer, Turned New York Rep, Dan Goldman

The second story is more on Tucker Carlson and the reaction to his release of J6 videos following three specific story lines.

HUGE! Tucker Carlson’s Team Reveals Video Footage Shown By Jan 6 Witch Hunt Committee Was DOCTORED…Inserted SCREAMS and Other Crowd Mayhem Sounds [VIDEO]

Beware the Nonresponsive Response to Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson is Arguing With Fog

Here are Tucker Carlson’s J6 show ratings compared to other cable nets guarding the narrative

Thanks to Gail for pointing out we should all watch this:

Tucker Carlson now is a target for challenging the Democrat groupthink

And now, for everything else:

Badlands News Brief – March 9, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: “If You Saw What I Saw, You Wouldn’t Release It Either” – Judge Napolitano on What President Trump Said to Him About Releasing JFK Files

Well, that definitely does nothing to alleviate curiosity.

From Reason?

There’s Something about MAGA

Lies, Damn Lies, and Democrats

The Secret History of the British and American Elite Who Worked for Hitler

A lot of major Democrat donors have a couple things in common

How ‘National Developmentalism’ Built America

Death of a Myth

You Can’t Eradicate “Transgender” People — Because They Don’t Exist

The 100+ Year Old History Of Death By Arrogance

The Width of a Thought

The Men Behind the Curtain – Part 4

Flynn v. United States

TERRIFIED OF DISCOVERY: MASSIVE IMPLICATIONS IN PFIZER WHISTLEBLOWER CASE

Did the “QAnon Shaman” Get Shafted on Sentencing? New Footage Raises Questions Over the Chansley Case

House Republicans call for a ‘briefing’ on the DoD’s latest failed audit

As grip slips on J6 narrative, Democrats reintroduce ‘COVID-19 Victims Memorial Day’

Congress presses Norfolk Southern CEO on Ohio recovery and a new train derailment hours before hearing

I’m sure there are incidents on CSX, Union Pacific, BNSF, etc., but we aren’t hearing about it.

When Your Getaway Car Is an EV, Charge It First

College Industrial Complex’s Left-Wing Lies

Matt Taibbi Releases Twitter File Review #18 – Whole of Government Censorship Approach, Including Senate Intel and Legislative Branch

Tweety Tweets:

It’s a start, and at least he’s calling out liars on national television.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1633861857969852419

I dare the guys in drag try to describe what it feels like.

https://twitter.com/DonBauman61/status/1633823217537236992

Sure, it’s the same guy.

https://twitter.com/integratedang/status/1633837028738764805
https://twitter.com/jacelala/status/1633841356320960515

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1633625785553547265

MEME STASH:

As a former competitive swimmer…sort of…that’s hilarious.

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1633925654675685379
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1633908317666852881
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1633777716796309507
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1633808509035741185

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 21:33-43, 45-46

33“Hear another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. 34When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; 35and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them. 37Afterward he sent his son to them, saying, `They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, `This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.” 42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: `The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.” 45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46But when they tried to arrest him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him to be a prophet.

SATIRE!

Top Questions from the Congressional Committee Hearing on the Protestant Reformation

No offense intended, but that was funny.

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230309

Okay, I think I’m on the road back to my usual self. A lot going on in the background.

Another Pulitzer Prize discredited as propaganda

Thank You for Asking, Mr. President

The feminization of academia is a disaster for intellectual freedom

China is hanging on to foreign investment money

China and money has popped up in a number of places this week, including sources I do not bring here due to the pure outlandishness of some claims. Something is going on, though. A Financial Times piece (behind a pay wall or I would bring it) claims that Chinese customers are looking elsewhere rather than deposit money in Swiss banks. Definitely a change.

Trump Throws Down the Gauntlet at CPAC

Bundy Ranch Redux (updated)

Brunson Brothers Update!

FTC Demands to Know Which Journalists Had Access to Twitter Files

Another Clinton associate dies suddenly from plane turbulence. No one else injured on flight.

Something is going on behind the scenes with the Clintons. This rash of deaths isn’t random.

Jordan Sather telegram post on why there is a push for chicken vaccines.

President Trump’s Call to Arms

Badlands News Brief – March 8, 2023

This will be my thread on all the undercover FBI assets I have located posing as violent and racist conservatives.

U.S. judge rules Missouri state gun law is unconstitutional

A Missouri state law that declared several federal gun laws “invalid” is unconstitutional, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday, handing the U.S. Justice Department a victory in its bid to get the law tossed out.

At issue was a measure Republican Governor Mike Parson signed into law in 2021 that declared that certain federal gun laws infringed on the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.

U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes in Jefferson City, Missouri, said the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) violates the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which holds that federal laws take priority over conflicting state laws.

Should the GOP Adopt Ballot Harvesting?

Trump Is Leader of Republican Party… and America

And the neocons and their followers just don’t want to admit it.

Four Things That Need to Happen Following Drop of January 6 Tapes

Renewables Aren’t Renewable

Why the Left Is Pro-Mask

Our Most Essential Institution Is Also Our Most Dangerous

A Growing Tide of Election Transparency Wins

Narratives Control the World

28 girls hospitalized with ‘anxiety’ after playing with Ouija board 

Time to call in an exorcist, and get on the Liber Christo protocol. Ouija Boards can be a portal for demons.

Sex, Lies, and Revolution: The Socialist Roots of the ‘Sex-Positive’ Movement

CHRIS HEDGES: LYNCHING THE DEPLORABLES

Secret Service and ICE conducted illegal surveillance through fake cell towers

EXCLUSIVE: Natural News releases lab test results of Tractor Supply “Producer’s Pride” chicken feed (and five other chicken feed products)

Shift Change

Moral panics always fade. Manufactured crises always crack and collapse. Propaganda always has a “sell by” date, and then it turns rancid. The effect is comparable to what Warren Buffett says about a recession: When the tide goes out, you can see who’s been swimming naked.

This is where we are with the January 6 narrative, as the most horrible attack on Our Democracy™ since the Civil War collides with the image of a dork in Viking horns calmly wandering the hallways with a police escort. The political class is taking it well.

Come to the Light, Little Buttercups

The Overdrive Timeline

When did a noticeable change occur—a change of pace? When did we go into overdrive?

I believe it occurred on 1/7/23, the day McCarthy was voted House Speaker and made his concessions to the House Freedom Caucus in order to get elected. From that day forward, everything changed. I believe this was the day the Deep State Cabal was both spayed and neutered.

Notice I didn’t just say the change occurred when McCarthy was elected House Speaker; this was inevitable when the Republicans took the House in November. Most understood McCarthy would likely become Speaker of the House. The change occurred when McCarthy made his concessions and showed he was going to “play ball”, and that he wouldn’t get in the way of Trump’s agenda.

On Saturday 1/7/23, McCarthy agreed to the concessions and was chosen Speaker of the House on the 15th round of voting.

Beyond Repair? The State of American Psychology

Is The Task Too Big for Current House Weaponization Subcommittee Structure?

During House Hearing on COVID Origin, Jim Jordan Shares Suspicious Timeline of Anthony Fauci Changing Lab Leak Origin

This is Tucker Carlson’s Wednesday’s episode which will not embed.

TWEETS:

https://twitter.com/AnnaApp91838450/status/1633086891468763140
https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1633290721863032834

Well now, it seems that the railroads need to be more than inspected.

Does Dr. Redfield think that testifying what we conspiracy people had two, three years ago is his get out of jail free card?

That should tell us all about the whole fight being a form of spiritual warfare.

Seriously, who are you and what have you done with the real Kevin McCarthy?

So was I. And over the weekend heard about a choir pretty much decimated because the director refused the shots and people wouldn’t be around her. I’ve never disclosed my status. I wonder what would happen if I did.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1633553853051285505

A rehearsal for what?

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1633661047444844545

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1633591154066219008

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1633248611206144001
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1633191999242227712

Almost like he’s Japanese rather than Brooklynese.

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1633439276326088706

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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.

____________________________________________________

JEREMIAH 17:5-10

5Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 8He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it? 10“I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

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SATIRE!