Category: 2020

Dear KMAG: 20190628 Open Topic

This FEAR NO EVIL FRIDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA KAG! KMAG world (KMAG being a bit of both).

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

And what do we want to be able to tell our VSG?

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!

AND WHAT TIME IS IT?

TIME TO….

DRAIN THE SWAMP

Our movement

Is about replacing

A failed

And CORRUPT

Political establishment

With a new government controlled

By you, the American People.

Candidate Donald J. Trump

Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:

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

Q posted again, according to a reliable pattern (see if you see the same one I am seeing).

3350

Be Ready

Q!!mG7VJxZNCI27 Jun 2019 – 4:23:57 PM

Be ready.

Q

Q Post 3350 from qmap.pub

This is big. THIS is the main message, IMO. It is PSYCHOLOGICAL. It is IMMINENT. This is not “get ready” – you should have prepared ALREADY. This is BE READY.

I know I recycled an old “preparation” meme for the header, but that’s the one where, when it originally played, you should have “gotten ready”.

Yeah, there is likely time to fill the tanks and hit the grocery store, but BIG PREP should have been done by now.

Note that Q’s post is very subtle, almost BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, TIC, TOC, YAWN, YAWN, YAWN in a kind of “don’t pay attention to the person who has said all this stuff before” way.

You know what I’m sayin’? Good. “Pay attention to this one” is where I’m putting MY CHIPS.

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Has the Stage Been Set?

Q!!mG7VJxZNCI27 Jun 2019 – 4:28:37 PM

[Future Comms]

Pre_stage ele_y

Pre_stage sec_y

Pre_stage dir_y

Pre_stage cap_y

[OnReady]

Q

Q Post 3351 from qmap.pub

Future comms, baby! Why? Because things are GOING DYNAMIC very soon. All that stuff Q talked about, about comms being shut down, messed with, and otherwise under attack – this is going to happen. We are going to have to GET DYNAMIC and FIGHT BACK.

HELL – it’s happening ALREADY! Just think about it. The Cabal tried to ratchet it up slowly, but it’s obvious that they’ve been turning the screws on us.

They are OPENLY MOVING AGAINST FREE SPEECH NOW. The FIRST AMENDMENT.

You see all this shit coming out now about what Silicon Valley was doing? Altering our fucking search results for POLITICAL CONTENT back to WELL before the 2016 election? Meddling on a scale that DWARFS what they even ALLEGE that Russia did!

DO YOU KNOW what this means? This means that “WE HAVE IT ALL” was watching this shit IN PROGRESS. This “breaking news” of MASSIVE ELECTION MEDDLING by Silicon Valley was KNOWN. “We have it all” had it all, brothers and sisters. They KNEW what kind of treason was being pulled. These LEFT TECH fuckers thought they were getting away with it.

I don’t see these progzi turds in Silicon Valley giving up. I don’t see them backing down. I see them having to be DRAGGED OUT IN CUFFS.

Be ready. Get your popcorn.

3352

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

Q!!mG7VJxZNCI27 Jun 2019 – 4:34:17 PM

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY.

PATRIOTS FIGHT.

Q

Q Post 3352 from qmap.pub

Patriots fight?

DAMN RIGHT THEY DO.

Be ready.

W

Democrat Primary Debates – Evening #1

Okay, folks. Think of this as recon #101. We’re scoping our opponents, looking for good memes for the 2020 election season. Yes, in order to be informed citizens, we have to watch the debates. We KNOW the press takes comments out of context, on the left and on the right——– so let’s be accurate, at least.

And there’s the chance our President will be tweeting comments to keep life interesting. Keep in mind, however, he leaves for the G20 at 1:00pm today and might be over the Pacific or otherwise engaged.

Hey Treepers, do us all a favor while you are here. If you have info about a particular Dem Candidate, please drop the info into the thread below. We can then come back to this thread as a reference.

Should be a fun evening. No throwing television sets into the driveway! Put on your happy face and come to the party!

Love to all!, Daughn

Trump Twitter

PS – Here is your DRINKING GAME (h/t coosmama!)

Dear KMAG: 20190625 Open Topic

This TOTALITARIAN TECH TITAN TAMPERING TUESDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA KAG! KMAG world (KMAG being a bit of both).

And a great thing that KMAG ain’t GAFA!!!

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

And what do we want to be able to tell our VSG?

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!

AND WHAT TIME IS IT?

TIME TO….

DRAIN THE SWAMP

Our movement

Is about replacing

A failed

And CORRUPT

Political establishment

With a new government controlled

By you, the American People.

Candidate Donald J. Trump

Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
https://twitter.com/RedNationRising/status/1143335827453427713

Well, it looks like things are becoming very obvious now.

NOT ONLY did the Silicon Valley tech giants conspire against us by HELPING and USING the PHONY “Russian meddling” hoax (which Russia helped them create with little bits of second-order-influential garbage, but let’s set that aside for the moment) in a FAILED ATTEMPT to swing the 2016 election FOR Hillary Clinton and AGAINST Donald Trump…..

NOT ONLY did the Silicon Valley tech giants do innumerable OTHER THINGS to tilt the election FOR Hillary Clinton…..

NOT ONLY did Google’s Eric Schmidt CONSPIRE to create the “fake news” narrative against us, only to have his ASS HANDED BACK TO HIM BY OUR VSGPOTUS (and Sharyl Attkisson, too)….

(YOU’RE FAKE NEWS, ERIC!)

NOT ONLY are the Silicon Valley tech giants NOW conspiring against us in NEW and CUNNING ways, with stupid, ridiculous excuses to HIDE WHAT THEY ARE DOING……

NOT ONLY were my theories VINDICATED – those theories that BIG TECH MANAGEMENT and the CORRUPT OBAMA-CLINTON Intelligence Community used their PHONY intelligence story of “Russian bots” to SUPPRESS CONSERVATIVES….

NOT ONLY did these same people try to continue this shit to IMPEACH President Trump….

BUT….

My theory that globalist DISCRIMINATION against “native American” IT workers in favor of FOREIGNERS, Social Justice Warriors, and others who would GO ALONG WITH ALL THIS UNETHICAL SHIT for these crucial

Socialist Nation-Capture Elections (2016 and now 2020)

is now becoming

STARKLY APPARENT.

It was our own Deplorable Patriot who pointed it out in THIS LADY’S CASE, based on her ACCENT…..

DID I SEE THIS SAME *HIRING* AND *FIRING* STUFF? You bet I did.

IS THERE A LAWSUIT AGAINST GOOGLE OVER THIS STUFF? You bet there is.

IS IT FUCKING WAR RIGHT NOW?

HA!

https://twitter.com/StormIsUponUs/status/1143340986350702592

RED DIAPER SERGEY and the WOCOMMIE SISTERS are GOING DOWN!

Here is the video now:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/re9Xp6cdkro/

WHAT? Bitchute videos don’t play in WordPress?

WHAT? Parler posts don’t show up in WordPress?

WHAT? Gab posts don’t show up in WordPress?

Maybe it’s time that the PEOPLE had a talk with WORDPRESS.

W

MAKE IT SO

Dear KMAG: 20190624 Open Topic

This Merry Warrior Monday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the KMAG-KAG! world.

Yes, it’s Monday…again.

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But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.

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Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. In fact, our host Wolfmoon encourages us to use it…and Enjoy it. “Use it or lose it”, he tells us.
But please keep it civil. Discussion of Q is not only allowed but encouraged. Imagine that! We can talk about Q here and not get banned.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

Trump+Trudeau

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from Audiomachine, titled ‘Breath and Life’:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hjjo4Dwo9E&w=640&h=360]

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Visual descriptions for our dear Zoe, and for anyone else who may find them helpful:
Header Image: Is President Trump in the oval office, with an amused look on his face. We don’t know who he was looking at when the photo was taken, but I get the impression that he didn’t think much of them.
Second Image: Is a moving image, a gif, of a polar bear with his head and shoulders down on the ice. He is pushing forward with his hind legs. He looks tired…but is pushing himself forward, even with his front half down on the ice.
Third Image: Is a cup of coffee with a frothy layer of bubbles on the surface of the coffee. Two large bubbles resemble eyes and an even larger bubble resembles an open mouth. It is a moving image and one eye winks at us while the mouth closes a little.
Fourth Image: President Trump is having to endure both the press and the insufferable Justine Trudeau…at the same time. He has an exasperated look on his face, like he can’t wait for the event to be over.

The things our President goes through for us!

Dear KMAG: 20190622 Open Topic

Welcome! The door is open, come on up and get comfy.

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This Summer Solstice Saturday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the KAG! world.
Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. In fact, our host Wolfmoon encourages us to use it…and Enjoy it. “Use it or lose it”, he tells us.
But please keep it civil. Discussion of Q is not only allowed but encouraged. Imagine that! We can talk about Q here and not get banned.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

TrumpWavingFromAF1

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this mix from Fearless Motivation of two tracks, titled ‘Face Your Demons’ and ‘Learn From Your Haters’:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvlppcIG_J8&w=640&h=360]

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Visual descriptions for our dear Zoe, and for anyone else who may find them helpful:
Header Image: Is a natural-looking doorway into the side of a giant Tree with a foot bridge leading up to it. Just inside the doorway is a stairway leading upward. Branches form the railings on the foot bridge and there is dense leafy vegetation on either side. A thick growth of ivy and moss nearly covers the bark of the Tree.
Second Image: Is an open-sided room with a view of the treetops. There are over-stuffed couches covered in throw pillows, with lots of lanterns placed around giving off a soft glow. The ceiling is supported by gnarly tree trunks and the railing along the open side is made up of bark-covered branches.
Third Image: Is a picture of President Trump, waving from just outside Air Force One. He is squinting from the bright outdoor light and has a solemn look on his face.

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Dear KAG!: 20190621 Open Topic

This FAKEBOOK FALLS FRIDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA KAG! world.

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

Always be able to tell our VSG this POWER STATEMENT in TRUTH:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!

AND WHAT TIME IS IT?

TIME TO….

DRAIN THE SWAMP

Our movement

Is about replacing

A failed

And CORRUPT

Political establishment

With a new government controlled

By you, the American People.

Candidate Donald J. Trump

Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:

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

It is extremely gratifying to finally see the Silicon Valley Social Media Censors being taken to task by Senator Josh Hawley.

Link: https://humanevents.com/2019/06/19/senator-social-media-twitter-facebook-section-230-immunity/

https://humanevents.com/2019/06/19/senator-social-media-twitter-facebook-section-230-immunity/

This guy totally gets it. Silicon Valley is now a COMMUNIST THUG OPERATION, operating out of ENEMY TERRITORY in CHINA-OCCUPIED CALIFORNIA.

There was a point in time when people realized we needed to go after Section 230. I remember posting quite a bit about it. THAT was when we finally had some kind of idea WHERE to attack the beast. But BEFORE THAT, we merely recognized that something was WRONG with Silicon Valley, and they would have to be ORDERED not to censor – possibly even BROKEN UP.

Steve Bannon was the first on populism’s side to prominently suggest this. What was NOT obvious THEN, but is extremely obvious NOW, is that the left’s MASSIVE attacks against Steve Bannon began IMMEDIATELY AFTER he began talking “anti-trust” against Silicon Valley.

Now – after talking to Tonawanda today, I realize COMPLETELY how socialism in general, and Silicon Valley in particular, snuff out ideas that they don’t like – by a very stealthy campaign to keep the discussion level of that item below some critical value that THEY UNDERSTAND.

SO – now that I understand how Google and YouTube are actually run by RED DIAPER SOCIALIST THUGS – certain things make sense – that these organizations might “farm out” the silencing of viewpoints they don’t particularly want to reach whatever critical value they must not reach. And we all know that OUTSOURCING is actually a form of denial of “how it got done”. When “methods” have to be used – why – just outsource! Outsourcing – oddly enough – turns out to be a form of the MAMET PRINCIPLE – “pretending not to know”.

On July 30, 2017, I made the unknowingly risky decision to publish a piece SUPPORTING Steve Bannon’s “radical” and “unthinkable” idea of reining in Silicon Valley censorship. It was based on the idea that SOME kind of “information anti-trust” was fully in line with Trump’s form of populism – that this was almost DESTINY for the MAGA movement.

Link: https://wolfmoon1776.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/trump-the-information-trust-buster/

It was NOT HARD for me to figure out that, after ALL the left-provoking things I’ve risked over the Obama years, the FIRST EVER STAKING OUT of my lowly abode JUST MIGHT HAVE BEEN CONNECTED to that little article, and the surprisingly warm reception it got. (Don’t trust the numbers on Twitter – more on that later.)

The intimidation actually got way worse, as in “classic thug type”, but there is no way that I, personally, can positively connect it to Silicon Valley. But I simply assume that the threat came from there. I stepped on SOMEBODY’S hedge fund.

I should note that whatever I or others did in response, it ended the problem. For a while.

Great Awakening, baby. Think they don’t use violence? Don’t think they use threats? Think again. The bogus staged Charlottesville incident (August 11-12) and the Las Vegas Massacre (October 1) followed shortly after this.

Followed – thankfully – by the firing of Treasonous McCabe and the deployment of QAnon, due to – in my opinion – militarily significant actions by the communists in conjunction with a politically motivated COUP ATTEMPT using the FBI and the Soviet American media.

Vegas was the last straw for “puttin’ up with the coup”. And I’m very glad people did what was needed after that, to end that bullshit.

Go on from there, to see how I was “awakened” to censorship at Twitter. This is actually a lot of fun to read, because in it, I am SPECULATING WILDLY about all sorts of stuff that we now know was not just true, but RIDICULOUSLY TRUE. Oh, man, that was fun.

Link: https://wolfmoon1776.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/how-hillary-turned-tech-against-trump/

From there, I eventually got on the “230” bus, almost a year later. Here is a nice thread:

Archived here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034468267056930816.html

Clearly, BANNON’S idea of actually CHALLENGING Silcon Valley took hold. Red Diaper Sergey and Google pulled back from China to Communist California, and – well – now we can see that….

IT TAKES A VILLAGE OF PATRIOTS ON THE INTERNET TO SPREAD THE WORD TO EVERY OTHER VILLAGE OF PATRIOTS IN REAL LIFE.

Heck – I may just have a Sam Adams.

And ponder the beauty of my new favorite composite number, 230.

W

Dear KAG!: 20190619 Open Topic

This WE WILL KEEP AMERICA GREAT! WEDNESDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA KAG! world.

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

Always be able to tell our VSG this POWER STATEMENT in TRUTH:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!

AND WHAT TIME IS IT?

TIME TO….

DRAIN THE SWAMP

Our movement

Is about replacing

A failed

And CORRUPT

Political establishment

With a new government controlled

By you, the American People.

Candidate Donald J. Trump

Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:

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

You will notice that starting TODAY, the Daily Open Thread has a NEW TITLE:

Dear KAG!

The PEOPLE have spoken, and KAG! it is.

SO, starting today, we begin the NEXT PHASE of our GRAND PROJECT of SECURING the LIBERTY, SOVEREIGNTY, and PROMISE of THIS GRAND REPUBLIC.

This does not mean that we abandon MAGA – not in the least.

Many things – particularly BAD THINGS which the diabolical DEMS have protected and encouraged, are not part of any “greatness” that needs to be kept. NO – much of America STILL needs to be “made great” – mostly by making Democrats…..

HELP FIX IT OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.

SO – we still need to KEEP UP THE MAGA while we BEGIN TO KAG!

And thus, we begin with excitement a NEW TASK, with a NEW OUTLOOK.

What the PEOPLE of AMERICA have MADE GREAT, we must now KEEP GREAT!

I don’t just think we can do it.

I *TRUST* that we can do it.

W

Trust that our mission to make great again and keep great the divine project of General Washington and the rest of the Founders will not fail – cannot fail – if we continue to place our Trust in a Higher Power of Good which rules over us..


Dear MAGA: 20190617 Open Topic

This Mighty 17 Monday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.

Yes, it’s Monday…again.

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But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.

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Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. In fact, our host Wolfmoon encourages us to use it…and Enjoy it. “Use it or lose it”, he tells us.
But please keep it civil. Discussion of Q is not only allowed but encouraged. Imagine that! We can talk about Q here and not get banned.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

trump-looking-out-window-oval-office

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from Fearless Motivation, titled: ‘Never Give Up’:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WnooA-uzyk&w=640&h=360]

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Visual descriptions for our dear Zoe, and for anyone else who may find them helpful:
Header Image: A giant image of President Trump is looming up over the edge of a rocky cliff. He is grinning and pointing his finger at a small James Comey, who is standing on the cliff. There is blue sky and ocean waves in the background.
Second Image: Is a moving image, a gif, of a polar bear with his head and shoulders down on the ice. He is pushing forward with his hind legs. He looks tired…but is pushing himself forward, even with his front half down on the ice.
Third Image: Is a photo of First Lady Melania and President Trump. Melania is smiling and looking over to the side. President Trump is grinning and looking straight at us, and is giving us a thumbs up.
Fourth Image: President Trump is standing in front of a window in the Oval Office, looking out at the grounds. The view is of his back. His elbows are bent, with his forearms in front of him, perhaps they are crossed…or he is holding something.

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Dear MAGA: 20190615 Open Topic

Welcome! The door is open, come on inside and get comfy.

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This Saving Our Republic Saturday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. In fact, our host Wolfmoon encourages us to use it…and Enjoy it. “Use it or lose it”, he tells us.
But please keep it civil. Discussion of Q is not only allowed but encouraged. Imagine that! We can talk about Q here and not get banned.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

WhereWeGoOne

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition mix from Fearless Motivation, titled ‘Self Confidence’:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYNQQuZo7tM&w=640&h=360]

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Visual Descriptions for our dear Zoe, and for anyone else who may find them helpful:
Header Image: Is a big Tree with an arched doorway in the trunk. There is a cobblestone path leading up to the doorway with a couple of stone steps. Spanish Moss and ivy cover the trunk and trails off of the spreading branches. There are different sized windows at intervals up the trunk and a soft glow is coming from the windows, as well as an arched window above the door.
It is dark in the forest surrounding the Tree, but there are glowing lanterns hanging from the Tree’s branches, lighting the way. Fireflies are dancing in the clearing around the Tree.
Second Image: Is a cozy interior room, with a comfy couch across from a heater that is giving off a warm glow. There is a rounded-top window revealing a view of the forest vegetation. Books are rowed up along the wide window sill and nearby is a small bookshelf full of books. Candles and a few globe-shaped lights create soft lighting in the room. There are tree branches supporting the ceiling and a staircase leading into the room.
Third Image: Is a graphic of President Trump, giving a thumbs up with his right hand. The words, “Where We Go One”, are above his head…and the words, “We Go All”, are below his image.
 

Socialism Freebies ~ What's the Cost?

Whaddya mean Bernie Sanders is trying to sell me on Socialism?

Woke up this morning and flipped on the news. First story was about a survey of how socialism is gaining traction among women. What? Makes no sense! Contradiction in philosophy. How are women supposed to be modern, strong, make their own decisions, independent…. yet want to be taken care of…. not by a man…. but by the state? Too proud to compromise with a husband to make a successful marriage…. yet willing to sell their souls and become passive…. to the state? Women don’t like being trapped in oppressive households and relationships. Ladies, be careful what you wish for.

Socialism is a bad idea for men and women…….. but it’s even worse for women, and all of us should know better.

I read Bernie’s platform in 2016 and the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America (DCA). If you have not read it, give it a try. It’s a contract for your life, and you should read it before signing up…… Bottom line, DCA/Bernie/AOC and her buddies advocate for government control of healthcare, banking, and all energy. Anyone who’s gone beyond an 8th grade education understands this is a bad idea…. that is….if we want to be free.

Everyone who has ever had their heart broken, especially women, should easily understand this conundrum. Nothing is ever ALL sunshine and rainbows. Without the rain, there are no flowers. Without ugly, there is no beauty. Without money, there are no great shoes…..

The problem is, socialism isn’t all gimme, gimme, gimme….. free college, better wages, guaranteed jobs, and life as a special rainbow unicorn in utopia. It’s a trade-off. No one talks about what we have to give up…. to get the “free” stuff. The politicians never mention the bad parts. WHAT college will the politician ALLOW you to go to? WHO will select YOUR job, YOUR career (because there will be a bureaucrat and a test to take in order to decide your career path)? WHAT will you be allowed to eat? HOW many children will YOU be allowed to have……. if any? WHERE will YOU be ALLOWED to live? It won’t be YOUR choice…. a bureaucrat will make the decision. With socialism, those days of “choices” are gone. Let’s not be stupid, here.

With capitalism, we have to work for and earn what we receive. What are you willing to do? We all want to be trim and fit, but are you willing to exercise and eat well?

We all want to be loved, but are you willing to invest in relationships, compromise, forgive, and heaven forbid, occasionally admit to being wrong? Could you relinquish your position even when you know you’re right? Because to be loved and in a relationship will take a LOT of capitulation….. for both parties. Or is it easier for you to get a dog/cat… where you can always be right?

We all want to be rich, but are you willing to forego instant gratification, work endless hours to develop your product or idea, buck the trends and your friends, remain determined……. even after you may fail multiple times? Could you do it? Or would you rather have “rich” fall into your lap…. easily.

Think about it. What are you willing to “give” in order to “take”, because there is always a trade-off.

Bigger questions….. What would make you happy? Does controlling others make YOU happy? Do YOU really think you would be one of those in power in a socialist system? I’m laughing…. some people assume they will be…… Do you have realistic expectations? What makes YOU so special? Why shouldn’t your neighbor be in charge of what YOU can have?

Would being rich, loved, or handsome/beautiful make you happy…… or is it really something else which is makes you angry, driving you, makes you restless, causes your fear? And most importantly, WHEN do you answer those questions? When you’re 20? 30? 60? Or never…..  Do you die with that baggage because it’s too hard to ask those questions? Look around, how many people do you know who live….. and die…… with a chip on their shoulder? Wow, what a burden to carry.

Aubergine said something yesterday or day before and it made my blood run cold. In a personal moment, she spoke of her mother being incredibly manipulative. The relationship with her mother caused her great pain, but taught her to stay away from people like her mother. She learned. I didn’t wish for the pain of Aubergine’s experience as a child, but oh, how I was jealous to not learn the lesson earlier in my life….. because it would have saved a great deal of pain in my life. And right there, I was guilty. I wished for Aubergine’s knowledge/experience……. without the trade-off of pain, and the wisdom with comes from the pain.

Nothing is ever free. What’s the trade-off? Yin and Yang. Equal and opposite reactions. Cause and effect. A free and easy life promised by politicians……no problems….. …sunshine and rainbows…… at no personal cost…… you’ve got to be kidding……….  Who believes this crap?

The promise of socialism is so fake, so obvious, it’s like trying to sell a diet of doughnuts and beer, to ensure the body of a supermodel or the Diet Coke guy. It reminds me of Hallmark movies, where the young girl’s absent father reappears and he’s really a prince….. and sweeps away the young girl and her forlorn/bitter mother to a faraway European Castle. Yet, the Hallmark fairy tales edit out teenage pimples, all the overdue bills, mom working two jobs, many nights of tears at 2:00am, and the girl not being popular in school.

Socialism is a fairytale. Grow up.

Today, too many people are buying what slick politicians are selling. They believe in the fairytale, take the easy path, the short cut to whatever we want…. It’s even better for politicians because they control the process…. Take the money and nice lifestyle  from someone else… who earned it = socialism. The socialists rationalize their behavior, “They have to pay their fair share.”, but when do YOU do your fair share of the work? What are you willing to give up?

Healthcare

With the ACA, women who are beyond child-bearing years, and women who never want children, lesbians, those who are sterile, still pay a higher healthcare premium because maternity coverage is mandated by ACA. Is it worth an extra $200/month to you? Cuz you’re paying for it. A bureaucrat made the decision and YOU have no choice.

The interest on all student loans was raised from 3-6% to 6-9% because the government makes money on student loans, about $42 billion a year…. and the earnings help to subsidize healthcare. With an average student loan of $25K, the increase of about 3% is costing YOU about $75/month extra. Is it worth it? Cuz you’re paying for it. Did you think just the rich people were paying taxes? Hahaaaa. A bureaucrat made the decision.

Yes it is noble to advocate for healthcare for the poor but let’s look at what we have to give up……. the trade-off. Yes, our system failed as those with serious illness were driven to bankruptcy because of healthcare costs but this particular problem has not yet been addressed. Yet, the ACA wrecked healthcare for the VAST majority of Americans, no choice of physician, led to part-time jobs, and spiraling premiums (mine is up 400% and I still go out of network, pay cash, cross a state line, to visit our family doctor)…. cuz the insurance companies were guaranteed a 15% profit. Gee, who wouldn’t want to be in a business with a guaranteed profit…… with no cost reduction measures as part of the deal. Who represented the American people for such bad contract? Ahhh, yes, it was the Dems, the precursor to socialized medicine.

Limited choices and more expense. Any 8th grader would reject it. Women with a student loan are paying about $275/month more = trade-off.

Banking

Why would anyone think it would be a good idea for a government to take over our banking sector. Are they kidding? The answer from the American left to the Crash of 2008 was Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, February 21, 2011. The Obama/Holder DOJ didn’t prosecute anyone for the Crash of 2008. No one went to jail. We got the crash of 2008 because the government thought they could regulate housing and EVERYONE deserved a house. How did that work out?

Tell me, who has benefitted from the CFPB? My little bank used to spend $300K a year in compliance costs. After CFPB, they spend about $2 million/yr. It’s less money for car loans, kitchen remodels, small biz expansion…. and less employees in the bank. How was the CFPB good? We still have loan shark pay-day loan businesses and exorbitant credit card interest for those who can least afford it. Ahhhhh, that’s right, the CFPB doesn’t answer to Congress…. so we’re really not sure.

The CFPB fined banks for billions of dollars (12 billion so far) ( Link  ) and is allowed to redistribute funds to “community organizations” which have a loose connection to those who were allegedly harmed. So the CFPB is really just a money train, taking money from banks…… and makes the cost of banking rise, for every American. Did you know, the CFPB has fielded 720K complaints since 2011……. which are public so anyone can make a wild claim, but the same database already existed at the FTC (which is private and adjudicated). It’s a dual effort…… yet the CFPB does employ another 12K people at government expense.

Duplicate agencies, the CFPB with no accountability to Congress, waste of taxpayer dollars…….. no, the 8th grader says, “NO!”. The 12 billion + cost of 12K workers = 13.74billion/150 million adult Americans = It cost you $91.60/year for a duplicate agency OR an amount equal to about 1/4 of the entire budget for the Dept of Education.

Energy

The idea of our government taking over the energy sector is scary. Even with Obama’s sluggish economy, the PRIVATE oil sector created fracking and a boom began, employing millions. We also recall the $6,000/gallon biofuel the Obama Administration insisted upon for the US Military, and the $7000 per car subsidy for electric cars. Billions upon billions were lost to “invest” in renewables and sustainable energy, and no socialist cared about children in the Congo mining Cobalt for 14 hours a day. Advances in nuclear energy were ignored. Coal production was all but shut down for “climate change” while the Chinese built 5 coal plants a month ….. because the bureaucrat in charge picked favorites. The Trump Admin came to office and 60K coal miners went back to work…. supplying clean coal plants….. reducing our energy bills and giving us more options for energy. We even export coal, decreasing our trade deficit. The USA is often referred to as the OPEC of coal. Who walks away from #1 status?

Those of us who are old enough to remember the OPEC embargo of the 70’s recall the humiliation of Americans standing in line, our economy brought to a standstill, because Middle Eastern Countries would not sell us oil. I was young but shocked a country as powerful as our’s could be brought to our knees. Well, under the Trump Administration, we’re now the #1 Oil and LNG producer in the world. A competent government would have addressed the problem much sooner.

Even if we were to assume Global Warming is the dire problem the DCA believes it is, we know Petroleum forms the base of thousands of products. Petroleum is also in the top three trade items of every single country on earth. It makes economic sense, and sound national security policy, to be a global leader in the petroleum industry…… unless you’re an ideologue who is a member of the DCA.

My fictional 8th grader took a look at this partial list of 6,000 items made with petroleum. The 8th grader wants to keep these items and is not willing to give up petroleum production…. even for the promise of freebies in a perfect world with sunshine and rainbows. My guess is …… the women who THINK they want socialism would reject such an ugly, smelly, dirty, socialist utopia.

Take A Look At The List of Petroleum Products

Even for shallow self-absorbed females……. Without nail polish, shampoo, makeup, lipstick, sunglasses, toothpaste, hair curlers, sweaters, dresses, perfumes, soap, purses, shoes, and deodorant…. no woman would want to live in such a world. (Link )

Diesel Fishing lures Dresses Tires Golf Bags Perfumes Cassettes Dishwasher Tool Boxes Shoe Polish Motorcycle Helmet Caulking Petroleum Jelly Transparent Tape
CD Players Motor Oil Bearing Grease Ink Floor Wax Ballpoint Pens Football Cleats

Upholstery Sweaters Boats Insecticides Bicycle Tires Sports Car Bodies Nail Polisher Faucet Washers Antiseptics Clothesline Curtains Food Preservatives Basketballs Soap Vitamin Capsules Antihistamines Purses Shoes
Dashboards Cortisone Deodorant Footballs

Putty Dyes Panty Hose Refrigerant Percolator Skis TV Cabinets Shag Rugs Electrician’s Tape Tool Racks Car Battery Cases Epoxy Paint Mops Slacks Insect Repellent Oil Filters
Umbrellas Yarn Fertilizers Hair Coloring   

Roofing Toilet Seats Fishing Rods Lipstick Denture Adhesive Linoleum Ice Cube Trays Synthetic Rubber Speakers Plastic Wood Electric Blankets Glycerin
Tennis Rackets Rubber Cement Fishing Boots Dice Nylon Rope Candles Trash Bags House Paint Water Pipes Hand Lotion Roller Skates Surf Boards

Shampoo Paint Rollers Shower Curtains Guitar Strings Luggage Aspirin Safety Glasses
Antifreeze Football Helmets Awnings Eyeglasses Clothes Toothbrushes Ice Chests Footballs Combs CD’s Paint Brushes Detergents Vaporizers Balloons SunGlasses Tents Heart Valves Crayons Parachutes Telephones

Enamel Pillows Dishes Cameras Anesthetics  Artificial Turf Artificial limbs Bandages
Refrigerators Golf Balls Toothpaste Gasoline Ink Dishwashing liquids Paint brushes Telephones Toys Unbreakable dishes Insecticides Antiseptics
Dolls Car sound insulation Fishing lures Deodorant Tires Motorcycle helmets Linoleum Sweaters Tents Refrigerator linings Paint rollers Floor wax
Shoes 

Nah, the women who run businesses and need caulking, diesel, floorwax, coolers, ammonia, chemicals, …….. and our lipstick…. will stick with capitalism.

With Socialism, we have no choices. The bureaucrats decide what we should do and we’re too independent now. The trade-off is too steep, the cost to high. We’ll keep our freedom. Maybe we should start walking or running to lose a few pounds and/or be happy with the way we look. Yes, we could probably figure out a way to save $5/day, and accumulate a little nest egg. And that guy around the corner, who worships the ground we walk on…… he’s willing to compromise and meet us halfway. Maybe, we should give him a chance.

Socialism wants to assure equality of all people. No one poor, but no one exceptional either. Why try? Why innovate? Why be a leader? Why defend anyone? Pretty soon…. we wouldn’t even “want” or “hope” anymore…. because everything we did want would not be allowed by bureaucrats.

Thanks anyway, DCA. No thanks, Bernie.

No deal.