“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This is actually a lot of fun, in a kind of sick / maybe not so sick way. It’s complicated.
Stay with me on this and you’ll see.
SCTV had an old (1982) skit, I Was A Teenage Communist, making fun of 1950s conservatism and anticommunism, which for context aired during Reagan’s first term (right after the deep state failed to kill him). It was originally hilarious, being what we didn’t realize at that time, was actually communist propaganda from Hollywood, mocking 50s anticommunism, to keep those progressive gains of three post-war decades fresh.
Anticommunism! What a hoot!
Yeah, add a few decades, multiple internal communist “auto-coups” by the deep state (JFK, Nixon, Reagan, Trump), and a generation old enough, smart enough, and WISE enough to finally see through multiple generations of leftist deception and language games. Add young kids today, who now SEE the crooked communist past clearly, though NEW EYES.
The bankruptcy of American Sovietism, dying on the vine, is there for all to see, but particularly for those with historical perspective.
With time, this SCTV skit became very unfunny as one watches all of the following things:
communist foundations laid in the 50s obvious now
Hollywood’s lulling communist propaganda of the 70s obvious now
anti-communism of the 50’s not properly dealing with communism
complete duping of Americans during the 70s by Hollywood
absence of anti-communist warning in the 70s and thereafter
the horror of what good people missed all the way along
Indeed, if you have CUT THE CABLE, then this skit will almost certainly seem VERY unfunny now. THAT is proof that you’re destroying their programming.
BUT there is a silver lining, and if you watch this with the right frame of mind, it’s hilarious once again – this time as Hollywood (or Iciclewood, or whatever you call these people) self-indicting as Marxist tools. In a sense, they make fun of themselves, by history having validated all the stereotypes that they themselves use for false mockery.
It’s JAW-DROPPING – in a Springtime For Hitler way – as dupey, dopey, Marxist tools mock awareness of their true selves, proven over time.
If you watch very closely near the end, you will even see very calculated mockery of subtle old warnings we have now resurrected as TRUE WISDOM.
At first it’s kinda horrifying, but then it becomes SO unfunny, it’s once again laugh-out-loud funny at the brazenness, the stupidity, and the WRONGNESS of it all.
If you catch the (hilarious (not hilarious (hilarious))) part, it’s sly patriot fun. Just keep saying the word “ghastly” as you watch it, and you’ll get it.
They’ll be studying this clip in propaganda discussions for centuries.
TL;DR – If you want to CUT TO THE CHASE, scroll on down to THE POINT.
However, if you want to savor the STALKING OF THE HERD before the CHASE, then turn on the MUSIC and enjoy this whole post.
When I realized today just how PANICKED the Plotters of both November 3 AND January 6 are right now – well, I got this weird feeling that we might actually see some ELECTION JUSTICE.
Yeah, they may try to stay cool and collected on the outside, but they see that THEIR plan is leaking like a SIEVE. The FAKE ELECTION SCAM is falling apart at all seams and on ALL LEVELS.
It was actually TWO smaller things today that caught my attention, but they have some big context.
Let’s start with the latter.
The Context
Once you realize who ALL the big players are in the election scam, and add the players in the January 6 election fraud COVER-UP scam, things start making sense.
The Barr betrayal, of course, was most excellent, as far as betrayals go – possibly as good as the Pence betrayal.
I used to think radical scoundrel Eric Holder was the most criminal Attorney General this nation ever had, but now I believe that honor goes to the man who single-handedly erased Donald Trump’s second term – William Barr. ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And I want you all …
I cannot claim credit for realizing that the tactical maneuver of Trump’s supporters to their political demise on January 6, 2021 at Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, was something known to American historians and anthropologists as a buffalo jump. However, as soon as I heard the ill-fated demonstration called that, all my questions about what …
Then look at that MARCH a little more closely, and realize that Ali set the whole thing up to FAIL.
Alternate Title: Bring Out The Owl! We continue with Part 2 of the Buffalo Jump series. For background, see Part 1: If you want a TL;DR version of what was wrong with the Capitol Rally on January 6, 2021, imagine trying to fit a million people into the little area numbered “8”, in the upper …
Then observe how certain elements of the MILITARY were tied into it.
Alternate Title: The moment I realized that GOD would back me in going asymmetrical on these unworthy China-compromised “U.S.” military bastards. I have recently come into possession of information which made a lot of things start making a lot more sense. I only needed a final confirmation that I was correct – and I just …
Then finally take a look at the weirdness of Nancy Pelosi and the FBI signaling over old COMMUNISM and CORRUPTION.
Impeachahontas Now Wearing Two Diapers Nobody expected Chris Wray to play Mafia Nan’s queen of diapers face-up on January 6, but that is exactly what appears to have happened. The only question now is WHY. To quote a friend from a former life, “AYE-YI-YI!” OK – let me back up a bit. First, I want …
And THEN I put it all together – but used that awesome BURN of the “QAnon experts” and global contractors as an introduction of a COVID-reframing post, which I have to say looks better every day as more truth comes out.
PREFACE I thought that I might withhold this post on Easter Sunday, and then I changed my mind, thanks to Deplorable Patriot, Trump, Gab and Jesus. If anybody ever FOUGHT on Easter Sunday, it was Christ. It’s time to FOLLOW POINT. The Branch Covidians have taken a toll, but the WAR is turning, and – …
And if you want a finer (but admittedly fuzzy) point on the karmic downfall of these “barely American” people who think they can paint American patriots as “extremists” and get away with it, evidenced in the context of the brilliant Flynn family suit against CNN…..
Somebody put Mountain Dew in the Wolf’s water bowl, and suddenly he thinks he’s wild and free. Indeed, while being WALKED BY HIS DOGHANDED OFF TO HIS WIFELEASHED TO HIS {{{“SMART”PHONE}}}X///RUNNING WITH SCISSORS IN HIS MIND///X But not yet having waved to the patriots who overfly his house routinely to see the giant TRUMP SIGN …
Now, as the COVID plot started really falling apart….
Don’t relax now – we have them ON THE RUN There are many SIGNS that we have scored a MIDWAY VICTORY….. ……in the fight against the COVID PLOT. I’m not kidding. Bringing down the SPIKE PROTEIN – the ABORTION PROTEIN – and the WHOLE-BODY SPREADINGTHROUGH-SKIN SHEDDINGTEEN-AGER DEADING mRNA vaccine – is like – in reference …
…..attention shifted back to the January Sixth Plot. Darren Beattie and Revolver News really began taking it apart, when I realized that the old thoughts from the SECOND Buffalo Jump post were extremely relevant, now in the context of a guy named Ali serving up the pitches that FBI needed and was counting on.
You know, I can be such a chump. But I do have one interesting trait. When I get WISE to having been made a chump, I bring an extraordinary amount of justice with me. The justice. Of truth. Known so that all can SEE IT. No violence. The TRUTH can handle itself. And the TRUTH …
This was followed by another post where I realized the GAME that Ali was playing with the RINOs he had been operating with since he was a McCain hack back in 2008.
This is just a simple question, but if the answer is YES, it has huge implications. Now, if you don’t know who I’m talking about, I just did a piece about Ali Alexander, a.k.a. Ali Akbar, here: Beware The Ace of FIBs You know, I can be such a chump. But I do have one …
That was yesterday. My point was, Ali made a big deal of distancing himself from the GOP(e). Sure looked like he was throwing them some COVER.
I threw in Liz Cheney’s photo as a bit of an afterthought, like a bobber on a fishing line. Who would have thought that a FISH would strike the bobber?
The Point
TODAY, two things happened which are EXPLAINED by old posts.
First, Pelosi decides to farm out the Capitol Hill Police to field offices in all the states. If that doesn’t stink, what DOES stink?
It’s a simple question, but I think it needs to be asked. My money says Her Slyness, Queen Jussie of Pelosi, is going to do what Chris Wray KNOWS is destroying the FBI – the harassment of patriotic Americans for going to THEIR Capitol and registering the MILD REBUKE of YELLING outside the Capitol Building, …
I see this as “offense is the best defense”. The commies got PINCHED by pushback against the FBI – so they PUSH FORWARD with a new stratagem. Nancy knows that far too many people see her as the Jussie Smollett of January Sixth. Gotta do something about that. FIB would be the normal mechanism of federal bullying of patriots.
But FIB has it’s own problems there.
You see, it is my belief that Pernicious FIB was taking too much HEAT for going after patriots DIRECTLY, and I’m sure that state and local LE have had their fill of this political bullshit.
I’m guessing that FIB recruitment is taking a BIG HIT.
Wray’s ability to cut off Pelosi from using FBI to go after ALL the Trump supporters in DC – an agency-killing folly – comes from his owning the “D’Alesandro Dossier” on her and her father.
FBI showing Pelosi that they had goods on her, was the answer to the mystery covered by the 4th post of the Buffalo Jump series. Clearly Wray has bought some independence from Pelosi with those old records on her father’s mafia ties and pussyfooting with Moscow, of which he only showed a “clean taste”.
So we see some discomfort amongst the plotters against Trump.
And now THIS.
I’ll get to what he said momentarily. But let me tell you – the moment I saw this, I took it for what it was – the same thing Schiffty Schiff does. GET AHEAD of the story by FLIPPING IT fast, hard and early onto your opponents. Straight outta Goebbels.
Sorry, Adam – not gonna work. You were a dupe and a putz to go along with CIA on its stupid payola operations to “create terrorists to go after terrorists to raid the piggy bank”.
But your biggest mistake was trying to flip that narrative onto patriotic Americans – meaning onto the DUPES of GOOD WILL who have gone along with this shit unknowingly for the last 20 years, since your last big hoax.
So now let’s get to the meat of what RINO Kinzinger is doing to EVADE justice.
This is an article in Red State by Sister Toldjah – one of the best opinions in conservatism no matter what position she takes. Even when I don’t see it exactly her way, she is THE BEST articulation of the NEXT intelligent mainstream viewpoint.
Her arguments are always close to, and appealing to the emerging stage of modern, mainstream conservative thought. So don’t expect her to be fronting “conspiracy theories” like I’m proposing. She’s not bleeding edge – that is left up to people like us. But if we’re RIGHT, expect her to get there in a timely fashion.
Please click these links and bookmark them – this is going to be a nifty point in proving what is going on, later. Also, I’d prefer that Red State get the clicks, even though I’ve saved this whole article TWICE because of its importance.
Sister is making some AMAZING points right here. The most important is this:
Kinzinger made a very dangerous claim in that interview. It’s dangerous enough that he needs to start flashing some receipts if he has them – because while claiming a politician “incited” a Jan. 6th-style is serious enough, claiming they actually took part in planning it is much worse, and shouldn’t be alleged without some cold, hard proof.
In short, regarding the allegation members of Congress knew in advance what would happen, Kinzinger needs to put up or shut up. It’s just that simple.
Now – it is basically known that in these “Goebbels battles”, which traditionally start by the perpetrator accusing back when the heat gets close, the perpetrator is essentially inoculated by the falsely directed accusation and saved by the confusion. The act of “media-required denial” is then shifted to the righteous accuser rather than the guilty perpetrator.
And with New York Slimes as the media, you KNOW this is not the truth – this is backing up of Democrat LIES.
BUT Sister STILL makes a great point for BOTH sides. Show the receipts.
My job is speculating what kind of receipts exist and where they might be, based on observations.
Personally, I don’t think that a dumb putz like Kinzinger would be involved in the deep planning and preparation of the January Sixth frame job. HOWEVER, the degree of panic he is showing here leads me to believe that he was aware of what was going to happen.
He is – in my opinion – showing consciousness of guilt.
He KNEW there would be a frame-up of Trump on that day, so that he could ACT in ways that would lead the Congressional crowd in the directions it needed to go.
Now I don’t have receipts beyond “body language”, but I’m fairly certain his accusation MUST contain the full weight of his own guilt. So let’s read it.
NYT:Do you suspect that some members of Congress were aware of what was going to happen that day and supported it?
Kinzinger:I won’t name names, but yes, I do have that suspicion. I will say, if you just looked at Twitter — the whole reason I brought my gun and kept my staff home and told my wife to stay in the apartment was looking at Twitter. I saw the threats. When Lauren Boebert — I will call her out by name — tweeted “Today is 1776,” I don’t know what that meant other than this is the time for revolution. Maybe it was a dumb tweet that she didn’t mean. Fine. I’ll give her that credit for now. But if you have members of Congress who were involved in nurturing an insurrection, heck yeah, we need to know.
Now, I won’t speak for Sister Toldjah here, nor for Lauren Boebert, and especially not for RINO Kinzinger, but I can very well speak for myself as an “insurrectionist” (OY VEY) in the crowd that day.
WE WERE DENIED OUR RIGHTEOUS AND PEACEFUL PROTEST. And we were denied our right by the creeps who set up the violence.
Most of us DID in fact protest peacefully, and we were DENIED THAT TRUTH by the fake news media, which is basically the Democrat press.
Guess what? ALL OF US expected a BIG PROTEST. We indeed hoped to YELL so that they would hear us inside. We wanted to CHEER and throw our hats in the air when Mike Pence sent those crooked votes back to the state legislatures.
Which of course didn’t happen, because, like most of the others, Mike Pence was in on the SCAM. Not necessarily knowing the whole thing, but FAILING TO DO HIS DUTY just like all the others who conspired by action or inaction to deny Trump his rightful victory, and to deny US our rightful President.
If everybody just shrugged off their DUTY, it would work. That is how the scam worked.
A STRIKE by government.
A STRIKE against the PEOPLE.
Pathetic.
Anyway, Kinzinger is pathetic, too. He likely will never have to answer with jail time for being an accessory before the fact, mostly because, IMO, he surely didn’t do much other than play along with Nancy Gambino’s charade.
Yeah, he didn’t go running to the FBI and telling them about THEIR PLOT. LOL. Yeah, really. Hilarious. And that is the REALITY in which we live. Don’t go telling the FBI about crime it FAVORS.
But to accuse Lauren Boebert? That’s LOW. That’s really low.
And I agree with Sister Toldjah. RINO Kinzinger – for his own good – had best not FALSELY ACCUSE. When I accuse him of things, I truly BELIEVE my accusations. Enough to take them back when I have contradictory evidence.
Indeed, if I were RINO Kinzinger’s lawyer, I could truthfully argue that he deserves no punishment for being in on “Barr’s shrugging coup” of Donald Trump. These people are perfectly within their RIGHTS to not do their jobs or their duties – to “take a dive” – and even to conspire for what might be regarded as “legally permissible injustices”. Otherwise known as politics.
But to try to paint Lauren Boebert as anything other than a law-abiding American patriot?
It’s a good thing GOD is GOD and not me, because I’d seriously think about TORCHING that fucker with a lightning bolt. His LYING MOUTH deserves nothing less.
And that’s not extreme. Not by the GEORGE WASHINGTON who loved the TRUTH even more than I do.
It’s a simple question, but I think it needs to be asked.
My money says Her Slyness, Queen Jussie of Pelosi, is going to do what Chris Wray KNOWS is destroying the FBI – the harassment of patriotic Americans for going to THEIR Capitol and registering the MILD REBUKE of YELLING outside the Capitol Building, while TREASON ruled the day on the inside.
And that would be TWO kinds of treason.
(1) The phony, fake, stolen election, working with CHINA, on November 3, 2020.
(2) The Jussie Smollett-style FRAME JOB on Trump and his supporters on January 6, 2021.
Yeah, when I read this thing about Pelosi setting up what will amount to Capitol Hill Police FIELD OFFICES around the nation, at first I thought it was a strong move for Mobbie Dearest.
CRAZY LIKE A FOX.
But THEN I realized how this is REALLY playing.
CRAZY LIKE A MOONBAT.
Jussie Pelosi, partner in crime with the FBI on January Sixth, is UNWILLING to leave well enough alone what Chris Wray knows is DESTROYING the reputation of the FBI.
And Chris Wray has the goods to say “NO” to Jussie Pelosi. You’d better believe it.
Impeachahontas Now Wearing Two Diapers Nobody expected Chris Wray to play Mafia Nan’s queen of diapers face-up on January 6, but that is exactly what appears to have happened. The only question now is WHY. To quote a friend from a former life, “AYE-YI-YI!” OK – let me back up a bit. First, I want …
See, I didn’t really get why Wray made a rather eloquent “nicey-nice threat” to expose Pelosi’s mafia and red diaper roots (by dropping a CLEAN version) on January Sixth.
Now it’s obvious. Wray has the FREEDOM to protect the FBI from Pelosi’s insanity, which would DESTROY the reputation of the FBI even MORE than she has already done.
In fact, I think that even DODGE (that would be DOJ) may be jumping off the crazy, burning, Pelosi wagon.
Is she MAD? Is she CRAZY?
I stole this great image from Sundance, and that gives me the opportunity to push you to read his very wise thoughts on this latest sinister genius from Donna Gambino Lucchese D’Alesandro Pelosi.
I strongly advise that you read the whole thing, because the END is very important, and I have not cited it here. Whether your thoughts lean toward HOPIUM or NOPIUM, something is coming. Sundance sees this as proactive federal preparation for it. His rationale is strong, and I am in full agreement.
So does this mean she will REALLY go after the “January 6 small fry”?
I think that’s a very good question. I mean, Congress could decide to rein her in – or not. States could decide to cooperate with this – OR NOT. Indeed, I think there are already some states and counties that SAY they are prepared to ARREST federal officers regarded as taking unconstitutional actions against residents.
And I think that Nancy “Jussie” Pelosi knows EXACTLY THAT – and is adopting a policy of CHALLENGING STATES.
And THIS is where we get into the GUILT of Nancy Pelosi, and how she ALWAYS operates like this when her guilt is building because the TRUTH is showing.
Indeed, I think only the probable pedophile Adam Schiff, friend of Ed Buck, is more POWERFUL in his attacks on those who have the goods on him, than Nancy Pelosi.
Look back at those impeachments. Pelosi and Schiff – THEY are the ones who attack with the full force of the federal government, and the full demonic chutzpah of the most brazen and Orwellian lies, at the first sign of their own weakness.
Jussie Pelosi knows that BUFFALO BOY’S headgear is in every possible way, HER version of Jussie Smollett’s MAGA hats.
But there is ONE MORE TREAT that I want to offer, and that will be my next post.
Have a nice heaping helping of JUSSIE PELOSI here, but save some room for a side of JUSSIE KINZINGER.
This Stormwatch 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/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
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Please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election:
For your listening enjoyment, I offer this from Fearless Motivation, a mix of two tracks titled ‘Day of Domination’ and ‘Next level’:
Also, this from Jo Blankenburg, from the album ‘Cronos’:
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
I will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
honeyfuggle
Honeyfuggle is a verb which means…to wheedle, swindle, cheat or deceive someone by using sweet talk or flattery; to obtain by cheating or deception.
Used in a sentence:
Shameless Democrats often honeyfuggle their constituents into believing their lies and voting for them.
Wolf’s Pub is open! Come on in and sit right down. It’s going to be wild today. Moonshine is on the drink menu. I have no clue where it came from, but the bartenders assure me it is delish. We’ll get to that in a moment.
Is it just me or is the ride getting wilder and bumpier by the week? Things are coming to a point.
The Hedge Funds are digging in. The Ape Army is standing firm. Wall Street trembles in its corpulent and jiggly corruption. The middle class is on to their game and beginning to beat them at it. See here and here.
“Our entire economy is now, in large part, rigged, as it has been moved further away from free-market capitalism to a cronyism nightmare where central planners and big companies work together to consolidate power. They scratch each other’s backs and ultimately tie up loose ends that get in their way of rolling up money and control. Small businesses and small individuals, which make up the backbone of the economy and stand for economic freedom, have been both passively and intentionally targeted.”
The state AUDIT(S) are shaking the foundation of the bureaucratic administrative state. We are seeing the underbelly of a nation that is being run by usurpers. And the Supreme Court did something right yesterday.
The intelligence arm of the administrative state is in a tizzy. What worked before ain’t working so well now. The false flag events, the “suicides,” the armed conflicts that make their masters wealthy and powerful.
Yeah, the proverbial matrix is glitching like a meth head in need of a pipe hit.
Our corrupted government officials (see here for all the oath-breakers) are running for cover. They are full of bluster, but bluster ain’t gonna help them in the end.
That dirty wench, Liz Cheney, is trying to torch the house before she gets thrown out by the good people of Wyoming. Low rent individual.
The C-C-P is watching its plan of global dominance begin to unravel. They have their fingers in every economic, academic, and governmental pie they can. What greed! What hubris! The Covid bioweapon they released upon humanity seems to be boomeranging, though.
It’s all coming out. They can’t stop the hemorrhaging of truth.
What is the Davos crowd to do?
Thankfully the commies don’t understand Scriptural truth: Pride goes before a fall.
America is waking up. The REAL AMERICA. The beautiful nation upon which the torch of freedom has been held aloft for over two centuries.
We’ve been infiltrated from outside and betrayed from inside, but this is nothing new. This is that ancient, age-old battle between good and evil.
Let us turn briefly to 1945 and a grown-up “fairy story” that C. S. Lewis published just as WW2 had ended.
The Book is That Hideous Strength and it is the third (but a stand-alone) book in his Space Trilogy. To be honest, I have read the first two books several times, but That Hideous Strength I have read countless times.
In short, an insidious organization, the N.I.C.E. (National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments) has set up shop in a small English town rumored to be the resting place of the Arthurian character, Merlin. The N.I.C.E. sets up a fusion of state and science and academia. In short, fascism.
Their plans for mankind are such that you and I can actually see them taking shape in 2021 with different characters, institutions, and nations. Their methods are exactly what we see happening today. For instance:
“But every advance in industry and agriculture reduces the number of work-people who are required. A large, unintelligent population is now becoming a dead-weight. The real importance of scientific war is that scientists have to be reserved. It was not the great technocrats of Koenigsberg or Moscow who supplied the casualties in the siege of Stalingrad: it was superstitious Bavarian peasants and low-grade Russian agricultural workers. The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs. In the new age, what has hitherto been merely the intellectual nucleus of the race is to become, by gradual stages, the race itself. You are to conceive the species as an animal which has discovered how to simplify nutrition and locomotion to such a point that the old complex organs and the large body which contained them are no longer necessary. That large body is therefore to disappear. Only a tenth part of it will now be needed to support the brain. The individual is to become all head. The human race is to become all Technocracy.”
Next, let’s visit the age-old methods of imposing such things on the population. Fairy Hardcastle, a dyke police chief, could be detailing the crap we go through on a daily basis with our UniParty. Never forget, it is RINOs like Liz Cheney who have played us over and over for many decades:
“Both, honey, both,” said Miss Hardcastle. “Don’t you understand anything? Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That’s how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it’s properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us—to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we’re non-political. The real power always is.”
(Fairy Hardcastle, That Hideous Strength, 1945)
HELL MOUTH
We can’t forget the Covid plandemic. The precipitating event for taking away our Constitutional rights was followed up with BLM/Antifa riots and the FAKE INSURRECTION PLOT, with which even now Nancy Pelosi–that miniHell Mouth–is conniving to harm us. Here’s how Lewis describes the process:
“Emergency regulations,” said Feverstone. “You’ll never get the powers we want at Edgestow until the Government declares that a state of emergency exists there.”
“Exactly,” said Filostrato. “It is folly to talk of peaceful revolutions. Not that the canaglia would always resist—often they have to be prodded into it—but until there is the disturbance, the firing, the barricades—no one gets powers to act effectively. There is not enough what you call weight on the boat to steer him.”
(That Hideous Strength, 1945)
Isn’t it clear as a bell that Pelosi, McConnell and now we hear possibly Pence, connived to take out President Trump and his followers with the FAKED INSURRECTION?
“The Party’s foreign propaganda is more sophisticated, and chillingly effective. Leveraging Western elites’ weakness and gullibility, plus the vulnerability of open societies, the CCP’s massive overseas propaganda campaigns can be delineated into four general categories: disinformation, elite capture, coerced self-censorship, and brainwashing….But elite capture goes further. Former senior government officials, including cabinet-level figures, routinely defend the CCP’s murderous acts, including the Tiananmen Massacre and other egregious human rights violations. Some of these former officials have even become registered agents for the Beijing regime and its CCP-controlled business interests in the U.S. Many of our leading universities and their talented professors often are coopted by the CCP to voice Beijing’s views in the U.S., masqueraded as research and objective surveys.”
MOONSHINE
I think it’s time for a libation, and moonshine it is! Now, moonshine has a storied history in our nation. While it is mostly known through Prohibition, moonshine was often made in colonial times, too. And even President Washington had the Whiskey Rebellion because citizens were not happy having to pay an excise tax on whiskey, which incidentally, President Jefferson repealed in 1802.
Here’s a couple articles about moonshine here and here. That second link has some mighty fine-looking hillbilly stills. Now, moonshine is pretty much legal nowadays, but you might want to check your state just to make sure. It sure is sold in the stores!
A nice video here on making moonshine at home:
And here’s one for Apple Pie Moonshine. Watch the he-man have to explain himself. LOL.
Of course, no mention of moonshine is complete without some good country music…about moonshine:
HOUSE RULES
Now, we all know that moonshine is high octane, so we have to keep ourselves together and not get too wild. Before indulging, let’s review the House Rules here.
Anyone who begins howling before sundown will be sent to the Utree to sober up. It’s also the place to reconvene, if needed.
A BIT MORE ON LEWIS
That quote at the top of the opener is also quoted on the title page of That Hideous Strength.
Here is more of that stanza:
“That when the sun is at the hicht,
At noon, when it doth shine maist bricht,
The shadow of that hideous strength
Sax mile and mair it is of length:
Thus may ye judge into your thoucht,
Gif Babylon be heich or nocht.”
The spelling is of course not modern English, and also differs from the version that Lewis quotes, but one can get an idea of the devilish strength of the Tower of Babel. Lewis described his story thus:
“This is a ‘tall story’ about devilry, though it has behind it a serious “point” which I have tried to make in my “Abolition of Man.” In the story, the outer rim of that devilry, had to be shown touching the life of some ordinary and respectable profession.”
He chose academia because it was what he knew. I take something from that. Academia, the lifeblood of the intellectual life of a nation, once corrupted can spawn evil of the magnitude of a Tower of Babel. When politicians and business are added into the equation, the world is then bending under the weight of the kind of evil we only think of in fairy stories.
Well, our fairy story is real. And Lewis knew that fairy stories are often more true than not.
EU Parliament Building
Take, for instance, the design of the European Union’s Parliament building. Often called the Louise Weiss Building (there’s a plaque on the building dedicated to this feminist who worked for the union of Europe) it is remarkably similar to a painting of the tower by Pieter Brueghel the Elder in 1563:
Hmmmm….
The poster below is from a site Now the End Begins, which also writes about the similarities. Not saying I agree with everything there, but it’s interesting.
When you look at the poster (which apparently was a promotional poster for the EU), it is interesting to note the way the people are drawn. Very dehumanizing.
Also, here’s a little look at the inside of the parliament building. Very reminiscent of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, eh?
Inside the EU Parliament building
C. S. Lewis knew well the old evil that has bedeviled man since the beginning. It does not change. It is ever the same, though it wears “updated” garments as the centuries pass. You should read about the moment when one character experiences his own damnation in THS. It’s one of the most chilling literary passages I’ve ever read.
We may be in a monumental struggle, but Christendom fights best when on the ropes. We finally drop to our knees and call on the Lord, who fights for us (Ex. 14:14). I can’t tell you how grateful I am for all of you here who drop prayers (Duchess for sure!), speak their faith, and help each other when we’re down.
I love DePat’s addition of the St. Michael Prayer. May I add one? The Guardian Angel prayer. It is so very comforting and strengthening:
Angel of God, my guardian dear,
To whom God’s love commits me here,
Ever this day (night) be at my side,
To light and guard, rule and guide. Amen
ODDS AND ENDS
If you listen to only one podcast this fine day, listen to this one: Gen. Flynn, Gen. McInerny, Major Gen. Arbuckle, and Col. Lawrence Sellin are deadly serious about the infiltration and betrayal of our country by communists within and without.
Independence Day is coming up. Have you seen Flag Shirts? Ima gonna get me one.
Hey, I got an email from Hillsdale College with a free six-week study on the Constitution, beginning July 13. Here’s the link to sign up: Constitution 101
This is notice to all Republicans and RINOs that while I will allow a wide variety of views to flourish here, I am PERSONALLY not going to support ANY Republican candidates who cannot make the following PROMISES:
(1) to NEVER implement lockdowns again. NEVER AGAIN.
(2) to NEVER implement mask mandates again. NEVER AGAIN.
(3) to NEVER say that Trump “legitimately” lost the 2020 election. NEVER AGAIN.
(4) to NEVER cave to the WOKE MOB on ANY issue ever again. NEVER AGAIN.
(5) to NEVER implement mandatory vaccination. NEVER AGAIN.
(6) to NEVER stop raising hell about the FBI’s political prisoners. NEVER AGAIN.
(7) to NEVER stop trying to FREE the FBI’s political prisoners. NEVER AGAIN.
(8) to NEVER support ANY further restrictions on 1st or 2nd Amendment freedoms. NEVER AGAIN
*** ROOM FOR MORE ***
That’s 37 8 right now, and I will probably add more, especially have indeed added more, after reading the comments.
Any candidate who can’t agree to these promises, might as well be working for CHINA.
Why in the HELL should I support a PUPPET of an aggressive, deceitful, communist nation the BURNED MY LUNGS to STEAL AN ELECTION?
I used to think radical scoundrel Eric Holder was the most criminal Attorney General this nation ever had, but now I believe that honor goes to the man who single-handedly erased Donald Trump’s second term – William Barr. ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And I want you all …
It’s time to start going after the bad guys. No – not with VIOLENCE. WITH THE SWORDS OF TRUTH.
To not just CHEER ON Trump, but to FOLLOW HIS LEAD.
To create an ENVIRONMENT of YEARNING FOR JUSTICE that will make it THINKABLE.
SO – with this in mind…..
What I want to do now is collect the MUG SHOTS of all who, upon reflection, are the OATHBREAKERS deserving of JUSTICE – when we get it back someday.
Just a simple collection, to be REMEMBERED when JUSTICE is finally POSSIBLE.
Do you believe in justice? Do you believe it will come?
This Stormwatch 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/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.
Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. But please keep it civil. We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.
If you find yourself in a slap fight, we ask that you take it outside to The U Tree…which is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.
Please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election:
For your listening enjoyment, I offer this from Eternal Eclipse, titled ‘Oathkeeper’:
And this 3-song mix from Emil Nilsson, track titles: ‘In Motion’, ‘Together We Stand’ and ‘Unite’:
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
I will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
somnolent
Somnolent is an adjective which means…drowsy; sleepy; having an inclination to sleep; in a condition of incomplete sleep; semicomatose.
Used in a sentence:
Demoncrats may try to pass off the behavior of the Fraud in the White House as merely somnolent, but it is more likely a display of dementia.
What we are seeing now, with “woke Generals”, political purges in the military, and various “letters of warning” to the current administration and its military collaborators in the Pentagram – whoops – I mean Pentagon – coming from a lot of current and ex-military, is evidence that we are finally talking about the core of the issue.
Does our military have to defend a communist takeover?
Personally, I don’t think so. “But that’s just my opinion”, as they say.
Yup. Your mileage may vary. And I’m at the point where I just don’t care. You’re either with the commies. Or you’re with America.
This cuts to the CORE of why the Bolshevism-defending FBI targeted the “Oathkeepers”. That group is the least nebulous and most well-defined group of military and/or law enforcement who LITERALLY hold to the idea of defending the Constitution – based on TRUTH – from communist infiltrators who got into power through LIES and CHEATING.
Nobody wants to talk about what’s really going on, but we are almost there.
That poor kid. If only he knew that HE was right and the ENTIRE US MILITARY was wrong.
I’ve had an entire lifetime to adjust to the treason. I was only in my 20’s when I was exposed to stuff that shouldn’t have even EXISTED. They tried to make me remove the “loose end” for them, but I refused. Instead, I kept my mouth shut and tried to figure out what the HELL was going on. I still don’t know – but I’ve got a better idea than most.
I would never kill myself over THEIR treason, which I KNOW they will try to make me internalize through MIND-FRACK, but to a young person who wanted to get into the military, and is then made to feel like HE is what’s wrong with the mismatch – well, it’s easy to see why a person might turn their anger on themselves, instead of realizing that entire systems can become LITERALLY psychotic, because there are people TRYING to MAKE THEM psychotic.
Nope. I’ve had TIME to figure out who’s doing all the lying. And it ain’t me.
Every possible trick, force, and betrayal is being used to bring America down.
Over 1,000 former members of the military have signed a scathing public letter warning that the increased priority placed on “wokeness” in the military is a threat to the Constitution and the nation’s military readiness.
The letter comes after Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley defended the teaching of critical race theory in the military during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
Former President Donald Trump blasted Milley as “pathetic” for defending the toxic ideology during an interview Friday morning on Newsmax.
“General Milley – I watched his statements and it was pathetic. I watched the statements of some others – your head of the Navy. It was pathetic,” Trump said. “They didn’t talk that way when I was around, I can tell you. They didn’t talk that way or I would have gotten rid of them in two minutes. In particular Navy and Milley, just sad, pathetic statements,” the former president added.
Two military groups—Flag Officers 4 America and the Committee to Support and Defend—have joined forces to warn that the military’s embrace of the woke ideology is a major national security issue. LTC Allen West is a member of the Policy Board of the American Constitutional Rights Union’s Committee to Support and Defend, and leads its military initiatives.
Now, the FBI has been trying to do a number on patriotic Americans – getting THEM to think THEY are the problem, but I’m sorry – I’m just not buying it.
This is why you need a BULLDOG PATRIOT LAWYER – and not some bullshit Washington Bolshevik pustule excretion like the example which follows.
Deprogramming of January 6 Defendants Is Underway
The entire investigation is an attempt to prosecute people based on their beliefs. Those who purge their views and admit their wrongthink will be given mercy. Those who don’t will pay dearly.
“My lawyer has given me names of books and movies to help me see what life is like for others in our country. I’ve learned that even though we live in a wonderful country things still need to improve. People of all colors should feel as safe as I do to walk down the street.”
That passage is part book report, part white privilege mea culpa submitted to a federal court this month by Anna Morgan-Lloyd, one of the more than 500 Americans arrested for her involvement in the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The 49-year-old grandmother of five from southern Indiana was charged with four counts of trespassing and disorderly conduct even though she walked through an open door and was inside the building for about five minutes. She was ratted out to the FBI by a county worker who saw her January 6 posts on Facebook.
On Wednesday, Lloyd, who has a clean criminal record, pleaded guilty to one count of “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building”—but not before she consented to undergo a reeducation exercise at the urging of her court-appointed lawyer. (Like many January 6 defendants, Lloyd does not have the means to hire a private attorney.)
It’s safe to say Heather Shaner, a D.C.-based criminal defense attorney representing a handful of January 6 protesters, does not share the political beliefs of her Capitol clients, which is why she’s forcing them to read books and watch movies highlighting dark chapters in U.S. history.
In an interview with Huffington Post, Shaner explained her belief that “this is the most wonderful country in the world, it’s been great for all kinds of immigrant groups, except for the fact that it was born of genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of people.”
Shaner’s legal captives are learning the hard way what the government will do when one resists their commands to comply. Not only have their personal lives been shattered, finances depleted, and reputations destroyed by an abusive Justice Department investigation, Shaner’s clients must be indoctrinated with leftist propaganda about America’s alleged systemic racism.
The purge of the populist mindset is underway, courtesy of the fetid Beltway judicial system and the Joe Biden regime. Judges routinely lecture January 6 defendants about the wrongthink of a “stolen election” while prosecutors openly mock their political beliefs, including home schooling and gun ownership.
“I have had many political and ethical discussions with Anna Lloyd,” Shaner wrote in her motion agreeing to the plea and probation for Lloyd. “I tendered a booklist to her. She has read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Just Mercy, and Schindler’s List to educate herself about ‘government policy’ toward Native Americans, African Americans and European Jews. We have discussed the books and also about the responsibility of an individual when confronting ‘wrong.’”
BUT let me warn you. If you stand up to the FBI simply by proclaiming your innocence, but not in manners which they somehow deem fitting, you may STILL get the Roger Stone treatment.
Joseph Bolanos, of the Upper West Side, has not been charged with any crime regarding the Jan. 6 DC riots, but he has suffered two strokes from the stress of being detained and FBI raids.Matthew McDermott
Joseph Bolanos was a pillar of his community. President of his Upper West Side block association for the past 23 years, he looked out for his neighbors during the pandemic. He dropped off masks and kept extra heaters in his rent-controlled apartment for seniors. He raised morale with a weekly street dance to show his support for essential workers.
A Red Cross volunteer after the 9/11 attacks, the 69-year-old security consultant once received a police commendation for heroism after saving a woman from being mugged.
Unmarried, and caring for his 94-year-old mother, he was a well-loved character in the quiet residential area.
But now his neighbors think he is a domestic terrorist.
Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.
Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.
That’s actually a long one that’s worth reading. Now, it’s possible that this guy was just unlucky enough to be in the tar pit known as SDNY, but there is more evidence that the Federal Bureau of Instigation is up to the same thing at many of not ALL of its field offices.
If you check out my prior article on this topic, we have a lady doctor who did make the mistake of entering the Capitol Building – apparently non-violently – as well as somebody who entered but was for some reason NOT charged (he’s black and Hollywood, possibly explaining it), but who was still subjected to a violent intimidation raid.
This is a HEADS UP to all authentic American patriots about our phony globo-nazi “friends” in DOJ and FBI, otherwise known as “Dodge” and “FIB”. Let me give you the TL;DR right here. The Bidenistas and Bidenazis are going to try to GO CANADA during however long they remain in power. “FIB” is going to …
However, none of these people are getting it like the “Oathkeepers”. THOSE people are really being brutalized.
I hope you see what we are ALL facing. RE-EDUCATION. The only question is WHEN. They do it when they CAN, so if they don’t think they can get away with it, they don’t try. They WAIT until they have the upper hand.
Are you seeing how “Red Dawn” really works? It works best when you have a chorus of wokies saying it’s not happening.
I don’t know about YOU, but I’m not going to let them “re-educate” me.
It’s not that I simply “reject” their “education” on race. I think it’s an INFERIOR PRODUCT. I think their understanding is DEFECTIVE. It’s INFERIOR. It’s INTENTIONALLY BROKEN – by CHINA – to CEDE POWER TO THE CCP.
Thus, it’s STUPID. And I will not be educated by STUPIDITY.
There is no way this can end “nicely” if you refuse reeducation.
It’s only a matter of WHEN it gets ugly.
Do your deciding now.
W
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
One of the really big shockers for me has been the relationship of the tech giants to the bat coronavirus researchers. What the heck is up with that?
Why did Zuckerberg and Chan (after COVID “struck”) fund Baric, who worked with “the bat woman” and Wuhan? It smells every bit like a “book deal” – an influence pay-off after the fact. This would lead me to believe that Zuck and Chan and Baric actually go back FURTHER, in ways that have not appeared yet.
Why did Google fund Daszak and a group that then funded Wuhan? This actually goes back. And then, Daszak trying to cover up HIS role in the cover-up of the Wuhan Institute of Virology connection – what’s up with THAT?
I don’t want to get into all that stuff too much, but I want to leave you some great links to show you this is REAL – this is not BS. The “fake news snopesing complex” is all over this, trying to hide it, but the word is OUT.
TECH and BAT RESEARCH are THICK.
References on tech / bat research monetary links
Here is the Zuckerberg-Chan “book deal payoff” to Baric’s lab.
Fauci reveals that Mark Zuckerberg offered him “resources and money” – this at the same time Zuck was using cash to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of Democrats.
Now, I had just heard about all of these monetary connections now being discovered, and thought that any relationship between the tech giants and these virus creeps had to be connected to the FAKE ELECTION PLOT.
BUT – as I was perusing the internet COVID literature, I encountered two scientific papers that made me realize something.
These tech tyrants may have had ANOTHER motive. A DEEPER and MORE PERSONAL motive.
Wanting to live forever – or at least LONGER.
And it gets BIGGER – as in all of society – as in FITNESS – as in EUGENICS.
Here is the part of this paper that set off the alarms. I will make BOLD or underline the most important parts:
BAT MICROBES CAN SHED LIGHT ON DISEASE, IMMUNITY, AND LONGEVITY
Bats and their microbes are increasingly recognized as important components of zoonotic disease cycles (37, 38). A few studies have identified potentially pathogenic members of the excreted bat microbiome such as Bartonella spp. (39, 40) and Leptospira spp. (41). Bats are also known or suspected to be the reservoir of several viruses that are lethal to humans, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Ebola, and rabies viruses (42,–44), as well as of Plasmodium parasites closely related to those in rodents that are used as models to study malaria (45). Genomic insights have generated plausible explanations for how bats may have evolved to harbor such deadly microbes (e.g., reference 46), but in spite of abundant evidence that the microbiome interfaces directly with the host immune system (47, 48), there has not yet been an integrative study addressing whether microbial symbionts contribute to bats’ innate ability to act as pathogen reservoirs. As an additional axis of variation, bats which have flexible roosting habits can be found in close proximity to humans and may potentially swap microbes with humans and their companion animals (49). Bats may transfer microbes to livestock when they exist in close proximity (e.g., pigs consuming partially eaten fruits dropped by fruit bats [50]) or use the same habitats (e.g., horses coming into contact with bat droppings in pastures [51]). Studying bat microbiomes would therefore have obvious public health implications and could help to explain the epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases.
Similar avenues of research can also consider what impact, if any, the host microbiome has on susceptibility of bats to white nose syndrome (WNS), a frequently fatal cutaneous infection that has reduced hibernating bat populations by up to 90% in North America (52). Because not all individuals are killed by the infection, there may be selection on the skin microbiomes of surviving individuals to become enriched with antifungal bacteria. Indeed, one study discovered that in WNS-positive populations, the skin microbiome of bats was enriched with Rhodococcus and Pseudomonas spp., which are known to have antifungal activity (53). Additional studies in this area can answer the questions of how exactly these bacteria inhibit the growth of the causative agent of WNS and what enrichment of the microbiome with these bacteria might mean for the long-term survival of affected host populations.
Bat microbiomes can be used more generally to understand the links between the microbiome and the evolution of other phenomena of interest, such as immunity and longevity. To date, studies addressing the link between host aging and the microbiome in humans and lab animals have uncovered direct links between microbial metabolic products and life span of the host (54). Bats represent an exciting system in which to test for links between the microbiome and aging because they are exceptionally long-lived for a mammal of their size (55, 56). Mice are conventional model mammals, but the commonly used BALB/c mouse strain has a life span of about a year and half, making studies of longevity in these animals rather short-lived (57). Bats of comparable mass can achieve life spans of up to 40 years, and many are philopatric to particular roosts, making repeat sampling of individuals throughout their lifetimes possible (58, 59). Because these animals’ microbiomes can be sampled nonlethally, they are inherently attractive for such studies (36). However, it is worth noting that these animals are especially sensitive to disturbance during hibernation, so experimental designs should minimize unintended disturbance of roosts, particularly in areas where white nose syndrome has decimated bat populations (60). It may also be possible to keep bats in captive colonies in order to sample them throughout successive years of their lives. Recent evidence suggests that metabolites produced by gut microbes in bats might offset the oxidative damages incurred during active flight, resulting in downstream impacts on aging (61). However, many questions still remain. By what mechanism does the microbiome help to extend life span, and is this pattern consistent across mammals? How does interindividual variation impact the relationships between longevity and microbiome community structure? We believe that studies of bat microbiomes can help to answer these important questions and more.Go to:
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Bats represent an untapped resource for understanding microbiome evolution in mammals. Because of their exceptional diversity, longevity, and ecological importance, we believe that studies of their microbial symbionts will reveal exciting new roles for microbes in driving host evolution and fitness and may help us to better understand the dynamics of emerging zoonotic pathogens. We provide applications of bat microbiome research in the hopes that more researchers will realize the potential that this system has to offer. Multi-omics approaches can be used to parse apart the contributions of host genome, metagenome, and microbial metabolites to the processes described above, and as the costs of these methods continue to decrease, such studies will only become more feasible. The results of studying bat microbiomes using these approaches will undeniably advance the fields of host-microbe interactions, comparative physiology, and public health.
This then led me to a paper specifically about bats and longevity.
This paper is an absolute GOLD MINE of authoritative scientific optimism about life extension through bats, tying in IMMUNITY and INFLAMMATION. I cannot just pick out some part to highlight – the WHOLE THING is evidence of what people are thinking.
What I have done is grabbed the IMAGES which are the most quickly informing. Not all of them – just some of them. Plus a few selections of text which are equally useful.
Abstract
For centuries, people believed that bats possessed sinister powers. Bats are thought to be ancestral hosts to many deadly viruses affecting humans including Ebola, rabies, and most recently SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. However, bats themselves tolerate these viruses without ill effects. The second power that bats have is their longevity. Bats live much longer than similar-sized land mammals. Here we review how bats’ ability to control inflammation may be contributing to their longevity. The underlying mechanisms may hold clues to developing new treatments for age-related diseases. Now may be the time to use science to exploit the secret powers of bats for human benefit.
Figure 1 Bats Live Longer Than Similar-Sized Land Mammals
(A) Major lineages of bats.
(B) Relationship between lifespan and body mass in mammals. Bats are indicated by red circles; all other species of mammals are indicated by black circles. The lifespan and body mass data are from Healy et al. (2014).
Treatments Based on Bat Strategies
Bats have evolved multiple mechanisms to suppress inflammation, in particular by dampening nucleic acid sensing pathways. A number of pharmacological interventions targeting nucleic acid sensing pathways had already been developed. Historically, the focus has been on developing activators of these pathways to serve as antiviral or anticancer drugs (reviewed in Vanpouille-Box et al., 2019). However, with the realization that inflammation contributes to a wide range of diseases from autoimmunity to age-related conditions, the interest has shifted to developing antagonists of nucleic acid sensors (Sheridan, 2019). This proved to be a challenging task due to high level of redundancy within nucleic acid sensing pathways and the danger of increasing vulnerability to infections. Here, the information obtained from the studies of bats can assist in drug discovery (Table 1 ).
Future Perspectives
In summary, besides serving as a source of deadly diseases and harboring viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2, which caused the current pandemics, bats have a lot to offer humanity by illuminating the pathways to develop novel therapeutics to treat age-related conditions and promote longevity. Already studies of the altered innate immune responses in bats point to several classes of small molecules, some of which have links to aging. However, we can only see the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding how bats deal with inflammation, and clearly more studies are warranted. This is also true for other hallmarks of aging, which are still minimally explored. In addition to finding small molecules targeting specific pathways that can be tested in humans, it will be of interest to engineer specific bat alterations in mice and determine whether this leads to enhanced lifespan and healthspan.
Bats have evolved skewed, and ultimately successful, strategies to experience longer and healthier lives, even if this is a secondary outcome of selection for responses to viral infections and/or the dramatic range of metabolic states that accompany periods of flight and torpor. Humans in the last century have created a lifestyle that has gone bats; we live in high densities and (many of us) travel extensively, enhancing exposure to and spread of pathogens. By embracing “batty” strategies to deal with the challenges that our new lifestyle presents, we may be able to solve what look to be the two biggest medical challenges of the 21st century: the rise of viral pandemics and the ever-increasing prevalence of chronic diseases that all share aging as their biggest risk factor.Go to:
Acknowledgments
This perspective was conceived when the authors were quarantined together for potential exposure to COVID-19. Research in authors’ laboratories is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, United States.
Where does this go?
OK? It really helps to skim through that SECOND article, because one can ALMOST see the stuff that would make these TECH TITANS DROOL.
Centuries more of life if we just got PARTIAL success in bringing over some “bat tech” to human life.
And I didn’t really dig here, either. This was just what was floating on TOP of the “bat longevity” literature.
Think how much “good” Zuckerberg, Brin, Gates and these others could do, in a few more centuries, if they just had the elixir vitae that bats seem to promise!
Those who don’t think this is a possible motivation, can look at my previous discussion of “life extension” in another article about the more “fictional” science of adrenochrome, wherein I discussed WHY it’s possible to sell a complete fiction like adrenochrome the drug to both CUSTOMERS and CRITICS. In that discussion, the interest of the tech titans in life extension is both mentioned and referenced.
The Truths, Lies, and Disinformation Surrounding a Mythical yet Very Real Substance There is nothing more intriguing than an enigmatic character who defies political and cultural boundaries to tell great truths, yet mixes in just enough lies, fakery, shiny objects, red herrings, exaggerations and omissions to make himself or herself economically viable solely on their …
In the process of this scientific and social examination of the mythical “adrenochrome”, I looked at the very real concept of “young blood”.
There is a REAL market for any REAL or merely RUMORED rejuvenation.
People will even inject themselves with a deadly POISON to look younger.
Yes. “Beautox” is real. And it “REALLY” works – to make people LOOK younger.
Oh, Mark Zuckerberg – you are looking MAAAAHRRRRVELOUS!
Now, I don’t know WHO or HOW – China or CIA or Obama or DARPA – but I suspect that LIFE EXTENSION is the HOBBY WITH BENEFITS of the elite. And BATS was a natural attractor.
So I suspect that this INFLUENCER – bat research as the path to the elixir vitae – was introduced into the RIGHT CIRCLES by people who understood influence. And HERE WE ARE.
W
PS:
How will China and their puppets study the success of their bioweapon here in the United States, and its effect on voting?
