DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20250206 & the Scouring of the Shire


Welcome.
Please visit this January 1st daily thread for the rules of the road,
which are few but important.


Header Image: 2024 Presidential Election Map by County

The Scouring of the Shire.

Reading and reflecting on Tolkien’s final chapter in The Lord of the Rings might help us place ourselves at this time. Fandom tells us: “Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin arrive in the Shire to find that things are not as they once were when they left. The Shire is now run by Sharkey based at Bag End, who with Lotho‘s help had taken over with his band of Ruffian Men. The four hobbits collect as many allies as they can and defeat his army of Ruffians at the Battle of Bywater. The Hobbits then confront “Sharkey” and the lowly Gríma Wormtongue at Bag End, who both meet their demise.”

So, while the noble hobbits had been off saving all of Middle Earth, the “commies” had set up shop in their homeland and caused great harm that will require bravery, wisdom, and a lot of work to undo. It appears that we are somewhere around the beginning of the Battle of Bywater now.

Do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore,
and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. — Galatians 5:1



We got our miracle.
America is back.
Now what?

Let us dedicate ourselves to seeking our place in the cleansing, healing, and rebuilding of this beautiful, resource-rich nation. God will guide us.

Thanks be to God for our 47th President, Donald J. Trump.


The Role of County Government in Elections.

Take a good look at that 2024 Election Map. See the outline of each county?


How Does This Work?

Let’s take a look at what the National Association of Counties (NACO) has to say

When trying to understand how to get traction locally in turning the tide for liberty, it seems to come down to the governance at the county level. And from what is being turned up with the groups I’m following, it looks a lot like there is state level and national level collusion to influence or control the governments of those 3,069 counties that are responsible for overseeing our elections. I’ll get into those details in another post.

Reading that overview from NACO, they start out by stating:

Elections in the United States are administered in a highly decentralized process through which each state shapes its own election laws

Well, mostly. The states shape their own election laws, but, as with anything else, federal laws also impose requirements on state and local governments. Maryland’s State Board of Elections gives a helpful overview of these major federal election laws here. The most recent election-related law passed by Congress is known as HAVA.

  • Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002
    This law was the U.S. Congress’ response to the 2000 Presidential election and the first time that the federal government authorized federal funds for election administration. It created the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and set minimum standards for voting systems. It also required each state to adopt uniform standards on what constitutes a vote, implement provisional voting, post certain information at polling places, maintain a statewide voter registration database, and required certain individuals to show identification before voting.

Sounds good right?

Except. There are county elections officials are not following the laws, and yet are still taking the federal money to buy their electronic voting machines. If they didn’t follow the federal laws, then taking that money anyway would be fraud, right?

Thankfully, there are Americans that have stood up and gotten to work discovering and working to address the failures of our elections officials across the nation. I’d like to highlight one citizen oversight group that has done much with an all-volunteer organization.

We want valid elections that are run in full compliance with the law.

I strongly encourage you to watch this short video of a presentation by Marley Hornik of United Sovereign Americans. She goes over the legal framework for election integrity, starting with the constitution and provides the statute citations that must be enforced if we are to have free and fair elections. She also covers what they found when they audited the voter rolls of just 20 states prior to the 2024 election. They found over 29 MILLION apparently ineligible voter registrations, 10 million votes cast by those ineligible voters, 2 million more votes cast than voters that voted, and an average 13% vote error rate. Every invalid registration is potentially a felony level violation. Their organization is litigating with states over their failure to clean up the rolls and unlawful certification of non-compliant elections. They have a good strategy for which states to sue in order to potentially cause a circuit split which could get this heard at the Supreme Court without having to sue all 50 states. Or better yet, maybe the Department of Justice will just do their job.

Presentation by Marley Hornik of United Sovereign Americans
On the Status of our Nation’s Elections (for video click here)

The United Sovereign Americans Action Plan includes (1) informing everyone of election validity law, (2) turning findings into evidence, and (3) forcing election officials to obey the law.

Unfortunately, election officials across America have displayed apathy, disdain, and disregard for the law, and the civil rights of the people they are hired to serve. This has resulted in the certification of elections that varied from the law. Some of these elections were grossly inaccurate. Whether it was incompetence or malfeasance, those who broke the law must be held accountable.

Thank God for their work. May many more Americans join them in their efforts.


Twitterati.

Follow Scott Pressler for inspirational feet-on-the-ground reports and calls to action. He is showing us how it’s done. Also, check out Scott Presler’s Early Vote Action twitter account.


Prayer.

God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.


Dear KMAG: 20250203 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


This is our President.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

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

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces – but not for long!

Daily outrage and epic phuckery still abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win – even after we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

ombrophobia

noun

  • fear of rain
  • not to be confused with ombrophobe, which can mean either a person who suffers from ombrophobia, or a plant or other organism with a low tolerance for rain. Ombrophobe is similar to xerophile, but not identical.

Used in a sentence

Ombrophobia often originates from a traumatic experience involving rain.

Shown in a picture – OK – not really shown, but yeah

As the name of a video by a Burmese hip-hop artist, OASIX


MUSIC!

As opposed to AI country, here’s some actual US rock!

OK – let’s go back even further…..

Now forward in time again – 1978…..


THE STUFF

I’ll be blunt. The mathematics of WGTTs is messing up Newtonian physics, and the usual suspect troublemakers, Einstein and Schroedinger, are laughing!

Don’t try this at home, at work, or at school.


In more amazing “lotta winning” news…..

Jack Poso
JackPosobiec

BREAKING: Darren Beattie appointed to Senior State Department office

From thepostmillennial.com

132.3K Views……

Darren Beattie broke more important J6 stories than almost anybody. He and Julie Kelly grabbed the J6 narrative out of the hands of the left, and beat the Biden administration into defeat with it.

JUST SAYIN’!!!


Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


DEAR MAGA: Open Thread Thursday 20250130


Welcome.
Please visit this January 1st daily thread for the rules of the road,
which are few but important.


Header Image: 2024 Presidential Election Map by County

Do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

These are the kind of powerful words that motivated America’s founding fathers to create the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore,
and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. — Galatians 5:1

It is going to require a decision on our part to “stand firm” and “not submit again” before we are going to begin to take this seriously. But we have the help of God and the intensely determined support of our President, his team, and untold numbers of our fellow citizens.



We got our miracle.
America is back.
Now what?

Let us dedicate ourselves to seeking our place in the cleansing, healing, and rebuilding of this beautiful, resource-rich nation. Are we to pray? Of course. Are we to vote? Absolutely.

But we know there is much to do and not all is certain. We might find ourselves asking, “What am I to do in these amazing days of transformation?” God will guide us.


Priorities.

The Trump-Vance Administration Priorities page @ WhiteHouse.gov provides us with the eagle’s eye view of where we are going. Notice the order of these priorities. Safety of the people first! May the Lord grant us wisdom, strength, and good success.

MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN

  • President Trump will take bold action to secure our border and protect American communities.
  • This includes ending Biden’s catch-and-release policies, reinstating Remain in Mexico, building the wall, ending asylum for illegal border crossers, cracking down on criminal sanctuaries, and enhancing vetting and screening of aliens.
  • President Trump’s deportation operation will address the record border crossings of criminal aliens under the prior administration.
  • The President is suspending refugee resettlement, after communities were forced to house large and unsustainable populations of migrants, straining community safety and resources.
  • The Armed Forces, including the National Guard, will engage in border security, which is national security, and will be deployed to the border to assist existing law enforcement personnel.
  • President Trump will begin the process of designating cartels, including the dangerous Tren de Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations and use the Alien Enemies Act to remove them.
  • The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty as the appropriate punishment for heinous crimes against humanity, including those who kill law enforcement officers and illegal migrants who maim and murder Americans.

MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AND ENERGY DOMINANT AGAIN

  • The President will unleash American energy by ending Biden’s policies of climate extremism, streamlining permitting, and reviewing for rescission all regulations that impose undue burdens on energy production and use, including mining and processing of non-fuel minerals.
  • President Trump’s energy actions empower consumer choice in vehicles, showerheads, toilets, washing machines, lightbulbs and dishwashers.
  • President Trump will declare an energy emergency and use all necessary resources to build critical infrastructure.
  • President Trump’s energy policies will end leasing to massive wind farms that degrade our natural landscapes and fail to serve American energy consumers.
  • President Trump will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
  • All agencies will take emergency measures to reduce the cost of living.
  • President Trump will announce the America First Trade Policy.
  • America will no longer be beholden to foreign organizations for our national tax policy, which punishes American businesses.

DRAIN THE SWAMP

  • The President will usher a Golden Age for America by reforming and improving the government bureaucracy to work for the American people. He will freeze bureaucrat hiring except in essential areas to end the onslaught of useless and overpaid DEI activists buried into the federal workforce. He will pause burdensome and radical regulations not yet in effect that Biden announced.
  • President Trump is announcing an unprecedented slate of executive orders for rescission.
  • President Trump is planning for improved accountability of government bureaucrats. The American people deserve the highest-quality service from people who love our country. The President will also return federal workers to work, as only 6% of employees currently work in person.
  • President Trump is taking swift action to end the weaponization of government against political rivals and ordering all document retention as required by law. President Trump is also ending the unconstitutional censorship by the federal government. No longer will government employees pick and require the erasure of entirely true speech.
  • On the President’s direction, the State Department will have an America-First foreign policy.

BRING BACK AMERICAN VALUES

  • The President will establish male and female as biological reality and protect women from radical gender ideology.
  • American landmarks will be named to appropriately honor our Nation’s history.

Trying to Keep Up.

This page @ WhiteHouse.gov/news is a great place to follow along as everything begins to unfold. Every executive order shows up instantly and they just keep coming.

So much there: Articles. Briefings & Statements. Fact Sheets. Presidential Actions. Remarks.

A big Thank You to all the team serving in this administration!
And an even bigger Thank You to our 47th President, Donald J. Trump.


Twitterati.

Very recently I finally began to read in the X.com space. The platform is suspicious of me and therefore I do not have an account. Probably due to the basic efforts I’ve made to retain some level of privacy. Oh well.

The kind people here have shown me the way to view people’s feeds by using the Nitter.Poast.org site. It’s opened up a whole new world of information. Very helpful.

I have a new favorite follow. And I recommend her to you. Nicole Shanahan. She was RFK Jr’s running mate. She’s as informed, active and feisty as they come. Nicole Shanahan‘s feed is following the Senate confirmations and a LOT more.

For fresh news on our J6 people and a lot more, Julie Kelly might be the place to visit.


Prayer.

God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.


Dear KMAG: 20250127 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


This is our President.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

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

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is still under Occupation by hostile forces, but we are evicting those forces!

Daily outrage and epic phuckery still abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win, long after we got His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

damoiseau

noun

  • male form of damsel
  • a young man not yet dubbed a knight
  • a young gentleman who was not yet a knight but aspired to be one
  • a young nobleman accompanying his lord or lady to hunt, walk, travel, etc.
  • a young nobleman or squire

Used in a sentence

The word damoiseau appears to be related to the word mademoiselle.

Shown in a picture by Gab’s Watercolor AI

Video of a rum distillery named Damoiseau.


MUSIC!

What kind of music do you get back when you search on “damoiseau”? Well, somewhere down the page you get one of cthulhu’s favorite bands – “Pample Moose” or whatever. So let’s just go with it!


THE STUFF

In honor of my former colleague, who was SEMPER FIDELIS in all matters of Q, it is my plan to make sure that certain touches of what she regarded as important are not forgotten.

DOQ
@doqholliday

7 year delta incoming…

Nobody is sleeping tonight.
Let that sink in.
Q


480.6K Views


Yup. And DOQ is not kidding! Seven year delta.

Yup. As was said on this board earlier today……

Trump world problems! Almost as bad as too much winning!

Susie Q is right. Something is going on here. And it’s good!


Remember Kary Mullis? Establishment popularization science remembers him, and while Veritasium keeps the expected diss of this gnarly dissident fairly gentle, their coverage fills in a lot of blanks, and is appreciated by this more lupine dissident. Don’t worry – you’ll still like Kary – maybe even a little more after watching this.

A toast to Kary! And today, we’ll skip the LSD, but maybe rum is appropriate.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


Dear KMAG: 20250120 Inauguration Day ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

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

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

viricide

noun

  • alternate spelling of virucide
  • killing of viruses
  • killing of men or of husbands
  • substance or agent that inactivates viruses
  • substance that destroys or inactivates viruses
  • act of killing one’s husband

Used in a sentence

While hydroxychloroquine may be an atypical viricide, it has an excellent safety record and an acceptable therapeutic ratio.

Used conceptually in a meme

Underlying a bigger message which helps us understand where we are today


MUSIC!

On Inauguration Day, I am reminded of an old song we used to love on the radio. It’s been a while, but the song seems remarkably relevant now. Here is a version that’s easier to hear the lyrics.

Here’s a live version from 1986. Keep your eye on the flags.


THE STUFF

It’s time to recall Trump Gravity and “the roller coaster”!

LINK: https://wolfmoon1776.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/trump-gravity/


Wolf’s 2017 Comment

Well, I don’t really have to do any holding together, now that I figured out what Trump is up to.  He is shaking things out, but counting on Trump gravity to pull things back together as he moves along.  He is moving “forward” at speeds Obama could not even dream of.

You and I will be anti-Trump trolls one day and MAGA heroes the next.  Get used to it. Trump speed is the new normal.  Some will call it flip-flopping, but that’s not what it is.  Trump is dodging and weaving through reality faster than the reality can react to disrupt his plans.

I was explaining this to my wife.  This is a roller-coaster now.  Trump is no longer waiting for people to keep up.  He is taking his bewildering art-of-the-deal campaign schtick into geopolitics, and for a lot of people who can’t keep up or hold on, it will be a rough ride.

Trump is no longer playing only with evil and cunning players who are still predictable, easily beatable dopes, like Hillary.  He is playing against killers, with his own team of killers, and all the while he has scheming creeps like Hillary, BGI, SPLC, and the neocons gunning for him.  Snake Ryan ready to bite when nobody is looking.  “Warhead” McCain screaming for Russian blood.  Psycho Kim and Samoa Obama plotting some kind of intrigue to take him down.  And THOSE are the lightweights.

This is the majors now.  Trump has to outwit world-class adversaries and “frenemies” by defining the deals that they will agree to.  One minute they will think Trump is their friend – the next minute, a cunning, bitter foe.  And he has to do this with evil cheerleaders like Warhead, Linderace, Dipsy Dowd, Maggie Haterman, and Fake Yapper trashing him or praising him alternately, no matter which way he goes.  They can’t keep up, either.

Neither can many around him.  I think that half of the problem with advisers crashing into each other is they don’t realize what Trump is doing.

And people will trash you, and they will trash me.  Get used to it.  I’ve already caught plenty of people mocking me.  Well, just wait a week in Trump time.  Look stupid and conned by Trump one minute, and you look like a sage three days later.

Trump will not find perfect solutions.  He will find OPTIMAL solutions.  We cannot ask for more.  Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer.  He’s not gonna do it.  He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.

Best presidency ever!  Just hang on.  More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.

The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.  Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.  Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt.  He is going to pull people into his orbit.  A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.

I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it.  In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!” 😀


Wolf’s 2024 Comment

If you are not seeing just how remarkably similar things are right now, to the way they were at the end of 2016 and beginning of 2017, then please re-read the above post ONE MORE TIME. While you do so, think about all that Trump is doing now – before he has even taken office.

Think of what he is preparing to do – that you know about. Think of what he is preparing to do that you DON’T know about. Ask yourself which part of that iceberg is bigger.

Think of how President Trump is going to Make America Great Again – and BEYOND. Far, far beyond.

Trump is literally bringing TITANS into his orbit. And I mean BIG titans.

Stars rapidly orbiting the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

But Trump doesn’t just care about the physical realm. Consider how Trump is always aligning himself with the forces of good, of love, and of peace in this world.

MELANIA TRUMP
@MELANIATRUMP

It was a privilege to host Mrs. Akie Abe at Mar-a-Lago once again. We fondly remembered her late husband, former Prime Minister Abe, and honored his remarkable legacy.

Image


213.7K Views


Watch how Trump is skillfully working around corrupted, broken, and ossified government processes. Watch how Trump is dealing with world problems already, despite all the forces, both at home and abroad, which are allied against him.

We are experiencing Trump Gravity in ways that I simply could not have predicted in 2017. Trump is beyond a mere TITAN at this point. He is GARGANTUAN. He is stretching, compressing, and shifting SPACE AND TIME THEMSELVES. And yet – it’s OK.

In God We Trust – as we enjoy this amazing ride in His loving universe.

Enjoy this time. The best is yet to come.

W


TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2

Live your best life. All around the world the Communist Left and their insufferable foot soldiers are in retreat and crisis mode. Their world is shrinking. They are becoming irrelevant. We are everywhere. Nimble, snarky, fast and with the sunlight arguments that defeat them. Live your very best life. Ignore the dark imaginings they attempt to present in their last desperate effort to remain relevant.

Image
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Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


Dear KMAG: 20250113 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

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

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

vituperation

noun

  • abuse
  • rejection
  • sustained, harshly critical language
  • invective
  • severe censure
  • blame
  • vehemently expressed condemnation or disapproval
  • formal language that is full of hate
  • angry criticism

Used in a sentence by the Fake News (two examples)

(One will notice that most examples of this word in use on Merriam-Webster are against Trump and conservatives.)

Flash forward 92-plus years to Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a bleak, lurid festival of racist hate and profane vituperation so vile that even fellow Republicans, who have turned a blind eye to Trump’s character for years, are distancing themselves from the event.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024

The politicization of the COVID response has only worsened this trend, likely resulting in part from Trump’s vituperation.
—Matt Motta, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2024

Yeah, well, stuff it, you commies. Your pre-election biased writings FAILED. Trump is still your President.

Shown in a picture in a dictionary

Used in a “black metal” song title, shown in an artistic music video

Melancholic metal; interesting use of dance and B/W film, but these people need Jesus badly.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTYU62xWIg4


MUSIC!

Well, Netflix, that CIA cultural corruption project, seems to finally be good for something. Enjoy this weird music, which is either a corruption of classical music, or a correction of pop music – take your pick. (PS – I know nothing about this series.)


THE STUFF

“What is best in life? Conan! Tell us!”

“Yes, but what is life?”

“To crush protons, to see higher nuclei driven before you, and to hear the calculations of their women!”

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


Dear KMAG: 20250106 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

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

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

ingluvies

noun

  • a crop or craw of birds
  • a dilation or pouch in the esophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird’s craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
  • the widened portion of the esophagus of birds and lower animals
  • a crop or pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing to the stomach

Used in a sentence with bad American English and Russian accent

“Moose ingluvies, but squirrel not having!”

Ridiculous misleading example of usage generated by bad AI

In the Carnia region of Italy, children catch and eat ingluvies of the toxic Zygaena moths in early summer. (LINK: https://www.wordsense.eu/ingluvies/ – ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/dHtJY)


MUSIC!

Another song by an artist featured previously.

Whoa, the pipes!

Well, there’s nothing about drinking, jail or trains, but put three check marks next to mom!


THE STUFF

This next video is not just for the geeks here, although – yeah – it’s mostly for them. It’s also for the musicians, and the curious.

Steve covered this before, so it should not be totally unfamiliar. Feel free to review:

16 – De Broglie, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

You don’t have to understand the math, to follow along and understand why light and atoms end up being a lot like vibrating musical strings.

Basically, Erwin Schrödinger plugged a simple but weird equation by Louis de Broglie, which said that matter has a frequency just like light, into the existing wave equation, and he got a matter wave equation.

And all of THAT is revealed on the way to answering, what in the heck is an imaginary number doing in there?

You will likely need to watch it more than once.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


Dear KMAG: 20241230 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

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

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

flammulation

noun

flame-like marking

Used in a sentence

Whether the flammulation of fire-type Pokemon is true flammulation or simply fire itself is a question best left for the experts, meaning children.

Shown (or maybe over-shown) in a picture

Shown (barely, kinda, maybe a bit) in a video


MUSIC!

Happy New Year’s Eve’s Eve!

Or New Year’s Eve’s Eve’s Eve for all you early arrivals who wait up past midnight for new posts!


THE STUFF

How about some fireworks?

Wanna buy some tickets to an amazing show?

You may have them already!

Kinda glad this drama is a few neighborhoods away from ours.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


Happy Xanukah 2024! The Grok AI Is Now Free On X!

OK – this will take a while to explain, but I’ll try to be brief.

I wanted to do a Hanukkah post – especially because Hanukkah 2024 has the unusual aspect of starting on Christmas (Western Christmas, that is) this year. Yes – Hanukkah runs from sundown on December 25, 2024 until sundown on January 2, 2025.

Now, you may have noticed that I spelled Hanukkah “wrong” in the title. Well, the holiday turns out to have 24 different “wrong” spellings! I simply picked the one that celebrated “X” the most!


Lex Rofeberg
@Lexaphus

Since the time for this debate is nearing: The right way to spell Hanukkah is to change the spelling of Channuka each time that you mention Xanukah. Khannike is a delightful holiday (get it?) when one eats fried foods and remembers miracles. Mark your calendar, Janice is coming!


WHAT THE HEXH???!!! LOL!!!

Here’s the article that tweet came from.

LINK: https://jewishunpacked.com/how-do-you-spell-hanukkah/

The replies on that tweet are hilarious, by the way!

LINK: https://x.com/Lexaphus/status/1458106787027197962

Anyway, back to X. And to this blog.

I wanted to do two posts – an extra Xanukah post, and a post about the Grok AI now being free. And then I needed to do the Christmas post, but thankfully Aubergine did that, so I only had to do those two posts. And THEN I got the idea to combine them!

As to the point about the Grok AI, I was seeing ads on X for Grok now being free. Like this one.

A few days ago, I decided to try it. I clicked on the ad when I saw it, and it took me right to Grok. So I asked Grok a question.

Grok – please tell me more about this image. I’m curious why the pictured object has the shape that it does, which is different from most ringed planets. https://ton.twitter.com/onboarding/subscriptions/free_grok_prompt_blackhole2_min.png

What follows is the answer that was returned in under 15 seconds.


15 web pages

The image you’re referring to likely depicts a black hole, specifically showcasing the visual phenomenon known as the “photon ring.” Here’s an explanation of why this object appears differently from most ringed planets:

Shape and Appearance: Unlike planetary rings which are composed of particles orbiting a planet in a relatively flat plane, the shape in your image is due to the unique gravitational effects of a black hole.

  • Photon Ring: The bright ring you see is not a physical structure but an optical effect. It’s caused by photons (light particles) that orbit the black hole multiple times due to extreme gravitational lensing before escaping towards the observer. This results in a ring-like structure that appears around the black hole’s shadow. The light from the accretion disk or material around the black hole bends in the intense gravity, creating this luminous ring. The thickness and brightness of this ring can vary based on the black hole’s mass, spin, and the viewing angle.
  • Black Hole’s Shadow: Inside this photon ring is the black hole’s shadow, which is essentially the silhouette of the event horizon—the point beyond which no light or matter can escape. This shadow appears dark because any light or matter that crosses the event horizon cannot be seen from outside. The size of the shadow is roughly twice the size of the event horizon, making it larger than what you might expect just by looking at the black hole itself.
  • Difference from Planetary Rings: Planetary rings are made of ice, dust, and rock particles that orbit the planet due to its gravity but remain within a certain band due to stable orbits. A black hole’s photon ring, however, is an effect of spacetime curvature, where light paths are significantly altered around the black hole, creating an illusion of a ring. This is not due to physical material distribution but how light travels in the extreme gravity of a black hole.
  • Scientific Significance: The imaging and study of such phenomena help in understanding general relativity, black hole physics, and the behavior of matter and light in extreme gravitational fields. The first direct image of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, was of M87’s black hole and showed this very ring, confirming theoretical predictions about how black holes should appear.

This visual representation is a testament to the bizarre effects predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, where gravity can bend light to such an extent that we observe phenomena like the photon ring.

photon ring theory

gravitational lensing


OK – that was cool. So I decided to ask it another question that’s relevant today, and would take me a while to search.

Grok – please explain why Hanukkah normally happens before Christmas (December 25), but it happening after Christmas this year.

25 web pages

10 posts

Hanukkah normally occurs before Christmas because it follows the Hebrew calendar, which is lunisolar. Here’s how it works:

  • Hebrew Calendar: Hanukkah begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev. The Hebrew calendar is based on both lunar and solar cycles, with months starting with the new moon. Because lunar months are about 29.5 days long, there are roughly 12 lunar months in a solar year, but this cycle is shorter than the solar year, causing a drift. To realign the calendar with the solar year, an extra month (a second Adar) is added approximately every three years in a 19-year cycle. This adjustment ensures that holidays like Hanukkah maintain their seasonal timing.
  • Gregorian Calendar: In contrast, the Gregorian calendar, which is solar-based, has a fixed date for Christmas on December 25. Since the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars do not align perfectly, the date of Hanukkah on the Gregorian calendar varies from year to year, typically falling between late November and late December.

This year, in 2024, Hanukkah starts at sundown on December 25 and continues until January 2, 2025, due to the specific alignment of the lunar and solar calendars. It’s a rare occurrence for Hanukkah to begin on or after Christmas Day:

  • Rare Coincidence: The last time Hanukkah started on Christmas Day was in 2005, and it won’t happen again until 2035. This is because the Hebrew calendar’s leap year system occasionally pushes Hanukkah later into December, sometimes even into January, but rarely this close to or after Christmas.
  • Leap Year Influence: The Jewish calendar’s leap year, where an extra month is inserted, can shift Hanukkah’s timing on the Gregorian calendar. In a year like 2024, the leap year effect has resulted in Hanukkah starting later than usual, thus coinciding with or following Christmas.

In summary, the variable nature of the Hebrew calendar’s lunisolar system causes Hanukkah’s date to shift relative to the fixed solar-based Gregorian calendar, leading to this rare occurrence where Hanukkah begins after Christmas.

Hebrew calendar leap years

Other lunisolar calendars


WELL – that was excellent. Grok really gives nice answers – and FAST.

So – if you’re ready – give Grok a try.

https://x.com/i/grok

And have a Mherry Xhristmas and a Xhappy Xhanukkah!

W

Dear KMAG: 20241223 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

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

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

vicegerent

noun

  • acting in place of another
  • having delegated authority
  • not the same as a viceregent, although similar

Used in a sentence

A viceregent is a ruler acting in place of a monarch, while a vicegerent is an appointed representative of a higher authority, often with broader administrative duties.

LINK: https://www.difference.wiki/viceregent-vs-vicegerent/


MUSIC!

This one is somewhat self-explanatory. Merry Christmas!

OK – sorry – that’s not enough. Gonna pile in some more Christmas music!

AND another!

And this one was hanging out in my tabs for some reason!


THE STUFF

This is actually a science post! Christmas “AROUND” the world!

And now I’m Hungary.

Just sayin’!

But while today (December 23) is actually many holidays…..

LINK: https://nationaltoday.com/december-23-holidays/

Most of all, it’s apparently “Festivus”!

LINK: https://nationaltoday.com/festivus/

Now I seem to recall Rand Paul’s name associated with Festivus, and I never quite got it, until this news report. Stay with it for at least a minute. LMAO!!!

Well, DOGE-GONE, it’s BARBIE!

I’m sorry, but Festivus has me in the mood to play my favorite song!

In case you’re wondering what a “ferrocell” is, there’s a fascinating paper describing how one works.

LINK: https://ferrocell.us/references/Demystifying_the_Ferrocell1.pdf

The beauty of this song – other than simply being well-done, is that in some pleasing ways, the actual science of sunlight shining on the orbiting moon, blocked by its own orbiting mass, corresponds with, and maybe even transforms through the “crackpot matrix” to, the dithering of Mr. (at)witsit about ferrocells and whatnot.

Between “real” science and “pseudo” science, I’m falling in love with the crazy beauty of this universe!

Good night, good morning, good day, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W