The Panhandle MAGA Rally Thread. May 8th, 2019.

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Sorry guys, I’m slipping. MAGA Rally thread is up and running! Made sandwiches for everyone. Who has the Sweet Tea? And those terrific Lemon Squares?
Wait a minute, for the guys, a special treat…….. BACON Sandwiches.
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Yes, I did notice the Wild Turkey in the background. Little bit of refreshment for all.
Post away and ALL are welcome!!!!!!!! Put your Bermuda shorts on, we’re in Florida today!
Stole this one from Ga/FL, thank you, sweet pea. The Women for Trump have already arrived at MAGA Rally and have staked out their spot. Surely, they have enough sweet tea for us all.
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Tax Law #101 – The TEFRA of 1986. How It Killed Construction, Caused the Recession of 1991-1992, and Created a President.

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On November 22, 1991, Donald J. Trump testified before a Congressional Committee which was a Task Force created to solve the problem of banking liquidity. Link
Here is the whole link: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Donald+Trump+1991+video+testimony+in+front+of+Congress&atb=v106-1&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=Rksd80-FCAw
At that time, Construction and Real Estate, both residential and commercial, represented 20% of our GNP (it was Gross National Product – back in the day). Obscure changes to the tax law killed this segment of our economy. In 1991, there was not a single high rise crane remaining in NYC.
Construction had all but stopped in the USA, causing the loss of 600K jobs, which rippled through the economy to cause a serious recession. As Trump recalls in his testimony, he spoke to H&H Construction, the largest in NYC, and they did not have a new building planned for the next two years.
In 1991, our motto was “Survive ’til ’95”, but frankly, we didn’t see ANY end to the problems in the real estate industry. So, what caused the problem? At the time, we were looking for ways to right the ship. Banking was stagnant. The only solution had to come from Congress… because Congress caused the problem.
As the story goes, the tax code was changed in 1986, called TEFRA. As heated negotiations for changes in tax code took place, the committees needed another 7 billion dollars of revenue to make the CBO score come in “revenue neutral”. A STAFFER suggested grabbing the deduction for “passive losses” on real estate (meaning income from real estate was NOT taxed as ordinary income and the losses could be shared among investors) — because the numbers, 7 billion, matched the magical number needed in Committee. There is speculation the staffer belonged to Ted Kennedy, since Ted wanted Capital Gains Taxes lowered to 20%, but the identity of the staffer has been lost to history. Well, the Congress got their 7 billion, and revenue neutral CBO score, but it cost the economy well over 500 billion in losses. Here is why.
More specifically, in TEFRA, passive income and losses were no longer allowed and the ability to syndicate real estate (meaning I could gather together a group of wealthy docs/dentists/execs to invest in a project and the investors would receive income as PASSIVE income) was no longer allowed. Additionally, depreciation schedules were lengthened substantially. Wealthy people, to avoid higher tax brackets, would invest in REIT’s (Real Estate Investment Trusts), to build shopping centers, apartment complexes, etc. As group of investors, the risks were also minimized. I sold REITs back in the 80’s. With the change in tax law, the investors went away. All those slick brochures went into the garbage can.
Readers might recall, TEFRA was also the act which eliminated deductions for interest on consumer spending but DID allow deductions for HOME interest — that was when every homeowner took out a home equity line of credit. Remember?
Well, when the act was passed, the impact on real estate projects was like a Cat 5 hurricane. People who HAD invested in the project, no longer had an incentive to invest and investors which had their money invested were caught in the maelstrom. What investors THOUGHT would be the benefits of their investment evaporated overnight. As projects failed, and the snowball created an avalanche, banks tightened up their restrictions on lending for real estate. With no one to finance construction, the industry came to a dead stop. No one working, no one buying equipment, no one buying carpeting, refrigerators, tile, cabinets, couches, dining room sets……., and a recession was born….. all because an academic staffer, with no real world experience in business, no way to imagine the consequences of his actions, needed 7 billion dollars to make his spreadsheet match up for CBO.
It was the idiocy of government on full display, and a successful citizen, Donald Trump, traveled to DC, to speak to Congress. He wanted to correct the problem, not just for himself, but for all of America.
The testimony is fascinating. At about 39:40 in the C-Span video, Helen Bentley, a Republican from Maryland, questions citizen Trump about another concerning issue – American manufacturing and her attempt to keep manufacturing companies from going overseas. She mentioned a local bank, who offered a 1% discount on a car loan if the consumer bought an American Car. Trump like the idea. She talked about FREE TRADE versus FAIR TRADE………, and that was 28 years ago.
At about 43 minutes in the video, Congressman Jimmy Hayes, a Dem from Louisiana, begins to explain the real problem, with help from Donald Trump. All construction has interim financing, a construction loan. When the project is finished, the developer (even for our little B&B) searches out permanent financing. Projects which were in various stages of building – for a decade, sometimes, were NOT grandfathered. So, a project was planned, land acquired, zoned, engineered, built………, and suddenly, the rules changed. Everything STOPPED. Hundreds of thousands went bankrupt, because they were still on the hook for the stream of payments due and caught in the midst of a sudden and drastic change in tax law.
As Congressman Hayes continues to explain……, with the changes in tax law, and not allowing the benefit of tax consequences of rents as passive income (no income tax), a building which might be completed and occupied at 100% is suddenly WORTH LESS….. because it’s not producing the great income (now taxed as personal income), tax free, any longer. A 5 million dollar apartment house might now, in 1990, only be worth 1 million dollars… which meant banks then required additional collateral from the owners, for EXISTING loans. Sometimes these owners had additional personal collateral and sometimes they did not. Thus, an owner of an apartment complex, could, find himself in a situation where they DID NOT miss a single payment……. but had their loans called by their banks. Again, bankrupting successful projects, clean projects, on EXISTING properties. It was a nightmare. Do everything right, and still go bankrupt.
But it gets worse…….. The lowering of assessed value of apartment buildings/shopping centers/commercial space all over the country…… meant that owners sought their property tax evaluations to be lowered……. which meant LESS property taxes being paid all over the country….. which meant localities had to search for OTHER means to raise taxes to meet the shortfall. Again, all because some bureaucrat staffer, with no experience in the real world, needed 7 billion dollars in revenue to make his spreadsheet match up for CBO.
During the election of 2016, much was made of Trump’s 4 business bankruptcies, as opposed to the list of 515 companies where Donald Trump is a principal owner.
The Taj Mahal Casino declared bankruptcy in July of 1991 and others in March of 1992. All of these losses center around the problem with TEFRA, building, and financing of real estate development. Trump took the hit for the mistake of government. Again, the projects were started prior to the change in of TEFRA in 1986. Link
The Plaza Hotel and two casinos declared bankruptcy in March of 1992. Some media outlets list a total of 6 bankruptcies but it’s really only 4, depending on a complete understand of tax code (and common sense), which the media does not comprehend. Link

Trump has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy for his companies six times. Three of the casino bankruptcies came during the recession of the early 1990s and the Gulf War, both of which contributed to hard times in Atlantic City, New Jersey’s gambling facilities. He also entered a Manhattan hotel and two casino holding companies into bankruptcy.

Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows companies to restructure or wipe away much of their debt to other companies, creditors, and shareholders while remaining in business but under the supervision of a bankruptcy court. Chapter 11 is often called “reorganization” because it allows the business to emerge from the process more efficient and on good terms with its creditors.

To be clear, as the article fairly notes, President Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy.
We can only speculate what these kinds of financial losses did to a man like Donald Trump. We know, there is no sunshine without rain. There is no happiness without sadness. There is no love without heartbreak…… but we choose to love, anyway. Prior to this time, Trump worked hard but was massively successful. As Fred Trump said, “Everything Donald touched turned to gold.”, but adversity was on the horizon.
During this time period, Trump had an affair. He divorced Ivana and the details of his personal life were splashed all over the news rags. Marla became pregnant and Trump, unlike other wealthy men, didn’t opt for an abortion. He married Marla and embraced Tiffany. I wonder, no, I believe, this time period is what made Trump the determined man he became. Trial by fire. Trump came out on the other side….. stronger.
One other note, another corporate bankruptcy came in February of 2009. Link If you were a regular homeowner in February of 2009, you were probably also struggling with foreclosure. Again, caused by bad government.
It’s an amazing coincidence, isn’t it? Congressmen never seem to lose their business or homes because of governmental failures. I recall Senator Chris Dodd even had a Countrywide Mortgage on his personal home. There’s never a consequence for a bad decision for a Congressman. No. It’s businesspeople who suffer the consequences of bad leadership and silly errors in governance.
I recall when I was transferred to Manhattan in 1984 and saw Donald Trump in a restaurant. He was larger than life but someone I would never consider being in my personal friend group. My aspirations in Gotham City were big but not quite as big as Donald Trump. Strangely, as I grew as a business person, I developed a great admiration for Trump as a businessman when the casinos went bankrupt in ’91-’92. It takes an extraordinary man to become a billionaire………. but to battle back……… and become a billionaire, again?
That’s one helluva man.
Think about it. In the Venn diagram of Earth’s population, how many of us become billionaires? In ’91-’92, Trump could have retired to an island, happy, and wealthy, with Marla and the kids. Yet, he didn’t. Trump battled back to the top of the heap……. again. Now, do the Venn diagram of those who become billionaires……. again, the diagram of those who reach a pinnacle….twice. Who has that kind of courage? Who has the tenacity, when quitting would be so much easier?
I can think of only one other such man who has a similar nature = Tiger Woods.
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For both of them, Trump and Woods, there would have been no shame in retirement or quitting. Tiger reached an impossible dream, according to most men, and so had Trump. These men could have retired, rested, and the history books would have been effusive with praise. But they refused to rest……. When Tiger won the Masters in 2019, I had tears in my eyes. It wasn’t that he won the Masters, which is an extraordinary feat. Nothing about his win was ordinary. No, Tiger’s victory represented so much more. We all FELT Tiger’s win. He represented human determination. Similar to the way we felt when an American stepped on the moon. We were universally PROUD of Tiger Woods.
Tiger’s victory, and Trump’s battle back to the top of the heap in NYC, massive success in television, and winning the Presidency of the United States, represents a win for the human spirit. It says……,
“I’m not done, yet.
I want more.
I will not go quietly.
There’s more work to do.”
Yes, men like Trump and Tiger Woods are indeed rare men. These are men who inspire others. They are the very best of us. We wish we had more of them. We wish we were them. Men who don’t quit. We’re lucky and blessed to have one of them as President of the United States.
Gee, I wonder what Tiger Woods will be doing……. in twenty years……. when he’s 64?
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The Extensive List Of Quotes Re The New World Order Whether We Like It Or Not

Sometime on Friday, May 3, 2019, an anonymous poster at VOAT put up what is billed as the largest collection of quotes regarding the New World Order – and the attempt to impose it on mankind without our consent – said by a shocking array of public figures over the last two hundred years or more.
The list is spreading around the Q-verse online.
What is notable about it, is that some quotes, without cheerleading the movement, recognize that it is/was happening. In one way, this list gives a scope to the clandestine war Q and the team are fighting that is hard to fathom. Expanding thinking is necessary to take it all in.
This list is not this writer’s work. It was compiled by someone out there in the great beyond – and those of us who are the messengers are grateful for the effort.

Below is an extensive and thought-provoking list of quotes on the totalitarian New World Order, said by some of the most respected and well-known men and women of our time.
Despite all the facts that are out there, and there are plenty, many still consider New World Order as a silly conspiracy. Hopefully, this small piece of information can make readers to question how the world and the people are really controlled and manipulated. The path is towards a ruthless, totalitarian society where a small elite rules the population that have been depraved morally, economically and spiritually.
Wake up, start exploring and wake up others
Because there are too many quotes to fit into a single post, it has been split into three separate ones.

Quotes on the New World Order, part 1 of 3

”Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.” —Richard Salant, former president, CBS News

“The ‘affirmative task’ before us is to “create a New World Order.” –VP Joe Biden, speech Import Export Bank, April 5, 2013

“We will succeed in the Gulf. And when we do, the world community will have sent an enduring warning to any dictator or despot, present or future, who contemplates outlaw aggression. The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fufill the long-held promise of a new world order – where brutality will go unrewarded, and aggression will meet collective resistance.” –President George HW Bush, State of the Union Address 1991

“Each of us has the hope to build a New World Order.” –President Richard Nixon, Hangzhou, China, February 1972

“We are moving toward a new world order, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road.” —Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987

“I think that his [Obama’s] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.” —Henry Kissinger, CNBC 2008

“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” —Strobe Talbot, Deputy Secretary of State, TIME, July l992

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. Do I mean a conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, incredibly evil in intent.” –Rep. Larry P. MacDonald, killed in Korean Air Lines 007, 1983

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” —David Rockefeller, NWO Banker

“We have before us the opportunity to forge, for ourselves and for future generations, a New World Order. A world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, rules all nations. When we are successful–and we will be–we have a real chance at this New World Order. An order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping forces to fulfill the promise and vision of its founders.” —George H.W. Bush, March 21, 1991

“One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order.” –K.M. Heaton, National Educator

“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.” –Dr. Henry Kissinger, Evians, France, 1991

“The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?” —H.G. Wells The New World Order 1939

“We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., historian, special assistant to John F. Kennedy

“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by consent or conquest.” –James Paul Warburg [son of Paul Warburg, the author of the Federal Reserve Act] February 7, 1950

“In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than f rom the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.” —Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organisations under Kennedy and Johnson, and a member of the Trilateral Commission, wrote this in the April, 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation’s(CFR) journal Foreign Affairs(pg. 558)

“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government – a bureaucratic elite.” –Senator William Jenner, 1954

“We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.” —Saul Alinsky, author, Rules for Radicals [mentor of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama]

“The people will be crushed under the burden of taxes, loan after loan will be floated; after having drained the present, the State will devour the future.” —Fredric Bastiat

“The Final Act of the Uruguay Round, marking the conclusion of the most ambitious trade negotiation of our century, will give birth – in Morocco – to the World Trade Organization, the third pillar of the New World Order, along with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.” Government of Morocco, advertisement, New York Times, April 1994

“The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, ‘urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.” —Nelson Rockefeller, New York Times, February 1962

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt, letter to Col. House, November 21, l933

“…all of us here at the policy-making level have had experience with directives…from the White House…. The substance of them is that we shall use our grant-making power so as to alter our life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.” —H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., President – Ford Foundation (told to Norman Dodd, Congressional Reese Commission 1954)

“Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today’s world, it can now spread like contagion.” —Tony Blair

Quotes on the New World Order, part 2 of 3

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” —David Rockefeller, Baden-Baden, Germany 1991

“Countless people will hate the new world order and will die protesting against it.” —H.G. Wells, The New World Order, 1939

“The New World Order cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the single most significant component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change its perceptions.” –Dr. Henry Kissinger, World Action Council, April 19, 1994

“From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played a definitely recognizable role in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century, and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads, and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.” —Winston Churchill, 1922

“By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations… a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of survival. One world government is inevitable.” —Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)

“Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” —Woodrow Wilson

“All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a NEW WORLD ORDER.” —Robert Kennedy, presidential candidate and US Attorney General, 1967

“The peace conference has assembled. It will make the most momentous decisions in history, and upon these decisions will rest the stability of the new world order and the future peace of the world.” –M. C. Alexander, Executive Secretary of the American Association for International Conciliation, International Conciliation magazine, 1919

“Fundamental Bible-believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.” –Nebraska State Sen. Peter Hoagland, radio interview, 1983.

“The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day’s sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow.” —Nicholas Murray Butler, Union League of Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1915

“What is being arranged in Washington these days is really a gigantic experiment in internationalism. We are witnessing the creation of a supranational control of the world’s necessities. The old notions of sovereignty no longer govern the facts. We have entered upon another phase of political unification, a phase greater in its methods to the formation of national states in the nineteenth century. This is the birth of the League of Nations.” —Walter Lippman American writer, journalist, political commentator; one of the fathers of propaganda; NWO Corporate Media mouthpiece, April 1917

“The term Internationalism has been popularized in recent years to cover an interlocking financial, political, and economic world force for the purpose of establishing a World Government. Today Internationalism is heralded from pulpit and platform as a ‘League of Nations’ or a ‘Federated Union’ to which the United States must surrender a definite part of its National Sovereignty. The World Government plan is being advocated under such alluring names as the ‘New International Order,’ ‘The New World Order,’ ‘World Union Now,’ ‘World Commonwealth of Nations,’ ‘World Community,’ etc. All the terms have the same objective; however, the line of approach may be religious or political according to the taste or training of the individual.” –A Memorial to be Addressed to the House of Bishops and the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in General Convention, October 1940

“In the first public declaration on the Jewish question since the outbreak of the war, Arthur Greenwood, member without portfolio in the British War Cabinet, assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a new world order based on the ideals of ‘justice and peace.’” –“New World Order Pledged to Jews,” New York Times, October 1940

“The statement went on to say that the spiritual teachings of religion must become the foundation for the new world order and that national sovereignty must be subordinate to the higher moral law of God.” –American Institute of Judaism, New York Times, December 1942

The “new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.” —Nelson Mandela, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 1994

The renewal of the nonproliferation treaty was described as important “for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order.” —Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president, New York Times, April 1995

“I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: … At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a ‘new world order’ based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.” —George McGovern, Democratic presidential candidate, New York Times, February 1991

“The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is dedicated to one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax exempt foundation (i.e. Rockefeller), and wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education, and mass communication media, that it should be familiar to every American concerned with good government and with preserving and defending the US Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation’s right-to-know machinery, the news media; usually so aggressive in exposures to inform our people, remain silent when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities. The CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the US from a sovereign Republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship.” –Rep. John R. Rarick (D-LA)

“We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt’s and Winston Churchill’s vision for peace for the post-war period.” —Richard Gephardt, Dem. presidential candidate, Wall Street Journal, September 1990

“My country’s history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.” –Dr. Henry Kissinger, address to UN General Assembly, October 1975

“Some even believe we are a part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty and I am proud of it.” —David Rockefeller, Memoirs.

“The interests behind the Bush administration, such as the CFR, the Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller – and the Bilderberg Group have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years.” –Dr. Johannes Koeppl, Former German Ministry for Defence official and advisor to NATO

“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.” —Henry Ford

“We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world.” —Arnold Toynbee, speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen, June l931

Quotes on the New World Order, part 3 of 3

“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.” —G. Brock Chisholm, co-founder of the World Federation for Mental Health, former director of UN World Health Organization

“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.” —William O. Douglas U. S. Supreme Court Justice

“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen….At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” —John F. Hylan, NYC Mayor, 1922

“The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans. “ —Benjamin Disraeli, first Jewish Prime Minister of England, Coningsby, the New Generation

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” —Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice, 1952 “A New World Order” —Hubert H. Humphrey, speech before University of Pennsylvania, June 1977

“A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.” —Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary General

“The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other.” —Myron Fagan

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” —Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of England, Coningsby, the New Generation

“What is important is to dwell upon the increasing evidence of the existence of a secret conspiracy, throughout the world, for the destruction of organized government and the letting loose of evil.” —Christian Science Monitor, editorial, June 19th, l920

“The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semioccult power which….pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.” –MajorGeneral J.F.C. Fuller, British military historian, l941

“Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.” —Joseph Kennedy, The New York Times, July 26th, l936

“The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common: they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for “the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.” —Harper’s, July 1958

“Whatever happens, whatever the outcome, New World Order is going to come into the world…It will be buttressed with police power…When peace comes this time there is going to be a New World Order of social justice. It cannot be another Versailles.” —Edward VIII who became King on January 20, 1936, and abdicated eleven months later. He became the Duke of Windsor, and in July, 1940, he became the governor of the Bahamas.

“It bends governments to its will sometimes by promises, sometimes by threats. It has found its way into every class of Society, and forms an invisible and irresponsible power, an independent government, as it were, within the body corporate of the lawful state.” —Pope Leo XIII, 1902

“Three hundred men, all of-whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.” —Walter Rathenau, head of German General Electric, 1909. Rathenau was Prime Minister of Germany until he was assassinated in 1922.

“There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments…my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known…because the American branch of this organisation (sometimes called the “Eastern Establishment”) has played a very significant role in the history of the United States in the last generation.” –Dr. Carroll Quigley, a professor of history at the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University. Dr. Quigley was Bill Clinton’s mentor while he was at Georgetown University.

“We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.” —John Swinton, chief-of-staff, New York Times, NY Press Club 1880

“There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.” —Napoleon Bonaparte

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” — Johann W. von Goethe

“If the New World Order agenda is not realized by the terrorist attacks on America and if American’s don’t agree to give up their weapons and relinquish their sovereignty to the New World Order, the next attack will be the use of chemical, biological and/or atomic warfare against the American people. The architects of the New World Order will not hesitate to use as a last resort an atomic or hydrogen bomb in a major American city.” —Reference Op Ed page of the New York Times 9/24/01

“There exists a shadowy government, with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all the checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” —Daniel K. Inouye, US Senator 1977

“The truth of the matter is that you do have those standby provisions, and the statutory emergency plans are there whereby you could, in the name of stopping terrorism, apprehend, invoke the military, and arrest Americans and hold them in detention camps.” –U.S. Representative Henry Gonzalez, Aug 29th, 1994

“Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.” –Mikhail Gorbachev, United Nations address, December, 1988

“It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.” –George HW Bush, 1992

Novus ordo seclorum can be translated as “A new order of the ages.” It was proposed by Charles Thomson, the Latin expert who was involved in the design of the Great Seal of the United States, to signify “the beginning of the new American Era” as of the date of the Declaration of Independence.

For a downloadable PDF to be stored offline:

https://anonfile.com/IcD5Aemen6/NWO_quotes

Beyonce the Painted Metal Chicken

My family is full of pranksters, and we find humor in odd places. We delight in the mundane and tend to make our own fun. Grandma Della and Daddy kept books by Mike Royko, Erma Bombeck, Lewis Grizzard, and Dave Barry, in every bathroom. Their humor inspired us and after all, “Laughter is the Best Medicine”.
The following story is NOT mine, but it’s too good to pass up. If I am to share with you pieces of my life, then the story of “Beyonce the Metal Chicken” is a mandatory read. We retell the story every July 4th, and howl with laughter. The story became “a thing” among my set of girlfriends and we all own smaller versions of Beyonce – my Beyonce sits on my kitchen windowsill and I still giggle every time I look at it. One girlfriend made me a suncatcher ornament for my kitchen window….. of a chicken. And yes, the girls hit pay dirt when we found chicken-printed Christmas wrapping paper for our gag gifts. The writer of this story, a New Jersey girl, would have definitely been a girlfriend. Our husbands laugh, but they understand and still love us…… which is why we love them. Here is the link to the original blog post: Link to Beyonce.
Grab a cup of coffee and a box of Kleenex. The story does have a few curse words, fair warning. Settle in. Here we go………..

And that’s why you should learn to pick your battles.

JUNE 21, 2011

in RANDOM CRAP

This morning I had a fight with Victor about towels. I can’t tell you the details because it wasn’t interesting enough to document at the time, but it was basically me telling Victor I needed to buy new bath towels, and Victor insisting that I NOT buy towels because I “just bought new towels“. Then I pointed out that the last towels I’d bought were hot pink beach towels, and he was all “EXACTLY” and then I hit my head against the wall for an hour.
Then Laura came to pick me up so we could go to the discount outlet together, and as Victor gave me a kiss goodbye he lovingly whispered, “You are not allowed to bring any more goddam towels in this house or I will strangle you“. And that was exactly what I was still echoing through my head an hour later, when Laura and I stopped our shopping carts and stared up in confused, silent awe at a display of enormous metal chickens, made from rusted oil drums.
Laura: I think you need one of those.
me: You’re joking, but they’re kind of horrifically awesome.
Laura: I’m not joking. We need to buy you one.
me: The 5-foot tall one was $300, marked down to $100. That’s like, $200 worth of chicken for free.
Laura: You’d be crazy not to buy that. I mean, look at it. IT’S FULL OF WHIMSY.
me: Victor’d be pissed.
Laura: Yup.
me: But on the plus side? It’s not towels.
Laura: Yup.
me: We will name him Henry. Or Charlie. Or O’Shannesy.
Laura: Or Beyoncé.
me: Or Beyoncé. Yes. And when our friends are sad we can leave him at their front door to cheer them up.
Laura: Exactly. It’ll be like, “You thought *yesterday* was bad? Well, now you have a enormous metal chicken to deal with. Perspective. Now you have it.”
Then we flagged down a salesman, and we were all “What can you tell us about these chickens?”, as if we were in an art gallery, and not in a store that specializes in last years’ bathmats. He didn’t know anything about them, but he said that they’d only only sold one and it was to a really drunk lady, and then Laura and I were all “SOLD. All this chicken belongs to us now.”

So he loaded it onto a trolley, but Beyoncé was surprisingly unstable, and the giant 5 foot metal chicken crashed over onto the floor. And Laura and I were all “CHICKEN DOWN! CLEAN-UP IN AISLE 3” but he didn’t laugh. Then the manager came to see what was causing all the commotion, and that’s when he found the very-conservative salesman unhappily struggling to right an enthusiastically pointy chicken which was almost as tall as he was. The salesman was having a hard time, and he told everyone to stand back “because this chicken will cut you“, and at first I thought he meant it as a threat, like “That chicken has a shiv”, but turns out he just meant that all the chickens’ ends were sharp and rusty. It was awesome, and Laura and I agreed that even if we got tetanus, this chicken had already paid for himself even before we got it in her truck.
Then we got to my house and quietly snuck the chicken up to my front door, rang the doorbell, and hid around the corner.

Victor opened the door and looked at the chicken in stunned silence for about 3 seconds. Then he sighed, closed the door and walked away.
Laura: What the fuck? That’s it? That’s the only reaction we get?
me: That’s it. He’s a hard man to rattle.
Victor was surprisingly pissed that I’d “wasted money” on an enormous chicken, because apparently he couldn’t appreciate the hysterical value of a 5 foot chicken ringing the doorbell. Then I said, “Well, at least it’s not towels” and apparently that was the wrong thing to say because that’s when Victor screamed and stormed off, but I knew he was locked in his office because I could hear him punching things in there. Then I yelled through his door, “It’s an anniversary gift for you, asshole. Two whole weeks early. 15 YEARS IS BIG METAL CHICKENS.”
Then he yelled that he wanted it gone, but I couldn’t move it myself, so instead I said okay and went to watch tv. Then when the UPS guy came I hid, but he was all “Dude. Nice chicken” and Victor yelled, “IT IS NOT A NICE CHICKEN”. Which was probably very confusing to the UPS guy, who was just trying to be polite, Victor. Victor seemed more disgruntled than usual, so I finally dragged the chicken into the backyard and wedged it into a clump of trees so that it could scare the snakes away. Then I came in and Victor angrily pulled me into his office so that I could see that I’d stationed Beyoncé directly in front of his only window. And I was all “Exactly. YOU’RE WELCOME.” I told him that he could move Beyoncé if he wanted to, but he totally hasn’t. Probably because of all of the giant rocks I piled on Beyonce’s feet to dissuade burglars. Or possibly because Beyoncé is growing on him. Still, I can’t help but think that we wouldn’t even be having this argument if Beyoncé was towels. Honestly, this whole chicken is really a lesson in picking your battles more carefully. Plus, he’s awesome and I can’t stop giggling every time I look at him. Beyoncé, that is.
Best. 15th anniversary. ever.
UPDATED 2012: It’s been half a year and people still continue to laugh, scream indignantly and to ask questions, so here are a few follow-ups. Victor and I are still (of course) happily married and after a few weeks he got over his giant rooster aversion. Beyonce stares at him from outside his office window. I eventually got new towels. “Knock-knock, motherfucker” is embroidered on all of them. Victor was not impressed. Beyonce-the-giant-metal-chicken now has her own Facebook page with over 30,000 highly imaginative fans, and you can buy your own travel-sized Beyonce right here for under $20. You’re welcome world. Now please stop yelling at me.

And that’s our story of Beyonce, the Metal Chicken.

Why is Ben Sasse Protesting Too Much?

We haven’t talked about this but the red warning lights are pinging.
Take a look at Ben Sasse during the Barr testimony.
None of this makes sense to me.

Ben Sasse references page 129-144 of the Mueller Report and how it speaks to Deripaska. Remember, if the Mueller team can escape their inquiry by finding Trump innocent, but leave the impression of overwhelming Russian GUILT, then the inquiry is deemed valuable and the Dems are left with the conclusion “Hillary only lost because of Russia = Trump is illegitimate”
It appears imperative to the intel community to paint Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election as a big deal, something for which we need to form committees, spend vast sums of taxpayer dollars, and guard against for 2020. Also, if Russian involvement is legitimate, then previous actions by FBI/DOJ/CIA – spying on the Trump campaign – would be deemed legitimate = we did it to protect you.
At the Barr hearing on Mueller’s Report, Sasse comes out of the box with questions disparaging Oleg Deripaska. Barr says he would rather not give his opinion in an open setting. Not to be deterred, Sasse goes on to quote a publicly available document from US Treasury. Sasse lists a litany of Deripaska’s “crimes and allegations” and presumes “he’s a bad guy”. Yet, Sasse goes on to call Deripaska a “bottom-feeding scum-sucker”. Ouch! “And he has absolutely no alignment with the interests of the US people”, Sasse finishes.
Well, we know that’s not…. quite….. true. Deripaska’s interests definitely aligned with John McCain, Mueller, and the CIA on several occasions.

We know Mueller offered Deripaska 25 million dollars to help get Levinson out of Iran. Levinson was McCabe’s mentor and old boss to both McCabe and Ohr in SDNY, remember?
Oleg also wanted a VISA to the USA and Hillary denied it, which is, perhaps, why Levinson is still in Iran.
We also know, according to John Solomon of The Hill, McCabe approached Deripaska in NYC, for information about Trump colluding with Russia, and Oleg laughed.
We know about Senator Warner and his conversations with Adam Waldman, the lawyer for both Chris Steele and Oleg Deripaska. Adam Waldman stopped representing Deripaska the day before Deripaska was sanctioned by our Treasury.
And then…….. there’s that little matter of John McCain’s 70th birthday, on board Oleg Deripaska’s super-yacht….. which was docked in Montenegro.
And McCain’s push for Montenegro to be added to the NATO list of countries, so we are defending Montenegro, which is largely considered a Russian playground on the Mediterranean. Background see here: Link
Oh, let’s not forget the old Soviet Naval base in Montenegro, bought for a pittance by Rothschild and Deripaska, who turned it into a super yacht marina…… where John McCain had his 70th birthday party.
And the subsequent fundraisers for John McCain, hosted by Rothschild, in London, prior to the election of 2008.
And who could forget Nastya, the Belarus model, mistress to Deripaska, who gave classes on “how to seduce a billionaire”, but was arrested in Thailand. She claimed to have been arrested because she had information about Donald Trump. Link

What a tangled web. Deripaska has been involved in US Politics for quite a while but let’s get back to Ben Sasse. Ben continues giving his speech during the Barr hearing and claims “Manafort was on Deripaska’s payroll”, and Sasse tries to imply a nefarious reason (Deripaska loyalty) as to why Manafort would volunteer to work for Candidate Trump. Well, that’s not an entirely accurate picture either. Deripaska and Manafort tried to put the deal together for Black Sea Cable, but the deal never went through. Although much has been made of this failed deal, Deripaska did not lose the entire 18 million (only about 2 million). This incident has been painted as the source of contention between Manafort and Deripaska, but it does not pass the smell test.
Then, at about 3:30 in the video, Sasse sums up his ‘speech’ and pivots. Sasse’s mission of establishing Deripaska as a bad man was completed. Sasse pivots to FINALLY ask a question to Barr, in essence, “what can we do to avoid this problem in the future.”
The setup is glaringly odd.
If Sasse is worried about foreign intel agencies in our elections, he did not need a long-winded prerequisite about Deripaska and Manafort. See what I mean? Why the over the top language about Deripaska, “bottom-feeding scum-sucker” when we know our intel agencies AND the hero of Ben Sasse (John McCain) seemed to like Deripaska. Did I mention…. none of us have ever seen any proof of GRU involvement in influencing our elections….. we just have the word of CrowdStrike….. and the Mueller team.
We’re left with Senators and media, nodding in agreement about Russian interference, but what do we actually have as proof? From Mueller/CrowdStrike we have three main areas.
1. We have the Mueller indictment of military members of the GRU, which Russia denies and we know will never be brought to trial – even though Putin offered Mueller to trade info at the Helsinki Summit.
2. We have a few companies and individuals who worked for an alleged Russian troll farm indicted. The case is being defended by American lawyers, in a DC court, and the Mueller case is in trouble. It’s not going well for Mueller. Don’t be surprised to see this case fade away.
3. We have the charge of Russians buying approximately $164,000 worth of Facebook Ads. I looked at this one myself. From Congressional testimony of Facebook execs, we know the ads disparaged BOTH Hillary and Trump. We know the ads were placed for several months before and AFTER the election “to sow discord in the USA”. Well, I took a look at Facebook ad revenue at the end of Q1 of 2017. Facebook reported more than 9 billion dollars in ad revenue for a single quarter. Thus, if we do the math $164K/9 billion = .0000182222. Huh? That’s not even 2 thousandths of 1% of Facebook ads. AND the actual occurrence would be even less, since we know the ads were purchased over several quarters.
This is why we spent 3yrs of our time investigating interference by Russians? Think of the billions of dollars in media time spent on this subject. Think of the relatives not invited to Thanksgiving dinner because of the controversy. Think of the damage to our foreign policy. Wow, we could have teamed up with Russia in the Middle East against Islamic extremism or with Russia as an ally against China.
Yet, for some reason, our intel community, the press, and power brokers don’t want the USA and Russia to be friends. Wonder why that is………?
We have been way ahead of the curve on the Ukraine intrigue. I see Ben Sasse on the horizon. His reaction makes no sense to me, whatsoever, and we need to know why.

Dear MAGA: 20190503 Open Topic

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

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on. Free Speech is practiced here.

ENJOY IT.

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

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

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

Remember to KEEP PRESIDENT TRUMP IN PRAYER.

WE ARE PRAYING FOR HIM!!

U.S. President Donald Trump prays during the National Prayer Breakfast event in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 2, 2017. Photo courtesy of Retuers/Carlos Barria

Our movement

Is about replacing

A failed

And CORRUPT

Political establishment

With a new government controlled

By you, the American People.

Candidate Donald J. Trump

Also consider Wheatie’s Rules:

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

Hello again, Wolf pack, and welcome to another end of the work week! I don’t know about you, but that cabin PA above is an immediate classic. Oh how we wish we could improvise those boring PA’s and veer off-script! Hey, we can all dream, can’t we?

If only! Ah well. Onward and upward, as we say. This week’s Friday wrap up begins with this MAGAtastic news….

“U.S. Economy Grows 3.2% in Q1, Smashing Expectations” https://t.co/HltPdlkOD0
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2019

And then Monday the BEA came out with consumer spending results for the first quarter that defy expectations. Consumer spending on goods increases 1.7%. Overall spending +.09 in March, reaches highest gain in ten years. Meanwhile core inflation drops to 1.6%.

Guess what? The pundits are shocked. SHOCKED, I say!

Now, leftists are scared….truly scared….because nothing spells S-E-C-O-N-D T-E-R-M like a roaring economy. Hey, even CNN agrees…check this out…

.@CNN had to admit that 56% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the economy. pic.twitter.com/wNaa7F8wBl
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 2, 2019

Now, if you talk with them (and I do) the precious snowflakes love to describe this economy…and it’s attendant stock market….as a “sugar high” that is quickly going to sour. To which I say…Ha! Kinda like all their other failed predictions, right? Remember how the stock market was supposed to crash right after the election because OrangeManBad? And let’s not forget that, according to them, the polar caps should have melted by now and we’re all supposed to be under water!

Speaking of…did you hear? Click on this link…

https://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-2/?fbclid=IwAR3Ye_WoKoAxcfS5-ZVYiwsBAbHeTcFPLXbYSDDrHFAQE_0ENKZvfQ4PWjw

In other news, on the very same day that an unhinged leftist wacko shot up a synagogue in Poway, California, the good folks that run that flagship of liberal propaganda…the NY Slimes…decided that this week would be a great time to inform the world that not only do they hate PDJT, but also Jewish people, too. And nothing says a thousand words like a picture, which the nitwits at the Slimes decided to publish. Check it out…

The anti Semitic cartoon published by the @nytimes is a symptom of a deeper problem on the left. It’s acceptable to many on the left to employ anti Semitic tropes as long as they’re directed against Israel. Anti Zionism is becoming an acceptable cover for anti Semitism
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) April 28, 2019

Faced with massive condemnation and backlash, the NYSlimes was forced to retract the picture and then subsequently issue an apology for having published it. After all….

https://twitter.com/kishkushkay/status/1122290507714113538

But they weren’t done…oh no…not by a long-shot. Following quickly on the heels of that faux pas the anti-Semitic Jew haters at the Old Grey Lady published this…

https://twitter.com/Israel_News_INA/status/1122892557413945344

You can read all about it in this Breitbart summary piece linked here…

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/29/new-york-times-prints-another-anti-israel-cartoon-amid-antisemitism-scandal-rocking-newspaper/

And lest we forget history…

All of which simply proves this truth…

Naturally, the best way to counter such vile hate is with ridicule and mockery, and very few do it better than the masterful Mel Brooks…

Moving along…

The excellent watchdogs at Judicial Watch released over 300 pages of emails from Nellie Ohr, proving she was far more involved with the creation of the “Muh Russia” coup attempt than anyone thought. These emails also prove she purjured herself giving Congressional testimony, so guess what??

Dear MAGA: 20190503 Open Topic

This Fabulous Friday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. In fact, our host Wolfmoon encourages us to use it…and Enjoy it. “Use it or lose it”, he tells us.
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Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from the artist Lisa Van Hal, titled ‘Turning Point’:

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For All You Do, This Bud's For You!

We’ve had many weddings at our B&B, and while all of them are different, one variable is guaranteed – high drama.
On a hot and humid summer day, a Navy Sailor called me from Pensacola, on station. He was was awkward and intimidated, young and not well spoken, but incredibly polite and respectful. I wanted to reach through the phone and hug him, but I could barely hear him over the din in the kitchen. He was exasperated in trying to tell me what he wanted, and finally, he blurted out, “I need a fairy godmother!”…… and I stopped on a dime.
My step grandfather was a Chief Petty Officer out of Pensacola. He accumulated vast wealth in rental property, and sailors were his tenants. I recalled the times we would go to collect rents on Saturdays, and he often brought diapers, hams, turkeys, or cash, to give back to his men. Grandpa Ray taught me how to be a “leader of men” in an honorable way. A generation later, with Grandpa Ray sadly deceased, I faced one of his men. The young man on the phone was one of those guys, Grandpa Ray’s sailors, pride of the US Navy. I felt instantly connected to this young man and willing to move heaven and earth, be the fairy godmother, to help him.
After hushing the staff, I moved into the butler’s pantry to hear him better and plugged my outside ear with my thumb. My sailor explained he joined the Navy right out of high school and fallen in love with a young woman from our town. In order to obtain base housing for married persons, they married secretly at a local court house, but both families did not know. He needed to stage a wedding for both extended families, who were deeply religious and highly traditional. He had to do the wedding fast, in August, as his time off was limited and his young bride was already pregnant. He also wanted to honor his new bride with the wedding she deserved. She already had her wedding gown, with a blue sash to honor his Navy service, but was unable to use it. My bottom lip fell, how sad.
My sailor only had a few moments to talk with me and communication with him would be difficult. We made arrangements for him to call me once a week at an appointed time for updates and questions we might have. He gave me a date, a credit card for a very limited budget ($500 was all he could afford), and put the rest in my hands. Understand, most weddings are lavish affairs costing tens of thousands of dollars. The facility fee alone was $1000. I was going to need a magic wand, pumpkins and mice, with only $500 to spend.
I walked out of the butler’s pantry with that “look of foreboding” on my face and the girls said, “What’s wrong?” I explained the situation. “He’s just trying to rip you off.”, “How are we going to pull off a wedding with only $500?”, “A wedding in August – it’s too hot” were the reactions from the staff. I told them the motives of the sailor were immaterial and we were GOING to do the wedding – we simply had to figure it out. Silence and grumbling…. we were thinking.
Weeks passed, we had a cake ordered, some minor hors d’oeuvres/coffee/punch settled/I ordered flowers to make the bouquets and boutonnieres myself, some of the staff agreed to donate time, and a severely limited guest list. The poor sailor was sending me $100/week, and his buddies were chipping in to help him. Yet, we had one major problem – the minister or judge who would charge $250. We had to have an official.
That’s when my Sailor said, “Well, since we’re already married, could you husband pretend to be the minister?”
The idea was delicious. My first husband as a pretend minister….. I chuckled to myself. I would have agreed to work the wedding for free just to see it happen. This was the guy who did 12yrs of Catholic School and whom I had to fight, to get him into a church for OUR wedding, let alone a funeral. He owned a construction company, had dirty fingernails, carried a weapon, was rough and tough…… as a minister? “I think it might be a possibility”, was my response.
It was the Thursday before the wedding. Husband came home, middle of the day, and we were moving furniture around, getting ready. He knew there was a wedding that weekend but did not follow the details of what we were doing. All the girls were here, we knew he had to “play” the minister role, and the moment was ripe to spring the idea on him.
Most of what we did at the B&B was done by my staff of girlfriends and a few high school aged guys. Every now and then, we needed husband help, help from his men, or to borrow big equipment. Of course, he would inevitably oblige but we had to fawn all over him for the help. No problem, we fawned well.
I can’t remember what I said, or how we told him he had to be the minister for a wedding, but I will never forget the look on his face as the idea washed over him. Then, came his objections.
“You want me to do what?” — re-explanation of the situation
“My blue suit is not cleaned” — it was back from the dry cleaner, shirt pressed, ready to go. We even made a boutonniere for you!
“Me as a minister? That’s illegal” — no, they were already married.
“God’s going to strike me dead in my own living room!” — No, the big guy would understand you’re being benevolent, helping your fellow man, doing a favor for a Navy Sailor, a young couple just starting out their life together….. It’s a charitable act, we insisted.
“If the guys find out about this, I’ll never live it down.” — It’s the right thing to do and you know it is. You’re the only one who can help us.
“I don’t even know what to say for a ceremony.” — Lisa stood up and handed him a printed out version of a ceremony and a small blue leather bound book of Psalms to hold. We were ready.
“So, you all have cooked this up and I’m the guy, right?” — Yep, you’re the guy.
Friday night before the wedding was a flurry of activity. Husband wandered into the kitchen and in his stern voice said to me, “Can I speak to you for a moment?” I was confused, “Wow, so formal”, I thought. We went into our small bathroom to talk privately. He said, “I’ve been going over the ceremony and think it would be proper to add a small prayer. I found one here”, he said, pointing to the page in Book of Psalms. “You think that would be okay?”, he said. I stifled my laughter. He was taking his role seriously, trying to do a good job. I was proud of him for rising to the occasion. “Yes, that would be lovely.”, I replied.
Saturday morning was easy. We fussed over husband, and he went upstairs to “calm the groom”. The bride was spectacularly beautiful. We kept the men, in their dress uniforms, in a separate location so they would not see the bride and her maids. The guests arrived and were all traditional, no incidents. We did have one talkative aunt to the bride arrive in a very short lavender dress. I was beginning to think we would skate. Families were situated on opposing couches in front of the parlor fireplace. Music started from a CD player. Husband walked into the room, with the groom, to perform the ceremony. We nodded at him, and all the girls were standing in back, nervous, waiting to see what husband would do….. and if he would blow his cover.
Husband did well. At one point, he looked directly at me and wrinkled his forehead, but none of us could tell what was happening. He kept his composure. Wedding done. Time to cut the cake. It was a little bit after 2:00pm and hot as hell outside.
Back in the kitchen, husband went straight to the beer fridge, grabbed a beer, peeled out of his suit coat, loosened his tie, and stood on the back porch to drink a beer. He came back in, grabbed another beer to ‘nurse it’, and was talking to the girls in the kitchen. We asked him about why he paused.
Husband explained. He was in the midst of the vows, staring down at his printed sheet, trying his best to be serious, but wondering how in the heck he got into this situation. From the corner of his eye, on the couch, the bodacious and extroverted aunt in her short skirt had her legs crossed. As a man, he looked at her legs….. and she had a perfectly formed devil’s trident tattoo, which started at her ankle – with a tail that went all the way up her calf and towards her thigh……….. He thought, if ever there was a moment “God would strike me dead”, surely, this was it…..
Husband was relating the story to the girls in the kitchen. He was shining in his moment of glory, with lots of laughter from the staff. We couldn’t believe he made it through the whole ceremony. I was standing in the utility room, when the mother of the groom wandered in, ready for the cake knife. She glanced into the kitchen at my husband, whom she thought was the minister, but turned abruptly. We both left to cut the cake.
A few minutes later, photographs were taken, speeches given. I was cutting and serving the wedding cake when I overheard the mother of the groom say to another relative, “I can’t wait to get out of the city (we have a population of 8,000), the ministers here…….They’re shameful……… They’re all beer drinkers.”
Oh my.

Barr Senate Testimony Thread – May 1, 2019.

Are you ready? Are your little fingers limber? The Barr Testimony is like a NFL playoff game for the political class. The networks are bringing in the big guns to daytime — so the heavyweights can explain it to us — under the assumption we could not possibly understand it without their help. Well, our live thread has proved the pundits wrong, time and again. We are the news!
When we did the first live thread, I was surprised at the difference of what WE focused on, as regular American voters, as opposed to what quotes the pundits pulled and tried to twist out of cherry-picked testimony. Quite revealing. All are welcome for the live thread. Michael is in charge of snacks! Hope you can make it!
Here is the link to the live testimony from FOX. All the pundits will be out and wearing their best Easter outfits this morning. I’s a rehash of the Mueller report. Thankfully, Barr’s first appearance will be in front of the Lindsey Graham led Senate Judiciary Committee. At least the Republicans will have a chance to establish narrative before Jerry Nadler gets started tomorrow.

Put on a pot of coffee and we can have brunch together. The Barr testimony starts at 10:00am Eastern.
Here is a copy of the Barr opening statement, released last night. Only 4 pages. Easy read for those who arrive early. Link to BARR opening statement to Senate
See you soon!

Joe Biden Begins….

Groping Joe
Grass will NEVER grow underneath Trump Supporters’ feet. Members of Trump’s base are easy to spot, red hat, carrying a flag, slits for eyes, and a firm jaw. The President’s base is unwavering. Signs are going up already, far ahead of 2020. This large yard sign was spotted yesterday, in Massachusetts. Trump Supporters are READY for the 2020 campaign kickoff.
Back home on the office keyboard, I’ll admit, I had to create a new file today for Joe Biden. The memes, they write themselves. Looks like Biden will be with us for a while and it’s time to begin again.
We need to KNOW our opponents in this battle for electoral votes. Here is Biden’s first public rally, at the “Temple” for the Firefighters Union. Teamsters and the Teacher’s Union were also in attendance. I’m not going to disparage the turnout for Biden’s rally, you can judge for yourselves. Video is 28 minutes long.

If you don’t have 28 minutes to spend, I can save you 27 minutes in this video. Here are all the times Joe sputtered, stammered, and slurred his words, in 1:11. The editing is both brilliant and brutal. My kind of trollin’.

I challenge you to watch this entire video. I bet you can’t. pic.twitter.com/dOVZ0cUwG4

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) April 30, 2019

Joe had a hard time launching his campaign. Instead of a public event in a hometown, Biden chose to release a video. Yet, the video and the release date didn’t work, thus he pulled the video. Joe made another video, which has been widely criticized as “dark”…….. but the media loves it. In this CNN video, the panel does a 10 minute compilation of staged Charlottesville footage – before CNN released the Biden video. Of course, it was only a few days before Jack Tapper admitted President Trump’s Charlottesville comments were taken out of context. So far, Politico, USA Today, CNN, Wikipedia, Politifact, have all corrected the coverage of President Trump’s comments.

Days later, Biden appeared on “The View”, where he had problems explaining Anita Hill. Biden revealed he called Anita Hill, to apologize to her. Yet, Anita Hill was not amused and wrote an op-ed, refusing his apology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUm11G9v6fo

So far, Biden has a “fail” on a video.
A failed apology to Anita Hill. A failed endorsement from “the McCain family” when Cindy McCain issued a clarification, saying she will not be involved.
And a failed staged rally with union people who were forced to be there.
Biden wants to be viewed as an ordinary likeable guy. You know, the kind of guy you might want to drink a beer with…….., during the day……, at a local pub……, if you were unemployed……. Biden rails against CEO’s and Hedge Funds but his son runs a hedge fund. I actually HAVE an Uncle Joe, and my uncle does not swim naked in front of female Secret Service Agents. Does anyone believe Biden can fix what’s wrong in DC if he has not done it in 50 years?
Joe is stumbling out of the gate. Let’s see if he recovers or falters permanently. Meanwhile, the Boss is giving Biden hell on Twitter.
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