“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Not quite it seems. And many of us are really needing hopium to fight off the blues brought on by gray skies and sub-freezing temperatures.
I mean, seriously, there’s been a $10 mark-up on a dozen roses in the last week in these parts.
With prices like that, no wonder so many guys choose to remain single.
Okay, need to wake up…let’s see…groovy tunes….
Wait…I did dances in the 80s…hang on….
No, no no, not that. Let’s see….
Ahh, that’s better.
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Given that various men seem to think they are women, and women are being forcibly shoved aside by certain sectors of post-modern social sorts, this notion may be a little radical. But, seriously, women and men were made differently for a reason.
GENESIS 2:18-25
18Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him. 21So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; 22and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Prayers for the nation, the salvation of humanity, and all of us here as well as our families are welcome.
Alternate Title: The moment I realized that GOD would back me in going asymmetrical on these unworthy China-compromised “U.S.” military bastards.
I have recently come into possession of information which made a lot of things start making a lot more sense. I only needed a final confirmation that I was correct – and I just got it.
I want to thank churchmouse for alerting me to this recent news about Buffalo Boy, or as he is more Q-mockingly self-named, QAnon Shaman.
Man who wore horns, hat apologizes for storming Capitol
By JACQUES BILLEAUD 2 hours ago
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man who participated in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol while sporting face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns said he regrets storming the building, apologized for causing fear in others and expressed disappointment with former President Donald Trump.
In a statement released late Monday through his attorney, defendant Jacob Chansley said he has re-evaluated his life since being jailed for over a month on charges stemming from the Jan. 6 riot and realizes he shouldn’t have entered the Capitol building. Chansley, who previously said Trump inspired him to be in Washington that day, said Trump “let a lot of peaceful people down.”
That’s just the beginning. We’ll get into ALL of it in a minute. So what is the meaning of this?
TL;DR – “I’m peaceful, I’m sorry, Bad Orange Man let us down.”
Stated on the first day of the “impeachment”. Yeah, right.
Are you starting to see what they’re doing there? This guy is an actor – supposedly – Jake Angeli being his stripper stage name – and yet the Fake News trots him out like something real.
Now, I’m always up for a good joke. Back in the days of my various amazing misadventures at MKULTRA University, we all enjoyed this kind of sport, and while sometimes our mocking names for each other, and for the things each other loved, were quite cruel, after a while one gets to feel comfortable with that Babylonian style of humor. It’s very New York, quite frankly, and “I’m just bustin’ ya chops, buddy” was rarely needed.
People understand this. Humor creates acceptance. Lovable Buffalo Boy is disarmingly lovable, and – well – that is the mark of a quality psy-op. How can I not respect that?
Even after discovering an enormous amount of fascinating information about this guy, I just can’t hate him. He’s just a lovable buffoon – right? And he IS – and you MUST grant me this – the very FACE of the “insurrection” – would you not agree?
Let’s go on with the AP piece.
Chansley said he’s coming to terms with events leading to the riot and asked people to “be patient with me and other peaceful people who, like me, are having a very difficult time piecing together all that happened to us, around us, and by us. We are good people who care deeply about our country.”
Chansley’s attorney, Al Watkins, released the statement about a half-day before the second impeachment trial of Trump was scheduled to begin in the U.S. Senate.
Watkins, who unsuccessfully sought a pardon on Chansley’s behalf from Trump, said the Senate didn’t take up his offer to have his client testify on how he was incited by the former president.
The defense lawyer said his client’s apology wasn’t self-serving but rather a genuine expression of culpability. Still, he said he doesn’t think it’s right for the government to prosecute people who were incited.
“If you believe the government is correctly prosecuting the (former) president, you can’t at the same time hold criminally culpable those who were incited, because the people incited become victims,” Watkins said in an interview.
Chansley has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of civil disorder and obstructing an official proceeding, plus four other misdemeanor charges.
The U.S. Justice Department declined to comment Tuesday on Chansley’s apology.
OMG, the poor peaceful baby – the pobrecito – was incited by mean old Trump!
I’m sorry, but I can’t stop laughing.
Oh, my goodness, this is beautiful, beautiful psy-op right here. This is PAYLOAD.
This is SELLING THE SELL-OUT.
This ties in with EVERYTHING ELSE they’ve been doing. This is the TEMPTATION right there. This is Peter saying to Christ “You don’t have to do this – there’s a way out.”
And once a patriot – a TRUE PATRIOT – sees that payload – there is only one proper response.
“GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN.”
That is to say “I am past this decision. I will not take the safe, satanic choice. It is BEHIND me now. I will choose the future of pain and suffering. I will choose the Cross of Freedom over the satanic snuggles of phony forgiveness and luscious lies.”
Truth is clarity. It’s the brisk chill air of liberty in COVID-seared lungs, rather than the self-deceit of the warm, stupefying mask.
This payload is VICTIM STATUS. The left ALWAYS offers it. All you have to do is say BAD ORANGE MAN INCITED ME AND CAUSED INSURRECTION – I’M A PEACEFUL PERSON – I’M ALL CONFUSED NOW, and…..
I’M THE VICTIM!
Oh, my goodness. A real Indian – a REAL Sitting Bull – a real medicine man – sets this treaty on fire and hands it back in FLAMES.
Let’s go on.
Chansley was among hundreds of pro-Trump supporters who charged past outnumbered police officers and stormed the Capitol as Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden’s electoral win.
Authorities say Chansley was one of the first people in the Capitol building, disobeyed orders by an officer to leave, refused the officer’s request to use Chansley’s bullhorn to tell rioters to leave the Senate chamber, and wrote a note to then-Vice President Mike Pence saying, “It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”
Prosecutors said a spear on top of a flagpole carried by Chansley was a weapon, though his attorney has characterized the spear as an ornament.
I want you to look at the INSANITY of our Department of Justice. They are fighting over whether that fucking spear was a WEAPON or an ORNAMENT. Meanwhile, one of the greatest crimes in history, involving all these characters, and committed to cover up an even BIGGER crime, goes not merely unpunished, but uninvestigated, by the very same people. Mostly because most of them are committing it, or are protected by it, and are collectively allowing it to happen.
The rest of the above, however, demonstrates the CARE and PLANNING which went into this attack on President Donald J. Trump. You can see that “QAnon Shaman” was very careful to prepare his planned pacifist EXIT from his dilemma. He caused no real mayhem, because he knew this precise exit was coming.
With apologies to every gay friend I ever had, the fact that Chansley’s big crime was refusing to lend the kind officer his bullhorn to tell people to disperse – I simply cannot go there without screaming at this orchestrated farce, in Rocky Horror Picture Show tones, “THAT’S SO GAY!“, as not just a way of saying “Yeah, I get it”, but as a kind of camp praise of every peacefully spunky gay or “should have been gay” who ever lived.
Bravo! Somebody – wake up Mel Brooks. We need him again!
“Moving on……”
Since being jailed, Chansley has had two instances in which he wasn’t eating because the detention facilities where he was being held didn’t serve organic food. He lost 20 pounds (9 kilograms) during the latest starvation episode. Chansley, who calls himself the “QAnon Shaman,” said he has been following such a diet for eight years while practicing Shamanism.
Last week, a judge ordered corrections officials to provide Chansley with organic food. He was later moved to a jail in Virginia after the District of Columbia Department of Corrections said it couldn’t honor the court’s order to feed him organic food.
And that is the end of the article.
Organic food! Really!
Are you starting to see how they just rub it in? How they mock us?
This is all meant to either demoralize us, or provoke us. The latter, preferably to violence.
They want to take our guns. They want to take our “people power”. They want to wear down our “resistance”.
Can EVEN YOU LEFTY “#Resist” types see it now? Can you? Or are you so bought into the safety of ORANGE MAN BAD, that you cannot see a system that either USES you or DESTROYS YOU?
Welcome to CHINA, leftists. You’re getting your new China Joe good and hard, even though WE almost saved you from it.
Yes, almost. Except for the “valiant” efforts of a small cabal of powerful people, who made sure Trump didn’t win, and thought we would never learn how they stopped him.
The same people who pulled off the buffalo jump.
And WHO ARE THOSE PEOPLE?
YES. Let’s go there.
Everything Wrong With The Buffalo Jump
The video Everything Wrong With The Capitol Hill Shooting is genius. In the same way that the usual Everything Wrong With… videos tell the story of Fake Entertainment clocking in with less-than believable action and scenery under close examination, EWWTCHS simply busts the Ashli Babbit shooting as a cringe-worthy, staged operation, designed to float a meme that “Trump got somebody killed”.
If you have not seen the video, I urge you to watch it, before going on.
It used to be on YouTube:
…..but now one has to look elsewhere. Here is Bitchute.
And here it is on Gab TV:
Now – I will only incorporate in a limited way, how the prominent Mr. Sullivan / JaydenX / whatever……..
Sorry – not that Sullivan…..
No, not THAT Sullivan, either…….. how about…….
YEAH! That’s more like it!
This particular Mr. Sullivan is HEAVILY connected to a lot of very high-level MIC stuff, not only through family, but just in general. He was raised in a “Religion of CIA” household (that would be Mormons), by a military father, and seems to have interesting “feelz” for groups across the spectrum.
Just read this stuff and see what you think. WINK, WINK.
…….and leads an eye-rolling orchestrated event – straight out of active shooter training, only badly done – where an Air Force woman with what appears to be an “intel background plus cover” gets cringingly killed or at least it “looks that way if you suspend disbelief”.
Are you with me?
I’d say we have a little “MIC” on this stuff. Although possibly without the real bullets.
NOW – this stuff could be EITHER SIDE. I’m not going to get into that, because things get COMPLICATED when things ARE complicated. Sometimes, it’s only the END effects that tell you whose side somebody was on.
YEAH.
Yeah. Sometimes you don’t REALLY know until the end. I get that.
SO – when I found all this information about Mr. Jake Angeli, I had to wonder.
This was in response to the “Everything Wrong With” video. (PRIVATE SOURCE REDACTED)…….
I haven’t watched all of this video but Ive watched others. Much of what happened that day was a military op. It’s why Pelosi was crying about her laptop being stolen. Had some bad stuff on it like her brother being a pedophile I read. I read many personal electronic devices were taken, not stolen, that day for evidence. It was behind clearing the chambers — go, go now for your safety, leave everything behind! Yep. That whole girl being shot scene was as fake as could be. As a retired RN I know that blood doesn’t defy gravity and travel UP from her back to her front. Big nope! there. She’s fine. Viking horn guy was one of ours. Very out there all the past year so everyone would know him. Made himself highly visible. He’s one of ours, too. The actor “bio” found on-line for him — fake along with the name used on it. I had a photo of him shaking hands with Rudy G but lost it getting a new phone. He’s a super soldier type but sorry to say I’ve forgotten his real name per his sister. She wanted others to be clear that he was not Pantifa and not a bad guy. Photos from his sister. Guy on the right. I think that’s Chanel Rion from OAN maybe but not sure. Just know it’s him.
Now – here are the pictures that go with this.
Now – beyond my impression that NONE of the 3 soldiers matches the guy with Chanel Rion, I wanted to check against a known picture of Jake Angeli / Jacob Chansley WITHOUT the warpaint.
Such a thing DOES exist.
Look at the last comparison long enough, and you can see it’s him. Then take that back to the picture with Chanel Rion, and it all makes sense. It’s him.
Now, this is all fine and dandy. There’s a lot of HOPIUM on this, to assume that it’s OUR op, and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. Nevertheless, I decided to dig a little deeper.
I wanted to see where that Chanel Rion picture came from, so I did a tineye search, and found the original image:
Now THAT is pretty interesting. It’s Jake’s fanboy picture with Chanel Rion.
And WHERE did it come from? Turns out, it was a TWITTER POST by a HARDCORE LEFTIST OPERATIVE, who was COUNTERING contentions that Buffalo Boy was ANTIFA or BLM.
He posted ANOTHER picture as well.
I repeat – an [apparently – I get that] unremittingly leftist Twitter account – a virulent Trump-hater – posted MAGA-doxxing photos of Angeli with two of the people who have been most faithful to Trump. They appear to be fanboi pictures, but still, he got CLOSE and got PICTURES.
Very USEFUL pictures.
Are y’all starting to see this now? How REAL sleazy operations work?
AND YET – in this same Twitter food-fight there were photos of Angeli at both BLM and climate change rallies, with an article for the latter:
SO – if you read up on Angeli’s military career, then it just looks like Mr. Perfect Discreditation graduated with a degree in Anthrax Refusal, then went onto a career of infiltrating leftist organizations, until he appeared (in a sharp right turn) to be the perfect vehicle for discrediting MAGA and QAnon – not like the latter needed much, but nonetheless, he served his purpose.
And right as the impeachment opens up, he delivers the final payload……
“I’m nutty but nice, and peaceful, too, and BAD TRUMP incited me to violence and insurrection.”
I mean, I suppose I could roll up my sleeve and inject myself with pure ChiCom HOPANYL at DEATH LEVELS and say “Hey, this is just cover – something WAY BIGGER IS COMING – that he HAD to do that to “sneak by” everybody’s suspicions – he had to TAKE OUT TRUMP to prove himself to SAVE MAGA!”, but what possible payload can this guy deliver FOR MAGA in the future? What possible payload that undoes all the damage he just did?
Or can we just, finally, at long last, admit that this guy was an MIC operative who helped take out Trump?
And THAT brings me to MY BIG PAYLOAD.
Wolf Moon’s Asymmetric Counterattack on Chinese Infiltration and Control of Our Military
I am TIRED of being called a “racist” by lead-dumb brasstitutes and their civilian defense lady-boys who can’t grasp ChiCom racial, political, societal, and military strategies. These folks couldn’t spell 4GW if it walked up and kicked them in the ass. Which it apparently just did.
I am TIRED of being called a “white nationalist” by idiots who don’t understand that being white and loving this nation are only “extreme” to people who have been hypnotized into a state of reflex delusion by much SMARTER people. People who think nothing of abusing psychology for their group gain, at the expense of this nation.
I am TIRED of being legally threatened for being an “extremist” or an “insurrectionist” because I oppose those who want to change this nation into its antithesis by cruel, cheating, lying methods – AGAINST the will of the people.
BUT NOW – it’s much worse.
There is talk of “standing down” the military for what amount to political purges. They can call it what they want, but we know what it is. Sure hope China don’t get any ideas during the “stand down”. Sheesh. BUT CHINA JOE SAID DO IT!
The HORROR of this political attack on our military, is that the military is not allowed to engage in political advocacy of any kind, so they’re PARALYZED while the Chinese politico-military spider draws in close to suck them dry.
Now THEY can’t do anything, but that doesn’t mean I can’t.
As a civilian who loves our military, I cannot watch this crap and remain silent. But that’s the asymmetric beauty of this situation. I don’t HAVE to remain silent. I can call out all this Chinese race-mongering bullshit that is being leveled at our military and WITHIN OUR MILITARY through DUPES and IDIOTS all I want.
Trump understood this. He knew that all this critical race theory and related crap is a beautiful but very cold Han-Chinese catalyst to get the oxidizer of black America (sorry – caps for both or caps for neither) and the reducing agent of white America to BURN UP and EXPLODE. I find it actually very impressive that the ChiComs knew they had to up the stoichiometry of the oxidizer to get the maximum yield, too.
Meanwhile, the utter corruption of the Military Industrial Complex was just waiting to be put in service of China. I mean – you didn’t think that Mr. Comey and HSBC and Lockheed and Hillary and Mueller all added together meant anything but CHINA, did you?
No, no, no – you don’t start talking about “rooting out” “white nationalism” in our fine military, until you FINISH rooting out CHINESE RACE POISON, BRITISH IDEOLOGICAL SABOTAGE, and the CORRUPTION that invites both of them in at nation-destroying levels.
You want to play this game of FUCK WITH OUR MILITARY IN SOVIET AND MAOIST WAYS?
I can get people to join me in FUCK WITH OUR MILITARY IN AMERICAN WAYS.
Oh, I don’t have to sit there and mess with this “Patriots” and “Oath Keeping” and all this stuff that the ChiComs have already made toxic using their race-minion Democrats, and that can’t be understood by their money-minion Republicans.
We just come in and say “China has no fucking business running our military, and every time you utter their race garbage, you salute CHINA, and we call you out as a CHINA PUPPET.”
And there’s other ways, too, but for now, rooting out pro-China extremism in our military seems like a winning strategy.
The race stuff is CHICOM ideological infiltration.
The trans stuff is BRITISH ideological sabotage.
Anybody going to do anything about it? I would say that any time and EVERY time that somebody brings up “white nationalists” and “domestic extremists” in the military, that maybe we bring up the FOREIGN-incited extremism – the sneaky stuff that is already doing harm – and do something about THAT first. Because critical race theory and the like IS EXTREMIST.
Maybe we start with LIE DETECTOR TESTS.
Ain’t that right, CHINA JOE?
See you around, energy-BOY. And here. Have your “buffalo chips” back. We don’t need ’em.
5 th Ordinary Sunday February 7, 2021 “A Witness in Suffering”
Job 7:1…7 1 Corinthians 9:16…23 Mark 1:29-39
My Brothers and Sisters in the Lord –
Most people aren’t adults very long before they are confronted with some of the great hardships of life for themselves or for their loved ones. A life-altering accident, a serious disease like cancer, the untimely death of a parent or child, chronic pain, a disability, the loss of a business or income, estrangement from a family member – any of these things – can bring pain, anxiety, sleepless nights, and an overwhelming sense of hopelessness.
Some become depressed. Some will turn to alcohol or prescription drugs – especially if they live with chronic pain. Some will turn to others for support or therapy. And, sadly, some will even take their own life!
However, those who are able to cope best of all, are those who turn to God. Moreover, if and when they turn to God, they begin to understand that suffering is part of the “great panorama of life” – and this panorama always has elements of mystery within it!
Job, of the Old Testament reading, certainly understood suffering. He had lost all of his children, all of his great wealth, his physical health, and the sense of God’s presence. He also incurred the disdain of his wife and his friends. At one point, his wife even urged him “to curse God and die”!
So, today, Job states that all of life is a drudgery. We are like hired servants or even slaves! There is no escape – and even sleep will not come when the pain and the anxiety are incessant! However, Job did not curse God; but he questioned God, nevertheless. And God gave him no answers! Suffering is a mystery for the innocent victim. It can also be a test. Suffering, if accepted, can bring peace and hope for a future that would take place only with the coming of Jesus – and Job’s ultimate restoration symbolizes that!
In the Gospel of Mark, God reveals through Jesus that there is more to life than our experience here. There is more to pain and suffering than the death that our life here inevitably brings. Every cure that Jesus worked, every possession he eliminated – was a sign that the Reign of God had begun.
The Kingdom of God, in its heavenly fullness, awaited all those who accepted Jesus and his teaching, kept his commandments, and lived as faithful disciples during their time here.
In the great parable of the Book of Job, Job eventually recovered more than all he had lost. However, it was only in his own lifetime, because the scripture writer had no knowledge of a blessed and eternal afterlife.
Nevertheless, Jesus was no parable. He was the real thing! Furthermore, the fullness of life in the kingdom he promised was true. It was a reality that was proved when Jesus rose from the dead!
Other than those in ministry, most disciples preach the Gospel through the witness of their lives. However, today, St. Paul tells us that we can do this willingly or grudgingly.
Yet, there is no escape from the obligation that every Christian has to be an example of how to live the Gospel. We are to be a blessing for everyone whom we meet, as well as for those with whom we live and associate.
No one has an easy life. Even the extremely wealthy and those with robust health are not exempt from suffering and eventual death. Moreover, the greatest suffering in this life is to feel bereft of God. It is to have no belief in God or hope for an eternal life beyond our life here.
Consequently, in every case, we are to meet people where they are. We must relate to all people as Jesus did – and Paul, after him. Thus, we can bring compassion to those who suffer – We can bring forgiveness to those who have sinned – We can bring true mercy to those who are poor and deprived of material necessities – We can bring hope and emotional support to those who are in the throes of hopelessness and despair. And we can open up the possibility that there is something more for those who refuse to believe.
Brothers and Sisters, the life of a Christian disciple is a challenging one because it opens us to everyone in the world in a different way. It can be achieved only through prayer and the presence of God. Jesus, himself, had to draw apart to be alone with his Father at frequent intervals. And so, let us pray that we learn to make time alone with our Divine Father every day of our lives!
Amen.
February 7, 2021 Msgr. Russell G. Terra Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church 2040 Walnut Avenue Redding CA *http://www.stjosephredding.org/home.html
Your daily dose of hopium from a source familiar to most of us. Please, listen to the bitter end:
Is it possible that the 5D chess moves include retro-actively impeaching former presidents since this precedent is being set?
Intriguing if it is.
And the question of the Supreme Court deciding whether or not police can enter a house to seize a gun….
Honestly, the only of the Bill of Rights the swamp people believe in is a spouse can’t testify against the other one, and pleading the fifth when it is convenient.
Argh.
As an aside, just a reminder that there are two dates looming in the coming weeks which may well prove pivotal:
February 18, a Thursday this year, which is the 150th anniversary of the Corporation of the United States that most Americans don’t believe ever existed.
March 4, also a Thursday this year, which is the ORIGINAL date designated for a presidential inauguration.
What that could mean is anyone’s guess at this point.
Well, at any rate, we’re for sure watching a movie…and like so many novels out there, the middle is sagging for lack of action in the plot.
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14And he called the people to him again, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.” 17And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, 19since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20And he said, “What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. 21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, 22coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man.”
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome.
Please include: President Donald Trump, the Q team, our soldiers in the field, special forces, tactical units, members of the Cabinet, first responders and those working behind the scenes…and any and all people with family members in the hospital, COVID or not.
In trying to decide which of the many videos and information pieces available to use for today’s opening to explain that not only did Joe Biden NOT win the 2020 presidential election – and a clear majority of Americans know it – but that the people surrounding President Donald Trump attempted to isolate him and were giving him bum advice (and he probably knew it), it was just so hard to choose.
So, here’s one from someone who was there, and who probably knows half of it, but not the other half, which is where the interesting parts come in even if it does look like the black hat/white hat paradigm is going to be turned on its head if Lin Wood’s whistleblower actually turns out to be James Clapper as has been alleged.
Note that to get the promises made to happen, an office OUTSIDE of the regular swamp apparatus had to be set up ’cause the swamp wasn’t going to give VSGPDJT any help in his quest.
Just a reminder:
Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.
And now for something completely different.
And to settle any arguments before they happen, this one is in three.
Your weekly reminder to take the pledge:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
And now for the nitty gritty of the Q Tree 5 minute, stand up, Tuesday morning meeting version of the Daily Thread.
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Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
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120And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens.” 21So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” 29And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. 21Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation. 4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
If you want a TL;DR version of what was wrong with the Capitol Rally on January 6, 2021, imagine trying to fit a million people into the little area numbered “8”, in the upper left corner of the image above.
You know – the crowd of which THIS CROWD is a tiny fraction.
Yes – imagine another crowd THIS BIG to the left of the camera, another one to the right, one BEHIND me and ahead of this crowd, located down to the lower right (which is down on the capitol patios and up on the terraces), and then this same pattern repeated roughly clockwise around the building in a direction that would be a bit up and to the right, toward the designated protest area, Lot 8. And then add in a much smaller number around to the left, and on the opposite side of the building, where people went in EARLIER.
Even if we had gone straight to the correct area – which was never explained to us – we would never have fit into it. Unless there were MASSIVE overflow plans – probably bigger than just the adjacent Lot 9, but again, that is even MORE on the wrong side of the building – then I simply do not see how we could have been accommodated in the normal protest zones.
I will include the entire text here for historical purposes:
STATEMENT ON ILLEGITIMATE IMPEACHMENT AND JANUARY 6TH
By Ali Alexander Founder, Stop the Steal Movement
President Donald J. Trump is being wrongly accused of incitement and insurrection.
Let me say in no uncertain terms:
Stop the Steal has proof President Trump did not incite an insurrection.
Excerpts from President Trump’s speech on January 6th–an event permitted to Women for America First but hosted by a coalition of groups–may be interpreted, by some, as negligent. President Trump gave an impassioned speech encouraging supporters to participate in a permitted event outside the US Capitol building. We were to be loud and in support of Rep. Paul Gosar’s (R-Az.) original objection and Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Tx.) proposal for a commission to review the merit of the objections.
The idea that President Trump wanted to supplant the Stop the Steal event permitted by US Capitol Police is ludicrous; so, too, is the idea that President Trump wanted to interrupt our allies, Rep. Gosar and Sen. Cruz, while they were presenting our case, both, to their colleagues and the American public.
Unbeknownst to President Trump, there was a last-minute ploy by two Women for America First employees to exclude programming providing the public with clear and concise instructions of where to meet next. This decision was contrary to an agreement held by all organizing groups. Regrettably, this decision also laid the groundwork for confusion, chaos, and ultimately civil unrest.
I have wanted this information to be made public for weeks. For weeks, event organizers and law enforcement have possessed the knowledge that President Trump was never directing an insurrection against our government. The entire premise of this impeachment is provably false. President Trump’s address that day was always meant to have followed specific instructions. He was not sending an unruly mob to the Capitol building. Stop the Steal had permitted space on Capitol Hill and had worked with the US Capitol Police for weeks to secure a safe and orderly event near the Capitol building.
President Trump now stares down an illegitimate impeachment trial because of a decision made by saboteurs and information not yet made public.
Women for America First made a conscious decision to eliminate the prepared and specific instructions guiding protestors to Lot 8 on Capitol Hill permitted to Stop the Steal by US Capitol Police for our “One Nation Under God” event. Instructions were to be given from the stage at the Ellipse and displayed on the Jumbotron.
Women for America First and at least one Trump campaign advisor betrayed President Trump by intentionally eliminating the clear directions meant for the million-plus patriots Stop the Steal had assembled to hear President Trump.
President Trump was unaware of this catastrophic failure when he gave his keynote address. His general comments about walking to the US Capitol were meant to point people to what was supposed to be the previously mentioned Lot 8, permitted to us by the Capitol Police not the physical building itself.
This is the first time this information is being made available to the general public.
This last minute negligence by Women for America First–run by the Kremer family–spiraled the nation into chaos. Stop the Steal remains in support of federal investigations probing the decision-making processes that led to the civil unrest, as well as civil wrongful death claims from families who lost loved ones. We were all hijacked.
In contrast to the chaos at the Capitol, the Stop the Steal movement for election integrity remained peaceful. Over a 10-week period, Stop the Steal hosted nearly two million Americans in approximately 600 to 1000 protests in all 50 states.
The premeditated actions of bad actors not only disgraced our Capitol but also disrupted both the Stop the Steal sponsored event at the Ellipse and the Stop the Steal organized event at Lot 8 on Capitol Hill permitted by US Capitol Police.
Those who attacked officers or destroyed public property deserve their day in court, judged by their peers. However, I won’t succumb to the hysteria arguing we should jail all patriots who either knowingly participated in civil disobedience or were unknowingly ushered into the Capitol by uniformed law enforcement or agitators.
Additionally, we have evidence of agitators who ushered protestors into the US Capitol building and away from the US Capitol grounds where Stop the Steal was to have our US Capitol Police sanctioned event.
This evidence exonerates any claims of incitement. Our non-association with these photographed and recorded agitators proves both Stop the Steal and President Trump did not participate in any conspiracy to commit insurrection.
I applaud law enforcement where they have pursued cases of violence or destruction of public property indiscriminate of politics. Most cases we have reviewed seem to fit in this category.
I, Ali Alexander, am publicly stating what I’ve already privately told officials: I remain ready to publicly testify before Congress and Almighty God to the events that led to and occurred on January 6, 2021.
I am positive that there was FUNNY BUSINESS at multiple junctures here. The question is WHO was responsible and how were they responsible.
This is what I would like everybody to discuss in the comments.
Let me start off with the observations I made earlier, when commenting on grandma’s comment, where she posted a link to Ali’s statement.
FIRST:
Thanks. Have not read it, but to me he remains a “person of interest”, and I’m putting his statement in the same category as the one in Time Magazine, admitting the “shadowy cabal” that took down the election – people getting their stories straight, and getting ahead of whatever is coming.
NEXT:
OK, now I’ve read it, and I’m very curious. It’s possible that WFAF (Women For America First) is getting thrown under the bus by a smart plot.
I think the buffalo jump was massive. Ali remains a person of interest. WFAF are out of the Tea Party. Born to be chumps. They just seem like “marks” to me. I will bet that they were convinced by operatives to drop giving the directions. The likely suspect may be the person in the Trump campaign that Ali is naming, to cover his ass. The people who conned them knew it would be fought out in court, way too late, Trump smeared, lost, and impeached. If one of their operatives gets blamed in court, they will be paid for by the cabal.
This is ALL making sense now, thanks to Garrett Ziegler.
NOW – let me make some further comments.
Were there overflow plans? I don’t know, but it sure looks to me that my EARLIER suspicions were correct. The permitted rally was given TOO SMALL a site (Lot 8) on the WRONG SIDE of the Capitol.
It was intentional. And worse. The Capitol Hill Police (CHP) were intentionally engaged by the phony early attackers precisely so that the under-manned CHP not only could not respond to the bigger Trump crowd, but that they would respond WRONGLY.
Remember – it would have taken a half-dozen CHP doing CROWD MOTION outside to ENGAGE THE CROWD in yellow vests and DIRECT THEM like traffic cops around the building, to the proper location.
Instead, this is what we got.
Now, in this picture, the Uncle Sam was answering a question about directions, but otherwise he was pointing us TOWARD the Capitol. I wanted to get a good picture of HIM, so I waited for this particular pose.
People kept asking him – which way? He always said the same thing, or responded “yes” to the same destination as a question – “toward the building” and “toward the Capitol”.
There was also another person who told us to just go to the West side of the building. She was a woman running swiftly through the crowd, talking loudly to whoever was near her. She SAID she was official, and SOUNDED official, and I inferred from the way she said what she did, that they had given up on getting us to the right place.
Now – here is where we may have been lucky. There were SO MANY Trump supporters there, that very few could even get close to entrances. The MASSIVE crowd outnumbered the one who could be conflated with the Fake MAGA and infiltrators.
In essence, the SAME GIANT MONSTER VOTE that had overwhelmed Dominion’s and Smartmatic’s algorithms, protected us from being drawn into the TRAP and mixed with the provocateurs and Fake MAGA.
There were too many GOOD Trump supporters for the buffalo jump to decimate us.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.
Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. But please keep it civil. We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.
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Please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election:
For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from Efisio Cross, titled “As Long As God Loves Us”:
Yeah, I know…the suckage continues.
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces. We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
I will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get his Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
Incel
𝕀𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕝 is a relatively new word, and is a derivative of two words…Involuntarily celibate.
The Urban Dictionary gives us this definition:
An Incel is a human with a. a horrible personality or unpopular core beliefs b. someone who is just ugly as sin or c. a combination of a. and b. As a result of their mixed personality/personal appearance issues they are rejected sexually (incel = involuntarily celibate).
Used in a sentence:
Democrats have found a use for their incel offspring; they send them out in the streets to riot, loot and burn things.
There was a POINT in standing up to the Nazis, where they had to NOT JUST CRY OUT, BUT RESIST.
we were resisting by way of confession, but we were not confessing by way of resistance
Bonhoeffer introduced us in 1935 to the problem of what we today call political resistance. The levels of confession and of resistance could longer be kept neatly apart. The escalating persecution of the Jews generated an increasingly intolerable situation, especially for Bonhoeffer himself. We now realized that mere confession, no matter how courageous, inescapably meant complicity with the murderers, even though there would always be new acts of refusing to be co-opted and even though we would preach “Christ alone” Sunday after Sunday. During the whole time the Nazi state never considered it necessary to prohibit such preaching. Why should it?
Thus we were approaching the borderline between confession and resistance; and if we did not cross this border, our confession was going to be no better than cooperation with the criminals. And so it became clear where the problem lay for the Confessing Church: we were resisting by way of confession, but we were not confessing by way of resistance.
Many of you are already not wearing masks, and fending off the Mask Karens and Bidenazis with this reason or that reason, but let’s ALL drop our masks and bring out a new reason.
OUR RIGHTEOUS PROTEST AGAINST ILLEGAL IMPEACHMENT.
Yes, it’s a small protest, but we need to start SMALL.
Please help me spread the word.
No masks will be worn by honest men or women during this illegal and unconstitutional impeachment.
The danger of the rampant nanny state now vastly exceeds the danger of the China virus. Remove the masks to save America.
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The Storm is upon us. Please remember to Pray for our President.
And,
On this day and every day –
God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
I much prefer posting information about the positive aspects of humility, such as for last week, rather than warnings about pride, but the following is in response to questions and it’s also good to think about how pride manifests itself in our lives.
Pride’s Many Pitfalls
In Wednesday’s “Midweek Musings,” michaelh asked “What are the warning signs that believers need to be watchful for when it comes to pride? What should we look for in our character to alert us to pride in our lives? How should we be watchful for pride in others, particularly our leaders or spiritual counselors?” among other questions. Hopefully the following will partially address at least some of those questions, although not necessarily specifically or directly.
Jonathan Edwards, (1703 – 1758), was the greatest theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism, major figure in the religious revival known as the ” Great Awakening,” and one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant missionary expansion in the 19th century.
Undetected Spiritual Pride One Cause of Failure in Times of Great Revival by Jonathan Edwards
The first and worst cause of errors that abound in our day and age is spiritual pride. This is the main door by which the devil comes into the hearts of those who are zealous for the advancement of Christ. It is the chief inlet of smoke from the bottomless pit to darken the mind and mislead the judgement.
Pride is the main handle by which he has hold of Christian persons and the chief source of all the mischief that he introduces to clog and hinder a work of God. Spiritual pride is the main spring or at least the main support of all other errors. Until this disease is cured, medicines are applied in vain to heal all other diseases.
It is by spiritual pride that the mind defends and justifies itself in other errors and defends itself against light by which it might be corrected and reclaimed. The spiritually proud man thinks he is full of light already and feels that he does not need instruction, so he is ready to ignore the offer of it.
On the other hand, the humble person is like a little child who easily receives instruction. He is cautious in his estimate of himself, sensitive as to how liable he is to go astray. If it is suggested to him that he is going astray, he is most ready to check into the matter.
Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil’s reach than humility and so prepares the mind for divine light without darkness. Humility clears the eye to look at things as they truly are. Psalm 25:9 — He leads the humble in justice, and He teaches the humble His way.
If spiritual pride is healed, other things are easily corrected. Our first care should be to correct the heart and pull the beam of pride out of our eye and then we shall see clearly.
Growing Christians Beware!
Those who are most zealous in the cause of God are the most likely to be targeted as being filled with pride. When any person appears, in any respect, to be noticeably excelling others in his Christian walk, odds are ten to one that it will immediately awaken the jealousy of those about him.
They will suspect (whether they have good reason or not) that he is very proud of his goodness and that he probably thinks no one as good as he is, so that everything he says and does is observed with this prejudice.
Those who are themselves cold and dead, and especially those who have never had any experience of the power of godliness on their own hearts, will easily entertain such thoughts of the best Christians. This arises from nothing less than a secret hostility against essential and fervent holiness.
But the zealous Christian should take heed that this does not prove a snare to him, and the devil take advantage of it to blind his eyes from beholding the true nature of his heart and to think that because he is charged with pride wrongfully and with an unkind spirit, that such charges are not sometimes valid.
Alas, how much pride the best have in their hearts! It is the worst part of the body of sin and death; the first sin that ever entered into the universe and the last that is rooted out. It is God’s most stubborn enemy!
Pride: a Secret Enemy
Pride is much more difficult to be discerned than any other corruption because of its very nature. That is, pride is a person having too high an opinion of himself. Is it any surprise, then, that a person who has too high an opinion of himself is unaware of it? His thinking is that he thinks that the opinion he has of himself has just grounds and therefore is not too high. If the grounds of the opinion of himself crumbled, he would cease to have such an opinion.
But, because of the nature of spiritual pride, it is the most secret of all sins. There is no other matter in which the heart is more deceitful and unsearchable and there is no other sin in the world that men are so confident in. The very nature of it is to work self-confidence and drive away any suspicion of any evil of that kind. There is no sin so much like the devil as this for secrecy and subtlety, and appearing in great many shapes that are undetected and unsuspected.
Spiritual pride takes many forms and shapes, one under another, and encompasses the heart like the layers of an onion: when you pull off one, there is another underneath. Therefore, we have need to have the greatest watch imaginable over our hearts with respect to this matter and to cry most earnestly to the great Searcher of hearts for His help. He that trusts his own heart is a fool.
Since spiritual pride in its own nature is so secret, it cannot be so well discerned by immediate intuition on the thing itself. It is best identified by its fruits and effects, some of which I will make mention of below together with the contrary fruits of Christian humility.
Pride: the Great Fault-finder
Spiritual pride causes one to speak of other persons’ sins, their enmity against God and His people, or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt, while pure Christian humility disposes either to be silent about them or to speak of them with grief or pity.
The spiritually proud person shows it in his finding fault with other saints, that they are low in grace and how cold and dead they are, and are quick to discern and take notice of their deficiencies. The eminently humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts.
He complains most of himself and complains most of his own coldness and lowness in grace. He is apt to esteem others as better than himself and is ready to hope that most everybody has more love and thankfulness to God than he, and cannot bear to think that others should bring forth no more fruit to God’s honor than he.
Some who have spiritual pride mixed with great learning and joy, earnestly speaking to others about them, are likely to be calling upon other Christians to emulate them and sharply reprove them for their being so cold and lifeless.
There are others who are overwhelmed with their own vileness, and when they have extraordinary discoveries of God’s glory, they are taken up by their own sinfulness. Though they are disposed to speak much and very earnestly, yet it is very much in blaming themselves and exhorting fellow Christians, but in a loving and humble manner.
Pure Christian humility causes a person to take notice of everything that is good in others, to make the best of it and to diminish their failings; however, he turns his eye chiefly on those things that are bad in himself and to take much notice of everything that aggravates them.
Pride: Ministering in a Harsh Spirit
It has been the manner of spiritually proud persons to speak of almost everything they see in others in the most harsh, severe language. It is frequent with them to say of other’s opinion, conduct, advice, coldness, silence, caution, moderation, prudence, etc. that they are from the devil or from hell.
Such kind of language they will commonly use, not only towards wicked men, but towards those who are true children of God and also towards ministers of the gospel and others who are very much their superiors. Christians who are but fellow-worms ought at least to treat one another with as much humility and gentleness as Christ treats them.
Pride: Putting on Pretenses
Spiritual pride often causes persons to act different in external appearance, to effect a different way of speaking, to use a different sort of dialect from others, or to be different in voice, countenance or behavior. But he that is an eminently humble Christian, though he will be firm in his duty, however different — going the way of heaven alone, though all the world forsake him — yet he does not delight in being different for difference’s sake.
He does not try to set himself up to be viewed and observed as one distinguished, as desiring to be accounted better than others — despising their company or conformity to them — but on the contrary, desires to become all things to all men, to yield to others and conform to them and please them in all but sin.
Pride: Takes Offence Easily
Spiritual pride takes great notice of opposition and injuries that are received and is prone to be often speaking of them and to be much in taking notice of their aggravation, either with an air of bitterness or contempt.
Pure and unmixed Christian humility, on the other hand, causes a person to be more like his blessed Lord when reviled: quiet, not opening his mouth, but committing himself in silence to Him who judges righteously. For the humble Christian, the more the world is against him, the more silent and still he will be, unless it is in his prayer closet, and there he will not be still.
Pride: Presumption Before God and Man
Another effect of spiritual pride is a certain self-confident boldness before God and men. Some, in their great rejoicing before God, have not paid sufficient regard to that rule in Psalm 2:11 — Worship the Lord with reverence, and rejoice with trembling.
They have not rejoiced with a reverential trembling, in a proper sense of the awful majesty of God and the awful distance between Him and them. There has also been an improper boldness before men that has been encouraged and defended by a misapplication of Proverbs 29:25 — The fear of man brings a snare… It is as though it became all persons, high and low, men, women and children in all Christian conversation to wholly abandon all manner of modesty or reverence toward man.
Not that any should refrain from Christian conversation, but with such humility as in 1 Peter 3:15—But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.
Pride: Hungry for Attention
Another effect of spiritual pride is to make the subject of it want attention. People often tend to act in a special manner as though others ought to take great notice and regard of them. It is very natural to a person that is very much under the influence of spiritual pride to take all the respect that is paid to him.
If others show a disposition to submit to him and yield in deference to him, he is open to it and freely receives it. It becomes natural for him to expect such treatment and to take much notice if a person fails to do so, and to have an ill opinion of those who do not give him that which he feels he deserves.
One under the influence of spiritual pride is more apt to instruct others than to inquire for himself and so naturally puts on the airs of control. The eminently humble Christian thinks he needs help from everybody, whereas he that is spiritually proud thinks everybody needs his help. Christian humility, under a sense of other’s misery, entreats and beseeches, but spiritual pride tries to command and warn with authority.
Pride: Neglecting Others
As spiritual pride causes persons to assume much to themselves, so it treats others with neglect. On the contrary, pure Christian humility disposes persons to honor all men as from 1 Peter 2:17. To enter into disputes about Christianity is sometimes unseasonable, such as in meeting for Christian conference or for exercises of worship.
Yet, we ought to be very careful that we do not refuse to converse with carnal men, as though we counted them not worthy to be regarded. On the contrary, we should condescend to carnal men as Christ has condescended to us, to bear with our unteachableness and stupidity.
In God’s Word, pride takes center stage as a character trait to avoid. Here are a few other verses about pride and its effect on people . . . and consequences.
Daniel 5:20 But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Psalm 10:4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
Proverbs 29:23 Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
Proverbs 21:4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.
Proverbs 18:12 Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:5 The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 8:13 To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 13:10 Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
Isaiah 2:12 The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),
I’ve got to end this on a positive note, so . . . “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
The situation is unchanged. His Fraudulency continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.
One can hope that all is not as it seems.
I’d love to feast on that crow.
Rally Update
Perhaps you remember this picture
I showed the video this was taken from to a LEO of my acquaintance, and he nearly exploded in rage. Not at the person being sprayed, but at the cop doing the spraying.
He’s spraying the guy for a verbal confrontation. And he’s spraying him in a place where he could have fallen over the edge, in which case his non-lethal spray could have become deadly force.
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
China is in the White House
Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is Asshoe
China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.
But of course the much more important thing to realize:
Joe Biden Didn’t Win
乔*拜登没赢 !!! Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!! Joe Biden didn’t win !!!
