DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230427

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1650943095381323793

Badlands News Brief – April 26, 2023

Secret Meeting Planned In DC To Discuss 2024 Elections

One America News Network Founder Robert Herring Extends Invitation to Tucker Carlson to Become Host on Network in Multi-Million Dollar Offer

Tucker can write his own ticket. Stay tuned. He’s spending time with his wife for now.

Italy Strips Some Gay Couples of Parental Recognition

Are the Italians going to lead the way out of psychological insanity?

Lasting Cultural Change Takes Time

Sauna treatment found to lower blood pressure, improve vascular health

Maybe the Finns really do know what they are talking about.

Gatekeeping the Open Range

Tucker Carlson And Don Lemon Lawyer Up — And It’s The Same Guy

This explains the whole “FOX will pay out Tucker’s full contract.”

The Significance of White Squall

What is a Democrat?

Christians: The Victims That Must Never Be Named

‘Too Big to Fail’ Is Too Big Period

A Tale of Two Earth Days

Fox News Refused To Pay Tucker Carlson Severance After Sudden Firing: ‘Everyone Expects’ Ousted Anchor To Launch Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Over Axing

Hence hiring the lawyer he did.

Bannon: Murdoch Paid Out Tucker Carlson’s FOX News Contract to Keep Him Off the Air – They Want to Keep the Leading Populist Voice Off the Airwaves – And Chop-Block Trump (VIDEO)

Regarding My Friend Tucker

Tucker Carlson Has His Own Theory On Why He Was Fired – Huge Changes Are Expected At Fox News

The Fed Balance Sheet

Ship of Fools

Lost Norms, Flipped Meanings, and the General Derangement of American Political Discourse

TWEETS:

Yeah, no.

MEMES:

I’m not asking quesitons.

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1651282069979267087
https://twitter.com/GravySauceCream/status/1651190342345957378

I’ve been listening to WAY too much First Wave.

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And now for the business portion.

Please review our HOST and site owner’s Guidelines for posting and discussion for this site. Wolf is kind enough to put up with *most* of us and our antics after thorough vetting. Violators of the baiting and deliberately attempting to divide the group rules WILL face consequences.

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Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

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ACTS 8:26-40

26But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert road. 27And he rose and went. And behold, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a minister of the Can’dace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship 28and was returning; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go up and join this chariot.” 30So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31And he said, “How can I, unless some one guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: “As a sheep led to the slaughter or a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. 33In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken up from the earth.” 34And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, pray, does the prophet say this, about himself or about some one else?” 35Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture he told him the good news of Jesus. 36And as they went along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What is to prevent my being baptized?” 38And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 40But Philip was found at Azo’tus, and passing on he preached the gospel to all the towns till he came to Caesare’a.

PSALMS 66:8-9, 16-17, 20

7who rules by his might for ever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations — let not the rebellious exalt themselves. [Selah] 8Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard, 15I will offer to thee burnt offerings of fatlings, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. [Selah] 16Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me. 19But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

JOHN 6:44-51

44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45It is written in the prophets, `And they shall all be taught by God.’ Every one who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46Not that any one has seen the Father except him who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

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SATIRE

Are we sure that’s satire?

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230421

The Best Amaretto Sour

INGREDIENTS  

  • 1 egg white
  • 3 ounces Amaretto
  • 1.5 ounces bourbon
  • 2 ounces lemon juice
  • 2 teaspoons simple syrup
  • 1 lemon twist
  • 2 brandied cherries optional

INSTRUCTIONS 

  • Put the egg white in a shaker or ball jar, and give several good shakes to loosen it.
  • Add the remaining liquids and shake again. Add ice to the container and shake or swirl to chill it. Pour into lowballs over ice.
  • Garnish with the twist and, if using, the cherries.

NOTES

If you don’t want to use a shaker you can use a hand blender or whisk to make the egg white gently frothy.

Morning!

Badlands News Brief – April 20, 2023

Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft over using Twitter data for its A.I.

Battle of the tech giants. This is going to be one heck of a show.

If Only Our Tormentors Spoke Flyover

Pandemic and Panopticon: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State

The AIDS Empire Strikes Back

A Free Republic Depends on Worker Power

The Long, Slow Death of Global Development

Egypt Sues Netflix For Falsely Depicting Cleopatra As a Black Woman

As well they should.

The False Messaging on Vaccines Given to Pregnant Women

Giving Speeches is a Felony, Because Putin

PARADIGM SHIFT? POPULAR ESPN HOST SPEAKS OUT AGAINST LIA THOMAS, BIOLOGICAL MALES COMPETING IN GIRLS’ SPORTS

Keep an eye on the tweets today. This is starting to trend.

The Way to Sell Beer – Pabst and Wade Boggs Show Bud Light How It’s Done in New Ad Campaign

Biden’s non-binary ex-nuclear waste chief Sam Brinton will undergo mental health evaluation as part of diversion program after stealing luggage from Minneapolis airport – as he also avoids jail time for theft in Las Vegas

WT-? We all know he’s crazy. Lock him up, please.

After high-flying start, DeSantis hits stumbling blocks on road to 2024

‘Trans’ blob of adipose tissue dispatches a ‘call to arms’ and refers to himself as a ‘wild animal’ ready to unleash violence

How’s that for a headline.

New Cars Are Finally Selling Below Sticker

Trump crafts bold new plan to rid Dem-run cities of “zombie apocalypse”…

Democrat Stacey Plaskett threatens ‘Twitter Files’ journalist Matt Taibbi with prison

She doesn’t even have a vote in Congress. What is she doing on a committee?

TWITTER FILES: Twitter loves Dr Fauci and Big Pharma “marketing strategy”

Fill Out Your Form Before You Have an Opinion

CROWDER EXPOSES PETA AS THE VICIOUS ANIMAL-KILLERS THEY ARE

Homeschoolers Do Way Better Than Kids in Govt School, Evidence Shows

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/Iranwillbefree_/status/1648679831394041856
https://twitter.com/DanCham03014042/status/1648782134746685448
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1648857903913107458
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1648923477049581568
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1648847900519088128
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1648799058784288769
https://twitter.com/lonestarherd/status/1648730627565289473

Talk about a DIY project. Lady, most of us clean our own houses.

https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1648619948262977537
https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1649057602733592578
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1649077192759062529

Who cares. Bye bye, BuzzFeed.

https://twitter.com/DavidWolfe/status/1649083658760867844
https://twitter.com/Whatfinger1/status/1649083723705643009
https://twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1649082917686063108
https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1649082883498299393

Is she volunteering to be the model?

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1649070358039756803
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1649064474395959300

So much for feminists having other women’s backs.

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1649072561580556288
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1648743895574904863
https://twitter.com/AnnaApp91838450/status/1649065221925871616
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1648879760787767298

I had never heard of Egard Watch. It is a luxury brand dedicated to the bond between fathers and sons, and they are sticking up for women. It’s beautiful to see.

https://twitter.com/iluminatibot/status/1649041049954951169
https://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk/status/1649090389071077377
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1649137777584349185
https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1649114958091649031
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1649163827114651650
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1649160601954922496
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1648362453649195008

Important! Guys in women’s sports are injuring women, not just defeating them.

https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1648892612709953537

MEME STASH:

https://twitter.com/WBSSTL/status/1649079728110698496
https://twitter.com/Figensport/status/1648846441706651648
https://twitter.com/satisfyingpub/status/1648999250884431873

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

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ACTS 5:34-42

34But a Pharisee in the council named Gama’li-el, a teacher of the law, held in honor by all the people, stood up and ordered the men to be put outside for a while. 35And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you do with these men. 36For before these days Theu’das arose, giving himself out to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him; but he was slain and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing. 37After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him; he also perished, and all who followed him were scattered. 38So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this undertaking is of men, it will fail; 39but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” 40So they took his advice, and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name. 42And every day in the temple and at home they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

PSALMS 27:1, 4, 13-14

1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 4One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. 13I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living! 14Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the LORD!

JOHN 6:1-15

1After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiber’i-as. 2And a multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were diseased. 3Jesus went up on the mountain, and there sat down with his disciples. 4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, “How are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.” 8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9“There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so many?” 10Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the fragments left over, that nothing may be lost.” 13So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten. 14When the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!” 15Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

SATIRE!

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1649035203271327745
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1649109625537540096
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1649174860701085697

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230420

It’s Thursday already? Where does the time go?

Starting with Sundance:

The Legislative Branch’s Biggest Leaker of Classified Intelligence, Rails Against Small Fry Ability to Leak Classified Pentagon Intelligence

The Bloom Is Off The Ruse – President Trump Gains Ten More Florida Republican Congressional Endorsements, DeSantis Has One – Rep Greg Steube Explains Why

NIH and CDC Directors TestiLie to Congress

Two-Tiered Justice, IRS Supervisor Says Political Intervention Taking Place to Protect Hunter Biden – Requests Whistleblower Protection

Everything else:

Stating the Obvious.

Badlands News Brief – April 19, 2023

Not seen on the “news” programming:

Massive Protest Sees Demonstrators Call for Czech Government’s Resignation

Hate the smell of BO? You might be xenophobic: Bizarre study finds people who are sensitive to disgusting smells are more likely to have negative attitudes towards migrants

Who thinks up this stuff? The worst smelling people I’ve encountered were not immigrants, legal or otherwise.

The real scandal behind the Pentagon leak

China Reveals What It Says to Be True Purpose of ‘Overseas Police Stations’

Like any of us are going to believe them.

Don’t cancel Picasso

Yes, Picasso was a genius. He painted what the salon set in Paris would buy. He knew it was junk, but he produced it anyway. Genius about making money.

Don’t play an instrument? No problem! Even listening to music prevents dementia

A More Than Material Matter

Riley Gaines shreds Biden promise to veto bill protecting women’s sports: ‘Catering to a radical minority’

Meet The Shadowy Group That Ran The Federal Government’s Censorship Scheme

You Can’t Just Move Away from it

The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh’s Twitter Was Just ‘Bored’

Ri-i-i-i-i-ght.

Ron Paul: Will the End of the Petrodollar End the U.S. Empire?

TWEETS:

Yes, he bang banged Fang Fang.

https://twitter.com/AMJalsevac/status/1648756172386623507

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1648800139010506752
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1648774547804504066

I’ve been listening to WAY too much First Wave.

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And now for the business portion.

Please review our HOST and site owner’s Guidelines for posting and discussion for this site. Wolf is kind enough to put up with *most* of us and our antics after thorough vetting. Violators of the baiting and deliberately attempting to divide the group rules WILL face consequences.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Company manners are appreciated. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog out discussions best saved for a wrestling mat. If, for some reason, this site is not available, head over to the UTree and visit the post at the top of the list or the closest rescue thread.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF US HERE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND PREJUDICES, ETC., SO LONG AS THEY CAUSE NO PHYSICAL HARM TO OTHERS OR DOXX OUR FELLOW TREE DWELLERS.

All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

____________________________________________________

ACTS 5:27-33

27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, 28saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” 29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. 30The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. 31God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 32And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.” 33When they heard this they were enraged and wanted to kill them.

PSALMS 34:2, 9, 17-20

1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him! 16The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. 19Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

JOHN 3:31-36

31He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all. 32He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony; 33he who receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. 34For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for it is not by measure that he gives the Spirit; 35the Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.

Arguably the best thing he ever wrote.

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230414

Lavender Sapphire Collins

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 ounces gin
  • 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1/2 ounce lavender syrup
  • 3 to 5 ounces club soda, to taste
  • Lemon wedge, for garnish

Steps to Make It

  1. Gather the ingredients.
  2. In a collins glass, add the gin, lemon juice, and lavender syrup.
  3. Stir and fill with ice.
  4. Top with club soda.
  5. Garnish with a lemon wedge. Serve and enjoy.

Starting with the whole Bud Light fiasco, it seems that the internal control structure of the brewery (that’s STL parlance for AB) is a bit of a mess. Headlines started to appear today that anyone who knows how the place USED to run, before one August Adolphus Busch, III, sold the company to an international outfit, could easily guess was the case.

‘No one at a senior level’ was aware Bud Light had made the ‘mistake’ of partnering with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney – as parent company Anheuser-Busch loses $6BN in six days

‘Mistake’: Stunning Details Emerge in What Led to Bud Light’s Trans Marketing Partnership – Report

It seems that the c-level people were – supposedly – blindsided by the whole thing…which would explain the also stunning lack of crisis public relations a la how the Tylenol crisis was handled forty years ago. AB InBev is acting more like the leadership team at Exxon did when the first mate of the Valdez rammed into a sea wall, backed up and rammed into it again. Those two responses are case studies in all PR textbooks. The former is the way it SHOULD be done. The latter is the way it should NOT be done.

That says a lot.

What were they thinking at Bud Light?

Agreed. Something is in the background on this one.

Also, information started to surface about the gal who made this whole mess.

Leaked pics show Bud Light exec who wants to update company’s ‘fratty’ culture enjoying fratty party

Didn’t we all.

In the meantime, a number of things popped up re the overall culture war:

“CELEBRATE THE WINS”: BOYCOTTING BUD LIGHT PROVES CONSERVATIVES ARE WINNING THE WAR

REAL women rise up to confront Bud Light’s embrace of ‘365 days of ‘girlhood’: ‘Where’s my sponsorship?’

Women Start Burning Nike Bras over Dylan Mulvaney Campaign

I know bras are not beer, but the rejection of the message is there.

The first point of conservatives flipping back to their old ways once the hub bub dies down is valid. I’ve watched it happen time and again. His second point…not so much, IMO. However, those looking for the list of AB InBev brands:

Okay, what else have I got?

Badlands News Brief – April 13, 2023

U.S. argues for immunity in MK-ULTRA mind control case before Quebec Court of Appeal

That means that in no way possible is MK Ultra a “conspiracy theory.”

Twitter rebrands NPR’s account as ‘government funded media’ after backlash

Twitter has removed the “US state-affiliated media” label from National Public Radio’s official account and has instead replaced it with “Government Funded Media.”

Who says Elon doesn’t have a sense of humor, if nothing else.

The West Declares War on Itself

The Great Awakening coming to normies everywhere.

The American Civil War: The Celts’ Last Stand

“Don’t Say Trans”: Language Control and The Liberty Daily

19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.

Well, somebody needs to

Why Did Wyoming Kill School Choice? Deep-Red States Often Don’t Act Like It, Data Shows

Rothschilds Send French President Macron to China in Attempt to Save Europe as U.S. Rockefeller Empire Panics

Underreported Bombshell: Seymour Hersh Reveals Massive Skimming of US Aid in Ukraine and Claims CIA Knows All About It

CONFUSED ABOUT MRNA “VACCINES” IN MEAT? THAT’S EXACTLY HOW THEY WANT IT

They do the same thing with finance and retirement planning. Make it vague and confusing on purpose so people will go to professional stockbrokers for investing information. Although, that article may bring to light why pork is so much cheaper than beef and chicken.

The Babylon Bee is suing California’s attorney general

Is Trump Leaving DeSantis and Company in the Dust?

The Inversion of Health

“Connect to Opportunity”: State Department Pushed LinkedIn to Censor “Disinformation”

The biggest problem mRNA skeptics face

The Trump Doctrine – President Trump Responds to Question About Nordstream Pipeline and Frames the Status of Current Global Threats

Social -vs- Economic Priorities

In the big picture, keeping the base GOPe voter distracted from the economic expansion of multinational globalism, the corporate ‘masters of the universe’ (ie. the Big Club), need to keep pushing anti-wokeism as a political strategy.

The cultural issues are useful tools to keep control of an alignment of voters.  It has always been thus, and even more important now that people are starting to realize the expansion of the rust belt.

The rust belt, the diminishment of the U.S. economic manufacturing base, was an outcome of corporate control over politics.  Corporations and banks seek profit, those profits are inflated by a U.S. service driven economic model.  Skilled jobs require higher wages.

If the skilled jobs can be outsourced to lower cost labor nations, the subsequent lowered labor costs drive bigger margins.  Again, it has always been thus.

The Full Surveillance Power of the U.S. Govt Could Not Find the Classified Intel Leaker, But the Media Did…

Tweety Tweets:

That’s one heck of a motorcade for an ex-president.

MSM is like an 8-track. Ha.

Yeah…Nike doesn’t make them in my size.

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1646584196649893888

Good luck with that. My money is on John Thune.

I’m with Clandestine on this one. This is a show.

MEME STASH:

Agree

Sorry about that.

https://twitter.com/PuppiesIover/status/1646325833513177088
https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1646591264001851393

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

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The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

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Fellow tree dweller the late Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

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

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ACTS 4:1-12

1And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sad’ducees came upon them, 2annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3And they arrested them and put them in custody until the morrow, for it was already evening. 4But many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to about five thousand. 5On the morrow their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem, 6with Annas the high priest and Ca’iaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 7And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” 8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, 9if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed, 10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well. 11This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the head of the corner. 12And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230413

Starting with Sundance:

Sea Island Senator Tim Scott Announces 2024 Exploratory Committee

The Battle…

Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Florida Media Outlet Conducts a Poll – DeSantis Floor Collapses, Donald Trump Promotes DeSantis Poll

Badlands News Brief – April 12, 2023

Elbridge Colby Wants to Finish What Donald Trump Started

5th Generation Warfare Is Waged In The Mind, The Heart and the Soul

Laughing at the Lies of the Left

Let’s start with the fact that lying is a survival skill for the left. Over the millennia, lies have been the only way they can stay alive. Their skills of deceit and deception are akin to the mottled pattern of coloration on a snake to keep it hidden on the forest floor. Deceit has become ingrained in their psyche and their skills have been polished and perfected over generations.

Project Icebreaker: The Beginning of a One World Digital Currency System

Reversing The Destruction of a Generation

The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities

NATO Generosity Betrays Institutional Obsolescence

NATO has one purpose: keep the Military Industrial Complex flush with cash.

Here are the 7 biggest revelations from the US leaks so far

The news is fake, but the leaks are real. Trying to decide on this one.

President Trump dropped several BOMBS on Tucker during his first interview since the arrest…

Two Men Hospitalized After Monopoly Game Ends in Sword Fight

It’s just a game.

Biden Supporters Triggered By Viral Video Showing Kids Chanting ‘Let’s Go Brandon’

Surprise! The COVID vaccines were never tested for safety

Just in case anyone didn’t know this already.

Surviving the storm

How Rejecting Biblical Masculinity Turns Men From Protectors To Predators

It’s Turtles All the Way Down

WOMEN WHO HAVE CELEBRATED GIRLHOOD FOR LONGER THAN DYLAN MULVANEY WANT TO KNOW WHERE THEIR BUD LIGHT DEAL IS

All the news that’s fit to pimp: Mockingbird corporate media no longer even pretends to be unbiased

Super Computers in the Info War

Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta

FTX’s Bankruptcy Lawyers: ‘The Dumpster Fire Is Out’

DNC Parts Ways With Marc Elias, the Clinton Campaign Lawyer Behind Steele Dossier

TWEETS:

https://twitter.com/DanCham03014042/status/1645872508753543169

Information forbidden, apparently.

https://twitter.com/OldRowSwig/status/1646167521383333890

The rest of you all can come, though. We’ve got a bit of everything to accommodate most tastes.

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1645930042524946433
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1646027871171887105

I’ve been listening to WAY too much First Wave.

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  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

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LUKE 24:35-48

35Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. 36As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them. 37But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. 38And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? 39See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.” 41And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took it and ate before them. 44Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 47and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48You are witnesses of these things.

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230406

And…we’re off!

Badlands News Brief – April 4, 2023

“TikTok Bills”: Do Americans Need Big Brother’s Help to Restrict Apps?

Former NZ PM Jacinda Starts New Job… Combatting ‘Online Extremism’

Ready Yourself for the 2024 Storms

Republicans Need a Tech Manhattan Project

Trump gets the Nixon treatment

The GOP Has an Obligation to Protect Its Voters

The GOP is more interested in preserving their $$$ than anything else.

How Climate Alarmism Killed Real Environmentalism

Group steers Swiss billionaire’s money to liberal causes

Accomplished psychiatrist says demons, demonic possession are real

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Says he is No Longer Interested in ‘Pleasing’ the United States

GET WRECKED: Elon Musk’s Twitter Labels NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’

The Money behind the Transgender Movement

Know What to Expect: The Death of the Dollar Is Coming

Donald Trump’s arraignment day a throwback for news outlets

The Death of the Dollar and the Rise of the “Digital Dollar” Is Why Central Banks Are Buying Gold and Silver

What they’ve seen for a while, and what many American citizens are finally starting to see, is that gold and silver will be the only “safe haven” during the transition from physical fiat currency to Central Bank Digital Currencies. In other words, they want physical precious metals on hand as the U.S. Dollar crashes under the weight of the Biden-Harris regime’s intentionally awful fiscal policies.

Fascism is X and Not-X

The Emptying – transgender fetishism in a post-factual era

The War on Maga And The Republic Accelerates – Trump Ready to Fight the Indictments

This Is What You Need To Remember When It Seems Like The World Has Completely Gone Mad…

Why the Population Scare is Nonsense…

Vox Populi – Legislator Be Advised 2023 ~#17

Metaverse Fashion Week had big brands but few people

America Has An Egg Problem And It’s Creating Weak Men

Glenn Greenwald and Stephen Miller reveal dark, underlying reasons Biden’s regime is criminalizing MAGA…

Alvin Bragg Gets More Bad News As Trump Indictment Continues To Be Torn Apart By Legal Analysts

Sundance speaks:

“His Kind” Is YOU !

McConnell DeceptiCon Foot Soldier Roy Blunt Takes Role with DC Lobbying Group

A Message

Entirely Apropos – Team DeSantis Promote 2024 Endorsement from Thomas Massie that Massie Himself Doesn’t Promote – Because He’s Positioning to Replace the AWOL Mitch McConnell

That explains a lot.

TWEETS:

It looks like this freak-a-zoid is renting himself out to kill brand names.

Dude, when you do high kicks, the legs need to be straight, and the toes pointed. Every REAL girl out there who actually has been on a dance or cheer squad or has taken ballet knows this. If you’re serious about passing yourself off as a girl, gain some weight. Go eat ice cream if you can’t get a date. That’s far more realistic.

The sad thing is, this Christian Soriano (Project Runway designer) offshoot is probably making more money with this schtick than highly trained dancers.

Enough of him. Giving him attention is encouraging this crap.

THIS:

I can go along with that.

Stormy Daniels got short changed.

https://twitter.com/Pipspiper2/status/1643652207861018625
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1643721322948591618
https://twitter.com/FiatLuxGenesis/status/1643671587185467403

Honestly, I think most of them are depressed and have PTSD of some sort.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1643709549772242945

Hmmm……

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1643368783791177728

Nauseating is a little closer. I’m getting dizzy.

I’ve been listening to WAY too much First Wave.

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And now for the business portion.

Please review our HOST and site owner’s Guidelines for posting and discussion for this site. Wolf is kind enough to put up with *most* of us and our antics after thorough vetting. Violators of the baiting and deliberately attempting to divide the group rules WILL face consequences.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Company manners are appreciated. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog out discussions best saved for a wrestling mat. If, for some reason, this site is not available, head over to the UTree and visit the post at the top of the list or the closest rescue thread.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF US HERE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND PREJUDICES, ETC., SO LONG AS THEY CAUSE NO PHYSICAL HARM TO OTHERS OR DOXX OUR FELLOW TREE DWELLERS.

All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

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JOHN 13:1-15

1Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel. 5Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. 6He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.” 8Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in me.” 9Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “You are not all clean.” 12When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

Where (There Is) Charity And Love

Christian Hymns & Songs

Where there is charity and love, God is there

We are gathered as one in Christ’s love

Let us rejoice, and be glad in that

Let us fear and love the living God

And from our hearts is the upmost sincerity

Where there is charity and love, God is there

Therefore, when we are gathered as one

Let us not be divided in mind (spirit), Take care

Stop malicious disputes, stop fighting

And may Christ, Our God be in our midst

Where there is charity and love, God is there

Together with the blessed we see

Your face in glory, Oh Christ, Our God

The joy that is vast and virtuous

Through ages, for endless ages

Amen. (I believe).https://lyricstranslate.com

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SATIRE

Actually, they’re called brew maestros, and when the geniuses at InBev bought AB, they didn’t have the ones they laid off sign non-competes, and several of them started microbrews here, which are arguably more popular when one is not going to a parade, on a float trip, or to a fish fry.

Ummm…no.

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230331

Grand Slam

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces Flor de Caña 7-year-old grand reserve rum
  • 1 ounce Gosling’s Black Seal rum
  • 1/2 ounce Pierre Ferrand dry curaçao ancienne methode
  • 1 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed  
  • 1/4 ounce grenadine
  • Garnish: orange twist

Steps

  1. Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
  2. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over crushed ice.
  3. Garnish with an orange twist.

Sorry about the brevity of this post. I was downtown for opening day festivities for part of the day.

That doesn’t mean there wasn’t big news:

New York Times: President Trump Has Been Indicted by Manhattan Grand Jury – Indictment Under Seal, Terms for Arrest Ongoing

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641566996482408448

Other stuff:

Team DeSantis Say They Have Been Hoodwinked by Disney Inc. as Orlando Board Changed Covenants Before New Officials Appointed

Rand Paul Shreds Josh Hawley Over “Restrict Act” While Blocking Unanimous Consent and Reminding About Constitution and “Bills of Attainder”

Badlands News Brief – March 30, 2023

Jamie Dimon To Be Deposed Over JPMorgan-Epstein Relationship

The drug being readied for the avian flu plandemic causes side effects that include BELIEVING false narratives, making it perfect for social control

Given the source, I’m not sure this is real, but it makes a great headline.

Could the RESTRICT Act Criminalize the Use of VPNs?

The Digital Iron Curtain: How the RESTRICT Act Threatens to Devastate Privacy and Crush Free Speech Online

The Nosedive of Ron DeSantis

How Much Longer Can Western Governments Spit on Their People?

The Cultural And Political Forces Driving Violence In The Black Community

How the Media Doubles Down on Falsehood

The Source of ‘Too Big to Fail’

Learning from Our (Bank) Failures

Josh Hawley plays fast and loose with internet freedom… Rand Paul gets it…

Board transferred all its power to Disney shortly before DeSantis’ appointees took over

Durham Unveils Smoking Gun FBI Text Message, ‘Joint Venture’ To Smear Trump

Trump Knows

From Trans Supremacy to AI, How Wokeness Seeks to Replace God

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641188069821804546
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1641220051150807045

Who said life was fair?

MEME STASH:

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion. In that spirit, though, threats of violence real or hypothetical are out of bounds.

Fellow tree dweller the late Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

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

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

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JEREMIAH 20:10-13

10For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him.” 11But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten. 12O LORD of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause. 13Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

PSALMS 18:2-7

1I love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. 4The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me; 5the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me. 6In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

JOHN 10:31-42

31The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?” 33The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, `I said, you are gods’? 35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken), 36do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,’ because I said, `I am the Son of God’? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39Again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. 40He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John at first baptized, and there he remained. 41And many came to him; and they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42And many believed in him there.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230330

Today is opening day.

Jeremy really is the organist for both the Cards and the Blues, plus he has a church job.

I guess I better find out who made the final squad.

Can it be true?

JUST IN: Senate Votes 68-23 to End Covid Emergency

Most Americans moved on long ago, but why not make it official.

James O’Keefe Starts Looking at Fraudulent Campaign Donations – FEC Reported Donations Via Act Blue Appear to be Money Laundering

It’s about time SOMEBODY looked into this abuse of the non-profit tax code…now if he would look at the rest of the non-profit tax code.

Jacob’s Limp

Badlands News Brief – March 29, 2023

BREAKING: Jury in Douglass Mackey trial tells judge they cannot come to a unanimous decision

A hung jury in the meme trial is actually good news for about all of us.

The End of the Cult of Free

Maybe in social media, but not in America, that’s for sure. The novel I authored that’s free is downloaded about forty times more often than the rest of the ten novels with a price tag combined.

Dr. Anthony Fauci sells memoir for ‘just under $5M,’ book insiders say

That’s not much for a money laundering payoff. Maybe there’s something going on behind the scenes.

161 House Republicans Voted to Abolish Education Dept., 60 GOP Voted to Keep It

Just make it go away.

Europol warns ChatGPT already helping folks commit crimes

Criminals will use any and all tools they can find to achieve their objectives.

Ukraine and the FBI: Profiles in Corruption

Overcoming America’s Political Paralysis

Time to End the Veil of Secrecy Inside D.C. Kangaroo Court

Like ChatGPT, Google’s ‘Bard’ ChatBot Peddles Left Bias

The Cross of Code

The danger of A.I. is not that it becomes like us, but that we become like it.

XI’S ‘CHILLING’ REMARKS: WHAT THE NEW MULTIPOLAR WORLD MEANS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

China Circles the Wagons Around TikTok

Watch: Rand Paul Claims Fauci Is Not Really Retired

The Men Behind the Curtain – Part 6

The Metaverse Is Quickly Turning Into the Meh-taverse

Exclusive: FAA Quietly Updates Guidelines to Clear Some Pilots Previously Diagnosed With Guillain-Barré Syndrome

There’s a good reason why there are two pilots on every commercial flight. I have it on good authority that pilots will fly on airlines other than the ones they work for on a regular basis, so there is always a good chance there’s a spare in the cabin.

Watch Teens Attempt to Carjack Man, But Can’t Drive Manual Transmission to Get Away

Minor…problem….

The Next Phase Of The War – Trans Terrorism

TWEETS:

Yeah, really, oh, really. This has been noticed:

If these lefties aren’t careful, they will be facing felonies. Oh, well.

https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/1640813615086293020

Still some rats to catch, Elon.

Yep.

I totally agree. AI is more of a threat than not.

Amen, Abby.

Watched that live. What a liar.

Rumors are lung infection – don’t forget the real Bergoglio only has one complete one – or heart attack. Either way, may he have the best of care…and don’t forget that the Lord moves in mysterious ways.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1640825751887912961

MEMES:

Proof that good comedy is universal:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1641192094445232131

Murphy lives at the raptor sanctuary in west county here. He’s quite the character and LOVES water.

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And now for the business portion.

Please review our HOST and site owner’s Guidelines for posting and discussion for this site. Wolf is kind enough to put up with *most* of us and our antics after thorough vetting. Violators of the baiting and deliberately attempting to divide the group rules WILL face consequences.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Company manners are appreciated. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog out discussions best saved for a wrestling mat. If, for some reason, this site is not available, head over to the UTree and visit the post at the top of the list or the closest rescue thread.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF US HERE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND PREJUDICES, ETC., SO LONG AS THEY CAUSE NO PHYSICAL HARM TO OTHERS OR DOXX OUR FELLOW TREE DWELLERS.

All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

____________________________________________________

GENESIS 17:3-9

3Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, 4“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. 5No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you. 7And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” 9And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

PSALMS 105:4-9

4Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually! 5Remember the wonderful works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, 6O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones! 7He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 8He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, 9the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

JOHN 8:51-59

51Truly, truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death.” 52The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, `If any one keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ 53Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you claim to be?” 54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God. 55But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him and I keep his word. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.” 57The Jews then said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” 59So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

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SATIRE

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230324

The Green Man

  • 2 oz bourbon
  • 1 oz Cointreau
  • 2/3 oz Fernet Branca
  • 1/4 oz lime juice
  • 3 sprigs mint

Muddle mint with the bourbon. Add other ingredients. Shake with ice. Double strain into a glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint.

  • Nose: Mint, orange, bourbon, menthol
  • Palate: Fresh mint to start, orange and bourbon on mid-palate, followed by a nice bite of acidic citrus just after that. Finishes with slightly astringent camphor and more mint.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1638786870451802112

Before getting too into the weeds, this is France:

https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1638934052790226948
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1638969339784355840

I’d say the French have had enough. And this was over a new retirement age.

Badlands News Brief – March 23, 2023

SHOCKING REPORT: DOJ Embedded an FBI Informant Inside the DEFENSE TEAM of Non-Violent Jan 6 Prisoner and Former US Marine Zachary Rehl

Why is this shocking? The other side will stop at nothing to get their way.

SCOOP: GAO to Investigate Dubious FBI Surveillance Practice

With a strongly worded letter to follow.

Red states flee bipartisan voter roll cleanup group, blame its left-wing election agenda

Ohio and Iowa withdrew from the Electronic Registration Information Center last week, and Florida, West Virginia and Missouri did so earlier this month. Alabama canceled its membership in January, and Louisiana withdrew last year.

Alaska’s election chief is also eyeing the exit, and legislators in Texas are pushing for an out, too.

Well, at least SOMETHING is happening at the state level.

Kari Lake scores win as Arizona Supreme Court sends part of her lawsuit back to trial court

Much more on this in the tweets.

Trump Wants to Create ‘Spectacle,’ Appear in Handcuffs if He’s Arrested: Multiple Sources

Given the author of this piece is someone known to me on a first name basis for over ten years now (we both wrote on another blog years ago), this is pretty much his opinion. Mike has been a never Trumper from the word GO! He was convinced in 2016 Hillary! would win. It was all he harped about on Facebook the whole year.

New Report Shows Extensive Biden Admin Collusion to Classify Parents as Terrorists

Biden’s DOJ is quietly trying to orchestrate taxpayer-funded bailout of Moderna

Oh, hell to the no. Not. No way, Jose.

Philadelphia will PAY women to get pregnant: Expectant mothers will be entitled to $1,000 a month ‘with no strings attached’ amid falling fertility rates and rising baby deaths

I saw something a couple years ago or more about being prepared for birth control to be illegal and incentives for parents to have more than 2.3 children coming in the future. It’s started already.

STOLEN VALOR: Top Ukraine ‘volunteer’ soldier revealed to be fraud, heavily promoted by Adam Kinzinger, Malcolm Nance

It’s the Spanish American War thing all over again. The reporting was pretty much all fake, but it sold a lot of papers.

Ex-House ‘Russiagate’ investigator Kash Patel sues Politico over impeachment lies

Evil Medicine

The Worst Prison Is the One You Don’t Know You’re In

Government Isn’t the Victim; It’s the Perpetrator

Why a Flat Tax Will Never Get Off the Ground

A flat tax would destroy the accounting industry. That seems to be the bottom line.

Irreconcilable differences but no divorce?

Can We Call It an Invasion Now?

The War on Humor

Rooting Out Election Corruption

Tweety Tweets:

This is a big deal. The lawsuit is still alive and the Arizona Supreme Court more or less told the lower court that their rationale for their ruling was not correct.

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1638642792242061313

Catturd ™

@catturd2

Democrat policies 101 …
1) Create a problem that doesn’t exist like GLObAl WaRMinG.
2) Use fake scientists, fake news, fake data to support your hoax.
3) Use over-the-top fear tactics to scare people into believing it (the earth is going end in 12 years and all the cities will be underwater in 5 years, etc – if we don’t act NOW!)
4) Use your fake news propagandists to amplify the fear.
5) Use your fake fact checkers on the Left owned social media platforms to ban anyone who tells the truth.
6) Demonize the truth tellers.
7) Rake in trillions on the hoax that doesn’t exist – so you and your friends can get filthy rich and gain power. (you don’t have to spend a dime on the hoax because it doesn’t exist.)
8) Rinse and repeat on the next “end-of-the-world” made-up fake crisis.

8:05 AM · Mar 23, 2023

Another example of lampoon the idea in the name of comedy so that the sheep will not believe that he’s actually telling the truth.

I looked it up. This is a study from 2012. Could it be that all these depression issues in women resulting in wanting to be a man might stem from going vegan or vegetarian? It’s worth considering as a contributing factor, IMO.

https://twitter.com/chrisabraham/status/1638974057164177408

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1639005201402085378

MEME STASH:

Buh-bye!

https://twitter.com/DarwinAwards_/status/1638994804662231040
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1638650065420951552

No wonder the occult has adopted them.

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Author note: Wisdom is one of the Old Testament books not included in Bibles following Martin Luther’s version of it.

WISDOM 2:1, 12-22

1For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end, and no one has been known to return from Hades. 12“Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. 13He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. 14He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; 15the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. 16We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. 17Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; 18for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. 19Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. 20Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.” 21Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them, 22and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hope for the wages of holiness, nor discern the prize for blameless souls;

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230323

Welcome to the daily where the $#!+ show never seems to end.

So, about the indictment of President Trump:

https://twitter.com/AnnaApp91838450/status/1638514665914351617

Bragg Hit the Brakes – Manhattan Grand Jury Told to Take Day Off, Delaying Any Indictment of President Trump

I actually agree with this assessment:

I didn’t think it was going to happen from the beginning. And, anyway:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638639843411410950

Bombshell 2018 Letter From Cohen Attorney to FEC *SHOULD* Collapse Pretext of Alvin Bragg Nonsense Case Against Donald Trump

Okay, the link list:

Badlands New Brief – March 22, 2023

Did Donald Trump break the Koch machine for good?

Democrats see downside in Trump’s N.Y. case

One of the reasons it’s probably over.

How Donald Trump’s team wants to capitalize on his arrest, indictment 

There’s no such thing as bad publicity when you’re Donald Trump.

Spies tell Page Six that The Donald is in “high spirits” in advance of his possible arrest and indictment this week.

Sources even say Trump wants his potential arrest to be a high-profile affair for maximum exposure.

Anyone who has studied 300 level and above PR knows there’s no such thing as truly bad publicity. Thanks to OJ Simpson and a car chase Ford got LOTS of free publicity one evening and sales went up without them spending a dime.

The U.S. Government Is Building A Vast Surveillance And Speech Suppression Web Around Every American

FAUCI: ‘We Need To Break’ Will Of ‘Republicans,’ Make Them Get Vaxxed

Is new strain of paranoid leftism making American teens, young adults sick?

Tens of millions of American teenagers are miserable. Teenage girls, according to a recent CDC report, published on Feb. 13, are particularly miserable. 

Roughly 60% of U.S. teen girls have persistent feelings of sadness and despair — double the rate of boys. Close to three million teenage girls contemplated suicide in 2021, according to the extensive report. 

The social isolation imposed by harshly restrictive COVID-19 mitigation strategies certainly made things worse, but rates of teen depression were rising long before the pandemic brought the country to a screeching halt.

Unrealistic expectations in a lot of ways will do this also.

Poll: Plurality of Republicans Do Not Believe Ukraine Is ‘Vital’ U.S. Interest

‘They don’t respect women’: Fox News producer says she was set up in Dominion case

SCOTUS Nullifies Lower Court Ruling Giving Teen The Right To Seek An Abortion Without Parental Notification

BREAKING: Trump SLAMS globalist establishment for supporting endless wars

There Are Compelling Pragmatic Considerations Behind Supporting Trump Or DeSantis

There are no reasons to support DeSantis at this juncture.

Philosophy Professor: ‘Don’t go to College! Become an Electrician.’

Union trades do provide good income.

Good news sucks for climate cultists

There’s a war against happiness.  Climate alarmists bury good news and exaggerate bad news.  They have made up their minds to be miserable, and they’re determined to take the rest of us down with them.

For example, have you heard that over the past 30 years, there has been a 14-percent increase in the Earth’s green vegetation?  Deserts are getting smaller, and forests are getting lusher.  That gain even has a name: “Earth Greening.”  Not surprisingly, 70 percent of it stems from the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere!  Zaichun Zhu, one of the scientists who measured the greening, says it’s equivalent to adding a new continent of green vegetation twice the size of the mainland United States.

The benefits of the increased vegetation are widespread: “It means more food for insects and deer, for elephants and mice, for fish and whales.  It means higher yields for farmers; the effect has probably added about $3 trillion to farm incomes over the past 30 years, so less land is needed to feed the human population and more can be spared for wildlife instead.”  We’ve given a raise to all commercial farmers around the world.  Increased supply eventually results in reduced prices.

Where is the GOP united front opposing Bragg’s politicization of the justice system?

The Right Doesn’t Have to Agree on Everything—Only on Fighting the Left

History Unremembered

Play the Game

Have you ever noticed the conservative establishment is always compromised in the same way?

The Unraveling of the U.S. News College Rankings

They’ve always been a joke. The size of a school’s endowment is one of the ranking factors.

Beyond George: Other Soros family members helped push Manhattan DA Bragg into power

The Decade We All Became Slaves

COVID States Project Gives New Hope to Unvaccinated

Mexican President AMLO Hits Biden Over Likely Arrest of Trump, While Pushing Back Against Dangerous Cartel Narrative

TWEETS:

Reminder:

https://twitter.com/ReOpenChris/status/1638254567396634628
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1638187389058424834

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638341530648825857
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638322387958616065
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1638585485554589724

MEMES:

That’s actually titled “Global Stupidity.”

https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1638325793569882117

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EXODUS 32:7-14

7And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves; 8they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'” 9And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people; 10now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I will make a great nation.” 11But Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, “O LORD, why does thy wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians say, `With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self, and didst say to them, `I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.'” 14And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

PSALMS 106:19-23

19They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image. 20They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass. 21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, 22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea. 23Therefore he said he would destroy them — had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

JOHN 5:31-47

31If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true; 32there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true. 33You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved. 35He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me. 37And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen; 38and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent. 39You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; 40yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. 41I do not receive glory from men. 42But I know that you have not the love of God within you. 43I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? 45Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope. 46If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. 47But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

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SATIRE!

Fox News Ratings Plunge After Hiring Non-Blonde Anchor With No Cleavage