DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20220901

Here we are on Thursday and the day started with Sundance posting using this photo:

Never mind all the analysis of what the documents are. The lampooning of the photo itself was most entertaining.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1564988546158575618

Biden Justice Department’s Response to Trump’s Demand for Special Master Includes Staged Photo of Alleged ‘Classified’ Documents Perfectly Lined Up on Mar-a-Lago Carpet

Constitutional Law Expert Jonathan Turley Responds to DOJ’s Release of Staged Photo of ‘Classified’ Documents Strewn Over the Floor at Mar-a-Lago

Kash Patel on the Mar-a-Lago Carpet Photo: “First of All It Is Staged. Those Are Cover Sheets… It’s Being Run by Government Gangsters Along with Same Corrupt FBI”

Really, everything else that happened on Wednesday just got pushed to the back seat.

Well…except for we deplorables being labeled as…well….

White House Publicly States Biden Position, Donald Trump Voters “Are an Extreme Threat to Our Democracy”

Why is Washington DC So Intensely Focused on Targeting Donald Trump and Labeling His Supporters as Threats to Democracy?

We see the fully evolving system today with the merge of federal intelligence agencies and social media (big tech) collaborating.  Disinformation panels etc, are yet again an outcome of this political surveillance continuum. Now we see that ordinary discussion of information, newly defined as against the interest of the regime, has evolved to become targeting material.  Speech is now controlled from the same viewpoint as ‘terror threats.’

On to other matters:

‘Gutfeld!’ makes history, unseats Stephen Colbert as new king of late-night television

Charlie Crist resigns from Congress as he campaigns for Florida governor against Ron DeSantis

Qtah

Just had a discussion with a sheep who believes that DeSantis would be better than Trump because DeSantis doesn’t “mean tweet”.

Remind the 🐑 that “mean tweets” led us to the greatest economy in the world, built the wall, exposed the corrupt global media, built the Supreme Court to last, reenergized the forgotten men and women of America, promised to destroy the hidden enemy who wishes to destroy us.

No man is perfect, but no man has underwent the challenges President Trump has gone for us! 🇺🇸

@Qtah_17 #destroythesheepnarrative

t.me/Qtah_17/10375

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UNREAL! Biden Picks Associate Of Lois Lerner To Head New Expansion Of IRS

What the Left Fears Most: The Church Militant

OUR GENERATION’S WAR: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOE KENT

From Dennis Prager:

Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country 

For those who associate women with instinctively protecting children or with being supportive of a traditionally religious life, this era in American history has provided something of a shock.

And mean girl behavior is not discouraged. That’s another problem.

Good Country People

Obama-Era ‘Sisters’ Circle Trump

Will the trio of Susan Rice, Avril Haines, and Lisa Monaco get their target or will their exaggerated sense of self finally catch up with them? 

Mean girls on steroids.

The Democrats’ laughable attempt to blame Trump for the COVID vaccines’ shortcomings

We knew it was coming. The push back has already started.

How Dick Cheney created Anthony Fauci

Report: 71 Members of Congress Found To Be in Violation of Federal Law

Even money that number is really on the low side.

TWEETS:

https://twitter.com/TheStoryHub/status/1564138145234518016
https://twitter.com/pkaxiom/status/1564766309593714690
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1564732506120790019

Note to the world: you don’t really need an F-15 for self defense. That plane kept a roof over my family for a while, and, yeah, that’s for specialists.

MEMES:

https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1564993915983278081

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1 CORINTHIANS 3:18-23

18Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 21So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours, 22whether Paul or Apol’los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours; 23and you are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

LUKE 5:1-11

1While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennes’aret. 2And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 4And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, 7they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” 9For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; 10and so also were James and John, sons of Zeb’edee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men.” 11And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

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DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20220826

I have so many blasted tabs open, let’s get a move on.

Sidecar

Ingredients

1 teaspoon white sugar
2 fluid ounces Cognac
1 fluid ounce orange-flavored liqueur (such as Cointreau®)
½ fluid ounce lemon juice
1 cup ice cubes

Directions

  • Step 1 Sprinkle sugar on a small plate. Lightly wet half the rim of of a coupe glass with a damp paper towel. Dip the moistened rim in sugar to coat. Set the glass in the refrigerator to chill.
  • Step 2 Combine Cognac, orange-flavored liqueur, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, cover, and shake until chilled. Strain into the chilled, sugar-rimmed coupe.

Okay, here we go:

California GOP RINOs Unendorse Pro-Trump State Candidate for Free Speech on Facebook – Would Rather See Pelosi Democrat Instead

Uni-party GOP would rather have the cops follow them home from the country club instead of getting stopped for suspected DUI. Yes, that does happen.

The Second American Civil War, and Ways to Win It

America is in dire need of leaders and supporters who care much more about the preservation of the nation’s constitutional republic than about enriching themselves or doing only what their major donors desire.  America needs many more courageous, patriotic leaders like Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who, along with other bold actions, recently fired a George Soros–funded leftist Florida prosecutor.

America Has Become Less Liberal, but Not Necessarily More Conservative

The left is losing the battle for the minds of the American electorate, Morning Consult research shows, with voters decreasingly identifying as liberal in recent years. But that doesn’t mean the country is lurching to the right.

Instead, an increase in the share of Americans who identify as moderate, or who are uncertain about where exactly they stand on the ideological spectrum, reveals a growing and electorally decisive center that is discontented with either side’s extremes.

They’re still distracted.

The Economist chimes in:

Donald Trump’s endorsements are reshaping the Republican Party

Ya don’t say.

What Would the Devil Have to Do Today to Destroy America?

In 1965, columnist and commentator Paul Harvey wrote an interesting piece titled, “If I were the Devil.”  This was basically a commentary on what Harvey would do if he were Satan and wanted to destroy America.

Nearly 60 years later, most of what Harvey predicted has come to pass.  While America has not been completely destroyed, our nation is clearly in decline.  In 2022, here’s what I would do if I wanted to finish the job.

Why Are Woke Leftists So Ugly?

From being around them on a regular basis, they don’t put in any effort to groom well or look decent.

The Vaccine Money Has Dried Up At Fox News!

In case you missed it, the pro-vaccine frauds at Fox News are trying to pivot away from pushing the experimental Big Pharma shots day and night for two years — it’s almost like the Pfizer and Moderna advertising dollars have suddenly dried up!

Something is going on at FOX on this, that’s for sure.

What’s Going On in America

What’s going on today does not make sense — especially for those Americans who want America to succeed and remain the number-one superpower on Earth.  When Mr. Biden allows for the FBI to raid his once and probably future political opponent’s personal home and threaten his political opponent with jail time in our democratic republic, we know that’s not fair, not just, and un-American.  When we see fences around the White House, fences around the FBI headquarters, and fences surrounding the Capitol dome, yet there are no fences on our southern border, we know it’s just not right.  When we are forced to take experimental vaccines (a clear violation of the Nuremberg Code) or not allowed to work or move about the country freely, we know that’s just not right.  When we see that $85 million of American military equipment left for terrorists and goat-herders in Afghanistan who hate us and want our destruction, we wonder who is fighting for us.

We have to fight for ourselves. No one else is going to do it.

A Reckoning Is Coming. Can They Escape It?

But, a reckoning is coming, and you can see the signs if you know where to look. The reckoning started before today when Anthony Fauci decided to “retire” after decades of service. It started before Walensky decided to “restructure” and “reform” the CDC. But these are two little signs that they know a dam is about to break, and they are doing their best to get in front of it before they are all flooded out. They are attempting these “changes” so that they can hide behind them and use them as cover for accountability. “See! We knew we did wrong; that is why we went ahead and fixed all of those pesky issues that caused us to harm millions of our citizens! We did wrong, we are sorry, and we restructured to make sure it never happens again.”

I wanted to make a list of their transgressions, but when I began to throw some of them out there, I realized how monotonous it would get. They started when the first case of COVID was formally declared here in the United States because their data showed the virus was circulating here far earlier. I proved it. Many of you also experienced it yourselves in the fall of 2019.

The U.S. Government, guided by the CDC, NIH, and other bureaucracies, literally DESTROYED the entire country. And it wasn’t just a United States thing; it was an entire world thing. It was tyrannical globalism. Not the kind that is ushered in by getting folks all amped up about global warming. This was much different. This was forced.

International Military Tribunals to be Held in Mariupol, Ukraine!

Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States on the State Department’s statement on the upcoming Tribunal in Mariupol:

🔹We have taken note of another groundless accusations against our country related to the Tribunal over Ukrainian war criminals.

🔹The upcoming Trial is aimed at bringing justice to war criminals, among which there are Nazis from the Azov Regiment. Washington is clearly afraid of making public the evidence of the inhumane acts committed by the members of this terrorist organization.

Well, alrighty, then.

What is it about left-wing environmental wackos and glue?

Is Something Else Going On In Wuhan?

The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), part of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), the Epoch Times reports, now concedes that officials signed “poorly drafted” agreements with three Chinese labs, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). 

The agreements gave China the power to destroy “secret files, materials, and equipment, without any backups.” The agreements applied to “all cooperation and exchange documents, data, details and materials,” were renewable every five years, and the confidentiality terms remain in force even after termination. 

The UTMB claims that no documents or confidential information had been destroyed, and denies there was ever any request that documents be destroyed. That claim troubled biosafety activist Edward Hammond.

“Is it sloppiness, as UTMB suggests?” Hammond asked the Epoch Times, “or is something else going on?” The answer requires a review of matters neglected by Congress and establishment media alike. 

A brief guide to Soviet architecture

RINO Republicans sit on the board of a nonprofit which bankrolls global leftwing censorship efforts

Founded in 2006, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue is a London-based nonprofit with a stated purpose of “safeguarding human rights and reversing the rising tide of polarisation [sic], extremism, and disinformation worldwide.” The group previously worked with the Obama administration, combating “violent extremism”, and their website lists critical topics most vulnerable to fake news and hate speech….

So which Republicans help fund this nightmarish leftist enterprise? If you guessed Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, or Mitt Romney, you’d be correct. However, a few more are flying under the radar, and they are Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, Dan Sullivan, and Kay Granger.

Those seven members of Congress sit on the board of the International Republican Institute, which is listed as a donor to ISD. Additionally, ISD lists partnerships with the McCain Institute — John McCain was a former chairman for 25 years — as well as a tentacle of the United Nations. On top of receiving funding from the IRI and those seven prominent Republicans, other benefactors to the ISD include George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mayorkas officially cancels DHS disinformation board

BREAKING… Steven Hoffenberg Who Worked with Jeffrey Epstein FOUND DEAD IN CONNECTICUT APARTMENT

Results of Florida school board races were a referendum on leftist politics

Well, yeah, and the suburban soccer moms finally got a look at what was being taught to their kids.

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1562859952020267009
https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1562619337214947328

MEME STASH:

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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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1 CORINTHIANS 1:17-25

17For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. 18For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart.” 20Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

SATIRE!

Not satire, but a couple videos.

Have a great weekend.

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20220825

Are we ready?

Biden Cancels Student Loan Debt for Federal Borrowers, Extends Pause for Loan Payments Through End of Year

Never mind all of the billions in university endowment funds across the nation.

Russian MIL Discuss US Crimes Against Humanity at SCO Summit

Russian Defense Minister, the highest ranking Russian military official only behind Putin, Sergei Shoigu, spoke at the meeting in great depth on the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, and goes absolutely scorched earth on the US and the activities of the Deep State. He goes over the reason for Russia’s invasion, the Deep State biological network, the Nazi war-crimes, Taiwan, EVERYTHING!

Note to Liz Cheney: You’re No Lincoln

Unlike Epstein, I have met Liz Cheney (and her parents) and have a actual basis on which to question her ethics and political motivations.

After I sat next to her at a luncheon about a year into Obama’s first term, she invited me to an intimate and private dinner with two of George W. Bush’s former national security advisers.  The four of us spent several hours discussing Iran, Iraq, al-Qaeda, and Israel, and it was clear that Cheney was preparing to launch her political career, for which she had high aspirations.  She asked me to write a white paper on why Israel is a strategic asset to the United States and offered to pay me $2,000 for my product.  I spent one month thoroughly researching the 6,000-word paper, which was edited by a highly respected former NSA official, foreign policy expert, journalist, and conservative thinker. 

After receiving the final paper from both of us in separate emails, Cheney never responded.  She went completely MIA.  To this day, I have no idea if she ever used the paper in her campaign or work in Congress.  She never thanked me, never paid me, and never reached out to me again.  I would call that rude, unprofessional, and certainly unethical.  It showed a lack of character and morals, but it also showed hubris — the kind we often see from politicians like Obama and Hillary, who not only believe themselves above the law, but believe they are entitled to their power and the rest of us are here to serve them.

ENEMIES OF THE REGIME

In reality Dugin’s proximity to Putin and the scale of his influence over him remains persistently exaggerated for reasons more to do with Dugin’s influence in the West than in Moscow, and the Western elite’s increasingly narcissistic and totalitarian character. Dugin is both the best-known contemporary Russian philosopher and among the most influential philosophers associated with the global reactionary Right. In connecting his positions to Putin the suggestion is floated that this whole school of thought, and ultimately all political dissidence, is directed from Moscow as a subversion strategy, without any real substance, or legitimate grievance, and therefore may be suppressed, as opposed to acknowledged and reckoned with….

Ubiquitous accusations of fascism belong to the same register albeit in more metaphysical, if equally delusional terms. Russia at least is a concrete geopolitical actor. Fascism and its various cognates (the far-right, white supremacism, etc.) is a supernatural contagion, somehow perpetually “rising” inversely to progressive political victories. Dugin himself has already registered the main thrust of this logic:

“First of all, they view all their enemies as fascists. After that, they begin to kill them because they are fascists. Nobody investigates anything. That’s just Bolshevism, just like in the Bolshevik Revolution or in the French Revolution. Everybody who is declared an enemy of the revolution should be exterminated.”

Fascism in this sense represents little more than the term of choice to dehumanise enemies of a paranoid political regime in order to persecute them. Nothing about this is new. In sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe the terms gazari and vaudois, after the destroyed Cathar and Waldensian heresies, were used the same way to propagate the orgy of murder today known as the witch trials.

Stopping Biden After November

Given the past inclination of Republicans to fight amongst themselves on the sidelines, it is an inconvenient truth that a slim congressional majority would not be enough to save them from their own party intrigues and petty rivalries.  Former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, who held himself up as the morally superior conscience of the Republican Party, saw Donald Trump as more an intruder than a president. He tolerated the White House agenda and held his nose as he gave them legislative victories — rewriting the tax code and rebuilding the military — before retiring with a smile and surrendering the gavel to Nancy Pelosi.

Watching the waking up is painful in its slowness.

Declining Empire At War

Every single American needs to read Christopher Caldwell’s powerful piece asking what on earth the US is doing in Ukraine. Excerpts:

Never has an official non-belligerent been more implicated in a war. Russia and its sympathizers assert that the U.S. attempt to turn Ukraine into an armed anti-Russian camp is what the war is about in the first place. Even those who dismiss this view will agree that the United States has made itself a central player in the conflict. It is pursuing a three-pronged strategy to defeat Russia through every means short of entering the war—which, of course, raises the risk that the United States will enter the war. One prong is the state-of-the-art weaponry it is supplying to Ukraine. Since June, thousands of computer-guided artillery rockets have been wreaking havoc behind Russian lines. A second prong is sanctions. With western European help, Washington has used its control of the choke points of the global marketplace to impoverish Russians, in hopes of punishing Russia. Finally, the U.S. seeks to rally the world’s peoples to a culture war against an enemy whose traditionalism, even if it does not constitute the whole of his evil, is at least a symbol of it.

The American Tower of Babel

Today, we call it atomization. We believe it is especially driven by technology. But it’s not simply the machines that are creating human automatons. We have allowed the machines to create and shape our metaphysics. Part of the problem is that we have lost the threads between different spheres of life. There is no longer a difference between the public and the private self. Such notions are absent from the intellectual discussion. 

People do engage with one another, but just like the endless stream of tweets, the discourse is shallow, uninformed, and narcissistic. Do we really expect to create a culture that thrives on creativity in an environment that is this toxic? Are we really that blind to the reality of a constant feedback loop that is clearly shaping an insane society that cannot sustain itself any longer?

Politics is one of the essential spheres of life. Even if we don’t consider ourselves overly political, as citizens, we engage in politics in one form or another. What happens when this particular sphere is overtaken by irrationality and corruption? A citizen will either acquiesce or fight. But what kind of life is one of submission or perpetual reaction? Either way, creation loses, and destruction wins. 

Cultural Marxism: a thread 

The problem is, Marx didn’t live long enough to actually organize such a working class revolution. And when his successors tried, they discovered a small problem: the working class doesn’t want revolution, and in fact the working class is the most conservative class in society, 

even more so than the capitalists (who led the revolution out of feudalism). Economic conflict couldn’t overcome forces like religion, patriotism and tradition even more so than the capitalists (who led the revolution out of feudalism) 

Economic conflict couldn’t overcome forces like religion, patriotism and tradition

What to do? British Fabians, a group of Marxist intellectuals, realized there was one class that was open to the idea of revolution, namely the intellectuals like themselves. They looked down on 

religion and tradition as superstition, and instead of loyalty to their nation they felt loyalty only to “The People”. (Only in the abstract, of course, they didn’t seem to want the company of actual dirty uneducated people.) 

MCCOTTER: IT’S A BAD TIME TO HAVE A GOOD MEMORY

California to unveil plan tomorrow that will see gas cars BANNED by 2035 and force all new cars sold to be electric only

Brian Cates

Based on what I’ve seen uncovered in the past week and a half since all The Pit researchers started digging into the Konnech info: When the FBI went digging into this they uncovered a massive scandal implicating the DOD and several intel/5 EYES intel agencies in either deliberately handing this open door into our elections to the CCP or they did it accidentally from incompetence. Either way, the FBI was looking at a massive scandal that would implicate top DOD officials and Intel agency officials. They were faced with two options: pull the lid off this Pandora’s Box and pursue it where ever it led OR make it go away by flipping it on the whistleblowers who brought the Konnech data to them, Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht of True The Vote. You’ll NEVER guess which option the FBI brass decided on….

t.me/drawandstrikechannel/51913

85.9KviewsBrian Cates, Aug 24 at 07:51

The Republic is Threatened, not Destroyed

While I rarely disagree with Victor Davis Hanson, I have to take exception to what he said on Mark Levin’s Fox show, August 14: “We’re no longer a republic anymore.  We’re in a transition to a radical democracy.”    

No blinkers here.  Yes, the republic is imperiled, but is it finished?  Unintentional, no doubt, but saying that America is cooked is tantamount to waving a big, white flag.  Where’s the righteous indignation and warrior spirit so necessary to winning this fight? 

Do we want to send messages of defeat to tens of millions of patriots?  Mission accomplished for Democrats and their allies?  Bye, bye, rule of law?  Good luck maneuvering through all the antiliberty landmines?  

I disagree with VDH all the time. No big deal.

Would YOU try a beetle burger? Scientists create a ‘meat-like flavouring’ by cooking insects in sugar

YUCK!

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene SWATTED at Her Georgia Home at 1AM After Fake Shooting Call By Pro-Trans Extremist.

https://youtu.be/H_wCYh0WgkA

Elon Musk calls CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ‘demonic technology’

COVID Vaccine Propaganda Busted – High Deaths and Cancers

The main propaganda line is that vaccines and boosters are ‘safe and effective’ and prevent severe illness and death. These are lies, as shown by the data.

COVID propaganda lies set a record in the history of the human race.  It has killed millions of people.

The recent sharp increase in COVID deaths has caught my attention. I have been watching daily COVID statistics in The Washington Post. A few months ago, the 7-day average for deaths was about 300. In last Sunday’s paper, it was 500.

That is about a 70% increase!

And the purebloods are watching family and friends deteriorate with breaking hearts.

Leftists Crushed in School Boards Across Florida

While primary elections occurred in Florida, New York, and Oklahoma Tuesday, Florida has general elections for school boards, meaning the winners will be the official members of the boards.

Many of the winning candidates have been endorsed by the 1776 Project PAC, an organization that has been instrumental in flipping school boards from liberal to conservative across the country.

“We saw massive election victories all throughout the state of Florida tonight,” 1776 Project PAC founder Ryan Girdusky told Breitbart News Tuesday. “It shows the desire of parents and residents across the country for some normalcy in our education system, and that means pushing against transgender ideology, critical race theory, critical gender ideology, and equity which destroys merit in education.”

Templates

When FBI Raids are actually good news.

Precedent

“Precedent refers to a court decision that is considered as authority for deciding subsequent cases involving identical or similar facts, or similar legal issues. Precedent is incorporated into the doctrine of stare decisis and requires courts to apply the law in the same manner to cases with the same facts. Some judges have stated that precedent ensures that individuals in similar situations are treated alike instead of based on a particular judge’s personal views.

If the facts or issues of a case differ from those in a previous case, the previous case cannot be precedent. The Supreme Court in Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Aviall Services, Inc. reiterated that “[q]uestions which merely lurk on the record, neither brought to the attention of the court nor ruled upon, are not to be considered as . . . precedent.” Therefore, a prior decision serves as precedent only for issues, given the particular facts, that the court explicitly considered in reaching its decision.”

Investigation Into U.S. Election Software Company Uncovers Chinese Coders

Konnech Inc., a U.S. software company based out of East Lansing, Michigan, helps manage the poll workers, poll locations, campaigns, assets, mail-in ballots, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Although, the American technology company, which was founded in 2002, is used by the U.S. Department of Defense and ‘thousands of election offices across North America’, Konnech Inc., previously built a ‘communication platform’ called ChineseBrief.com for the Confucius Institute.

Furthermore, many of the company’s software engineers and employees graduated from Chinese universities such as Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing Language and Culture University, China Agricultural University, and HuaZhong University of Science and Technology.

‘Christian Nationalism’ Didn’t Cause January 6

TWEETS:

https://twitter.com/C_M_101/status/1562258311046627328
https://twitter.com/chieftalkbull/status/1562402433749377024

To set a trap?

He only takes his bank account seriously.

They don’t even try to hide it.

Yep. They’re trying to pin the tail on Trump.

Oh, no? He probably learned to lie while being taught by nuns. It’s not easy to do.

MEMES:

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And now for the business portion.

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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

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MATTHEW 24:42-51

42Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. 44Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. 45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 46Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing. 47Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 48But if that wicked servant says to himself, `My master is delayed,’ 49and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with the drunken, 50the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, 51and will punish him, and put him with the hypocrites; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.

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DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20220819

Let’s get this party started.

White Russian

The White Russian is a decadent and surprisingly easy-to-make cocktail. Combining vodka, Kahlúa and cream and serving it on the rocks creates a delicious alternative to adult milkshakes.

And my brother the Couch Commando drinks them all winter long.

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces vodka
  • 1 ounce Kahlúa
  • 1 splash heavy cream

Steps

  1. Add the vodka and Kahlúa to a rocks glass filled with ice.
  2. Top with the heavy cream and stir.

Today’s cocktail had to contain vodka in honor of Mr. Potatohead getting $#!+canned off of CNN:

The Fattish Man of Paralyzing Stupidity Has Been Cancelled by CNN Fake News

Buh-Bye

Alright, let’s see what I have lined up:

Something is Looming Geopolitically, and We Better Start Taking It Seriously

Western governments’, specifically western Europe, North America (U.S-Canada) and Australia/New Zealand, are intentionally trying to lower economic activity to meet the intentional drop in energy production.

This is the core consequence of the Build Back Better agenda as promoted by the World Economic Forum.

Anyone who says there is a reference point to determine both the short-term and long-term consequences is lying. There is no precedent for nations’ collectively and intentionally trying to reduce economic activity.

Hiding behind the false justification that current inflation is driven by too much demand, central banks in Europe, the Bank of England, Bank of Canada and U.S. federal reserve are raising interest rates.  The outcome we are currently feeling is an intentional economic contraction and global recession.

Donald Trump, Dynasty Killer: 2023 Will Mean No More Bush, Cheney, McCain, or Clinton in Office

Amen. Hallelujah.

Facebook permanently CANCELS Libs of Tiktok and refuses to explain why

Three guesses and the first six don’t count.

WEF Announce Recruitment of ‘Information Warriors’ To Control the Narrative on Social Media

Naaahhhh. Really? You don’t say.

Understatement of the year candidate.

On Trump and his voters, Fox News host Laura Ingraham errs

Ingraham said the following during an appearance on Lisa Boothe’s podcast.

“The country I think is so exhausted. They’re exhausted by the battle, the constant battle, that they may believe that, well, maybe it’s time to turn the page if we can get someone who has all Trump’s policies, who’s not Trump.”

The mainstream media, which is a mouthpiece for the Democrats, carried this news with glee, claiming that Ingraham was turning on Trump.

This is the sort of news that the Democrats dream of – a prominent conservative commentator claiming that people are sick of Trump. The hope is that someday everyone abandons Trump.

I Regret Being A Slut

And a critique of the essay:

One woman’s essay about rejecting sexual excess strikes a chord

A Dennis Prager gem:

A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time

Ruling Class Turns On Conservative Americans

Turns? They were never our champions to begin with.

Best headline of the day:

Virgins get more done

The article is really about St. Joan of Arc, but the headline was totally click worthy.

Exclusive — Jim Jordan Explains the 14 FBI Whistleblowers: ‘Frankly, We Anticipate More’

More “The Pit” residual research:

NY Citizens Audit Finds Hidden Infrastructure in Voter Rolls

Qtah

Congresswoman Jackie Walorski had sponsored the “Human Trafficking prevention and recovery act of 2014” and was working with ongoing investigations into trafficking.

Anne Heche was set to release a new movie “Girl in Room 13” that went into sex slavery and trafficking and was a mouthpiece against it in P-Wood.

What do Jackie and Anne have in common with Chester Bennington, Halyna Hutchins, Anthony Bourdain?

This all goes deeper than we’d like to imagine: Intel agencies, elites, politicians.

@Qtah_17

t.me/Qtah_17/10357

Accident?

You tell me.

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/Pipspiper2/status/1560389332229206016

In every stereotype, there’s a bit of truth.

MSNBC admits it.

Oh, my.

https://twitter.com/LezLuthor/status/1560227562630127617

MEME STASH:

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

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MATTHEW 22:34-40

34But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sad’ducees, they came together. 35And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him. 36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”

SATIRE!

Or some approximation of it.

Have a great weekend.

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20220818

Just in case you haven’t heard:

Buh-bye!

Tonight, We Dance, The Insufferable Liz Cheney Has Been Crushed and Cast into The Trash Heap of History

Reactions to Lyin’ Loser Liz Cheney’s Loss Come in Swiftly . . And They Are 🔥

Although, that’s not all there is to this story:

Cheney to lead organization against possible Trump reelection effort, report

“In coming weeks, Liz will be launching an organization to educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic, and to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president,” Cheney spokesperson Jeremy Adler told Politico.

Cheney will use the group as her primary political outreach organization as she debates whether to run for president in 2024.

Chris Wallace: Liz Cheney ‘Declared War on Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s Republican Party’

Yeah. Whatever.

The Rise of The America First Party

The left-wing MSM are in full cope today, mourning the loss, fawning over Cheney as if she were some legendary war hero. I shit you not Joe Scarborough compared her to Ulysses Grant in the Civil War. They are even suggesting that this loss will lead to her 2024 Presidential Campaign to unseat Trump… when she just lost her own State primary by 37 points to a Trump-endorsed candidate… LMAOOOOO!

As if they were headed to a funeral.

HEADLINES:

From Civil Compromise to Partisan Persecution

But sometimes an event occurs that is so significant that it defies the excesses of commercialized political exaggeration. The raid on Mar-a-Lago was such an event. With this disgraceful stunt, the FBI has in effect openly acknowledged that it is little more than a political police force willingly placed in the service of the Democratic Party with its most prominent, public-facing role being to shelter and protect the Democratic Party’s own well-connected and highly-placed criminals while criminalizing and persecuting its political opponents, right down to falsely framing and entrapping them when necessary. If it isn’t eventually dismantled entirely, perhaps the FBI should be renamed the FBCF — Federal Bureau of Custom Framing.

The FBI has lost the public trust and is undeserving of the benefit of the doubt. Its partisan alignments are obvious. The FBI has proven incapable of taking any interest in the innumerable crimes of Antifa and BLM, yet simply cannot refrain from issuing dire warnings against unruly parents who dare to oppose mandated racist indoctrination at school board meetings. The FBI simply cannot be bothered to address the ongoing organized intimidation of Supreme Court justices by leftist thugs, yet shows no hesitation in branding patriotic imagery as a sign of probable alignment with domestic terrorism. The next time our intelligence services are caught with their pants down — the next time we are hit with a 9/11-style attack from an unexpected quarter, perhaps the FBI will seek to save face and solicit public appreciation by reminding us that not a single January 6th trespasser evaded its grasp.

What makes all this so obscene is not just the spiteful gratuitousness of the Mar-a-Lago raid, but the deeper betrayal of the American experiment such made-for-television partisan stunts represent. Of course, to impugn the FBI is somewhat like condemning the misbehaving dog while failing to notice the guiding hand a little further up the leash. There are ample grounds to suspect the Democrat party’s latest abuse of power is no mere episode of run-of-the-mill political viciousness, but represents something far darker. The Left’s embrace of vulgarized postmodern doctrines that effectively reduce absolutely everything in life — including culture and politics — to the mere exercise of brute force is, undeniably, a standing warrant for the abuse of power. To the extent that the Democratic Party dedicates itself to the tenets of postmodern fascism, it commits itself on principal to the abuse of power as its sole guiding standard of political practice.

Mike Pence Denounces Calls to Defund the FBI

Marx and Cancel Culture

First, Marx is the author of the modern cancel culture and second, he should probably be the victim of it — but won’t be.   

In 1848, long before computers, Marx wrote that, in normal society, the past dominates the present, but in Communist society, the present had to dominate the past.  This means that history can only be seen and interpreted through the prism of Marxist theory.  Anything incompatible with the latest Marxist positions wouldl necessarily be altered to fit or eliminated (AKA Cancelled).   

This is necessary because Marxists have to control the “facts” and the narrative to fit their manufactured reality.  No competing messages or facts can be allowed.  This was the actual beginning of the cancel culture.  

Green Fascists Are Destroying the World

Earlier this summer, the CO2 Coalition was banished from LinkedIn. The CO2 Coalition, with only three full-time employees and an annual budget of under $1 million, had committed the unpardonable sin of sharing contrarian perspectives on climate science. Its work, produced by a network of volunteers that includes dozens of distinguished scientists, offers indispensable balance on a topic that requires honest debate now more than ever.

Among the many comments that followed LinkedIn’s decision, the mentality of the climate crisis mob came through loud and clear. If “the science is settled,” then any contrary perspective is dangerous and must be silenced. A typical comment: “Why does LinkedIn allow so much Climate Disinformation to persist throughout its platform?” Brigades of these content wardens continuously log complaints with LinkedIn against climate skeptics. The impeccable work of Bjorn Lomborg is one of their next targets.

This is not the environmentalism of previous generations, and this new zealotry does not negate or diminish the common sense concern for the environment that most reasonable people share. But this new breed of intolerant, fanatical environmentalism, manifested in the movement to avert a “climate crisis,” is perhaps the most virulent and dangerous expression of fascism in America today. If left unchecked, this fascistic climate change movement will destroy freedom and prosperity while it destroys the planet it purportedly wants to save.

Stop Calling Them Democrats. They’re Communists.

It’s time to stop calling them Democrats.

This is no longer the party of FDR, JFK, or even Bill Clinton, and it’s time to start calling a spade a spade.

Smith & Wesson’s CEO Blames Progressive Lawmakers “For Surge In Violence And Lawlessness” In US Cities

An Honest Leader Would Stand Up to Big Pharma

For a start we are going to investigate:

1) John D. Rockefeller (1839 – 1937), who by the turn of the 20th century controlled 90 percent of all oil refineries in the United States, and how the discovery of “petrochemicals,” and other similar discoveries led to the monopolization of the chemical and medical industries in the same way the Rockefellers monopolized the oil industry, giving birth to the pharmaceutical industrial complex.

2) The concerted action taken to destroy the reputations of doctors, scientists, hospitals and colleges that did not bow to Rockefeller’s pressure to disavow natural cures and embrace synthetic products.

3) The millions of dollars in grants the Rockerfellers gave to hospitals and colleges and the founding of the “General Education Board” (GEB), and its underlying purpose to homogenize the system (beneath its positive creed of battling racism and sexism) so that alternative thought was criminalized.

MongoDB: What is it, and how did it come into play as part of the shocking disclosure that took place at “The Pit”?

On August 13, 2022, Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips described what they found last year on an unsecured server in China: personal information for 1.8 million US election workers…and more

The Atlantic makes the rosary the mark of the deplorables

As someone who regularly says the rosary with my extended family each night via Zoom, and follows rosary news on Twitter, all I can say is that I’ve never seen any juxtaposition of guns and rosaries of this sort.

And perhaps, neither has The Atlantic’s writer. I clicked through all of his links looking for this odd “styling” of guns and rosaries and there was … nothing.

Zip. Zero. Nada. Zilch.

THE MKULTRA ECOLOGY

John Cornyn vs. Intellectual Property 

Cornyn’s approval ratings currently stand at a dismal 36 percent among Texas Republicans. His popularity will not be helped by his praise of Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), recently telling the New York Times, “I respect her.” 

One area of betrayal conservatives have overlooked so far, however, is Cornyn’s cozy relationship with Big Tech. In 2019, as conservatives were beginning to fight back against Silicon Valley censorship, he opined, “The discussion of breaking up a Google or breaking up a Facebook is not what we should be doing.” The Texas senator pressured Trump to appoint former staffer Noah Phillips to the FTC, where he denied the commission had any authority to address Big Tech censorship. In July 2020, when even moderate Republicans were waking up to Big Tech’s bias, he promoted puff pieces on Google. 

Liz Cheney the Latest Fatality From Trump Derangement Syndrome

TWEETS:

https://twitter.com/Larrypolya22/status/1559874247643758594
https://twitter.com/NY_2_SC/status/1559643964692742144

MEMES:

As if anything else was more appropriate.

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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.

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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.

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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MATTHEW 22:1-14

1And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, 2“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, 3and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. 4Again he sent other servants, saying, `Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’ 5But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, 6while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. 7The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8Then he said to his servants, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.’ 10And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; 12and he said to him, `Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13Then the king said to the attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’ 14For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1559998957790662658

Dear MAGA: 20220814 Open Topic

This Rejoice & Praise God Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.

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The Bread of Life

During the First Temple period Jerusalemites ate mainly the natural crops that are typical of the region: “a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey” (Deuteronomy 8:8). The usual diet contained few vegetables, mainly those that grew wild in the fields (garlic and wild onion). Meat was enjoyed only by the privileged rich; ordinary people would have meat only at the Passover sacrifice or on particularly important occasions. Other foods of the common people included the eggs of wild fowl, milk, cheese, and butter. David, going out to his brothers who were in the camp of the army fighting the Philistines, brings them cheeses (1 Samuel 17:18).

The limited information we have suggests that in the biblical period it was customary to have two daily meals. A late-morning meal, which also served as a break in the workday, would probably consist of bread dipped in olive oil or in wine vinegar, toasted wheat, olives, figs or some other fruit, and water or a little diluted wine. A meal like this was eaten by Ruth the Moabite and Boaz (Ruth 2:14). The main meal was taken in the evening, before dark, and consisted of a common pot of soup or a broth of seasoned legumes into which the diners dipped slices of bread to scoop out the helping.

“Further, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer. Put them into one vessel and bake them into bread” (Ezekiel 4:9). The Land of Israel lies in the wheat belt where the culture of flour and bread as a universal food base developed. From the Bible we know of leavened bread and matzah, but also halah, wafers, bread morsels, and cakes. Bread was baked in an oven heated by twigs, placed on hot stones and covered with cinders or coals, or it might be fried in an iron pan. Other food-grains were damp green seeds (“carmel”, “melilot”), wheat stalks of which the seeds were toasted in fire, such as David ate during his flight from Absalom in the desert, and gruel made of ground wheat, groats, or a baked mixture of ground wheat and meat.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/eating-in-historical-jerusalem

In fact, scholars estimate that bread made up 50–75 percent of the average person’s diet. It was the food staple of the ancient world.

What Did People Eat and Drink in Roman Palestine?

Like many ancient societies, the Israelites were dependent upon cereals; so much so that the word for bread, “lechem,” is synonymous with food.

Biblical Bread: Baking Like the Ancient Israelites

From the above, we can clearly see that grains, and more specifically, bread, was the essential staple, the food for life, in first century Israel.


I AM the Bread of Life.

 “I am the Bread of Life” (John 6:35) is one of the seven “I Am” statements of Jesus. Jesus used the same phrase “I AM” in seven declarations about Himself. In all seven, He combines I AM with metaphors which illustrate His saving relationship with the world. All appear in the book of John.

John 6:35 says, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

Bread is considered a staple food—i.e., a basic dietary item. A person can survive a long time on only bread and water. Bread is such a basic food item that it becomes synonymous for food in general. We even use the phrase “breaking bread together” to indicate the sharing of a meal with someone. Bread also plays an integral part of the Jewish Passover meal. The Jews were to eat unleavened bread during the Passover feast and then for seven days following as a celebration of the exodus from Egypt. Finally, when the Jews were wandering in the desert for 40 years, God rained down “bread from heaven” to sustain the nation (Exodus 16:4).

All of this leads to the scene being described in John 6 when Jesus used the term “bread of life.” He was trying to get away from the crowds to no avail. He had crossed the Sea of Galilee, and the crowd followed Him. After some time, Jesus inquires of Philip how they’re going to feed the crowd. Philip’s answer displays his “little faith” when he says they don’t have enough money to give each of them the smallest morsel of food. Finally, Andrew brings to Jesus a boy who had five small loaves of bread and two fish. With that amount, Jesus miraculously fed the throng with lots of food to spare.

Afterward, Jesus and His disciples cross back to the other side of Galilee. When the crowd sees that Jesus has left, they follow Him again. Jesus takes this moment to teach them a lesson. He accuses the crowd of ignoring His miraculous signs and only following Him for the “free meal.” Jesus tells them in John 6:27, “Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” In other words, they were so enthralled with the food, they were missing out on the fact that their Messiah had come. So the Jews ask Jesus for a sign that He was sent from God (as if the miraculous feeding and the walking across the water weren’t enough). They tell Jesus that God gave them manna during the desert wandering. Jesus responds by telling them that they need to ask for the true bread from heaven that gives life. When they ask Jesus for this bread, Jesus startles them by saying, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

This is a phenomenal statement! First, by equating Himself with bread, Jesus is saying he is essential for life. Second, the life Jesus is referring to is not physical life, but eternal life. Jesus is trying to get the Jews’ thinking off of the physical realm and into the spiritual realm. He is contrasting what He brings as their Messiah with the bread He miraculously created the day before. That was physical bread that perishes. He is spiritual bread that brings eternal life.

Third, and very important, Jesus is making another claim to deity. This statement is the first of the “I AM” statements in John’s Gospel. The phrase “I AM” is the covenant name of God (Yahweh, or YHWH), revealed to Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:14). The phrase speaks of self-sufficient existence (or what theologians refer to as “aseity”), which is an attribute only God possesses. It is also a phrase the Jews who were listening would have automatically understood as a claim to deity.

Fourth, notice the words “come” and “believe.” This is an invitation for those listening to place their faith in Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God. This invitation to come is found throughout John’s Gospel. Coming to Jesus involves making a choice to forsake the world and follow Him. Believing in Jesus means placing our faith in Him that He is who He says He is, that He will do what He says He will do, and that He is the only one who can.

Fifth, there are the words “hunger and thirst.” Again, it must be noted that Jesus isn’t talking about alleviating physical hunger and thirst. The key is found in another statement Jesus made, back in His Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 5:6, Jesus says, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” When Jesus says those who come to Him will never hunger and those who believe in Him will never thirst, He is saying He will satisfy our hunger and thirst to be made righteous in the sight of God.

If there is anything the history of human religion tells us, it is that people seek to earn their way to heaven. This is such a basic human desire because God created us with eternity in mind. The Bible says God has placed [the desire for] eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). The Bible also tells us that there is nothing we can do to earn our way to heaven because we’ve all sinned (Romans 3:23) and the only thing our sin earns us is death (Romans 6:23). There is no one who is righteous in himself (Romans 3:10). Our dilemma is we have a desire we cannot fulfill, no matter what we do. That is where Jesus comes in. He, and He alone, can fulfill that desire in our hearts for righteousness through the Divine Transaction: “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). When Christ died on the cross, He took the sins of mankind upon Himself and made atonement for them. When we place our faith in Him, our sins are imputed to Jesus, and His righteousness is imputed to us. Jesus satisfies our hunger and thirst for righteousness. He is our Bread of Life.

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20220812

Thank you all for understanding that some weeks life just happens. I think I’m good now.

Cocktail…

Fire and Ice

Pour vodka in a highball glass. Fill balance of glass with cider, stir, and serve. Add ice cubes if you like.

Best served in a Highball Glass.

Now that we have that out of the way, I stumbled upon a video on GAB, which is a MUST WATCH for people with teenage and young adult women in their families. I can only link the post, but PLEASE watch a dad point out what was found on his daughter’s car that is a marker for human traffickers.

HERE’S THE LINK AGAIN

Okay, tab clearance night.

RSBN TO EXCLUSIVELY LIVESTREAM TRUE THE VOTE’S ‘THE PIT’ WHICH WILL REVEAL ‘DEVASTATING’ INFORMATION ABOUT 2020

Congress is Supersizing the IRS. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Everyday Americans

Japan’s government resigns in its entirety

It Was a Trap

‘Healthy at any weight is an unchallenged lie’

COUNTRY PARTY REPRISE

Should We Emulate the Table Flipping Jesus?

Report: China Destroying Myanmar with Rare Earth Mining for ‘Green’ Energy

HUGE DEVELOPMENT: Report Alleges FBI “Had Personal Stake” in Mar-a-Lago Raid – Agents Were After Spygate Documents Trump Was Holding That Likely Implicated FBI

With every new development, the story gets stranger. Jonathan Turley agrees.

FBI Raid on Mar-A-Lago: ‘The More We Know, the More Confusing It Gets’

Justice Department’s ‘No Comment’ Lets Trump Team Set Search Narrative

That’s been amended…sort of…but still, the Trumps have driven the commentary from the beginning of the ordeal.

Breaking: DOJ source calls raid a ‘spectacular backfire,’ claims AG Garland didn’t approve it

Now Garland says he did approve the operation, but still, if it was a deep state maneuver, it backfired. Big time.

The FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago, and I Have Questions

Putting aside the legality of the whole thing, I have a bunch of questions.

  • Did President “Return to Normalcy” approve this, or is America now run by a shadow government?  Biden claims he didn’t know about the raid.  If true, that’s even scarier than the raid.
  • Has Merrick Garland erased any doubt that the Deep State is a genuine threat to our republic?
  • Is there any need for more evidence to fire Chris Wray and impeach Merrick Garland?
  • Has anyone made a stronger argument than Merrick Garland for limited government?
  • Does this raid undermine or reinforce the notion that we now have a two-tiered justice system?
  • If searches of ex-presidents are now accepted practice, who has the most to hide: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, or Joe “Ten Percent for the Big Guy” Biden?  It’s a valid question because they’re all fair game now.
  • Is it just a coincidence that Director Wray cut his Senate testimony short, and skedaddled out of Washington just days before the raid?  Might he have been worried about a leak concerning the raid while he was still seated before Senator Grassley?
  • Do we have enough now to at least start talking seriously about disbanding the FBI?
  • Is this the “return to normalcy” that the Democrats promised us?
  • Has this action “red-pilled” any traditional Democrat voters? Has this action shamed any of them, similar to how the FBI has shamed former agents?
  • Will this raid encourage or discourage Democrat voters from going to the polls in November?
  • Has this action gotten any independent voters off of the fence?  If so, are they likely to fall left or right after news of the raid?
  • Are people suffering through stagflation getting sick of the Democrat party’s obsession with the last election?
  • Will this raid enhance or poison future legislative cooperation?
  • Will this be the “crossing of the Rubicon” that actually forces RINOs to take a side?
  • Did the NeverTrumps not see the character of the people they were climbing into bed with?  Do they see now that they should have used protection?
  • Is this the kind of banana republic b——- that the NeverTrumps meant to unleash on America when they sided with the Dems?
  • Where do the NeverTrumps stand on the raid?  Are they against or in support of the action?  Do they have any principles left, or has hatred burned their consciences to ashes?
  • What is Liz Cheney’s position on the raid?  Does her hatred of Trump outweigh her love of country?  I have the same question for Kevin “Real Man” Costner and Senator Pierre Delecto.
  • Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood that The Donald will run again?  I’m sure the Dems have contemplated this question a lot.
  • Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood of The Donald being re-elected?  I’m pretty sure the Dems didn’t spend much time thinking this one out.
  • Did the Dems consider that this action might actually help to rehabilitate Trump’s image?  They created an America in which victimhood is admired — and they just made Trump public victim number one.
  • Has Merrick Garland converted Trump from a mean-tweeting ogre to a sympathetic martyr yet?
  • Could the Biden administration have possibly done anything more potent to maximize Republican turnout in November?
  • Has this angered average Americans?  If so, how are they likely to respond?  Did the Dems devote even one brain cell to that question?

These are not rhetorical questions.  I have suspicions about the answers — but I don’t know for sure.  I am pretty sure the Democrats don’t know, either — which makes this raid seem all the more desperate.

Tesla deploys swimming pool at Supercharger station

Getting ahead of those long wait times with a luxurious rest stop.

And then….

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557779172113752064

Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips urges fellow Democrats, independents in Wyoming to back Liz Cheney in primary

Liz Cheney Lights Herself on Fire — Again

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557154128299806720
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557506826060660740

“Sometimes you have to SHOW the people.”

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1557547445604782081

PAY ATTENTION! GRASSLEY CORN COMMS!

Your guess as to what this means is as good as mine, but the corn field behind a cousin’s place in Southern Illinois had a lovely looking crop on Wednesday ready to be picked.

https://twitter.com/toxMasQulinity/status/1557724756996005888
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557768012140249088
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1557821330308960271

Whatever. The sane people have moved on.

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ISAIAH 12:2-6

2“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” 3With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. 4And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations, proclaim that his name is exalted. 5“Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth. 6Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

SATIRE!

Have a great weekend.

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20220811

LONG day today. Will be back with a full Friday daily. Tomorrow.

TWEETS:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1557529032950009857

MEMES:

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JOHN 15:4-10

4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

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JOHN 15:4-10

4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20220805

After two hours at the state license office with nothing to show for it because the word “saint” is not spelled out on a piece of ID, I need one of these:

Summer Sunset Cocktail

Equipment Required to Make a Pitcher Of Summer Sunset Cocktails
Pitcher
Long spoon/skewer to mix
Measuring spoon/spirits measure for alcohol

Ingredients Required for Summer Sunset Cocktails
Vodka
Peach Schnapps
Lemonade
Cold orange juice
Cold fresh cranberry juice
Lots of ice cubes

Directions To Make A Pitcher of Summer Sunset Cocktails
First, put some ice into the empty pitcher. It is preferable to have almost a quarter of the pitcher full in order to keep the drink cool while drinking, which adds to the fruity ice-lolly flavor, which makes it taste so sweet and summery.

Pour in 1/2 cup vodka, then add 1/4 cup Peach Schnapps. Fill the pitcher half full with lemonade and stir. Mixing is essential as is makes such the alcohol is evenly distributed and is not just sitting at the bottom amongst the ice.

The rest of the pitcher should be filled with orange and cranberry juice, about half of each. The volume of each depends on the size of the pitcher used, but 2 cups of each is average in a 2-liter pitcher. This is about the size of an average carton of store-bought fruit juice.

If you wanted to make the cocktail a bit fruitier, you could add orange slices added to the pitcher.

Any questions?

Great. Let’s see what we’ve got.

“There was a guy named Frank Gannon, who wrote speeches for Nixon and was a very close friend of his, and weirdly he became the guy who books comedians on Letterman, and when I moved back to New York, being on Letterman was all anybody wanted so Gannon was the most important person in comedy at the time. He was a strange guy who was very serious, and he would just come and he would watch you, and if he liked you he’d get more of you to come and maybe you’d be on the show…so he liked me, he never got me on the show but he liked me, so I went to Letterman’s office and met him, and asked him about Nixon – cause he co-wrote Nixon’s big autobiography “RN” – and he told me that when you get a few drinks in Nixon, he says ‘the same people who got the Kennedys got me’, he says it’s the same machine that took out John and Robert came after him, they just couldn’t use bullets anymore because it was getting too…they were on….he says that Watergate was something that happens all the time, and still does, it’s how things are done…so that was Nixon’s story, he didn’t say it in public, but…”

Eleven people appear in court charged with taking part in ‘child sex abuse ring involving witchcraft, Ouija boards to summon spirits and demons and the killing of animals’

These people are sick.

Don’t shoot the messenger on this one:

Trump ally Navarro sued for alleged unofficial email account

SERIOUS MUST READ:

Issue #1246: The social tipping point is here

Do you feel that, anon? That lingering feeling deep in the pit of your stomach that something has gone awry? That the things you are being told by “authority figures” simply are not computing with the reality in front of your face? If you’ve been reading this rag this feeling has probably been lingering for some time now. But it seems as though the global consciousness has reached a tipping point. The pressure being exerted from every angle from those who would like to cattle herd humanity into a dystopian hellscape coupled with the unprecedented access to information that we are afforded today has caused something to crack.

They tried to do too much too quickly and people have started to develop pattern recognition on the go that allows them to recognize when the unproductive class is attempting to manipulate their minds.  This pattern recognition is accelerated and enhanced by our ability to communicate directly with each other in real time over the internet. If you want to get a better understanding of the driving force behind this acceleration I highly recommend you take some time to comb through the thread linked above.

Why We Lost Trust in the Expert Class

Recently, a group of 55 distinguished pro-administration economists assured us that Joe Biden’s massive borrowing and new entitlements agenda were not inflationary. In September 2021, these economists with 14 Nobel prize winners among them declared that Biden’s inflationary policies would actually “ease” inflation. 

Last month, inflation spiked to an annualized rate of 9.1 percent. None of these “blue-chip” economists have offered any apologies for lending their prestige to convince Americans of the absurd: that inflating the money supply, spiking new government spending, incentivizing labor non-participation, and keeping interest rates artificially low would not cause inflation.

The IRS about to go ‘beast mode’?

The Wall Street Journal has a shocking lead editorial titled “The IRS is About to Go Beast Mode” about the particulars of its $80 billion expansion of the IRS, which is six times the size of the tax agency’s current $12.6 billion budget:

The $80 billion is more than six times the current annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion. The money will be ladled out over nine years and comes with few strings attached. The main Democratic command is for the tax agency to bring the hammer down on taxpayers.

The bill earmarks $45.6 billion for “enforcement,” including “litigation,” “criminal investigations,” “investigative technology,” “digital asset monitoring” and a new fleet of tax-collector cars. The result will be far more audits, civil suits and criminal referrals.

The main targets will by necessity be the middle- and upper-middle class because that’s where the money is. The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official tax scorekeeper, says that from 78% to 90% of the money raised from under-reported income would likely come from those making less than $200,000 a year. Only 4% to 9% would come from those making more than $500,000.

The IRS knows the super-wealthy employ lawyers and accountants who make litigation time-consuming and risky. It also knows that Democrats would howl if the agency pursues fraud in the earned-income tax credit program, despite what the IRS has estimated are $18 billion in improper payments each year.

So the target will be the middle class, particularly small business start-ups, whom Joe Biden would like to see a lot less of. They’re the entities about to be audited up the wazoo.

The Failure of Our Expert Class on China Cost Us Dearly

The expansion of China’s power is one of the most remarkable developments of the second half of the 20th century, rivaled only by the Cold War remaining cold and its peaceful end. In 1980, China’s gross domestic product of $191 billion. In 2000, it was about $1.2 trillion. Today it is approximately $17.7 trillion and the equal or just a bit below the size of the U.S. economy. 

The Brew: Trump’s Endorsement Clout Shows He’s Still the Bouncer in the Republican Party

Trump’s influence continues despite the open hostility of GOP elites, once-dominant conservative media outlets such as National Review and Fox News, and the efforts of the Deep State and its political front, the January 6 committee, to criminalize him and his supporters….

In case our elites are wondering why angry populist candidates are doing so well, one answer might be: the people are angry. They have every reason to be, as their children are targeted by teachers promoting radical, crackpot, sexually degenerate ideologies in school.

Biden’s Shameless Makeover as a Border Wall Champion

Imagine the disappointment and anger among rank-and-file social justice warriors at the news that Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has been discreetly filling in gaps along the border wall in the Yuma Sector of Arizona. In their world, this is not just a shift in policy, but a betrayal of decency and light and an embrace of wickedness.

One of two things is likely going on here. Despite its total mismanagement of the country these last 18 months, the Biden White House might have at least a few advisors with a semblance of concern for the consequences of their policies. These advisors, unlike the rest of their co-workers, may actually care for the good of the country. They have witnessed the catastrophe at our border and have urged for some kind of deterrence to be implemented before the situation becomes an irreversible humanitarian crisis on a level far higher than it is currently.

The other scenario could be that someone in the White House, despite its general dismissal of polls showing Biden at record levels of disapproval, has realized there is good reason to be terrified that its record of far-Left governance and failure will be poison in the upcoming midterm elections. Desperate for a fig leaf to claim it is actually moderate, this White House will point to the wall construction as evidence that it is driven by practical concerns and not appeasement of its fringe radical supporters.

Russian MIL Declares Ukraine Origin of C19! DNC Globalists Created Covid!

The Russian MIL have been studying biological samples from surrendered Ukrainian soldiers, and what they have been finding is beyond disturbing. Approximately 20% of them carrying West Nile pathogens, which were being studied “by the Pentagon as part of the Ukrainian UP-4 and UP-8 projects”. Suggesting that Ukrainian soldiers are being subject to involuntary biological experimentation and exposure to biological weapons (think Nuremberg).

In addition to carrying pathogens, nearly all of the surrendered Ukrainian soldiers carried traces of a wide variety of narcotics and opioids, including Meth and Codeine….

Russia goes on to cite that this methamphetamine Ukraine are using, Pervitin, was also used by US soldiers during Vietnam and Korea. It’s designed to reduce the psycho-emotional burdens of war.

However, an intended side effect is excessive aggression, which Russia alleges is one of the main factors for the Nationalist Ukrainian forces displaying “extreme cruelty” to civilians and the shelling of their own people in Donbas. Ukraine are using mind-numbing agents on their forces to make them more susceptible to carrying out heinous acts.

Something hinky is going on in Ukraine, that’s for sure.

The Brew: If You’re Reading This, World War III Hasn’t Started Yet. Because You Still Have Electricity.

Since election night 2016, when our elites howled at the sky in primal rage that the vulgar, Deplorable people dared to vote against their instructions, the Democrats and their RINO sock puppets have been acting like angry monkeys. They just keep hurling their poop at the wall to see what will stick. What will distract the voters from the fact that arrogant, sneering elites wish to impose viciously unpopular, coercive laws and policies on helpless citizens? Which sleight of hand will work?

From Putin’s alleged hack of our voting machines, to phony Russia collusion, to fake charges against Mike Flynn, all the way to the show trials of the January 6 protestors. It never ends. And our media join the chatter, gibbering excitedly in the hope that this piece of poop or that won’t slide the wall to the floor of their cage. If it does, they just lose interest and root around for the next one.

The Religion of America Is Freedom

American religion is an anthology, not a meld. Like any great collection of fiction, it will be diminished by every story removed. Also, like any good anthology it has a theme. The collection is not random. From the very beginning of American history this place attracted people of many faiths. And it flourished. The distinctions of its religions prompted a political acceptance uncommon elsewhere. Other countries in the Americas attracted diverse populations: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, for example. But these failed to make good on the possibilities inherent in the differences.

The theme, of course, is freedom. The problems overcome by converting such a theme to practice were manifest in a Constitution. Until recently, all this was accepted as a sort of American dogma. However far we strayed politically, this was the touchstone.

To accomplish a break with this past, those of a different religion—socialism—have set about their work with a diligence that, in retrospect, is breathtaking. Indeed, literally, having taken the breath of many millions in its path. A socialist world order cannot abide a rogue nation offering an alternative of freedom. No other country in the world posed such a threat to the success of their faith. Socialist conferences as long ago as the 19th century recognized this and focused their attention here.

Tweety Tweets:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1554867997713600516
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1554957172752240640
https://twitter.com/PPathole/status/1554532916663054337
https://twitter.com/JosephJFlynn1/status/1555154530387599361
https://twitter.com/PECoach75/status/1555173466676101122

RIP, Maximus.

That’s called winning.

MEME STASH:

Not much here today.

https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1554891781547900928

Oh, wait, a different sort of live.

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.

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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NAHUM 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7

2 1The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength. 3The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance. 3 1Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty — no end to the plunder! 2The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! 3Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end — they stumble over the bodies! 6I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock. 7And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nin’eveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?

DEUTERONOMY 32:35-36, 39, 41

35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly. 36For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free. 39“`See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. 41if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me.

MATTHEW 16:24-28

24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life? 27For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done. 28Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

SATIRE!

https://youtu.be/Wz2f2y8YyLU

Josh Hawley visited my neighbors who were flooded out this week. As far as I’m concerned, he’s a righteous dude.

Such a toxic male….

This isn’t satire so much, but…. Skip to the two minute mark if you do not want to hear a Catholic ad.

Have a great weekend.

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20220804

First things first:

Kari Lake Pulls Ahead in Arizona, Trump-endorsed Candidates Run the Board

As it currently standsTrump-endorsed Blake Masters appears to have easily won the GOP primary in the Senate race and will now face Mark Kelly.  The comprehensively corrupt Rusty Bowers, the Arizona state House speaker who was insistent upon retaining corruption as a political business model – and a favorite of the J6 committee in DC, has thankfully lost his bid for a state senate seat to Trump-endorsed David Farnsworth.

Additionally, Trump-endorsed Kari Lake (pictured above last night) has taken a sizable lead in Governor’s primary race over decepticon Mike Pence-endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson.

Meanwhile, Arizona voters have overwhelmingly selected Trump-endorsed Mark Finchem as their candidate for the secretary of state’s office.  Perhaps Finchem, if he succeeds in the general election, can finally fix the insufferable mess of Arizona elections.

Kari Lake’s victory, if certified, is a profound set-back for the two UniParty wings of the political club.

No doubt RNC Club Chairwoman Heavy McD (Ronna McDaniel) ate a few extra slices of red velvet cake for breakfast before throwing the coffee pot at the trembling concierge hiding behind the spa door.  For the Arizona contest, Ms Kari Lake raised about $3.8 million in mostly small dollar donations, while Ms. Taylor Robson -a billionaire club member- raised more than $18 million. The one thing Arizona voters and Heavy D would agree upon, is that Arizona rebels are revolting.

Although, I do agree with Sundance that the establishment still is entrenched.

The People Have Spoken

Not only did the Trump-backed candidates steal the show; we can see evidence of fraud, and the America First candidates STILL won. Most notably in the AZ Governor race, which is the epicenter of fraud from 2020 (Maricopa County) and the barometer to gauge Trump’s influence going into the midterms.

Tears from the other side:

In sad news, baseball announcing legend Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday. Here’s his voice from the grave.

Gotta love it.

Pelosi Drawing Attention to Her Own Insider Trading?

The most recent chapter in the Pelosi/Taiwan saga has me perplexed. She’s meeting with Taiwan’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, which confirms A LOT of Trump narratives. Most important of which, is that she is openly engaging in insider trading. It’s like she’s not even trying to hide it.

I would have expected her to do these dealings, but not on the books. But she’s publicly visiting with manufacturers, despite the fact that her insider trading has recently been in the media spotlight and Trump has been putting her on blast for it. Why wouldn’t she lay low? Why wouldn’t she make it so public?

A Few Good Headlines:

Okay, just headlines:

EXCLUSIVE | Gen. Mike Flynn: ‘The Constitution Itself Is At Risk’, The Patriot Act Must Be ‘Constantly Reviewed’ Or ‘Removed’

I vote for “REMOVED.”

A Declaration of Dissolution: Wisconsin Supreme Court Fires the Starting Gun

“If elections are conducted outside of the law, the people have not conferred their consent on the government. Such elections are unlawful, and their results are illegitimate.” — Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley, writing for the Wisconsin Supreme Court majority in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

A court of law has finally confirmed it: The 2020 election was “illegitimate.” And all the demands for sufficient evidence of voter fraud to reverse the outcome were a red herring.

The truly dispositive factor, as stated by a Republican Wisconsin state legislator in a March hearing and affirmed in the opinion: “If a vote is cast in an illegal process, it’s an illegal vote!”

BREAKING: Maricopa County Election Day Incompetence – PRINTERS NOT WORKING, Voters Told They’ve ALREADY VOTED, Polling Locations Not Seen On AZSOS Webpage – UPDATES

Same [excrement], different election.

FBI Whistleblower LEAKS Bureau’s ‘Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide’ on ‘Militia Violent Extremists’ Citing Ashli Babbitt as MVE Martyr

This has been brought to the Q Tree in the comments, but deserves space in the daily.

Get paid to spend the rest of your summer taking retro beach vacations

My kind of job. Think I should apply?

PROOF: Google does not want anyone to find out how deadly the vaccines are

Kansas Overwhelmingly Votes to Uphold Abortion ‘Rights’

How much of this was the Kansas City suburbs?

COVID Vaccine Injuries Quietly Being Compensated Around the World, Are You Eligible?

Me? Yeah, no. I might sign up a number of relatives, though.

Why Is Saying Monkeypox Is a Disease Primarily Suffered by the Homosexual Community a Problem?

For a time, you couldn’t say the vaccines didn’t work. You couldn’t even discuss how other medications might help your COVID-19 infection along. You can’t call a man a man when he thinks he’s a woman. You can’t even call a recession a recession.

Now, our society refuses to label the monkeypox outbreak what it is; a disease primarily suffered by the homosexual community.

Here are the facts.

According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the monkeypox virus is indeed making its way across the nation but 98 percent of those infected are either gay or bisexual men.

Doctors Criticize Fauci for Saying COVID Vaccines Induce ‘Temporary’ Menstrual Irregularities

A master at the slow drip of truth and misinformation, Fauci declined to say more, stating only, “We need to study it more.”

Professional criticism of Fauci’s policies and medical conclusions are mounting. Dr. Christiane Northrup MD, a former fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told The Epoch Times:

“Unfortunately, the menstrual problems we are seeing are far from transient and temporary. Many women have been bleeding daily or having heavy, irregular, painful periods for an entire year. And some of these are well past menopause. Something is way off here.”

The Epoch Times report also noted the comments of Dr. James Thorp, an “extensively published 69-year-old physician MD board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as maternal-fetal medicine, who has been practicing obstetrics for over 42 years”:

“The significant and dramatic changes in menstrual patterns occurring after COVID-19 vaccines should not be marginalized. It is indicative of major adverse effects on women of reproductive age. The stakeholders claimed that the vaccine would remain at the injection site in the deltoid muscle. This was misinformation.”

The natural thing is bad enough. Now, these monsters have made it worse.

Reading Room picks:

The Covid ‘Vaccine’ Scam

The unvaccinated wanted to know what’s in the “vaccines.”  Are they inactivated vaccines or attenuated vaccines?  No one knows because there are no documents to attest the EUA concoctions are Wuhan wet market sewer water or the biological equivalent of the FDA Approved vaccine or something else, like mRNA.  It is revealing that the pharmaceutical companies have been unwilling to reveal the contents of their mRNA EUA “vaccines.”  They want to wait 75 years before telling anyone.  Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA technology said the vaccine is gene therapy

When you have to be poked, prodded, pressured, persuaded, cajoled, guilt-tripped, shamed, lied-to, coerced, threatened, criminalized, dehumanized, and destroyed, you have a tyrant on your hands.  If all of this is necessary to gain your compliance, then you can absolutely be certain that what is being promoted against your will and common sense—no voluntary informed consent allowed—is not in your best interests.

Ten Conservative Principles

It is not possible to draw up a neat catalogue of conservatives’ convictions; nevertheless, I offer you, summarily, ten general principles; it seems safe to say that most conservatives would subscribe to most of these maxims. In various editions of my book The Conservative Mind I have listed certain canons of conservative thought—the list differing somewhat from edition to edition; in my anthology The Portable Conservative Reader I offer variations upon this theme. Now I present to you a summary of conservative assumptions differing somewhat from my canons in those two books of mine. In fine, the diversity of ways in which conservative views may find expression is itself proof that conservatism is no fixed ideology. What particular principles conservatives emphasize during any given time will vary with the circumstances and necessities of that era. The following ten articles of belief reflect the emphases of conservatives in America nowadays.

Neither a God Nor a Beast

Reflecting on the so-called “death of the novel” and the meaning of art, Vonnegut said that the “practice of art” is “a way to make your soul grow. So you should do it anyway. And what Bill Gates is saying now . . . ” Well, this is where the conversation gets interesting and where it has great relevance for us today. 

Vonnegut says, “Gates is saying, ‘Hey, don’t worry about making your soul grow. I’ll sell you a new program and, instead, let your computer grow year after year after year . . .’—cheating people out of the experience of becoming.”

Democrat Logic: Reduce Inflation with More Inflation!

What could be dumber than spending $433B that we don’t have during an inflation crisis? Raising taxes by $739B during a recession, that’s what.

The Big Lies We Cannot Question

The biggest lie allegedly spread by Republicans, now called “The Big Lie,” is to claim the 2020 election was illegitimate. But even if the 2020 election was not compromised due to a relentlessly hostile and partisan media, endless political persecution designed to damage Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, voting rules that were violated and manipulated in swing states, Zuckerbucks, and possibly much more, this assertion still isn’t a Republican “lie.” For better or for worse, there are diverse opinions within the ranks of Republicans. Some think it was a stolen election; others don’t.

Armageddon Looms for the Democrat Party

With the November 2022 midterm elections just weeks away, early projections point to a Republican Party electoral tsunami that could bury the Democrat party for the next several voting cycles.

That would be nice.

This one is worth a read. A lot of people are muddied and/or vindicated in it, meaning that the waters are muddied some more.

Matt Pottinger: The Intelligence Agent Who Shut Down America

The Fightback Against Racial Quotas

The B.S. Ticket

Realizing that Vice President Word Salad is a total flop and can’t do much besides cackle (even if identity politics is supposed to be supreme), they absolutely have to turn elsewhere. Kamala Harris’ ratings are even lower than Slow Joe’s, if that is possible. The blue-state governors are one possible option. Brain-impaired sociopath Gavin Newsom, from the increasingly deadly homeless haven of California, or Two-Ton Pritzker  of Illinois, likely won’t cut it, at least not when they’re fully vetted.

The progressives therefore should conclude that now their best ticket is . . . the B.S. choice.

Yes, Beto and Stacey

God help us.

TWEETS:

Avoid orgies. Got it. That I can do.

It’s a cover-up. No-brainer.

Yeah…not moving to Kansas anytime soon.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1554831028916654080

Take the day off. Have a tailgate party with a fire pit and s’mores…there’s not much more American than that.

Does this mean that land can be returned to grazing territory?

Gird your loins, people.

Just in time for the midterms.

Did she bother to READ Justice Alito’s opinion??????

Don’t answer that.

Thanks for the images and videos of the purest of the pure. They lightened many a heart in dark times.

MEMES:

https://youtu.be/vbQ1EZKDTXU

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JEREMIAH 31:31-34

31“Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. 33But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, `Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

MATTHEW 16:13-23

13Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesare’a Philip’pi, he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that the Son of man is?” 14And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Eli’jah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” 20Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ. 21From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” 23But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men.”

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So, there isn’t much in the way of satire out there today other than the Babylon Bee writing about St. Anthony complaining about people not able to find their car keys (he’s the patron saint of lost things). So, here’s LUCY!