Our mission, as God-fearing and God-loving patriots, is to defend this Constitutional Republic and to increase its greatness, in all good things and ways, by using our voices in free but courteous speech, by discussing the happenings of the world and coming to a profound understanding of those things, and by sharing and promulgating these Truths on both this platform and others.
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
PSST! – Hey, Kid! – Wanna Watch an AI Movie?
Seriously – just check this one out. It’s a short, so it won’t take too long. Supposedly “100% AI” – whatever that means.
Yeah, it’s plenty derivative and filled with cliches – but dang, these things get better all the time.
Think of it as due diligence on Fake Fake Entertainment!
Or if that’s not your thing, try this art film done by a human (Heavy Pulp) using AI for the music and the movie. I found this one very enjoyable.
"Peyote" – a visual poem short film. (PG-13)
In honor of X slapping a content warning on the original film here, I am uploading a new YouTube approved edit.
Peyote was created via the fantastic and unrestricted creative platform that is @AskVenice – highly recommend checking it… pic.twitter.com/l9oU3aSCZ6
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
It’s not every month where there’s a day that’s the month squared – but today is one of those days!
Enjoy some especially alphanumerical trinkets!
(1) Have you ever wanted to understand the technology inside your credit cards? RFID vs. lines of B? Here is your chance! And it’s done by Veritasium!
(2) Everything you probably didn’t know about that great TV comedy of the 1960s, F TROOP!
(3) 8000 may not seem like a magic number, but up on the mountains, it is. Above 8000 meters, you cannot rest. You must get below that altitude to live.
(4) Note that there is now a lot of FAKE mountain disaster content, where annoying and arrogant fake people like “fitness influencers” die after they do bad things like insult their superior non-white sherpas. Very strange. 2 bad white grlz die. 2 good Nepalis live!
This video doesn’t admit to false and “synthetic” content, but I verified that this is fake, with the help of Duck AI.
(5) Body cams and WGTTs. You know this can’t end well. Let this be a reminder that one less drink and one more “Yes, sir” will get you very far in life.
OK, I have a hangover just watching that.
Have a great weekend, and act responsibly. Let me recommend the ginger ale and popcorn.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
batrachivorous
adjective
frog-eating
bottom-feeding
Used in a sentence
A fish that eats frogs off the bottom of the pond, when the frogs dive into the water to escape predators on land, is batrachivorous, no matter how one defines the word.
Pronounced differently than I pronounce it
MUSIC!
Who here has eaten frog legs? You’re batrachivorous! Of course, if you don’t want to eat bullfrogs, you can get drunk with them!
THE STUFF
I stumbled across something interesting…..
YouTube suggested a video that I watched, fully realizing that it was probably “fake entertainment” designed to influence me in some way. And it was. So watch at your own risk. It’s a seductively innocent story.
To me, this sci-fi short appears to be propaganda to influence people in an emotional way to warm up to AI and humanoid robotics. They are using non-creepy, lovable humans to depict what we know is creepy and hard-to-love AI and robots.
Which is not to say that I oppose these things, but it IS to say that I can recognize propaganda when I see it. Some important concepts are discussed here, but beware of the main payload, hidden underneath sympathetic COUGH COUGH COUGH real humans.
Just sayin’!
Meanwhile, how about some AI REALITY – specifically in science and math? If you tire of the math, skip to the end for the summation of the situation by mathematicians.
(WAIT BEFORE READING THIS – we’ll do it together later in the post.)
… on February 17 tells me who is living rent-free in her mind. February the Qth was no accident. And yet – at this point – her little deniable taunt has almost no effect. Rather, it smacks of desperation.
We “know”. We simply know. No amount of calling us “Know Nothings” will save the coup. It’s that simple.
Ah, yes – that would appear to work both ways, for as Thomas Wictor once pointed out, Donald J. Trump may in fact be the most revolutionary President this country has had since EITHER Washington or Lincoln – take your pick.
And they’re TRIGGERED.
The anti-Trump embedded Soviet Democrat apparatus – of which Jenn Rubin is now a painfully, even humorously obvious member, is at this point in an all out war with something they can’t even admit exists, because THEY were the ones who backed themselves into a corner of “know-nothingism” about the QAnon psy-op.
And when I say “psy-op”, I’m really minimizing, because it’s becoming quite clear that the QAnon “anti-coup” is much, much bigger than just the simple world-wide deniable psy-op that it presented on its earlier surface. In fact, “the Q we knew and they loved to denigrate” was like just a single coronavirus spike on the total package, but one with UNDENIABLE, LOGICAL, and FORENSICALLY IRREFUTABLE modified features that pointed with great certainty toward its ORIGIN and TRUTH.
Yes Jenn – you lose TWO TIMES on THAT exact point. ENJOY THE SHOW.
Q is so big, when you understand its true extent and magnitude, that it becomes quite easy to see why it simply scares the HELL out of these people.
The irony is particularly rich here, and of course absolutely exemplary of the fact that the LEFT – of which Jenn Rubin is a “card-carrying” member – is all about accusing others of what THEY either DO or ARE.
NO – the leftists, both the open ones on the left and hidden ones on the fake right, are ON THE ROPES NOW – quite authentically – after having been ROPE-A-DOPED by the one guy who totally got Muhammad Ali at a Sun Tzu level – his authentic friend, Donald J. Trump.
As the electorate is gradually and continuously – as in “nothing can stop what’s coming” – wising up to how the Washington sell-out elite has sandbagged us for well over a century – more so since the advent of FAKE NEWS – the old reliable WEAPONS of the left are simply falling apart.
It’s rather glorious.
Of these weapons, DUPES are among the greatest prizes that Trump has liberated from crypto-Bolshevik worldview captivity. Speaking from my own experience, there is NOTHING – and NOBODY – like a wised-up DUPE to take down communists.
The greatest example, IMO – the great Whittaker Chambers.
Whittaker Chambers offered a rare “view from the inside” of the core communist conspiracy here in America. If you are not familar with his case, you can look, for instance, here.
The fact that I’m bringing Whittaker Chambers up at the same time as Tom Cotton and other former #NeverTrump, or maybe even Jenn Rubin and Alger Hiss, is not due to the inherent similarity of their VERY dissimilar cases, but rather because I want to make an incredibly important point.
DUPING – DECEPTION OF UNDERLINGS, TARGETS, THE OPPOSITION, AND EVEN BYSTANDERS is a CONSTANT across all levels and reaches of communist conspiracy. The duping of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss by their masters differed only from the duping of Jennifer Rubin and Tom Cotton in the type, nature, and specifics of the lies used to get them to behave as desired.
Even within the hierarchy of committed communists, an extraordinary amount of deception occurs in EVERY interaction. It is a nearly, if not exactly, Luciferian economy of lies – not unlike the “carbon economy” that the “climate commies” almost imposed upon us through THEIR army of dupes. One cannot even begin to unravel communist conspiracy without, at every turn, considering whether a player is KNOWING, UNKNOWING, DECEIVED, or ALL OF THE ABOVE. Indeed, Senator Joe McCarthy’s greatest mistake was – in my opinion – failure to sympathize with the dupe – or – more specifically – to sympathize with the dupe in every player.
If you can’t see yourself as a communist pawn, as McCarthy eventually became, you cannot see what they’re doing. It’s a battle with THE LIE itself, and everybody loses a little in the process.
When you understand that the most diehard opponents of communism can easily become its most reliable and predictable marionettes, ready to jump through the right hoops in the left’s next false puppet show (Sea Island conservatives, anyone?), THEN you understand what we are truly up against.
So have a little sympathy for Jenn Rubin – she’s gonna need it. She – like all the rest of us – has been a dupe of the left.
NOW – it’s time to talk about another player in the larger drama – both a DUPE and a DUPER – namely Bill Kristol.
This piece has the NeverTrumpers in a snit—they hate when real journalism exposes what total frauds they are and the left wing interests that fund NeverTrump’s scam. So please share far and wide to further agitate Rick Wilson… https://t.co/GkHwQIbTY7
Look right there, folks. Both the deceiver and the deceived are on display. A DUPE of the left, just passing on the DUPAGE in new ways.
But where does this come from?
The very TOP of Bolshevism – a long time ago – would be my answer.
Deception is a way of life for these people, and it’s not pretty. Bolsheviks – the deepest of the politically deceived, embrace it with every part of their body.
So where does Bill Kristol, the ringmaster of NeverTrump, fit into Bolshevik deception? In my opinion, somewhere down at the hoodwinked Menshevik, CIA tool, familial Trotskyist, “conflicted conservative in a progressive Reform temple” level (the latter being the LITERAL description of similar NeverTrump “conservative” Michael Bloomberg).
I have a LONG, OLD Twitter thread on Bill Kristol and his “pink diaper” background, something critically necessary to understand his essential nature. Sorry if this FIRST enigmatic tweet of the thread does not make immediate sense. Twitter suspended the amazing researcher who I am referencing here. Which brings up a very important point. Twitter bans researchers only in part to remove them. Much more importantly, Twitter does this to hide THOUGHTS, EVIDENCE and KEY REASONING.
This Twitter thread, taking a long and fascinating route, explains WHY we saw the bizarre event of Bill Kristol’s NeverTrump BullWanker Boys defending Kamala Harris and Russian red diaper hoaxer Jussie Smollett from a bad joke that ended up backfiring when taken literally by MAGA Twitter.
I can sum up where the thread leads very simply. Self-deceiving dupes like Mensheviks are CRITICAL to “sell the goods” down the line, and thus FAKE CONSERVATIVES like Kristol, Rubin, and assorted Merry Mensheviks are created, promoted, and amplified to feed the Soviet Fake News with America’s version of Pravda and Izvestia. Whether it’s to promote sabotaged memes like free but unfair trade, used to support world socialism, or to protect core players like Heels-Up Harris and Cryin’ Jussie, fake conservatives have profound uses to the radical left – they are NECESSARY.
Check it out if you’re interested – otherwise, let’s “move on”.
It’s time to RETURN to Jenn Rubin’s paywalled Washington Post opinion piece.
First of all, there is NO WAY that I’m going to ask you to subscribe to that Soviet Fake News monstrosity, the Washington Post, just to see one bogus opinion piece by Jenn Rubin. Ridiculous! And yet – well – you would do well to read it, just to see how the screaming has gone up by an order of magnitude. SO – if you DO have a subscription to this horrible rag, then here is that link again:
When Ivy League-educated, formerly sane politicians spew conspiracy theories, debunked talking points and contempt for science, the question often arises: Do they believe this nonsense (i.e. have they become thickheaded by listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching all that Fox News?), or are they cynical purveyors of claptrap designed to woo unsophisticated voters? (Disclosure: I am an MSNBC contributor.)
That query came to mind when Harvard Law school graduate Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) descended into sheer quackery and decided to perpetrate conspiracies about the origin of the coronavirus. The Post reports:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) repeated a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China. Cotton referenced a laboratory in the city, the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” He said the lab was near a market some scientists initially thought was a starting point for the virus’s spread.
This is unadulterated nonsense, one step removed from anti-vaxxer rubbish and UFO-spotting. (“In response to Cotton’s remarks, as well as in previous interviews with The Washington Post, numerous experts dismissed the possibility the coronavirus may be man-made.”)
Jenn Rubin, Washington Post, February 17, 2019
Nasty! And it gets worse.
Notice how “The Post” is layering opinion onto their own biased reporting, but keeping them separate, to keep the accusations of – well – WHAT THEY ARE CLEARLY DOING – in check.
Jenn Rubin is resorting to Alinsky ridicule here. Of course the Alinsky press – her employers – are not going to call her to task for being proven WRONG during the following week, as China indeed began to back off strongly on the origins of the virus, as scientific evidence is now CLEARLY showing human manipulation of the protein sequences – changes which simply could not occur though normal evolution. TAMPERING is clear. I don’t particularly care what China’s NEXT excuse is, just like I don’t particularly care what Jenn Rubin’s next attack on our side is.
Listening to Fake News FIRST is almost always the FIRST MISTAKE at this point.
Well, look at that. The Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda rag finally admits what I’ve said for a month: coronavirus didn’t start in Wuhan food market. So where did it originate? Time for answers from CCP. https://t.co/UTvcjvrHNz
Yes, look at that. Just FIVE DAYS LATER and Jenn Rubin goes under China’s bus of continually restated LIES. Nobody had to wait 28 days.
Jennifer Rubin, not only LIKE Communist China, but ALONG WITH Communist China, has simply lost credibility.
You want the news on the coronavirus?
READ OUR THREADS and follow along as we SLOWLY and PAINFULLY figured it all out, gathering honest thoughts on it from all over the web, and coming to the same conclusions gathering NOW, that the science actually started to show at the beginning.
IT WAS A CHINESE BIOWEAPON, “SOMEHOW” ESCAPED, AND NOW BEING DECEPTIVELY INFORMATION-CONTROLLED BY CHINA, THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, AND AMERICA’S FAKE NEWS COMPLEX. INCLUDING JENN RUBIN, PERSONALLY.
Yes, let’s put it very plainly. She’s enabling the Chinese Communist lies.
Yeah, one might have to use their brain to sort through all that discussion and discern the emerging and evolving consensus, but hey – that’s our WHEAT-CHAFF SORTER. Jenn can’t do it, because she’s a PERSON OF THE LIE. AWAY, CHAFF.
Yeah. It’s complicated. “Know-nothingism.” Sounds a bit like “old scientific skepticism”. I LIKE IT.
Just because you don’t UNDERSTAND IT, Jenn, doesn’t mean it’s not REAL. You may have to do some adapting to the new world.
Now if you want to see WHY Tom Cotton has earned the IRE of the “bio-blood-hoaxing socialist set”, with their Soviet/Maoist biowarfare schemes disguised as “whoops”, just check this out:
This is politically correct pablum, @DrTedros. The greatest enemy is of course the virus, not hurt feelings or fear or stigma. All this kind of idiocy does is make people question the WHO’s priorities. https://t.co/ser1Qqqxf7
Archived as an image, because socialist Twitter is likely to suspend Tom Cotton and delete his content at some point.
Daughn’s reply to this is SPOT ON. In a sane world, WaPo and Jenn Rubin would have to answer for their tiresome and pathetic ass-covering on behalf of China, WHO, and the damned virus itself. Daughn would have a column in a truthful WaPo, and Jenn Rubin would be LEARNING how to make those blueberry muffins from Daughn. And not very well, I suspect.
Now, it may be that Jenn Rubin doesn’t have a TASTE for what China and the rest of world communism are resorting to right now, and is having some difficulty facing the truth of a NEW HOLOCAUST of her own side’s making, but, as Whittaker Chambers could have told Alger Hiss when he decided to come clean….
“That’s too damn bad. It’s time for the TRUTH to be told.”
Kinda funny. Q said these folks wouldn’t be able to walk the streets. Between their own crimes and their own damn virus, it sounds about right. But we’ll wait for a court to tell us the truth. We’re patient, and we believe in rule of law.
Maybe Jenn Rubin will have her own Whittaker Chambers moment.
But she does seem kinda nervous now, doesn’t she?
And now, we get onto the final part of this response. A teaching moment about American Bolshevism, so that people can actually get a flavor for the degree to which American Bolsheviks can and will sell this country out.
It is much easier to convince you of Jenn Rubin’s mild, almost funny sell-out, when you see REAL sell-out like this guy. To go along with “Uranium Girl” Hillary Clinton, we once had “Polonium Boy”.
Let’s talk about GEORGE ABRAMOVICH KOVAL.
When you read about THIS:
You usually think about THESE people.
Sometimes, you think a bit more modern, too.
The person you DON’T think about is George Koval, because you never heard of him.
Koval is MUCH more embarrassing than the Rosenbergs, because he exposes a lot of history you’re not supposed to know about. That history includes a deep schism in Judaism between Zionists and Socialists – one which is either EXACERBATED or SMOOTHED OVER as a kind of historical transistor, creating a massive “handle” on Jews for manipulation by Bolshevism. Moreover, if you follow the Koval story, you will see how LONG AGO the Bolsheviks learned to weaponize fluid borders, human migrations, persecution as cover for spy insertion, and all kinds of nastiness which is NEVER, EVER covered in American leftist public schools or academia.
When the Soviet Democrats finally took complete control of media, education, and even history itself, you stopped hearing about the Rosenbergs, but you NEVER EVEN heard about George Koval.
Koval was a far less “glorious” traitor than the left-romanticized Rosenbergs.
I mean – I have a strong INTEREST in nuclear history, and I didn’t know about this guy until just recently. But this guy was GOOD. Very good. Bad for America, but VERY GOOD for Soviet Russia.
Here is Wikipedia’s quick synopsis of Koval’s significance.
George Abramovich Koval (Russian: Жорж (Георгий) Абра́мович Кова́ль, IPA: [ˈʐorʐ (ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj) ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈvalʲ] (listen), Zhorzh Abramovich Koval, December 25, 1913 – January 31, 2006) was an American who acted as a Soviet intelligence officer for the Soviet atomic bomb project. According to Russian sources, Koval’s infiltration of the Manhattan Project as a GRU (Soviet military intelligence) agent “drastically reduced the amount of time it took for Russia to develop nuclear weapons.”[1][2][3][4][5]
Koval was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Sioux City, Iowa. As an adult, he traveled with his parents to the Soviet Union to settle in the Jewish Autonomous Region near the Chinese border. Koval was recruited by the Soviet GRU (military intelligence), trained, and assigned the code name DELMAR. He returned to the United States in 1940 and was drafted into the U.S. Army in early 1943. Koval worked at atomic research laboratories and, according to the Russian government, relayed back to the Soviet Union information about the production processes and volumes of the polonium, plutonium, and uranium used in American atomic weaponry, and descriptions of the weapon production sites. In 1948, Koval left on a European vacation but never returned to the United States. In 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded Koval the Hero of the Russian Federation decoration for “his courage and heroism while carrying out special missions”.[6]
I urge you to read the ENTIRE Wikipedia article, because it will open your eyes to a reality which American communists – AMERICAN BOLSHEVIKS – have gone to ELABORATE PAINS to hide from us.
You have undoubtedly heard about a nation called Israel. Well, that one wasn’t the problem. It’s Stalinist competitor, in the Soviet Union, on the border with China, where George Koval was INCUBATED and then SENT BACK TO AMERICA – that was the problem.
Oh, the face-palm of Stalin’s attempt to compete with Israel by creating a socialist alternative does NOT end with the rainbow flag. His first pass at “excuseniks” in the late 1930’s – which was again used to send all kinds of deep red diaper into the US and Israel in the 1970’s and 1980’s – was simply to go into the region and crack down on reactionary religious Jewish practice, so that he could provide persecutory cover for all the deeply atheistic and communist spies to “flee”, which he then sent out into America AND British Palestine.
“Excuseniks” was one of the most brilliant and diabolical ideas the Bolsheviks ever came up with.
George Koval didn’t just magically decide to betray America. A LONG, SLOW process of exposure to AMERICAN COMMUNISTS prepared both Koval and his family for his eventual betrayal of this nation.
NOW – here is the big take-home point that is not going to be easy to digest.
This shit did not end in the 1940s.
It CHANGED, but it did not end.
People are going to have to get used to the idea that when McCarthy was “removed from relevance” by the FAKE NEWS of the early 1950s – manipulated into an idiotic collision with the military and then media-marginalized into a dismissal narrative – that was only the beginning.
Bolshevism then began a slow and steady march that was UTTERLY unlike the straw man of “red scare” communism which the Bolshevik elements in media used to falsely ridicule their opponents.
History is not what you thought it was. FAKE HISTORY – the result of decades of FAKE NEWS and FAKE ENTERTAINMENT – was used to take choice, freedom, and knowledge away from you.
Slowly, carefully, but surely.
Start with George Koval and Jenn Rubin. Study them. Then and Now. Compare and Contrast. Note the differences. Note the similarities. Note the purposes.
Just take some time, because you will need it simply to realize how LONG Fake News has been herding this nation toward the Old Russia Ranch, and now the Same Old China Slaughterhouse.
One was a spy. One is a modern propagandist. Both of them, however, pretended to be things that they clearly were NOT, in the interest of advancing socialism.
Trust me – FAKE CONSERVATIVES are going to be one of the very first classes who are not going to be able to walk the streets. And if you want a historical model for how this works, look at Nazi collaborators in post-World War II France. They kinda kept a low profile to avoid getting their heads shaved, in vengeful concentration camp style.
I will be straight-up here – I don’t even wish a good head-shaving on the American Soviet collaborators. Not even jeers on the street, although – well, it couldn’t happen to nicer communists. However, I do hope that the SPOTLIGHT OF TRUTH shines rather strongly on WHAT THEY DID, and maybe there are some – COUGH – retirements.
Remember. And not just THIS.
They tried to pull a COMMUNIST COUP on us.
Using reverse-blame LIES.
And they KNEW they were LIES.
TIME TO WAKE TF UP.
If these coup inciters, enablers, and PLOTTERS can’t actually walk the streets, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
Dodging Digital Serfdom Tuesday
First let’s start with the kind of powerful words that motivated America’s founding fathers to create the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore,
and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1
We know it’s going to require a decision on our part to “stand firm” and “not submit again” before we are going to take this seriously. But we have the help of God and the support of our President with his team.
So let’s be happy even as we fight for our right to a place at the table.
Think*3
What? We are Digital Serfs? How?
In his latest newsletter, our fellow freedom fighter, Martin Geddes, announces:
I have created a new portal for myself and my patriot, scientist, and artist activities. This removes my dependence upon fickle social media services.
His newsletter goes on to explain. If you have the time, I recommend reading it even if you don’t get every nuance. (Newsletter text emphasis added by me.) If we are to neutralize this threat, we must understand what it is and why it matters. I highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter.
New Martin Geddes personal portal
(and why we have to take responsibility for our own virtual identity)
From around 2013 to 2015 a lot of my professional energy was dedicated to the Hypervoice Consortium, looking at the future of “smart voice” communications, and the ethical use of such personal data. The notable thing about voice is that it is intimate biosensed data: it isn’t just what we say that is private, but also:
our voice “security print”,
our current mood,
our background location noise privacy leakage, and
even things like our state of mental health (that can be inferred via machine learning).
A core conclusion was the need for self-sovereign identity systems, since our virtual self cannot be separated from our physical being. You can change a password, but you cannot change your voice, face, or fingerprint. The result of this research endeavour was a vision for the Guardian Avatar. (Video, Presentation, Report.) Back in February of 2017, I had a series of interactions with LinkedIn — where my “professional avatar” lived — that told me they were not a company whose values I shared or wished to be associated with. Having “talked the talk” on privacy and ethics, I felt obligated to “walk the walk”. So I torched my account, together with 4000+ connections, and all the content I had created there. It has probably cost me some business, and I don’t regret acting on my conscience. However, not being keen on professional suicide, I first grabbed my career history, endorsements, and other data and created my own site for my “personal identity” (martingedd.es) as distinct from my corporate consulting one (martingeddes.com). For the last few years this has stood in place of a LinkedIn profile as my “professional avatar”. When people send me their LinkedIn profile to read, I inform them it is sadly inaccessible to me as a non-member. In the interim years, I have become more acutely aware of how over-dependency on these social media behemoths is a risky and unwise proposition. I have been deplatformed by Medium for writing on endemic corruption, with no reaction from my hypocritical liberal-minded friends about this free speech crime. Right now Twitter is stopping me from gaining followers, nailing my count at just under 79,000 with it hardly varying no matter how much engagement I get. (My impressions are around 13-15 million a month.) This is completely contrary to my experience over 10+ years on the platform. Many tell me they are being unfollowed without permission, or don’t see my tweets in their timeline. I am also being “reply banned” as part of their ongoing censorship regime:
My domain names are mostly hosted with a provider that has already deplatformed a perfectly legal free speech site. How far would they go in getting rid of customers whose content they disapprove of? Am I at risk? Hard to know until the “unthinkable” has happened. My corporate website uses WordPress technology, and they have censored Westerners for breaking Pakistani Sharia Law. I could be kicked off this Mailchimp platform without redress for “hateful content” (whatever that is), and equally dumped by Squarespace for similar thougtcrime against political correctness. Incidentally, Squarespace’s terms break the “do (not do) unto others” ethics golden rule, and would have been a good use case for a Guardian Avatar “lawyerbot” to catch:
We are presently digital serfs tending our subsistence plots on the virtual lord of the manor’s properties. But that doesn’t mean we have to consent to our condition. Withdrawing consent from being abused requires us to take responsibility for our own virtual identity. We can construct our own portals and avatars that are not vulnerable to the whims and policies of tyrants, censors, or free speech hypocrites. And with that, to my main purpose in sending this newsletter to you. I have refreshed my “personal portal” to encompass more of my activities — as a “patriot” (i.e. honest citizen journalist), a computer scientist, and as an artist too (a huge surprise to the Martin of yore!). This is the presentation layer of my “Guardian Avatar”, and it protects my outward identity. Enjoy — and maybe take inspiration on how you too can take back control over your online identity, even if it costs you some time, money, and convenience to do so. Because “free” and “easy” can be exceedingly costly to your liberty.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
It’s a [BONUS] Red October Sunday
If it’s not a great day for foreign diplomacy AND a great day for exposing corruption AND a great day for a precision strike on the bad guys by our military, we may just have to run around the building a couple times just to burn off all the excess energy we are getting from the winnamins we’ve been taking!
Yes, there is much to take very seriously, but there is also much to fill our hearts with hope in this very special [BONUS] Red October.
May we be stirred to courage and prayer in these days of great activity in every arena and in every dimension.
Blessings, Think*3
Our Q Tree is Appreciated by MAGA Mom (and us too!)
When I come here I feel relaxed. Seriously. More than any other site. I don’t even agree with some on some things and with many on other things. (NO – not interested in who/what! That is Not the point!) And yet I still feel relaxed and among friends. Even at OT I don’t feel this way even when “talking” to long time posters/commenters. When I sit down at the computer I often start here for a quick scan and then am busy elsewhere – esp. social media these days. But at the end of the day when I am finished with all of that and just want to relax, here is where I come to put my feet up, breath a sigh of relief and relax. Seems like a family with the annoying younger brother, the wise grandfather figures, the loving grandmother figures, the interesting and fascinating uncles and aunts, the incredibly smart cousin, the funny old uncle, some eccentrics…and, no, none of these have to do with age (I imagine the annoying younger brother is much too old to act the way he does! ha) just characters and how I feel when I read here.
A wonderful place to read – most fascinating book Ever! And yet, I am an occasional player in the very book I am reading. Real, and not real. Amusing and yet so educational. Philosophical, fascinating stories and yet up to the minute reporting in which we learn both the details and the rest of the story! Anyway, love it here even if we don’t get to “real”/personal as this isn’t actually a small place and of course I remain aware that this is a very open, public space. Still love it and appreciate you all, each one of you, for what you bring to the table. Thank you to all who create the space – esp. wolf, + all of the wonderful contributors.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
It’s a [ANOTHER] Red October Sunday
If it’s not a great day for foreign diplomacy AND a great day for exposing corruption AND a great day for a highly patriotic Trump Rally, we may just have to run around the building a couple times just to burn off all the excess energy we are getting from the winnamins we’ve been taking!
Yes, there is much to take very seriously, but there is also much to fill our hearts with hope in this very Red October.
May we be stirred to courage and prayer in these days of great activity in every arena and in every dimension.
Blessings, Think*3
A Prayer for Our Nation is Offered by MichaelH
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Realgaryseven I’ll just tack on here.
Celebration and yet still our enemies laying sucker-punches on us. I’ve been praying b/c I’m burdened in spirit, elated at God’s faithfulness to us and Wolf, but I’m also completely pissed off with my/our enemies who continue to cheat and steal and destroy every cheap shot they can.
Now I’ve been wanting to post a prayer publicly here but I’ve been at a total loss to express here to share what’s on my heart and share a prayer that captures it well. I’ve finally got something, hopefully this is over the target…
Dear Lord, please hear our cries when we call out to you! Remember us in our distress Refresh our spirits in your boundless love.
Strengthen our souls, give us renewed vigor that overtakes our fatigue
Renew our steadfast resolve for your righteousness oh Lord!
Provide us with your divine wisdom and discernment that we may know your will Move us Lord to the rightful place in your plan Fulfill your great divine strategies through us Lord
Let us not falter or fear but take courage and boldly advance in your work Frustrate the plans of our enemies; let their schemes fall back on them! Let the strength of our enemies fail them, and let their horses fall from exhaustion
Expose their wickedness Lord, humiliate those who mock your Law Bring justice upon them swiftly as a an eagle snatches its prey! Remember your people in the day of judgement!
Raise up the righteous and faithful ones, exalt them Place them in the seats of kings and judges to rule in righteousness, wisdom, and glory Cast out all fear from those you have called Fill them with your spirit, the strength of will, and the character of righteousness
Aim your people on the strategic targets, make every one count Pull them back like arrows in a bow, release them swiftly to strike! Bring victory over our enemies and restore victory to your people
Make the nations exclaim, who can stand against the Lord and His people? For their God fights with them and none can stand in battle against them!
The nations will surrender their arms, their armies will not advance in battle for the fear of God!
Let the nations praise you and know that you are God.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
It’s a [ANOTHER] Red October Sunday
If it’s not a great day for foreign diplomacy AND a great day for exposing corruption AND a great day for a highly patriotic Trump Rally, we may just have to run around the building a couple times just to burn off all the excess energy we are getting from the winnamins we’ve been taking!
Yes, there is much to take very seriously, but there is also much to fill our hearts with hope in this very Red October.
May we be stirred to courage and prayer in these days of great activity in every arena and in every dimension.
Blessings, Think*3
Can there be a holiness movement without holiness being the focus? There can and must be. Holiness is the most basic characteristic of The Holy Spirit as that is His name. Yet, He does not come to speak of Himself, but to lead us to Jesus—the Truth. In this same way, the most powerful holiness movement of all time will not have holiness as its focus, but rather “The Holy One of God,” Jesus. Anything that eclipses Jesus as our main love and devotion can be an idol, even the things of God such as holiness.
True holiness is the fruit of our love for God, not the focus of it.
Can we find a single reference in Scripture to the scene around the throne of God where those present are not saying “holy is The Lord?” They could have been saying “loving is The Lord,” or “The Lord is full of grace, mercy…,” but they’re saying “holy.” So it seems that in His presence, this is perhaps the most profound characteristic of God that we see. Yet, this has had little emphasis in the church for decades. Why? Could it be because we have gotten so far from His throne? Have we been caught up in so much religious activity that we have not been getting closer to God or walking in true authority, which is represented by His throne?
We can expect this to change soon. The last move of God will be the greatest of all because it will be God moving. His people will fall in love with Him because they’re going to seek Him, and He promise that if we seek Him we will find Him. When we find Him we too will be in awe of His holiness.
So what will that look like? Rather than speculating we should go and see. The great truths of our faith have often been reduced by men trying to define them, especially before they have experienced them. For this reason, most of the definitions about holiness have been about cleaning up the outside, our behavior, rather than changing our heart, which results in change from the inside out. We can comply with a definition of proper behavior with our hearts and still be full of sin and wickedness, or legalism.
So let us resolve to be changed by seeing His glory with unveiled faces. The veils are often our own ideals, or even preferences. When we see Him without removing the veils, we usually try to make Him in our image rather than being changed into His.
If we are disciples, we have certainly poured over the Scriptures enough to understand sin and the works of the flesh, the carnal nature. As John explained in his epistles, if we have been born again from above, these should no longer be our basic nature. The struggle to get free of them is great and it is not meant to be easy. As we mature in the nature of Christ, which Paul referred to as the forming of Christ within us, these works of the flesh are no longer our nature. We grow in the Spirit of Christ, which is The Holy Spirit, and manifest the fruit of The Spirit.
We read of the carnal nature in Galatians 5:19-21:
“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are:
disputes, dissensions, factions,
envying, drunkenness, carousing,
and things like these,
of which I forewarn you,
just as I have forewarned you,
that those who practice such things
will not inherit
the kingdom of God.”
As we see declared here and in other places, we cannot continue to practice these things and inherit the kingdom of God. This does not mean that sincere, maturing Christians who are true disciples cannot occasionally fall to fleshly behavior. We are told that even “the righteous fall seven times” (see Proverbs 24:16). Yet as that verse continues, “but they rise yet again.” They do not stay down but rather get back up and fight on.
The war against the carnal nature is a mighty struggle. In Romans 1-2 we are told to be “transformed by the renewing of our minds.” The Greek word translated “transformed” in this text is the same word from which we get the English word “metamorphous,” the change a caterpillar goes through in the cocoon to become a butterfly. It is said that the greatest struggle a butterfly will ever experience is getting out of the cocoon, but it is that struggle that strengthens it so that it can flap those big wings and fly. We too will likely face our biggest struggle getting free of the carnal nature, but it is that struggle that strengthens us to spiritually soar as we are called to do.
False teachers since the first century have twisted and distorted the teachings of grace to assert that we do not need to struggle against the old nature like this, and what we do in the body doesn’t really matter. These are wolves in sheep’s clothing. As the Apostle Paul wrote of them, “their condemnation is just”(Romans 3:8). The word of God is clear that if we practice the works of the flesh and live in the carnal nature, we will not inherit the kingdom.
We are told in Hebrews12:14 to “Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.”
Sanctification is another word for holiness, and we will not see Him without it. It is that important. So we must pursue holiness, but we do this by pursuing The Lord, seeking to get close to Him.
Then we will be in a place where everyone is crying “HOLY,” and we will too.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
It’s a Red October Sunday
Today, we can see things are heating up. Time to reload faith, hope, and love.
May the words of Rick Joyner stir us to courage and prayer.
Blessings, Think*3
We are entering a time of ultimate struggle between liberty and tyranny. This conflict is already being waged on many fronts. It is a basic military principle that you cannot defeat an enemy you do not see or understand. We must recognize the enemy of our liberty in order to defeat it, but we must also have a vision and love for liberty.
Our nation was born through this struggle, and to some degree, this has been a continual struggle since that time. We must understand that this is our calling and embrace this struggle as an opportunity to proclaim liberty throughout the land.
This struggle has kept us in continuous division and at times has grown to the point of erupting into violence. However, the severity of the violence and damage will depend to a great degree on the spiritual battles, prayers, and engagement of the church in America as salt and light. The strength of the American church is the biggest factor in the severity of the conflict and the ultimate conclusion of it.
In both the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War, Great Awakenings preceded the conflicts. To a large degree, these conflicts were the result of the Awakenings. The church in America was mobilized and energized in both of these. Historians, and also the British adversaries in the Revolutionary War, attributed the success of those seeking independence to “the black robed regiment.” This was a reference to the preachers of the time that wore black robes in the pulpit. Their sermons were so resolute that there was no doubt about where they stood on the great issues of their time. They were so effective in imparting a vision for liberty that they became some of the most wanted men in the colonies by the British forces.
Likewise, it was the Second Great Awakening in the young nation that gave birth to the Abolitionist Movement, which resolved to remove the evil of slavery from the country. Just as we see throughout The Bible, whenever true revival and a turning back to God takes place, evil is driven from the land. As the Third Great Awakening blossoms in our time, an indignation will arise against the great evils of our time, and we can expect movements to develop to go after every form of evil and bondage.
This relates to the first part of the dream I had about the coming Second American Revolutionary/Civil War—the sending out of the champions who would find and destroy the evil strongholds in our land. Some of these have already begun to go forth and others will steadily be joining in.
We all need to hear and respond to the call of God to get in our place in the struggle. The Holy Spirit is now moving to prepare us to hear this call and respond, which is seen by the evidence that has always accompanied the moving of The Spirit. The first evidence of The Holy Spirit will be repentance. Following this will be a love for His first name, which is holy.
True holiness is not legalism. Legalism is not God’s counter to lawlessness, and the law only strengthens the sin and is a “ministry of death” as we read in Romans 7, II Corinthians 3, and other places. True holiness is not motivated by a fear of failure, but by love for God. Imposter holiness, motivated by the law, is like a bride who is driven to be perfect for her wedding day because she is afraid the bridegroom will reject her if there is a spot on her. True holiness is like a bride that wants to be perfect for her bridegroom because she is so in love with Him.
So the great holiness movement we should expect and follow is a love movement: loving God above all else and loving one another as we should. With this we can also expect the abhorrence of sin and iniquity to increase. Then we will see the perpetrators of sin and inequity driven back into the darkness they came from—not just by laws that are passed, but because the iniquity will become as abhorrent to the people as it is with God.
Lust is the counter to true love. The flood of lust and perversion that has been poured out over the land will dry up in a true revival. Movies, television, and publications that promote lust will go out of business. Even the extreme devotion to sports and other forms of entertainment that have eclipsed the love for God and become idols will shrink in popularity until they have returned to their proper balance.
All of this is coming as the victory of true liberty becomes complete. However, for a time it will look like the opposite is happening. Perversion and iniquity in all of its forms will overflow their banks for a time, as will the death and destruction they cause. This may look like an unstoppable flood for a time, but this is the last gasp of a desperate enemy that is about to be vanquished. This will be allowed to reveal those who truly love The Lord and will follow Him from those who love sin and this world more than Him.
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren (James 1:12-16).
When I sit down at the computer I often start here for a quick scan and then am busy elsewhere – esp. social media these days.
But at the end of the day when I am finished with all of that and just want to relax, here is where I come to put my feet up, breath a sigh of relief and relax. Seems like a family with the annoying younger brother, the wise grandfather figures, the loving grandmother figures, the interesting and fascinating uncles and aunts, the incredibly smart cousin, the funny old uncle, some eccentrics…and, no, none of these have to do with age (I imagine the annoying younger brother is much too old to act the way he does! ha) just characters and how I feel when I read here.
A wonderful place to read – most fascinating book Ever! And yet, I am an occasional player in the very book I am reading. Real, and not real. Amusing and yet so educational. Philosophical, fascinating stories and yet up to the minute reporting in which we learn both the details and the rest of the story!
Anyway, love it here even if we don’t get to “real”/personal as this isn’t actually a small place and of course I remain aware that this is a very open, public space.
Still love it and appreciate you all, each one of you, for what you bring to the table.
Thank you to all who create the space – esp. wolf, + all of the wonderful contributors.