“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Speaker Johnson Pinging you on January 6 Tapes
Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?
We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)
Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Small Government?
Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.
This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.
No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.
World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.
So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
His Truth?
Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.
I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.
But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.
Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.
But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
Gold was over 2,420 on Thursday, and drew back a bit on Friday, still up for the week. Silver a bit down. Palladium took a beating Friday and is now lower than platinum. Both are down for the week any way you cut it.
I need to make a technical comment. The modern run of bullion coins, things like the Canadian Maple Leaf and American Eagle (and many others) are indeed coins because they have denominations on them. The denominations are absurd; the one ounce eagle has a $50 face value. (If anyone ever spends one of these things at face value, I hope I am the one who reaps the benefit of his/her ignorance.) But they will also state their gold content in either grams or troy ounces (a troy ounce is 31.1035 grams or 480 reloading-bench grains).
What can cause some confusion (and did last weekend) is that the coins are often stated as having that much “pure gold” in them, but that doesn’t mean they are made of pure gold. The Canadian Maple Leaf tries for ridiculous purity, less than 1 part per 10000 is something other than gold. Our gold eagle is 91.67 percent pure (22 kt) (with the balance made up of 3 percentage points silver and 5.13 of copper), so it isn’t made of pure gold, but it still contains an ounce of gold; if you removed the other stuff, you would indeed have an ounce of pure gold. They do this, of course, by making the coin weigh more than an ounce.
(Frankly going to eyestraining purity strikes me as a stunt. No one really cares if the coin is absolutely pure; they’re interested in the net weight of precious metal. In fact high purity can have negative consequences as a pure gold coin is soft enough that it might get a ding in it if you give it a harsh look.)
When it’s not absolutely pure, of course, you have to be sure how much gold (or whatever precious metal) is in the coin. There is a big catalog of coins from around the world (the size of a very thick telephone book, and that’s just one century’s worth), generally called Krause after the publisher, and for coins with silver, gold, or other precious content they will give the weight of the coin in grams, then the purity as a decimal fraction, then “ASW” or “AGW” or “APW” for “actual silver weight”, etc. That last number is the actual content of precious metal. Collectors typically just follow that custom when labeling their foreign coins; coin shops will do so to entice people to buy the coin for the metal content if nothing else.
Anyhow the bullion coins, regardless of whether they are pure, will have some nice round number of either troy ounces (over here) or grams (over there in Europe/Asia) of precious metal in them. (Sometimes “over there” will do something in troy ounces, too.)
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Speaker Johnson Pinging you on January 6 Tapes
Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?
We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)
Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Small Government?
Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.
This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.
No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.
World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.
So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
His Truth?
Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.
I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.
But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.
Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.
But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
Gold closed in the 2370s on Thursday. Then it took an $83.40 loss on Friday (-3.51%). Silver dropped $2.14 on Friday (-6.84%). “Sucking chest wound” is almost appropriate here as a descriptor.
Platinum and palladium took sizeable losses as well on Friday, $41 and $20 respectively.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Speaker Johnson Pinging you on January 6 Tapes
Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?
We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)
Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Small Government?
Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.
This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.
No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.
World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.
So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
His Truth?
Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.
I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.
But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.
Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.
But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
Gold took another beating…but not as bad as last week. It did actually drop through the 2300 mark a couple of times on Friday but at least partially recovered.
On the plus side platinum is doing very well right now; you will note it has almost closed the gap with palladium (and I can remember when palladium was 1/5th the price of platinum).
Science Series
Although I appreciate the kind words from last Saturday, my heart just isn’t in it at the moment.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Speaker Johnson Pinging you on January 6 Tapes
Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?
We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)
Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)
A Political Statement
One of my stock jokes is to say, as I head off to the bathroom or washroom or restroom, “I’m going to go make a political statement.”
It certainly seems like urinating is a good way to make a statement about the YSM, and defecating works for politicians. Or the other way around is good too, though “#1” just never seems emphatic enough.
Maybe “#1” is just being polite, and “#2” is telling the fixtures what you really think.
Anyhow, I pretty much do plan to be polite to RINOs that electioneer or fundraise. I’ll tell them, Sorry, but I need to GO Pee…
Language Warning
In the next piece I had to discuss a particular topic. Unfortunately, I couldn’t discuss it without naming it. Therefore I apologize in advance for having to do so, and apologize to anyone offended by the sight of the name.
RINO McDaniel Is Toast
RINO McDaniel got a size ten ice kleat up her ass.
And then she got fired by whichever Yellow Stream Media outlet hired her. (I can’t remember which one, and they’re all brown and smelly anyway, so it doesn’t matter.)
There aren’t many opportunities to gloat these days, so take ’em where you get ’em.
But she was not the problem…or rather, she would not have been a problem were it not for others.
No, the real problem is the fact that a majority of the 168 top GOP people voted for her. And now that has happened five times so they cannot claim they didn’t know what she was.
In spite of the fact that under her “leadership” the party had deliberately sabotaged the will of its base, had deliberately refused to challenge blatant election fraud, had gone out of its way to ensure certain candidates do not get nominated, had diverted donor money to namby-pamby candidates who have all the electoral appeal of a puddle of dog vomit…and in general has done nothing whatsoever to help fix the problems that plague America.
However that last is to be expected; I cannot expect anyone who IS the problem to help FIX the problem.
RINO McDaniel would have been powerless without an entire party leadership of the same mind as her. They wanted this dismal performance; they want to ignore the party base.
Her being gone will likely solve nothing as someone just like her will eventually be elected by those same pustulous people.
According to Charlie Kirk, about 55 people voted against her, 10-12 wanted something different but were too chickenshit to do the right thing, and roughly 100 people voted for her enthusiastically, and even had the unmitigated gall to complain to Kirk about US. Fuck ’em. Rusty 12 gauge bore brushes would be too good for these arrogant pricks and cunts.
Every single one of those hundred is just as bad as she is. And no doubt those people in turn have people who supported them to be state party chairs and whateveritis they call the other two people from each state and territory who were voting.
It’s time to face up to the fact that the Republican party is effectively owned by the shit-eating RINOs. We’ve got more work to do, a lot more work, to make the GOP an instrument for the restoration of the United States of America. And that’s in addition to cleaning up our elections.
There’s no point in cleaning up elections just to elect ratfucking RINOs.
OK, hopefully now you will have some inkling of my true attitude towards RINOs. Sorry that words were inadequate to give you the full picture.
And Yes I Might Be Able To Do Something About It
I am an alternate at the congressional district level, as well as the state level, GOP assemblies. There’s a decent chance I will get “elevated” to delegate. At the state level, we get to pick at least one RNC delegate.
My problem is being able to detect who is a RINO. As far as I know the ballot for RNC chair was secret, so basically, any randomly chosen serving RNC person is 2/3rds likely to have voted for Rino McD. So I can vote against an incumbent and have a 2/3rds chance of pissing on a RINO.
The problem is the people running against the incumbents. They’re liable to condemn the incumbent as a RINO and claim that they themselves are not RINOs. The first half of this is probably true…the second, there’s no way of telling unless they have a reputation. I’ll definitely have my ears open before the actual vote.
Which brings me to…
Lauren Boebert
I live in Ken Buck’s district. Which means I live in the district Lauren Boebert moved to, to try to remain in Congress. Apparently having the closest congressional race of 2022 was a bit frightful, so she moved from the 3rd CD (largely Western Colorado) to the 4th CD (eastern Colorado). And I just got shifted from the 5th CD (basically centered on Colorado Springs/El Paso County but used to include a lot of adjoining rural counties) to the 4th CD.
So, assuming I get elevated, I get to help decide who will be on the primary ballot. Boebert has ten times as much money in the bank as any of the other umpteen candidates, and seems like an attractive choice (in more ways than one).
But.
But she seems to have gone weak kneed in regards to Kevin McCarthy, and she’s also got a lot of “baggage,” bad behavior that a Dem opponent could use against her. Or that could be used to blackmail her. Maybe that has already happened!
So I have to admit that although I am inclined to vote for her, I have some hesitation. On the other hand, I literally know nothing about any of the other candidates. I don’t even recognize their names. So any of them is a complete “is this politician a RINO” crapshoot.
I suppose I could look to see which of them are doctors of education!
The Real Fascist is His Fraudulency Joe Biden*
*Or whoever has his hand rammed up that meat puppet’s ass.
Brandon (which I will use as a term for whoever is the power behind the Porcelain Throne) has thrown down the gauntlet…but in a way where most of America will never see it. The networks didn’t carry his tirade. CNN air brushed it (or whatever you call editing the red background) for its five viewers (who aren’t trapped in airports).
Luckily for me I live in Colorado, and therefore, despite my best efforts, I probably didn’t vote for Donald Trump.
Of course, for this purpose who I actually did try to vote for will be essential, and they undoubtedly know.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Small Government?
Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.
This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.
No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.
World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.
So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
A Few Things We Cannot Blame on His Fraudulency
I am pretty sure Joe Biden had nothing whatsoever to do with the 30 Years War that ran from 1618-1648 and probably killed about a third of the people then living in what is now Germany.
Nor did he cause the collapse of either Roman empire (Western, 476 CE, Eastern 1453 CE). Nor the ignominious failure of most of the Crusades. Nor the collapse of Bronze Age civilization around 1200 BCE (including the collapse of the Minoans and the blowup of Santorini).
However, my utter lack of ability to imagine how he could possibly be responsible for these things is not a valid argument against them, so I await correction if appropriate.
His Truth?
Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.
I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.
But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.
Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.
But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
As far as I know, that’s an all-time nominal high for gold, though I doubt that once you adjust for inflation it beats the 1979/80 price spike of $850. Gold jumped $38.80 on Thursday, but over the course of the whole week did almost twice that much.
Silver is still struggling to do something spectacular, and the PGMs are up almost in proportion to gold.
This is bad news on the whole; it means the dollar is in trouble, and ultimately we’re going to be struggling with inflation, possibly really bad inflation. Not a problem as long as your income keeps pace…but it won’t. Gold bugs of course consider this good news, but they are going to find a trashed dollar hits them too.
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
China is in the White House
Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is Asshoe
China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.
But of course the much more important thing to realize:
Joe Biden Didn’t Win
乔*拜登没赢 !!! Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!! Joe Biden didn’t win !!!
There could really be another FLORIDA in the GOP column.
Note that I did NOT say “another DeSantis”. Jim Renacci has suggested that his administration would be a lot LIKE the DeSantis administration in Florida but he’s actually rather loath to compare himself directly to Ron DeSantis, or to any other Republican governor.
But when he does compare, he makes no bones about it.
No lockdowns, no gun control, and no CRT – Ohio needs a governor like Ron DeSantis. pic.twitter.com/CVA4WdYoTS
Renacci claims to have STUDIED DeSantis, just like he used to study his business competitors, in order to learn how they succeeded. Renacci says that DeSantis has a SYSTEM (which I will not repeat for enemy ears) that pipelines popular legislation to his desk very rapidly. Renacci is fully prepared to begin doing the same thing for Ohio in 2023, because he believes that conditions to create a similar system will be ideal after the 2022 election.
Renacci actually has a PLAN for Ohio – what he can accomplish in 4-8 years, and what he cannot. For example, Renacci figures that he cannot remove the state income tax during his tenure, but that he can prepare the state for a complete change in the tax system to happen AFTER his administration.
And all the stuff that we DO want right away, to push back against BRANDON and his insane, treacherous, WEF-and-China puppet administration? Renacci would begin signing bills as soon as he could get them across his desk.
Fox News, of course, as controlled FAKE NEWS opposition, is trying to downplay the possibility of Renacci winning.
Note that Fox is pegging Joe Blystone (the underdog, outsider, “Farmer Joe” candidate) with the same very respectable 20% segment as the Harris poll, but is dropping the much more realistic Renacci candidacy BELOW that level – which makes no sense. IMO there was a 20% transfer from Renacci to DeWine here, but I’m not sure how that artifact was pulled off.
So exactly how “DeSantis” would a Renacci administration actually be?
IMO, it would be as Republican as the House of the Ohio Legislature, which just gave DeWine a constitutional carry bill that he could not afford to “not sign”. That bill becomes law this summer.
That means Renacci would have legislative backing for moves like this.
It means getting RID of the critical race theory that DeWine’s appointees supported and defended to the very last liberal (yes, I was SHOCKED by that).
Whether it's called "Critical Race Theory" or "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion," I will kick leftist propaganda out of our public schools.
Renacci has studied Mike DeWine, too. Renacci says that DeWine runs like a Republican for the primary, moves left for the general, and then TRIES to govern like a Democrat.
And Renacci’s not wrong about that.
Mike DeWine could have protected women's sports in Ohio last summer – he chose NOT to. https://t.co/0SeNTAiHZa
Mike DeWine’s a nice guy, but in my opinion he’s not committed to freedom. He signed the constitutional carry bill because he HAD to do it to win the primary – not because it was the right thing to do. DeWine called constitutional carry a “tough decision”. Not tough at all, says Renacci.
In my opinion, the only thing really standing in the way of Renacci is the media and lovable Joe Blystone, who the media plays up while ignoring Renacci. The media does this in order to keep Joe in the limelight and in viable “underdog” status, sapping votes from the more realistic and left-threatening competitor – Jim Renacci. You can tell – 20% of the vote is rather surprising for a third-party candidate. THAT is the power of the media, churning for Joe Blystone with “bad press”.
Will the media plan succeed? Will they “keep us divided” so that a RINO can slip through, yet again, to force all of Ohio to suffer a minority ideology that nobody wants?
Or will Renacci bring that Sweet Florida magic to Sweet Ohio?
You can bet a bushel of buckeyes, I will do my best to help freedom happen!
Get your rest, Trumpy Bear! You’re going back to the White House!!!
The Business At Hand
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).
And indeed, it’s Monday…again.
But we WILL ….. RISE to the occasion!
The Rules
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.
Try to live up to the FOUNDERS.
Value FREEDOM over COMFORT.
SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]
We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.
Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.
In Wheatie’s words, “We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”
That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.
We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).
We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.
If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.
We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.
In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”
A Moment of Prayer
Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.
Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.
You may also pray for our enemies, perhaps that they might not fear our prayers, nor scoff at them, but simply HEED them and be blessed.
MUSICAL INTERLUDE
For your listening enjoyment, and general encouragement, we continue Wheatie’s tradition of fine music videos, shipped fresh from the seas of information by our intrepid authors.
I’ve decided to go straight for the “epic” genre tonight. Back from ROCK’N’ROLL and COUNTRY BABES to some CORE WHEATIE. But maybe with a WOLF SPIN.
Let’s start off with some EPIC VIOLIN….
Interesting, but not quite the real McCoy for classical fans.
So how about the same sort of thing, with “epic classical”?
Here you go!
And yet…. I’m still searching for something else.
Maybe a little “Epic Pop”?
AH. That’s what I wanted.
Call To Battle
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
…..and speaking of “getting out”, there are a HERD of RINOs who could be evicted this spring! Are we up to the task?
Who Are The RINOs?
There are too many – FAR to many – to detail here.
So I’ve selected just three of the RINOs who HAVE TO GO.
All of these RINOs have let us down – not by fake plots like the “Trump let us down” crap that was mouthed by “Buffalo Boy” / “QAnon Shaman” on the orders of Deep State and Woke Military, but by actually acting like DEMOCRATS and letting us down.
There will be more. This is just the beginning.
SUNDANCE has a GREAT POST about how we need to NOT just say “AWW, SHUCKS – cOvID is over – let’s just forgive the tyrants” – NO. There must be an ANSWERING for what was done.
If you see RINOs backing off and backing down, you know why. They know that they kowtowed and genuflected to the WRONG TYRANNY.
Let’s start off with the biggest loser in the bunch.
Doug Ducey – Arizona Senate
Horrible RINO Doug Ducey, governor of Arizona, who allowed the UniParty to steal the election from Trump, is no friend of the people. Term-limited to two terms, he can’t remain governor – but that doesn’t stop the UniParty from finding a new place to park his RINO azz.
The wicked OLD CROW Shanghai Mitch is pushing the election theft-protecting RAT Doug Ducey to run for the Senate, to help in Mitch’s CHINO-RINO plans.
So far, “The Deuce” hasn’t signed on, but keep an eye on this dastardly plot.
RINOs. They fight extinction….. HARD!
Greg Abbott – Texas Governor
Remember when it was Abbott vs. DeSantis for the title of “Most Trumpian governor”?
Well, look at who COVID and THE BORDER destroyed.
THE PEOPLE have a way of seeing ALL TALK and NO ACTION.
Not sure what happened to Abbott, but he has NOT been stepping up strongly.
So who has? STAY TUNED.
Mike DeWine – Ohio Governor
Mike DeWine is a nice guy, but there are millions of nice guys who are not equipped to be a wartime governor – much less fight a war against tyranny – against sinister forces – both foreign and domestic.
The enemy was quickly identified as not being COVID per se, but rather a coalition of self-interested VULTURES. Radical leftists, resurgent Soviets, European globalists, DC bureaucrats, psychotic elites, woke corporations, Big Pharma, virtue-signaling science and professional organizations, rogue intelligence agencies, the DNC, and Chinese hegemonists – and that’s before we start at the bottom with Mask Karens and vaxx pushers.
A conspiracy of instincts and interests – of people who have designs to plunder this great nation, and have already staked far too big a claim on Ohio.
MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS, FORMING A MASS OF NPCs.
DeWine made a HUGE mistake with his mask mandates and Amy Acton-inspired COVID buffoonery. Republicans tried to warn him as it became clear that we were being snookered by the leftists and globalists, but DeWine failed to listen.
Eventually people figured it out. Mike DeWine is John Kasich’s third term, just like Biden is Obama’s third term.
Do we REALLY want a fourth Kasich term?
UniParty Republicans have been good for business when the business was selling out America, but now that America’s gas tank is almost EMPTY, maybe it’s time for people who actually understand that profiting on a CHINA FUND isn’t actually WINNING.
Why DeWine is so beholden to the Dems and China is beyond me, but it may have something to do with Columbus, Ohio being a deep blue zone that runs a bright red state. I think the statehouse is basically OWNED by the surrounding turf, and the Democrats communists are able to control or at least influence the perceptions of everybody in Ohio politics.
In any case, DeWine is a RISK to Ohio. The left manipulates him with impunity. He’s a nice guy – he’s an easy candidate to sell to DEMOCRATS – but he’s also UTTERLY CONTROLLABLE by the DNC.
There ARE other choices.
And not just in MASKS.
Who Will Send the RINOs and DEMs Packing?
Looking at the three RINOs above, and in Ducey’s case, the office that he’s leaving, let’s see who is “chasing out the RINOs”.
Technically, it was TERM LIMITS that sent Dupey Ducey out of office, to be swooned by the OLD CROW himself, Mitch McConnell, to run for one of Arizona’s two Senate seats. There are several Republicans running for governor now. ALL of them appear solid on the issues, but the one that MAGA loves, and the left fears the most, is clearly Kari Lake.
The EVIL BITCH Katie Hobbs is running for Arizona governor on the Dem ticket because her “life out of jail” depends on it. More wicked Maricopa County cheating may keep Hobbs out of jail, too – but if anybody can beat her, it’s Kari Lake, so Hobbs is ALREADY gearing up against Lake on a “Kari is QAnon” platform.
Trust me – when Kari Lake is done with cheatin’ Katie Hobbs, Katie’s gonna look like the CAT LADY she is.
Don’t let Arizona become the next California or New Mexico. Kari Lake is the FIREWALL.
My, how Allen West has outlived the UniParty machine that always painted HIM as the whack-a-doodle – only for that machine to go along with the utter INSANITY we see coming out of Washington now.
If you're hitting the grocery store to prepare for winter weather, please just buy what you need and leave some for others!
You may have noticed empty shelves in some stores due to national supply chain issues, but there is no need to buy more than you normally would. pic.twitter.com/RcCNNa4Zj4
— DC Homeland Security & Emergency Management (@DC_HSEMA) January 15, 2022
(Hat Tip sundance)
The people who went along with all this crap need to be REMOVED.
End of story.
Yeah, Abbott ain’t Muriel Bowser or Kate Brown, but he’s no DeSantis. And speaking of which…..
Ohio – Jim Renacci or Joe Blystone
Ohio Republicans have a problem. They have three main choices for governor.
“Milquetoast” Mike DeWine, who will INEVITABLY order fresh mandates – to the ability that he can – if the Democrats and China release another virus.
“Constitutional Conservative” Joe Blystone – a “guilty pleasure” candidate who the MSM absolutely loves to inflate, then harass and scandalize, because he’s an easy target, with an utterly chaotic “Farmer Joe” campaign.
“Ohio’s DeSantis” Jim Renacci – who the media and UniParty absolutely DO NOT want anybody to realize is an option, and having been rather successful in that regard.
In my opinion, Blystone is the most like a Trump voter, but Renacci is the most like Trump. Do the math.
The media is clearly elevating Blystone to try to STOP a Renacci challenge, and keep DeWine in office, nice and controlled.
Renacci has LITERALLY promised to govern like Florida’s Ron DeSantis. Renacci also picked a very interesting Lieutenant Governor candidate to run with him – somebody very skilled with MSM-independent media messaging – an Ohio-based Christian film producer named Joe Knopp.
You may remember one of his films.
Knopp did a documentary on Trump, seen through the women around him, and in doing so, was spurred to enter politics.
Here is a great article on Knopp and how he became Renacci’s co-candidate.
Ultimately, in the general election, I will support ANY of these three against WHOEVER the Demon Dems decide to run. But for the primary, I think the smart money is on Renacci. He’s always been in the Ohio Republican machine, but he’s “new machine” – Trump era.
Blystone? In my opinion, his winning the primary leads by any of several paths to a succession of Democrat governors. And that is the LEAST of the reasons why the Democrats are behind him.
Trump was a finely tuned weapon that we aimed at the mess in Washington, and hit a bullseye.
Renacci would be the same for Ohio.
Blystone is a stinkbomb that we would enjoy throwing into the Statehouse – for ONE TERM MAX, and more likely ZERO TERMS.
Renacci has experience – as a mayor, as a Congressman, and as a businessman. I think he’s the guy.
And he can always appoint Blystone as Secretary of Cleaning Out RINOs.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
stalking horse
noun
A horse used as cover by a hunter stalking game
A candidate put forward instead of any of several potentially successful candidates in order to initiate a leadership debate, gauge feelings, divide opposition, etc.
A stalking horse is a figure used to test a concept or mount a challenge on behalf of an anonymous third party. If the idea proves viable or popular, the anonymous figure can then declare its interest and advance the concept with little risk of failure. If the concept fails, the anonymous party will not be tainted by association with the failed concept and can either drop the idea completely or bide its time and wait until a better moment for launching an attack.
Used in a sentence:
In American politics, George W. Romney believed that Nelson Rockefeller had used him as a stalking horse in the 1968 Republican Party presidential primaries by promising support, then not providing it and hinting at his own entry into the campaign.
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the 96th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony near the White House in Washington, U.S., November 28, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Young – RC1E6EA87210
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
Get your rest, Trumpy Bear! You’re going back to the White House!!!
I think this statement is one of the best political speeches ever! Thank you, Trumpismine, for alerting us to this gem!
Please Stand By For A Brief Interruption…..
*SNUCK – A Special Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Day
Is it “snuck” or is it “sneaked”? DA WOOF was raised on “snuck”, more than likely because of his young hillbilly associates.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has a wonderful discussion of this point.
The original past tense of sneak was sneaked, following the pattern of other regular verbs. However, in the 19th century snuck started appearing, and is now the more common version for the past tense of “sneak.” Most irregular verbs become regular over time, but sneak has become irregular, and no other word like sneak (peek, creak, etc.) follows a similar pattern.
We shall return to our roots and use “snuck” as often as possible, but “sneaked” where it sounds better, like “sneaked a peek”.
We now return you to our regular programming.
The Business At Hand
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).
And indeed, it’s Monday…again.
But we WILL get through it, NO PROBLEM.
The Rules
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.
I want to make TWO POINTS today.
POINT 1 – No Political Correctness (of Any Kind)
We shall endeavor to keep all forms of political correctness OUT of this place.
Even a hypothetical MAGA PC.
The idea that some things cannot be said “because MAGA” or “because Trump” is a non-starter. Don’t even.
THAT is a path back to BUSHISM and RINOism.
The utter banishment of PC is how we make sure that ALL “non-establishment voices” can be heard.
Political correctness always starts off with “we’re just asking you to be nice”, or, “we all believe this, don’t we?”, but it always ends up in censorship, because that is where it was ALWAYS HEADED.
You can use LOGIC, REASON, RELIGION, SCIENCE, and any other form of honest quarrel, even as simple as saying “I don’t like that”, but NOT political correctness.
PC is the most insidious infringement of free speech to ever exist.
And PC is not just a leftist thing.
A classic example from history is “You can’t criticize a sitting President during wartime.”
Where in the hell did THAT come from?
I would think that wartime is THE MOST IMPORTANT TIME for there to be criticism – even from people I absolutely can’t STAND (and I did like the Dixie Chicks, even when they were stupid as hell!)
Nope.
No idea, discussed honestly, truthfully, and with the agreed level of civility, is “beyond the pale”.
This site does not exist to protect certain ideas from examination. It exists to shine light into EVERY nook and cranny.
Thus, please don’t demand that certain topics or ideas be “off limits”, or declare that they are justifying of incivility.
Point 2 – Ignoring Those Who Disagree In Automatic Ways
People who disagree with your comments are simply part of this place, because of FREE SPEECH. You just have to put up with it. All viewpoints are subject to being countered in a civil fashion.
“Civil” does not necessarily mean that you will not be annoyed or frustrated by the reply or replies.
Feel free to offer to “agree to disagree”.
Now there are some people who don’t want to “agree to disagree”. They feel a kind of necessity to speak their mind – to state ALL disagreements, and to continue ad infinitum. Often this is religious, where the person believes that failure to disagree is a dereliction of moral responsibility.
This can get frustrating, if you feel that you HAVE TO RESPOND.
Because you DON’T HAVE TO RESPOND.
The best medicine for ad infinitum disagreements, even in moral duty, is to IGNORE THE REPLY. And I mean don’t respond in ANY way.
Do not demand that the other person “henceforth ignore what you say”, because that’s not part of free speech. YOU ignoring THEM is.
Trust me – when people see that you are not responding to somebody who “gets in the last word no matter what”, they are NOT thinking thatthis person “won the argument”. They think you have better things to do. AND YOU DO.
SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]
We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.
Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.
In Wheatie’s words, “We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”
That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.
We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).
We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.
If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.
We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.
In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”
A Moment of Prayer
Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.
Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.
You may also pray for our enemies, even Pantifa, who need a good prison ministry.
BREAKING: Garrett Smith arrested today with a "pipe-type explosive device" near a rally in support of J6 defendant Jeremy Brown
Smith was wearing all black and had a helmet in his backpack decorated with what appears to be the antifa "Three Arrows" symbol pic.twitter.com/bQcSLFovmV
For your listening enjoyment, and general encouragement, we continue Wheatie’s tradition of fine music videos, shipped fresh from the seas of information by our intrepid authors.
First – a little “commercial” music from a certain airline.
Well – one thing leads to another. A bit of island-hopping, and then back to Hawaii…..
OK – that’s enough of that. Give me some of that LUCINDA CHICK that Smiley turned me onto! Let’s try the same song LIVE.
Now just add some ELVIS COSTELLO, who shows up with everybody.
OK – let’s see who else we can hook up Elvis with…..
OK. Maybe a good transition.
Call To Battle
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.
Yup. MASS, GRAVITY, TIME and CONSEQUENCES THEREOF are most definitely a thing.
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.
The Ethical Skeptic’s Elevator Pitch
You will recall LAST FRIDAY’S POST in which one of the topics was entitled:
This segment of the daily open covered a wonderful post (more like a “blog paper”) by The Ethical Skeptic, in which it is postulated (and to my satisfaction, demonstrated) that the Omicron variant is of a separate lineage from the Wuhan release and descendants thereof.
I had commented on The Ethical Skeptic’s post, that if he formulated an “elevator pitch” for his paper, I would trumpet it to the world.
WELL, HE DID!
Here is his “elevator pitch”, as well as the context.
WOO-HOO!!!
I got an “elevator pitch” from The Ethical Skeptic!!!
“When one examines the complete 144-slot genetic profile of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, it becomes clear that its lineage is a full two years older than even the first Covid virus in Wuhan, China. Not only did this ancestor of Omicron cause an outbreak across the world in 2018 and 2019, that was mistaken as an 8-fold higher rate of flu across the Asia-Pacific-Africa for those years, but its genetics reveal a robust history of lab mouse serial passes and lab-edited alleles. This proving that its 2018 release as a less-deadly immunity-builder prophylactic virus, and the subsequent release of the more-deadly Wuhan variant two years later, both originated from a weapons-grade bio-lab in China.
China set up a red herring for the world to ‘discover’ at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its local seafood wet market, suggesting an unfortunate but understandable accident was being thinly concealed. Now, the problem for China is, that unlike all the other variants, Omicron stuck around for some reason, and is now spilling the beans on the whole sordid affair.”
TES
Now, let me repeat that in five pieces, with commentary in between.
But first, let me remind you, that this elevator pitch is NOT an abstract or a summary of the blog post. It is a small “explainer and convincer” that gives you the GIST of the proposition – enough to make you GET IT.
If you have just a few seconds to convince somebody that something needs attention, you need an “elevator pitch” – as in “I got on the elevator with the head of research, and finished my proposal right as she got off on her floor.”
Here we go!
When one examines the complete 144-slot genetic profile of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, it becomes clear that its lineage is a full two years older than even the first Covid virus in Wuhan, China.
In my opinion, it has been clear that EVERYBODY is surprised by the genetic divergence of Omicron from the original Wuhan strain, as well as all the other descendants thereof. How in the HECK did that happen?
Well, it gets worse. It turns out that Omicron or its close ancestors have been around since about the time we first started looking at SARS-CoV-2.
It is NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE that this virus is a product of mutation of Wuhan.
Something stinks.
Well, what TES has done, is to look closely at the genetics, and come up with a VERY plausible explanation of them, which ALSO explains many other interesting facts – particularly in the 2018-2019 timeframe.
Not only did this ancestor of Omicron cause an outbreak across the world in 2018 and 2019, that was mistaken as an 8-fold higher rate of flu across the Asia-Pacific-Africa for those years, but its genetics reveal a robust history of lab mouse serial passes and lab-edited alleles.
This matches up with many facts from 2018 and 2019, as well as my belief that China was actively engaged in some kind of shenanigans with the SARS outbreak of 2003.
China, in my opinion, has not only been LEARNING from secret and public accidental viral releases – it has been engineering many intentional releases for DECADES.
I think now is a good time to accept the following.
NOTHING that the CCP says should be believed or disbelieved. What they say is irrelevant, except as evidence of possible deception, criminality, and lies.Treat CCP or proxy statements as evidence from criminals – nothing more.
Here is a perfect example of Chinese scientific disinformation and Sun Tzu subterfuge.
LEARN from the ChiComs.
Chinese scientists (who may or may not believe what they are saying, because of omnipresent CCP infiltration, influence, control, and monitoring of all Chinese scientists) submitted – almost exactly 1 month after TES posted his work – a paper that is essentially COVER-UP of the evidence of mouse genetics in the lineage of Omicron which was revealed by TES.
The first link explains the paper in layman’s terms. The second link is to the paper itself.
What’s really SMART about this ChiCom “fix” is that they’re using Didier Raoult’s work concerning minks as a pretext here. This is a VERY typical Chinese science-spy suck-up technique.
Had I not worked with a bunch of Chinese and Russian spies for decades, being completely on guard for their bullshit, and yet having fallen for it a few times in spite of that experience and suspicion, I would not appreciate just how EXTREMELY GOOD they are at doing this stuff.
They will WEAR YOU DOWN WITH THE SUGAR and then SLIDE THE KNIFE IN when you can’t possibly see it.
And I ain’t sayin’ CIA CHICKS are bad, either, if you know what I mean.
What can I say? This is just like the horrible Zhang paper “proving” masks “work”, which was then used by American Democrat politicians to justify their mask policies used in their electoral coup of Trump.
Science is no longer free of OMNIPRESENT DECEPTION. Treat it accordingly.
I simply cannot emphasize this enough.
The CCP has no respect for “global” science. NONE. They use it – abuse it – and destroy it – all in the name of holding power. All those who trust the CCP, or the people it manipulates and influences – including many American governmental and organizational leaders – are going to get BURNED.
Likewise, if you automatically treat the science that CCP touches as “real”, be prepared to stumble.
This proving that its 2018 release as a less-deadly immunity-builder prophylactic virus, and the subsequent release of the more-deadly Wuhan variant two years later, both originated from a weapons-grade bio-lab in China.
The beauty of this explanation is not only that it explains the genetics, but that it explains many facts which we observed. TES has a good run-down, but in general, the “pre-COVID almost-COVID bugs” that people observed WERE IN FACT SOMETHING.
I think the real question is how much HELP China got on “our side”.
This is straight out of modern Chinese warfare – to strike an enemy in such a way that the enemy does not even understand THAT they have been struck. By using a prior release as a vaccine, the Chinese avoided all blame for a second release on their own soil.
This is brilliant warfare.
This fully comports with a tactic that the ChiComs absolutely love – which is to publicly “anticipate” a warfare capability that they ALREADY OWN AND USE IN BATTLE.
You will notice that by later in 2021, a few of those infamous “Chinese colonels” began to engage in a kind of “wolf warrior braggadocio” over the idea that China had won a great biological warfare victory over the West, by virtue of their superior “response” to COVID-19, and thus that biological warfare needed to be a key part of *FUTURE* Chinese war-fighting strategy.
Do NOT be fooled by this.
What this means is that China is already using biological warfare – and has been for some time. When Chinese colonels do this stuff, it is a psychological operation.
China set up a red herring for the world to ‘discover’ at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its local seafood wet market, suggesting an unfortunate but understandable accident was being thinly concealed.
Again, the TES proposition explains so much about the multi-layer Chinese release cover-up, and all the subsequent, pre-calculated, pre-arranged back-pedaling.
First, there was bat soup.
Then there was no bat soup, but plenty of blame of racism. Clearly the work of the racist but infinitely self-hoaxing CCP.
Then I think it went to pangolins, and that was where I just started rolling my eyes. Smart people started believing blood samples (H/T Linda).
The Red Cross said it was definitely in America in December 2019.
Until somebody else proved October 2019.
And then the Italians proved it was prevalent in Europe in September 2019.
Again, the TES theory is perfect, explaining how the earlier “protective” viruses did a “long march” across Asia, thereby protecting China in a “mid-term practice run” of sorts – working out all the bugs, so to speak.
It just fits too well. Sorry, China.
AND – of course – this explains why the CIA and Twitter and the cut-out group “DRASTIC” created a double-down on a lab escape, conveniently proffered by a media that pilloried Trump for the same ideas, but realized that their “concession” would get Trump’s supporters to buy into a late release accident, to prevent them from seizing upon the highly explanatory idea of a two-stage release operation.
REALLY. They’re so easy to understand now.
Now, the problem for China is, that unlike all the other variants, Omicron stuck around for some reason, and is now spilling the beans on the whole sordid affair.
So – I have to ask – what is “some reason”?
Auberginebelieves that the Omicron mildness is by White Hat design, and I almost have to agree.
Or perhaps there’s a bit of “AND” logic here.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the American military identified Omicron precursors in old blood samples, realized the actual viral timelines, realized that Omicron was a “remnant” of the Chinese pre-Wuhan “vaccine strain”, and essentially RE-DEPLOYED THE CHINESE VACCINE STRAIN as Omicron, in some fashion, at some time?
What this means is that instead of finding and using a racially selective bioweapon, which will inevitably be achieved and used by these racist CCP goons, but is still *possibly* a bit out of reach, the ChiComs worked with what they had on hand – a chronologically and geographically and immunologically selective BINARY bioweapon.
And yet – well – it’s blowing back a bit now. In more ways than one.
Interesting times just got more interesting.
Corbevax – The “Good” Vaccine That Sneaked Past The Criminals
I’ve already been pimping this crap online and IRL, and I have offered some opinions already, but now I’m ready to give you all a real run-down on it.
Here is my latest “pimp job” on The Gateway Pundit, on an article about some poor Israeli teenage girl who got killed by ONE INJECTION of the “clot shot”…..
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Any pro-vax out there who are even thinking of vaccinating your kids – WAIT FOR CORBEVAX.
no mRNA or cDNA
no full spike protein
no nanolipid technology
no Pfizer, Moderna, Wuhan or China involved
non-profit, developed by Texas vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez
professor of pediatrics at Baylor (yes – a pediatrician)
patent-free – anybody can make it
made in India (right now) – very cheap
Google “corbevax hotez” and get more information. This is an RBD subunit protein antigen vaccine – meaning it works around almost every WRONG THING that was done on purpose in the current vaccines in order to PUSH technology. This is an old-school vaccine.
If you’re hesitant, wait for a few months of results. The Phase III trial was good (zero serious side effects), but we all know better – a million doses have to go out before you really know how safe these things are.
IMO, the only safer vaccine would be this exact same type by nasal delivery.
SO – TMI – information overload for sure.
What did I say? Some safer vaccine?
YES – let’s start from the beginning now.
First, a hat tip to TheseTruths for a link to some OANN coverage of this new vaccine.
OAN Newsroom UPDATED 10:26 AM PT – Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Texas scientists rolled out a new COVID-19 vaccine, saying it’s patent-free and can be produced by any manufacturer in any country. The vaccine, called Corbevax, was developed by the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.
It has successfully passed human trials as safe and effective. The new treatment is based off protein-based technology that has been used in other vaccines for decades and it does not use MRNA.
India has already authorized production of 100 million doses per month of the new vaccine. Meanwhile, Texas scientists say not-for-profit vaccines will help defeat COVID-19 quicker.
“We, about 10 years ago, started making coronavirus vaccines and the irony is that all of our processes are used with that in mind,” explained Professor Peter Hotez, M.D. Baylor College of Medicine. “We build in low cost processes from the beginning because our health economist that we’ve collaborated with have always said if you don’t make it for under a few dollars a dose, you might as well not make it at all. So that’s all we know how to do, is make low cost vaccines.”
The irony here is rich. You can already tell by the price – this is the UBUNTU (Linux) of coronavirus vaccines. And yet, it has somehow managed to get the blessings of organizations owned by BILL GATES.
Yes, Hotez had to let Pfizer and Moderna go first, but I still find it amazing that Hotez got this vaccine past the wicked Bill Gates during his own lifetime.
Almost makes me wonder if Hotez got some help from his anti-vaxx enemies, putting pressure on the various CLOT SHOTS.
Hmmmmmm……
Yes, Professor Hotez actually DESPISES Sharyl Attkisson over the autism issue, and used to savage her on Twitter. Not sure if he’s blocked her, but I would not be surprised.
AND YET – well – just listen to him.
You heard him. The only leftist buzzword that Hotez left out was “sustainability”. It’s very clear that he knows how to do the university PC bullshit walk, and yet – this guy may end up saving millions of “Deplorable” lives, with a “plain Jane” vaccine that could actually have BENEFITS exceeding RISKS.
Let’s look at more coverage.
Here is a fluff piece written by HOTEZ HIMSELF and his colleague, Maria Elena Bottazzi, in good old super-wokester SCI-AM.
Maria Elena Bottazzi is co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. She is also a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and associate dean of its National School of Tropical Medicine.
I must STRONGLY recommend reading the ENTIRE ARTICLE, which is short and easy to understand.
It is absolutely DRIPPING with VAXZI NARRATIVE and PC BUZZWORDS – and yet one gets the sense that the entire project is planned, positioned, and poised to BRING DOWN THE CLOT SHOTS. Or perhaps just to race right past them, as they self-destruct.
FTA (buzzwords and key points emphasized BY ME):
Two years into the pandemic, CORBEVAX is the first COVID vaccine designed specifically for global health. It is a milestone for global vaccine equity, something we believe will overcome vaccine hesitancy, and serves as a blueprint for how to develop a potent vaccine for pandemic use in the absence of substantial public funding.
The vaccine prototype was first developed by scientists at Texas Children’s CVD and Baylor before it was licensed, with no patents or strings attached, to Biological E. Limited (BioE).
The central government of India has already ordered 300 million doses. And BioE, the company manufacturing the vaccine, plans to produce 100 million or more doses per month starting in February. Approximately 150 million doses have already been produced and are ready to roll out. In addition to what the company is supplying to India, BioE plans to deliver more than one billion additional doses to other countries.
What this means is that CORBEVAX will soon vaccinate more people than vaccine doses donated so far by the U.S. government or any other G7 country.
This new COVID vaccine has several distinct features that make it particularly suitable for use in resource-poor settings: it is safe, effective and can be locally produced at very high quantities. CORBEVAX is easy to store and inexpensive. We hope it will be used in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where vaccine availability has generally been abysmal.
CORBEVAX is made using technology that has been employed worldwide for decades, meaning that manufacturing processes are generally already well-known and won’t require a steep learning curve like the one needed for the scale-up of new technologies such as mRNA, adenovirus and protein particle vaccines.
CORBEVAX is made through microbial fermentation in yeast, similar to the process used to produce the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine that many resource-poor countries make and employ. This will allow for local manufacturing of COVID vaccines similar to CORBEVAX. Texas Children’s CVD and Baylor have already licensed the COVID vaccine technology to companies in Indonesia and Bangladesh and have licensed it for production in African countries such as Botswana. Such vaccine technology and licensing agreements, together with co-development partners, represent the ideal example of how COVID vaccines can and should be produced locally and widely in countries in the Global South.
Like the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine that comes from the same technology, CORBEVAX has an excellent safety profile. In a phase 3 trial conducted in India, CORBEVAX produced mainly mild adverse events, making it perhaps one of the safest COVID-19 vaccines in use.
When compared with doses of the AstraZeneca–University of Oxford vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, CORBEVAX also produced a higher amount of neutralizing antibodies against the Delta and Beta variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID (We expect to have Omicron data soon.) And it provided more durable and lasting protection. The vaccine neutralized variants of concern in laboratory animal studies and was highly protective in two nonhuman primate challenge trials. The trial results are being prepared for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
As a recombinant protein vaccine developed from the receptor biding domain of the spike protein on the virus’s surface, combined with Dynavax Technologies’ CpG 1018 adjuvant with alum, the Texas Children’s CVD COVID vaccine can be stored using simple refrigeration. And like the hepatitis B vaccine, this COVID vaccine has one of the lowest costs of any available to date. No patents have been filed on the vaccine technology, and Texas Children’s CVD is assisting and co-developing the vaccine alongside BE and other vaccine producers in the Global South, which helps keep the cost low.
There is a research paper cited in the text, from Hotez and company, which shows that this is strong recombinant tech – it is NOT a rushed product.
Genetic modification to design a stable yeast-expressed recombinant SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain as a COVID-19 vaccine candidate
Now you all may remember me talking about a German vaccinologist named Winfried Stoecker, who tried to develop and promote a very similar RBD vaccine – and who was shut down immediately by Angie The Dung Cow and her Green Shirts.
In my opinion, this guy is like a “reality” version of the angry white faux-tranny Titania McGrath – a troll so perfect that it has to be real, or reality so SPOT-ON that it becomes a troll.
Peter Hotez is so authentically in compliance with the narrative, that he holds power over the hypocrites who force it on everybody else.
Thus, Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci are forced to go along with their own narrative, by this bow-tie bozo – this three-mask martinet of mandate over-compliance.
Don’t worry – this move away from the clot shot serves the agenda of Gates and Fauci, by covering their rear ends when the heat is on. The super-villains are not stupid, and did not rise to their levels of control by allowing guys like Hotez to be anything but a “parachute” of sorts, if their private jets catch fire.
Still, how did Hotez pull it off?
In my opinion, going to INDIA was the key move. India understands the precarious position they are in, thanks to CHINA JOE in the White House. India telling Pfizer to talk to the hand, and also backing off on trumpeting the virtues of ivermectin, are BOTH in my opinion connected to an exit via the Hotez vaccine.
HOTEZ had to know that INDIA was his key to getting HIS VACCINE produced.
INDIA had to know that HOTEZ was capable of bailing them out from the CLOT SHOT.
INDIA understood that HOTEZ was donating them a money-maker to gain leverage on the CLOT SHOT.
HOTEZ understood that INDIA needed an easy break to steal influence from CHINA.
Both HOTEZ and INDIA knew that BILL GATES, CHINA and BIDEN were weakened by CLOT SHOT blowback, and were not in a position to keep the murderous ruse of the CLOT SHOT going.
The HOTEZ VACCINE could be delayed at first, but it could not be stopped, because CLOT SHOT problems would eventually make it impossible to delay or stop any other reasonable vaccines.
All in all, a beautiful chess game of scientific leverage.
So who wins?
In my opinion – GOD.
Matthew 18:6
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Peter Hotez is very clear about the pediatric possibility of this vaccine. No matter what, I think he REALLY wants to help kids. If his vaccine isn’t “Clot Shot, Jr.”, then I think he may just do that.
We anticipate people will readily accept CORBEVAX and similar recombinant protein COVID vaccines, including for pediatric use. And clinical trials in children are also underway in India. Parents may even be more willing to accept CORBEVAX than vaccines made with a newer technology. If there was ever a COVID vaccine that might triumph over vaccine hesitancy and refusal, we believe this could be the one.
Is this vaccine better than simply catching the disease? We’ll see.
After what Pfizer, Moderna, Fauci, Gates and Biden have done, I trust NATURE more than vaccines. But I also “trust” some vaccines more than others.
I HOPE that THIS one – Corbevax – may be the new “gold standard” of coronavirus vaccine safety.
In the process of finding this video – passing over videos about – well – you can guess – I found THIS one, from Australia. The title is misleading – designed to get clicks and subscribers.
It’s worth watching to see the good and the bad of the Australian spring this last October.
As Election Day approaches, THE GLOVES ARE COMING OFF.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s milquetoast stance on vaccines has muddled along, but as we watch vaccine mandates DESTROYING blue states, that tinge of purple in Ohio is looking more and more dangerous, with a WEAK LEADER in the capitol.
The man sure loves his purple ties. Is that ROYALTY, HILLARY, or XI?
Well, today that changed.
Is there salvation? It’s not too late.
Republican gubernatorial challenger Jim Renacci launched a salvo of emails with this message:
NO VACCINE MANDATES. PERIOD.
There’s not a lot of room there.
But if you’re uncertain about who to vote for, here is the full text of the letter.
Friend,
You get to decide what goes into your body – not the government.
Giving up your right to bodily autonomy is a slippery slope to losing other rights, like freedom of speechc and bearing arms.
That’s why Jim Renacci opposes vaccine mandates now and forever.
Just like President Reagan said, “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
While DeWine is stripping Buckeyes of their freedom, Jim Renacci is putting Ohio first. Renacci will make Ohio a sanctuary state and protect your right to refuse vaccinations.
The first step to preserving your freedom begins with firing DeWine. Team Renacci is working hard to make that happen, but we need all the help we can get. Please consider donating today.
Halloween is just around the corner, and DeWine is hoping he can trick you with HB 244. Don’t be fooled. It doesn’t prevent school vaccine mandates. Instead, it’s a backdoor that allows approved vaccines, like Pfizer, to be forced onto school children.
Renacci will never deceive or trick you. That’s why his message is clear:
NO VACCINE MANDATES. PERIOD.
Thank you,
Jim Renacci
Candidate for Governor of Ohio
I went to the Renacci website, and found this right at the top, about mask mandates:
Here is that video:
Digging deeper, Renacci has a statement on vaccine mandates HERE:
MIKE DEWINE REFUSES TO PROTECT OHIOANS’ FREEDOMS FROM UNCONSTITUTIONAL MANDATES
10/12/21
Cleveland, OH – Former congressman and candidate for governor Jim Renacci released the following statement on Mike DeWine refusing to protect Ohioans from unconstitutional mandates as other governors like Greg Abbott signed an executive order banning mandates of any kind in his state:
“It has been 33 days since Joe Biden announced his vaccine mandate for workers and Mike DeWine has still done nothing to shield Ohioans. DeWine continually proves he is a feckless leader who refuses to protect Ohioans’ from overbearing mandates that strip away our freedoms. We have seen throughout the pandemic other leaders like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott govern better than DeWine, who instead chooses to lead like Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom. Every single day we see our freedoms eroded by DeWine’s policies and, if we do not have new leadership in Columbus soon, he will continue to be an emboldened tyrant willing to sacrifice our futures by living under his warped rule of law. As governor, I will protect all Ohioans from these mandates and ensure the government will never intrude on their ability to choose what is best for themselves and their families.”
There is a way to fight back against this stuff. FIRE milquetoast weakling Mike DeWine.
Every Ohio Republican MUST get out and vote for Jim Renacci. Even the Blystone people need to throw their votes to Renacci now, IMO. Get DeWine OUT. Otherwise, mandates are coming, and millions of Ohioans will be FLEEING Ohio to take up residence in saner states.
But this is not happening in isolation of “other items” that are pushing the political animals in Columbus to jump on the stool at the crack of the whip.
So this will be led by Kristen Clarke, who accused the Chicago police department of unfairly targeting Jussie Smollett after they sought access to his cell phone. https://t.co/JKvisPfRPi
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — On the same day the mayor of Columbus reinstituted a mask mandate, Ohio’s governor reiterated his hands are tied when it comes to health orders. But Mike DeWine said he will continue to speak out on the issue of COVID and how to get Ohio’s numbers down.
DeWine said he spoke with Ohio public school superintendents and Catholic diocese schools yesterday, warning them that mandatory masking is the best way to control the spread of COVID in schools. A number of Central Ohio districts are battling high quarantine numbers due to the coronavirus.
“I’ll continue to say to all school superintendents in the state of Ohio if you want your school to stay open, if you want kids not to be quarantined, the best way to do that is to put a mask mandate on, at least for the immediate future,” DeWine said.Volume 90% DeWine can’t mandate masks, health orders; will keep speaking out about COVID precautions
DeWine however cannot make a mandate statewide, at least not without having it overturned by state lawmakers. That’s after they passed a law earlier this year limiting his abilities to issue health orders.
Would the governor have revived a mask mandate had lawmakers not taken that action?
“I deal with the world as I find it and the way the world is, and I don’t spend a lot of time speculating what would have happened if something else happened,” he said.
Yeah.
Trust me – this maskie purple Xi-tie would have Ohio in a state-wide mask mandate at the first opportunity he could.
AND THIS, MOST OF ALL.
If Joe Biden attempts to bring Australia-type lockdowns and mandates to America, Mike DeWine WILL NOT STAND UP TO THEM. In fact, he will SUPPORT THEM.
Anybody thinking Jim Renacci might be a good idea?
NOW…..
If you don’t think this crap is coordinated, check this out.
At the Columbus Symphony, we pride ourselves on being here for you and our community in meaningful and transformative ways. This includes the health and safety of our musicians, patrons, volunteers, guest artists, and staff.
That is why starting September 25th and until further notice, the Columbus Symphony will require all audience members to show proof of vaccination, or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours before entering the building, or a negative rapid antigen test within 24 hours before entering the building.Those who are unable to be vaccinated or are ineligible (including children under the age of 12) will be required to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours before entering the building, or a rapid antigen test within 24 hours of entering the building. In addition, all guests will be required to always wear masks inside the venue, including while seated during the performance.
These measures ensure the safest possible environment for everyone to return to the theatre and enjoy the Columbus Symphony’s inspiring performances. Please check our website for any updates before you attend a performance. Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you at the Ohio Theatre.
Amid a COVID-19 surge in Ohio’s most populous county, health officials wanted to once again require the use of face masks indoors to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Unlike July 2020, however, this time they hit a wall. State legislation that took effect earlier this summer forbids health departments from issuing blanket health mandates among people not diagnosed with any disease.
So despite a 56% increase in the average daily case rate in the county, which officials attribute to the hyper-transmissible delta variant flooding the state with new cases, the health department says they can do little more than issue a “mask advisory” that’s not backed by any force of law.
“This is an advisory. It’s not an order and it’s not a mandate,” said Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts at a news conference. “The reason why it’s not an order or a mandate is because of state Senate Bill 22, which prohibits us from doing any order that would be a blanket order to the whole population.”
This marks one of the first tangible effects of the legislation, which critics called a naked attack on public health, to play out during an ongoing and now again worsening pandemic.
However, this isn’t the only instance of emerging schisms between public health guidance and policy.
Columbus Public Health issued guidance last week recommending schools, some of whom host children 11 and younger who are ineligible for vaccination, to require all students to wear face masks. However, school districts and universities have split on the issue, and health officials said they hope those districts that went mask-optional will reconsider.
So are the Bidenazis trying to work around that using a Mayoral EO? SEE BELOW.
If you read the rest of the article, you will learn this critical information. DeWine did a SNEAKY temporary protection from vaccine mandates – NOT the real thing.
Local health officials have had their hands tied when it comes to issuing mask mandates after the statewide mandate ended in June and a new law took effect prohibiting them from issuing such sweeping health orders.
The mandate is not subject to the law, Ginther’s office said, because the law only restricted public health agencies from issuing such orders, not city governments. The Ohio Constitution’s “home rule” powers granted to cities and villages include the authority to make regulations for public health and safety.
SO – here we are.
The DEMON DEMS will not back down.
But we are making progress.
Time for the Legislature to pound these bastards down AGAIN.
TL;DR – If you want to CUT TO THE CHASE, scroll on down to THE POINT.
However, if you want to savor the STALKING OF THE HERD before the CHASE, then turn on the MUSIC and enjoy this whole post.
When I realized today just how PANICKED the Plotters of both November 3 AND January 6 are right now – well, I got this weird feeling that we might actually see some ELECTION JUSTICE.
Yeah, they may try to stay cool and collected on the outside, but they see that THEIR plan is leaking like a SIEVE. The FAKE ELECTION SCAM is falling apart at all seams and on ALL LEVELS.
It was actually TWO smaller things today that caught my attention, but they have some big context.
Let’s start with the latter.
The Context
Once you realize who ALL the big players are in the election scam, and add the players in the January 6 election fraud COVER-UP scam, things start making sense.
The Barr betrayal, of course, was most excellent, as far as betrayals go – possibly as good as the Pence betrayal.
I used to think radical scoundrel Eric Holder was the most criminal Attorney General this nation ever had, but now I believe that honor goes to the man who single-handedly erased Donald Trump’s second term – William Barr. ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And I want you all …
I cannot claim credit for realizing that the tactical maneuver of Trump’s supporters to their political demise on January 6, 2021 at Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, was something known to American historians and anthropologists as a buffalo jump. However, as soon as I heard the ill-fated demonstration called that, all my questions about what …
Then look at that MARCH a little more closely, and realize that Ali set the whole thing up to FAIL.
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Then observe how certain elements of the MILITARY were tied into it.
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Then finally take a look at the weirdness of Nancy Pelosi and the FBI signaling over old COMMUNISM and CORRUPTION.
Impeachahontas Now Wearing Two Diapers Nobody expected Chris Wray to play Mafia Nan’s queen of diapers face-up on January 6, but that is exactly what appears to have happened. The only question now is WHY. To quote a friend from a former life, “AYE-YI-YI!” OK – let me back up a bit. First, I want …
And THEN I put it all together – but used that awesome BURN of the “QAnon experts” and global contractors as an introduction of a COVID-reframing post, which I have to say looks better every day as more truth comes out.
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And if you want a finer (but admittedly fuzzy) point on the karmic downfall of these “barely American” people who think they can paint American patriots as “extremists” and get away with it, evidenced in the context of the brilliant Flynn family suit against CNN…..
Somebody put Mountain Dew in the Wolf’s water bowl, and suddenly he thinks he’s wild and free. Indeed, while being WALKED BY HIS DOGHANDED OFF TO HIS WIFELEASHED TO HIS {{{“SMART”PHONE}}}X///RUNNING WITH SCISSORS IN HIS MIND///X But not yet having waved to the patriots who overfly his house routinely to see the giant TRUMP SIGN …
Now, as the COVID plot started really falling apart….
Don’t relax now – we have them ON THE RUN There are many SIGNS that we have scored a MIDWAY VICTORY….. ……in the fight against the COVID PLOT. I’m not kidding. Bringing down the SPIKE PROTEIN – the ABORTION PROTEIN – and the WHOLE-BODY SPREADINGTHROUGH-SKIN SHEDDINGTEEN-AGER DEADING mRNA vaccine – is like – in reference …
…..attention shifted back to the January Sixth Plot. Darren Beattie and Revolver News really began taking it apart, when I realized that the old thoughts from the SECOND Buffalo Jump post were extremely relevant, now in the context of a guy named Ali serving up the pitches that FBI needed and was counting on.
You know, I can be such a chump. But I do have one interesting trait. When I get WISE to having been made a chump, I bring an extraordinary amount of justice with me. The justice. Of truth. Known so that all can SEE IT. No violence. The TRUTH can handle itself. And the TRUTH …
This was followed by another post where I realized the GAME that Ali was playing with the RINOs he had been operating with since he was a McCain hack back in 2008.
This is just a simple question, but if the answer is YES, it has huge implications. Now, if you don’t know who I’m talking about, I just did a piece about Ali Alexander, a.k.a. Ali Akbar, here: Beware The Ace of FIBs You know, I can be such a chump. But I do have one …
That was yesterday. My point was, Ali made a big deal of distancing himself from the GOP(e). Sure looked like he was throwing them some COVER.
I threw in Liz Cheney’s photo as a bit of an afterthought, like a bobber on a fishing line. Who would have thought that a FISH would strike the bobber?
The Point
TODAY, two things happened which are EXPLAINED by old posts.
First, Pelosi decides to farm out the Capitol Hill Police to field offices in all the states. If that doesn’t stink, what DOES stink?
It’s a simple question, but I think it needs to be asked. My money says Her Slyness, Queen Jussie of Pelosi, is going to do what Chris Wray KNOWS is destroying the FBI – the harassment of patriotic Americans for going to THEIR Capitol and registering the MILD REBUKE of YELLING outside the Capitol Building, …
I see this as “offense is the best defense”. The commies got PINCHED by pushback against the FBI – so they PUSH FORWARD with a new stratagem. Nancy knows that far too many people see her as the Jussie Smollett of January Sixth. Gotta do something about that. FIB would be the normal mechanism of federal bullying of patriots.
But FIB has it’s own problems there.
You see, it is my belief that Pernicious FIB was taking too much HEAT for going after patriots DIRECTLY, and I’m sure that state and local LE have had their fill of this political bullshit.
I’m guessing that FIB recruitment is taking a BIG HIT.
Wray’s ability to cut off Pelosi from using FBI to go after ALL the Trump supporters in DC – an agency-killing folly – comes from his owning the “D’Alesandro Dossier” on her and her father.
FBI showing Pelosi that they had goods on her, was the answer to the mystery covered by the 4th post of the Buffalo Jump series. Clearly Wray has bought some independence from Pelosi with those old records on her father’s mafia ties and pussyfooting with Moscow, of which he only showed a “clean taste”.
So we see some discomfort amongst the plotters against Trump.
And now THIS.
I’ll get to what he said momentarily. But let me tell you – the moment I saw this, I took it for what it was – the same thing Schiffty Schiff does. GET AHEAD of the story by FLIPPING IT fast, hard and early onto your opponents. Straight outta Goebbels.
Sorry, Adam – not gonna work. You were a dupe and a putz to go along with CIA on its stupid payola operations to “create terrorists to go after terrorists to raid the piggy bank”.
But your biggest mistake was trying to flip that narrative onto patriotic Americans – meaning onto the DUPES of GOOD WILL who have gone along with this shit unknowingly for the last 20 years, since your last big hoax.
So now let’s get to the meat of what RINO Kinzinger is doing to EVADE justice.
This is an article in Red State by Sister Toldjah – one of the best opinions in conservatism no matter what position she takes. Even when I don’t see it exactly her way, she is THE BEST articulation of the NEXT intelligent mainstream viewpoint.
Her arguments are always close to, and appealing to the emerging stage of modern, mainstream conservative thought. So don’t expect her to be fronting “conspiracy theories” like I’m proposing. She’s not bleeding edge – that is left up to people like us. But if we’re RIGHT, expect her to get there in a timely fashion.
Please click these links and bookmark them – this is going to be a nifty point in proving what is going on, later. Also, I’d prefer that Red State get the clicks, even though I’ve saved this whole article TWICE because of its importance.
Sister is making some AMAZING points right here. The most important is this:
Kinzinger made a very dangerous claim in that interview. It’s dangerous enough that he needs to start flashing some receipts if he has them – because while claiming a politician “incited” a Jan. 6th-style is serious enough, claiming they actually took part in planning it is much worse, and shouldn’t be alleged without some cold, hard proof.
In short, regarding the allegation members of Congress knew in advance what would happen, Kinzinger needs to put up or shut up. It’s just that simple.
Now – it is basically known that in these “Goebbels battles”, which traditionally start by the perpetrator accusing back when the heat gets close, the perpetrator is essentially inoculated by the falsely directed accusation and saved by the confusion. The act of “media-required denial” is then shifted to the righteous accuser rather than the guilty perpetrator.
And with New York Slimes as the media, you KNOW this is not the truth – this is backing up of Democrat LIES.
BUT Sister STILL makes a great point for BOTH sides. Show the receipts.
My job is speculating what kind of receipts exist and where they might be, based on observations.
Personally, I don’t think that a dumb putz like Kinzinger would be involved in the deep planning and preparation of the January Sixth frame job. HOWEVER, the degree of panic he is showing here leads me to believe that he was aware of what was going to happen.
He is – in my opinion – showing consciousness of guilt.
He KNEW there would be a frame-up of Trump on that day, so that he could ACT in ways that would lead the Congressional crowd in the directions it needed to go.
Now I don’t have receipts beyond “body language”, but I’m fairly certain his accusation MUST contain the full weight of his own guilt. So let’s read it.
NYT:Do you suspect that some members of Congress were aware of what was going to happen that day and supported it?
Kinzinger:I won’t name names, but yes, I do have that suspicion. I will say, if you just looked at Twitter — the whole reason I brought my gun and kept my staff home and told my wife to stay in the apartment was looking at Twitter. I saw the threats. When Lauren Boebert — I will call her out by name — tweeted “Today is 1776,” I don’t know what that meant other than this is the time for revolution. Maybe it was a dumb tweet that she didn’t mean. Fine. I’ll give her that credit for now. But if you have members of Congress who were involved in nurturing an insurrection, heck yeah, we need to know.
Now, I won’t speak for Sister Toldjah here, nor for Lauren Boebert, and especially not for RINO Kinzinger, but I can very well speak for myself as an “insurrectionist” (OY VEY) in the crowd that day.
WE WERE DENIED OUR RIGHTEOUS AND PEACEFUL PROTEST. And we were denied our right by the creeps who set up the violence.
Most of us DID in fact protest peacefully, and we were DENIED THAT TRUTH by the fake news media, which is basically the Democrat press.
Guess what? ALL OF US expected a BIG PROTEST. We indeed hoped to YELL so that they would hear us inside. We wanted to CHEER and throw our hats in the air when Mike Pence sent those crooked votes back to the state legislatures.
Which of course didn’t happen, because, like most of the others, Mike Pence was in on the SCAM. Not necessarily knowing the whole thing, but FAILING TO DO HIS DUTY just like all the others who conspired by action or inaction to deny Trump his rightful victory, and to deny US our rightful President.
If everybody just shrugged off their DUTY, it would work. That is how the scam worked.
A STRIKE by government.
A STRIKE against the PEOPLE.
Pathetic.
Anyway, Kinzinger is pathetic, too. He likely will never have to answer with jail time for being an accessory before the fact, mostly because, IMO, he surely didn’t do much other than play along with Nancy Gambino’s charade.
Yeah, he didn’t go running to the FBI and telling them about THEIR PLOT. LOL. Yeah, really. Hilarious. And that is the REALITY in which we live. Don’t go telling the FBI about crime it FAVORS.
But to accuse Lauren Boebert? That’s LOW. That’s really low.
And I agree with Sister Toldjah. RINO Kinzinger – for his own good – had best not FALSELY ACCUSE. When I accuse him of things, I truly BELIEVE my accusations. Enough to take them back when I have contradictory evidence.
Indeed, if I were RINO Kinzinger’s lawyer, I could truthfully argue that he deserves no punishment for being in on “Barr’s shrugging coup” of Donald Trump. These people are perfectly within their RIGHTS to not do their jobs or their duties – to “take a dive” – and even to conspire for what might be regarded as “legally permissible injustices”. Otherwise known as politics.
But to try to paint Lauren Boebert as anything other than a law-abiding American patriot?
It’s a good thing GOD is GOD and not me, because I’d seriously think about TORCHING that fucker with a lightning bolt. His LYING MOUTH deserves nothing less.
And that’s not extreme. Not by the GEORGE WASHINGTON who loved the TRUTH even more than I do.
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