This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

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

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

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The New Year would not be the New Year without your usual 4 or 5 Temu Trinkets – so here we go!

(1) – Seven iconic rock-and-roll “mistakes” that ended up defining enduring songs!

(2) – Matt Walsh deconstructs a new Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution, and exposes a very subtle but pernicious wokeness. The gist is explained in 10 minutes, but it’s worth listening to at least half an hour to hear some eye-opening examples.

(3) – I just have to repeat this. We must ADMIRE this. We must STUDY this. We must PRAISE this.

This is just fantastic! I voted for this!!!

(4) – The revenge of Leonidas. The day that Greece united, and sent Persian globalists into the dustbin of history. Yeah, it’s AI slop, but the narration is good, and the images are borderline OK.

(5) – This is one of the best, yet shortest, mathematical descriptions of how quantum mechanics was derived by Schroedinger. Don’t expect to understand it all, but do expect to learn one or two things from the presentation, each time you watch it – and that is enough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkpKR_8z6GU

OK – so am I going to wish you a Happy New Year?

YES!

At this moment – today – 1/1/2026 – this site has existed for over 7 years and 3 months (it started on 9/18/2018). Measured differently, we’ve now had 9 different years on the header (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026).

We’ve actually had more years under Biden / Obama / Cackles on this site, than years under Trump! So let’s enjoy these Trump years, shall we?

I believe that 2026 will be a hard-fought year, but it will be a GOOD YEAR.

I’m not good at resolutions, but I’m going to resolve to make better use of my remaining time, to help God and Country, Family and Neighbors, Friends and – yes – even my Foes – although in the latter case, that will be limited to helping them see the light and do the right thing!

My Best Wishes to you all for a Happy 2026!

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Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

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 yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our backup site, The Q Tree 579486807, https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/
Our old alternative site, The U Tree, where civility is not a requirement
Our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

ingluvies

noun

a crop or craw of birds
a dilation or pouch in the esophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird’s craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
the widened portion of the esophagus of birds and lower animals
a crop or pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing to the stomach

Used in a sentence with bad American English and Russian accent

“Moose ingluvies, but squirrel not having!”

Ridiculous misleading example of usage generated by bad AI

In the Carnia region of Italy, children catch and eat ingluvies of the toxic Zygaena moths in early summer. (LINK: https://www.wordsense.eu/ingluvies/ – ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/dHtJY)

MUSIC!

Another song by an artist featured previously.

Whoa, the pipes!

Well, there’s nothing about drinking, jail or trains, but put three check marks next to mom!

THE STUFF

This next video is not just for the geeks here, although – yeah – it’s mostly for them. It’s also for the musicians, and the curious.

Steve covered this before, so it should not be totally unfamiliar. Feel free to review:

16 – De Broglie, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

You don’t have to understand the math, to follow along and understand why light and atoms end up being a lot like vibrating musical strings.

Basically, Erwin Schrödinger plugged a simple but weird equation by Louis de Broglie, which said that matter has a frequency just like light, into the existing wave equation, and he got a matter wave equation.

And all of THAT is revealed on the way to answering, what in the heck is an imaginary number doing in there?

You will likely need to watch it more than once.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….