This SPECIAL CYBER MONDAY open thread is 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 world.
Say what you want, comment on what other people said, comment on people’s comments. Keep it civil. Treehouse rules, but expect lots of QAnon.
And YES – we are STILL THANKFUL for GOD and COUNTRY.
And for guns and Bibles of all types, used a peaceably as we can, in service of defending the above, as well as LIFE, LIBERTY, and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
No illegalities, please, or we get shall ban you and pour merciless scorn upon the proglodytes who sent your hoaxy ass this way.
W
Five hundred forty six days (or so) since my first banning at the Old Tree House.
And it looks like it’s going to get crazy real fast at the border, in the Black Sea, and soon in the District of Conspiracy.
Strap in, strap on, and MAGA on.
Looks like I didn’t get banned near the end of May 2017 but rather on May 8.
566 days, not that I’m counting, mind you.
Your count-up clock reminds me of another incident where they were obviously not keeping track. I spent my college undergraduate years in Columbus at Ohio State. Of course this last weekend was the highlight of the football season, which was the Ohio State-Michigan game. This leads me to my story.
Several years ago I was in the Columbus area for one reason or another and I saw a copy of the local newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, which had as a banner on its front page the following: Today’s date followed by “it has been 1569 days since the last Michigan win.” I am sure they were not keeping track either.
Love it, Steve.
I’m actually wondering if this didn’t have to be the first thing I’m reminded of each day. But then again I have a scroll wheel and I know how to use it. ;).
I messed up. I messed up BIGTIME.
And unlike the Yellow Stream Media, I am NOT going to bury it at the bottom of page A-26.
When I first read that, I read too much into it. I thought I was seeing the presentation of a fallacious argument against global warming, one that I have seen presented elsewhere. This did not quite go there, but I read it in, and took the author to task for it anyway.
WheatieToo, you have my humble and abject apology.
Gotcha! Yeah, I was wondering how you saw something objectionable, but such things happen – I’ve misread people before, too. Thanks for clearing that up! Kudos.
I have to say though, that if I had gone back and still seen it–I’d be standing by everything I said.
What you said was true – I guess it really just wasn’t needed. And then that just led to misunderstanding.
Surprised we haven’t had MORE misunderstandings here, TBH!
(KNOCKED ON WOOD)
Speaking of misunderstandings……
prenanny says:
November 25, 2018 at 8:10 pm
Depends on what State you are in if you want to obey the law.
Is there any reason you feel the need to involve law enforcement?
shoot, shovel and shut up
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G. Combs says:
November 25, 2018 at 9:14 pm
Comment deleted by Admin…
Think she’ll make it over here?
Not sure. I’d sure like to know what that deleted comment was, however. People need to understand that there are people trying to get BOTH CTH and QTH closed.
Wow, Gail getting a comment deleted. She’s VERY much a person who follows procedures/rules/etc., doesn’t swear, etc., and is very technical and research-oriented (I think she was a research chemist).
The comment hammer(s) has been falling thick and fast over at the treed-house. Something is up, or they have new mods, perhaps. Surprised I haven’t been hit there (OK, I was in a “past life”) as I tend to get snarky at times with the oldskool types…
G. Combs posts at WUWT, sometimes at chiefio, and I think occasionally at NoTricksZone (at least those are ones I visit due to CAGW – catastrophic Anthropogenic Gorebull Warming…
Maybe I will check out a couple of those sites and see if I can find her. Yes, she WAS very much about following the rules, which is why I think she was speaking out against the advocating for violence. Again, why would THAT be erased but not the other? Then, on the next page there was a string of comments deleted, including a couple of hers, yet 2 other comments on the string remained. SMH – VERY, VERY strange, IMO.
Wow, I guess I need to see some context on that comment.
Talking about homeowners on the border, whether they were legally allowed to shoot trespassers.
Lots of pressure being put on people to be civil. GWP is threatening to ban if you post wanting to mow people down and the like.
That’s because posting “death threats” on social media is a way to get a site shut down.
So the Agents of Evil go around to conservative blogs and post death threats and calls for violence, in order to ‘blacken’ those sites.
Funny how the Leftist sites don’t get shut down for the same thing.
Just goes to show…how many leftover Obots and Leftist Activists there still are in our justice system.
I can’t think she would be ADVOCATING that – she was replying to someone else who WAS advocating murder. That is what is strange to me.
Yes, but she may have been educating on the reality of lethal self-defense, and (sadly) that TRUTH may have been dangerous, or subject to misinterpretation.
The smart gun owner, property owner, or just plain human being KNOWS their legal limits in self-defense, as well as their own personal limits (which may be LESS or MORE than legal limits).
Spelling out those limits may have been viewed as “bad” in some way. Just the WORDING needs to be very careful to not ENCOURAGE violence.
BOOM! I just had an amazing realization based on that. WHO would have the motivation to shut down TRUTH like that?
HOLDERITES.
Now I’m not saying this is my MAIN theory – indeed, my main theory is that SD or Ad Rem may have just viewed the comment as problematic under the leftists’ microscopes on CTH. That is a simple explanation. But it is not general enough, IMO. It doesn’t match up with what I know about OTHER sites.
Thus, there is a SMALLER but more interesting possibility.
It’s just like certain things that happened during the Obama administration. And THIS is why Q could be so confident in predicting shutdowns. DOJ National Security Division, or maybe Civil Rights. They are NOT all cleaned out yet. They are PROBABLY acting out – even under new management. Their personal INDICTMENTS are not yet unsealed.
Thus, this brings up a horrible possibility about the Treehouse.
At various times during the Obama administration, I was under the impression that certain sites were HIT from behind with SECRET ORDERS by the CRIMINAL HOLDER DOJ. Basically a TAKEOVER by the FBI under wicked orders from Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch.
A FEW such sites actually CLOSED so that they could then say WHY THEY CLOSED, valuing TRUTH over staying silent and in business. They went public AFTER THE FACT. They chose the RED PILL of closure and DISCLOSURE over the BLUE PILL of letting the socialists control them.
I think these things were called “national security letters” or something like that. Note how the name “blamecasts” to NSA, when it would more likely be DOJ-NSD Holderites or KGB-CIA acting through their FBI and DOJ assets.
That could be what is happening to the Treehouse. SAD if true.
I’m not saying it IS true, but we have to throw that theory on the pile. CTH may have a GUN to its back.
Wouldn’t that explain things nicely? Just sayin’…..
It could even be a “good gun”, but that gets into levels of intrigue that are beyond this site’s wishes to defend! 😉
Ah-ha…..yes, very real possibility and, after that Tweet about looking for a different state to live in, maybe quite literally. SMH
I doubt G. Combs was banned.
If so, the entire comment would probably have just disappeared (no name and date).
G Combs had taken a break from posting for a while, and only recently returned.
She is a very well-informed Treeper whose comments were always well sourced and linked; very informative, and always cordial.
I cannot imagine what she said that caused her comment to be deleted by Admin.
I’m certain everyone will enjoy her company, and she ours, if we could somehow make the connection.
No, she wasn’t banned. I kind of feel like she and I connected, particularly over horses and I always enjoyed our chats. I was wishing for a way to contact her as well to invite her. I can easily see her taking the other poster to task for advocating breaking the law, which, again, was what was so strange – HER comment deleted but the one saying to shoot/bury someone remains? Just makes no sense to me.
In context, prenanny was responding to:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/11/25/breaking-migrant-horde-rushes-san-ysidro-port-of-entry-in-san-diego-repelled-with-pepper-spray-smoke-and-tear-gas/comment-page-3/#comment-6374289:
Ken Maritch says:
November 25, 2018 at 7:59 pm
Serious question:
Can landowners next to the US/Mexico border shoot people trespassing on their land?
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Further down the string, G Combs responding directly to Ken Matrichs’question:
G. Combs says:
November 25, 2018 at 9:13 pm
Yes in Texas.
I looked at up and Texas is a Castle State. It extends to your place of work so if you have a ranch it would allow you and your ranch hands the right to defend yourselves.
https://www.uslawshield.com/castle-doctrine/
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Thanks.
Notice the timestamps:
Deleted comment 9:14 PM; the existing comment 9:13 PM.
Possibly a duplicate?
i was following that thread yesterday with some confusion on my part because i couldn’t understand why it was starting to get a little testy because i thought everyone was really on the same side, with only slight variances of wording 🙂
another great moment for inter-poster relations!
Well, I thought I was seeing Wheatie engaging in a logical fallacy, and I don’t like to see our side doing that (if we have good arguments, we should use them instead of fallacious arguments people will simply (and rightly) dismiss) so I tried to point it out. Of course it’s a lot easier to point out something that actually exists, than something that doesn’t, so she was confused and (understandably, in hindsight) a bit hurt when I reacted to what I thought was huge obtuseness.
One gigantic misunderstanding and ENTIRELY my fault.
Strong chance of a false flag this week. The videos coming out of Tijuana are enough to make even Democrat voters demand border security. The Deep State will deploy some sort of distraction to keep these videos out of the news cycle.
Agreed. I would like people to quickly jump on any really nasty violent comments, particularly directed at REAL individuals. Stuff that creeps you out in a stalker way is usually a good tell. Throw 4 links in your comment (they can all be to Drudge) and it will light up in my moderation bin. If time is of the essence, just drop it in the FBI tip line and they can work through WordPress if I’m not available.
Will do, Wolf.
But I would want you to have a chance to deal with it yourself, before I did the FBI thing.
You never know if you’ll get a good guy or a bad guy with the FBI.
I figure it’s luck of the draw.
I think THAT is what Q was talking about! “Be extremely vigilant in Dec” “See something, Say something”
That would make sense (assuming you intended your comment as a reply to Sadie).
I couldn’t figure out why I had to be vigilant during congressional hearings and the other fecal tornadoes coming up.
But watching out for an active shooter or something like that? Yep. Makes sense.
Yes, I meant to reply to Sadie. This makes a lot of sense, IMO.
Especially since “See something, say something” is one of the mantras in areas they expect terrorists to target with a bomb or something like that.
Was just over at chiefio – G20 is next week. Forgot about that.
And Davos is coming up soon, too… oddly enough, no matter how good or bad the weather, it always seems to snow the week of Davos (the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland) – think CFR, Bilderbergs, Trilaterals, and illuminati all rolled into one…
Foremost in everyone’s mind should be that none of what we think we know about our govt is accurate. What is now taken as a given is really a mixture of disinfo and info, intended to steer thought patterns by instilling foundation concepts that are primarily for serving the enemy. GIGO is not just for coding.
That’s because they’re not reporters, they’re urinalists. Actually the better way to put it is that they are not reporters, but rather narrators. Narrators narrating the narrative.
I believe they are pitching for the role of propagandist in the hoped for soon to be declared globalist utopia.
Just like Strzok and co were planning on being rewarded by shilling for Crooked – same same.
They are virtue signalling (declaring their allegiance) for the purposes of getting noticed for future plum roles …
Another traffic cam for San Ysidro>>>. https://www.bordertraffic.com/California-Baja/San-Ysidro-Tijuana/Vehicle.aspx . Pick the type cam you want and then wait for refresh and then hit the cams giving. Most choices seem to point in the same direction, but they do have two active cams on the pedestrian crossing place. Right now San Ysidro is open. Lots of cars. Very busy.
Ducks in to wave hi.
https://gab.com/thinkthinkthink/posts/42001975
Amen.
How are you liking Gab? Now that Liz Crokin and Laura Loomer are MAINLY there, the place should be gathering steam.
Gab feels like a clean slate or maybe open territory. You are free to build out your own content with few distractions.
I am still learning how to do the basics. Mute accounts that aren’t meaningful to me. Find good accounts to follow. Stop the unhelpful bots from following my account. (That’s not in the FAQ, BTW)
I tried to send you a private message asking where @BigMamaTEA had the private channel. But then remembered something you wrote about maybe you didn’t have time for DMs.
What sort of ‘false flag’ event could the Agents of Evil be planning…
Whatever it is, it will likely be designed to make our President look bad.
Or something to shore up one of their other false narratives.
Like:
‘Scary black assault rifle comes to life and goes on shooting spree at Mall. Guns bad, must ban all guns.’
They’ve already staged a Show going on down at our southern border.
The situation is ripe for a false flag event…to make our Border Patrol or our Military look bad.
Not sure how they would do it though.
But these cabalists are diabolical.
Here’s a site satrizing the whole guns come to life thing.
They have cams pointed at three “assault weapons.” It has been years and so far they haven’t moved.
http://www.assaultweaponwatch.com/
Oooh, an HK-91 style!!!
Wondering if the Ukraine/Russia thing could be one. Deep State Victoria Nuland types intentionally kicking the hornets nest. If things are getting bad for the DS, I would expect them to activate several FF senarios like this around the same time. Attemp to monopolize the news cycle…
Totally agreed. The Dems have multiple complex motivations to kick that nest, involving both Russia and Ukraine. The smart money is to stay out, but follow Trump’s lead if a move is made.
I replied in the wrong place…
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/dear-maga-open-topic-20181126/comment-page-1/#comment-9921
Just found this site and was happy to see some familiar names!
Hi Tonawanda!
It’s good to see you here.
I have debated whether I should post this comment or not, but decided to post anyway. When I saw the name wheatietoo my heart leaped for joy, and reading your comments in the archives confirmed why.
Aww…Thanks, Tona.
You’re very kind.
🙂
Well, some of us do leap for joy when Wheatie comments, so don’t be embarrassed. Welcome, Tona, nice to have you among us.
All the great people are here!
Yes, they are, though there are a couple I think haven’t shown up just yet.
Every comment I have made is awaiting moderation. I just read W’s post that moderation is strictly a WP function, not W’s doing. Wonder what I am doing to trigger moderation?
I have to approve one of your posts myself to start WP making its own decision. NEW posts should now (fingers crossed) not go into moderation.
TY!
More caravan news:
1/ Not many families (like, none?) …
2/ Meek asylum seekers /s …
I’ve been looking at this photo and can see so many things wrong with it:
1/ What adult is going to let a child walk or run in bare feet on sharp, stony surfaces?
2/ Where is a bag or rucksack (backpack) with their belongings?
3/ How is it that an adult allows children to be dressed so skimpily with adult men around when everyone else we’ve seen in the caravan has new, clean clothes?
4/ Is this really a ‘family’?
5/ What are the circumstances behind this photo?
Feel free to add your insights.
Kinda looks like a day at the beach to me instead of trying to illegally get into a foreign country (USA)!!! Where are the beach towels??? 😉
churchmouse, It was staged.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/hoaxed-the-illegal-alien-mom-with-barefoot-kids-photo-was-a-setup-another-staged-fakenews-production/
Thank you very much, Elizabeth! That made my day.
There were staged photos from Mediterranean migrations that took a week or so to be revealed as fake.
I am relieved this was uncovered early on.
Yep. It’s fake news. There’s a Twitter threat about it – here’s an annotated pic:
What’s a twitter threat? Is that when someone who thinks like us sends a tweet?
D…. T…..yeah. J says “those hard consonants are all the same. Keep ’em separated.”
Yeah. There’s a disturbance in the chair-keyboard interface, as if a million electrons were shifted in the wrong key…shift happens (to quote Dogbert)…
Sometimes I think that my keyboard has become self-aware, or at least a bit of the Leprechaun in it…
D and T are identical in all but one respect: with D the vocal cords are vibrating during the stop. If you form the two sounds and pay attention to what your tongue and mouth are doing, you’ll see this. The only difference is the vocal cords are vibrating with D and not T (you can feel this by placing your fingers on your throat).
So J isn’t that far off, at least in this case. 😀
B and P, and hard G (as in “guts”) and K are also paired like this, all are “stops.” And for non-stops (“fricatives”), V and F, Z and S, Zh and Sh (Zh is an English sound but we have no consistent way to spell it; it’s the sound of the s in pleasure), and the two different sounds for th (in “that” and “thing”) are voiced/unvoiced pairs as well. That leaves the “affricates” J and Ch, another pair. (An affricate is a combo of a stop and a fricative; J is d+zh, and ch is t+sh.)
Phun! 😉
Yes, it Is fun. And the French form their D and I think their T by putting their tongue against the back of their bottom teeth, as I think the Spanish do, too, but am not sure how this affects the vocal part.
Most speakers of English put their tongue against the alveolar ridge, that ridge behind the teeth of the top jaw. Some put it against the top teeth, which always sounded a bit indistinct to me, but speakers of languages that do that (like Turkish) swear we are the ones who are indistinct. To each group, the T and D sounds of the other group are slightly off but you can’t quite put your finger on why.
Japanese forms F entirely with the lips (instead of lower lip, upper teeth), which makes it sound a bit odd to us. Linguists, in the International Phonetic Alphabet even give it a different symbol, φ (Greek letter phi), a V formed the same way gets the symbol β (Greek letter beta, currently pronounced like a v in modern Greek)
I don’t know if Spanish and Turkish D, T have special symbols in the IPA.
@Steve, fascinating, isn’t it?
they followed these people around, i saw at least 4 photos with that woman and at least one of the kids. you could tell by their clothes. so it appears those folks were picked to be featured and photographed at different stages of the day to get some awesome action shots.
one pic has one kid with their finger stuck in one of the holes of a whiffle ball.
Looking back at 44:
https://twitter.com/Citizen817/status/1066723730288713730/photo/1
Click on photo to see the anagram: An Arab Backed Imposter
Yesterday, I posted an article by Corey Lynn about the Arkansas swamp draining.
Apparently, she has had problems with her website since, so has issued an archived copy of the article, for anyone interested:
http://archive.is/2DCSr
Excellent video of a municipal policeman in Mexico warning ‘men’ (he calls them ‘pretty boys’) against putting children at the front when they get to the border.
He says that the children will be hurt, through no fault of their own. They were brought on the caravan and had no say in it.
One of the organisers keeps arguing with the policeman.
The policeman says not to listen to the leaders of the group and ends by asking, ‘Why don’t they go first, then?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nq9yu_6Hew
Yep. That was a great video, and I think the guy is a great policemen. He basically asks “what kind of MAN would put women and children in harm’s way?”
I could see him as advocating MMGA (Make Mexico Great Again). The fact that the “leaders” (Satan Soros puppets) are hassling him makes it obvious that this is a bogus “caravan”…
Exactly!
AAAH!
The old “leading from behind” strategy!
Preview of 2019 — a new, baseless accusation:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1066726548391239680
Do you know why I can’t post a picture here? They used to post. I use WP
Have you tried highlighting the URL — the link — then copying and pasting into the comment box?
Remember that you cannot copy an image from your own device. It has to be uploaded to the Internet first.
On WP (in my experience) you have to use a link – that ends with .jpg or .png – but it can’t be from Pinterest or Wikipedia…for some reason those won’t post.
You can go to one of those link makers such as https://postimage.org to get a link for your image if you don’t have one.
Project there much, Schitt-y?
School in England takes issue with parents and pupils who question male refugee student’s age. Photos at the link:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-25/british-parents-labeled-racist-questioning-age-15-year-old-child-migrant-kids-class
As we know, the same thing has been going on in Sweden, where they put adult males into schools as students.
The article says the refugee admitted he’s 25 and has a wife and family.
I do not understand why Swedish and English councils do not analyse dental records, which, apparently, are reliable in determining age. Perhaps that would be immaterial since councils must consider adult refugees as minors until they reach the age of 25. (sighs, shakes head)
https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1067035928496140290
Chris Wallace interviews Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie about their new book, Trump’s Enemies.
Highlights follow.
Sean Spicer and Gary Cohn, among others, were dubbed The November 9 Club, because, the day after the November 9, 2016 election they notionally turned into Trump supporters. Corey and David doubt whether The November 9 Club voted for Trump.
Trump’s main enemies are (no surprise) the Republican establishment, the intelligence community, the DoJ (including the FBI) as well as Dems, the media and the non-political establishment.
General Kelly, they said, is also a problem. They interviewed the President, and he asked why he wasn’t getting any phone messages. They didn’t come out and say it, but they implied that Kelly is blocking communications to the President.
David Bossie says that notional supporters of the President care more about their own jobs than they did the mid-terms.
Danger points for 2020 are Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, they said. He must win those states, otherwise, he does not win re-election. They will be doing all they can to help.
Conclusion: President Trump is surrounded by enemies both on the Left and the Right, some of whom are working closely with him.
Wonder who financed the writing of this. Sounds awfully gossipy.
Definitely agreed on both points. Yet it sounds very spot on, and similar to some of my own thoughts. It’s all very plausible.
The nature of the VSGPOTUS is that he can take ALL of that in, as well as ALL competing viewpoints, and he still has room for more, before he makes the right decision. 😀
Follow the money. ALWAYS follow the money.
this is their second book together if i remember correctly.
‘What happens in Vegas…’
https://twitter.com/Avery1776/status/1067007899682201605
vegas… i hope we get to see the surveillance videos. especially ones with campos.
we never will though.
I remember Laura Loomer’s tweet from 2017: ‘A Jew in search of Jesus’. 🙂
LMAO! OMG. Banning her was a SIN!!!
vegas was the first time i became aware of loomer for the most part.
EVIL deeds in Mexico – traffickers picking off the caravan inside Mexico.
https://twitter.com/Avery1776/status/1066913478525493249
https://twitter.com/Avery1776/status/1066925247104983040
Wonder if the Klintoon Foundation is, erm, helping out… or maybe the Paedostas…
Where Soros goes the Clinton, Podesta and all their cabal go.
i can see the press using this as a jab at the president saying if he would only let them in they wouldn’t have gotten kidnapped. we will know if suddenly the other side is worried about human trafficking.
@GA/FL: Thank you very much for this. I had been wondering and waiting for such a report.
Prayers up for those sold and abducted. Will this never stop? How horrible.
Slavery is still alive and well in the 3rd world, among the Islamists and even the elite first world….in the US and UK.
Indeed it is.
It’s a pity it never gets a look-in from MSM! Grr! :/
Yet, the MSM and elites worship these ‘heroes’ of theirs whilst denigrating the rest of us.
Who ended slavery, BTW? The West, as in civilisation.
Thank you, ChurchMouse, for stating the plain truth so well. We need to be bold about this and try to educate people. The msm only wants to talk about slavery in the past in certain countries and then tar the entire U.S. with it.
You’re welcome.
Your last sentence expresses it all so well.
We have the same situation in the UK, leaving me shaking my head and asking, ‘Anyone heard of William Wilberforce?’
Yes, I almost mentioned him.
I found my way here when looking for my favorite Treepers whose comments I hadn’t seen in a while. I’m a busy Momma and I don’t have time to read all the comments at CTH. A quick google search for Wolfmoon1776 + treehouse brought me here.
I’m not brilliant and I don’t have a lot of time to research, hence my reliance on CTH and why I don’t follow Q. I’m just a patriot trying to do my small part for MAGA, and I am saddened by the loss of so many familiar faces and brilliant comments at CTH. It doesn’t feel like a Refuge like it once did.
I’m sad that a disagreement and misunderstanding between patriots could cause rifts or make some feel unwanted or cast out. It hurts my heart to think I may have caused some of it with my own comments. I am not anti-Q, but I do see the danger coming from some who have attached themselves to the Q movement, and that was what Sundance was warning about. I saw a cult like mentality in my sister, she followed Q as if it were some kind of guru. I’m not saying anyone here does the same, but I could see Sundance’s side as well. I’m so sad to see that the nastiness and division the post and the comments caused.
I’m so, so happy to see Sylvia, Wheatietoo, Wolfmoon, SteveinCo and PheonixRising, BigMamaTea and others here. You were some of my favorite posters at CTH, and you have been missed by many. I’m going to be lurking here now if you don’t mind :). I don’t have much to contribute but I appreciate the brilliance of this group. I hope some of you will continue to comment at CTH. Sundance is human, he makes mistakes from time to time, but the CTH is such an important asset to MAGA. We patriots need to unite for the upcoming battle.
Thanks, Deb! Your comments are greatly appreciated! 😀
You are welcome to not just lurk, but comment, too. Nothing you have said about Q, the movement, or its believers (“cultish”, “guru”, etc.) is anything I have not thought or gently voiced from time to time, because it’s true.
I only insist that Q people be treated with kindness here. Note that SD was very kind in asking us to leave. That has meaning.
Movements of intelligences are like that. Christianity was like that. The American revolution was like that. I find it beautiful. People who adopt new thinking become zealous. It’s just the way it is.
I’m going to have a post up shortly about some fascinating thoughts I’ve had on things, but I’ll drop one right here, because it’s very relevant.
Sundance kicking us out is part of “the plan”. (I put “crazy quotes” around that with great intention.) That may sound crazy, or “fluffy and religious”, or like some sort of rationalization, but it’s actually logically true. It’s difficult for me to communicate the logic behind it, but to some extent, it amounts to the idea that events conspired beyond SD’s control to make things happen a certain way, and it was as necessary for him to kick us out as it was for me to make this place when I did. Reacting on our gut instincts and spidey senses (whatever we want to call them) has meaning. Reacting to pressures from outside ourselves has meaning, too. I do not know all the details of SD’s situation, but I know that the variables “conspired” to a certain necessity to kick us out, and that this is an expected and actually somewhat desirable event.
Sometimes we can see a greater necessity in the course of events, and we can (should, or must) speak or act on our intuition. I am convinced that what SD did is part of “the plan”, which is something rather tough to communicate, and thus I won’t do that here. But it’s all good – better than most here yet realize. The idea of forgiveness is very powerful in Judaism and Christianity for a reason, and I really hope people can see that and practice it in real life.
I think I woke up on the right side of the bed this morning, and am very glad your post was one of the first I responded to! 😉
I’m in agreement with your theory. In fact I had something very similar typed up the other day, and then decided against posting it. One thing though, I was leaning toward “the plan” wasn’t done willingly, but rather unwillingly, or even forcefully.
Two words: SELDON CRISIS. 😎
It would have been interesting to see your post, but the fact that it happened another way is not just cool, but teaches the same pattern as the idea itself! 😉
And, for those reading along, here ya go 🙂
“A Seldon Crisis is an inflection point in his (Isaac Asimov’s) plan, where a convergence of dramatic internal and external crises jeopardize its progress, and compel resolution that often entails political upheaval.”
Pretty sure W’s point is: “…and compel resolution that often entails political upheaval.”
Yes. There is a nice intersection of the DRAMATIC truth/viewpoint (what you said, viewed externally to the idea that it’s just a story) with the FICTIONAL truth (small Asimov universe, viewed from within the story) from the Wikipedia entry (below).
The idea of waiting for situational self-resolution is not only appealing, but is CLASSIC knowledge, in addition to classic story-telling. Writers love it, readers love it. Reality loves it, God loves it.
A Seldon Crisis is a fictional socio-historical phenomenon in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Series of science fiction novels. They are part of the field of psychohistory, and refer to a seemingly catastrophic social and political situation that, to be surmounted, would eventually leave only one possible, inevitable, course of action.
They are named after Hari Seldon, who founded the field of psychohistory, and who appears as a pre-recorded hologram at the climax of each crisis. Before his death, he used psychohistory to predict and manipulate each event. A Seldon Crisis usually involves both an external pressure (such as threat of attack) and an internal pressure (such as threat of revolt). Both pressures will come to a head simultaneously, and be resolved with the same action.
I remember sd commenting ” yes I have been threatened”/. sorry, old guy that duly noted but not bookmarked.
Interesting. I would expect it, to be sure.
The patriots on the front lines attract the most fire
The Lord works in mysterious ways, and everything has a purpose. I’m so thankful to know you that He is working through this situation! God bless you!
I sensed a cultish following of SD there, and believe we should never elevate a human being above what they are— beings that fall short of the glory of God continually. We are fallible— the Lord isn’t. Wolf has made a nice place here— welcome!!!
AMEN!
And as good as he is at what he’s doing, he’s very human and very much fallible.
Aren’t we all?
Deb, I’m glad you stopped by here and for your post. But you mentioned hoping that some will continue to post sometimes at CTH. Unfortunately, that won’t happen because we were all banned. Some of us are still shaking our heads wondering what we said to get banned. But whatever the reason, I’m glad to be here and very much appreciate Wolfmoon and all the great commenters here.
I still lurk over there some. But it’s so frustrating being unable to comment, I don’t last too long there.
Having been banned from there 566 days ago, I have no idea what you mean by this.
(/s of course)
Steve, how sad they didn’t let you romaine.
LOL!
Don’t get me started about “romainders!”
So much fun. I once dated a punster. I was a lot younger then, and I didn’t appreciate it as I would now.
Instead you find me romaine around the internet.
Steve, you beat me to it. I’ve been just roamaine all over this blog.
Well, I did get badly burned by CTH. One might even say chard by Banhammer Central.
Yes, you did. So very sorry, but your sense of humor you’ve used to deal with it all is wonderful–and infectious.
You should have seen how my brother dealt with getting a foot amputated. Pun after pun after pun, both me and him. It drove our father nuts which was part of the fun, of course. Only if you lose your sense of humor are you truly de-feet-ed.
Life is like a salad; you never know what will Turnip… not too much, on my celery, though, but I don’t carrot 🙂
Spot on, Linda. I know I will not go back there. I know some see SD as somehow saintly in his act of kicking Q people out (for talking about Q – ON ANOTHER SITE), but I see him very differently now.
Deb, welcome, and please lurk on–and post when you can. I will always be grateful to Sundance for all I have learned from him, also many other posters there, and I still read there when I can–so much to read, so little time, and as I’m blind and cannot use a computer mouse, it takes longer to read so much.
Maybe it’s just me but I find it very inspiring that a blind person goes to great lengths to read stuff. I was going blind from cataracts and recently a skilled eye doctor made that all a memory by restoring my sight. I have a clear appreciation for my sight and you have all my empathy and love for persevering through your situation. May God bless you and keep you in His Hands.
Amen!
PGroup, thank you for the kind words and the encouragement–it means a lot. I just wish I could read every comment on every page here. Had the same problem on CTH. It just is slow but worth it, love and blessings back to you.
can you read the likes?
I can see how many likes there are, which is fun. I like youor question. Lol.
Had to redo this comment to PGroup. Said first time around so happy you regained your sight. Wonderful.
Maybe it’s just me but I find it very inspiring that a blind person goes to great lengths to read stuff.
I knew a blind coin collector once.
Coin collecting has to be one of the most profoundly visual hobbies out there, second only to collecting paintings or stamps, but he enjoyed the heft of precious metal.
Steve, I get that–totally. I love British hallmarked silver, and gold sovereigns are nice.
Nice and heavy, aren’t they?
A favorite over here are our old double eagles. Almost a troy ounce of gold, and (from 1907 on) one of the most beautiful designs ever. They ceased making them in 1933 (and the 1933s are essentially unavailable). The obverse design was put on our current gold bullion pieces, which at least you can handle directly a bit without wrecking their numismatic value. My blind friend liked to collect those.
Nice to know.
Oh, and another factor: high end coins with a lot of value tend to be “slabbed,” which is to say enclosed in a tamper proof plastic container by a service which both authenticates and grades them. The slab both protects the coin and is a guarantee of the coin’s authenticity and (to many people) the grade is authoritative.
But it completely removes the tactile element from things. The slab may be heavy if it’s a crown sized coin, but it’s not as heavy for its size. And you can’t actually touch the coin. Fortunately there are still a great number of “raw” coins out there, generally in lower grade so handling them directly doesn’t diminsh them (as long as it’s very occasional–don’t carry them in your pocket unprotected).
I guess I was thinking of slabbed coins when I said coin collecting was profoundly visual.
Well, thank you. UI know what you are saying, my father was a coin collector and he had both. Of course we all love to have those higher grades, too.
I prize higher grades, a good sharp strike showing as much design detail as possible, originality (coin hasn’t been cleaned, or at most only very lightly in the distant past), and eye appeal, which often comes from colorful toning.
Yes, thank you. I do remember one is not supposed to clean coins. Other silver or antiques can also be ruined by removing the patina. People can gently clean old silver but should not use harsh cleaners like dips or Tarnex.
Alas a lot of people give a coin a gentle dipping. If not done too much (making the coin “dipped out”) it can SOMETIMES not be too harmful and might remove something really ugly. I’d never want to try it, myself. But very few coins from (say) the 1800s have never, ever been cleaned so the market discounts this and even a lightly cleaned coin can be worth a great deal of money.
Deb. Good to see you. I will not return to CTH. Sundance threw a tantrum and as far as I can tell continues to throw one, refusing to see or admit any error on his part. There is no logic in throwing good people out – long time posters and financial contributors – and no logic in seeing Q and his followers being any kind of threat to POTUS.
On and off (it seems) trolls are out of control over there, oftentimes unchecked. There have even been anti-Trump rants, yet people like Steve and Scott and Sylvia (and many others) get BANNED? No word of announcement either, which to me is very underhanded.
No. Sundance himself is tearing apart the unity that used to exist there and is refusing entry to those who always have been loyal. Q is the one arguing against division, Sundance is the one employing it. I do NOT see it as any ploy on SD’s part to somehow save us or save himself in any kind of honorable act of sacrifice.
I have my own take on what is going on and it’s not a pretty picture. I no longer trust the tree house.
I have to agree and I have my own take as well. He likes an appreciative audience that follows and agrees with his opinion. There were “enforcers” on the site, people who would jump you for disagreeing with the generally optimistic “Trump Is Doing It Right” tone there.
When his opinion changed, suddenly he had a ton of people on his site who didn’t agree with him, and he used the trolls as enforcers to drive them off.
Hello and Welcome Deb. Nice to “see you.” 🙂
I too felt a deep loss when we all began discovering we had been shown the way to the door. I was no longer posting about the forbidden topic, but after I had posted here for a day or two I suddenly discovered that I no longer could post at the tree house. I had already had another email go unanswered and so I didn’t even to try to find out why.
Welcome Deb. I am hardly up to snuff on Q. I find the deep musings of a possible insider to be stimulating to my thought processes more than plated thought. I absolutely don’t discount Q, nor do I fall on my sword for or against Q. I like to see all possibilities.
Deb, I forgot to also mention something I posted on another thread here on wqth. I told DH that between Wolfmoon and the brilliant commenters here, my IQ goes up several points every time I log in here.
Lol, Jane, works for me, at least I like to think so.
🙂 I mean it too.
Interesting mention of Podesta here:
Beautiful. Our VSGPOTUS knows exactly what is happening. The HIT JOB nature of the Mueller investigation will be evident because it MUST be evident. Prepare your outrage, people.
Or a trap is snapping shut.
At this point, we still don’t know.
I think Mueller is trying to negotiate more of a “clean exit” for the DEMOCRATS from their collusion with Russia, than he is trying to take down Trump with the “Russian” part of his findings.
The collusion of Russia with the Democrats is KEY. Once accepted, it provides amazing insight into the facts. The HANDS were connected, though in many cases very deniably. Muh Russia was a BEAUTIFUL propaganda push to make our side defend Russia and lessen the blowback on Dems. Yet is also has purpose for our side. It’s complicated.
In the end, those of us who want PEACE and TRUTH and JUSTICE see a way for the waves to cancel harmoniously, but this is going to be an interesting ride of sequential realizations by BOTH SIDES – or should I say ALL SIDES.
While I completely agree on the Democrats-Russians of some sort “collusion” I have a differing view on Mueller’s mission. Given the lawyers involved, I openly wonder if he wasn’t given the task of keeping them busy while work was being done elsewhere, and the convictions of a few set up future prosecutions of many more.
The three hour meeting between Mueller and VSGPDJT AFTER the White House was debugged had to be about something other than interviewing for a job for which Mueller was not eligible.
Remember one thing about this whole plan and the people executing it: revenge is a dish best served cold. Robert Mueller, along with James Comey, was betrayed/double crossed/forced to backtrack on a moral position in 2004. It happened during a closed door meeting with W in March of that year when the Attorney General was in the hospital. They went into that meeting in solidarity with AG Ashcroft (who could not be compromised) over the Terrorist Surveillance Program – the three wanted warrants enforced – and both Mueller and Comey came out changed men.
Something happened, and my guess is whatever that was may well be a point of revenge for the pair. I could be very wrong, but too much is not adding up for payback to not be on the table.
That meeting is very important – I have no doubt. Wray was a “no nothing tag-along” on that, mind you. Look at my post on trusting Wray here for details on that.
Another interpretation of the Ashcroft Event is that Mueller and Comey didn’t want the Bush surveillance program to give the NSA (military) too much power of observation during the BUSH administration, if they were more ideologically aligned with the VLWC. As politics in America was already fragmenting toward “regimist” (trust your party, not the process) and fake bipartisanship (VLWC tactic), [h/t Charles R Kesler on this idea of regime politics shift], then one can see why these folks would trust OBAMA with that power of abuse in THEIR style – NOT Bush with abuse in HIS style. Also, if Bush was not aware of the 9/11 plot, it was critical that NSA NOT have a rapid rise in ability to uncover deep conspiracies.
In any case, I do have theories where Mueller is on our side or constrained to be on our side, but those are peripheral for me at the moment. They don’t have a lot of predictive power. Russia colluding with the Democrats in a silent conspiracy AT AN EARLIER TIME has ENORMOUS power.
Notice that none of that changes my views on a proper relationship TOWARD Russia, other than being aware of their tendency to try to influence us toward socialism, which they hide. Doesn’t really change my attitudes on what we should do (I’m a Crimea = Russia hardliner) – it just changes how strongly I need to watch for Russian duplicity and sneakery. If that sounds like VSGPOTUS, it’s with a reason.
Complicated! 😉
Yes, complicated.
Reading through FBI anon again with new eyes. The second session is especially interesting. https://steemit.com/fbianon/@ausbitbank/fbi-anon-returns-to-4chan
An excellent read, and it makes more sense than ever now. Totally agreed that war between America and Russia is a goal, and yet they (Cabal interests, used loosely) are cunning enough to use both resistance to it and fear of it as a TOOL.
Remember – outside China, where is the biggest legal and powerful (but not necessarily “running things openly”) Communist party? Then remember that the hardest of the hardcore within all nationalities of the international Soviet don’t really mind spilling a little blood in a Stalinist way.
Israel and Jews make a handy blame magnet, and they have interesting interests, but they are not predictive. Once I got fuzzy with Bezmenov, I really started seeing things. Globalization is a fact. Globalism as we know it is a bad implementation of how to deal with it. Global socialism is just a reality, and a problem. I find those more useful.
And yes – a lot of the people who can handle the truth mentally on any side are Jews or other interesting ethnicities with the right software from their culture and history.
Yeah. It’s complicated! 😉
the only way i even consider anything about mueller in my mind is that they have him cold on all his past crimes (MANY CRIMES and COVERUPS) and they have offered a deal to clean up stuff and save his life.
other than that he gets off easy. comey the same way. these guys were never good. and if they were they need to have statues made of them 100 feet tall and we all need to pay our respects! 🙂
but i am still holding out judgement because what can we do right?
Ukraine-Crimea-Russia, oh my.
WAR – what is it good for?
Absolutely NOTHING, unless you’re the UP/DS Globalpuss intent on diverting from the Mega MAGA truth bomb about to detonate.
Trust President Trump 🦁
Wishing all posters a blessed, glorious, faithful day.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
And the same heartfelt wishes go to you, too, Minnie. 🙂
😊 so glad to be back up and running
We’re equally happy for you, too!
Finally, someone in UKanistan is standing up for their parental rights!!!
“A UK primary school threatened with legal action over an LGBT pride parade for young children has been accused of intimidation after a concerned mother was met by a member of staff wearing a T-shirt which “belittled” Christian views.
When Izzy Montague met with the head of Heavers Farm Primary School to discuss concerns that teachers’ promoting of LGBT lifestyles conflicted with Christian beliefs, she was confronted by a member of staff wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan: “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic when you could just be quiet?”
“Given the nature of my complaints it was obviously a deliberate act to wear the T-shirt. I believe it was intended to belittle my views and intimidate me into silence,” she told the British Mail on Sunday tabloid.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/26/school-intimidate-christian-concern-lgbt/
these people are unbelievable. nobody has a right to have a different opinion of them.
it is coming here to america soon folks unless something changes.
jason mentioned last week about the forced lgbt education in the schools where he is, and scotland just last week announced full curriculum support of lgbt education. from pre school all the way up. and they bragged about it. and were congratulated by all sorts of do-gooders.
It is already here in America, sadly.
AMEN!!!
Most interesting THREAD – click on tweet
Christmas!
https://twitter.com/wearerighter/status/1067070813357187072
Ho, ho, heh, heh, it’s off to court we go! Interesting……
“Former Infowars D.C. bureau chief Jerome Corsi will reject a plea agreement offered by the special counsel and fire back with a criminal complaint, accusing Robert Mueller of “Gestapo” tactics in attempting to pressure the author into pleading guilty to one count of perjury.
“They can put me in prison the rest of my life. I am not going to sign a lie,” Corsi said in a brief telephone call with CNN. Asked what Mueller office will do next if he does not agree to the plea deal, Corsi replied, “I don’t know.”
Corsi told NBC producer Anna Schecter that a plea agreement would involve the author of pleading guilty to one count of perjury. “I’d rather sit in prison and rot for as long as these thugs want me to,” he told Schecter.”
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2018/11/26/corsi-reject-plea-sue-mueller/
DRAMA!!! 😉
Candidate for the fake news awards?
Not sure. The differences between Corsi being a useful idiot, an almost useful idiot, a useful idiot who just got a clue, and a useful idiot struck by a random bug and malfunctioning, are so small as to be beautiful! I’m going with a linear combination of these things! 😉
Then throw Fake News at it, and we are having SOME FUN NOW!
This Corsi-Mueller thing could end up being the **accidental** catalyst for something greater: the spotlight that could be shone inadvertently upon the Mueller ‘probe’ to break it up.
One small, seemingly insignificant event can lead to chaos/breakdown (e.g. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by an anarchist/nutcase that triggered the the First World War).
The beginning of WWI is like watching one of those insurance commercials where one little accident causes a cascade of other things resulting in utter chaos. Or any time near Jacque Clouseau.
OMG, I love this President! (((TRUMP))) <—— Taking back HUGS from the enemies!
Okay, something chilling. Not that we don’t already know but it helps to see it all wrapped up in one place and how it’s already impacting us here: China’s Social Credit system.
For got to hat tip that to Dan Dan over at CTH.
This next one goes hand in hand with the last.
Again nothing you don’t know but its nice when all put together in a package.
https://youtu.be/LVXlwq0pO4A
Hat tip Wyntre
Yup, I agree. It’s a problem. However, the fix is counter-intuitive.
We can use it BACK on them.
I already view communist influence in this way – mathematically. In fact, my way is better than their way, because I avoid “idiot numbers”, as well as biases and unrealities.
The real danger is that any such system is TOO DUMB and BIASED. The fact is, social scoring systems will arise automatically – we use them in our brains, by intuition. It’s just open data. It’s reality. It’s what we do in our heads. But China’s is based on the LIES that socialism tells itself, so it’s automatically flawed.
Wolfmoon, maybe I’m not understanding what you are saying, but if the government can dispense so-called privileges according to a manufactured social score, I think it’s very dangerous and totalitarian. I know we have Fico scores, but that’s a pretty narrow measure. If being a Christian who attends a non-registered house church lowers one’s “social score,” or if particular beliefs lower it, things which are no one’s business but mine, it’s dangerous.
Absolutely. It’s an idiot number. It’s dangerous.
Now – we’re going to let people become citizens, or enter the country. What did Trump call it? “Extreme vetting”. That was it. That will mean numbers. Hopefully a lot of them, so oranges and apples are not mixed in an idiotic fashion. Hopefully not idiot numbers, but numbers will be used, whether we like it or not.
Or we’re going to make decisions about “likelihood to build a bomb and destroy churches”. This stuff is what the FBI has to do. Trust me, they will not have time to discuss everybody in the country and come to a purely verbal agreement about “fly” or “don’t fly” for every one of them. People have to pop up on radar. THEY ARE USING NUMBERS to pop up on the radar. And people are doing things to fool the numbers, too. Sadly. But the other side is nasty.
Looking at people and gauging them by metrics will happen. It can be smart, dumb, or something in between. It can be open and honest or hidden and gamey. It can be minimally nasty (Founding Father view – government is never “good”), or REALLY nasty.
You CAN say “don’t do it at all”, but I can drive a truck bomb right through that. Easily. Don’t use numbers, you can’t vet. That simple.
Does this make sense? Social scoring is a necessary evil, but HOW we do it is tricky.
It’s not “new”. They’ve been doing it since computation was possible.
People can say “but our verbal agreement on vetting is better than using math”. Sorry, the verbal agreement IS math. It just doesn’t use idiot numbers. Numbers assist us if we are honest, or can be used to deceive if we are not.
Every problem I have here with moderation or posting IS fundamentally a math problem. The fact that it’s all happening in one person’s HEAD makes it appear like it’s not, but it is. The fact that I can SEE it as a math problem is just the fact that it’s me, who likes to see things mathematically and admit it publicly.
What percentage of a person’s retweets were beheading videos? It’s a number. Way more useful that an idiot number social score, too.
Well, Wolf, have to admit you make some good points. I’m not against profiling when it comes to terrorists and likely beheaders and so on. Just don’t like the idea of everyone having a “social score” that follows them around everywhere. It’s creepy.
Absolutely creepy. Absolutely.
I’ve been thinking a LOT about this problem, for a lot of reasons. I was HORRIFIED when I first heard about it. But any approach to taming it has to be intelligent.
It’s actually very “anti-diversity”. Look at what China is doing to its Uighurs. Stationing communists in their HOMES. Just like REDCOATS before our revolution! QUARTERED with citizens.
Notice that I’m standing up for Muslims. Because NEXT the ChiComs will do it to CHRISTIANS.
WHO defines the metrics? WHO bases decisions on them? Very scary.
Yes, forcing anyone to receive others into their homes is so creepy. And wrong. The only thing I must say about Islam is that I believe it’s more of a political system with conquest at its heart than a religion and that is very problematic. Someone, a woman, wrote a novel about a future Britain where people are forced to share their homes with strangers, and eventually a woman and her family end up sleeping on their kitchen table and eventually they leave their home and start walking Somewhere. I just read about it, but I could never forget.
Islam versus Communism is Gog versus Magog, basically. Easy to see why they’re in conflict. FREEDOM LOSES either way.
Brilliant observation, also true.
True and it already has arisen as the capitalist system is a form of social credit. Live by the soft and hard rules and you have the opportunity to excel. Obstacles of course, but you surmount them and even have the chance of trying again. Lots of pit falls and traps like corruption and nepotism, but by and by they get fixed and fade till some new chancery occurs, but it’s the freest system to date and is largely self correcting.
On the other hand this Chinese system or any other tyrannical system can cut you off totally if you buck it and control becomes total.
Meanwhile the most perverse system I can think that ever existed is the Hindu Caste system where if you object you are simply told “Well in your next life… ” and you accept that.
Which was the total reason for writing back. The Hindu Caste system. Always wanted to get that in somewhere.
Great post!
spot on. it is a no win situation and they can control you completely. “no man could buy or sell without the mark” wolf and i spoke about the mark anotber time. either way it was electronic info in the mark determining your freedom.
imagine if you did a bad thing and your score went way down. they could make your life so miserable. you could only go to certain stores or be allowed to buy certain items. can only get into certain bars or hotels. you can do things like community service but you only get a few points each time so yohr score doesnt come up enough…
then they say hey, how about you narc out this guy, your friend, you know he looms down on you anyway right? you think he is your real friend? you cant even go to the ball game with him. he wont hang out with you in public. but here is thw deal if you say this about him then we might be able to get you a LOT of points. you can be regular person again. you can even get on the dating site for non felons…
so what do you do when you live in this world?
Yep.
And it can get more nefarious than that. Imagine if while with a low score your still making noise.
Have a doctors appointment they know. Get in the car they know. Shut off the phone, they can still track you (need to leave it behind).
What will they have waiting for you when you get there?
Joanne Rivers comes to mind. Ackk!
But that’s a lot of lifting so not to worry just now. 🙂
see this woman’s face looking at her phone? this should be one of the reasons we get rid of all these devices. honestly, as a parent who has a college age child, the last 10 years has been a complete nightmare with these devices and the facebooks and snap chats and instagrams… that generation is going to be having some repercussions from these things at some point. and the surrender of my parent’s generation to them now has almost become complete…
i got a kick on thanksgiving day, someone at dinner was saying they are not falling for the big brother thing and they are not getting an alexa. then their phone beeped, they took it out of their pocket, they then replied to the text with a voice to text. then they searched the web for something with voice.
i said, hey, how’s that not falling for big brother thing going for you?
Puri.sm is working on a phone with a hard mechanical kill switch for both the microphone and camera. To say nothing of the fact that their software will be entirely open source and thus, it’ll be possible to NOT have apps on that phone that spy on you.
Just a word of warning on OS software. The bad guys have assets dropping bugs into that stuff, and then using their plants to both protect the buggy software and move it up in open source distributions.
Very ugly.
there is no doubt at all. and not to mention, i’ve never had more “software updates” from carrier and phone maker since those strozk page texts came out. i kid you not, that afternoon there was a software update on my phone. and maybe i’m paranoid – but every time there’s some new item where you think they might want to take caution, boom out comes another update.
the last three phones i had (same brand) hardly had any updates at all…probably for good reason meaning they were in full control so why update? 🙂
what wolf also said there reminded me of something – about 5 or so years ago i loaded a new version of ubuntu onto one of my laptops. now i had been using that and debian for the most part (well, i use all the softwares because of my work, including windoze and the fruit also) and so i get the new version installed and i start it up and it makes this weird sound. and it was like a jungle drum. and so i research and low and behold ubuntu is starting to name it’s software with trendy, earthy, type names that all the sjws would like. i never used it again, but they have continued with the feel good naming.
also, if you follow open source you know the plague that is going around now that started a couple years back but really ramped up hard core when the EU passed their internet censoring/spying/social policing policy in the spring/summer. the latest ridiculousness was the SQLite debacle.
open source is absolutely a group now being controlled and manipulated and they are VOLUNTEERING to police their users and contributors – 100% against where they should stand and the irony is completely lost on them. they are asking to be controlled more and more.
Great post – thanks for that! Yup. It’s a mess.
And I would imagine if it comes from China, it can’t be trusted.
Lotta places that way. In fact, it’s almost a choice now of WHO gets first dibs on your stuff. “Nobody” is not an option, most of the time.
Y’all don’t forget…
Mitch starts cracking his whip at 5:30 today… setting up cloture for POTUS’ nominees…
LOL! TOO MUCH WINNING! Some of us lightweights are screaming TOO MUCH WINNING!
Explanation: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were never a First Couple.
‘Some animals are more equal than others.’ — George Orwell, Animal Farm
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1067146100816121861
POTUS is talking about State TV…..
Isn’t that what BBC is, or used to be?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/British-Broadcasting-Corporation
NO! He’s talking about Worldwide…
(talking to myself, who seems to be having a reading comprehensive problem!)
We all get like that. Have another cup of coffee? 🙂
He’s saying go back to VOA – take the communist CNN fake news hack out of the equation. This is absolutely wonderful. It will FREE countries like Japan from CNN’s BULLSHIT narratives. They will start looking at DIFFERENT sources. He’s hitting our allies with Q THINKING.
honestly, i don’t really care for anything state sponsored whatsoever. i don’t care for “protected areas” like websites that are protected from censoring or whatever. maybe it’s that little rebellious, i guess you might say libertarian strand i have, but i do not think anything good can come from “official. protected.”
not trying to get flamed for this, but just my guy reaction. i do not like it. we should have enough sense as individuals to navigate stuff. if we don’t like the site, leave, if we don’t like certain language, go somewhere else, if we don’t like the show, change the channel. there will always be stuff we do not agree with we will always be able to ignore it.
rules and laws and official channels are not in my opinion the best way to do this. it sounds great now, but it gives the “other side” a built in excuse to say it is all lies – and then when “they” get in control again they use it the way they want…
Government broadcasting/government propaganda, not such a good idea–I admit to enjoying some BBC programming, but BBC is really very left wing and very biased. Wouldn’t the Clintons or Obama love to get hold of a government broadcasting organ? Radio Moscow anyone? No thanks.
Beyond a bad idea…..I hope this is just some serious miss direction “look squirrel!!” kind of thing…that’s my guess to light up the MSM
What do you call VOA?
NPR?
Most movies are created and produced by liberals… they have been shaping our minds for over 100 years now.
Do you watch BBC productions of any kind?
Do you watch TV News or sitcoms… ?
That’s right … just leave the playing field to them. Let them saturate the WORLD with their Globalist point of view. DO NOTHING. Fighting them… That’s beneath conservatives, right?
What’s happening on Twitter and FB etc. etc.??? Conservatives are disappearing, right?
What’s that you say? You want the gov’t to step in and ….
The BBC did a really good job with a few Jane Austen adaptations. Beyond that, yeah, no.
LMAO! OMG, we do NOT need a BBC. We already have one, and they are FAR too close to MI6 and Tavistock/Philby/Rhodes Industries for comfort. With our own BBC, we’ll ALL be “transgendered” in 20 years – whoops – I mean neutered.
Uh, Wolf, I know all that, but the BBC couldn’t mess with Jane Austen. Too many women would be all over them. And really, those productions were much better than Hollywood ever did with the stories. The heroes, anyway, were manly.
My wife loves BBC stuff! 😀
Oh, you wait for it. When Idris Elba plays Emma Woodhouse, YOU’LL SEE!!! 😉
I like the last one they did with Johnny Lee Miller and Romola Garai.
Wife and I now arguing over which versions of which stories “we” have seen! 😉 They all blend for me. Sorry to admit. 😀
I have almost all of them on DVD.
That’s all right, Wolf, I argue with myself about the versions. It doesn’t help that I can no longer See the actors, so I do get a bit confused, though I own videos of most of the versions. I did get my photo taken with Amanda Root who played Anne in the Persuasion film, though, and she was very friendly. That was fun.
Well, I don’t know who Idris is, but I shudder to think. As a member in good standing of the Jane Austen Society of North America, I’ll just put in my protest right here right now, not that they are going to listen to me. Lol.
LOL!!!
Do agree BBC didn’t dare mess around much with Jane Austen, but they in general have too many fruity-fluty men and masculinized women, and they’ve always been very far left and they’ve had a lot of suttle social engineering going on.
Wolfmoon, so agree with you.
NorEaster, just love G.Combs’s posts. Wish she’d come on over here.
Modeled on Voice for exclusively foreign consumption sure, why not…but we already have that, might as well just augment that.
Modeled on BBC for a domestic audience, no. that’s a product of Euro Socialism IMHO.
And I would like to see NPR defunded as it is along with subsidies to public broadcasting
OMG – Voice of America! He’s saying take it BACK IN TIME and undo the CNN hack that the commies pulled. This is BEAUTIFUL!!! Undoing Smith-Mundt “modernization” (in reality, commie takeover) has to be next!
This is BRILLIANT! He’s going to set other countries FREE of CNN narrative control!
CNN hurts our foreign policy.
Absolutely. CNN is basically Democrat news. Horrifying.
And it’s broadcast all over the world, especially in airports.
i would be all for the undoing of the smith mundt modernization act
Once I realized that THIS ACT was why they could use propaganda on us, I’ve had it in for this Obama-backed legislation. Another one of those Obama treasons that he “reluctantly” or “disinterestedly” signed.
SPIT!
Comments at this tweet are good… at least the first ones I read!
And once something is up and running, POTUS can LEAVE Twitter, which will mean its demise?
He could go to OANN FreeTalk OR Gab OR Spreely. But I think he likes trolling Twitter at the moment!
Yes, Wolf, and I remember Obama did that EO saying they could do propaganda to Americans, or is that the same one? I just remember it scared me.
like i said this modernization of the act got me back to close to full time duty on the suspicion train. i remember playing tennis with my mostly left leaning buddy and he tells me about it and he was incensed (back then he was still for freedom and privacy, long lost on that unfortunately – but only because of TDS of course)
Right Side just came on line with the rally. I’m not seeing anything over at CTH. Could SD be selectively sitting out the rest of Trumps term?
CTH now has the customary links up.
I have a thread up for comments with 2 videos.
More pics of Christmas at White House here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/with/32189202568/
I knew it. We all knew it. Heck, my dog knew it.
The news is so fake, we can now predict their attempts to mislead the public.
The media was desperate for one perfect staged photo of a woman and child, somehow endangered by border patrol.
Yet, they could not find the perfect shot/video.
Thus, they staged the shot.
LOOK at this comparison.
We see the woman running, frantic, with her children in tow.
The photo is designed to make America FEEL guilty and “orange man bad”.
Look closer….
Why don’t her children have black/brown hair?
Why is she running when no one else in the photo is scurrying in desperation?
Why is there a guy with a camera tripod set up, directed at the woman, in the background?
Why is everyone else in the photo lingering about?
And finally,
Why did MSNBC, NYTimes, WaPost, NBC, CBS, all use the exact same photo?
operation Mockingbird ring a bell?
They read off the same script every day…
I thought the kid in the diaper being dragged was a bit over the top, myself.
The reason all outlets are using the same photo is that they all subscribe to the service that employs the person who took it….and it’s probably the best shot that person got.
i think i mentioned this same pic on the invasion thread from yesterday because it looked like the one they wanted! 🙂
what i want to know is: what brand are those flip flops the kid has because after 1100 hard miles those are still looking to be in great shape!
For some reason, all day long the Clinton Foundation keeps coming up. The president tweeted about it, HUber’s December 5 testimony is expected to be on this topic, and back when FBI Anon was posting, he BEGGED anons to look into activity there.
It is no great secret that the donors were, for the most part, foreign governments and people of interest. It is also no great secret that donations took a nosedive after Hillary lost the 2016 presidential election.
Which begs the question, now that the 2017 990 (non-profit tax form) has been filed and published when the nosedive happened, how in H-E-double hockey sticks does the CF hang onto a four star Charity Navigator rating? For those not in non-profit, a CN 4-star badge is coveted, and put in a place of prominence on websites and all published material. The thing is, to maintain it, a non-profit has to have an increase in donations from year to year in addition to all the other hoops CN demands be jumped. The only way for this to have been avoided is if the fiscal year was not the calendar year.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16680
What sticks in the craw about this, though, is that not even five years ago, CF was put on the CN watch list for not meeting any of the minimum standards of transparency.
This friggin’ stinks. We all “know” the place was set up as a money laundering and pay to play operation, but they’re claiming over 85% of funds are spent on programs of helping farmers in Africa, girls and women, renewable energy, etc. No. Friggin’. Way. That I don’t believe. Unfortunately, the rollup section of the financials is still confidential to the organization at this point. (We have no way of knowing what the Department of Justice has, though, that will eventually come out.)
ARGH! Had to get that off my chest. I worked ten years in non-profit development and every year we struggled to make quota. It just doesn’t compute.
Great post, and totally agreed.
COME OUT IT WILL!
How convenient.
Based on the WikiLeaks drops in October-November 2016 about the Clinton campaign early on, we can safely predict how this will go …
How do these judges get appointed for specific oh-so-convenient cases?
Our commission is to be pro-active, not reactive. Isn’t it ironic that in their vain glory they have reject partnership with the most powerful source of bliss ever, which is only found through submitting to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.
If the watchmen are saying the enemies are at the gates, or in the city, our response probably should be more than looking for the best webcam to watch from.
Would anyone care to pull on Heaven for reinforcements and wisdom in how to position ourselves to eject all darkness in the land?
(meant to be a reply to warning about likelihood of globalist engineered public distractions in the coming weeks.)
TTT, thank you for the godly counsel.
Ephesians 6:13-18 are important as well, as they describe the Armor of GOD which we must put on.
I’ve had those moments…
There may have been some waver in my stand on those days, but somehow, by the grace of God, I stood.
Thinkthinkthink, we’ve all had those moments, but the Lord does strengthen us when we rely on Him.
I seldom listened to Bongino because I THOUGHT I was getting the most for my time at the other website. However, I listened to DB today, and he has a theory that inadvertently made me wonder how Mueller could possibly sidestep that Clinton was basically screwed over by the meeting with the Russian babe and Don, Jr.
Plus positive info on demographics and future voting toward the end of the podcast.
https://bongino.com/ep-858-the-scandal-youre-not-hearing-about/
Plus he’s suggesting the need for a short Twit boycott since Twit banned a vet who ran for public office as an R.
Golden State Times will be streaming the Trump rally and it’s a pretty reliable link –
Here are other streams:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Trump+Rally+Tupelo+MS
I’ll start a Trump rally thread here!
Thanks Wolf, most appreciated!!!
Yay! I love the watching the rallies with a group… so much fun!
Just a little something that caught my eye at the old place:
G. Combs says:
November 26, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Love the Kids at The_Donald and the Autists at 4 & 8 Chan.
They give one hope.
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From what I’ve seen from G. Combs, it seems he has his head on straight. I’d tell him that, but of course can’t, since……., well you know. Totally agree on the Autist’s! I’ve found r/The_Donald to be some of the best entertainment ever, besides a place to find “real news”. One thing for sure is, our Autist’s are the best meme makers!
FYI: “He” is a “She” (Gail,IIRC)!
Too right!
Well said, Ambassador Grenell!
Latest stats from Rasmussen Reports:
1/ More agree than a year ago at this time that the United States with President Trump is on the correct track:
2/ Caravan — just under half agree that asylum should be temporarily denied:
3/ Caravan — just over half believe those coming in are a threat to Americans’ health and national security:
Thanks!!!
You’re welcome!
Thanks for that report on Rasmussen, Churchmouse.
Since Rasmussen is a nevertrumper, I’m sure those slightly better numbers for PDJT that he gave out, were done begrudgingly.
The other thing, perhaps conveniently left out, is that the illegals, aka “caravan” (caravanossi?) were offered asylum in Mexico, but REFUSED it. Therefore they have no right whatsoever to asylum in the USA, both by US and international law.
Yep, even their globalist, libturd UN specifies that asylum seekers must stop at the first “safe” land that they reach. Indeed, there are other countries on the way through which they passed which could well be considered safe. Looks like eco-tourism to me…
Transcript of President Trump’s remarks before leaving for Mississippi. I’m really glad he’s addressing these sons of baskets (as my late paternal grandmother used to say) rather than Sarah Sanders (she’s great, but we’re looking at 3rd degree media abuse here):
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-marine-one-departure-26/
Highlights:
‘Q Will you have any response to Russia firing on the Ukraine, sir?
‘THE PRESIDENT: Not good. We’re not happy about it at all. Not at all. We’ve let our position be known, and we’re not happy about it.
‘Q Have you reached a deal with Mexico to hold migrants at the border?
‘THE PRESIDENT: Well, Mexico wants to see if they can get it straightened out. But we’ve, during certain times, as you know, closed the border. They’re not coming into the United States. They will not be coming into our country.
‘Q Mr. President, what’s your reaction to General Motors (inaudible) in Ohio?
‘THE PRESIDENT: Well, we don’t like it. I believe they’ll be opening up something else. And — I was very tough. I spoke with her when I heard they were closing. And I said, “You know, this country has done a lot for General Motors. You better get back in there soon. That’s Ohio, and you better get back in there soon.”
‘So we have a lot of pressure on them. You have senators, you have a lot of other people — a lot of pressure. They say the Chevy Cruze is not selling well. I say, “Well, then get somebody — get a car that is selling well and put it back in.”
…
‘Q Mr. President, two questions for you, sir. Are you comfortable teargassing children like what we saw at the border this weekend?
‘THE PRESIDENT: They’re not. As you know, they’re not. They had to use because they were being rushed by some very tough people, and they used tear gas. And here’s the bottom line: Nobody is coming into our country unless they come in legally.
‘Go ahead.
‘Q Mr. President, I have a question about — you’re going to Mississippi. Tell me a little bit about what you think about Senator Hyde-Smith’s comments about — her comments about hanging? Her —
‘THE PRESIDENT: Well, I know her. I know her. And I know she apologized and she misspoke. But I will tell you this: I’ve known her, for a period of time now, as a senator. She’s been an excellent senator; she’s done a great job. She’s somebody that’s respected in the Senate. And I’m going there — I’m going to make, I guess, two rallies, on top of everything else. So we’re going to do two, and I hope you’re all coming.
‘Q Have you talked to her specifically — have you talked to her specifically about her comments about joking about —
‘THE PRESIDENT: I have. I have.
‘Q What did you say to her?
‘THE PRESIDENT: She felt very badly. She certainly didn’t mean that. And, you know, it was taken a certain way, but she certainly didn’t mean it. And as I understand it, she’s already apologized and very strongly.
‘Q Sir, last night — in response to last night’s “60 Minutes” piece, you said your policy at the border was the same as the Obama administration’s. It wasn’t. You decided to prosecute —
‘THE PRESIDENT: Say it again. What?
‘Q In response to last night’s “60 Minutes” report —
‘THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, so I’ll tell you what. Obama had a separation policy; we all had the same policy.
‘Q You did not have — sir, no, you didn’t.
‘THE PRESIDENT: I tried to do it differently, but Obama had a separation policy. But people don’t like to talk about that…’
Good grief.
The Democrat Fake News is the enemy of the People.
Remember Gadi Schwartz, the NBC-affiliate reporter who covered the cover up of the terrorist camp in New Mexico?
He spilled the beans on the caravan, saying it’s mostly made up of young males! He walks all the way through the camp. The families are at one end — with media access — and as one goes deeper in there are more and more men, ending with riot police.
What a great guy! Uncovering the truth, frame by frame:
Great stuff!
Anyone interested in Christmas at the WH? Here’s a short YouTube video of the decorations. Those red trees! I didn’t think Melania could keep up with last year’s level of eye poppingly gorgeous decor, but she has.
And I love to see her striding through the decorations and touching them because, well, she’s just so darned gorgeous. And I love her cape coats just as much as I love PDJT’s long overcoats.
I feel sometimes like I have lost my mind to even be noticing stuff like this much less appreciating it, but I guess I have been starved for some element of glamour and beauty in our public life. Somewhere along the time of the Clinton WH sex toy themed Christmas tree we lost all pretense to elevated culture. Who would have thunk Donald Trump and his risque model wife would be the people who would do that for us? I am so eternally thankful to God for giving us this couple to lead us.
Sylvia, I know, and I happen to love cape coats.
I love how Melania so often wears her coats draped over her shoulders, even if she isn’t wearing a cape. Such an old school glamorous thing to do! And she looks fabulous doing it.
@Sylvia, I appreciate learning these things as I cannot see the fashions, but I am very old school in my fashion likes.
Melania often reminds me of Sophia Loren. She has that old school glamour that I associate with Italian fashion.
I think it was her outfit when they were leaving for Thanksgiving at Mar a Lago that was another sort of cape like coat in beige with orange and rust colored geometric shapes on it, very 60s mod looking, and then she had on full length boots with it. She can really carry off the boots, too, I’m sure because she is so tall.
Thank you, Sylvia. My own especial fashion report. Really appreciate your descriptions. wish I were tall like she is. Just lovely.
Okay. This may shed some light on the G Combs incident (click link and read for context):
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/11/26/whoopsie-msnbc-accidentally-airs-ground-report-showing-vast-majority-of-caravan-are-military-aged-males/#comment-6378351
Initially, a reply that was deleted by Ad rem for violent content. Note the number of likes (10):
Mark (The Artist) T. says:
November 26, 2018 at 6:32 pm
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Newton Love says:
November 26, 2018 at 6:51 pm
> “… how to use pieces of “hot, screaming lead” as a deterrent …”
Bad optics. It would have to be rubber bullets, or the entire world would scream “slaughter of innocents.”
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thinkwell says:
November 26, 2018 at 7:09 pm
I just got permanently banned at The Gateway Pundit for making that suggestion. All my posts for the last month were removed.
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To which the author of the deleted post replies, and has an exchange with Ad rem. Note the likes (13; totally different from the 10 from the deleted comment):
Mark (The Artist) T. says:
November 26, 2018 at 7:24 pm
Well, at least we both now know where TGP stands.
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Ad rem says:
November 26, 2018 at 7:30 pm
CTH has the same policy regarding the posting of violent imagery.
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Mark (The Artist) T. says:
November 26, 2018 at 8:07 pm
Understood. My apologies. I’ll be more careful in the future.
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Another commentor replies to Ad rem, and Ad rem responds:
thinkwell says:
November 26, 2018 at 9:02 pm
Normally I avoid such hyperbolic statements because they are clearly counter to the rule of law, but when it comes to what amounts to an invading horde of aliens attempting to breach our borders (with the long term goal of making California Mexico again, culturally if not politically – and they are serious about that), I do not think it is unreasonable to discuss the possibility of using deadly force to stop the lawless hordes who are in effect an invading army. If we were in a state of war, such a response would be expected, but aren’t we in an undeclared state of war over our very sovereignty? It is the elephant in the room. Censorship and behaving like ostriches is the wrong answer. Just sayin’.
Judicious and strictly controlled application of legally sanctioned deadly force would clearly demonstrate that we are serious about protecting the integrity of our border. Once that message got received and peculated down through the lawless hordes, few would risk it. Tough love.
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Ad rem says:
November 26, 2018 at 10:03 pm
And….you’re invited to acquire your OWN blog and run it any way you’d like. If, after working diligently for eight years, and spending countless hours in research and the development of a base of thousands of commenters and readers, you still feel the same way….have at it. Just not on our blog……tough reality.
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And finally, some words of wisdom from… G Combs!:
G. Combs says:
November 26, 2018 at 7:40 pm
“Well, at least we both now know where TGP stands.”
CTH and TGP are trying to make sure Google/Wordpress do not completely Censor them.
Unfortunately, while the unhinged left can spew vile hatred and have, we have to be like Caezar’s wife.
(My tongue is full of holes at times…)
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Nor’easter, wow.
Yup. That was it. Even non-specific talk about lethal force is getting a smack-down. Touchy subject.
I have no problem with people rationally discussing lethal force here. However, I can spot ABUSE of that freedom of speech a mile away.
Remember – FALSE FLAGS are probably IN THE WORKS. That’s how the commies operate.
I read that..I just stay away from things like that.
NYGuy54:
Welcome aboard!
Sounds familiar.Are you CTH NYGuy?
One and the same. If you didn’t like me there, you have another shot here.
HAH!!!
Right back atcha!