“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Alternative Title: How I Finally Got Twitter to Show Me Rabbi Shmuley by Replying Positively to a Comment on an Antisemitic Timeline! This is actually TWO POSTS IN ONE. And exposing Twitter's psychological manipulation algorithms (well-intended as they are) is the SMALLER POST. Let me lead into this with a tweet from Don Junior about … Continue reading Twitter's CorrectThink™ Algos a.k.a. New Shadowban™
This Showing My Age Night Before Daughn Thursday 20190919 Open Thread is officially 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 (KMAG being a bit of both MAGA and KAG! … Continue reading Dear KMAG: 20190919 Open Thread
The President announced it himself: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1174312984522309633 The Pic in the header comes from the first day of the A$AP Rocky Trial in Stockholm. Robert O'Brien was there. The LATimes article is spectacularly devoid of background on Robert O'Brien, other than the position is the 4th National Security Advisor (we were cheated out of Flynn), and … Continue reading 20190918: Robert C. O'Brien Named National Security Advisor
11:00am Eastern Time, the show begins. Michael Horowitz is the Inspector General for the DOJ, FBI, DEA. His testimony (To House Oversight Committee - read as Dems in charge) is supposed to be about progress in oversight over the past 10 years........ however, with all the interest in the FBI/DOJ scandal, we can expect a … Continue reading 20190918: Horowitz Testimony Thread
Today is our birthday! One year ago today, our fearless leader, Wolfm00n, took it upon himself to create a another meeting place for Treepers. He showed great wisdom and foresight. Thank God he did it. Little did we know, the dark days of the "Great Ban" were just around the corner, November 10th -12th. Thankfully, … Continue reading Happy BIRTHDAY, Q Tree!
Morning, folks. Are we all ready for hump day? Guess what today is.... Give up? It's the birthday of FAKE NEWS! On September 18, 1851, the New York Times began publishing. In honor of their current...uh...status, and this week's kerfuffle, some mood music is in order. https://youtu.be/aoPvtwKU-EE A translation of the text can be found … Continue reading Dear KAG: 20190918 Open Thread
This LIGHT IN SEPTEMBER [17] [PLACEHOLDER] TUESDAY 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 / KAG! / KMAG world (KMAG being a bit of both MAGA and KAG!). LIGHT IN SEPTEMBER You can say what you want, comment on … Continue reading Dear KMAG: 20190917 Open Topic
Trump will rally in Rio Rancho at the Santa Ana Star Center, a 7,000-seat facility about 20 miles northeast of downtown Albuquerque. Don't let the media fool you, New Mexico is in play. Only reason we lost New Mexico in 2016 was because of Gary Johnson (who took almost 10% of vote). CSPAN will carry the … Continue reading 20190916: New Mexico Rally Thread, 9:00pm Eastern Time.
OK. Confession time. I'm not just a classic liberal - I'm a PALEOLIBERAL. Which in these incipient socialist times means that I now resemble a "classic conservative". Yeah, it's complicated. But the bottom line, is that I want America to be conservative enough that it's MORALLY SAFE to be a wee bit liberal again, championing … Continue reading Confessions of a Retrosexual Backtivist
This Mighty Warrior 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-KMAG-KAG! world. Yes, it’s Monday…again. But it’s okay! We'll get through it. Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. But please … Continue reading Dear KMAG: 20190916 Open Topic