In honor of the 103rd anniversary of eugenicist Margaret Sanger opening a “family planning” clinic, sold to the world as a supposed kind act to ease women’s burdens, today’s open thread is dedicated to men.
Time for the morning routine.
HGTV has nothing on Home Improvement.
And…of course, who can forget the most classic of the classic radio ads ever put together. (Please, listen as time allows.)
Time for some theme music. Today’s feature is the reluctant hero.
Ah, that gets the blood going.
Okay, so here’s the deal. This is the open thread. This is where we all come to get the news that other Q tree inhabitants think is worth knowing and sharing. Please, post links to any “news” stories quoted, and ask for help if you are stumped as to how to do that. We’re a friendly lot. Someone will be with you shortly, and there is no reason to have to press one for English.
Free speech, and the open exchange and hashing out of ideas is not only allowed, but encouraged. If we all don’t use it, we’re going to lose it. A little incivility goes a long way, though.
Don’t make Wolf resort to this.
Enough fawning over the guys. Too much more and it’s going to go to their heads. Time to get the day started.
And now for some house keeping:
There are a few rules here in the branches of the Q Tree. Our host, Wolfm00n, outlined them in a post on New Years Day. Please, review these rules from time to time. You know, like when cooling down after a beer is thrown on you.
Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Steve suggests – to be accurate – no shooting at the nuclear weapons, but to be safe about it, don’t event point firearms toward them. I, Deplorable Patriot, bossy chick that I am, request no teasing the animals, pets and wildlife alike.
Teasing and trolling the lefties and their bastions, on the other hand is a moral imperative.
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In the eternal fight against the forces of evil and darkness, unceasing prayer is always needed.
Today’s Lectionary reminds us that we on Earth don’t necessarily have the last word:
ROM 2:1-11
You, O man, are without excuse, every one of you who passes judgment.
For by the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself,
since you, the judge, do the very same things.
We know that the judgment of God on those who do such things is true.
Do you suppose, then, you who judge those who engage in such things
and yet do them yourself,
that you will escape the judgment of God?
Or do you hold his priceless kindness, forbearance, and patience
in low esteem, unaware that the kindness of God
would lead you to repentance?
By your stubbornness and impenitent heart,
you are storing up wrath for yourself
for the day of wrath and revelation
of the just judgment of God,
who will repay everyone according to his works,
eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality
through perseverance in good works,
but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth
and obey wickedness.
Yes, affliction and distress will come upon everyone
who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.
But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone
who does good, Jew first and then Greek.
There is no partiality with God.
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome.
And now, on to the day’s news…..
Most excellent.
Thank you for the Wednesday inspiration.
T3 – Outstanding!!!!!
President Trump truly believes everyone has the ability to live to their full potential. He is an amazing motivator & example of #NeverEverQuit
BRAVA!
I lUV Tim Allen…. first time to see this episode…
Radio ads are a hoot! Great job Dep Pat !
Oh, good. All is well. Time for ZZZZ. ‘Night.
Great thread, DePat!
Men in Kilts! Hah!
😄🥰👍
Love Tim Allen, too.
I agreed…GREAT IDE for a thread!!!
and yup, I love Tim Allen too!!
Max Blumenthal has article in zeroHedge on Atlantic Council
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dcs-atlantic-council-raked-funding-hunter-bidens-corruption-stained-ukrainian-employer
The think tank’s shady arrangement with Burisma, the gas company at the center of “Ukrainegate.”
Blumenthal’s article, originally posted in his own, The Gray Zone, was where I spent most of extra time yesterday. The links are a treasure trove.
We added all of these to the big timeline.
Glad that Zerohedge picked it up.
Goes to Wolfie’s razor threads….. they’re not stupid. They know all the background. They’re intentionally evil and playing dumb. It’s horrible. They overthrew Ukraine, and then looted it, using our taxpayer dollars.
If we shipped Joe Biden back to Ukraine, they would put him in jail. He’s a hated man in Ukraine.
Biden being hated in Ukraine is even better than I thought. It means they’ll be interested in making sure POTUS/DOJ know all of his corruption. And that will get out there. Biden’s candidacy isn’t the issue, what would be delicious is exposing the threads leading not only to Obama, but Soros, the Deep State, the globalists, etc.
Then by all means strip him of his citizenship and deport him in chains to the Ukraine .. 😃👍
President Trump Vetoes Resolution Blocking His National Emergency Declaration to Divert Funds From Pentagon to Build Border Wall
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/president-trump-vetoes-resolution-blocking-his-national-emergency-declaration-to-divert-funds-from-pentagon-to-build-border-wall
from the article…
Trump issued the veto in the middle of the clown show Democrat debate Tuesday night.
“In short, the situation on our southern border remains a national emergency, and our Armed Forces are still needed to help confront it,” Trump’s message to the Senate said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office said the Senate will vote on President Trump’s veto later this week, however neither chamber of Congress has the votes to override Trump’s veto.
Senators last month voted 54-41 on a resolution to end the emergency declaration which would allow Trump to divert funds from the Pentagon to build a border wall.
11 Republican Senators voted with the Democrats to end the emergency declaration:
Senators Lamar Alexander (TN), Roy Blunt (MO), Susan Collins (ME), Mike Lee (UT), Jerry Moran (KS), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Rand Paul (KY), Rob Portman (OH), Mitt Romney (UT), Pat Toomey (PA) and Roger Wicker (MS) voted to end the president’s emergency declaration on Wednesday likely prompting a veto showdown.
The President declared a national emergency back in February and vetoed a prior resolution passed by the Senate to kill his declaration.
Sometimes Rand Paul just makes me shake my head. He needs a good kick in the butt.
Totally agree Linda………..
can’t even imagine what grounds he has to vote to end…..
Perhaps Rand Paul would prefer little to NO military spending.
…. enter the traitors ..
Senators Lamar Alexander (TN), Roy Blunt (MO), Susan Collins (ME), Mike Lee (UT), Jerry Moran (KS), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Rand Paul (KY), Rob Portman (OH), Mitt Romney (UT), Pat Toomey (PA) and Roger Wicker (MS) ….
…. S P I T …… 💦💦💦
https://youtu.be/_IONOoOZ9ME
… they are stains ..
Blunt should be no great surprise. Swamp creature if there ever was one.
… it’s disappointing and aggravating .. 😞
❤️
My President!!!
It’s almost like the Uniparty senators are happy to out themselves as two faced pieces of caca.
I’m so confused.
Hilarious, DP. 🤣🎃🥰
You hit a home run with Tool Time Tim and HOT Heidi. (‘er I mean Al)
Haven’t heard the Bud stuff before – listened for a bit and will listen to it for breakfast.
You Rock !
#ILoveRealMen
#ILoveWomenWhoLoveRealMen
#EverSeenWolfieInAKilt ??? 🐺 aaaaawwwwoooooooooo 💞💞🐺🐺🐺
Those Bud Light ads were a staple in these parts for YEARS. Then InBev bought out A-B, and POOF, they were gone. They were hilarious. I mean Mr. Taco salad inventor. Congratulations on a 10,000 calorie salad. Is it healthy? Of course it is. It’s a salad.
It has certainly been a day of alarums and excursions…..and I filed my taxes. My mental scheduler flagged me back on the 9th (The Fiancee’s birthday), but there were things…..last night, I got the computer to finally behave and give me what I wanted.
Then, this morning, I find out that the pdf output from the tax program inexplicably wanted legal-sized paper. Looked fine on screen, bollixed the printer. I suppose I should be happy it didn’t demand A4.
Once I had that straightened out, got everything printed, signed, enveloped, and addressed, I toddled off to the Post Office, where I was asked if my mail contained anything incendiary, dangerous, toxic, or noxious. That set me back a bit…..I hesitantly replied, “well, they’re tax returns…..” To which the clerk replied, “oh, only dangerous to your wallet.”
I checked into the news a couple of times today…..each time seemed like a completely different year. Hunter Biden speaks!!!! Then a complete quash of what Hunter Biden said. Betrayed Kurds!!!! Then a complete embargo on what’s happening in Syria. ‘Peach-foty-fie!!!! Then Nanzi comes on and says, “we really don’t need to do this like we’re going anywhere with it. Our intent is only to smear dirt.”
It’s been a visit to the circus…..but not to the enjoyable intended presentation. More like backstage where the lady on trapeze is having an affair with Ukraine — oh, sorry, I meant the lion tamer. Topping it off with a 12-person Dem debate freakshow just made it complete.
But, I’ve got to say…….things are moving at the speed of Trump!
Because Katie Hopkins is too funny and I’ve had a little Gluehwein
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1184231079089229829
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1184232679795023872
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1184234217728811009
The Rotals are too often nauseating buffoons.
Harry the worst.
LMAO!!
I don’t understand what the Dems think they’re accomplishing. They have to have a plan in mind. They’re not allowing Repubs in the room, and of course Repubs aren’t allowed to question witnesses, so they have no idea what is being said in the hearings. Neither does the public. So what do the Dems plan to do with the testimony? Leak parts they think would be damaging to Pres. Trump? Try to get public opinion on their side? Get enough “trumped up” evidence that they can eventually hold an impeachment vote?
But I don’t think they want an impeachment trial in the Senate that would involve top lawyers and discovery, so I don’t think they want real impeachment. So what are they going to do with a bunch of secret testimony?
It’s Russiagate and Kavanaugh all over again. I don’t see what the end game is for Dems, unless it’s going to be obstruction of justice for not cooperating with the sham proceedings. Then what? Wouldn’t they still have to take an impeachment vote on that?
Maybe they think this is working for them in the public’s view. I can’t imagine that being the case.
well i think it’s too early to release much of the trumped up evidence…they’ll keep the “juicier” crap to reveal closer to the election…wasn’t that their plan for 2016 but finding the Weiner laptop and reopening the Hillary investigation threw that timetable out the window.
They’re devious, but they rely on the same stupid plans over and over, so I expect we will find out what was in the testimonies closer to election time when they think they can use it to muck up POTUS’S reelection…the fools.
I’m telling you, the brains of the operation(s) just are no longer calling the shots.
No, there isn’t any obstruction as there isn’t any official investigation. No doubt they’re planning on leaking out of context phrases and parsing of words.
I’d like to see the Executive Branch send in US Marshals to arrest these characters for sedition, treason, perjury, manufacturing evidence, taking monies under false pretenses – our taxpayer money is paying for these corrupt Congress critters to do this!
Biden is making assassination threats again:
https://twitter.com/_crystalmaga/status/1184272939887316993
President Trump will be in Dallas on the 17th.
Pres. Trump is driving them crazy. It’s a tribute to him that they can think of nothing else. He stands in the way of everything they want to do. He needs our prayers. They do, as well, but he needs protection.
Amen thesetruths .. 🙏🏼
We must increase our prayers and perhaps even fast – especially on the 17th.
… miserable evil dirty old man pos … 😖🤚
So, as a weird sort of PSA because I’m about to do a transcontinental voyage and need to armor-up the computers I’ll be using along the way, I’m going to just drop some ruminations regarding internet security in insecure environments.
If you go to Barnes & Noble with a laptop and use their free wi-fi, you are exposing yourself to a lot of mischief. (And I’m not dogging B&N here — any “free internet” may do this).
First is from Barnes & Noble itself. They will almost certainly log your MAC address, which is burned into your wireless interface. If they sell this information to, for instance, Nordstrom, Nordstrom will likely know that your device surfed the internet at B&N and was in a Nordstrom 10 minutes later. MAC addresses look like “bc:30:5b:cb:XX:c6” — the XX is to obscure this computer’s MAC address. The first three groups identify the manufacturer of your network interface — Raspberry Pi wired interfaces, for instance, all start with “b8:27:eb”. The good news is that most modern network interfaces have a burned-in MAC address, but their driver can allow the use of another. Myself, I like using MAC addresses that indicate DEC or Data General equipment, because it’s extremely unlikely that anyone else will wheel an operating VAX 11/780 into a B&N while you’re doing so.
Second is from DNS. When you connect to a network, your computer (via DHCP) asks, “how can I fit-in here?”. The reply is, “you can call yourself 192.168.5.127; when you want to connect to the internet, you can access it at 192.168.5.0; if you want to find anyone on the internet, you can ask at 8.8.8.8”. Here’s the thing — NEVER USE THE DNS GIVEN BY DHCP. [8.8.8.8 happens to be run by Google. They’ll spy on you but will give you actual DNS results.] The router that connects you can just as easily give you “6.6.6.6” which might just link to a cyberattack network that will give you bogus results. Even if they don’t send you somewhere malicious in that way, every router will give you an address that collects and logs your requests, and sells them — “this guy looks at ebay 42 times around 7:00pm every evening.”
Third is MITM — which stands for “Man In The Middle”. One of the more common attacks on internet security is to set up a MITM. You try to access a website, and evil website says “fine”, then contacts the website on your behalf and says, “hi!”. Good website responds with, “show all this good stuff” to evil website — evil website shows all the good stuff to user. User asks to log in — evil website asks good website to log in. Good website asks evil website, “what’s your login and password?” And so on. MITM can become very devastating very rapidly.
The solution to many of these issues is to use a VPN. Once a VPN is established, you have a secure encrypted channel to some other computer outside of your computer. Because this other computer has a different network interface, this blocks many MAC tracking schemes. Because you can use the VPN’s DNS, you won’t be retargeted to bogus DNS. And with a secure link to your VPN provider, local MITM becomes impossible.
*Yawn* More ruminations later……
Wow, CT! I wish I understood what you just posted, ’cause it seemed really good! I think I’ll just leave my computer at home if I go anywhere. Either that, or take you with me…..
Here’s the thing — ask me specific questions.
I’ll answer you, and you’ll gain better understanding…..and I’ll get better at explaining things so that questions are less necessary.
As a bonus, I’ll talk about YET ANOTHER SECURITY PROBLEM with public wi-fi. If you are at XYZ company, which provides wi-fi with a beacon saying “XYZ”, it is essentially trivial to perform a MITM attack on everyone sitting next to you. All it takes is someone using a directional antenna to point to the “real” XYZ signal, and a general antenna to offer wi-fi as XYZ. All computers attempting to connect with XYZ will choose the stronger signal, which — since you are literally feet away — will be you. You can escape your own trap with the directional antenna.
So, would we be better off using a personal hot spot? It kind of kills the idea of going to a coffee shop to work. The one I frequented for a while had a password, though.
If you use a personal hotspot, you’re shifting your trust from the wi-fi provider to your phone system. This can be an improvement in some ways — local wi-fi is likely to sell your info to other businesses……but a disimprovement in others — it is well-known that phone companies leak information to “law enforcement” and government in general in bulk.
I would advise the use of a commercial VPN provider — I use NordVPN, but there are many others. And I can’t really endorse them because I personally cannot do a security audit on them. But they tend to say the right things.
With a VPN, your stuff is encrypted on your computer and transmitted to the VPN provider, who decrypts it and uses it in the greater internet, thus cutting both the local wi-fi and phone systems out of the loop. Assuming that the VPN provider is providing fair value for the money you pay them (and isn’t that always a question?), you can then shift focus to other concerns.
…..and, as I noted, I’m “thinking out loud” as to how to stay safe on a 3600 mile trip across the US with those items most precious to me — the things my maternal grandfather made in wood shop in junior high; family photos; the binocs my paternal grandfather used on the mesas of western Colorado….
If I execute this perfectly, nobody here will notice more than I mention, my banking will work clearly and securely all along the way, and there will be no disruptions to my email. If I bungle something, I may have to deal with another identity theft problem (like I had in 2015) while I have no fixed abode. And my credit cards may stop working while I’m on the road.
Safe travels, physical and ten his.
Fumbling tech wise here in the Philippines. Tech knowledge and skills, rudimentary. Spoiled up my Philippine cell and tablet. Did not realize I was logged in on old, screen name.
Went along merrily li,ing and posting under old s seen name. Finally realized my fopa of sorts.
Would like to pin it on jet lag…
Safe travels… personal and techie wise.
TY. I’m trying to be well-prepared. BS like the printer trying to eat my tax return are unwelcome distractions.
We all start with nothing. If you but ask, I will try to explain from where you are to where I am. Be also aware that there are many who can explain further. One of the wonders of this era is that you are able to communicate with true experts.
Several years ago, I called-up Edward Altman. I was working for a CPA firm and we had a client that might…..or might not….be going bankrupt. Altman had published an influential academic paper on the subject — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altman_Z-score — and I was attempting to document a “go / no-go” decision on that point.
I should first establish that Professor Altman was a perfect gentleman, very helpful, extremely informative, and just a super-nice guy…….but seemed genuinely horrified that his academic paper might have real-world consequences. Of course, it had been used that way in the accounting profession for several years, but I had the misfortune of evaluating a “corner-case” and contacted him about clarifications. I actually feel bad about the pain I must have caused him when I let him know that companies lived or died depending on his paper.
One of the things about living in Silicon Valley since the ’80s is that you have casual contacts with people.
I have sent an email to Dr. Altman to let him know this post existed, in case he might wish to read it and comment.
It’s unlikely that he would…….but he’s one of the “good guys” IMHO. If I’m going to say something about him, it’s only fair to let him know about it.
I have been pondering creating some posts about stuff like this. On a separate blog so it has a chance of staying up in the event that WQTH gets bounced.
Thank you for a truly EPIC post 😉 Great minds – I like to use sun4u MACs myself! But a VAX is a true troll. And 4.2.2.2 FTW. Though I don’t trust “free WiFi” any further than I can throw it. VPN is a necessity if you use it. And you say you have a Pineapple – you mean like some kind of fruit?
Supposedly 1.1.1.1 won’t track your DNS requests, to which I say — pull the other one. When I get settled in NC, one project that I’m looking at is rotating DNS. First, you tell everything on your network to send DNS requests to one place — a raspberry pi works fine. You can have it cache, so if one computer in your network wants to get to the q tree, and another computer asks within five minutes, it’ll just give the same response. For “fresh” DNS queries, you have a list of DNS servers and send the actual DNS request to a randomly selected one. Then you send a half dozen bogus DNS requests to six of the others. Considering how many DNS requests can come off a single webpage, that should make fingerprinting through DNS pretty interesting…..
There are all sorts of MAC addresses available — as long as you don’t accidentally use something likely to still be in service (or have a graceful recovery plan when you tangle the network).
There are currently three models of Raspberry Pi that I strongly recommend — the Pi Zero WH ($14), the Pi 4 Model B – 1G ($35), and the Pi 4 Model B – 4G ($55). These are stocked at Adafruit in the US, distributed by Newark/Element 14 in the US, and stocked by PiMoroni in the UK (in pounds) — I have purchased from all three. With these three little beasties, putting together sophisticated networks is like playing with legos or Erector sets. You can do things like run two different “secure” networks in your home……and have a printserver that works off of both. I tend to use Ubuntu ‘Mate’ for that sort of thing rather than Raspbian.
Any Pi 4 can host a Kali image, for your pentesting pleasure — or just mapping the various wireless networks in use around your location. There’s a kit for coupling a pi with a Li-ion battery, so you can take your investigations on the road — it’s only a bit larger than a pack of cigarettes.
Speaking of DNS have you played with this one yet?
https://pi-hole.net/
I have not……but I tend to run everyone on my network with pretty restrictive firewall rules and haven’t felt the need.
On a completely different tack……I used to have a great link to explain all the trappings of a Scottish kilt and how it’s meant to be worn……but such is the chaos in my household, I am currently unable to find it.
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On a related front, when I visited Fiji, I could have gotten a custom-tailored full dress sulu, with jacket, for about $145. I wish I had (even though I wouldn’t fit into it now). It’s similar, without the dagger, stockings, sporran, pins, and footwear (
Dep, the man’s bathroom is MAGAnificent.
Love it!!!!!!
And Indiana Jones puts us all in the mood to take off to the great unknown, looking for adventure.
Feel good thread!!!!!!!
Thank you!
I thought the headlights were a nice touch.
hmmm…a man’s man thread on hump day…LOL…perfect!!
also, as noted OT…today is 1,000 days of POTUS!
Time flies…
when you’re winning!
LOL
Parscale certainly knows how to bring the snark.
love him!
… 😂👍 … bwahahahahahah
After crawling around in the Ukraine yesterday, with people who reported from Ukraine, I’ve reached the conclusion that the USA overthrew a country.
After stints in Miami and South America, I’m unusually cynical when it comes to third world politics.
Feel like I was the naive kid who just got the wake up call.
Our officials were ruthless.
If it was a competition against China and Russia for strategic goals, I could have played along. The world is an ugly place…. I get it. Been there, done that. I’m no kid.
But that wasn’t it.
AFTER the Obama officials “won”, the Biden team made the situation worse, much worse. The myriad of Obama officials was worse still.
If we’re the good guys, the Americans, why didn’t our officials act honorably? It would have been so easy to do the right thing…., set Ukraine back on a prosperous path…… but time after time they had a choice and failed.
The USA owes Ukraine an apology. We should ship the Bidens and the Obama officials, all the Hillary clan, back to Ukraine for trial as nothing less than war criminals. What they did was awful. And without a doubt, they KNOW what they did. No more pleading ignorance. It’s sheer personal greed. No altruism whatsoever. No higher calling for duty to country or service at all.
Disgusted with the Obama admin.
The Ukrainian people have ever reason to loathe the USA and it’s a horrible waste of resources and good will.
If you’re feeling nauseated by Ukraine, have the basin ready for Haiti.
Let it all come out.
Including sealed indict7.
Indictments .
Yes, I agree, I was thinking of what was done to Haiti as I was reading Daughn’s post about Ukraine!
And how about Egypt and the Muslim B’hood fiasco. That’s on the very same cabal’s shoulders.
Daughn – all that you researched and compiled is hugely important. I am spinning my wheels to figure out how we can get it to a greater audience – ie someone who has a megaphone!
Nation overthrowing as a feature of American diplomacy started before Teddy Roosevelt. Look up John Foster, grandfather of the Dulles brothers.
Don’ get me wrong, we’ve seen it before.
Bu this one, was particularly nasty and unnecessary – especially what they did AFTER the overthrow.
There’s something strategic beyond gas about Ukraine. FOr some reason, it needs to be kept from the Russians.
I’m still wondering where Hillrotten has stashed Libya’s and Ghaddafi’s gold!!!!
Spit, spit, spit!!!
Verse of the Day
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“By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
John 13:35 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!
Wednesday Blessing
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
Good Wednesday morning Duchess!
Good Wednesday to you, too, pa!
Have a Blessed Day! God Loves You!!!
and you as well Duchess!!!
Thanks! * Big Smile *
making cut-out cookies today…stop by later for some?
Will do – Thanks! God Bless You, sweetheart!
God Bless you too!
* Big Smile *
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus!
Gibberish…that’s the language that comes to my mind…
FTA
inesh D’Souza called out Michelle Obama, calling her final thesis from Princeton University “illiterate and incoherent.”
His comments came after the former First Lady made an appearance in London as a stop on her book tour for her new memoir titled, “Becoming”.
Mrs. Obama was speaking with Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie when she made the claim, “I have been at probably every powerful table that you can think of.”
D’Souza posted on social media, “Anyone who has read Michelle’s college thesis – a document so illiterate and incoherent that it was written, as Christopher Hitchens put it, in “no known language” – will chuckle heartily at this one.
Below are a few excerpts from Michelle Obama’s college thesis:
As a result of this greater sense of comfort felt by respondents with groups with whom they have spent more time, more respondents will be interested in benefiting these particular groups in comparison to others. Thus, the variable measuring time spent with Blacks or Whites will also influence the dependent variable measured by the respondents’ motivation to benefit various social groups. (Robinson, 19)
As we have seen, the findings discussed in the previous paragraphs seem to support the hypothesis that respondents who were increasing the time spent with Blacks were becoming more attached to the Black community during the Pre-to-Prin period both in their individual interactions and in their political ideologies about Black and White relations on a community level. Respondents who were increasing time spent with Blacks were also becoming interested in positively contributing to the Black community. (Robinson, 42)
However, with the increasing integration of Blacks into the mainstream society, many “integrated Blacks” have lost touch with the Black culture in their attempts to become adjusted and comfortable in their new culture — the White culture. Some of these Blacks are no longer able to enjoy the qualities which make Black culture so unique or are unable to openly share their culture with other Blacks because they have become so far removed from these experiences and, in some instances, ashamed of them as a result of their integration. (Robinson, 54)
Seventy-one percent of the respondents reported being in careers that have made them upwardly mobile from their parents’ socio-economic class, while none of the respondents reported being downwardly mobile from their parents’ socioeconomic class , and only 17% of the respondents reported remaining even with their parents’ socio-economic class; 12% did not know yet how they were moving (see table 10).
With respect to belief in God, it appears that their general belief in some kind of God was relatively high. Sixty-two percent of the respondents said they definitely believe in God, while only 6% reported that they do not believe in God; 24% are uncomfortable with the word “God” but believe in a transcendent force; and 9% either do not know or are uncertain. Seventy-one percent of the respondents believe God influences their own lives, but only 43% of the respondents believe that God influences the way society is organized (Robinson, 35)
I think after reading through some of this mind-numbing nonsense, you can begin to understand D’Souza’s point.
https://tediummedia.com/dinesh-dsouza-calls-out-michelle-obama-says-what-few-dare-to-say/
Hubby started reading it several years ago and came to the same conclusion.
Please tell me this is a joke!
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Ocasio-Cortez is getting her own action figure
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/465833-ocasio-cortez-is-getting-her-own-action-figure
That doll has a scary face!
.. LOL … adorable 😝🤚❤️
wonder if you can buy accessories? like a waitress apron? or optional chain link fence (you know, for photo ops?) LOL
… snicker … 😜
Each doll comes with special Kung-Fu grip to dislodge you from all of your money…
… HA‼️‼️‼️‼️ … 😖🤚
BWAHAHAHAHAHA…LOVE IT!
… it’s … it’s …. horrifying … 😫🤚 … take it away ‼️‼️‼️ 🤢
… this is a JOKE right? 🤨‼️ …
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141124164607/someordinarygamers/images/9/90/543939_10151967754250682_567007707_n.jpg
Very lousy image of her. Perfect for use as a target.
Andrew Jackson’s Bank Veto Speech, last four paragraphs:
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society–the farmers, mechanics, and laborers–who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles.
Nor is our Government to be maintained or our Union preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of the several States. In thus attempting to make our General Government strong we make it weak. Its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves–in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence; not in its control, but in its protection; not in binding the States more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.
Experience should teach us wisdom. Most of the difficulties our Government now encounters and most of the dangers which impend over our Union have sprung from an abandonment of the legitimate objects of Government by our national legislation, and the adoption of such principles as are embodied in this act. Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress. By attempting to gratify their desires we have in the results of our legislation arrayed section against section, interest against interest, and man against man, in a fearful commotion which threatens to shake the foundations of our Union. It is time to pause in our career to review our principles, and if possible revive that devoted patriotism and spirit of compromise which distinguished the sages of the Revolution and the fathers of our Union. If we can not at once, in justice to interests vested under improvident legislation, make our Government what it ought to be, we can at least take a stand against all new grants of monopolies and exclusive privileges, against any prostitution of our Government to the advancement of the few at the expense of the many, and in favor of compromise and gradual reform in our code of laws and system of political economy.
I have now done my duty to my country. If sustained by my fellow-citizens, I shall be grateful and happy; if not, I shall find in the motives which impel me ample grounds for contentment and peace. In the difficulties which surround us and the dangers which threaten our institutions there is cause for neither dismay nor alarm. For relief and deliverance let us firmly rely on that kind Providence which I am sure watches with peculiar care over the destinies of our Republic, and on the intelligence and wisdom of our countrymen. Through His abundant goodness and their patriotic devotion our liberty and Union will be preserved.”
It should be noted that Andrew Jackson’s grave does not reference his two terms as President. It merely says,
“GENERAL
ANDREW JACKSON
Born March 15, 1767,
Died June 8, 1845”
If there was ever a more blatant FU toward the national government, it’d be hard to find.
Whole transcript – Bank Veto Message – Andrew Jackson – July 10 , 1832 http://www.knowsouthernhistory.net/Speeches/andrew_jackson_bank_veto.html
Have a safe trip CT, Mayberry awaits and welcomes you .
It matters because it’s a big blow to .Pocahontas.
but are you really surprised? he’s the most socialist candidate they got running–and if he wins the nomination, he might pick AOC herself to be his running mate…easy step into power for her puppet masters
Any V.P. for President Bernie could almost certainly count on becoming president early in his first year.
the crazy jihadi squadie endorsement.. just the final sort of campaign boost Crazy Bernie deserves .
…’ like peas and carrots ‘ …
It’s kabuki. The Dims won’t nominate him. His supporters will be bequeathed to the real candidate
Suspicious Cat thinks that someone is using the squad to deploy toxicity toward Bernie and knock him out of the race. TPTB still dont want Bernie.
Happy Wednesday!
The last two are KEEPERS!!! (they’re all great of course!)
right? PILLAGE PEOPLE? i thought that was awesome!!
… bwahahahahahah… 😖🤚
Day 1000 of Trump Adm. !!!!!!!!
Be sure to send a transcript of the call to the House Intel Committee so it can be translated for the MSM and the American people.
Remember when Mad Maxine said:
“First we have to get him down in the polls, then we impeach!”
I think that’s what they are trying to do with this Fake Impeachment show.
It fits with CNN’s Jeff Zucker’s orders to stay on the impeachment story, pushing it every day.
They want to program people into thinking that it’s real…and that Pres Trump has done something wrong, something that warrants him being impeached.
They are desperate to get Pres Trump’s approval numbers down.
Even though they have their fake polls showing that his approval numbers are not very high…I think they know that’s not true…and the majority of people Like Pres Trump.
That’s why Nasty Nan is not going to bring it up for a vote.
She knows that an impeachment vote would fail.
So their media operatives are going to continue to Lie, Lie and Lie some more…to try to erode our President’s popularity.
😕😠🤬
Yes, but Take Heart, after 3 yrs of nonstop hatred, and the drip, drip, drip of the Mueller Investigation, and dud Report – they DID NOT succeed in getting his numbers down. Anything they do now is actually cementing his support and bringing new folks in.
Re: Cementing his support – people who weren’t sure but voted for him anyway, and folks who might have voted GOP, but stayed home or voted “other” – those are votes I’m sure that are going to come in for POTUS in 2020. Those votes, and the newly awakened Democrats who are walking away.
The malignant media can lie 24/7, but the reality? The Democrats are NOT gaining one vote from what they’re doing. I believe that’s a good way to look at everything going down.
Oh, I heartily agree, LadyP!
It will boomerang on them…because more and more people are seeing through the Dems’ lies and bullshit.
I hope I didn’t sound like an Eeyore…because I didn’t intend to be a downer.
Just offering up an explanation for why the Dems and their media operatives are doing these kamikaze suicide runs now.
Oh, no. You didn’t. You’re right to point out what they’ve been trying to do… I was thinking about soemting crossing my reading yesterday – where one of the networks went into 2016 split districts (Michigan) – half went Hillary, and half Trump, and they did interviews. The folks can’t even put up signs anymore – but I blame the hatred Obama sowed in our political discourse for that happening – it used to be we could laugh and you could vote Dem, and I’d vote GOP, and nobody cared, because either candidate winning didn’t mean the end of our good lives here in America. Obama brought in the potential end.
Anyway, there was 1 voter who said she’d voted for POTUS in 2016, and wasn’t going to vote for him again because there has been “so much craziness” surrounding him. I told hubby it really bothered me how stupid some voters were! The Dems pushing chaos around POTUS 24/7 does get to the low-information voter. But I also believe that the #Walkaway voters will make up for people like that woman.
Heck, the Moody’s model has POTUS winning more “swing states. He even has Virginia in there!
Wheatie, this just crossed my twitter feed, and is example of your valid concern. The only problem I see is that “We ain’t seen nothing yet!” The 2020 election season is going to be brutal – and I can’t stand it as we’ve already seen it. But soldier on we must. I’m hoping that AG Barr and his crew get busy and take the wind out of the sails on some of these characters.
We put on OUR big girl panties long ago!
On a side note, my 10 year old granddaughter tells me the kids in her class speak negatively about our POTUS, so I gave her some basic ammo to fire back at them: lowest unemployment for blacks and hispanics in history, lowest overall unemployment in over 40 years; 2 SCOTUS judges & 100’s of Federal judges.
Teach her how to punch them in the nose when they speak negatively about President Trump. 😉
I prefer to teach her to fight intellectually, thereby also educating her cohorts w/o her getting kicked out of school. Her Father is very anti-political as well….I have to step lightly.
you don’t tug on Superman’s cape
you don’t spit into the wind…
you don’t pull the mask off the ole Lone Ranger
and you don’t mess around with …him…
http://api.ning.com/files/xhz*glhmGch-rCQlS3FGDdKRDKs7NtZfUvV3pXHXX4GP5DB5bzDKAZ1yoDNXOYl3WfkwYkL3SKuAYDu4ifm1SEKgJeAeqXk0/TrumpWarrior.jpg
… AWESOME … 🤨👍‼️❤️🇺🇸❤️
Love it pat .. 😉🤚❤️
Well said. And it’s the only thing they have left.
Every time I start to feel down, I look at what is happening with President Trump’s rallies. Tens of thousands of people spending an entire day on their feet, much in the outside elements, for the chance to see and hear him for 90 mins. The demoncrats have NOTHING that comes close to that enthusiasm.
Then I remember the republican BLOWOUT that just occurred in Louisiana, (hard to do because the presstitutes BURIED the story), and hear Q in my head saying “you are watching a movie”.
I’m trusting the Plan because we’re starting to see the results play out.
The morning is a good time to dance. 🙂
The Shakers were a very interesting Protestant sect. Great music, and lifestyle. We still see their talents in furniture known as “Shaker Style” – too bad they didn’t believe in procreation, they died out once no one new joined their movement.
Interesting is an understatement. Mother Ann’s teachings on procreation made a lot of sense to many people at that point and time in history. There was a strong attraction to its unusual procreative ethics in part as a counter to some of the cultural abuses at the time. However the Shakers were clearly problematic and unsustainable – I believe they serve as a warning from history about the dangers of tampering with God’s plan for marriage and the marrital union even with the best of intentions.
https://twitter.com/beer_parade/status/1184207819450527744
… ✋😂👍‼️‼️‼️ … bwahahahahahah .. 🤨
Hmmm. There’s a shovel there in the back…
Sylvia ?????
Yeah‼️ … so we scratch that off the list .. lol 😃👍❤️
It reminded me of Kris Kringle’s cane leaned up against the stairs in “Miracle on 34th Street”…
(after they “found” the house that Susan wanted, with directions that Kris Kringle gave them)…
Wow. Almost time to watch that again (the 1947 version)…
I love that movie … going to see Santa was a big deal. You had already circled what you wanted in the Sears Christmas Catalog and semi-discretely folded the corners of the IMPORTANT pages all the while believing Nd hoping … maybe this time. The movie The Christmas Story epitomized a kids hope …
http://movieguy247.com/iMovies/images/blog/Holiday%20Movies/christmas_story_poster.jpg
The time is fast approaching when the thanksgiving scene in the move will be played out in home across the country …
😜🤚
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1184217095208390663
https://twitter.com/beer_parade/status/1184210506300694528
Betrayal doesn’t go over very well with people who understand what has happened.
The people in HK are fierce. Very adept at responding immediately to the comments dujour on their situation. NBA players arent heroes for playingva game well, just like foosball players. Red pills are free flowing!
Connected to your post of Techno’s thread, this is worth reading from OT. Many are riffing off SD’s thorough article on what just happened. There are some insightful comments as well.
SD has good bullet points in the post – asking the right questions. Ms Powell is AWESOME and may almost single-handed bring down the entire corrupt Mueller Gestapo Thug Gang. Think: Weissmann et al.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/15/wait-what-doj-has-possession-of-joseph-mifsud-cell-phones-blackberries/
Thanks Lady P., I don’t understand why Flynn didn’t have a decent defense to start with… why did he have that Leftist squad? The entire Special Counsel was handled by Weismann, imho… who should have been disbarred long ago. Lots of citizen journalists have taken the entire Mueller ‘thang’ apart, including Sundance… Thanks for the heads up on SD’s post. Agree with all your points.
PR, I don’t know why Flynn didn’t have good defense either. Was he snookered? Did he always know he’d have to get rid of them? It’s one of the puzzle pieces not yet in place. But I’m delighted with Ms. Powell, who I believe will be one of the names history remembers for helping take down the Deep State. Schumer’s words have haunted us for some time, “Intel officials ‘have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” Those words reveal a powerful entity – greater than POTUS, Congress, and even the Judiciary. The three branches of government who are supposed to govern this country. It looks like the Intelligence people have been running Ops for decades… we know they’ve destabilized or overthrown foreign country governments, but they’ve been active here too.
It’s part of the plan/game. They wanted to keep the lawsuit alive for some reason.
I’m hoping you’re right. 🙂
Pretty much what was running through my mind as I read this discussion – Q said Flynn took a fall for us, didn’t he? Was it an op by the good guys from the gitgo? *sigh* Way too convoluted for me to understand.
You can have your own life size Jamie Fraser in a kilt!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Jamie-Fraser-Scottish-Version-Outlander-Cardboard-Stand-Up-6ft/900951361
Got to have kilts, pipes and drums music to go with it!
That damn global warming! (sarc)
Life in America where weather is an adventure!
But there’s no need to HAARP on it, is there?
Yes, I’m wearing my very expensive tin foil hat………………..
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/historic-midwest-blizzard-has-farmers-seeing-massive-crop-lossesas-devastating-weve-ever
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/40-million-americans-already-dont-have-enough-food-eat-and-its-about-get-lot-worse
Don’t have enough food to eat? Have these people been in a grocery store lately here in the states? We have better choices than anywhere on earth.
I remember one time……mind you, this is one time in 50+ years…..one time, I was in a market, and the couple (with kids) ahead of me in line was checking out. They had sacks of rice, dried beans, flour, and corn meal. An economy-sized bottle of vegetable oil. Gallons of milk. Blocks of cheese. Whole chickens. Bell peppers and onions.
NOTHING with a brand name, no frivolities, no sweets or cartoon characters…..they were set up for arroz con pollo, frijoles, making their own tortillas, chicken burritos…..and they paid for it all with food stamps. Their family was going to survive and thrive THROUGH THEIR OWN INDUSTRY from raw materials provided from our nation’s bounty. I had never before and have never since been so proud of our food stamp system……because it’s normally used to purchase massively processed branded junk.
That was last week and we’re already back in the 70’s.
The sad part is trees, bushes, and critters don’t adapt well to a 70 degree drop in a day, so we’re already seeing the damage to pine trees, perennials, etc.
Global Warming would be welcomed!
lol
Tim Tebow…but it fits the thread…lol
LOL
Mitch was mighty slow getting the nominees for ambassadorships confirmed… or am I not recalling correctly? This witch was still serving in March … still undermining POTUS and our Republic
TBH, the judge confirmations are/were more important than ambassadors.
That’s true, but he could have done both (some folks can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time). I have followed his judicial confirmations, and he has done well, BUT he was slow out of the gate with those, and there were periods in the last 18 months esp. during crisis at the border, that he tried using those apptms as leverage against POTUS. Alzheimers may be moving in on me, but I haven’t forgotten those times. And while I’m ranting, Mitch uses “voice vote” when he chooses, and a number of ambassadors could have been confirmed in that manner. Just my 2 cents. Mitch looks out for Mitch, not so much the Country.
Don’t forget, Q told us that the majority in the Senate before the midterms was on paper. In reality, they had to get Flake and one other person out before having control. Once the judiciary is packed, they can really start moving in the second term.
yes, he’s up for reelection? using the reelect me and I will make SURE impeachment goes no where in the Senate…
yet Fitton of Judicial Watch says the Senate is under no constitutional requirement to take up impeachment…I am no expert, but ya gotta wonder about the games being played…
🦁😍🦁
https://twitter.com/Redtowel4/status/1184236506606645251?s=20
LOVE the Lion!!! tbh I was waiting for the lion to crack up…
this looks like he’s waiting for dinner…and can’t wait to pounce
Heh, was gonna point out this below, before I listened to DPs clip which was one of the original ads…oh,well 😉 still interesting for those that didnt know I suppose.
A little worthless trivia on those “Real men of Genius” ads…They originally aired starting in 1998 with a different slogan/catch phrase….”Real American Heroes”.
After 9/11 they changed it to Real Men of Genius”. Fairly obvious why they changed it given the heroic nature of police, fire and emergency workers on that day, making light of the term Hero would of been poor marketing indeed.
I’ve noticed that he is no longer referred to as Pope Francis. Now he is just Beroglio.
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During the pagan ritual the shamans gave Bergoglio: the goddess of fertility Pachamama, a marxist black ring ‘the tucum ring’ and an amulet necklace.
https://4christum.blogspot.com/2019/10/during-pagan-ritual-apostate-bergoglio.html
Depends on who is reporting. The ones who claim we need to respect the office will still call him “pope”. I can respect the office just fine. Pope Benedict XVI, apparently, is still the real office holder.
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This is worth a read, from OT article of last night. It’s going to be a hot topic today. Did I mention that Sidney Powell is one of my favorite people – a heroine for us women! She might be the one to take down Mueller and his Gestapo Gang. Might even take out the CIA/FBI at the same time.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/15/wait-what-doj-has-possession-of-joseph-mifsud-cell-phones-blackberries/
Astute comments in the post, but this one is good from Italy.
cheekymeeky says:
October 16, 2019 at 7:22 am
There are a couple of reporters in Italy doing a decent job in covering this story.
“Lawyer Powell had already asked in September “any information, including records or 302s , about the presence and involvement of Joseph Mifsud in involving or reporting the presence of Mr. Flynn and Mifsud himself at the Russia Today dinner held in Moscow on 17 December 2015 ″. This is the dinner for the ten years of the magazine, during which Flynn met Russian President Putin. The photograph portraying them at the same table was fundamental to argue that the former general was a Russian agent and, therefore, to feed the narrative of the collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia.
But what are the documents called 302 ? These are reports in which FBI agents summarize the content of the talks they had with their informants and “non-primary agents”. Which would mean, if there were 302 reports with Mifsud of that dinner, that the FBI had questioned the Maltese professor of Link Campus since at least 2015 and, therefore, he already knew exactly then who he was, even before he met in Rome then advisor of the Trump Campaign George Papadopoulos (March 2016). From the request of the lawyer Powell we learn that Mifsud would also have been present at that dinner and, therefore, his role in the Russiagate would be backdated to December 2015 compared to the first meeting with Papadopoulos.
The two phones used by Mifsud could contain evidence that exonerates Flynn, according to his lawyer, demonstrating that it was framed, or in any case “material relevant to the defense, with particular regard to the OCONUS lures ( Outside Contiguous US lures , ed) and to the agents that Western intelligence used against him probably as early as 2014 to organize – unbeknownst to him – ‘connections’ with some Russians they would later use against him in their false accusations. Telephones that were used by Mr. Joseph Mifsud, “Lawyer Powell writes in the petition presented Tuesday.
“If we determine that they contain information that is detectable or that is relevant to the conviction, we will provide it to you,” the Justice Department responded.
The existence of 302 of talks with Mifsud and two of his telephones in the hands of the Department of Justice are important for the defense of Flynn because they show that the information of the Maltese professor ended up at the FBI, at the DOJ, while they claimed he was an agent Russian. Former FBI director James Comey called Mifsud a “Russian agent”, while in his report the special prosecutor Mueller merely presented him as a person with Russian ties and contacts. If during the whole Russiagate investigation these elements were not shown, then, it was because we wanted to avoid that it turned out that it was, instead, a “provocative agent” and that these “agents” had been employed against Flynn already in 2014.”
https://www.atlanticoquotidiano.it/rubriche/speciale-italygate-10-il-dipartimento-di-giustizia-usa-ha-due-telefoni-di-mifsud-e-la-difesa-del-generale-flynn-chiede-di-averli/
excerpt from one of Brian Cate’s THREADS (you can find same FACTS in THREADS of numerous researchers (Dr. Quigley, Jeff writing in Epoch News, etc.)
“… Mike Gaeta = Professor Joseph Mifsud’s FBI handler in Rome.
Where Mifsud’s been hiding out for 2 years ever since his name went public.
Despite some people like CNN’s .@AshaRangappa_ desperately clinging to the hoax narrative that Maltese Mifsud is some kinda Russian agent, he was actually working for the FBI when he sought to entrap Trump campaign adviser .@GeorgePapa19.
CNN should fire her and hire me. 😏
Mifsud had an official FBI handler and everything.
So when Horowitz’s report goes public, the Gaeta and Pientka sections are going to make some very fascinating reading.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1121517347494297601.html
Anytime you read Mifsud is a Russian agent, it’s a blankety blank LIE… Mifsud was a US agent, who also worked with the UK.
Another lunatic. Where do they all come from?
https://twitter.com/truthstreamnews/status/1184323902459334656
Mmm…I think this is a long time in the making.
Among the pantheon of my grandparents’ siblings and their spouses, there was one aunt and her husband who stand out as being part of a movement that slowly took root. I don’t know when or how they met and married, but those two were athiests, members of the Hemlock Society, and bookworms. Both were smart in the business sense, but moral grounding beyond love for family…not really there as I understand it. They did not have children, and were not big on sacrifice. Religion was a opiate for the masses and all that.
And these people came of age before WWII.
All of this was underground in a societal sense for at least 100 years now. It infected intellectuals, mostly, who were willing to be flexible with morals. And they read. A lot. I mean a lot. Material that is now considered “great literature” produced specifically to foster social change.
Yes, these people are out of the mainstream. But, they’ve been led to believe this stuff by the echo chamber that created it for the use of the people higher up on the totem poles of life.
Even though the ChiComs are trying to block reports of what is going on in Hong Kong…the truth is still getting out.
Even better than Jamie Fraser in a kilt……!!!!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/President-Donald-Trump-Cardboard-Stand-Up-6ft/155841493
I may have to get one of these to put in my garage!
Why the garage?
Well, political signs are forbidden by the HOA in my neighborhood, so I have my Trump yard sign in my garage standing casually in the potting soil container and my Women for Trump signs are stapled on the back wall of the garage, and of course, my Trump Pence Bumper Sticker on my minivan. The garage is closed most of the time, except when I’m working in the yard. A life size Donald Trump would be the icing on the cake!!!
US Flags are permitted – so I put out a US flag on sunny days and lots of flags on Memorial Day, 4th of July, D Day, etc. – and Election Day!
Same here GA/FL 🤓. Garage is my Trump showcase. I have car window flags & magnetic bumper stickers for driving car so I can put on/ take off, depending on where I will be parked 🙄
Flag flies every day, weather permitting. 🇺🇸
I also put my bumper stickers and flags on magnets so I won’t mess them up when washing the car and can remove if in a politically dangerous location! Leftists are violent and have often vandalized Trump autos.
Swoon GF!!! James Fraser, ooh la la!!! 😉🤪🥰
I ❤️ Outlander!!!
Here’s the full clip:
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Thanks Wheatie… having a slow morning here 😉
Earthquake for you GAFL.
“A strong and shallow earthquake has struck the southern Philippines.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 6.4 quake that hit Wednesday evening was centered about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Columbio in the Mindanao region. It had a depth of only 14 kilometers (8 miles). Shallow quakes tend to cause more damage than deeper ones.
There was no immediate word on casualties or damage from the quake.”
https://ktla.com/2019/10/16/magnitude-6-4-earthquake-strikes-southern-philippines/
Here it is – looks like California is still shaking a bit.
http://ds.iris.edu/seismon/views/eveday//imgs/topMap.eveday.png
http://ds.iris.edu/seismon/
https://twitter.com/cjtruth/status/1184427635860037632
I realize the size of nypd is massive, but it seems the number of suicides is excessive.
“An off-duty NYPD sergeant shot and killed himself inside his Queens home on Tuesday, the 10th NYPD officer to take his own life this year, law enforcement sources said.
The 33-year-old victim, identified by sources as Officer Linhong Li, shot himself in the head in the house he shared with his wife near Union Turnpike and 178th Street in Utopia, the sources said.
His wife found him in a pool of blood when she walked into the house at about 8 p.m., according to police sources.
Li, a probationary officer, joined the NYPD in 2012 where he was assigned to the 24th precinct on the Upper West Side. Prior to completing the academy, Li was a member of the NYPD Cadet Corps.
Before his time with the NYPD, Li served in the U.S. Marine Corps, including a tour in Iraq.
The sergeant’s self-inflicted death is the latest in a number of NYPD suicides in 2019.”
https://nypost.com/2019/10/15/off-duty-nypd-sergeant-kills-himself-in-queens-home/
you gotta wonder (with your tin foil hat firmly strapped on) if this had anything with what some saw on weiner’s laptop…and are they all suicides?
Untreated PTSD is my guess for his motivation.
Thats what i was suspecting. Still, with the nypd string of suicides, admin and others need to try being more alert .
i would really like to see charges filed against that woman!
Her male BF (escort) sure was a weenie. I would have socked that woman back right on her nose.
Watch carefully position of hands during strike. It was jerk that was with the jerk girl that hit her.
Outstanding DePat … you knocked it out of the park … thoroughly enjoyed … 😉👍❤️🇺🇸❤️‼️‼️
https://twitter.com/Avery1776/status/1184304038826991616
Having difficulty recalling… but pretty sure Avery did tons of research on Maiden Rev
Yes, the Kurds are not angels. President Trump made the right decision to pull our troops out of Syria. Let the Russians protect them.
The decimation of Christians and churches in the Middle East has been catastrophic – to genocide levels – starting with the Bush II administration and Bush II wars.
Under Øbama and the rise of ISIS – the butchery of Christians was barbaric – they used churches as abattoires to heartlessly butcher Christian men, women and children, sell organs, etc.
New narrative. Deserves some scrutiny. Just saying.
Well, well, well, Dems have taken the position the President was withholding arms from Ukraine, the Javelin Missiles, until Zelinsky promised to investigate Biden.
What if I told you zealot DC insiders have been pushing the sale of Javelin missiles to Ukraine — SINCE 2015.
Withholding the same missile system for almost 5yrs? It’s true. The Ukrainians have wanted the Javelin anti-tank missiles since 2015. Look here, report from the Atlantic Council, page 16/17, right hand side of the page. It’s there in black and white. And American weapons manufacturers want to sell it to Ukraine, or give it to Ukraine using US taxpayer dollars!
And the Atlantic Council is sponsored by Raytheon and Lockheed…… who make the Javelin Missiles. Imagine that!
The report is called: Preserving Ukraine’s Independence, Resisting Russian Aggression: What the United States and NATO Must Do.
The Dems are full of SHIFF in this argument. Totally false.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/UkraineReport_February2015_FINAL.pdf
Daughn see below… Webb has more in his TL
Oh my – it’s Brookings again. A veritable Fountain of Truth.
Not.
Robert Brookings would be so proud. If there was anyone who knew how to grovel, he could.
Robert Brookings…lived on Lindell…Dwight Davis…put together the rudiments of the military industrial complex…hmm…I wonder who has Brookings’s archival papers. They’ve gotta be here somewhere.
Found them. http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=454&q=
Do I have time to go read through them. Hmm.
Only one cubic foot, I should be able to, BUT here’s something interesting from the catalog entry:
Robert S. Brookings (1850 -1932) was born and acquired his early education in Cecil County, Maryland, before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, to begin his career at age 17. He began as a clerk and later salesman for Cupples & Marston., manufacturers and distributors of woodenware. In less than four years he became a partner in the firm at age twenty-one.
He achieved remarkable success in business at an early age, and began to reach out for a broader perspective by acquiring education and European culture. He read deeply under the direction of Dean Snow of Washington College in St. Louis and traveled extensively in Europe.
As a civic leader and philanthropist, Brookings turned his creative energy to building Washington University and other St. Louis institutions until, with the coming of World War I, he moved to Washington and onto the world stage. He served on the new War Industries Board as commissioner of Finished Products and Chairman of the Price Fixing Committee. In this role he became the link between the government and hundreds of industries. He achieved remarkable results under very difficult circumstances, and for his war service he was recognized with the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal, the French Legion of Honor, and Italy’s Commander of the Crown.
His work within the government during the war showed him the need for improved economic research and a trained corps of civil servants. He established a graduate school as a part of Washington University and two institutes to address these problems. Finally, Brookings’ dream of an independent research institution devoted to solving problems of government and the economy became a reality with the merger in 1927 of the Robert Brookings Graduate School, the Institute of Economics, and the original Institute for Government Research established in 1916.
“ Chairman of the Price Fixing Committee. ” Spit!!
ooh, through this, though, I think I found one of the keys to it all. Again, a rich guy trying to control things and make money. Not Brookings, but someone who was on the War Industries Board with him.
I came so close to going to work for Brookings.
One of those career path choices…..
Wow.
One could say that it’s a shame you didn’t since then we would have an inside source for DIRT. 🙂
There’s that military industrial complex thing again.
This is definitely going on the timeline!
HMMMMM. Who was one of the FIRST organizations Trump went after to “pay their full share” NATO. Trump made it a priority to call out ALL the members. Do you think he knew THEN what was going on? My bet, he did. AS for Chalupa. April 16th 2016, goes along with ALL I have surmised and written. Manafort was ALSO a timeline problem. I wrote that he was setup in March 2016 by Yovanovich getting and releasing the Black Ledger to the US MSM. Now it appears Chalupa was running off all that to Ukrainian MSM just a few days later.
There is NO WAY that is coincidental. There is also NO WAY that that kind of coordination happened in a vacuum or QUICKLY. This ALL was planned and laid out WELL before 2016. Trump first approached Manafort in Feb 2016, and Manafort came on in March 2016…then we got the Black Ledger. Sounds like, just as they used a two pronged attack on Trump with Yovanovich working the Ukraine side , and Chalupa worked the US side, they did the SAME with Manafort. NO WAY that is accidental, just days apart.
Manafort had only been on the job DAYS. Do you know what this really tells me? There WAS indeed surveillance and or a MOLE in the early Trump campaign. They knew Manafort was coming on board in March, but ONLY Trump and his inner circle KNEW that Trump was talking to Manafort in FEB…unless he was BUGGED. MY point, if the MSM in BOTH the Ukraine and the US were being briefed by Cabal members in MARCH and APRIL about Manafort, they had to know Manafort was coming on board BEFORE that, and ONLY Trump and his inner circle would have known that. It took TIME to prep the setups, to “formulate” the Black Ledger, and TIME to coordinate and disseminate the info. This did NOT happen in hours or even DAYS.
What I am saying is this is CONFIRMATION that Trump WAS surveilled BEFORE July 31 2016. This was BEFORE Papadopolous in April and May 2016, and BEFORE Don jr on June 9 2016. It was WAY before Crossfire in July, and light years before Page the plant in October 2016.
This is an “inadvertent” smoking gun! Damned if it didn’t confirm all my suspicions.
Some have speculated that zero was spying on POTUS at least beginning when Donald Trump raised the issue of zero’s birth certificate… and then there’s Maxine’s loose tongue saying in (iirc) 2012, that “Obama has the biggest database anyone has ever seen.” What do you think about that date?
I wrote in my book that all the spying likely started in 2011, as a result and countermeasure to Obama getting historically shellacked in the 201 midterms, ALL the IRS stuff started in 2011. SO I would bet folding money that Obama began this prior to that and used it to attack his “enemies” like the TEA party.
Lots of folks would agree with you, including me!
“Some have speculated that zero was spying on POTUS at least beginning when Donald Trump raised the issue of zero’s birth certificate… ”
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Even more, some have speculated that provoking Hussein’s ire was DJT’s whole purpose for pursuing the Birth Certificate issue.
He WANTED to goad Hussein into coming after him, apparently to set all of this in motion, and if that is true, then DJT has been planning for becoming president at least as far back as his involvement with the birth certificate issue.
Much longer I’m sure, but that would be a very specific marker in time.
Thirty years?
“Thirty years?”
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Probably since 1980, if not longer.
Rex, Always appreciate your informed logical posts.
Some input from Ristvan re: Pelosi’s impeachmentgamble:
ristvan says:
October 15, 2019 at 5:36 pm
I was just going to comment on this newish development. Today’s bogus ‘letter subpoena’ due date was for Giuiliani and Pence. Friday is for Mulvaney.
Leading with Giuliani is clever. He is not formally part of the administration, so ‘obstruction’ isn’t directly applicable even though he has said several times on talk shows he has much relevant Ukraine stuff. Neither Pence nor Mulvaney arguably have anything much of relevance to this phone call, so just turn over a little garbage.
So that lets Giuliani today dare the Dems to go to court to enforce an illegitimate ‘subpoena’ as Sundance and I have previously explained several times. He as much as said so (paraphrasing his announcement): ‘We’ll see what happens if they try enforcement.’ If Schiff takes Rudy’s dare, Rudy’s response filing can simple be some CTH excerpts, dressed up with a few of the underlying SCOTUS rulings..
ristvan says:
October 15, 2019 at 5:53 pm
This brief Sale response is tactically brilliant. A goad to Schiff.
AND, still does not expose the hidden in plain sight ‘BIG GUN’ to TDS Dems— that the supposed Schiff subpoenas are illegitimate, null, and void based on many longstanding SCOTUS legislative subpoena power precedents.
ristvan says:
October 15, 2019 at 11:50 pm
There is a more sophisticated discussion over near the end of todays Presidential thread, after a posting of Giuliani’s lawyer Sale short defiant response letter,
That defiant “ ‘pound sand’ to your ‘subpoena letter’” response is legally brilliant on several separate grounds.
— cites last Tuesday’s Cippolone letter as a justification
—cites attorney/client privilege
—omits mention of the still hidden ‘nuke’ that the House under present long established SCOTUS circumstances has no legitimate subpoena powers.
Is a further baiting of Schiff and co into a court subpoena enforcement process they cannot in the end win.
“I was just going to comment on this newish development. Today’s bogus ‘letter subpoena’ due date was for Giuiliani and Pence. Friday is for Mulvaney.”
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We need a new name for them, like ‘sub-wisha’ instead of subpoena, something that indicates the issuer has NO power to compel testimony, but the issuer wishes really hard that you would help him to incriminate yourself.
The term subpoena is from the Middle English suppena and the Latin phrase sub poena meaning “under penalty”.
In Latin “no penalty” is nec poena. “Without penalty” is sine poena.
Without testicles is sine testibus.
Here is something interesting from NeonRevolt’s Gab site.
Supposedly posted by CongressAnon, who has apparently posted on the 4Chan board in the past:
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Catherine @Cate45
Posted in Great Awakening
Very exciting thread from congressman don’t let the intro bumb you out! He came about a year ago once
…Anonymous (ID: V8WNUZiI)
Special Counsel 2.0
10/15/19(Tue)22:29:37 No.230011068
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A legal Hail Mary. There will be a huge news media blitz in the coming week with already prepared talking points from key Democrats to push for a 2nd special counsel. That will, if permitted, eventually render a legal opinion of high crimes and misdemeanors was committed by President Trump. This is a last ditch re-maneuver to handicap AG Bar and road block going investigations. The Speaker of the House doesn’t have the votes currently for impeachment as she needs more time. This will be what Mueller failed to do. Several high ranking government employees who are sleepers are prepped for activation to undermine the President in a very very very public way.
— CongressAnon
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http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/230011068#p230025482
/pol/ – Special Counsel 2.0 – Politically Incorrect – 4chan
Special Counsel 2.0 – “/pol/ – Politically Incorrect” is 4chan’s board for discussing and debating politics and current events.
boards.4chan.org
https://gab.com/Cate45/posts/102972185306254796
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We should be able to figure out who at least a couple of the most likely ‘sleepers’ are.
One problem inherent with this dem “logic” ANY Special Counsel would be under the auspices of the DOJ AND AG Barr. NO WAY is Barr going to recuse. If they had hoped this crap was going to work, they should have went in this direction FIRST. Now, Barr and Durham have uncovered ILLEGAL activities in the FIRST coup attempt, likely INCLUDING the appointment of Mueller. There is NO WAY in HELL that they will get a 2nd, and IF they try, they will be EXPOSED. I think Trump and or Barr would LOVE for them to try that shit, as then the hammer can drop, expose ALL their roles in the first, 2nd, and this would be a THIRD attempt.
Then Trump’s ONLY remedy would be to remove them ALL for treason by declaring Marshall law, and sending in the Marines. NO ONE would be able to stop or defend against it, especially when Barr, Durham, and others go on NATIONAL TV exposing the coups, and justify the action by RIGHTLY removing the THIRD attempt, exposing it as the cover up that it IS.
The ONLY thing worse than an illegitimate Impeachment is a SECOND illegitimate special Counsel. WAY past mere sedition then, into full on REPEATED coup attempts. They would ALL be RIGHTLY arrested, indicted, tried, and EXECUTED for treason. PLEASE try this crap. That would be CHECKMATE at their OWN hands,
Daughn,
Dr. Quigley says Chris Blackburn is expert on Misfud – you may want to ck his TL for Threads. Here’s most recent
THREAD
Thank you!!!!
YW
OMG – another scandal in another country to unwind.
Food is better in Italy…….in fact, we would do much better on this blog post if we WROTE FROM Italy.
Whaddaya think?
Let’s book a group flight…
“….in fact, we would do much better on this blog post if we WROTE FROM Italy.
Whaddaya think?”
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Do we have to WRITE in Italian?
Because the besta I-a canna do-a, is-a to add-a lotsa ‘a’s after my-a words-a. 😁
Give me Tuscany or give me death. I vote for Lucca. Gorgeous little city and it’s pretty flat.
Hey, my Avatar is me overlooking Portofino Bay. The Cinque Terre is the place to be!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I could go for some pesto lasagna from Vernazza.
You will laugh, or cry.
I opened up the freezer and got a funny feeling. Asked dear husband where in the hell were the 25lbs of pine nuts I brought home.
He looked confused.
With the side eye, I described the package, the paper, the wrapping.
He bit his lip. Explained he cleaned out the freezer and threw away 25lbs of pine nuts.
Have not had Pesto since.
Ugh.
Arghhh – You coulda retired on what it’d cost to replace that 25 pounds !!!
Lucca is nice, we would need a castle to renovate for headquarters and our excess “staff”, of course. Bwwhwhaa.
… cool 😎🤚 … what about motor scooters 🛵❓ .. 😃👍
Ferraris and Alphas
… ahhhh .. ok 😃👍 … better even, I’d probably fall off a scooter 🛴 … don’t ask 😑
“Ferraris and Alphas”
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1965 to 1967 Corvettes for me.
I drive American… 😁
Heck, yeah!
I once owned an Alfa Romeo convertible!
Good memories ………
Yes, only car I ever had that was a fun car.
Metallic sage green, gorgeous tan leather.
It was fun for a while.
When I had to take it in (cuz it was an Alpha), I had two mechanics who were former Mossad agents. They were wild. But they lended me one of their cars, 12 cylinder Maserati sedan, teal blue, tan leather interior. It was like driving a stallion while riding on a cloud.
Awww….
Was your Alphie “The Graduate” model?
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/alfa-romeo/graduate
… ahhhh Tuscany sounds lovely 😊 ♥️ … fantastic food and wine and it’s flat⁉️⁉️ Awesome …. oh oh I want to go 😮🤚♥️
I trekked around in Yellowstone and nowadays I LURVE .. flat .. 🤨👍
I agree with Lucca, DP, but my first choice would be Pienza, the lovely little village used in The English Patient. I have warmest memories of sipping an evening grappa in a tiny bar, and strolling the charming stone streets in my newly purchased black leather booties 🥰❤️
… only if we can all come with ya … 😃🤚
…….. R O A D T R I P ‼️‼️‼️ ……
… make that two hard boiled eggs 🥚🥚 … 😜👍‼️❤️‼️
Oh gosh, that is a funny pic.
This is where it comes from:
.. snicker, giggle 🤭 snort 💦 … oops pardon me 🤭🤫❤️ .. bwahahahahahah
Thanks you DePat … you’re dah best .. 🏆
That particular scene is hilarious .. I thinks it’s .. A Night at the Opera, it has the party of the first part scene with Groucho and Chico .. 😛🤚❤️
Look right above your response.
.. 😮🤚 … ok ❤️
The answer to the question as to why they did not contact the US sooner is OBVIOUS. Renzi was an Obama guy, Conte is a Trump guy. There was an election that ousted Renzi,
If I could choose…….. I would have been Italian.
They’re the best!
I’ll second that emotion. With exception of their crooks, of course!
Ohh, and I know you’ve thought of this, but Nanzi and the DIMs must agree with us. They spent a lot of time and money in Italy during the month of August… don’t think they were successful in covering up their tracks though.
And today, the NEW Italian boss is in the Oval Office, spending the day chatting with POTUS… hmmm wonder what they have to talk about wrt the coup?
Amusing comment
I don’t know why the ride is called significant, but bother these horses are beautiful. I don’t know which one I’d like to ride.
oops – both
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1184459939810545669
Gorgeous animal…… the horse that is.
I do not believe KJU made that climb on a horse, much less foot!! Remember at the DMZ w/POTUS, Tucker said he was breathing hard and wheezing. He’s overweight and smokes like a chimney. I’ll bet a sammich🥪 he was helicoptered 🚁to the mountain top🏔 AND someone helped him onto the horse🐎!!
maybe they just tied a rope around him and lowered him FROM the helicopter onto the horse…
I haven’t found the video of Kim’s mountain horse ride.
But in my mind’s ear, I’m hearing Christopher Cross for the background music of Kim’s mid-day ride 😁
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1004168015238266880
For our own Butterfly Girl
so gorgeous!
Thank You Miss Daughn!! 💕 I soo love ORANGE!!! And PINK, and PURPLE!!!🥰
There should be MOAR color choices for my emoji!!! 🦋🦋😍🦋🦋
Daughn, I think you might like to see this…
Why, thank you, Triple T.
GOOD news related to China.
Seems like the good guys are hitting the DS hard on every side all at the same time. I’m liking this!
bible and theology
OUR OMNIPOTENT AND PERFECT JUDGE
Michael Youssef, Ph.D.
Oct 15, 2019
obeying our worthy god awesome psalms
In Psalm 139 we see that our God is omnipotent, able to create life itself. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:13-14). How amazing is our God who designed everything from the tiniest cell in our bodies to the grandest star in the universe!
David concludes his psalm by acknowledging God’s perfect judgment. God loves His children enough to purify and refine their hearts. “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Psalm 139:23-24).
Have you lost your wonder and awe of God? Do you take the intricacies of His creation for granted? Do you gloss over His words when reading the Bible? Stop today and praise God for His amazing nature.
Prayer: God, it is so amazing to think of all that You have created! Thank You for being our Creator God as well as our perfect judge. Help me to never lose my awe and wonder of You. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
“Who among the gods is like you, Lord? Who is like you—majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?” (Exodus 15:11).
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/dear-kag-20191016-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-281965
Jude 20-25
Maintain Your Life with God
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And on some have compassion, making a distinction; 23 but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.
Glory to God
24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To God our Savior,
Who alone is wise,
Be glory and majesty,
Dominion and power,
Both now and forever.
Amen.
Amen.
Janis had a Porsche, a “psychedelic painted 1965 Porsche 356c Cabriolet”
I’m not sure if she ever bought a Mercedes Benz…
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And it’s still around:
I love my town.
Doorbell rings – husband goes to answer, it’s the mailman.
20 minutes later, he comes back to office, and I asked for the mail.
Husband, “Oh, there was no mail today, Andre just wanted to talk trash about the Dallas Cowboys”
I love guys….
… LOL 😝 … that’s cool 😎
WOW!
https://twitter.com/MicheleAmerica2/status/1184484098565427200
And yet 98% seems low…
.. bwahahahahahah … sick but .. bwahahahahahah
UN Commission on Torture pushing for Assange’s release. Sure wish POTUS would do something for him…..or hope he is, in the background….
And then there is this. POTUS in a press conference right now, and referencing… 😂😂
https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1184493890990170113😂
https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1184493890990170113
So, the fact that POTUS brings up the FISA abuse, and the “Server” tells us we should think happy thoughts, and get our dancing shoes on. Right? That Server must be a motherlode of information!
Ohhh you bring such good news Lady P !!!!!!!!!!!
Phoenix, it gets BETTER!!!!!!
YES!
You might wanna check HUMA’S LAPTOP while you’re at it.
There might be a couple NUGGETS of interesting information there…
I want to see the reveal from FBI notes, “Crimes against children” – now that’s going to pull some threads.
Amen Scott, Amen.
Where can we see this whole thing?
Apparently SD is sleeping in today, it’s not posted there yet.
If only I had scrolled ONE post further… 😁
Here’s link for the presser
This is a different press conference… where is the one where they’re sitting in the yellow chairs, in the Oval Office?
Senate is voting on cloture atm… on the first of the 5… cloture invoked 90-0 on Frank William Volk
So, by the end of the day, we should have 4 more District Court Judges and a new Sec’y of the AF
The take-downs of these animals not only saves our children, they relieve the CABAL of more and more of its resources. iirc, POTUS has to cut off their monies before they can bring down the really bad guys. Hopefully we will see more of these arrests in the weeks to come.
Here’s link to DoJ press release https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/south-korean-national-and-hundreds-others-charged-worldwide-takedown-largest-darknet-child
Trump and Italian Pres
https://twitter.com/ohboywhatashot/status/1184463566130294784
When you can convince people to give up their food supply……..
“When you can convince people to give up their food supply……..”
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Well that’s just it, like here, they’re not convincing anyone of anything.
They’re just DOING it.
They’re just making completely insane assertions, and then DOING it.
The “People” have no say in it.
When the voting is RIGGED (why would it be any less so — if not MORE so — there than here?), then the People have no say in the matter.
They are ‘disenfranchised’.
These aren’t democracies or republics, they are become dictatorships with a veneer of democracy.
“Well If I starve to death then theres no more CO2 Im putting out.” Greening of the world in a dastardly way.
Has anyone ever even TRIED to make an argument as to why CO2 is BAD for… anything?
Do this brain-damaged CHUDs realize that CO2 is NECESSARY?
I mean, it’s just UNREAL.
It’s as insane as trying to block all SUNLIGHT from reaching earth.
“these”, not ‘this’.
I don’t think that’s really the problem for TPTB. They want depopulation.
“I don’t think that’s really the problem for TPTB. They want depopulation.”
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I know they do, but they can’t just say “CO2 is bad!!!”, it’s no different than claiming SUNLIGHT is ‘bad!!!’.
It’s like blocking all the air ducts in an HVAC system and claiming that BREATHING is bad!
There is no ARGUMENT, there is no CASE, there’s just NOTHING.
It’s like claiming PIGS fly, so now we have to shut down planet earth and built pig highways in the sky.
It’s GASLIGHTING on a planetary scale.
Just make up the most idiotic thing you can think of having to do with life itself…. carbon dioxide bad!… and then shut down the planet based on a naked assertion of utter stupidity?!?
WTF?!?
It is frustrating Scott… gaslighting on a scale we’ve never before seen. They do it for everything. And each time I think, the public won’t buy this…………… some of them do!
If this keeps up I can see a day when they will claim that pregnancy is a disease.
Hey Scott, I do my part. I plant trees and then exhale around them. Makes my trees happy.
every time i read this, it makes me giggle
100 bonus internet points for proper usage of the ancient movie ogres – CHUD.
[for the historically deprived among us – Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (old B horror movie)]
I’ve never heard this. How sad!
https://twitter.com/kimfreethinker/status/1184446905545302016
Dora, that story was his ‘mantra’ …… how he was a single parent, raising his boys, ’til Jill appeared in his life… how he rode the train home every night from D.C., lie after lie after lie.
I used to feel sorry for him.
I knew nothing about Biden until 2008, and the was shocked that the media let him get away with some of the most bizarre – no, they weren’t “gaffes” – crazy, stupid statements, all while they eviscerated Sarah Palin for being a real, genuine person. Made my blood boil.
Oh, meant to include that hubby knew that Biden has been corrupt for decades.
Losing it: Hillary Clinton has become completely delusional
There’s a book you can buy on Amazon called “Hillary Clinton in Wonderland,” a retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic with Hillary as the young heroine.
Sound far-fetched? It isn’t. It’s real, and it works because Mrs. Clinton has been in a fantasy world since she lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/15/hillary-clinton-delusional-about-donald-trumps-ele/
Hillary has been in a constant state of denial ever since the 2016 election. Until early in the evening of election night, she assumed she would win.
She is mentally ill and cannot get over her loss. Remember when she and other Dems were criticizing Candidate Trump and predicting he wouldn’t accept the election results?
Didn’t Q call her Alice…. in wonderland… in the very beginning?
https://www.douknowq.com/137940/Hillary-Clinton-in-Wonderland.htm
Symbolism will be their downfall………………… how many times have we heard that?
If you scroll down at above link, you will find an article by Neon Revolt
Anon’s Alice & Bloody Wonderland Theory #QAnon #GreatAwakening
July 8, 2018 by Neon Revolt
really? she’s Alice?
I thought Alice had a naive quality about her in the beginning–an attribute I would never equate with Hillary–she’s more the Mad Hatter or the Red Queen…imo
She’s the bastard child of the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts. The worst of both bloodlines.
A fun moment:
https://twitter.com/RepStevenSmith/status/1184292136273022976
Instead of “lightweight host” re: Chuck Todd, he could have said, “light in the loafers” 😂
true dat!!!!
So what you’re saying is that Chuckie is a fan of big boys’ toys?
Whatever those are, that’s how Chuck Todd strikes me. That’s a world I knew almost nothing about until the last couple of decades, and that’s only because it’s been pushed out so publicly it’s taken over the public square.
“Whatever those are, …”
I’m pretty sure you know … or highly suspect … what I meant. ” 🙂
I hope this is my last post about this with apologies again about its length and heartfelt thanks for the encouragement given to me after you all endured the last one. ❤️
In my state there have been a number of situations I have become aware of over the past few years of young adult children cutting off contact with their parents and limiting conversational topics and interactions with them if contact is re-established or maintained.
This usually follows their immersion in higher education and a questioning of their (and their parents’) faith.
This has impacted my own family and and I ask for prayers from my brothers and sisters in Christ along with thanksgiving and honor given to God for answered prayer and miracles that He has already done in bringing us through this.
I confess that In past readings of Q or even of Wolf’s posts on MK mind control I haven’t paid close enough attention to the references to the unholy aspects of it all, believing that the occult allegiances of those implementing these things were only relegated to a small group.
Looking into Luciferianism has changed all of that. I see the ideas of this belief system everywhere in our society and I am appalled at the extent to which they have been allowed to influence our children through our schools, psychiatric treatment, media, and even some of our churches,
I am convinced that President Trump, through the laying on of hands and the humble and true yielding of his heart to the Lordship of Jesus, has been anointed by God to lead this country away from this great evil and it’s destructive influences.
Impressing the truth of this on our brothers and sisters in Christ, no matter their race or cultural background, by letting them know clearly what agenda they will serve by aligning with or supporting the left, is of the utmost importance.
I have always thought that Q was the concept of a brilliant mind and meant to encourage and inform us, help equip us to look into things and think for ourselves, and bypass the fake news. The fact that Q took the time to tell us about the occult influence on and of the elites is significant.
I remember …..Melania addressed the people and prayed the Lord’s prayer right after the President first held office.
So here is some of what I have been reading and I encourage those who are called to do so to look into the enormity of how these evil beliefs have impacted our society and the globe.
We can pray, inform and warn our church leadership, and lift our voices to stand against these evil influences on our children, our families, our faith, our health, and our freedoms.
Below are quotes from Dr, Chisholm, “….. well-known psychiatrist, first Director-General of the World Health Organization, and the 13th officer to serve as the head of the Canadian Army medical service.” (Wikipedia)
He also helped found the WFMH as it is today…originally known as the ICMH, Dr Chisholm, “envisaged the WFMH as an international, nongovernmental body to provide a link to ‘grassroots’ mental health organizations and United Nations agencies.” From: https://wfmh.global/about-us/history/
from: http://www.jesusisprecious.org/wolves/george_brock_chisholm.htm
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” —George Brock Chisholm, in a Speech given at the, Conference on Education, Asilomar, California, September 11, 1954
Another quote from Dr. Chisholm embedded in the article cited above……
“We have been very slow to rediscover this truth and to recognize the unnecessary and artificially imposed inferiority, guilt and fear, commonly known as sin… which produces so much of the social maladjustment and unhappiness in the world. For many generations we have bowed our necks to the yoke of the conviction of sin. We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests…
“Thou shalt become as gods, knowing good and evil,” good and evil, with which to keep children under control, with which to prevent free thinking, with which to impose local and familial and national loyalties and with which to blind children to their glorious intellectual heritage.
Misguided by authoritarian dogma, bound by exclusive faith, stunted by inculcated loyalty, torn by frantic heresy… and loaded down by the weight of guilt and fear engendered by its own original promises, the unfortunate human race, deprived… of its reasoning power and its natural capacity to enjoy the satisfaction of its natural urges, struggles along under its ghastly self-imposed burden. The results, the inevitable results, are frustration, inferiority, neurosis and inability to enjoy living, to reason clearly or to make a world fit to live in.
Man’s freedom to observe and to think freely… has been destroyed or crippled by local certainties… moralities… personal salvation… frequently masquerading as love.”
SOURCE: Psychiatry, by Brock Chisholm; February 1946, pp. 7-8
And from http://patriotsandliberty.com/lindas-latest/2018/1/6/making-slaves-the-real-purpose-of-modern-education-in-a-scientific-dictatorship
There is something to be said… for gently putting aside the mistaken old ways of our elders if that is possible. If it cannot be done gently, it may have to be done roughly or even violently.” (“The Re-Establishment of Peacetime Society,” Feb. 1946, Brock Chisholm, first head of the World Health Organization)
And more from theJesus is Precious link cited above…
The “new leaders” in the psychiatric field propose to re-educate the world’s population using psychological procedures to create a new breed of amoral men who will accept a one-world socialistic government. They hold the weapon of commitment to a mental institution over the heads of those “reactionaries” who rebel at accepting the “new social order.”
It sounds unbelievable? Listen to the words of Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, first head of the World Federation of Mental Health, and later head of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. His address, sponsored by the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation was delivered in October 1945 in Washington D.C. to a large group of psychiatrists and high government officials. Dr. George Brock Chisholm said:
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality—the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all psychotherapy. If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility.
In the following quote, Mr. Chisholm readily admits that the true agenda of nearly all psychiatry (besides pushing prescription drugs for big pharmaceutical companies) is to totally eliminate ideas of right and wrong in society, and to substitute intelligent and rational thinking (worldly philosophies) in place of faith in God in older adults…
The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy.
SOURCE: Brock Chisholm (1946) The Psychiatry of Enduring Peace and Social Progress. p. 5
For those good people among us who have a more secular view of things here is an article that I found wuitr good::
https://www.sgtreport.com/2019/02/luciferianism-a-secular-look-at-a-destructive-globalist-belief-system/
Quoting from the Lord’s Prayer:
Dear Heavenly Father,
….Deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.
In Jesus Name
Amen
“…the true agenda of nearly all psychiatry (besides pushing prescription drugs for big pharmaceutical companies) is to totally eliminate ideas of right and wrong in society, and to substitute intelligent and rational thinking (worldly philosophies) in place of faith in God in older adults”
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You are speaking of relativists, who love to use phrases like “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” (exactly the kind of argument used to defend leftist murderers like Che Guevara and groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and yes….Antifa).
The truly sad thing is that all you worry about is foretold in the book of Revelation, and we know that they will eventually succeed.
The good news is we know who wins in the end, and what ultimately happens.
I thank God none of us will remember any of it when all is said and done.
While Obama was President I felt that we were careening toward the end of days and despaired because i saw many who professed to be Christian cooperating if not agreeing with his agenda.
When Donald Trump came down the escalator and said what he said, I became electrified with hope and thanksgiving and have never been the same.
I see the President as a gift (like Jonah) from a loving God, unwilling to see people perish for all eternity without giving them a window of opportunity in which to choose a different path.
I knew the minute I heard him start mentioning God, and especially when he brought up the unborn. That was a man whose heart the Lord had touched. It puts so many of the other DC dwells to shame – they basically spit on God every day when they separate Him from the People.
Oh Lord, verily I say unto you, when will I receive a million dollars?
The Lord told me to tell you, and I quote, “When you earn it.”
I didn’t ask why he didn’t tell you this himself.
Ah, hearing voices inside your head again, eh?
[giggling]
Dear Andy,
Pursuit of the personal acquisition of wealth can sometimes blind a person to the realities of Christ’s mission of deliverance, reconciliation, healing, forgiveness, restoration, wisdom, and life for those willing to accept Him as Lord.
God’s mighty deliverance and r demotion of us through Christ, this great wonder, is the “pearl of great price”—true wealth I pray you will acquire along with forgiveness for those of us who have failed you.
We are “earthen vessels” of a Perfect Gift.
From 2 Corinthians chapter 4:
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” [1] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
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But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
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We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
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persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
That’s nice.
❤️💞
R demotion=redemption
But I do redeem all my empty cola cans for cash. Still not up to a million dollars.
“Oh Lord, verily I say unto you, when will I receive a million dollars?”
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“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? [32] (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. [33] But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:31-33, KJV)
I tried all that too, but it didn’t work.
I have plenty to eat, drink and wear. I just need a million dollars.
And I need you to quit mocking people’s faith in this forum. I like you, Andy, but enough is enough.
It’s fine if you aren’t a believer…what is not fine is you making light of or mocking people’s sincere posts and belief. I’m not going to tolerate it anymore.
You DO NOT want to fight me on this. Be wise and just let it go. Plenty of other ways (and posts) to employ your humor…which I appreciate 99% of the time. But posting a snarky “That’s nice” to LM’s sincere reply to you….much less your “I need a million dollars from God” BS is crossing the line.
Stop it.
You might do the same….you are not the sheriff that gets to tell other what to post. We’re grown ups here and capable of deciding if something is humorous or mocking.
Directions are available in His Word…
“and to substitute intelligent and rational thinking (worldly philosophies) in place of faith in God in older adults…”
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From several of the quotes, Mr. Chisholm seems to talk on this specific subject as if ‘intelligent and rational thinking’ and ‘faith in God’ are mutually exclusive, which is about as false of a premise as there could be.
I will certainly admit that many doctrines, commandments and dogmas of MEN have the literal effect of rejecting rational thinking and logic for the doctrines of MEN, and it is mind-numbingly frustrating to encounter, like beating your head against a brick wall.
But true Christian belief and faith — according to God’s Word, not the doctrines, commandments and traditions of men — requires ‘intelligent and rational thinking’.
It is a vicious deception, perpetrated by secular Leftists, that it could be otherwise.
The belief of a Christian is not to be ‘blind faith’, but based on reason, logic and evidence.
God is a God of reason, and the Scriptures teach that we ought to reason, logically. Even from the Scriptures themselves:
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18, KJV, boldface emphasis mine)
“Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.” (1 Samuel 12:7, boldface emphasis mine)
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” (1 Peter 3:15, boldface emphasis mine)
“And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.” (Luke 24:15, boldface emphasis mine)
“And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,” (Acts 17:2, boldface emphasis mine)
“And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.” (Acts 18:4, boldface emphasis mine)
“And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.” (Acts 18:19, boldface emphasis mine)
“And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.” (Acts 24:25, boldface emphasis mine)
“For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.” (Acts 18:28, boldface emphasis mine)
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Our faith is not to be blind, but based on reason, logic and truth.
“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.” (John 4:23)
Truth matters.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” (Hosea 4:6)
“For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.” (Romans 10:2)
Can I get a Hallelujah?
You’re gonna get something you don’t want if you keep this crap up.
I guarantee it.
If you think the Wolf is going to keep tolerating this BS after I make an issue out of it, you really don’t know Wolf (or me) that well.
Ever wonder what happened to Mandy? Bye bye.
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PM is asking for prayers… I agree… “Dallas” never fails to trigger old bad memories…
Just an add’l thought…
I like to think that…by now….POTUS is guarded and protected by folks who feel about him the way we do, the only difference being that they are professionals in the business of protecting VIPs.
In other words, they combine their professional knowledge and experience with a passion and appreciation for POTUS, a combo which protects him as well as is humanly possible.
I’m hoping you’re right FG&C …
Me too…. that certainly doesn’t describe the Secret Service protection during the Hussein administration.
The booze & hooker routine during overseas trips (and other ridiculous lapses of judgement and behavior) is something they will never live down, and Hussein either fostered it or allowed it go uncorrected.
That corruption was allowed to fester, and knowing Hussein, he probably encouraged it. He certainly created and then tolerated an environment that made it possible.
As a result, for as long as anyone is alive or remembers, no matter what the Secret Service does going forward, there is always the asterisk, there is always that stain on the agency, another great legacy of the interloper Hussein.
https://www.qwant.com/?q=secret%20service%20booze%20and%20hookers%20in%20Brazil&t=web
scott, don’t remember the source, it was years ago.
I read when Obama was in the WH the Marines had to be ordered to do duty there, there were not enough volunteers.
when Trump was elected, the WH had so may Marine volunteers it was necessary to cut off the adding of names.
I know this is not SS, but I believe there is a certain and special cache attached to guarding this President.
I cannot prove it, but I think there was some Israeli involvement in special training for the SS.
I’m sure DJT also brought his own private security with him, his personal bodyguard was with him for maybe the first year, until he resigned to take a higher paying job… and relocated a few miles from Mar-a-Lago, IIRC, lol!
His name might have been Keith. I remember he caught a lamp that was knocked off a table in the Oval Office by an overly aggressive reporter.
I think he just became part of DJT’s private intelligence agency, which I think DJT has had for many years 😁
scott, I’m pretty confident the President is being protected by competent men.
I’d like to strangle this Italian guy.
Who the heck does he think he is????
Being Italian he thinks he’s the best, quoting your own words to you. (shrug)
He’s a pipsqueak. I could take him.
“He’s a pipsqueak. I could take him. ”
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I hope so… he’s almost an octogenarian!
Maybe young at heart and with many good years ahead of him, but his days of bare-knuckle boxing with Missouri girls in B&B parking lots are probably behind him 😁
Glad POTUS called Italy out for not paying their full 2% NATO bill. Love how he’s in the face of these “leaders”. 😁
“I’d like to strangle this Italian guy.
Who the heck does he think he is????”
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Isn’t he the Leftist / Cabal guy who worked with his party’s opposition in order to eject Matteo Salvini (the Italian nationalist and Trump supporter, IIRC) from a position of power?
Salvini should come back stronger than ever, but for the time being, until new elections, the Cabal maneuvered around him.
Show this man the door. Don’t come back.
you want he should, like, sleep with da fishes?
And don’ta steppa onna hisa newa bluea concrete shoes….
LOL..great Italian you got there…LOL
I can read that!
until the bubbles come up……. pass the parmesan, please.
Oooooooo my President is giving the press an excellent explanation on Syria.
He’s calm, monotone, and clear as a bell.
I loved it when he chastised the ABC reporter for asking a loaded question about “green lighting” Turkey to invade Syria. And further, he said why should anyone believe anything ABC reports when they try to mislead us with phony videos. LOL!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/15/abc-news-airs-knob-creek-kentucky-gun-range-video-as-syria-bombing/3984400002/
If “60 Minutes” took this post and ran with it they would set off a
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Timeline for 1/1024 of an Impeachment Inquiry
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/timeline-for-1-1024-of-an-impeachment-inquiry/
Daughn, this is remarkable and exceptional. In times past journalists would win Pulitzer awards for this kind of work.
Good News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/125-house-republicans-co-sponsor-resolution-to-censure-schiff-over-parody-reading-of-trump-zelensky-call
2nd try to post this
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/125-house-republicans-co-sponsor-resolution-to-censure-schiff-over-parody-reading-of-trump-zelensky-call
https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1184457997273030656
lovely!
Duchess,
I would bet a 2nd mortgage that you already know this, but for others who may not…
Sept & Oct. are the very best time of year to visit Yellowstone Park. Here is why:
1) summer crowds are gone and the park is virtually empty by comparison (ie. very little traffic and noise). Yellowstone has two-way roads, one lane per side….a nightmare in the summer when someone sees some animal and stops, creating a miles long traffic jam
2) perfect temps….70’s during the days, and nights that call for a good fire
3) winter is coming and all the animals know it. This is the most active time of year for wildlife movement and the best time for spotting wildlife making last minute preparations for the long, cold, high mountain winters
4) Fall colors and foliage. The cottonwoods and Aspens turn to red and gold giving a marked contrast to the pines (Duchess’ pics speak for themselves)
5) one of the amazing features of the park…the geothermal steam vents…are made invisible by the high summer temps. Not so at this time of year, where you can look across a glade or valley and see dozens of them, further enhancing the visual grandeur of the setting with the aforementioned foliage colors
Combine all these things together and you get a simply MAGICAL time to visit one of planet Earth’s (not just America’s) most unique and rare wilderness environments.
Pro TIP: the very best place for viewing wildlife in Yellowstone is the Lamar Valley in the early mornings and late afternoons. Don’t expect to see anything other than bison driving through the park at speed. If you want to see wildlife, you gotta pay the price of admission….sit and be patient (up to 1 hr or more). If you pay the price, you WILL be rewarded.
Pro tip #2: want to see bears and wolves? Spend the night in Cooke City just outside the Northeast entrance to the park. Wake up before sunrise and drop by Bearclaw Bakery. Get a large box of an assortment of AM goodies and a large thermos of their great coffee. Then head into the Lamar Valley. What you are looking for are these people….
http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-Badgerazzi-photographers-the-other-mammals-of-Yellowstone.jpg
Here’s why.
These people live close to the park. Their passion is wildlife photography. See all that equipment? That’s (literally) hundreds of thousands of $$s worth of gear. See those long lenses? They can take close-up pics of animals who are more than a mile away. And THESE people know where and when to look for the the best, most exciting wildlife in the park. Many are personal friends with the park rangers, and most of them have radios set to the rangers radio frequencies, so when a bear is feeding on an elk carcass left by a Wolf pack, these people know about it.
Normally, these people are standoff-ish to strangers. They are a tight knit group and they all know one another, BUT…
Approached with some humility, friendliness and “can I offer you something from Bearclaw Bakery and some coffee?” (a favorite among locals), you can befriend them and become part of their group for the morning.
Here’s what you will get…
Invitations to look through their tens of thousands of $$s telephoto gear to see the wildlife up close and in detail. They gang together like this because many eyes cover far more ground prior to something of interest being spotted (and the Lamar is MASSIVE). And they know HOW and WHERE to spot the wildlife.
Last time we did this we saw…in one (1) morning….grizzlies, wolves, bald eagles, elk, another grizzly bear chasing a lame elk cow (they went out of sight so don’t know how this turned out), foxes playing around their den, bison (always see bison everywhere), a giant mule deer buck with a trophy set of antlers (would make Boon & Crocket Book with ease) along with his does, coyotes hunting rabbits, a porcupine, and a giant bull moose.
Btw…
It took me many years to figure all of this out on my own. So keep this to yourselves and, if you ever benefit from this knowledge, send me some good karma.
Enjoy the the wonders!
And, please, if you’re walking up the steps from the lower falls, whatever you do, don’t look down at the rocks. Still have vertigo issues.
And whatever you do, don’t feed the bears.
…or kick a buffalo, which one ignorant woman did when it wouldn’t turn around so she could get a good pic of it. Didn’t turn out well for the woman.
Stories of ignorant tourists in Yellowstone are as common as the wildlife there.
Excellent post FG&C…………..
phoenix, oh, gosh, Yes!
what wonderful guidance!
Lovely post, 100% correct information and, yes, YNP is Perfect in Sept & Oct! I used to travel there in this time period specifically. Lamar, the lake, the back country – all wonderful but the geyser basins were my “home”. Geyser Gazer is what people who love to watch them again and again are called.
I still have old license plates hanging in the garage: O2BNYNP.
Worked there and lived in MT for a few seasons and traveled there in the fall for a long period of time…not long enough. Still watch the live webcams. Old Faithful web cam is my fav but Mt. Washburn is so lovely
https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm
Children knew about the geyser by the time they could talk.
Crisp fall mornings always take me there in mind. A part of me will always be there…
Lovely post
Beehive erupting right now on webcam.
I love YNP so much I insist on getting married in Jackson in late Oct. specifically so we could honeymoon in/around the park (the wife had never been there). We got lucky and it was an Indian summer…warm summer days and cold nights, the high elevations just beginning to get dusted with snow. The wife was skeptical (she wanted to go to the South Pacific) but I convinced her otherwise.
How did it turn out?
Here is the picture hanging over the mantle in our living room…that’s the Snake river with the Tetons in the background. Taken at 5:03 PM that afternoon after an outdoor ceremony. Despite the time that has passed my wife still tears up when we talk about it.
Like I said, it is a magical place.
Sorry…..warm FALL days I meant to say
You and your wife are beautiful!!!
What a glorious memory!
Great post FG&C. Every single one of our natural beauties is better to visit in the “side season”. (But we should keep that amongst ourselves). 😊. I really enjoyed your eloquent tribute to Yellowstone and learning about the photographers.
Yes, we really should keep it amongst ourselves! And thank you for your post.
Thank you for sharing this. I did not know you could visit so late in the year.
We used to go every year in May or late August. It is a place I never grew tired of…. it changes every year.
Always a celebrated and long remembered event: seeing a grizzly, moose, or wolves.
Perhaps, after we have successfully held off the forces of Mordor (after the election), some of us might meet in this beautiful Western place.
Reading your post made me long even more to return.
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I know how you feel. Writing it made me feel the same way! 😉
This is quite fascinating, FG&C – Thanks so much for sharing – no way I could know all of this – learned so much more – hope and pray others will read this post – God Bless You!!!
yep
Savage.
We need to push this line of thought with an effort equal to it.
The new Chinese collusion dish: Dim Son…
Ha!
GONG!
Thanks to a comment or two or three from Daughn, a few details started to come together for me on a key question when it comes to all of this: if we’re following the money, to what end are all of these surface battles, i.e., Ukraine, profitable and to whom. It has to be part of a larger whole that seeks to keep the war machine rumbling even with no real conflict worth a shooting war.
Well…first Daughn dug into the Atlantic Council which turns out to be the think tank for NATO, which is code words for the influence in Washington that lobbyists can’t buy. Yes, there are plenty of lobbyists for NATO, but with the Atlantic Council’s papers in hand, the lobbying is that much more effective.
Then there was something this morning mentioning the Brookings Institute in relation to one of Daughn’s ongoing timeline projects. Robert Brookings is a name long known to me. It’s a long story why, but when I went to see if I could find his papers anywhere close to home since he lived on a prestigious street in the city named Lindell Boulevard (pronounced LIN-dyl in STLese), the Washington University in St. Louis catalog entry for his one cubic foot of papers revealed that old Mr. Brookings was a member of something called the War Industries Board beginning in 1917.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Industries_Board
“The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies between the War Department (Department of the Army) and the Navy Department.[1] Because the United States Department of Defense (The Pentagon) would only come into existence in 1947, this was an ad hoc construction to promote cooperation between the Army and the Navy (with regard to procurement), it was founded by the Council of National Defense (which on its turn came into existence by the appropriation bill of August 1916). The War Industries Board was preceded by the General Munitions Board —which didn’t have the authority it needed and was later strengthened and transformed into the WIB.[2]”
DP picks up:
prognosticatasaurusrex and I have been going back and forth on the idea of the Military Industrial Complex being behind absolutely all of these trees of the forest in which we tend to surround rather than see the whole picture from the sky. Both of us picked up that this board is most likely the origin of the MIC, and as part of a larger project that needs a lot of further dot connecting and web untangling, I offer for you some of the BIG names that were on that board, and their connections. There are others for which there is no immediate information, but the biggest names…should not be shockers.
Frank A. Scott – Chairman, and no immediate information is available online in a quick search. HOWEVER, across the river, there is a Frank Scott Parkway which is a prominent road, and the Air Force Base is Scott. I suspect a connection.
BERNARD BARUCH – this man is probably the biggest name people have never heard of, but he was a self-made Wall Street trader, and an influential figure in war stuff for decades behind the scenes. He was even prosecuted for war profiteering at one point. There are several books I need to read to get the full picture, but he seems to be the main person to research at this point.
Samuel Prescott Bush – patriarch of, you guessed it, the Bush clan that produced two presidents. Recruited for the WIB by Baruch.
Clarence Dillon – stock broker and eventual owner of Goodyear Tire, Dodge and Chrysler. Son Clarence Douglass Dillon served as Secretary of Defense while JFK was president and was an Ambassador to France.
George Washington Goethals – Army engineer who got the Panama Canal Project done.
Eugene Meyer – involved with Allied Chemical & Dye, bought the Washington Post in receivership, was the father of WP owner Katherine Graham, AND was the Federal Reserve Chairman during the Depression.
Edward Stettinius – the J.P. Morgan rep on the board, and the chief buyer of war supplies. He did end up being an Assistant Secretary of War. AND his son was the first American Ambassador to the United Nations. Also, a STL person.
So, there we have a few pieces of the historical puzzle that is the mysterious Military Industrial Complex that honestly seems to boil down to a few families having their fingers in a lot of pies.
Will keep digging. Names on the WIB not mentioned here have no supporting information. My guess is I can find a lot of it in the Baruch biographies. His papers are at Princeton, so those are out of reach for now.
wow amazing research!
thanks DP!!!!
We need to promote public knowledge about who/what/why these people & organizations are into a national pastime.
If most Americans knew this info it would put these people out of business.
Unfortunately, these people, like the Payseur clan, live in the shadows. I suspect information on them and their heirs, if any are living other than the Bushes, is going to be hard to come by outside of well established archives. And going through papers…one cubic foot is probably two boxes. You’d think some of these people would have a lot more than that surviving. I mean shredding wasn’t a thing back in the day.
“Unfortunately, these people, like the Payseur clan, live in the shadows. I suspect information on them and their heirs, if any are living other than the Bushes, is going to be hard to come by outside of well established archives. ”
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But you know who DOES know, and who can prove it all?
The government, at least if they are instructed by DJT to do so.
And why shouldn’t he, once the arrests get started?
If there was ever an instance of national security where the American People had a “need to know”, regarding exactly WHO has been subverting our country (and the whole world) and HOW they’ve been doing it, this is it.
The Cabal DEPENDS on secrecy and darkness to maintain power and deception.
Government intelligence (the vaunted ‘IC community’) may not be able to tie their own shoes without committing treason daily, but Military Intelligence (or whoever Q is with) certainly can uncover the entire global network and put names with faces.
If you show the People HOW it is done, and WHO is doing it, it gets much harder to fool them in the future.
Once people are AWARE of the truth, once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s not going back in.
The People will not simply dismiss obvious corruption or accept convenient excuses provided by narrative engineers (script writers), because People will KNOW that it’s not just ‘conspiracy theory’ any more.
Perfectly said, sir. I agree 100%
Back in the day (before EPA and burn bans) the solution to records disposal was a good old 55 gallon barrel.
ristvan’s take on “discrepancies” found in POTUS’S tax returns
ristvan says:
October 16, 2019 at 2:34 pm
I was just looking into this. Fake News on several fronts:
1. Those are not PDJT tax documents. Like most developers each Trump property is in a separate holding corporation or LLC. These are the 2017 NY state tax and bank docs for two of those properties in NYC, prepared by his accountants.
2. PDJT recused fully from his businesses after being elected and before being sworn in.
So he had absolutely nothing to do with stuff covering fiscal 2017.
3. It is common that tax and bank documents will contain ‘discrepancies’. What the tax code demands is not necessarily the same as what the bank loan documents demand, in both styles and substance.
Just more ignorant BS.
here’s the tweet that prompted ristvan’s post
They intend to hound our POTUS to death.
No, they’re going to be more worried about saving their own hides, PR. Don’t worry. This clip from today’s presser, along with the one where POTUS mentions server – how many times? SIX Times! 🙂
He never asks anything he doesn’t already know the answer to.
I know Lady P., that’s why I come here… so that when I feel like throwing something, someone will remind me… POTUS has this I know… 😉
thank you for reminding me………..
We’re all in the same boat, PR. I’ve believed all along POTUS was messaging, even if I didn’t understand the code, but his words today – goodness! Going to get out my dancing shoes!
He sits there, solemn like, and with a straight face, sort of shrugs, mentions a few things – like maybe, maybe not. There isn’t any “NOT” about what he knows and what he expects to be revealed.
Absolutely agree with you. What a ‘poker’ face he has!
“…or whether it is Obama himself….”
This is our signal – President Trump is going to clean house ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP.
Navy white glove inspection clean, I hope.
I borrowed some of Ristvan’s input, though I knew that POTUS had divested from his businesses. Can’t let Turley get away with this.
love it!!
I am so effing sick of the tax return crap. So sick of it. It’s irrelevant to just about everything happening. EVERYTHING. It’s a shiny red Christmas tree ornament that is so old it’s see through.
PLEASE, MAKE IT STOP!
Can I just add…?
My understanding is that POTUS has been audited by the IRS EVERY YEAR for the past decade or more.
If true, this further emphasizes the harassment nature and intent of all the efforts re: his tax returns
Yes. Exactly. More people are concerned with his tax returns than they are being ripped off blind by the government in the name of wars that were never intended to be won.
Spot on.
Listen to Charlie, make it go viral
That video clip is an old Paid for by Elizabeth for MA campaign video.
She lied then and she’s lying now.
The fight is global. I wonder who in the Italian government wants this stopped. We just have to take a deep breath and pray that the good guys win.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/italian-ministry-evicts-steve-bannon-from-trisulti-abbey
Italy’s ministry for culture is claiming it has evicted Steve Bannon’s “Gladiator School” from a 13th-century Italian monastery, 38 miles south of Rome.
“As the DHI indicated when the Ministry for Culture first announced this politically motivated manoeuvre back in May, we will fight our case in court with every resource at our disposal,” said Benjamin Harnwell, director of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, in comments to Church Militant.
“We look forward to demonstrating that the objections against the DHI promoted by the Left over the last two years are 100% without any foundation whatsoever,” he added.
According to Agence France-Presse, the ministry announced on Oct. 11 that the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI) had “falsely claimed to have the necessary requisites to take part in a tender to lease the monastery,” leading to its eviction….
Harnwell has maintained that the ministry — and its left-wing alliances — have sought to place every obstacle in front of the successful institution of the school since the idea materialized.
The institute had been given use of the site for 19 years in February 2018, but forces resisting the establishment of the school began opposing the move almost immediately.
Blows began to be leveled against the plan earlier this year. Bannon’s project is moving ahead despite the Italian culture minister’s attempts in May to revoke a license to operate the monastery.
Italian Culture Minister Alberto Bonisoli said the DHI had obtained the concession to use the Trisulti monastery for Bannon’s school but “had failed to meet the contractual conditions to lease it, had not paid the rent and had not carried out required maintenance work.”
Harnwell insists Bonisoli is acting under “political motivations,” spending six months “trying desperately to find any pretext whatsoever it can to get us out of Trisulti.”
Undeterred, Bannon summed up the importance of the struggle in June: “The fight for Trisulti is a microcosm of the fight for the Judeo-Christian West.”
Interesting.
And Pelosi was just in Italy, too.
Hmmm.
I’m liking the new Trace Gallagher show so far. Just news, REAL NEWS!!! Oh and btw, I’m not for one moment buying Shemp left on his own on a Friday afternoon, especially after Barr met with Murdoch. A 23yr veteran doesn’t just up and quit Without giving a minimum 2wk notice. A professional would likely give 1-3months so mgmt could find a suitable replacement. Why no farewell party?? Dude was canned!! 🦋🦋🦋🤸♂️🤸♂️🦋🦋🦋
I think Shep is deep trouble and Barr gave Murdock a head’s up – ie, problem not an ethical breach if it has to do with National Security. Maybe Shep was colluding with the CIA… FOX also took away his twitter account, so he couldn’t keep his followers. Something serious went down with. If it was a sexual abuse complaint, he’d have had maybe a suspension, and investigation.
Shep’s gone because something about him was going to hurt the Brand of FOX. IMO.
Second your comment Lady P.,
Yep. THIS
There could be something to that as the original stories of his firing also carried the fact that his boy friend deleted everything in his linkedin account the same day he was fired, though I haven’t seen any follow up or even remarks on that anywhere.
It’s been reported Shep was escorted out of the Fox News building by security and wasn’t even allowed to return to his office to collect his stuff.
Yep, he was fired.
Absolutely. I enjoyed all those tears by his fellow lefties who were grieving his exit. Maybe they’re wondering why Shep is gone…
And now Neil Cavuto is trying very hard to assume Shepard Smith’s left wing persona.
Neil won’t have any trouble doing it. He’s despised on our side. I also believe Neil is jealous of Charles Payne.
Pity. I liked Cavuto when he first appeared on the scene.
ROTFL!
He’s very funny. This was one of his best bits. 🙂
I know. He had me in stitches. The funny thing? He’s right! Everything in that room is white! LOL
I don’t know how he did this bit with out laughing… !!!
GREAT parody…
“The toilet paper is white.”
Putting so much symbolic power into a color is sometimes political posturing, and sometimes funny or just plain interesting.
In our south Georgia small town, most everything is peacefully and happily integrated – there are churches that are mostly black and mostly white, but the funeral homes are mostly segregated for some reason – maybe cultural. No one complains or tries to make an issue about it either. What is interesting though, is that the black funeral homes have white hearses and limos for the families, and the white funeral homes have black hearses, limos, etc. Wonder why?
Oh yeah – Black’s plumbing is run/owned by white folks and White’s plumbing is run/owned by black folks. Both are excellent and reputable. Just funny too.
The Dems in Congress are angry, spittin’ mad, with President Trump after his closed door meeting with them on the situation in Syria.
Why don’t these idiots realize the Russians are moving into Syria to take the place of our brave soldiers?
What if President Trump had this prearranged with Putin?
“The Dems in Congress are angry, spittin’ mad”
http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/8fen5LSZcHQ5O/giphy.gif
POTUS actually said he believes this goes all the way up to Obama. No wonder they are desperate.
https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/1184528906084409344
They’re looking into the corruption, and he named a number of the main players. 🙂
INCOMING!!!!!
hope they all duck and cover under their desks instead of scurrying to New Zealand
Shit is getting real, now.
PDJT doesn’t say things like this without more coming out.
And he just mentioned the uninvestigated-by-the-FBI DNC server, too.
The Storm is here!!
FG&C, I agree. You’re pretty level-headed, so if you’re saying it… POTUS was detailed today, dropping little bombs all over the place, and I bet more than half the people in that room were wondering if they were going to be caught in the net.
https://twitter.com/ohboywhatashot/status/1184235854644031489
Worst possible thing they could do is give direct evidence and ammunition to long-made conservative accusations.
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These people are stupid.
Q
Did anyone see this? The arrests were in March, but the story is dated today.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/10/16/feds-bust-largest-dark-web-child-porn-marketplace/
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced charges against the operator of the world’s “largest child sexual exploitation market” and hundreds of others in the U.S. and abroad. South Korean officials seized the dark web server which contained about eight terabytes of child porn content.
“Children around the world are safer because of the actions taken by U.S. and foreign law enforcement to prosecute this case and recover funds for victims,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie K. Liu said in a written statement. “We will continue to pursue such criminals on and off the darknet in the United States and abroad, to ensure they receive the punishment their terrible crimes deserve.”
In March, South Korean officials seized the server which housed the Welcome to Video website. They also arrested Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national who allegedly operated the website. Following the arrest and seizure, officials carried out an investigation that led to Wednesday’s announcement of a nine-count indictment against Jong and 337 other site users.
QUESTION:
How long has this indictment been under seal??
Can’t say.
FTA
In a secret interview, Rep. Adam Schiff, leader of the House Democratic effort to impeach President Trump, pressed former United States special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker to testify that Ukrainian officials felt pressured to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as a result of Trump withholding U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
Volker denied that was the case, noting that Ukrainian leaders did not even know the aid was being withheld and that they believed their relationship with the U.S. was moving along satisfactorily, without them having done anything Trump mentioned in his notorious July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
When Volker repeatedly declined to agree to Schiff’s characterization of events, Schiff said, “Ambassador, you’re making this much more complicated than it has to be.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trump
PRESIDENT TRUMP to Erdogan – don’t be a fool!!!
https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1184568880666009601
Erdogan rules out talks with Kurds:
https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1184570530348720128
I guess Erdogan wants to be a fool after all.
Erdogan is classic narcissist …………… among other things…. sociopath…. I could go on.
Utah State Trooper rescues man from oncoming train!
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1184556443560636416
Failed suicide attempt.
There, feel better now?
What a drama queen!
https://twitter.com/love4thegameAK/status/1184572798712201216
LOL! It was Pelosi, Schumer and a few other radical leftwing Dems who stormed out of the meeting. It went smoothly after they left.
Nancy dishes it out, but plays the victim card when she doesn’t get the upper hand.
I didn’t know the meeting had continued after the democrats disruption. Thanks.
Pelosi’s entire political life is culminating in utter defeat, and she can’t handle it. I hope there are investigations of her and her son’s dealings in the Ukraine, among other things. No one was ever supposed to look into the corruption and making money off of our country.
I’m beyond irked that she won’t get the USMCA passed. I can’t name one productive thing that she has led the House to do for America since Pres. Trump has been in office.
Trump is breaking her, and, while necessary, it ain’t pretty.
Ukraine. Not the Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233844
Note the statement by the Ukrainian ambassador to UK.
Interesting. Thanks.
She could hardly wait to get in front of the cameras…to make a fool of herself, again.
I don’t accept that DJT is taking on the ‘military industrial complex’ except to the extent that he is selectively marginalizing/pruning the perfumed princes that Zero promoted to be policy makers / policy enforcers. Don’t forget that the Orb Network (the real intelligence agency now) is comprised of military departments in each of the member countries.
From what I can glean from various blogs and veterans sites, it does not have civilian components and each unit makes reports peer-to-peer and to the heads of the respective countries. In short, there is no “admin” or bureaucracy other than the already-existing chain of command present in any military.
My favorite characteristic is that it completely bypasses CIA, MI6, etc. Instantly making them window dressing.
Bonus question: where is Admiral Rogers and what has he been doing since his retirement?
Interesting lady – Educated Arizona State. Aerospace business background. Climbed Kilimanjaro.
“Barrett is former chair of the Aerospace Corporation and a member of the boards of California Institute of Technology,[3] Jet Propulsion Laboratory, RAND Corporation, Smithsonian Institution, Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, and Lasker Foundation.”
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“An instrument-rated pilot, Barrett was the first civilian woman to land in an F/A-18 Hornet on an aircraft carrier. In 2014, Barrett was inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame and received the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Presidential Medal from President Laurie Leshin.[10] She has trained as an astronaut, and was the backup spaceflight participant for the Soyuz TMA-16 flight to the International Space Station. Barrett was also deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Barrett
But Georgia,
POTUS doesn’t respect women……. /s
I would bet Donald Trump has appointed more females to his Administration than zero and dubya combined
JFK Quote
Keep in mind, we have Pompeo and our own FISA surveillance going on each and every single evil suspect from Ø and H> on down.
Unlike JFK, DJT is not splintering the CIA; he already went around it with The Orb Network.
Good reminder!
Gosh, I haven’t been around, and this is likely one of the best threads around the web today.
Love everyone here.
Today is the second time the Democrats have stormed out of a meeting with President Trump and held forth at a pre-arranged press conference.
Evidently it didn’t go well this time around either – and Schumer said the President was very disrespectful to a co-equal branch of government and called Pelosi a 3rd rate politician.
McCarthy said it was a good meeting after the Democrats left.
What do the Democrats expect from someone they have been trying to railroad out of office using illegal tactics, lies and propaganda since he was inaugurated???
Did they expect love and affection, roses and champagne? Bah humbug on their prissing and preening for the cameras.
They are as fake as the news headlines that will be coming out this evening and all next week about The President’s disrespectful manner, his meltdown and mental fitness.
Heh!
I suspect the longer this goes on, the nicer DJT gets, because he’s holding all the cards now.
He can provoke them at will, and all the can do is dig their own hole deeper, because they’re criminals, and he has them dead to rights.
Schumer has the unmitigated gall to say POTUS was disrespectful?
And the Speaker is spearheading an illegal IMPEACHMENT inquiry?
There’s so much wrong with your comments.
They had the same little scripted political drama the last time they met with the President – over the shutdown, remember?
I remember… didn’t POTUS walk out, leave Nanzi an Chuckie, tell press Nervous Nan had a breakdown?
Maybe she’s laughing because she thinks “I gotcha!” ? She’s not ok… I mean, there’s no one home upstairs.
“Schumer has the unmitigated gall to say POTUS was disrespectful?”
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It just so happens that Unmitigated is his favorite kind of gall 😁
One of my feisty late Mom’s expressions…
just sprang to mind!
It’s a classic 👍
“The earth shall be scorched….”
Take ’em all down, Mr. President!!!
“War was declared between the White House & Democrats in Congress. There’s no turning back now. The earth along Penn Ave shall be scorched.”
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It’s about time.
As for emotions, if there were any, it was just the criminals having another tantrum.
“Very disrespectful”. My, my that’s certainly kettle calling pot black! LOL
Wonder if anyone had the nerve to suggest that to her. 🤣
She probably wouldn’t have heard; she was too busy throwing all her toys out of the pram…
(probably her 100-proof passifier, too)…
Smacks of D-Rats planning drama…feed muh impeachment BS.
D-Rats have Rinos wanting endless wars.
Won’t end well for D-Rats and Rinos embracing endless wars.
But, MCM and D-Rats will play this card to their detriment.
Did the boss give any indication on when he would be back? I know he talked about bugging out for a bit.
Could be a while. Didn’t give a specific time frame.
These people seriously need a hobby. Tens of thousands of people PAID??????? This guy obviously can’t read a balance sheet.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/10/16/larry-charles-trump-rallies-an-illusion-with-paid-hypnotized-audience/
Director Larry Charles: Trump Rallies an ‘Illusion’ with ‘Paid Hypnotized’ Audience
Hollywood writer-director Larry Charles issued a rallying call to the left on Wednesday and smeared the millions of Americans showing up at President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies as paid and “hypnotized.”
“Trump has never won a fair fight. The base is down to 14 very loud people,” the Borat director’s missive began. “The rally goers are either paid or hypnotized. The whole thing is an illusion. Let’s shatter this national hallucination and see what reality looks like again.#LockThemUp.”
That was a Netflix ‘executive’ aka $0r0$ propagandist projecting the left’s tactics onto President Trump.
That is projection – they DID have to pay people to attend Hillrotten campaign events or make college professors give extra credit for attendance or give a concert to get a crowd to attend.
Do you think any public schools have had entire days cancelled so that students could “participate” in a political rally? Didn’t think so.
Larry Charles (whoever that is): “Trump has never won a fair fight.”
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He wins every day, and you’re right, they’re not fair, he has the whole MSM, the Congress, at least half of the judicial branch, and apparently 10s of thousands of Hussein holdovers in government against him, along with the FED and the EU and the drug cartels, China, and the Cabal itself against him.
And that’s not even the half of it.
And he’s STILL kicking your ass and making you look stupid. 👍 😁
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Larry Charles (cable guy?): “The base is down to 14 very loud people.”
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Says the fool with his head firmly planted in the ground.
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Larry Charles: “The rally goers are either paid or hypnotized.”
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The psychological projection is always just under the surface, waiting to come out, lol!
Always accusing others of what your side does by habit.
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Larry Charles: “The whole thing is an illusion.”
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Then why so much trouble wishing it away, Lawrence?
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“Let’s shatter this national hallucination and see what reality looks like again.”
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It’s comin’, Lawrence.
And if you’re some kind of Hollyweird pedo too, it’s coming for you, Lawrence.
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Larry Charles: “#LockThemUp”
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Don’t you worry Larry, they’re coming to getcha.
Just sit tight.
Won’t be much longer now.
DP, I’m kinda glad they are this seriously deluded,
here’s hoping we can hear them say once again in 2020, Where did all these people COME from?
If that’s not the face of a joyous jackboot, I don’t know what is 🤣
That’s the type of grammar up with which I will not put…… And you can include Justin from Canada and his bobbleheads in the same gaggle as BO and the EU.
Is that Mo Howard?
It’s good to see he’s still active, I had no idea he was still in showbiz.
If you can stomach 35 seconds of Schumer, watch this. He is in meltdown about the meeting with POTUS, and apparently Pelosi walked out. She is standing there grinning like a hyena. So how bad could have POTUS’ “insults” been.
I hope the Dems get stomped on.
ROFL
“Schumer says that Trump called Pelosi a “third rate politician” and that Trump told them regarding Syria, “there are communists involved and you guys might like that” ”
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ROTFLMAO!
He’s starting to treat them with the exact amount of respect they deserve — NONE!
I love the last part even better than the first 🤣
They treat him with zero respect, but expect him to treat them like “the gentle lady” and “gentleman.” He is not your normal politician, and they can’t stand it.
hahahah that’s hilarious
Hoyer, Schumer and Piglosi.
Prison is too good for them, but for a while, it will have to do.
Can you imagine how long these traitors will talk, when they’re asked if they have any last words before the hood goes over their heads?
He never does say if she is a third rate politician or not ….. they are a disgrace to the human race.
https://twitter.com/manny_ottawa/status/1184588061063241734
“She is standing there grinning like a hyena.”
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She’s not actually grinning, that’s how her face always looks, after so many facelifts and botox treatments.
Meth mouth?
https://twitter.com/AnthemRespect/status/1184604709300006912
Apparently Hunter Biden had the same problem:
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I wondered at that. Those teeth are not healthy at all.
It’s not meth…it’s her dentures and
Btw….while I’m at it….
Fuck you Hoyer.
Never have you dimocrap rats treated a sitting President so disrespectfully, and yet you wanna pretend to be victims when he doesn’t tolerate your disrespect?
Just fuck you you whiny little baby snowflake.
My mom used to do that with her teeth when some food crumbs slipped under the plate. Nanc musy have beed gnawing on wood again.
Hoyer has served with six presidents and has never seen such disrespect. Someone please ask him if he was trying to remove those other presidents from office on false charges and holding impeachment over their heads. Just wondering. Respect goes both ways.
He’s been there too damn long if he’s made his fortune under 6 administrations.
AMEN, Double T!!!
They weren’t grinning during the meeting. That’s their face for the cameras. This Trump tweet, LOL. They look mad and defeated.
Oh my gosh, that’s a funny tweet.
They look like 3 siblings who just got spanked.
Trump supporters have been lining up for the RALLY in Dallas since early this morning!!!
Trump rallies are like rock concerts, football games and tailgating, camp meetings and family reunions all rolled into one!!!
Nervous Nancy’s meltdown….
PRESS STATEMENT:
BOOM!!!
She could be cracking up… hard to tell. A used to be functioning alcoholic, under stress……… boooommmm
There is no cure for alcoholism. What there is, is a daily reprieve contingent upon the maintenance of one’s spiritual condition. And it begins with complete abstinence.
Thanks Hoofy…
That is demonstratible regardless of what level of function or responsibility of an alcoholic.
If you read the Lefties’ replies in DJT’s twitter feed, they are in complete mirror-land.
Or we are.
One of us is, lol!
Looking at all the attendees staring down at the table…very uncomfortable to see someone becoming unhinged in a high level meeting. IMO, she had no intention of staying through the meeting.
They had planned their ‘walk out’ aka ‘protest’ and their spin/talking points afterward.
What they DIDN’T count on was PDJT throwing their same lines back at them!!!
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Best 🤣 President 🤣 Ever! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cry’n Chuckster, nervous Nan and stoopid Steny…faces of utter clueless desperation.
I just caught that POTUS called her “Nervous Nancy” – Very interesting, wouldn’t you say?
POTUS says Nancy is Nervous – what is Nancy nervous about?
oh, thank you bfly…
I cannot believe how Funny he is!!!
Ima dyin’ here!
This is some good news.
Very good news.
After all his fears about his first tooth being loose, on the way home from school kiddo just pulled out the second and handed it to me.
LOL!
Hes excited now.
Growing up!!! They do that way too fast.
Very fast, but hes still the right size for a snuggle.
I remember – age 4-10 is usually the heavenly part of motherhood.
Amazing how they get over the fear, isn’t it?
I thought he was playing with me at first but I looked back and he had that thing out. I can see just a sliver of the new one but he had to pull on it a bit for sure.
Good for him.
I think the worst of mine was actually a molar the orthodontist pulled. He just leaned on it a little and yanked. Wasn’t expecting that. At least the cuspids came out under anesthesia.
Careful!
That’s a very, very bad sign if you are trying to raise a fearful soy-boy beta male feminist with a victim mentality who cries like a woman, like this little fella…
Better take him to see the school counselor for some reprogramming ASAP!
Oh no no. Hes sentitive but no soy allowed. His goal is to be indiana jones when he grows up. Not this….
I don’t like the mohawks kids wear today, because it’s just another way the Left corrupts the social contract.
It used to be that if you got a mohawk (or anything that made you stick out, that you did on purpose in order to be different), you were going to get harassed or picked on, and that would:
A) make you tougher / stronger (or stop doing it, either way you learned something)
and
B) it was a social control mechanism for what was generally acceptable, i.e., individualism is great, but don’t be a weirdo.
TODAY, being the weirdo is the NORM. The sensitive types get mohawks, and then they’re protected from criticism or confrontation by anyone, so much so, that they’re PRAISED for looking like weirdos.
If somebody wants to wear a mohawk, more power to them, but there’s nothing rebellious about it when so many others are is doing it, or when nobody challenges it, or when it becomes a ‘protected’ form of self-expression.
Tattoos are another example.
When I was a kid, for the most part, the people who had tattoos had either served in the military, or they were pirates (in the movies), or they had served time in prison.
Tattoos were generally a sign of rebellion, non-conformist, etc.
But when EVERYBODY gets tattoos, it becomes the OPPOSITE.
When most people start doing it simply because everybody else is doing it, so they can fit in, it becomes ‘conformist’.
There’s nothing daring about kids getting tattoos today, nobody is going to confront them about it, there’s nothing socially provocative about it anymore — it has become common, it has become the ‘norm’.
If you want to be a rebel in a world where it seems like everybody gets tattoos — DON’T get a tattoo!
I’d say HS sophomores, but then, what do I know. I was always at the nerd table.
I haven’t had nearly enough Jamie for that.
You never can or will.
And I live in moonbat central. For the most part, tie-dye and jeans with sneakers is as dressed up as they get.
Halloween?
“The Modern Liberal will invariably (and) inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. When I say the Modern Liberal is morally and intellectually retarded at the level of the five-year old child, it is not hyperbole: its diagnosis.” (Evan Sayet, The Kindergarten of Evil, evansayet.com)
From where I sit, it’s not nearly that cut and dried. Get most of them out of their echo chambers, and there’s a change of heart.
Except most 5-year olds are (hopefully) sweet and innocent.
Unlike modern liberals…
Did Trump removing our troops from Syria (and that pipeline in which they are all invested so deeply) precipitate today’s Democrat political drama?
Go ahead Chucky, vote for a declaration of war against Turkey — or anybody else you think we should be fighting in perpetuity.
Go ahead.
I want every one of you cowards and traitors on record.
This
roll call of votes in case you want to check how your representative voted
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll560.xml
Perfect.
Thank you.
Georgia,
Whose drum does the majority of Congress usually march to? What foreign dignitary gets 100% standing ovations from Congress? Who was initially interested in US getting involved in Syria?
You and others may not like my questions or the answers, but it’s the only explanation I have for 2/3 of the Republicans in the House voting against POTUS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israelis-see-trumps-syria-pullout-as-a-betrayal-that-could-unravel-the-region/2019/10/11/cf5b5d38-ec08-11e9-a329-7378fbfa1b63_story.html
We will likely disagree forever if you see Israel as the villain in the Middle East.
I ask questions. I look for answers.
Mitch has already said he will take the House action to the Senate floor.
What do you think will happen? I think they will vote AGAINST the POTUS because Israel does not want us to leave.
So, if do our represenatives represent? America?
If the vote goes against POTUS, then the DIMs will claim impeachment based on CinC’s betrayal of our Allies or some such garbage.
I stand for America FIRST. I want what is right for our country. I do not want any more of our men and women killed or wounded for wars that make money for greedy people who do not care about America.
I stand with President Donald John Trump.
In the Washington Compost?? Really???????
What does it matter who reports what Bibi said? Look it up in Haaretz.
I read the article you posted. Other than not being able to trust a single word that is published by that POS rag, what Bibi quote are you specifically referring to? The WaPo article stated:
QUOTE:
“Other than expressing support for the Kurds, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said little publicly about Trump’s move….”
Israel has its leftists, factions and false patriots – like the US.
Judaism has its leftists, deceivers, pedos, etc. – just as does Christianity.
I will always be grateful to the Jews for guarding the faith and preserving the Law and Commandments that GOD gave them. The true Law of the LORD proceeds out of Zion and Jerusalem – that is, the true moral code of the universe. Isaiah 2:3
As far as I can tell, this withdrawal is centered around Northern Syria ONLY, first NE, then subsequently NW. We also have troops in Southern Syria that are closer and helping to protect Israel. I don’t think they’re part of this withdrawal….yet?
That’s been the confusion with all this, possibly on purpose?, that they’re not being specific on numbers and locations until after the fact.
I’m looking at the fact that 2/3 of the GOP in the House supported the Bill. Why?
Don’t know PR. Maybe they’re unaware of the Full strategy? Otherwise we assume their donors are from MIC or they’ve got their hands dirty In the ISIS mess and it can be used against them. Ignorance or Fear.
Have you read the bill?
This is a thing of beauty.
I had to transcribe it myself, because apparently ALL of the MSM are too lazy to do it, they just post the .jpg of the letter and opine.
The president’s letter to Erdogan:
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His Excellency
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of the Republic of turkey
Ankara
Dear Mr. President:
Let’s work out a good deal! You don’t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don’t want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy — and I will. I’ve already given you a little sample with respect to Pastor Brunson.
I have worked hard to solve some of your problems. Don’t let the world down. You can make a great deal. General Mazloum is willing to negotiate with you, and he is willing to make concessions that they would never have made in the past. I am confidentially enclosing a copy of his letter to me, just received.
History will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way. It will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don’t happen. Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool!
I will call you later,
Sincerely,
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This is outstanding, lol!
It reads like a tweet 🤣
Put yourself in Erdogan's shoes, and imagine receiving a letter like this from the president of the United States…
It was completely written to provoke Erdogan into reacting exactly as he did (or exactly as we have been led to believe he did, there's no way to verify anything that's really going on).
After a lifetime of Ellsworth Tooheys whose sole purpose for speaking is to make sure they never actually say anything of substance, it is beyond refreshing to have a leader to speaks like DJT.
Yes, I know it rankles some people that he doesn't always speak (or write) with the 'decorum' befitting the 'office', but he's doing it on purpose, it SERVES a purpose. He could right stuffy bureaucratese if he wanted to, but that would never accomplish any actual objective.
This does.
This accomplished multiple objectives on multiple levels.
Every part of this letter is carefully worded to provoke a reaction, no matter the perspective of the reader.
From a 'persuasion' perspective, Scott Adams could have a ball with this.
Just amazing, AND made me laugh out loud 😂
I didn’t support and vote for Trump because of how he talks, and neither did anyone else who did the same.
Sometimes, a salty-languaged sailor is the best man for the job at hand.
What dims don’t like is that POTUS isn’t afraid to call a 3rd-rate politician a 3rd-rate politician, and they are bitter than he is almost single-handedly utterly destroying the leftist weapon of “political correctness”.
You do excellent satire.
“You do excellent satire.”
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Not as good as DJT’s! 😁
That’s the actual letter he sent to Erdogan, lol!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/16/white-house-releases-president-trump-warning-letter-to-president-erdogan-of-turkey-october-9th/#more-173843
+1 for the “Ellsworth Toohey” reference.
You’ve been around but not much. Busy?
A bit.
Every person who reads this site must obtain and read Kim Strassel’s book which reached the bookshelves yesterday. She is among the four or five best reporters in the world. I place her with Lee Smith and Mollie Hemingway as the best of the best. And, hen she takes the Superwoman cape of, she’s an ordinary mom with a three kids who grew up in rural Oregon.
Thank you!
I had the honor and very good fortune of sitting next to her at a private dinner party in Bozeman, Montana (of all places) several years ago and I can assure you there is nothing ordinary about her whatsoever. She is also very funny and kept all of us laughing when a good many of us (like me) wanted to be angry about what was happening in DC/America.
Your opinion is well-placed.
How fortunate for you FG&C………….
Didn’t know about the rural Oregon part….do you know where (more or less?) always curious since I also grew up in rural Oregon.
Agree with your assessment of her clarity of thought and the gift to write it.
I think POTUS is pushing Nancy to do something stupid, well more than she currently is. Nancy came out saying POTUS had a meltdown and she would pray for his mental health.
He’s shoving it right back.
She like so many others underestimates POTUS Trump’s ability to counter punch,
BOOM!
I wonder if any of them actually accept that he is extremely intelligent.
Politicians don’t have to be intelligent, smart…. they usually have to be ‘clever’ ….
And ‘clever’ people are usually so in love with their own cleverness, they can’t discern intelligence capable of seeing through them. Con artists, grifters, are ‘clever’…………
What really tickles me is, they keep making the same mistake with him… over and over, all the while expecting a different outcome. What does that remind you of? Right, insanity. And most pols are a tad bit crazy. Serving in public office for decades tends to make a tad bit crazy even moreso. Like attracts like.
They can’t deal with a VSG from Queens who has dealt all his life with ‘clever’ business people…
TOTALLY agree!!! He has baited his hooks and is trolling them.
They can’t resist biting.
““This President is the most patriotic President I’ve seen in many years.”
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That’s only going to provoke him to do even better, until he becomes the most patriotic President you’ve seen, EVER.
He won’t stop until you say it.
And he won’t stop then, either.
He’s just going to keep winning, and winning, and winning… 😁
UNCLE! Not tired of winning. NEVER tired of winning
I’m not sure there is a way to measure his patriotism against other Presidents.
How many of them faced enemies and opposition as great as his? The Deep State, corrupt alphabet agencies, endless foreign war, globalists worldwide, the 24-hour assault of a hostile media?
I can think of only two other Presidents whose leadership challenge was as great; Washington and Lincoln. But how would they have fared under the above conditions?
I am daily awed by the fortitude and persistence of this great man. I believe he may be the greatest American patriot who ever lived.
So. If we want to know how to defeat the surveillance state being pushed by Bejing, we need to talk to the Universities in Australia?
Or maybe we can just look around in America!
It’s insidious, isn’t it T3 ?
So many young people think socialism has something to do with social media ! (I may be exaggerating, but…) And communism… that’s way above their pay grade.
We Are the News Now… so we have to keep on keeping on…
Even Larry Schweikart appears to be cheering up! It’s a thread with several more tweets.
POTUS is increasing the size of the venues.
The AA center seats 20,000
And I bet there will still be an overflow crowd. There just isn’t a venue big enough for everyone who wants to see him.
https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1184633771838136321?s=20
I believe the volcano is about to erupt. POTUS just tweeted this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184634725677314050
When he capitalizes certain words and misspells I know thats for q research.
Building that tension until ig report? Im wondering if General Flynn will be exonerated at that time too.
Our Lion has options…
You should see my FB circle on this. It’s hilarious how triggered they are.
lololol… bammo
https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1184609931737075717
“this trial would fully exonerate POTUS and sink the DS progressive alliance.
Bring it on…”
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That’s the highest stakes there are or could be.
The Super Bowl x infinity.
Winner take all.
DJT wouldn’t be pushing so hard for it, provoking them and calling every last one of their bluffs, if he wasn’t holding a royal flush to their handful of squat.
So let’s do it.
All in. 👍
Impeachment brings a ‘stench’ … some folks don’t understand that it only means “a charge is made” ……………. like an indictment. Far too many think it means “he’s guilty” … it’s the ignorance I worry about, or I guess I should say low info…
I have considered for some time now that POTUS may WANT them to impeach… it would certainly separate the wheat from the chaff (we would know who to throw out next election). And I understand that the Senators act as prosecutors, so say someone like Trey Gowdy could bring in some of the coup members and prosecute them so to speak and they could end up indicted and tried, and Americans would know what was going on, because it would all be public. I guess I’m going to have to let go of traditional thoughts about impeachment… about a lot of things actually… this is a different ballgame… it’s a never-ending coup… and perhaps by impeaching POTUS it will end. But you see, I thought that is what the Special Counsel was supposed to do… end it. Now the DIMs are talking about a 2nd Special Counsel. If I had to choose between the two, I guess I would go with impeachment.
The trial in the Senate will both exonerate DJT and convict the Cabal, in front of the biggest worldwide audience in the history of television.
The actual prosecution and conviction of the Cabal will have to take place in courts or military tribunals, but the scope and scale of their crimes will be laid bare during an Impeachment Trial for all the world to see.
I’m leery of Trey Gowdy though. Ever since SD opened my eyes to how ALL of the GOP congressional inquiries were just controlled opposition, following a playbook of outrage/investigation/nothing happens, over and over again.
IRS targeting, Fast & Furious gun-running, Benghazi — it was always the same M.O., played to perfection by the professional political-class.
And that was Trey Gowdy.
All hat and no cattle, as SD often said.
So if Gowdy is to have any part in it, I would do a background check on Gowdy so deep and thorough that I don’t even have an analogy for it.
I don’t know Scott, did Some Dude open your eyes, or … did he raise to high an expectation of what members of Congress could do? SD was and is focused on “the small group”… well, the group ain’t small, you just said that yourself.
What was your expectation? There would be a hearing and Hil de beast would be cuffed and hauled off to jail? 😉
Gowdy is the one who told Nunes what he saw in the SCIF (sp)
Gowdy was encouraged by POTUS not to run for re-election, but to ‘hang’ until he was needed. Have you thought about what that has cost Gowdy ? He’s a small town prosecutor… he’s not rich. (I take up for my fellow SC natives, esp. when I know there’s not even smoke, much less fire.) POTUS trusts him. I’ll accept that over SD’s idea of ‘controlled opposition’ any day.
(we’re still friends, aren’t we? I wouldn’t want to have our exchanges offend you in some way. If we disagree, surely we can agree… to disagree 😉
“I don’t know Scott, did Some Dude open your eyes, or … did he raise to high an expectation of what members of Congress could do?”
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They always stopped short.
They never EVER went for the kill.
As DJT said today, Paul Ryan would never issue subpoenas. DJT made up some BS reason that Ryan had too much respect for the country, but that’s a load of crap. If Ryan had any respect for the country or the rule of law, he would have pulled the curtain back and shown the whole world, instead of taking a DIVE on every major scandal of the Hussein tyranny, and throwing the American People under the bus at every opportunity.
Paul Ryan is another one who deserves to go to prison for the rest of his life — or worse.
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“What was your expectation? There would be a hearing and Hil de beast would be cuffed and hauled off to jail?”
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Why the hell not?
The only reason it NEVER happens is because nobody believes it CAN happen. Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy!
DUMP the *&^%ing evidence on the public square, and let her try to escape THAT.
But they never do.
They always cover for her, and for the Democrats.
The fix is always in.
The money has been paid, the favors called, the blackmail arranged, the narrative scripted, and no matter how heinous the crime, it always ends the same way.
That doesn’t happen with massive complicity.
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“Gowdy was encouraged by POTUS not to run for re-election, but to ‘hang’ until he was needed. Have you thought about what that has cost Gowdy ? He’s a small town prosecutor… he’s not rich. (I take up for my fellow SC natives, esp. when I know there’s not even smoke, much less fire.) POTUS trusts him. I’ll accept that over SD’s idea of ‘controlled opposition’ any day.”
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DJT also knows the adage to keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
We’ll see which one Gowdy is, if he is actually to be any part of this.
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“(we’re still friends, aren’t we? I wouldn’t want to have our exchanges offend you in some way. If we disagree, surely we can agree… to disagree ”
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Absolutely!
I consider everybody on this board a friend, and many of us disagree on some thing or another regularly! 😁
One of the things I like best about this place, what is so different from everywhere else, is that we can disagree, even strongly sometimes, while still knowing we’re all on the same side, so it’s not personal, there is no animosity.
It’s LIBERATING.
It’s not about trying to defeat someone, like it is when debating or arguing with Leftists. When there is any serious or genuine disagreement here (which is not often, really), it is usually in the best sense — everyone makes their best case for what they believe and why.
A lot of this stuff we can’t know for sure whether one view is right or wrong anyway, until more information comes out, so it’s more of an exercise in testing ideas, seeing what works and what doesn’t, which is what makes it interesting and fun 🙂
There’s an ocean of data points, and we’re all trying to make sense of it, to fill in pieces of the many puzzles, and as time goes on, we get confirmation or contradiction to our various hypotheses and views, and that’s interesting.
And fun.
It’s a mystery — lots of smaller mysteries and several big ones — and it’s better (and stranger) than fiction.
It’s a page-turner 😁
edit / correction: “That doesn’t happen
withWITHOUT massive complicity.”absolutely! agree totally on your comment.
Hi Scott, I really enjoy my interaction with you and with others in this Q tree.
I don’t argue with the ideas of others to put the others down and shut them up.
I never argue to change their minds. I argue to sharpen my understanding and to change my own mind when necessary.
I love this board for that very reason.
Thank you for sharing this,
Elizabeth
Good evening, Elizabeth!
“Hi Scott, I really enjoy my interaction with you and with others in this Q tree.
I don’t argue with the ideas of others to put the others down and shut them up.”
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Yep, me neither. I used to, that was most of what posting online was about (for me) for a long time, whether on Breitbart or Townhall.com for years before that.
On Townhall.com I would fight with the Leftists, and usually there were several regulars (conservatives) against several Leftists, and it would sometimes go on for days, lol!
The object of that game was to get them to shut up, to expose their lies, to vanquish them.
Then I found Breitbart, and that was a much bigger pond with a lot more Leftist troublemakers, but the platform was so big that it was hard to form a team of ‘regulars’, so you were pretty much on your own with a lot more opponents, and you can’t take on multiple people with long, detailed arguments, you have to try to knock them out of the discussion as fast and hard as possible.
But after a while it got old, it’s just the same thing over and over.
Then I found CTH, and that was a completely different dynamic. It took some adjustment, because nobody was really fighting with each other there, most people were on the same side (and it was heavily moderated, lol!).
But it was more interesting than the constant attack at Breitbart, and much smaller group of people, like Townhall.com was in the early days (around 2006). Breitbart was like a first-person shooter video game where you shoot anything that moves, and CTH was a completely different ballgame. Much less frenetic, lol!
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“I never argue to change their minds. I argue to sharpen my understanding and to change my own mind when necessary.”
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That is very interesting.
A lot of the time, arguing is a means of developing an understanding or point of view, because the debate process helps to clarify various issues, rule certain ideas or concepts or understands moot or inoperable, while revealing other concepts or views that withstand cross examination. That’s one of my favorite parts of engaging in discussions here, formulating what I think is a coherent position and throwing it out there, to see how it stands up to scrutiny. Almost like DJT’s “A-B” testing to find out what works better, except we usually start out with a more developed understanding of an issue here, whereas DJT is often testing words and phrases for ‘branding’ or other persuasive effect.
It seems difficult to effectively advocate for something (a point of view) without a tacit assumption that changing someone’s mind — if they are in opposition or agnostic — is part of the argument/debate process. If someone is in agreement, then it wouldn’t really be ‘arguing’ or ‘debate’, it would be more like mutual reinforcement.
The example that came to me with regard to changing someone’s mind is Paul, when he went to Mars Hill, and saw the monument to the unknown god. Paul hoped to change minds, to advocate for the cause of Christ.
Now Paul would also say that he preached not with the wisdom or words of men, but he preached the power of God and Christ crucified (cf. 1 Corinthians 1:23).
“And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: [5] That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:4-5, boldface emphasis mine)
It is God’s Word (living and powerful, cf. Hebrews 4:12) that reaches the heart and mind, not the wisdom or arguments of men, but it still has to be presented. It certainly helps to know where someone is in their understanding, e.g., when Philip understood that the Ethiopian eunuch was reading from Isaiah, and “Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.”
Paul was also an eloquent and flexible orator, changing his approach to match his audience:
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“For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. [20] And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; [21] To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. [22] To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.” (1 Corinthians 9:19-22, KJV)
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These are all Scriptural examples of changing (or opening) minds, but the it would seem to apply to secular subjects as well. There may be some difference between how men and women (generally) approach debate too, due to competitive nature.
But then I’m reminded of Scott Adams’ perspective, that rational debate is usually pointless, because while people want to believe they are logical and rational, usually they’re not (at least when it comes to issues worth debate), which is why his particular interest in the ‘science of persuasion’ is so interesting. It doesn’t approach controversy from a logic standpoint, but more by framing a discussion in a way that gets past the natural resistance or defenses common to standard debate. I probably didn’t explain that very well, I don’t have a thorough understanding of his subject specialty, and I fell out of the habit of following his regular comments (which reminds me to start doing so again, it is very interesting).
Adams’ approach appears to be incredibly efficient and effective (he says DJT uses these techniques extensively and better than anyone he has seen, IIRC). It seems good to understand his techniques so you are not as susceptible to being manipulated by them, but it is difficult to abandon the logical argument approach, because it’s tantamount to admitting that people don’t use logic or reason, and that’s very depressing 😁
So… it’s complicated!
I like what you are doing better. Arguing to sharpen your own understanding and to change your own mind if necessary. That is a purer pursuit of enlightenment 👍
It reminds me of a quote from an old Townhall.com article I saved an occasionally reference, by columnist Gregory Koukl, called “The Intolerance of Tolerance” (a.k.a. “The Myth of Tolerance”):
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“Most of what passes for tolerance today is nothing more than intellectual cowardice, a fear of intelligent engagement.
Those who brandish the word “intolerant” are unwilling to be challenged by other views or grapple with contrary opinions, or even to consider them. It’s easier to hurl an insult – “you intolerant bigot” – than to confront an idea and either refute it or be changed by it.”
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“I love this board for that very reason. Thank you for sharing this, Elizabeth”
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Thank you for the thought provoking discussion 🙂
Have a good evening!
Scott
whoa! I thought he had said the impeachment stopped in the Senate…rolling over for the uniparty and deep state already?!
Well, you read what he said about POTUS moving troops, didn’t you? esp 4th paragraph.
“… not serve US interests (what exactly are US interests there?” Name one
“….would only make a troubling situation worse… for Israel …. ”
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POTUS discussion of miltary industrial complex gets me worried for his safety. Esp today when he said people that want us there make money off it. He must be fairly secure in their weakness to state it so plainly.
Let’s hope so.
Or, he’s reached the point in his redpilling the American public, that he is brave enough to say it?
Your post reminded me of Praying Medic’s request that Prayer Warriors pray for POTUS’ safety tomorrow. I know I posted earlier, asking for your prayers, and I know many here pray everyday and don’t need a reminder…
But given the desperation of the DIMs (and the Cabal), I feel the need for extra prayers for POTUS’ protection and safety, as well as that of his family and those who stand with him in this Spiritual war we are engaged in…
Oh, and VP is still out of the country. Please add him to your prayers.
Fraud News was the reason I finally canceled cable.
They were the last channel I even watched, and there was so much gaslighting and genuflecting to Leftists that I couldn’t even watch that last channel without wanting to throw a brick through my TV set.
I told the cable company to shut it off, and I told them exactly why when they asked, that the Left had politicized EVERY channel, even the sports — everything Leftist insanity, all the time.
Shut it off.
POTUS discussion of miltary industrial complex gets me worried for his safety. Esp today when he said people that want us there make money off it. He must be fairly secure in their weakness to state it so plainly.
https://twitter.com/Hiloix2/status/1184640862678073344?s=20
Good night all you Qtreeepers… sweet dreams
Sweet dreams trumpismine… God bless you.
McConnell being his usual Uniparty self…
Why is he working so hard to overturn President Trump’s veto!!!???
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/466201-senate-to-try-to-override-trump-emergency-declaration-veto-thursday
I think having a Chinese spouse contributes to a number of his decisions.
Cage rattler that I am, I suggest he looks out for Mitch every opportunity he can.
Q said something interesting… more than once. “Look at the wives” and many of us have. (Q’s not talking about physical appearance, but their connections, what they do, where they’re from, where they went to school.) Have you looked at Chuckie’s wife? NYC mayor’s spouse? Short story… from their ‘profile’ they appear to be “handlers” not spouses.
Like Zuckerberg’s wife.
I’m torn on McConnell. I realize he can’t be trusted completely, but he has been great on getting judges confirmed. And the Senate override vote is going nowhere because there clearly are not 67 votes. So McConnell’s holding that vote is not in hopes it will pass. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he might be doing it for other reasons: to get people’s votes on the record or to “cooperate” on a non-issue and save the issues he won’t cooperate on for later (like filling a SCOTUS seat in a presidential election year if that comes up).
I also think that, if he is willing to hold an impeachment trial, it plays right into the Trump administration’s hands because the last thing the Dems want is for evidence to be brought out in a trial. And they won’t have control over that in the Senate. Telegraphing to them now that that is what will happen is sending a strong message.
I would never have guessed yesterday, Never have believed that all but 60 GOP would vote against
President Trump today and with Pelosi!
Makes me wonder about the judges…who is vetting the judges? Who has vetted the vetters? What are their standards?
Wives…mitt romneys wife? Mike Lee’s wife?
I think judges are being recommended by the Heritage Society, so we’re pretty safe on that front.
Judges are only as good as prior to blackmail, IMHO.
New Prayers for America & our President thread up…
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/20191016-17-prayers-for-protection
He’s having a lot of fun tonight!!
😂😂😂
I’m not gonna name any names but some folks here really need to sharpen their critical thinking skills.
Why would McConnell be telling the press if the House votes to impeach he will hold a trial in the a Senate?
To expose the other side.
Maybe.
In what way(s)?
Put them on the stand (in the spotlight) and expose the lies and corruption.
Nope.
That’s not it.
Then again, you aren’t who I have in mind re: critical thinking skills, either.
Exactly what are you trying to get at here? You know what you wrote could be taken as disrespecting D.P.’s critical thinking skills… I think that’s not what you meant, but it’s late. Help me out here. 🙂
He wouldn’t be the first one to criticize my thinking skills. But, seriously, the leading questions that people answer themselves when you get it “wrong” get old after a while.
We try to be generous to each other and give the benefit of the doubt. 🙂
A: McConnell wants the Dims to vote on impeachment because the only way they can pass it is if every dem votes for it.
Why? Because no Republican who wants to win re-election will do so.
Why won’t it pass? Why won’t Nancy hold the vote?
A: Because of the result of the vote. There will be no Republican who votes in favor because that Republican would be primaried out of office. Meanwhile, while democrats only need a simple majority to impeach, they will only be able to do so by party-line vote….meaning that the vote to impeach would be entirely and 100% partisan, while the vote against would be BI-PARTISAN.
Why would the vote against be bi-partisan??
Oops….my opening statement here isn’t correct. Dems have 235 in the House to the GOP’s 197 (there is 1 independent, plus two vacancies….* Duffy (R), WI resigned effective 09/23/2019 and *Collins, Chris (R), NY resigned effective 09/30/2019). Total is 433. Simple majority wins. So a vote that wins by 1 vote means 217 to 216.
Dems need 217 votes to impeach.
A: the vote against impeachment would be bi-partisan because dims in vulnerable red state seats will NOT vote themselves out of office, plus dims are DESPERATE to keep control of the House.
Ergo, Pelosi will not bring a vote for impeachment to the House floor.
McConnell knows this.
By repeating telling the press he will hold an impeachment trial if the House votes to impeach, McConnell riles up the dem base who then DEMAND Pelosi to hold a vote, which she does NOT want to do. If Pelosi does not hold a vote, the rabid dem base goes berserk and demands her head.
By telling the public he will hold a senate trial, McConnell is making life miserable for the duplicitous d-rat leadership.
In short, McConnell is trolling Pelosi and goading useful idiots in the d-rat base.
Plus, the bastard manages to look magnanimous and non-partisan in the process (“I will have no choice but to hold a trial because the Constitution requires it.”).
This now brings me to the tomorrow’s vote to try to overturn PDJT’s veto re: the resolution to undo his emergency declaration re: the border.
Did you know?
Democrats can force a vote on this every 6 months, and the last time they did so was in March (which failed, btw). It’s democrats who are forcing this vote tomorrow, and McConnell has no choice but to hold the vote. As in March, it will fail. Watch.
“McConnell has no choice but to hold the vote”
I don’t believe this is the case. From this report (bolding mine):
https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/2b1325dc-6a6b-42c4-9a08-506c3a59a251.pdf
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[House:]
If the override vote on a House or Senate bill is unsuccessful, then the House informs the Senate of this fact and typically refers the bill and veto message to committee. If the House votes to override a veto of a bill that originated in the House (H.R. or H.J. Res.), the bill and veto message are sent to the Senate for action. If the House successfully overrides a veto of a bill that originated in the Senate (S. or S.J. Res.), then the bill becomes law, because two-thirds of both chambers have agreed to override the veto.
Senate Procedure Overview
If the Senate wishes to reconsider a vetoed bill, Senators generally enter into a unanimous consent agreement that the message be considered as read, printed in the Congressional Record, and, as required by the Constitution, entered in the Senate Journal. Senators often also agree, by unanimous consent, to limit time for debate on the question of overridin the veto. When the Senate receives a vetoed measure from the President or the House,
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Here is an example of a veto override voted on by the House that was not taken up by the Senate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_vetoes
“October 7, 2000: Vetoed H.R. 4733, Energy and Water Appropriations Act, 2001. Overridden by House, 315–98 on October 11 (276 needed). No attempt made in Senate.”
DP wonderful thread. Also love the tool time part from Home Improvement!!! 🙂
Kevin McCarthy dished on Laura’s show about meeting…It was all planned.
POTUS hands out his Turkey letter, Nervous Nancy doesn’t read, turns over flat to show she won’t and starts to smile.
POTUS calls her out, Nancy, why are you laughing, this is a serious item?
Joint Chief General says he removed some men in danger So they wouldn’t be harmed.
Dems would ask a question and SECDEF would start talking, and they’d interrupt, NO! The President has to answer!
Upon leaving she threatened “You just watch what we’ll do”
Oh and POTUS supports the vote protecting the Kurds! 😂😂
BTW, DP…I have the good news of knowing the couple who are now living in Margaret Sanger’s estate. And they could not be more Conservative, Republican, and pro-life!!!!!!
Amen!