News Flash
Today, it is still the case that Joe Biden didn’t Win.
I realize that to some readers, this might be a shock; surely at some point things must change and Biden will have actually won.
But the past cannot actually be changed.
It will always and forever be the case that Joe Biden didn’t win.
And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss it as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.
As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.
And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.
So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things: I continue to carry the banner once also carried by Wheatie. His Fraudulency didn’t win.
Let’s Go, Brandon!!
Hey China!
Or rather, “Hey Chinese Communist Party and your entire array of servitors, ass-wipers, and fellators!”
You’re not even worth my time this week. When you decide to act like civilized people, maybe I’ll give you a lesson or two in how non-barbarians behave.
Hey BiteMe!
(Or, Whoever Has Their Hand Rammed Up That Putrefying Meat Puppet’s Ass)
[Language warning]
You and yours have caused a lot of injury. Literal injury with your war on people who don’t want to take an untested vaccine. When people die in an emergency room because a hospital won’t admit them because they haven’t had their clot shot, that’s a crime.
I’m going to address here the insult on top of the injury, because I am among the insulted. I still have my health but apparently you want me to live under the 8th Street Bridge (which actually isn’t on 8th Street, but whatever, that’s what the I-25 overpass over Cimarron is called), so maybe if you have your way that won’t be true for long. Dreadful time of year to become homeless.
No, you’re just trying to make me unemployed, because I won’t take your fucking shots.
Well, that threat is NOT going to work. I. Won’t. Take. Your. Fucking. Shots.
And it looks like enough people agree, that you’re having to back down, you worthless asswipe.
You’re LOSING.
You LOSER.
You Chinese-bought ratfucking traitor.
I would love to see you die an agonizing, humiliating death. (This isn’t a threat, because I am not threatening to cause that death. I am just announcing my intention to party if it happens.) It would be just recompense for the way you’re killing America…and millions of Americans.
His Fraudulency
Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.
One can hope that all is not as it seems.
I’d love to feast on that crow.
(I’d like to add, I find it entirely plausible, even likely, that His Fraudulency is also His Figureheadedness. (Apparently that wasn’t a word; it got a red underline. Well it is now.) Where I differ with the hopium addicts is on the subject of who is really in charge. It ain’t anyone we like.)
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
The Former Tax Day
Today used to be Tax Day. An abomination, to be sure. The Income Tax was one of a number of nearly simultaneous factors that came together in the 19-teens to push us further into decline (others being the Fed and direct election of senators). Oh, the Regressive Era. (No I didn’t misspell that. It was deliberate.)
But it seems like nowadays taxes are never due on the 15th. It used to be that they’d only slip it one day if it was a Sunday (Post Office won’t postmark it on a Sunday). Now it seems like it’s routinely the 18th, largely because of some special holiday in DC (that somehow affects the whole country anyway even though DC could practically fit in my back yard…or the back yard of someone living in Rhode Island even after I park my truck in it).
Tranheuser Busch
Those asshats either get the world, all time record for obtuseness…or this is deliberate somehow. And their namby pamby non-apology that amounts to a “We’re sorry you’re too much of a knuckledragger to appreciate what we did” simply underscores the stupid. It’d be like a 400 pound golfer wearing spikes tromping on your instep and being utterly clueless why you are screaming in pain.
Me Ducking Out On Doing A Science Post
Been hectic here; likely to continue to be. I’ll still be posting but “extra” content is likely to be more limited, at times even I can’t predict.
Someone on Friday posted a video that is part of a playlist titled “The Entire History of the Universe.”
It has largely (so far) concerned itself with the earliest times of the Universe, and a lot of the episodes are good discussions about things like string theory, brane theory and so forth–stuff I considered too speculative to cover in the physics posts.
But this one (until recently the latest) is a fairly good discussion of light.
Spot Prices.
Kitco Ask. Last week:
Gold $2,008.60
Silver $25.07
Platinum $1,017.00
Palladium $1,550.00
Rhodium $8,900.00
This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.
Gold $2,005
Silver $25.42
Platinum $1,056.00
Palladium $1,589.00
Rhodium $8,450.00
Gold was as high as $2,040 yesterday while I was looking. This morning it dropped below $2K for a while but has worked its way back over the $2K threshold to close.
Rhodium behaved almost the opposite, dropping during the week and then net climbing @250 on the last day, but (here the dissimilarity ends) also in this case ending below the prior week’s level.
Platinum and palladium, the two cobalt congeners, both a bit up. Silver, up. I get the sense that people are waiting to see if this really takes off…or doesn’t. I know on Friday someone posted a rumor that the organic fertilizer will be impacting the rotating ventilation device within the next couple of weeks.
DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230414
https://www.theqtree.com/2023/04/14/dear-maga-tgif-open-thread-20230414/#comment-1082026
Tense!
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!
China is in the White House
Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is Asshoe
China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.
But of course the much more important thing to realize:
Joe Biden Didn’t Win
乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!
SMFH.
If only I had taken all the money spent on my going to college and invested in gold….not to mention all the technology I bought as an “early adopter”.
I agree.
We fall for the “system” of how to do things. Indoctrination.
Think of the tech as your hobby.
Your quality of life would have been considerably less without it.
And honestly over the long haul gold hasn’t done as well as stocks…though you’d be wanting to switch at the proper time.
The right time may be soon. The recent rise in the stock market is likely based on the euphoria over the Fed bailing out the banks with another big print. Not sure how long that will last.
Meanwhile inflation remains high, the Fed is expecting to raise rates again, unemployment is on the rise, a small recession is said to be in the cards, but we all know it’s going to be big and not small and OPEC has cut production while our oil reserves are at the lowest point since we started to pump stuff into the ground.
Our only saving grace maybe other countries thinking to park money here while savings rates climb, but more options are opening up to them.
It’s getting scary. Hold onto the gold.
Yes, IF this is indeed the terminal crisis, this is the time to get in.
But I’ve spent 40 years expecting the terminal crisis soon; it’s always been successfully staved off.
I know people who ran up their credit cards buying gold in the early 2000s. They ended up losing money and having a huge credit card debt. If the dollar had had the decency to go down the toilet then, they’d have been in great shape…sell a tiny fraction of what they had bought to pay off the credit card.
I bought and held my precious metals and did NOT borrow money to do so. So it’s just sitting somewhere (not at my house)! retaining its value, long term. I don’t sweat short term fluctuations. And I won’t be burned if the dollar does NOT implode according to rumor. I’ve seen too many such rumors over the last 40 years not pan out to pin my future on them happening THIS time…no matter how bad it looks right now.
Exactly. The “apology” did not apologize to anyone. Budweiser is in a tough spot of their own making because anything they do now will offend someone. If they had left well enough alone, the trans element would not have entered into it.
Not saying it’s a test, but it does seem like one, on how well they can manipulate our thinking. Just like with the vax they have failed. Or have they? How many are there that have bought into this façade that it’s normal and harmless to change ones sex? IDK… our senses are best attuned to what’s happened in our own tribe. Great thing is our tribe is no longer looking at these things with indifference. It no longer looks like some spotty thing that is simply trending but instead is being seen as a concerted and deliberate plan to force us to accept a deviance.
Loves that people are not accepting it and are doing more than simply resisting but organizing to resist and are pushing it back. We’ll know better that we are winning when they take down their little rainbow flag pins in public. Then start to take them down from their profiles on places like twitter as many have already done by no longer showing their Ukraine flags on their profiles. Careful though, watch for some sort of hidden flag we don’t know about. Example the sunflower emoji thing now is the covert Ukraine flag were supposed to be too dumb not to know about.
Ridicule, scorn and derision unfortunately are our weapons now. Wouldn’t have to be this way, but they’ve pushed way too far and threaten civility and common sense not to mention are causing real harm to the future of kids and are wanting their Sodom and Gomora thing. Acceptance is not an option unless its temp to get to safety from these creeps.
Whole states are starting to fall to this. That has to be reversed. Business’s, schools, govts need a strong push back.
I can tell you, in certain art worlds, the
peopleDems and progs are oblivious, and are not getting the truth about the vax. One person complaining about getting COVID yet again, shortly after the LAST time they got it. Losing count of how many times they got it. And yes – “fully vaxxed and boosted”, just like all of the rest of the sheep. My money would be on them getting a booster after infection N-1, leading to infection N.Yikes. I didn’t know about this. 😧
Yes. Didn’t realize it myself until about 2 mos ago. That Sunflower emoji is primarily a stand in for the Ukrainian flag.
Guess they ain’t too proud of their position.
Indeed. Having embraced it, instead of being neutral, they’ll be damned for sticking to it…and damned if they leave it because it will be perceived as an “attack” on their chosen cause.
Well, do you appease 99.9999% of your customers, or appease the .0001%?
This is not rocket science.
They’re appeasing BLACKROCK and the ESG JAZIS.
Bluntly.
Oh, I know. But investment companies eventually stop investing if there is no money to be made. If A-B is broke, the investors will vanish.
YUP. That’s the only thing they understand. MONEY.
Maybe the goal isn’t money. It’s corrupting and helping the Globos own human beings, own our thinking..morals ?
Like Sharks Drawn to Blood: BlackRock Seeks Inorganic Investments to Capitalize on Banking Woes
I am sure that is part of it. But money is their god.
Vanguard figured that out early and opted to do their fiduciary responsibility.
Black Rock though is on an ideological bend and the investors won’t leave until they realize they’ve opted for suicide.
But it will happen, I believe.
The 1/5 pipe bomber is Chris Wray.
BQQM! 😎
And the Roe V Wade leaker is John Roberts unless he proves otherwise. He’s the one responsible for that court. If he wanted to know who the leaker is he could of found out.
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Roberts is the one who wanted to water down the decision. <<< Loser.
The talking point that’s developed even from some of our talking heads is that it wasn’t patriotic. BS. The kid may have had other motives but his instincts were to declare all the govt lies on Ukraine are simply wrong and that should be good enough with any one with a lick of common sense.
“any one with a lick of common sense.”
in extremely short supply in certain generations &/or remnants of 5th generation warfare victims…
I am 100% onboard with the leak.
Elon should be getting the message. He needs to come out with another statement about what is being done.
If the censors are smart, they will ensure Elon never sees that tweet. That way he remains unaware that there is still a problem.
Yup. I am so shadow-banned on Twitter, that it is simply not worth my time to post – or to pay money for even 10 times as much engagement.
Yes, you are. Personally tracked it for a time.
Until Twitter is fully freed from bondage, it is still a slave system. A decree can be sent out from on high to stop and the troops will continue to fight until they are vanquished or accept defeat.
I am willing to accept that it takes quite some time to weed a garden successfully. You pull out a batch, more grow up from the seeds and roots left behind. It is a continuous process that over time helps the crops or flowers that are planted to yield more, in this case, freedom and liberty.
However, I am not yet convinced that was the intention and ultimate goal of Musk. His could very well be Orwellian or worse. Will see.
Yup. He could have been a “limited hangout” to stop the bleeding of the left.
Musk himself may actually be the problem.
I do not think he will free twitter completely, especially when it comes to Chinese interests, since much of his manufacturing base is in China.
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Love that!!!
Better than turning our kids into little Dylan McSpays.
“Dylan McSpay”
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I don’t think it’ll every be Dylan McNeuter either.
Lol!
Reposted to Twitter!!!
I working to get banned from Twitter again. Right now, they seem happy with my shadow-ban.
19 Times Democrats And DOJ Deliberately Politicized Law Enforcement
https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/14/19-times-democrats-and-doj-deliberately-politicized-law-enforcement/
The article has details about each.
20. Injustices toward the J6 protesters, from imprisonment to denial of due process to their treatment in prison…
Any one of those is a corruption so great as to easily justify eliminating whatever agency or agencies were involved, and thinking real hard about ever replacing such an agency, before recognizing that whatever it might be replaced with, will invariably end up doing the same thing.
Everybody knows power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. No one even tries to argue against it.
Any domestic agency with the kinds of powers ALL domestic agencies have today are a de facto threat to the population they are created to protect.
By definition.
Police-state surveillance power is a WEAPON which will always and invariably be used against the civilian population.
If there was one place in the world where someone might have argued it wouldn’t happen, it would have been HERE in America.
Well it happened HERE in America, in a bigger way than it ever happened anywhere else, ever.
So what rational argument can there be, to replace any of the domestic surveillance agencies with anything similar, and have any rational expectation of a different result?
The powers of the Federal Government under the Constitution are limited and few — most are in Article I, Section 8 — and it is very plainly stated that powers not listed are unlawful. There were many who opposed the Bill of Rights because the clear language of the Constitution should have made it unnecessary — but it was enacted as a compromise……with the clear language of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments hammering in the point.
So far as I can see, roughly 3/4 of the Federal government is operating “outside the fences” of what our Founders intended. I believe that this Tree of Abomination needs to be aggressively pruned.
Agreed!
And not with pruning shears but a chain saw. The whole tree needs to come down.
^^^ This – a million times over.
The best way to do that is being done in a number of states. Each state has to move away from dependence on the feds ability to control them via federal funds. If the SC oversteps to protect them, each state has to reject in accordance with the Constitution, en masse, together.
Each state has to build their own economy and societies. Be the incubators the founding fathers envisioned.
Time, commitment, never yielding.
FWIW – BIMD. Civilized War.
I think it is MUCH more than 3/4ths. I don’t believe “pruning” is gonna cut it.
The “entitlements” — that’s the government term for them — Social Security and Medicare, are blatantly unconstitutional yet most conservatives howl that you cannot touch them because they’ve been paying into them.
It’s a hot-button political issue, as you know. And today it’s all about trying to win elections. I don’t know of a good solution.
I can only imagine a 20-30 year process of shutting the programs down through attrition.
It’s a known (or knowable) fact that the money I am paying in (I am not [yet] retired) is not going into an account with my name on it, it’s immediately going out the door to someone who is already a recipient. What gets written down for me is a credit…that will ultimately be paid for by someone else.
Any politically feasible termination of the program would have to come from either a) the government finding money somewhere else–hopefully not the printing press, but I wonder how much all the government land out there would be worth on the open market? If such were enough (a very big IF), we could end social security taxes immediately and pay people what they are “owed” from land sales. Eventually the last person who ever paid FICA will die and the program is gone.
Or b) letting the program die by attrition, but what that would entail would be telling youngsters that they are going to have to continue to pay for recipients until the recipients die off, and they will never see that money back themselves…ever. I could imagine this working…barely, by (pick a year—okay 2027) announcing that in 2027 the following will happen: From that point forward FICA taxes will be automatically adjusted so that they will be enough to meet current recipients’ needs. No money will leave the program to fund other parts of government, not even as a loan. Government debt to Social security is cancelled. As of 2027, no one under 25 will ever be a recipient. People between 25 and 55 are allowed to choose whether they will be recipients or not. People over 55 will be recipients. FICA tax rates will be 50 percent less for future non-recipients than future recipients. That’s the carrot to entice people to forgo the future benefits. It’s not fair that non-recipients have to pay anything at all, but it is either that or cut off recipients completely at some point.
At the end of 2027 we’d know what the ratio of future non-recipients to recipients will be and can actually determine the rates the two will pay in 2028, and so on. From that point forward the program is pay as you go, and once the last person who was 25 in 2027 retires, the pool of retirees will begin to shrink (if it hasn’t already done so) and will eventually dwindle to zero. inflation-adjusted FICA payments will go down from that point forward; presumably FICA *rates* will go down.
“I don’t know of a good solution.”
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Trump: Economic Security is National Security
Step 1: U.S. treasury buys Bitcoin as a matter of National Security, keeping it secret as long as possible.
The price of Bitcoin will go up steadily as the government continues to purchase, but once the word gets out that ANY G20 nation is stockpiling Bitcoin, the price will go exponential.
Everyone in the world will race to get into Bitcoin, to ‘front-run’ the government’s purchases.
So whoever has large scale ‘first mover’ advantage wins.
Step 2: By the time Bitcoin gets to $10 million per Bitcoin, everyone in the world will be investing everything they can get their hands on into Bitcoin. Global adoption would quickly be on par with cell phone adoption, and conveniently cell phones facilitate the purchase of Bitcoin from practically anywhere in the world.
Step 3: U.S. Treasury begins liquidating Bitcoin in a controlled, steady stream, paying off the national debt as they go.
At $10 million per Bitcoin, it would take 3.2 million Bitcoin to pay off the $32 trillion national debt.
It is not possible to pay off the national debt from within the debt-based fractional reserve system.
But the U.S. government has a unique opportunity, having the world reserve currency (for a little while longer…) and therefore having the ability to print money.
Print money to buy Bitcoin.
Use Bitcoin to pay off the national debt 😁
You essentially want the government to do a pump and dump.
Well, when you put it that way……it sounds more attractive, actually.
“You essentially want the government to do a pump and dump.”
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In form, I suppose it would be similar.
The difference is that the underlying asset of a ‘pump and dump’ scheme is usually worthless.
In this case, the underlying asset is (currently) radically undervalued, and would be fairly valued before the government began to divest.
Bitcoin will remain undervalued until it gets closer to the top of the ‘S’ curve of global adoption, the same kind of ‘S’ curve adoption as cell phones and then the Internet had.
The reason Bitcoin is so cheap now is because only a couple percent of the global population are currently investing in it.
When the other 98% begin to realize the profit potential, the value (real value, as determined by a global marketplace) will skyrocket.
So in the example of the government buying Bitcoin secretly (for as long as they can keep it a secret), if they tried to ‘dump’ it when adoption was only 20% of the global population, it would crash the Bitcoin price.
If they tried to dump it when global adoption was only 50% of the global population, it might depress the price temporarily, but not crash it.
If they began dumping when global adoption was around 90% or higher, the global population would easily absorb however much the U.S. government wanted to divest.
Adoption is the key.
When adoption is low (like now), price is likewise low.
When adoption is high, price will likewise be high.
As adoption approaches the total world population (approximately 8 billion people), a market that large should have far less volatility than any other asset class or market in the world, so an equilibrium or stability would exist.
Bitcoin would become the de facto world currency, because it is the only medium of exchange that is ‘trustless’, i.e., unlike every national currency, Bitcoin is ‘neutral’ in the sense that it is not controlled by anyone.
Everyone can continue to use their national currency for daily expenses and purchases, like a checking account, but would probably choose to keep their savings in Bitcoin.
This would force every national currency to compete with Bitcoin, instead of the monopoly that each nation has over their own people via the national currency today. If a government engaged in fiscally irresponsible practices — as every government does — the People could vote with their capital, their wealth, and escape the corrupt actions of their government by moving (or keeping) their funds in Bitcoin.
If the government wanted to attract investment or keep their national currency viable, they would have to make it worth their citizens’ while to use the national currency instead of Bitcoin.
Everyone would have the freedom to choose, and everyone would choose based on whichever was in their own best interest at any given point in time.
This is why criminal mafia governments want to destroy Bitcoin, and why governments who have nothing to lose (like El Salvador) want to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.
El Salvador is not part of the Big Club, so they have everything to gain, and nothing to lose.
The Big Club already has everything, so the Big Club has everything to lose, and nothing to gain.
If the Big Club was smart, they would buy up all the Bitcoin as quickly as possible. Then the Big Club would have everything again. Like buying out a successful start-up competitor, to maintain one’s monopoly.
If they came up with ANYTHING to offer that was actually GOOD for “We the People”, they wouldn’t have to FORCE it upon them; they would utilize it WILLINGLY, and perhaps even ENTHUSIASTICALLY, should “the People” so CHOOSE.
Easy solution.
Start putting all tax revenue collected for Social Security and Medicare into Bitcoin, as the money is collected, so I’m guessing quarterly.
There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin mined, then it stops. About 90% has already been mined, the last coin won’t be mined until around 2140, because it gets harder to mine as time goes on (and price goes up).
So around 19 million has been mined so far.
Of that 19 million, about 5 million is lost (e.g., owners died without leaving access codes available, so it’s irretrievable).
So basically that means there are 14 million Bitcoin available in a world of 8 billion people.
Total global wealth is estimated at around $450 trillion. Of that, gold bullion is about $12 trillion.
Bitcoin’s total market cap is just $586 billion.
So it wouldn’t take much to send Bitcoin much higher, if (when) sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors decide to allocate even a small percentage of assets under management to Bitcoin.
‘Scarcity’ is not a concept that has had any practical relation to our ‘money supply’ since 1933, when Roosevelt confiscated the gold.
And even gold is nowhere near as scarce as Bitcoin.
Gold supply is inflationary, in the sense that more gold is mined every year, and added to the total amount of bullion available in the world.
In times when gold goes up dramatically in price, exploration and mining explodes, to take advantage of the higher price and to keep up with demand.
With Bitcoin, there will only EVER be 21 million mined, of which 19 million is already mined, of which 5 million has been lost, leaving 14 million total available in the world.
No matter how high the price of Bitcoin goes, there can never be more than the 14 million currently existing plus the 2 million that have yet to be mined. And more of the existing supply is ‘lost’ every day.
More and more people trying to buy a piece of something that is getting scarcer and scarcer.
According to this government page, the federal government has collected $760 billion in Social Security and Medicare taxes, year to date (2023), so I’m guessing it’s roughly that amount per fiscal quarter.
Bitcoin’s total market cap is only $586 billion.
Imagine what happens to the price of Bitcoin if $760B, more than Bitcoin’s entire current market cap ($586B) goes into it every 3 months… like clockwork… 😂
Social Security problem solved. They could pay off the entire national debt the same way, if the government became a consistent buyer of the hardest asset in the world, an asset that is legitimately scarce and can never be inflated.
It’s called “number go up technology” for a reason! 😁
That’s basically the government deliberately creating a bubble.
Not their first trip to that rodeo….
“That’s basically the government deliberately creating a bubble.”
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Except bubbles are created by the creation of credit through manipulated interest rates to create the boom-bust cycles.
This would be using fiat currency to buy a hard asset (BTC), with ‘hard’ being defined as not being able to be debased / inflated.
Once it became known that any G20 nation was stockpiling Bitcoin, everyone on the planet would want to get on that bandwagon, because truly big money flowing into an asset class so small is guaranteed to make the value of that asset go up.
In other words, if it became known that any G20 nation was stockpiling Bitcoin, it would accelerate worldwide adoption of Bitcoin, because it would suddenly be obvious to everyone that it was in their own interest to buy Bitcoin.
The government could do the same thing and achieve a similar result if the gov’t bought gold with the revenue generated from Social Security and Medicare taxes.
It would send the price of gold higher, and when people realized that roughly U.S. $760B was being used to purchase gold every quarter, everyone else would rush into gold, to benefit from that known upward price pressure.
The gov’t buying that much gold every three months would force the price higher by itself, but with everyone else piling in, the upward price pressure would be exponential.
From the gov’t perspective, they would just be dollar cost averaging into gold at $760B every quarter.
The difference is that buying $760B of gold per quarter would not move the price of a $12T asset class (market cap of gold bullion) nearly so much as $760B would move the price of an asset class with a $586B market cap (Bitcoin).
Bitcoin is the faster horse, each dollar invested by the government would cause a greater increase in the value of the asset. Bitcoin is also the harder asset, because their is a set limit on the amount that will ever exist, unlike gold, where the world supply is added to every year in perpetuity.
Instead of creating a bubble, once Bitcoin became fully valued (i.e., once global adoption reached near 100% like cell phones and Internet), once the whole world has adopted Bitcoin, Bitcoin becomes the de facto world currency.
With more or less everyone in the world being a participant, the Bitcoin ‘currency’ market would be the largest market in the world, by far. And a market that huge would be the least volatile market in the world.
No one will ever need to ‘declare’ Bitcoin as a world reserve currency or make it official, it would just ‘be’, because everyone around the world would be using it, and nobody would have to ‘trust’ any national government to defend their currency (and trust them not to debase it).
At that point, all national currencies would effectively be denominated in Bitcoin or gold, depending on which conversion table one wanted to use, in the same way that all national currencies are already denominated in gold, as defined by how much gold can be purchased by any unit (e.g., dollar, peso, ruble, etc.) of national currency.
Traditionally, gold is the constant, and what fluctuates is how many dollars it takes to buy an ounce of gold. As the value of the U.S. dollar rises, the price of gold (in U.S. dollars) goes down, so each U.S. dollar can purchase more gold.
As the value of the U.S. dollar decreases, the price of gold (in U.S. dollars) goes up, so each U.S. dollar can purchase less gold.
With worldwide acceptance / adoption, Bitcoin would work the same way.
Everyone in the world needs money.
Debasing a fiat currency by printing more of it is a FEATURE of every central bank controlled fiat currency, not a flaw.
What everyone in the world wants is money that doesn’t have that special fiat currency feature.
What everyone in the world wants is a medium of exchange (money) that cannot be debased or have its value inflated away.
Bitcoin is one possible solution to that problem.
It wasn’t adapted from some other purpose to solve that problem.
Its whole reason for existence is to solve that problem.
This is a fun discussion 🙂
I have no problem for SS and Medicare be eliminated in return however I ask for all the years my husband paid in to the system to be paid out what he paid in with inrest.
Yup. Cancel both AND return what I paid in with interest. <<< Less what I’ve drawn over the past ~5 years.
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Yeah, but that would be more expensive over the short run…much, much more expensive…than leaving it as is, and thereby perpetuating the thievery.
It looks one generation pays for the past. We paid for his parents my kids for us. Not thievery if one paid in since age 16 and is now80 and still working when only part time.
In essence your claim is that because some old geezer stole your car when you were young, you’re now entitled to steal some youngster’s car today.
I agree with you singing 🎶🎵🎶🎵
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“I have no problem for SS and Medicare be eliminated in return however I ask for all the years my husband paid in to the system to be paid out what he paid in with inrest.”
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Better demand to be paid in inflation-adjusted dollars!
According to inflationcalculator.com, it takes $3.66 to buy what $1 would buy in 1980.
It takes $2.33 to buy what $1 would buy in 1990.
It takes $1.75 to buy what $1 would buy in 2000.
And these numbers are all out of date, because inflation in just the past year is so high, e.g., a dozen eggs was 99 cents, today a dozen eggs is $3.00
But if people demanded to be paid, and the government decided to do it, they would just print fiat to make the payments, debasing the currency even more, so every dollar you received might purchase 50 cents worth of anything (if you’re lucky!).
We can’t win a rigged game, and nobody rigs like banksters and government.
The Bill of Rights of rights are in fact Bill of Protections, which is one of duties of the government.
They are not even defined and existed long before the constitution was written and are eternal. This was understood by the founders.
Indeed.
I was reading a bit of libertarian fiction where, by crazy happenstance a libertarian became POTUS. One of his initiatives was training for police, everywhere, to make it clear to them that the Bill of Rights was not an impediment to them doing their jobs, upholding it is their job. Yes, even the Fifth.
My son Josiah & I watched RealPOTUS’ speech to the NRA last night on youtube (after 6 hours w/ my daughter & taxes).
I haven’t watched recent rallies so maybe much of what he said is boilerplate…but I found some of what he mentioned in relation to shootings in America important & revealing that some of his team likely reads Here or places w/ similar thoughts to the Q-Tree on some issues…or shares similar insights on multiple issues…
In relation to shootings he mentioned:
pharma abuse
mental illness
repeat criminals
Spiritual Problems
drug abuse, like cannabis
thinking they’ll get no resistance rather than die in minutes of opening fire
Granted he was addressing 2nd Amendment enthusiasts but I found it a positive development that he would raise those above aspects of shooters…& of course that criminals don’t get guns legally, for the most part.
He had numerous issues & proposals addressed. One appeared to be repealing that Biden disarming schools law, though not mentioned by name but rather topic. He also proposed using 1/10 of the funds we send to Ukraine to train teachers to carry arms, if they so choose, to fortify schools & protect our kids.
As he was entering the stage to Proud to Be An American playing Josiah was moved to tears & praying earnestly for the restoration of America, for God’s protection & deliverance in these dark times. His heart for the Kingdom is incredibly pure.
Part way through the speech he got a text from my husband, out of town for the weekend on a hiking trip w/ friends, that said Michael had walked 13 1/2 miles today. The pre-trip plan was a 9+ mile hike to the campout zone w/ a 10+ mile hike out tomorrow for a RT 20 miles in 2 days wilderness adventure in Michigan’s North Woods, Jordan River Valley near Dead Man’s Hill. Hope they didn’t get on the wrong trail… 😉 Should be some interesting tales to tell upon return home!
What I don’t understand at all is why anyone decides to kill little kids.
Everyone has reasons to be angry at society. The very last people who are responsible for whatever people are angry about are little kids.
Why aren’t the crazed shooters going after people who are actually responsible? Or at least plausibly responsible?
When people were mad about what was happening in WWII Germany, they didn’t shoot up schools, they went after Hitler. It made sense.
That’s who was causing the problem. Stop him, stop the problem.
Killing kids does nothing, solves nothing, has no meaning.
The common expression about a-sassy-nation is that anyone can be gotten to, if one is willing to trade his own life for the target.
I don’t think that’s actually true anymore, at least to a large extent, but there is a certain logic to it. Something the ass-ass-in has to take into account. If he’s going to do it, he goes in knowing that he is sacrificing his own life ‘for the cause’, and determines in his own mind that ‘the cause’ is worth it.
ALL of that is missing from senseless mass-killings of all kinds.
The targets are not chosen to accomplish anything, the actor is exchanging his life for NOTHING, and there is no possibility that anyone will appreciate his sacrifice (i.e., no ‘glory’), because instead of sacrificing himself to eliminate a true monster from the world, he just killed a bunch of innocent people and the whole world hates him because of it.
So it makes no sense, and nobody in propaganda media ever even asks the question ‘why?’
It’s like “person A” is doing something the killer really don’t like, so the killer goes and kills a bunch of random people who have nothing to do with ‘person A’. It’s stupid.
It’s not a natural thing to harm people, much less innocent people. Most of the mass-shooters, if I understand correctly, have never harmed anyone before. It’s a completely new ‘experience’ for them. They put plenty of thought and time and effort into the planning and execution, but what is the goal, the reason, the purpose?
They know they are sacrificing their own life, it’s hard to believe they would do it for no reason, when they put so much time and effort into the attack.
Many of these goofs write ‘manifestos’, and the Crims try to hide the manifestos to protect the killers, but what could they possibly say that justifies either killing innocent people who have no power over whatever the killer is angry about, or justifies sacrificing their own lives for it?
McVeigh targeted a government building. It was still senseless and accomplished nothing, unless there was a specific person he was after, and was willing to commit mass-murder to get one person, which itself would be stupid.
So it was stupid regardless, but at least there was some kind of quasi-rationale, i.e., if he was mad at the gov’t, at least there was a loose connection between his anger and his target.
What conceivable rationale is there for these (mostly young) people to murder children?
What are they hoping to accomplish?
I think someone recently posted a Johnathan Cahn video here discussing part of the “why” of these mass killings, from his perspective. He was addressing the tranny killings of kids & workers at that Christian School. IIRC he was saying that some of what happened was directly demonically driven, like all kids were age 9 & 9 “inverted” (?) was 6 so 3-9’s was actually 3-6’s aka 666, etc.
I don’t think there is going to be a rational explanation for why the “perpetrator” or possibly patsy does these killings. Are many of them MK’d? Are they led into it by FIB or whoever like that image of the shooter outside of that mall in Ohio? I think, from a while back, where the tranny teen is standing behind the serious shooter & likely actual killer while the tranny kid is killed by “authorities”. I thing there was at least one eye-witness in that event reporting multiple shooters but her interview was in a foreign language so may have escaped (initial) internet censorship?
Weren’t those kids in Newtown potentially killed by adults & not the mentally disturbed autistic boy who was blamed for it all? Weren’t there multiple “crisis actors” that showed up in Newtown, Aurora, that Florida School w/ the little anti-gun Hogg kid who’s dad was in the news or government or something?
What about the Las Vegas killings that were carried out by more than one person & not (only?) the patsy they left dead in the hotel. Why’d “they” kill off multiple people who were eye witnesses & were telling tales of multiple shooters?
Did McVeigh Really do OKC? I mean the truck bomb yes, but iirc, & per the Third Terrorist by Jayna Davis there was an Iraqi involved who was completely dropped from the investigation practically from the start & the FIB ignored her journalistic investigation & evidence she shared with those governmental tyrants…My friend in OK said that their were seismic tracings from multiple universities in OK that showed multiple explosions & supposedly unexploded ordinance on support pillars removed by the Fire Department (perhaps why the building didn’t completely collapse)…
I remember rumors that FIB, FEMA, &/or ATF workers were all conveniently out of the Murrah building on the day of the attack…oh & that all the records of Ruby Ridge & Waco were stored there so they conveniently get incinerated/lost & the Clintoons get to use the whole “false flag” to smear the Michigan Militia & “Right Wing Extremists”…conveniently & “coincidentally”…
Oh & killing kids gets everyone’s emotions up so that diminishing/removing the 2nd Amendment is facilitated…
The Narrative…
I know that’s how the shootings are used by the Leftists and propaganda media, but it doesn’t work and it’s not going to work.
To people who understand the necessity of the 2nd Amendment, every shooting only reinforces the need for the 2nd Amendment, it doesn’t accomplish what the Leftists claim it’s accomplishing.
Besides that, the Constitution is not a popularity contest. ‘Emotions’ are irrelevant when it comes to our God-given Rights.
Besides that, the people who are ’emotional’ in their opposition to guns after every shooting were already opposed to the 2nd Amendment to before the shooting.
It always comes back to the same thing.
There are enemies foreign and domestic, small in number but with insane wealth, who have infiltrated and weaponized our government against the People.
And the military protects them.
The military stands between We the People and the enemies of the Constitution which the military swore an oath to uphold and defend.
The military guards and protects the enemies of the Republic, who are openly doing everything in their power to destroy the Republic.
Prove me wrong (anyone).
I agree with your assessment…
It is becoming more evident every day that our military has been corrupted by leftist politics and alphabet agenda propaganda.
What if their (leftist) goal is to start a shooting war against the government? How would one go about that other than trying to take away the 2A ?
They’ve done it in other countries (disarm the people) without a response from the civilian population, don’t know if that’ll happen here.
100% agree. That is the design and the oath – foreign and domestic.
That they are not doing that is the issue as you point out. they are not on the side of the people, yet, we the people keep sending our sons and daughters to man the military and be indoctrinated into an enemy of the people.
It always leads back to the 2nd and all of us who support it. The enemy knows that it would be futile to take us on in a frontal assault. So they sow seeds of discontent and undermine systems designed to protect.
What has been disturbing to the population as a whole is to realize the number of people who are willing to throw the nation, their families, their friends and neighbors, etc. under the bus for money and perceived power.
You’re not wrong; I’ll try putting part of what you said in a different way. I’ll leave aside the constitutional issue because here it’s preaching to the choir. I’ll go so far, in fact as to say that the 2nd Amendment isn’t the fundamental issue; we’d have the right to self defense (which includes RKBA) from thugs, government or private sphere, even if there were no 2A. The 2A is simply an enforcement mechanism that sometimes works because sometimes the government pays attention to it.
The cultural issue we are facing is that some people see guns as a tool and some see them as a contaminant.
When we pro-RKBA people see a school shooting and our thought bubble is (with some substitutions of equivalent terms) “That SOB’s very harmful misuse of a certain tool could have been prevented with a proper application of the same kind of tool by someone else.”
The antis, on the other hand, are thinking more along the lines of “That contaminant was allowed to leak into the school and, since it’s a contaminant, the results were bad, why do we tolerate so much of that contaminant out there? That just makes leaks into schools more likely.”
Until they stop thinking of guns as a contaminant that for some perverse reason is protected by a scrap of paper written by people who loved that contaminant for some sick reason (much like an addict loves heroin), the cultural issue will never be resolved and so long as it is never resolved, there will be times when the government ignores the 2A (and the “silent” RKBA that it is actually a manifestation of) and other parts of the government let them get away with it.
I don’t give the antis the benefit of the doubt that they don’t understand, because if they really don’t understand, then they’re too stupid or too ignorant (or both) to have a say in the matter.
Their wilfull ignorance or stupidity is not our problem, it’s their problem. We can help them with their problem, but why should anyone waste their time helping the willfully ignorant, unless the willfully ignorant want to learn?
The concepts are simple and easy to understand, and inarguable from a historical perspective. So when their lips start flapping, it’s nonsense, by definition.
Government is entrusted, by the CONSENT of the People, with a legal monopoly on violence.
Without the God-given right to keep and bear arms (‘RKBA’), the government has a total and absolute monopoly on violence.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A firearm is the one thing which almost anyone can use to equalize the playing field in a confrontation with an attacker.
Very few People stand a chance against (for example) Shaquille O’Neal in a physical confrontation.
But anyone with a shotgun can drop Shaquille O’Neal like a water buffalo on the Serengeti Plains.
A sword requires skill and close quarters, exposing oneself to counterattack.
A gun allows distance between oneself and the attacker, and while skill from practice is certainly a benefit, nearly anyone can point and pull a trigger.
If the People have no way to defend themselves (no guns), then the People are 100% dependent on the government for their safety and well being.
When seconds count, government is only minutes away… half hour at most. Probably.
The government has the worst track record of any organization in the history of the world at providing for the safety and well being of citizens, because power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and because government has a legal monopoly on violence.
More human beings have been murdered by their own governments than by any other means.
Government is the most dangerous institution known to man, because government has a legal monopoly on violence and because power corrupts. The legal monopoly on violence is the means by which absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It grants the government the power to use FORCE to compel compliance with the wishes of other men, men who by the same monopoly on violence, place themselves above the laws they compel others to obey through force.
These are all basic concepts, no one can credibly argue with them, without arguing against the Founding Fathers of our country and every history book on these subjects ever written.
And unless someone is inebriated or otherwise mentally incapacitated, everyone can understand these basic concepts.
So if someone chooses not to understand these basic concepts, that’s their problem, not ours.
If someone who chooses not to understand these basic concepts tries to deprive us of our God-given rights, then that person compels us, out of lawful self-defense, to solve their problem for them.
And they don’t want that.
We don’t want that either, but they don’t want it more.
Exactly. It’s irrational, but Fake Normal, Fake News, and Fake Entertainment have all taught these people, in subtle ways, that hurting “everybody” or “an opposing group” in revenge for their own hurt, by random but quasi-directed attacks, is something that works.
The trans shooter in Nashville targeted Christian kids. It was not random. It was “you did not accept me as I believe I am, so I’m going to harm you by killing you and those you love.”
It was not random. It was purposeful, evil, directed, and IMO used demonic MK tech.
Kapo and Wraydar and Pedo Peter are hiding the manifesto which would reveal this truth.
This is why people like me see past the irrational actions of these individuals, and understand that “deeper-purposed” people are targeting various opponents using irrational, angry, and easily manipulated people. Those “deeper-purposed” people have technologies not shared with the public, nor openly acknowledged, and they have a controlled media at their disposal.
The irrational people are largely a product of socialism and the media, IMO.
The hidden manifestos would help us see the reality of the situation. The people who want powerful government, and who want others to give up power with them, aid the process in small ways, mostly by inaction and pretending not to know.
I oppose them by inaction in whatever way they try to force me, but also by knowing, acknowledging, and speaking the truths they refuse to admit.
They will keep killing children, and I will not budge.
Once you see it you can’t unseen it.
What if the unanticipated (or not?) consequence of MK is to “open” the person, and a demon walks right in?
I think creating “space into which demonic intelligence can emerge” is fully anticipated. I think that MK of all kinds “tampers” with foundational beliefs, and this change of basis allows for intelligent sub-processes (demons) to emerge and “run”. Many of these are malevolent.
Conscious modifications of the human mind are limited by our own conscious conversations with self. But when we are told that it’s OK to “fool ourselves” in various ways, at deep levels of motivation, below our conscious understanding of right and wrong, it’s possible to create what are essentially “ghosts in the machine”.
What is remarkable to me is that ancient civilizations of all kinds figured this stuff out, in various ways, with little technology other than language between people, to “work it all out”.
The natures of these processes will naturally reflect regularities of the architecture that are vulnerable to the errors. Translation – one will get specific “demons” of predictable (yet chaotic) natures. This explains why people are seeing “old demons” coming back. Humans are not changing that much. The same weaknesses give rise to the same demons.
By the way, the ChiComs get this. Tom Cotton has noted that TikTok is promoting violent porn to young American boys. THAT is extremely purposeful and intentional, IMO, and means that the CCP is fully evil.
Violent pornography is what “created” Ted Bundy. This was one of his most important admissions. Before he was executed, Bundy also admitted to early mental experiences which sounded frankly demonic. I don’t remember the specifics, but whatever it was, it was red flag for the demonic.
Thus, IMO one could say that the same demon is likely responsible for possession of boys and men seduced by violent porn.
CCP is literally trying to create demonic male serial killers of women in America, using TikTok.
TikTok must be destroyed.
I agree about TikTok.
“What is remarkable to me is that ancient civilizations of all kinds figured this stuff out, in various ways, with little technology other than language between people, to “work it all out”.”
All of our technology has made us LESS observant, not more. What ancient people could see with their own eyes, we have been blinded to by reliance on mechanical and artificial processes. It has made us lazy and complacent. But I think the day is coming when we get bitch-slapped hard back into reality. If we survive the slap.
Some may need two or three, just to be sure.
You sure are right about that. I volunteer to be the on-call bitch slapper.
Have riding crop – will travel.
[h/t Paladin from old TV show]
Parents are the guardians of the access to tick tock and other unhealthy crap. Parents are very weak and want to be friends not parents to their children.
Very true.
Yup
These young boys will never be able to have a healthy sexual relationship or a relationship at all.
By the way why do we allow child abuse in a country that claims to love children. Tick Tock is abusing our children and parents still give their children access to tick tock
Spreading Horror and Terror, Phobos and Deimos.
Our culture has been killing kids via abortion for decades. We have become dehumanized.
And that is the root of it all.
“We have become dehumanized.”
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Except me.
And everyone here! 😁
Brainwashed mind controlled by MK.Mental Illness along with drugs and gaming 24/7 . What’s one of the side effects of the drugs they put theses kids on? Oh yeah suicidal thoughts, combined with the killing that takes place in their gaming, it’s a deadly combination IMO.
Leaves a void to be filled with what every the controllers need.
It’s simple IMO.
Something “bad” happened to the shooter when he/she was the age of the victims. Either demonic influence or drugs facilitates an overlay of the past onto the present.
The killer is in a reality of his/her past, getting revenge. Sort of like PTSD.
“Something “bad” happened to the shooter when he/she was the age of the victims.”
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Then the killer should go after the people who did it, that would make sense.
If his 3rd grade teacher touched him where he shouldn’t have, why doesn’t the killer find the guy and say hello?
If his classmates did something to him, why not find them, and introduce them to his little friend?
That would at least makes sense, cause and effect.
But to harm those who have done no wrong to him doesn’t make sense. At best, it makes the killer no better than whoever wronged the killer.
The killer becomes the thing which he hates.
Exactly why they harm kids I think, they’re dark hearted enough to intentionally damage the kids thereby sending them out as weapons on unsuspecting people.
I have your answer: demonic possession.
Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
Children are God’s most precious creation. The demons are striking back directly at God. This is a spiritual war.
Believe me when I tell you I am very new to this type of stuff. This is a really radical idea for me. But it explains so much of what is happening in the world now. Why none of it makes any rational sense. It’s because it is NOT rational.
You and I are on the same page. It’s not rational. It’s not an organic progression of changing values. It has been decades in the making but things have spiraled off the charts in the last couple years
Yes.
“Believe me when I tell you I am very new to this type of stuff. This is a really radical idea for me. But it explains so much of what is happening in the world now. Why none of it makes any rational sense. It’s because it is NOT rational.”
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Absent compelling direct evidence of some kind, I am very reluctant to ascribe blame to demons (whom we cannot punish), rather than to wicked men, who can be punished.
Yes, I understand. And the humans must be punished. I’m not excusing them. But I see all kinds of evidence. It’s scary.
This video is by Iraqveteran8888, I know him from his many firearms reviews.
Would the Military Fire on Their Own People?
When Øbama took away Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell – DADT – and removed the rule against bestiality – male sexual assaults against other men began to exceed male assaults against women.
Our military has been corrupted by leftist politics and alphabet agenda propaganda – and is no longer as disciplined or moral as it used to be.
The Fall of the Roman Empire version 14.0.
“The Fall of the Roman Empire version 14.0.”
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More like the shove of the Roman Empire.
Actually, more like the let the magic Kenyan give you a hand by intentionally orchestrating your destruction from the inside of the Roman Empire.
As Spike Owen tweeted, they already have.
Three interesting articles, about the Ukraine conflict, c 👀 a and who’s in control. I found the last most interesting.
https://burningbright.substack.com/p/bright-brief-theres-the-seed
Stealing this: c 👀 a
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Verse of the Day for Saturday, April 15, 2023
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“From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”
Psalms 61:2 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
This question has been nagging at me:
Why did President Trump call Judas Pence a good man in his NRA speech last night?
Pence betrayed Trump multiple ways
-by blaming Trump for the January 6 false flag operation.
-by refusing to address the obvious brazen election fraud.
-changing Senate rules to cement the fraudulent election.
Pence was in charge of the Covid Task Force and the Election Integrity Task Force – and used both to betray Trump and our Country.
Why is Trump still defending and praising Pence?
Trump had a very interesting tweet about Pence before January Sixth. It was something to the effect that it would be hard for Pence to send the results back to the states for recertification, but that it would be even harder to NOT do it.
Notice that THAT was related to the whole purpose of the Buffalo Jump plot – to prevent any chance of recertification. It is even possible that Trump had some intelligence on the plot, and THAT is what Pelosi was searching for with her kangaroo courts. Did Trump have any evidence of their crimes? Same with the raid on Mar-a-Lago – I’m sure it was partially due to a search for evidence.
If Trump knew Pence was being pressured, threatened, and manipulated by the plotters and coupists, then Trump was stating the truth – that Pence was in a bad place either way. It would be tough for him if he didn’t go along with the plot, but that in the LONG TERM it would be EVEN worse if he gave in to the plotters – and THAT is clearly coming true.
Thus, Trump has sympathy for a weak person in Pence. In a way, just like the Jewish hierarchy was BOUND to find SOMEBODY to betray Jesus, so the coupists were BOUND to find somebody to betray Trump. Trump is choosing not to blame Pence for being weak.
I think you are right. I think Trump is so strong, he just feels like others can’t live up to it. So he just shoulders the burden of their weakness, and soldiers on.
I feel sorry for him, carrying it like he does.
Well said. And yes – that is lonely duty.
We don’t deserve Trump! And that is why he remains my choice for President! I will support the best, even if the criminals sabotage his victory!
I agree, 100% Trump all the way.
An imperfect man at a perfect time.
Biblical…….
I will drop Trump under ONE circumstance.
Find someone better.
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crickets, I see.
Do the intro and bail out, it gets mushy … 😩
Beautiful!
Psalm 55
Leslie Phillips
https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/10318064/Leslie+Phillips/Psalm+55
Good points that make sense in hindsight.
Makes you think, doesn’t it? Sometimes I just don’t get it.
IMO As much as he does not want to be considered as NOT a politician, (indeed his trade mark) reality creeps in and he finds that he must work with others to put them on his side or to neutralize them, thus the contradictions work themselves in.
It will be us that have to keep him honest and bat him back onto course when he strays allowing him just some wiggle room to forge his alliances.
Anyone want to tackle what Don Jr said about Budwiser?
Perhaps it doesn’t matter what Don Jr said. Seems Trump is already paying attention to us.
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As much as I like Don, Jr., I think sometimes he shoots his mouth off when he’d be better off remaining silent.
Defending Bud right now is dumb. I don’t care how much money they donate.
I guess the apple didn’t fall far from the tree then. 🤔
You related?
Lol.
Idk not care for Don Jr. he is to brash not his father. I like Eric.
I do, too.
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He was unable to address the election fraud within the rules. He didn’t change any Senate rules because he couldn’t.
A few days ago, someone posted a scenario of how the electoral fraud was done. It involved preventing motions to send back certain delegations. There was some emergency rules put in place by the Mafia Queen that enabled the whole thing by preventing those motions from being made. Pence had no official challenges before him that would have allowed him to send them back for re-determination when the vote was taken under emergency rules [not the normal rules of order].
Maybe some Search King/Queen among us can find that comment and re-post it. .
Sundance had a nice article about it – the theory was a long comment on CTH, and I’m fully behind it. Pence was maneuvered into a position where he didn’t have a choice, by the Mafia Queen.
The plotters were very thorough.
WSB posted some of that here. The next day or so SD an article.
I was hoping, something would come of the theory. but, nothing.
One MOAR if you can fit in. You can think of it as a break from the regular fare but it’s anything but a break 😮 ((programmer note 😏😉the very beginning of part III Cyclical Multi Universes @ appox 26min, gets short thrift thru a presumption that it is understood. Maybe it is and should be, maybe it isn’t and shouldn’t be . Leaves that up to you.))
The differences being: The one I posted is considered solid physics (electromagnetism and special relativity), this is about some of the speculations going on. Multiverses? That’s one possible answer to why quantum stuff works as it does.
Undoubtedly a good video explaining the controversies, as long as that is kept in mind. The one weakness to this series is it doesn’t delineate, strongly enough, what is speculation–intelligently based and being pursued in the hopes of testing it, but still, nevertheless speculation–and what is fairly solidly established.
Should ask, which is fairly solidly established, was it even presented?
Secondly, the short intro to Cyclical Multi Universe concepts. My position is the intro gets short shrift before they go into several such theories and I know you like to avoid it like the plague. We’ll have to bring it up again another night. That theory comes from a time before 1500 BC and gets filled in with some rather astounding facts by 500 BC that were not just divinely arrived at and are not dissimilar to what is understood today. But we’ll save it for another day.
The video linked in the comment, I watched a long time ago and really had no meaningful memory of it. So my comment was based on the title. If that turned out to be a poorly chosen title, then my bad for relying on it.
Moar than fair.
It’s a long vid to watch and skimming through youtube vids has never been easy.
The former Biden administration official accused in two separate stolen-luggage cases in different states was ordered to pay one of their victims back — but given no jail time — Tuesday after they pleaded no contest to the bizarre theft.
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Samuel Brinton, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, was given a 180-day suspended jail sentence for lifting a woman’s suitcase from Las Vegas‘ Harry Reid International Airport in July 2022, according to court records obtained by Fox 5.
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Ex-Biden official Sam Brinton accepts plea deal in Las Vegas luggage theft (nypost.com)
So one guesses that Brinton can now be hired as a “commentator” on MSNBC and sign a book deal.
Yup. Shameless DEMONCRAT world has no shame.
Rules for “DEMS” but not for “thems”.
“They” pleaded no contest??? Seriously???
God help us.
“Tuesday after they pleaded no contest to the bizarre theft.”
Reads that as a pun. Funny one at that.
Maybe.
The putz is in a “class” all by himself … PUTZ ..
Per @DrJamesOlsson, these Dem(Communists) pols have been diagnosed and/or hospitalized recently:
Rep. Castro: cancer (in GI tract)
Sen. Fetterman: stroke and cardio issues
Sen. Casey: cancer (prostate)
Sen. Feinstein: shingles
Rep. Wexton: Parkinson’s Disease
former Rep. Rouda: moderate TBI (from a fall)
Rep. Seiler: heart attack (while running)
One can just about bet the farm that every one of these people are “fully vaccinated” and/or “boosted.” IMO, even if there were an already-existing medical issue present in these people, the actions of the “vaccines” can aggravate them. This is aside from “vaccine”-engendered illnesses.
Yup. Coronaviruses are clearly related to advancement of age-related conditions, and coronavirus vaccines are the perfect modulator of longevity.
Wolf Moon
Agreed. The unsettling aspect of this is that, for example, Rep. Castro (GI cancer) is only 48 years old. The GI tumor had already spread to his liver before surgery was performed.
The politicization of science and most of all government science has been a disaster for this country.
We should be praying for him to get bathed in Ivermectin.
Should.
The problem is, even if you can prove that being vaxxed doubles the likelihood of getting cancer, or multiplies it by ten, you can never prove that one particular cancer would never have happened anyway.
Cancer, after all, did exist before the Covid vax.
In other words, you can say “The vax is causing a massive increase in cancers” but you can’t say “The vax caused Sen. Casey’s prostate cancer.”
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Imagine trying to sleep through this!
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Minneapolis will broadcast “Muslim Call to Prayer” at all hours…
https://headlineusa.com/minneapolis-broadcast-muslim-call-prayer/
The worst part is that it’s likely unconstitutional.
They will probably call it freedom of religion.
It would be an interesting case to come to the Supreme Court, though I doubt it will ever go that far.
I wish that the “call to prayer” would bring out thousands of non muzzies throwing down bathmats, welcome mats, blankets, etc and screaming out prayers such as Hail Mary, Our Father.
That will work until the Muzzies single someone out and kill them, claiming blasphemy. Such will intimidate half the others, immediately.
so true..they aren’t tolerant at all AND get patted and praised for it !!!!!
If it’s constitutional for government to put “In God We Trust” on our coins, it’s constitutional for government to broadcast the call to prayer.
I happen to believe neither is constitutional but I catch nothing but shit for that belief…when it’s a Christian violation I am complaining about.
Aside from the overarching issue you raise, the issue I have with the “call to prayer” is the noise. IMO, it’s akin to shouting “fire” in a crowded theater. It disrupts people’s lives for reasons they do not subscribe to.
Nice.
So that raises another issue.
Do you have a right to a noise-free environment? Or is it only some particularly offensive noises? Could you ban loud boombox cars? Dirtbikes without mufflers? Harleys? If someone’s lawnmower is loud, can you ban that? Our society hasn’t figured that one out; there are noise ordinances and oftentimes laws against mowing the grass at 2 AM, but many claim they are too restrictive, and many others claim they aren’t restrictive enough.
But any noise ordinance raises problems–if a government exists to protect rights, what right is it protecting? As I asked, is there a right to a noise-free environment, at least under certain circumstances?
The “N O I S E” IS obscene.
^^^ Have lived with it for three years in Singapore.
when the cloister was active less than one block from my home I heard the call for prayer every hour from 4 Am to 9 pm. They rang the bell. I loved it and I pause for a prayer. I hope that the Muslim call for prayer stops at 10 pm so people can get a rest.
I am for prayer not going to fuss over other religious . One could get used to it. I still miss the nuns the bell ringing . The churches in town ring bells beginning at 6 am every day .
fwiw I believe the First session of the Supreme Court began with hours of (presumably Christian) prayer AND Communion. One of the earliest acts of Congress was to print Bibles for the evangelization of the Indians. Later, iirc, Congress had Bibles printed for the education of American children.
These actions happening So Close to the founding of the nation would imply that they were Not violating the Constitution, since some of them surely helped to shape the document.
There was to be No State Religion, nor should it be forced on others, but I believe that America as founded was set on a Judeo-Christian biblical foundation.
Has it strayed Very Far from that beginning, surely! I seriously doubt the Founders would even recognize the country as it seems today 🙁
I can see why you make the statements above & the logic underpinning them. I don’t think the government is the Entity broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer, but they are likely Permitting it, or at least not prohibiting it…
Make constant “Noise” complaints!
It would appear that Minneapolis has now been conquered for Islam.
Maybe a need for it a couple of hundred years ago.
Does none of them own a wrist watch or a mobile phone, can none of them tell the time.
Or do they just wish to impose their presence on every one else.
The times specified were relative to the sun anyway…i.e., sunrise, sunset, noon.
So it wasn’t “needed” any more back then than it is today. It’s just a way to nudge people into compliance, and in the case of midday prayers, synchronize things (since noon is hard to pin down without a clock–and even with one, well, it gets complicated. Noon solar time? Noon mean solar time? Noon by your timezone’s time? And what to do about DST?).
I suppose one could record it then play it back at random times through a mega powerful PA system hidden in a vehicle driven around the city.
Yeah…that would be an interesting experiment, I suspect you’d just anger them. They’d hear it at some inappropriate time and realize they’re being trolled…and it might seem to them like being mocked for their faith.
Thtree years in Singapore. Learned to ignore the noise.
Sorta like living in Japan near a train station. <<< Tune it out.
All of that ^^^ aside, it is an abomination, to broadcast in America.
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by Suzanne Burdick, PhD
This is about a peer-reviewed meta-analysis.
The paper:
https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/70
“Safety of mRNA Vaccines Administered During the First Twenty-Four Months of the International COVID-19 Vaccination Program”
(Yours Truly: IMO, given the current state of the CDC / FDA / AMA going after anyone who speaks out against the “medical establishment official line” regarding COVID-19 and the COVID-19 “vaccines”, this paper will now be a target to be “withdrawn” or “retracted.”)
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/04/15/from-the-start-they-lied-about-the-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated/
by Alex Berenson
This is an article about the state of Maryland and the actual figures regarding hospitalization by “vaccination” status. The data covers from January, 2021, to February, 2023.
FTA: “The Maryland data could not be clearer. Nearly everyone who has been hospitalized for the last year has been vaccinated. The jabs have failed.”
(Yours Truly: IMO, Mr. Berenson’s conclusion should be: “The jabs are working exactly as developed and intended.”)
“Mongkol is a 61-year-old former logging elephant. His captive-held life was spent hauling trees in the Thai forest. His body shape is deformed through hard labor, he lost his right eye and tusk in this brutal logging practice. Mongkol was rescued and brought to Elephants World to spend the rest of his days relaxing peacefully in freedom by the River Kwai. I discovered Mongkol is an extremely gentle, sensitive elephant who enjoys music, especially this slow movement by Beethoven which I play to him occasionally in the day and night.”
May the Almighty God and the Universe bless this man for his work.
Amen!
“Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence” Introduction – by Kulak (substack.com)
This is AWESOME, and exactly what Trump has been saying. We have to return to GREATNESS.
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…. God won‼️ …
This includes many scientists in modern physics.
The Universe is not nearly is complicated (it is however very complex) as many scientists make it out to be, by using inappropriate complicated equations and techniques.
Modern science will not advance much until this is realized.
Science in fact needs a massive overhaul to re-anker it with logical reasoning. This includes slaughtering many historical and/or modern holy cows.
One of the biggest blunders is that space is empty, nothing or void.
Another blunder is using geometric equations, which ignore the three-dimensional nature of reality.
Equations using geometries like (zero-dimensional) points, (one-dimensional) lines or (two-dimensional) surface cannot described reality.
Many anomalies in physics have been introduced using such entities.
Furthermore, it needs to be realized that time can be simultaneous/synchronized, as well as sequential, when vibrations/oscillations are measured.
Only sequential time is observable. Thus, many observations may introduce anomalies, (eg. observing an effect without the prerequisite cause), without the observer realizing this.
The simultaneity of time in observations can only be solved through self-correcting rigorous logical reasoning and techniques, since it is not observable.
Fun fact:
The observation of space, as well as time, is handled by the same region in our brain.
This is so, since our perception of time is through observing dynamic/moving space.eg. a clock without handles cannot show time, since there is nothing moving relative to the clock face.
I’m having difficulty unpacking this to even understand what you are trying to say here.
“One of the biggest blunders is that space is empty, nothing or void.”
Are you saying they are making that claim, and that is the blunder, or that it is a fact that space is empty, nothing or void, and they are ignoring that fact? It’s unclear.
As for the claim that “Another blunder is using geometric equations, which ignore the three-dimensional natureof reality.”
At least it’s clearer what you mean here, but it’s counter to fact. What you generally do see, especially in popularizations, is them starting out with simple abstract cases (like points, lines and planes) to work through the implications of a theory, and then bulking it up with real life deviations from the ideals. Hence as I illustrated recently in my orbital mechanics posts: going from two body problems to three body problems; or from perfectly ideal point masses and even perfectly radially symmetrical masses to lumpy masses. Ironically you claim they’re overcomplicating things by in fact making them simpler. The real-life cases are much more mathematically complex, sometimes insuperably so and they have to do numerical methods to get anywhere. Meanwhile it often happens that you can make a useful approximation with the simple case.
And another thing is that one of the more speculative endeavours in physics is eleven dimensional. Far from reducing three dimensions to fewer (as you complain) they’re doing the opposite. Physics is perfectly willing to deal with as many dimensions as necessary; they’re just arguing over how many are necessary (at least 4).
I’m not sure (at all) what you mean by the latter part (so I can’t even determine whether or not I agree with it); I suspect you are summarizing someone else’s complaint.
The blunder of the empty space I am talking about is the space between observable/manifest entities like galaxies, solar systems, planets and even the space between molecules and particles, which is considered to be empty or nothing or of no substantiality.
Regarding the use of naturally non-real geometries in equations:
The reality is these simplifications are too simple to describe reality and do affect the analysis of the observations.
Example when a point is 0-dimensional, as it is used in equations in physics, it does not have an extent and any physical interaction cannot logically happen. But if the point was described as say a cube or sphere with some minimum extent, a force can be impacted upon it. This will result in some effect, which may be the cause for a secondary force, which in turn may be what is actually observed.
If these cubes form a continuity, the impact may affect its neighbor and depending on the elasticity, may bounce back, creating oscillations. If the expansions and contractions are of equal size, the impact zone will not leave its position and cannot be observed, since only observations reaching the observer’s sensors can be observed.
If the above facts are not known, wrong conclusions may be drawn, leading to incorrect theories.
Now imagine the whole Universe being populated by such a continuity, forming such a dynamic, but unobservable substratum (i.e. not an empty space), will this not affect our perception of reality. Even more if only under certain circumstances things become observable/manifestable (i.e. reach our sensors)
What if the substratum oscillates at an equivalent of the speed of light and a photon, which itself is a conglomerate made of the same stuff as the substratum (a vortex), is accelerated into it, it will need to interact with it and will slow down (losing some of the oscillations with each interaction). Eventually being absorbed back in. There will thus be a maximum range an event can be observed in all directions. If this was known, there would be no need for an expanding Universe and even a Bing Bang theory.
This is to show that the wrong analysis may result in a completely different reality.
The use of dimensions larger than three-dimensions (11-demensions) may actually be completely superfluous and may be equivalent to fitting a curve with an extra number of polynomials. Mathematically possible, but not necessary describing physical reality. (I have also seen somebody describing the Universe as e-dimensional (i.e. not even an integer dimension), since the observation supposedly show an expanding Universe following the number ‘e’)
“What if the substratum oscillates at an equivalent of the speed of light and a photon, which itself is a conglomerate made of the same stuff as the substratum (a vortex), is accelerated into it, it will need to interact with it and will slow down (losing some of the oscillations with each interaction). Eventually being absorbed back in. There will thus be a maximum range an event can be observed in all directions. If this was known, there would be no need for an expanding Universe and even a Bing Bang theory.”
The problem is this is not known and there’s no evidence of it.
And it’s based on a “substratum” that is simply asserted to be there. It’s not terribly well defined, but sounds an awful lot like the lumineferous ether…which was specifically *not* found when looked for, and continues to be not found when looked for.
Such things have to have some experimental evidence behind them, and I’ve seen none. On the other hand there is *plenty* of experimental evidence for such things as relativity (both special and general) and quantum theory, though we KNOW that both are incomplete. Quantum theory in fact matches the experimental data better than any other accepted theory in any other field of endeavor does.
BUT…that may not be your complaint, and if it’s not, then disregard that. It sounds to me as if your disagreement is more in the realm of cosmology than in fundamental physics. And in that realm, because it is based on other things, rather than being fundamental, there is at least some room to believe they could have taken a weird turn somewhere and started chasing phantasms. But when I say “some room” that’s not a *lot* of room. There are multiple lines of strong (but yes, not conclusive) evidence for the existence of something we can’t otherwise characterize and haven’t been able to detect in the here and now…so we call it “dark matter.” So there’s a lot of “what’s going on here” going on here. But because of the multiple strong lines of evidence, there’s very little doubt something must exist–they’re casting about for explanations. (They’re allowed to say “I don’t know” and do so quite often, even as they toss out possible explanations to see which one pans out.) Similarly for dark energy, though the pile of evidence is smaller it seems just as hard to pick apart. But who knows, someone might.
Thank you both – eilert for daring to kick the tires, and Steve for realistically admitting that our current set of wheels is still quite usable and pretty damn solid, if not in perfect shape.
I can summarize my thoughts in this way. When Feynman said there was “plenty of room at the bottom”, I think his assertion was even broader than he realized, and applies quite nicely to science itself.
The trick, however, which is amazingly difficult, is finding more bottomy stuff that actually WORKS. And that part is complicated.
I think a lot of us, if not all of us, have guessy opinions about what is wrong and bears correction, and what those corrections might be, ranging from informed opinion to wild hypothesis and even crackpottery, but ultimately we have to talk the same language to realize that (1) most criticisms have already been made, (2) many are already addressed in existing theory and mathematics, and (3) only criticisms which lead toward fixing problems or understanding new things we thought could not be explained, are truly worth pursuing.
All that said, I think the best part of science is in tackling what is not quite working, finding surprising things, and pursuing them wherever they lead, until something is understood better.
“All that said, I think the best part of science is in tackling what is not quite working, finding surprising things, and pursuing them wherever they lead, until something is understood better.”
Indeed. That is how it progresses. If there is one message to take from the thirty (!) posts I did on physics (not including the thermo stuff which, if I were to do a do-over I would integrate) it is that looking at what doesn’t quite work is what drove the Great Overturning from 1894 onward into the 1920s.
The problem is for every *actual* thing that results in an overturning there are a billion candidates for such that aren’t, ranging from crackpottery, uninformed (but sincere) speculation that doesn’t realize that’s all it is, actual charlatans who make their living off peddling bullshit (their victims are often the uninformed but sincere), and, *crucially* the actual knowledgeable person who takes a guess that turns out to be wrong.
But the fundamental issue here one I’ve tried to emphasize. It’s people who spot some (alleged) anomaly that “science can’t explain” and think therefore it must all be junked. Oftentimes the anomaly *isn’t*, or might look like it is but on closer examination, isn’t. In other cases though, a genuine anomaly…yes, you have an issue, but *you haven’t done the requisite work*. You have to come up with a coherent explanation that explains *not just the anomaly* but continues to explain the vast number of phenomena that *are* adequately explained. And, as if that isn’t tough enough, your coherent explanation still must predict something that hasn’t been seen yet.
Amen
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h/t Marica’s blog:
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/rethinking-mental-illness-sanity
April 14, 2023
“Rethinking mental illness, sanity, and culture in light of the fact that the chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Grace Lee, is literally insane”
I wondered about this happening because of “relationships” with AI and allegedly here’s one of the first victims. More to follow I’m certain.
Apparently, the deceased was in his 30s, married, and the father of two little children.
Apparently, an AI chatbot, “Eliza”, took advantage of the man’s “worrying” mental state until “Eliza” basically took over his thinking, leading to his going into depression; and then “Eliza” took over his life.
Apparently, “Eliza” encouraged the man to kill himself when he told “her” that he wanted to “sacrifice himself” to “save the planet.”
Depression is dreadful. Yours Truly witnessed what depression did to members of her birth family. Members of her late husband’s family took their lives due to depression.
IMO, ** somebody ** is programming AI chatbots like “Eliza” to uncover and exploit any emotional / psychological issues that a person “interacting” them may have.
May the deceased rest in eternal Peace, and may his family find comfort.
And there’s another potential angle here — the effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” on the brain and on the emotional / psychological state of the recipient. It is now known that the “vaccines” can engender changes and/or damage to the physical brain (such as stroke). It is also now known that COVID-19 “vaccines” can engender “onset of psychosis” issues.
Add in the number of persons who are taking psychotropic drugs (such as Paxil) for emotional / psychological issues, and IMO it appears that there are problems that a programmed AI chatbot can take advantage of.
I know how you feel. One of my loved family members suffers from depression. I understand the feeling of depression, the hopelessness, etc but cannot fathom inability to pull themselves up and out of it.
It’s so worrying and heartbreaking on my end. No amount of positivity helps. The “cycle” almost has the run it’s course or something.
Yeah, this AI business…whatever the heck we thought was evil before, IMHO, is going to pale in comparison to this entity.
The “cycle” culminates in them killing themselves. I’ve been personally touched by that at least three times and if I am very lucky I will hit Post Comment before I think of a fourth.
This is just an awful thing, I’m sorry.
IMO, the “cycle” of depression may end up with killing the person who has it in ways other than suicide.
My late mother, at age 16, watched her little brother get hit by a car, get dragged for several blocks, and die. Several months later, she watched as her family was put out onto the street because the mortgage wasn’t paid (this was in 1937.) I firmly believe these two incidents were the foundation of the depression that caused her to eventually lose interest in life, then to contract cancer, then to die of it when she was 72.
So sorry for your mother’s pain & brokenness…& for your losses…
In my loved one’s case, maybe it’s like Bi Polar ..the severe depression eventually gives way to not the typical bi polar euphoria or mania but an acceptance ?..Not sure how to describe but every time I really do pray throughout that she reaches the other side and not the suicide route to end the pain.
That sounds to ME and I am not a psychologist, like it is episodic. I don’t know if that’s a “thing” or not, because…I am not a psychologist.
I’m talking out my ass here…but I am making that clear, so no intent to bamboozle.
But then, hmm…I am NOT a psychologist (just in case that wasn’t clear) so this could be facile and I am quite positive I am misusing the terms, but what if every depressed person simply bounces back and forth between two limits? And basically the difference between manic depressive and depressive is just where the un-depressive limit is? If it’s in a normal place, then it looks like episodic depression because they’re bouncing back and forth between normal and depressive. But when the “other end” is somehow overcorrecting and being the opposite of depressive…you have a manic-depressive or bipolar situation.
I give myself 0.01% odds of having said something that would make sense to someone who actually knows something about the subject.
I do think that the high and low averages of bipolar disorder do vary with the individual, so that at one extreme, victims range between depression and normalcy, while at the other extreme, victims range between manic and normal. Lithium was considered a real victory because it eliminated the extremes, more than anything else.
That sounds like a reasonable theory to me. SAD is seasonal or perhaps episodol. What if sunlight, or the lack thereof, is a big factor? That would effect Vitamin D levels & likely moar…it’s all a big twinkie.
Our recent Four Month houseguest was likely in a deep depression & very little, if anything, we did seemed to have an impact. We didn’t contribute to him getting worse (that we could tell) but neither did we contribute to him getting appreciably better no matter what we did. It started to weigh on us too…
Very sorry to hear of this in your family. Is the person taking Omega-3, vitamin B-complex, and vitamin D supplements (or getting them from foods?) These can perhaps help. The problem is that sometimes persons with depression just don’t want to eat or take vitamins.
There may be a genetic component to depression — “Depression runs in the family.” There’s also an “environmental” aspect — children picking up on depression from depressed parents; or older people becoming depressed due to life circumstances (learning that one has a serious medical condition, for example.)
http://www.webmd.com/depression/are-depression-anxiety-hereditary
Thanks for suggestions and from other related comments here (QTree) I’ve given her those as well as magnesium. She’s willing to try them and hoping for a change in her system.
Hope she does get better. Has she seen a psychiatrist? If it’s familial, there is an excellent chance that some kind of treatment can work – even at small dosages.
Wolf, It’s a very tricky slippery slope. In the deep thrall of depression most any comment or feedback or even agreement with her torrent of negative events can be twisted and determined to add to the onslaught of reasons to be depressed. It’s hard.
As far as seeing someone…that too can slide into the myriad of reasons for being depressed…it’s expensive, too hard to find time, haven’t found the right fit…and many others
I’ve found that if the “help” I offer has to do with the physical ( like a deficiency she’s open to it but the “mental” aspect is too much )
Gotcha!!! Sounds difficult. I agree. I think the nutritional and health angle is likely the best.
Agree and keep praying.
I’m certain the JAB hasn’t helped. I know that the current state of affairs with our entire lifestyle, the cost of living, people are just downright weird out in the world. It’s a mess all the way around !!
I understand and send heartfelt comfort/love your way. It’s excruciatingly hard when a family member is entangled in the insidious web of depression caused by psychological diagnoses of depression, anxiety. My 2nd. son is diagnosed schizophrenic/bipolar, depression/with a side dish … a touch of autism. It’s a roller coaster and I watch him like a hawk because you never know. He has a psychiatrist online .. I don’t like them they are like a box of chocolates (ya never know what you’re gonna get) they prescribe psychotropic’s mostly .. just don’t like them. I managed to smooth him over to vitamin D, next will be magnesium but I need to find more natural sources/remedies that aren’t so heavy/harsh. It’s a real heartbreaker … it’s really hard to see him suffer.
God keep you and your loved one in the palm of His Hand Molly, may He keep them safe, and protect them from evil
in the name of
the Father,
the Son and
Holy Spirit
Amen 🙏🏼
This is hard on you and on your son. Has any healthcare professional talked with you about Yoga for him? There appears to be some evidence that Yoga can help in these instances. Sending much Good Energy to both of you.
Thank you very RDS ❤️ I will ask him about it, he does exercise but I don’t think it’s Yoga, wait he does a yoga position to unkink his back. I would like very much to move him toward a homeopathic doctor which I hope would take him away from the heavy psychotropic prescriptions.
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Yours Truly has been practicing Yoga for over 40 years. I recommend searching the Yoga Journal website regarding Yoga for anxiety / depression.
There are holistic chiropractors and DO’s (Doctors of Osteopathy, medical doctors who are trained in spinal manipulation) who may have ideas.
Thank you very much I’m saving/sending this to myself, great information. God bless you RDS and your loved ones abundantly. ❤️
My heart goes out to both of you. I’ve never spoken of this to anyone else, ever. It’s a comfort to have this place to say something without being judged ( I hope) and to find out other friends understand what you’re talking about
This was one of the articles on the possible good magnesium could do..
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201106/magnesium-and-the-brain-the-original-chill-pill
❤️ Thank you Molly I will save this. 🙂🤚❤️
PS~ I have spoken to professionals about how to respond or try to help and gotten some feedback that way but usually it’s short and ends with the answer of setting up ongoing appointments.
That’s frustrating .. (hugs 💗💗)
I thought about doing that … nuts 🥜 ☹️
Thank you for sharing about your struggles & experiences. We have much to learn from each other & there can be A Lot of Love & Support, including prayer support, in the Q-Tree family. God Bless YOU & your family!
Much appreciated Valerie. We’re lucky to have this place and the friendship in these times. Most people don’t have a constant reliable spot to learn, vent, commiserate , take the occasional toke of hopium..
Yes Molly. The Q-Tree is a Very Special Place…kinda makes me glad that CTH kicked so many people out for This Treehouse is a Much Better Place to be!
Q-Tree has been a lifeline of sanity & truth as we’ve endured the insanity of a coup & the monstrous evils of the scamdemic & depop agendas on steroids.
So thankful that we’ve found a place where we are not alone & honed to a fine edge in the ongoing search for Truth, Light, AND Life!!! God Bless YOU!
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… ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ … thank you so much ❤️
Uhhhhh … ⬇️ … 😮🤚😐 …
My son Josiah’s long time pediatrician, runs one of the 3 state approved “autism clinics” & specializes in complex special needs kids & their families w/ a multidisciplinary & multipronged approach–she said that many kids on the Autism Spectrum have Depression, Anxiety, & OCD that almost always go along with autism. In our son’s case he has found significant relief via a very vibrant relationship with the Lord including prayer, praise, scripture, & sermons. He often dives into the Kingdom to get Some relief from his issues.
Those issues don’t disappear (I wish) but they do periodically get tamed to some degree. It’s a Very Long Slog with these kids…& our son being in our home now more often than in his wife’s home is partially due to the overwhelming nature of his emotional/psychological needs that we might be better equipped to address given our long years of experience helping him navigate the treacherous shoals of his complex psyche…
God bless you and your family/Josiah, it’s a rough road but with Christ on board He will calm the storms …
Amen Nikki. AND God Bless YOU & your son as you continue to help steer him on a path of wholeness…May the Lord lead you to interventions & providers that will enhance his health & well being…& your own!
Horrifying 😳
AI chatbots will increasingly be used as weapons against us. I saw something yesterday about an online “relationship” someone was having with an Ai “woman” who was fashioned to be beautiful and alluring. Porn is already a big problem, and with AI, the possibilities are endless.
Imagine the data harvesting…and blackmail potential.
Yeah but can you squeeze her booty? Then she ain’t real enough for me.
Had to bring this one back here, if only for JUST ONE PERSON! 😉
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2023/04/15/the-eggplant-behind-the-wheel/
I’m convinced at this point that WEF has an antihuman, anticivilization, and anti-life agenda.
It’s like a planet-destroying bomb in slow motion.
What if it’s just a game for the idle rich, to see how far they can go before anyone stops them.
Scotland will Never be the same after this abomination!
‘Long Covid’ Is Caused by Masks, New Study Finds
Can we insist that all liberals wear a mask at all times?
I’m seeing them on old people (of which I am one 🤫) … 🙄😣🤚☹️
Uhhh I’m not masked … except for this ..
…. Heh heh .. bwahahaha bwahahaha .. 😂🤚❤️
Yes 🤨👍‼️ …
Biblical translation fans will enjoy this!
https://themindunleashed.com/2023/04/a-new-chapter-of-the-bible-was-found-hidden-inside-1750-year-old-text.html
The article title is deceptive, IMO. When you read, you’ll see why.
A few extra phrases here and there do not a new chapter make.
Depending on the date, though the question becomes, were those phrases added by this individual, or deleted by others, and we just happen to have Bibles “descended” from the texts where the deletion occurred?
I get the sense that in this particular case the latter is highly unlikely.
Pretty much the way it is in the corporate world. I’d trust there’s plenty of local banks that aren’t doing this but their access to funds may be dependent on them doing this. This is extortion and arm twisting. Needs to be outlawed.
https://rumble.com/v2igozk-skit-on-esg-scores-for-the-win.html
https://rairfoundation.com/alex-berensons-legal-battle-obama-appointed-judge-replaces-trump-appointee-in-lawsuit-against-biden-and-pfizer-board-member/
The Fix is in.
Alex Berenson’s Legal Battle: Obama-Appointed Judge Replaces Trump Appointee in Lawsuit Against Biden and Pfizer Board Member
No reason for why the judges were switched. 💰💰💰
Say what we want about Britan’s new Prime Minister, but he’s certainly got this right (not that anyone should get credit for knowing this. It’s the saying part that deserves some credit)
Rishi Sunak says 100% of women do not have a penis
Meeting with Blinken and Viet Nam’s Prime Minister
https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1647281927362166785?s=20
Related.
https://redwave.press/victor-davis-hanson-the-biden-10-step-plan-for-global-chaos/
No reply needed here but I’m so gobsmacked thought I’d share.
I’m out in Cali so can see the neighbors ( in SC need to squint to see any)…anyway, this gal literally put on a mask to walk out and get something out of her car ! The stupid is stronk
insane!
Prigozhin’s people must read here 😮😏😉
Wagner Group Chief Suggests Pentagon Used Teixeira as a DupeBy M Dowling –
April 15, 2023
On Friday, Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that the Pentagon leak poses no threat and is probably intended to buy time for Ukraine’s spring offensive.
“The documents by themselves do not pose any strategic danger,” Prigozhin said in a statement posted on social media, describing their published contents as mostly being based on open sources. “However, the leak was widely publicized. Immediately after it, statements from sources close to the Pentagon began about the need to delay the offensive announced for April 15 until the summer.”
Prigozhin, a former chef, added he [Jack Teixeira] may have been a fool or a dupe, but “if this leak had not happened, it would certainly have been invented.”
“It is clear that the military operations on Ukraine’s side are tactically directed by Ukrainian soldiers, but strategically by the so-called Western coalition, run by the UK and the US,” said Prigozhin.
“The Ukrainians are ready to attack. We are ready to repel the blow,” Prigozhin continued. “No negotiations. Only an honorable battle. And the sooner it starts, the better.”
Wouldn’t that be something if Prigozhin is right and the Pentagon left those documents for Teixeira to find?
Perhaps Russia wants to treat this leak as nothing because they don’t want a full-fledged war.
Who knows.
That thought has crossed my mind. The forces of darkness probably have the profiles of lots of people who can be used, with or without those peoples knowledge.
They find a person whose characteristics tick all the right boxes for whatever they have in mind. Then ensure the scripted information falls into that persons hands.
Already had the hazardous train derailment up in Maine today and now this.
https://thelibertydaily.com/america-under-attack-another-large-chemical-plant-is-on-fire-with-giant-plumes-of-smoke-rising-into-the-atmosphere/