The Real Mojito
Ingredients
- 10 fresh mint leaves
- ½ medium lime, cut into 3 wedges, divided
- 2 tablespoons white sugar, or to taste
- 1 cup ice cubes, or as needed
- 1 ½ fluid ounces white rum
- ½ cup club soda, or as needed
Directions
- Place mint leaves and 1 lime wedge into a sturdy glass. Use a muddler and crush to release mint oils and lime juice.DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
- Add remaining lime wedges and 2 tablespoons sugar, and muddle again to release the lime juice. Do not strain the mixture.DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
- Fill the glass almost to the top with ice.DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
- Pour in rum and fill the glass with club soda.DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
- Stir, taste, and add more sugar if desired.
How’s the weather out there?
Short one again today as a brother and nephew are visiting, and I’m spending a lot of time away from home with a Sheltie. Ying might get jealous.
Rabbit Faced Baby Found in Iowa, Buck Toothed Mom Chewed Carrots While Pregnant
Badlands News Brief – July 13, 2023
America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded
The Big Gaslight
Rep. Matt Gaetz: Don’t Haiti My Florida
New MSG “Sphere” in Vegas is remarkable, but the backstory on how it came to be is even better…
New court doc reveals Biden’s FTC browbeat an accounting firm to “punish” Elon after he purchased Twitter…
WEF: ‘Digital Cash’ Will Force Climate Agenda onto Public
Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis’
One Bubble Is About to Pop…and No One Is Talking About It
Opill, first over-the-counter birth control pill, approved by FDA
Considering that the trials for the original birth control pill were moved out of the country because too many women were dying, was it ever really safe to begin with? Those warnings on the ads are no joke.
Murdoch Outlet – Struggling DeSantis Discounts Admission Price for Rich People to Meet Him in Hamptons
Tweety Tweets:
Remember the whole push about fitness being a right wing conspiracy theory? Part of that is stories like this:
I’ve been following this guy for a while. He’s doing something about his weight and posting his daily progress complete with meals cooked, and videos of workouts. The weightlifting community has been nothing but supportive, and all the keto cooks are as well. Recently, Dave proposed to his girl, and they are getting married in November. His is not at all the only story of this sort out there. Why this is being politicized when these people are taking steps to help themselves be healthy is a mystery.
Not really, but at least they are speaking out.
Good question.
Variety is the spice of life
Creative writers do need to unite on this one. It would save Hollywood – hooked on franchise continuation – a lot of money not to have to pay human talent.
Welcome aboard, Jim.
MEME STASH:
I may have to rethink my opinion of crows.
And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:
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- No running with scissors.
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MATTHEW 10:16-23
16“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, 18and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles. 19When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour; 20for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; 22and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel, before the Son of man comes.
SATIRE!
Have a good weekend!
One of the closing comments from yesterday was: https://www.theqtree.com/2023/07/13/dear-maga-open-thread-20230713/#comment-1124141
To which I responded: https://www.theqtree.com/2023/07/13/dear-maga-open-thread-20230713/#comment-1124151
Allow me to posit a possible workaround. The USAF currently has at least 6 F-16s [near the end of their lifespan] that have been fully converted to remote control. In short, they are very big drones used to help train pilots.[they are designated QF-16s – there’s that letter again]
What if the F-16s that will be sent to Ukraine are drones, piloted by a USAF ‘pilot’ sitting in a console booth in Nevada? Will that be the same as ‘boots on the ground’?
Closing note – is NATO smart enough to wipe identifying insignia off the planes before they get to Ukraine?
“Closing note – is NATO smart enough to wipe identifying insignia off the planes before they get to Ukraine?”
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They’ll do better than that.
They’ll dress the planes up in matching khaki pants, shirts, baseball caps, masks and sunglasses.
And pink hair…
Do not forget the NAZI insignia…
F-16s, regardless of who pilots them, will all be shot down OR destroyed on the ground..
US F-16s will be part of the fodder. If they are drones, piloted out of Creech, Nellis, anywhere, ARE, IMO, “boots on ground”. Absolutely doomed for failure.
Failure, UNLESS, the goal IS, WWIII.
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Regardless, believing a few F-16s, even a few dozen F-16s will help Ukraine is on par with, the rest of the lies.
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Question. WHEN F-16s prove to be a failure, and they will, IF WWIII has not started, what is the next, US, UK, NATO escalation in weaponry?
Honestly, it will be some kind of miracle if China isn’t occupying Hawaii by the time the Bidenese are run out of office.
Interesting comment Wolf. On July 4th I was at a cook out with a family that had recently (last year) moved from Hawaii. The man mentioned that Chinese, in large numbers, are settling in Hawaii.
Setting up an outpost for the takeover…
Much like the Moslems here…
Hawaii is a strategic outpost from a military perspective. Whether Chinese or American, the facilities and location for conventional military staging is critical for the entire Pacific theater.
Yep. That was my point…. we lose Hawaii, we lose the Pacific.
And we’ve been neutering California for decades now, with all the base closures/mergers/etc. Although Kalifornistan has been doing a lot of the neutering on its own… 🙁
I thought Clinton had given the Chyneze certain bases &/or ports in Kalifornistan so that they could bypass customs & bring in God only knows what into the country that way 😡
Ports, not bases. And I believe the US has taken LA/Long Beach back.
Øbløwhøle and Carter shut down the bases; probably the Shrubs did too… 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡
TY for the clarification!
The Chinese know that Hawaii is key to Pacific supremacy.
Useful data. Thanks! Quite relevant, since Japan used Japanese Hawaiians as spy cover for Pearl Harbor.
don’t the obummers have a mansion in Hawaii?
On the beach, wising and swamp their newly built mansion. /s
Hypocrites, they are.
Yep. They demolished the beautiful, historic mansion used in Magnum P.I. so they could build the house of the rising gaybow…
https://www.westernjournal.com/iconic-magnum-p-house-torn-environmental-laws-bypassed-build-obamas-beachside-villa
DEMONRATS indeed!
OR we are into a nuclear war.
I sure hope Jon Harold is correct about Devolution and that Xi and Putin are ‘read in.’
Thank you, DePat, for this entire week of outstanding posts.
Hope you managed to wear out the Sheltie before you got worn out.
Have a great weekend!!!
I agree – this week was full of great reads and outstanding memes. You are such a gem, DPat, and your selections are the best! 💖🇺🇸🇺🇸
I think so too. Thank you, DePat!! Even on a busy day, you give us so much interesting, important, and fun content.
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/07/13/day-one-for-our-next-gop-president-n2625594
Gee, it used to be he’d only do one a week, on Mondays…..
Diving in to some of his columns can be stressful. 😅 Is he still promoting DeSantis?
I think that’s being beaten out of him, inch-by-inch. He’s currently at “We can fight about who the nominee should be and we will until the convention, when people who actually care about the country and put beating the Democrat communists ahead of their petty prejudices and feuds will unite to get our GOP nominee elected in November.” He can’t even say their names.
Charitably, Schlichter is a dumbass. Yea, I didn’t read his article(s).
I voted Ron Paul instead of NoName McStain and I will vote TRUMP PERIOD!
The grift is strong with this one.
Election Wizard
^^^ That IS a fact.
Trump IS the ONLY America First candidate.
The Maha-Rushie was simply the best. And he was right, 99.7% of the time!
EXACTLY!!!
Trump’s stand on the Trans Pacific Trade Treaty that RINOs like RAND PAUL supported was the clincher for me.
The Trans Pacific Trade Treaty was an European Union CLONE.
Excellent photoshop.
Photoshop?
Oh, you mean the wall sconces…..yeah, they look a bit unreal.
No way…😂
The detail on the edges of Catturd’s fur is amazing.
Catturd after Elon does not pay him $1.2 billion.
Catturd is such a pretty kitty.
Billionaire Ken Griffin Reconsidering Support for DeSantis
😀😄😃😁
Excellent!
What is Murdoch interest in trying to influence election?
Bannon pointed out the guy became citizen of US the night when he wanted to buy Fox.
How committed is the Murdoch to the US or is he a stooge for world dominance cabal or China? I refuse to watch Fox and all those money grubbing people who work there who have no principal.
CHINA…. Remember he married a Chinese woman and was going to move to Bejing.
Yes the China Honey pot. Stupid men fall for it all the time .
Catturd 😅
When the flight attendants start putting it down like “Waffle House Wendy”, it’ll be “don’t start none, won’t be none.”
They made it though the entire segment without even once acknowledging the common denominator of who’s breaking stuff and throwing things in every fast-food restaurant brawl.
Every. Single. One.
Like the viewing audience isn’t supposed to notice.
It’s like covering a 5-alarm arson fire, and never mentioning the mob standing there throwing Molotov cocktails 😂
That would have been rayyyyyyycisssssss…..
News in LA (in KAlifornistan), presented by four POC, actually FOC, so of course they won’t name names and races…
P ermanently
C razy
…
Also could have been a sideways dig at Waffle House, who are probably conservative, as they are always prepared, and always the first to be (or stay) open when disasters strike.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Waffle House were “preppers”, and, of course, that is anathema to “the view-type yuppettes (yuppie puppets)”…
I actually like Waffle House… They serve STEAK for breakfast. 🤗😍
MILES ahead of IHOP…
In LA there is (or at least was) a restaurant called “The Pantry”, where people from all (and I mean ALL) walks of life could go in and get breakfast any hour of the day, for a great price.
There was also Ships, on La Cienaga Blvd. (now gone 🙁 ) that had great food, and a googie-style architecture reminiscent of “The Jetsons”, complete with toasters at each table threatening to launch completed slices into outer space 🙂
Ships at 3:30 AM on a weekday was great.
Crazy… if you were there in the mid 1970s, I was probably there too… small world…
Breakfasts were great, as were the chili size, Steak-a-Bobs, and many other dishes there. And the ice cream, with (hot) berry sauce…
Miss that place, along with Love’s BBQ…
“That would have been rayyyyyyycisssssss…..”
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Think of it more like affirmative action.
When the quarterback calls a ‘restaurant brawl’ audible, there’s one group that is always ready to step up to the plate 👍
And Bluto for the win 😀
Nice!
Yep. That’s brilliant; sums it up quite nicely… current events horizon, one might say…
All it needs is goatse fingers.
They missed Uncle Sam, a parasite on American Tax payers.
Ka–Boom!
Catturd ™
I don’t understand what the game plan is with Epps.
BREAKING: RAY EPPS FACES A MINIMUM OF 3 YEARS IN PRISON for Major Assault on Police Officers Not Covered by the Mainstream Media
They MUST charge him to “prove” that he wasn’t acting on behalf of the FBI.
That’s all this is.
Yup.
How about charging him with, say, 15,000 volts at 100 Amperes… ⚡
That would mean his resistance is 150 ohms.
Putting the IRE back in wire…
He’s probably be reluctant to be there, though… 🙂
Ohm, sweet ohm…..
The BORG would say his resistance is futile.
They’re just a bunch of reactionaries with a high capacity for crime, like the “Z” man… 🙂
Lol! I like it!
IMO the goal is to get Epps off without any real jail time. Just as the corrupt DOJ nailed peaceful people who walked into the capitol for multi-year sentences, they are going to make sure this informant does minimal time.
Funny (not) how they always keep their promises to crooks, thieves, (real)insurrectionists, and pervs….. but not anyone else…..
Birds of a feather …
HOW do we even know he is actually serving a sentence instead of enjoying a long vacation in some other country?
Why haven’t they busted his door down with guns drawn ? I read an article that said he was informed of this intent to charge in May. It’s now mid July.
Is “thepeoplesvoice” a reputable site?
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/oprahs-spiritual-healer-sentenced-to-99-years-for-raping-girls-accused-of-baby-trafficking/
TT, I don’t trust it.
Some of what they publish is likely true, but some of it deserves a strong side-eye.
YaWHO had 19 years, but a few Brazilian sites (OK, bunches of them) have 99 or “almost 100” years (nice round number), for example this one:
https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/justica/noticia/2023-07/em-novas-sentencas-joao-de-deus-e-condenado-99-anos-de-prisao
Fake name (John of God), fake healer, one might say…
I can’t read Portuguese, so I’m not sure what the whole article says…
They have an English version but I could not get it to work. That is google translate
More HEEL than healer; deserves HELL…..
Opra lost her way a long time ago. That shows with whom she surrounded herself.
She is a ‘Madame’ and was procuring young star struck teens for directors.
British Actress: Oprah Winfrey ‘Pimped Me Like A Whore’ To Weinstein
Nailing Oprah Winfrey As Pimp for Harvey Weinstein
It sounds she was a pimp. She has fallen no matter how rich she is she lost her soul.
Thank you, President Trump!
ONLY TRUMP!!!
https://ca.style.yahoo.com/70-house-republicans-voted-cut-215132928.html
At the link is a graphic showing the 70 Repubs who voted to cut off military aid to Ukraine. (I’m not able to post it here.) A lot of them are Freedom Caucus members.
My Rep, Ben Cline, was on the correct side. He hears us.
Good news.
East TN was well represented with mine, Harshbarger, and the one nearby our of Knoxville, Burchett.
Amodei, moron for Northern Nevada. Uniparty.
I knew without even looking that my guy Matt Rosendale would be there.
I note that Troy Balderson, who has been a staunch Trump supporter from the beginning, voted AYE.
Neither my prior nor current potted plant RINO is on that list.
But Lauren Boebert is.
TT this is helpful, thank you.
My rep is dumb as a rock (no offense to rocks).
I LIKE rocks, the are useful and sometimes beautiful. The same can not be said of Politicians.
They are more like slime mold… Dog vomit slime mold.
Perfec(kless)tion!
Tracy Beanz is doing a great job of covering Missouri v. Biden. Her latest is a very long, detailed article in which she outlines the judge’s arguments for granting a temporary injunction which restricts social media companies from censoring speech.
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/07/11/judge-halts-government-censorship-in-landmark-free-speech-case/
[emphasis mine]
What is so striking is that all of this is what the judge wrote in his ruling; it is not the attorneys’ arguments.
This lists incident after incident of the government pressuring social media to suppress speech, with screenshots from the judge’s ruling. It’s all there in black and white.
From what I saw of Christopher Wray in the hearings, he has an amazing ability to weasel out of responsibility for anything. IMO it’s time to stop questioning him and to impeach him based on what is already known. I think there is plenty of evidence of FIB misconduct on his watch.
^^^ This. Hearings are theater. Impeach to send the message.
Time to take sides. Refusing to push to the point of taking a side reveals what side you are really on.
Choose this day…
Yup.
Been hollering, Impeach The Bastards for a long, long time.
Hearings have a purpose. Expose the corruption, and how deep it goes.
The BIG problem, IMO, is that it’s summer, and not enough people are paying attention. At least on this topic. Other topics – like when kids are involved – ARE getting attention.
Fey Wray… someone wicked this way (Wray) comes…
Your closing sentence is not accurate. Judges rarely write their own orders; the attorneys submit proposed orders for the judge to use as a base. Most of the contents of a court order or opinion is what the prevailing attorney wrote.
Thank you for that clarification.
Just didn’t want anybody to get an inflated view of judges. 😆
Seriously though, a team of highly qualified paralegals put that together. I have never produced anything close to that quality level and I think I’m a fairly decent paralegal [retired]. It is [IMO] a serious effort to win an appeal before the appeal is even filed. High level thinking.
Here come da judge 🙂
It looks like this dude is a pretty good wordsmith, in that it SOUNDS like he skilllfully molded THEIR stuff into his, without appearing to have sloppily plagiarized.
LINK: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0_1.pdf
Similar to how CONgress rarely writes its own laws, which are written/manipulated by the lobbyists 🙁
Lobbyist SHOULD BE OUTLAWED!
CONgress is supposed to represent the interest of their constituents not the interest of some foreign government or international corporation.
Absolutely!
People will lobby so long as congress has the powers it has assumed. And Congress likes it this way.
You can try to ban it. They’ll find a loophole. Congress will leave one.
If you manage to close the loopholes, it will just go underground, and congress will make sure it never gets enforced.
PLEASE post a Tracy Beanz thread reader app. Once you have that you can get access to others.
Insights from Badlands on gaymania in the culture…
Our Take: “Gay is the new cool? Well, that’s what we’re being led to believe.
We’re told it’s genetic, that people are born gay, bi, trans, etc. Then again, we’re also told that anyone can decide, by fiat, whatever they want, and then it becomes reality.
It’s all very confusing. And that’s the point.
The truth is, sexuality is one part nature and ten parts nurture.
Unlike our animal cousins, we actually build the internal structures of mind and consciousness that determine our sense of identity and resulting behavior. This internal mind and reality mapping, so to speak, occurs within the womb, all the way up to around 5 or 6 years of age.
The fact that humans can, despite our natural inheritance, choose to be gay, bi, trans, or whatever else, proves that human free will is real and that when it aligns with untruth, it creates problems. It also proves that when our culture, the nurture part of the equation, is sick and toxic, it causes distortions as we see in the LGBTQ community.
As proof of this supposition, we know that nearly all LGBTQ+ types have at least one Adverse Childhood Experience, if not many. If this was just a natural feature of humanity, why does it require a disturbed childhood to come online?
Psychologically, it’s not possible to entertain two mutually exclusive propositions at once. You can’t believe the sky is up and down at the same time—without paying a terrible price, that is.
The price?
Your soul. By this, I mean, the part of a person that has integrity, that is coherent, stable, and able to grow with time, without degrading or losing cohesion. Since the truth lasts forever, when we align with truth, in always possible, we create a stable identity, we nurture ourselves with the proper spiritual food God provided us.
But when we feed untruth to our children and develop minds via culture, we manufacture aberrant conditions in the human organism. This, I argue, is what caused the huge spike in LGBTQ+ identities within universities et al—because these young people grew up and were reared in the toxic cultural soup we’re only now becoming aware of, such as social media, porn, distorted sexual practices, gender-bending trends, and many other soul-bending influences.
That being said, we cannot discard those who were adversely affected. I would argue, we need to treat everyone the same way Jesus did, opening the door to all who are willing to walk through it, opening the truth to all in the hopes it will restore sanity.
When choices are made out of alignment with the truth, chaos, suffering, emotional turmoil and intellectual confusion are the result, visited upon the creature in their life experience. This negative feedback acts as a guide to encourage the creature to align back with the truth. If the creature persists in making choices out of alignment with the truth, the creature becomes increasingly detached from reality, leading to what we call insanity and mental illness. Eventually, they can covet anti-values, such as pedophilia, suppression of the rights of others, and the killing of the most innocent.
Sound familiar?
The culture warfare agenda has been unleashed onto humanity and it has wreaked havoc. This trend with our universities is just one of the warning signals we should pay attention to.
We have, in our good faith, ceded control of our culture to psychopaths and criminals. If we want to avoid the horrors we’re seeing now in the future, I would argue, we must learn to retake our culture, understand how it works precisely, and restore the avenues whereby each of us can play our part in the grand cultural symphony that is human civilization, for the benefit of ourselves and posterity.” —
Justin Deschamps
https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-news-brief-3f0
from the comments, I’ve never heard of this anywhere…does anyone know if this is remotely legit or another type of disinfo to get MAGA types chasing robot rabbits?
Terry Kayser
Writes Terry’s Substack
Jul 12
My own research into vaccines led me to a profound answer I was not expecting to find or hear.
For the last 20+ years the pharmaceutical industry has been putting DNA from men and women in these vaccines.
If you were a male ready to get a set of 10 shots and six of those ten were female DNA, guess what? Yep, the DNA binds with this person and could “confuse” them into thinking they’re “gay” or “homosexual”
Honestly this and traumatic events are the cause of this massive movement.
https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-news-brief-3f0/comment/18470519
Slow guy figures, laughable. (Read the post, not the article.)
Smells like something created to “bad mouth”, folks questioning safety AND effectiveness of vaccines. The latter a legitimate concern.
Similar to what they do to folks that KNOW Covid vaccines ARE dangerous, ineffective…
Sounds like the old «girl cooties» or «boy cooties» thing from grade school…
On the DNA level, the only difference between male and female is whether there is a Y chromosome. All the rest will be similar to both — after all, everyone’s set of DNA is going to be half female-origin, from their mom’s egg and half male-origin, from their dad’s sperm.
We had “girl spray” & “boy spray” on the grade school playground back in the day LOL
Sadly, this is about as accurate as flat earth, no virus, and no nukes. Very typically “badlands”, unfortunately.
TY for weighing in on that crapola!
Hope your Summer is going well & your Honey-Do list is manageable.
We’re getting by! Maybe a ground report later!
Waiting with bated breath 🙂
I’ve read it before but don’t have a link. Actually what I’ve read is that it’s the aborted fetal cell DNA. There’s definitely something going on IMO. I live in a university town, and there is a generational shift in how young men look, I’ll guesstimate young to mid millennials, so around 25 to say 35 year olds. They have hips and behinds like women, literally look like women from waist to knee. It seems to be not very common in the first of the Gen Z. I used to think it was soy in the food stream 🤷♀️
soy boi sorrows 🙁
I appreciate these intriguing anecdotes. Maybe those college towns have a higher percentage than “normal” of feminized males…for some “unknown” reason 😉
No hard work ? No corner BB games. No weekend football with friends ? No hiking ? No yard work ?
Code Monkey’s substack is up!
https://codemonkeyz.substack.com/p/behind-the-shadows
Here Code Monkey does a quick insightful analysis on Sweden, Turkey, NATO, EU, & the Quran burning,,,quick read…
https://codemonkeyz.substack.com/p/behind-diplomatic-shadows
“The prevalence of unconventional warfare in this era highlights the crucial role played by psychological operations. Therefore, the cardinal principle that all messages should be rooted in truth must dictate the design of successful psyops.”
https://codemonkeyz.substack.com/p/understanding-psyops
Mojitos remind me of that exciting TV show – Burn Notice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Notice
Yep, Sam Axe!!!
I loved that show. “Should we shoot them?”
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty | The White House
HUMOR:
via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13488 click link for images
“Hollywood actors begin the biggest strike in history. The protest will be attended by 160,000 actors, including stars of the first magnitude.
One of the main reasons for the controversy is that major film studios have offered all actors to sign contracts that allow their appearance to be scanned and used to create prototypes based on artificial intelligence. In other words, create exact copies of the stars and use them instead of the “originals”. Have you watched the new episode of Black Mirror on this topic? And the guys again predicted the future very accurately! Well, either Netflix simply stated a fact, to which, among other things, they themselves were involved.
From July 14, film studios will stop work on “Gladiator 2” with Paul Mescal and the second part of the picture “Mortal Kombat”. Filming of the next season of the series “House of the Dragon” remains in doubt. Also, due to the protest movement of artists, the Emmy ceremony may be postponed.”
Hollyweird going on strike IS great news. Hope they remain on strike, for years.
Nothing lost. America wins.
Agree!
TBH, all creative sorts should be glad to see this. AI is a way to make us all obsolete. Hollywood has gotten stagnate and with AI it will only get worse as there is no original creativity involved, just what has already been done reworked.
I realize that I am in the minority on this, being on the side of the striking parties as they are now considered expendable by management. Management went with the concept of franchises rather than original content, and it’s killing them. It should.
Can’t see ya being in the minority on this. Secure creativity. Makes sense.
On a broader thought, I find Hollywood repulsive.
I hear you DePat …
My observation of current creativity in Hollywood is that it is driven by TPTB to reflect it’s agenda (actually this has been the case for decades.) and the result is unpalatable for me, and many others I think…
I agree with regard to AI … it’s just that in this instance the two are somewhat convoluted (? sorry, can’t get right words here)… as usual, in my view anyway, the grievance is about $$$ –
Interestingly enough, with HollyWeird all out on strike, more people will be available (as it were) to watch “Sound Of Freedom”…
What’s not to like? 🙂
Having said that, the thought of AI is anathema to me. Although the term itself is just lipstick on a very old pig (expert systems), first commercialized by IBM and its medical infosystem “ELIZA” (which some said would do little real work)…
It supposedly “outshrinked a shrink”…
Now it’s just got more computing power behind it, but little else.
But a lot of potential for misuse and damage, much of that due to YSM/MCM hype and misunderstanding (or propaganda). Operation Mockingbird’s dropppings all over the place yet again…
Tom Cruise does a good job with his Mission Impossible franchise. It seems to me that there has to be a good ‘base idea’ first, then franchise can be done well. Otherwise, it’s just more CGI.
I hope it red pills a lot of them. Things are weird . All the conspiracy theories being shown to be truth. AI threatening not only writers but the actors too…and warehouse workers, fruit harvesters, etc, etc, etc
Red pills, yes. I don’t blame them for striking, and I think they’re doing the right thing. Their not working won’t affect me, though.. 😊
Yes it will. Movies like Sound of Freedom also will be unable to be made.
Indy films are the future.
Forsaken Mercenary: A Sci-Fi Thriller Short Film by Wolf Pack Entertainment — Kickstarter
I don’t think the Kendrick brothers operate out of Hollywood & they created quite a few good wholesome movies like Fireproof & War Room.
Indy is short for Independent and hollywood is not involved.
yes TY, but I was replying to pgroup who’d only just mentioned Pedowood…
Sound of Freedom and Indy films WILL be made. Perhaps on a shoestring but I think people will prefer watching REAL people and not AI
No movies can be made using actors that are members of the Screen Actors Guild.
predictive programming?
LOL! I need to watch this one!
It wasn’t a bad reboot of the Blade Runner franchise iirc 🙂
One disturbing Graffito from the 1970s in the Sillycone Valley comes to mind:
“Be careful of the new-hire you’re showing the ropes to. You could be training your own replacement”…..
Happened a lot back then, and then in 2001, 2008, other “bust” years. Only the last few bunches were H-1B programmers (or the European equivalent) from India…
To be honest, artificial “intelligence” might produce slightly better pablum and drivel than the current
crapcrop of REAL stupidity in unHollyWeird…The top directing the ‘creation’ will still be the same. So it will be AI created REALLY stupid pablum and drivel.
Verse of the Day for Friday, July 14, 2023
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“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Isaiah 40:8 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
Isaiah is my dad’s favorite. He is so forgetful now, but he still loves to work Isaiah verses into conversation; it is truly written on his heart 🥹
Try Coconut oil.
Slide Show: https://restorativemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Newport.Ketones.pdf
Lion’s Mane Mushroom is another food that can help brain function (I asked Aubergine and she said it is well known.)
Finally, Hubby (80) was having a lot of problems with balance and falling to the point he had to start using a cane and had trouble with the stairs. HAMBURGER WORKED WONDERS! He had not been eating much of the beef I cooked because it was too had for him to chew so now he eats meatloaf. — 3 lb hamburger, cup oatmeal (Quick oats, 1/4 cup water, 3 raw eggs, spices and cook to 160F
Now I have to get him to eat the coconut oil consistently (He quit when it went liquid in this heat wave and is now back on the cane…) And we need to order Lions Mane.
https://goascentnutrition.com/products/lions-mane-mushroom
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Thank you Gail 💕
That’s so beautiful ❤
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How wonderful!
Isaiah 40:31 is one of my favorite verses:
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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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.
BE MY VOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Thank you for these. Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog. Be well.
God Bless YOU, Duchess, & thank you for your continuing ministry of light & love!
“ Washington is trying with all its might to keep NATO cracking at the seams, but these attempts are doomed to failure ,” retired US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor said in an interview with Stephen Gardner.
According to him, the Western military bloc is reminiscent of the sinking Titanic, which crashed when it collided with an iceberg – Ukraine.
click link for vid clip https://t.me/sv_lavrov/7968
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China recalled that NATO is in “bloody debt” to Beijing
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying warned the West against trying to create an analogue of NATO in Asia . It sounded menacing.
“We have not forgotten NATO’s bloody debt to China for the bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia. The countries of the Asia-Pacific region are against the military machine, especially the “Asia-Pacific version of NATO”, which ignites bloc confrontation or a new cold war,” she tweeted.
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Uh-oh. They remember.
Seems we’re (read: TPTB of the “West”) the only ones who don’t…..
… condemned to repeat it…
Save lives, give us global warming: Even in cities, cold kills ten times as many people — « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
John Kerry devastated at House hearing on climate by Scott Perry – JunkScience.com
Great job shredding Kerry.
Lurch should be a used-car salesman.
In RED China… or Ukraine…
Red China…
Wow. And in Michael Manniac’s backyard, as it were…
A lot of good stuff out there this am. So, sharing rather than saving:
Robert Kiyosaki Says Gold-Backed BRICS Currency Will Kill Dollar
Will not kill. Maim, seriously injure, whatever. There will be a response. But the petro dollar is dead as the world currency. When facilitators exist for other forms of currency exchange – the dollar gets reduced in usage and value. That is what is happening with BRICS.
The world doesn’t need a ‘world currency’ … it needs sovereignty … individual national sovereignty, not the US Hegemon bullying the RoW with it’s ‘baseball bat’ the petro dollar.
Americans delude themselves thinking ‘the war is over there’ … it’s going to be very painful for Americans.
It’s my thought that BRICs will be backing their currency with a mixed basket of commodities … I think you agree TradeBait
That makes the most sense. However that basket will be backed by gold. Rubles already are. Most likely, it will be gold denominated rather than the gold standard the way America used to do it.
Agree …
CEO Fires 90 Percent Of Customer Service Staff, Replacing Them With An AI Chatbot
They’re in a hurry, aren’t they…
Shopping in Kroger yesterday I heard a computer voice over the PA system calling out individual employees (numbers) to pick up phone, etc. First time I’ve experienced that…
I had a store manager try to get me to use an automated checkout station. I said NO!, I use cash. He then said he would teach me how to use the auto checkout, at which point I said I am NOT interested in putting people out of work AND I am NOT interested in Bank Digital currency, ‘Social Credit scores and the store recording what I buy.
I got chuckles and applause.
w/o reading the article it sounds like the precursor to an infinitely worse version of phone “customer service” hell, being routed to an AI that may just invent an answer, like that flawed AI based brief the lawyer gave to the judge. Outsourced CS to India at least allowed for Actual human interactions in theoretical customer service…
in the comments to the above…in replying to someone wanting to catalog all of Majel Barrett’s voice scenes…
@terragthegreat1752 years ago
I hoping eventually Amazon allows you to set her voice as Alexa’s. Majel Barrett recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds before she died, and AI could fill in the gaps. they’ve got to do it!
I guess that such AI functions could allow people to design their own unique computer interfaces or something…hmmm…
At its most painful and egregious extent, you end up with Eddie, from Hitchhiker’s Guide To Th Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Eddie being a creation of Sirius Cybernetics, a computer with RPP (Real People Personalities), just like Marvin, the Paranoid Android (who was a beta version, apparently).
From https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/eddie
(A fomer colleague of mine was probably the role model for Eddie’s personality, right down to the annoying perkiness. He moved to Silicon Valley to get away from LA, but LA wasn’t able to get away from him, so to speak…)…
HHGTTG has a wonderful description of Sirius Cybernetics, which is probably evocative of what will happen with AI eventually…
Fascinating! I keep meaning to see that movie 🙂 & read the book (assuming the movie is based on a book, a book almost always being better!) 😇
Actually, the movie, TV miniseries, radio show, and book are all different.
The ever expanding, creative, & encyclopedic minds of Q-Treepers see & know all! 😉 TY
I prefer the books. The one movie I saw really didn’t capture it.
It started off as a radio show, then a TV show, then books (originally a trilogy) were made from that; up to five or six, now usually sold in an omnibus edition.
The scripts are available on the web as “Fit the first”, “Fit the second”, etc. and provide the unvarnished source.
It’s been translated into many languages (including German), and the British English and US English versions are different (I prefer the british one, though I can’t find my full set of either… off to the interwebs I go).
Adams has also written other books, among them “The Meaning of Liff”, which gives new meaning to city names (Skegness, for instance). Also, “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”, “The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul”, and “Last Chance To See”, a documentary about animals nearing extinction…
Brilliant, funny mind, but irreverent in many senses of the word… seems to go with the sci-fi territory, sad to say…..
Thank you for these details! I enjoy sci fi for its creativity & unusual visions of the future. I enjoy steampunk for its creativity & reimagining of a fictitious past.
I once read a young adult book that had time travel & parallel universes. In that book the Russian Revolution either hadn’t happened or had failed & the Czar & family had survived. Such a fun way to envision a past or future in a “what might have been” vision. Similarly “The Man in the High Castle” book envisioned America as if we’d lost WWII & Germany & Japan had carved up the US w/ separate regions of control & a small neutral zone buffering those totalitarian national prison camps.
Amazon Prime has done a series based on the Man in the High Castle that has such an interesting vibe. They have America arrested technologically & culturally in the ’40’s though the events are, iirc, happening in the ’60’s. It’s like seeing those old cars in Cuba & not being sure exactly when in history certain images are taken.
I like how this video portrays the ages & possibilities. I wonder what Scarlett Johansson film many of these clips are from?
There’s, per usual, lots of info here too 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
“I like how this video portrays the ages & possibilities. I wonder what Scarlett Johansson film many of these clips are from?”
I think there are two clips for Scarlett. The first is “Ghost in the Shell” and the second where she is sitting in a chair is “Lucy”. Lucy is quite a good film if you like science fiction.
Thank you for this info!!! I hadn’t heard of either of these movies…Now I’m checking to see if we have access to either of them via Netflix (no but they have a couple cartoon series based on Ghost in the Shell) or Amazon Prime, they have Lucy to rent so I watched the preview for free 🙂 ditto her GitS, but there is a GitS animated film, remastered from the original we can watch for free. Both the movies look interesting!
There was an “alternate history” where the American revolution had failed, George W had met George III and somehow hammered out the differences. In essence the British Commonwealth with multiple countries sharing the same monarch came about then, instead of later. (Benjamin Franklin actually suggested such in 1760 or so before Parliament became totally intransigent about trying to rule us.)
The book was titled The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove; the plot concerned the theft of a painting by that name by separatists just before King Charles’ visit to the North American Union (Combined Canada and US) with Alaska still belonging to Russia and Latin America belonging to a combined Spain and France.
TY I hadn’t heard of this. I think Newt Gingrich might have written some alternative histories from the WWII era.
found this on our library system
Days of infamyby Gingrich, Newt.SummaryThe “New York Times”-bestselling authors of “Pearl Harbor” return with the second novel in their action-packed World War II historical series, which examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. Illustrated.
I don’t know if that one is related to the Gingrinch/Fortschen book 1946.
me neither…here’s Wikipoo’s take:
FictionGingrich co-wrote the following alternate history novels and series of novels with William R. Forstchen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich
Doesn’t sound like it, and I got the title wrong. It was begging for a sequel.
Maybe one’s in the works 🙂
Yes, but Eddie was in the space time continuum.
Aren’t we all 😉 😉
Looking for Slartibartfaster 🙂
And now, for a spot of tea…. “Share and Enjoy” 🙃
BREAKING: Fed-Protected J6 Provocateur Ray Epps Sues FOX for Defamation… Tucker Carlson and Revolver News in Crosshairs…
https://www.revolver.news/2023/07/breaking-fed-protected-j6-provocateur-ray-epps-sues-fox-for-defamation-tucker-carlson-and-revolver-news-in-crosshairs/?utm_source=left-rail-latest
Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme
Anonymous Conservative:
Excellent observations DePat …
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Also one over the cat’s mouth. It’d be yowling otherwise.
At least lizards are quiet, even if they raise a heck of a stench!
Many can hiss…which means you don’t want to try to approach them.
Fortunately Darwin has appropriated the “tame” personality of his master so has no such nasty habits! 😉
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hmmm
“Fortunately Darwin did not appropriate the personality of his master so he had no such nasty habits!”
Fixed it for you.
In all seriousness, he could get very upset, like the time I accidentally rolled
into him with an office chair. That took him about ten minutes to get over; be
fore that fingers and noses would have been fair game. Oddly enough he seemed t
o suffer no permanent injury. I have no idea to this day what part of him I hit; I just know I felt resistance and instantly stopped, and he was boiling mad.
Wow. Is he the type of creature that can re-grow body parts to some degree? That would be a bit of a safety net on injuries if so!
Cat should be outside, FAR outside, taped to the wall, duct-tape-mummified…
Gives a whole new meaning to grey tabby 🙂
Billionaire hedge fund manager who was key DeSantis backer ‘has PAUSED support for Florida governor’s ailing 2024 campaign after “growing impatient” with his poor performance’
These people are morons.
It makes no difference how De Wind Sock performs. He is a cover band, and the original is still playing to record crowds.
This is not hard, rich donor-people. If you want a Republican President come 2025, get behind Trump. Otherwise, you will get whomever the commies nominate and run, even if it is Camel Harris.
You can take that to the bank.
Jean-Luc Brunel: Epstein associate found dead in Paris prison cell
Anonymous Conservative:
I agree, actually. A lot of the “hangings” might well be extractions.
Agree. Quite common MeThinks.
Not just Epstein related stuff. Clinton Crime Family. Briben crime Family. IRS whistleblowers.
Wherever witnessed need to be silenced – “offed” works.
To some degree, “offed”, may be replacing, destroying physical evidence by fire, flood… Or data destroyed, goes missing, like “J6 bomb” pics…
FIB AND DOJ, play their “cover up” roles. Confirming.
Have to wonder about John McAfee, too… His hangout in the islands was not too far from Epstein’s island, and he likely saw and “heard” things that TPTB would rather that he neither saw nor heard… one could say, “the man who knew too much”…
On a side note, it’s terrible what Intel and others have done to what once was a great AV program. There’s a hilarious, although likely NSFW YouTube of John McAfee explaining how to deinstall Intel’s flavor of McAfee Antivirus…
DeSantis Down
IMO, Ron DeepState was trying to be “the kinder, gentler” version of Donald Trump, and couldn’t make it stick.
Don’t know about Ron DeepState “has excelled as Florida’s chief executive — he wasn’t smart enough to realize how Disney could run circles around him regarding the tax issues? Ron DeepState had to play catch-up game on that one.
I think your answer is there in your nickname for the man. Most of the politicians who care about America even a little are trying to be the “inside the system” version of Trump. So far it hasn’t convinced too many ordinary Americans.
Thankfully AND never will sway MAGA types.
Gotta believe Americans in general are waking up.
OKAY, I’m hoping, Americans in general are waking up.
The Dem party has nothing to offer by way of accomplishments. The economy is in shambles. Schools are infested with groomers and those usurping parental rights.
They’re threatening taxing miles traveled.
Housing is falling apart, owners being forced to rent to people who the govt says.
Food prices off the charts. Shortages.
Slow creep of vax injury being exposed.
Trillions of dollars for proxy war and now admitting we’ll be sending our military in.
Felons running free. Stores looted daily.
Biden is an embarrassment. Kamala is an idiot. Newsome is a slick player with his own State falling apart. Michelle O ? No way she’d give up her celebrity lifestyle now. Any number of race baiters with the tired message of oppression
They got nothing and nobody that can really run on the fumes of American destruction that their big guy Biden has brought.
I gave up on who is running (yes, I know I am alone in my position here) … it’s a long time between now and Nov 2024 in terms of world events … there may not be an election … I’ll stop there.
very possible
Only two things matter there.
Even if Trump wins again (which he would even more massively than 2020) if the fraud machine isn’t thwarted, & it hasn’t been, how will he be seated in his legit office? I have Very Little Hope for elections. We did NOT vote the commies in so what makes any sane person think we could possibly vote them out!!!
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/07/14/washington-is-begging-for-a-preemptive-nuclear-attack-from-russia/
by Paul Craig Roberts
Yours Truly: If one is reading Mr. Roberts’ article correctly, ti appears he believes the United States government will go to nuclear war with Russia in order to protect the U.S.-funded bioweapon labs all over Ukraine.
FTA: “The Washington Dumbshits are encouraging Russia to wipe out the U.S. in a desperate act of self-preservation.”
And, not least:
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/07/14/this-day-in-history-french-revolutionaries-storm-the-bastille-1789-4/
IMO.
What I don’t get.
They published a good bit on US biolabs, and they took the case to the UN…
where it resides…
The RF will hold tribunals…
^^^^this^^^^
Agree. Understand. Them tribunals need to be widely watched AND International. Otherwise, they will not gain traction. Tribunals need to be successful.
Here’s hoping Scott’s take is accurate, shared yesterday here:
https://www.theqtree.com/2023/07/13/dear-maga-open-thread-20230713/#comment-1124152
Putin also knows that nuking the U.S. wouldn’t just be pointless, it would be doing the lawless U.S. regime a favor, because nobody wants us all dead more than they do.
A = lawless U.S. regime
B = Russia
C = American People
If A nukes B, it makes no sense for B to nuke C. It only makes sense for B to retaliate against A.
Attacking C accomplishes nothing for B. Instead, if B attacks C, it actually helps A.
Normally, a government represents the People of a nation, so if you are at war with a nation, you are at war with the People and their government. But the governments of the West don’t represent the People of the West in the slightest. They represent someone’s interests, but it’s definitely not the interests of the People.
Putin certainly knows who those someones are.
The whole concept of ‘mutually assured destruction’ only works if both sides are legitimately defending and protecting their own People.
If one party to the conflict isn’t, then the concept fails.
Putin is protecting his country and the Russian People, but the lawless U.S. regime obviously isn’t.
So there is no leverage behind a threat by Putin to attack the U.S. homeland, because it would not hurt the Brandon regime, it would be doing the Brandon regime a favor.
Putin also knows that Trump will win the 2024 election easily, so long as he has a plan to overcome Cabal cheating. And Putin knows that Trump doesn’t want war with anyone.
So it would appear to be in Putin’s interest to just keep doing what he’s doing, at least until the 2024 election.
The Brandon regime will do everything possible to provoke the Russian Bear, but this bear is smarter than the clown show behind the U.S. Puppetent.
The lawless U.S. regime can’t initiate a nuclear strike without becoming a global pariah, so as long as Putin doesn’t use nuclear weapons, no nuclear exchange can occur.
The lawless U.S. regime could do a nuclear strike on Ukraine though, and then blame the Russians, providing themselves an excuse to nuke Russia, in the same way that they blamed the Russians for destroying their own Nordstream pipelines and other targets, which no one in the world believes they actually did, it’s just an absurd fantasy the Western media tells themselves.
Rather sure Putin knows who the enemy is. Which starts with District of Criminals.
1,000%!
He’s said it numerous times in speeches, and repeatedly stressed as well that it’s not the American people who are the problem…..
Just looking at how the Deep State and DEMONRATS (but I repeat myself) vilify everything and everyone that’s good or well-intentioned, it’s no surprise that “Russia, Russia, Russia” has been pushed for decades as the “Dark Side”, when, in point of fact, it’s just another lie manufactured by the Klowns in Action. Mockingbird redux…
“Rather sure Putin knows who the enemy is. Which starts with District of Criminals.”
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I’m not even sure they’re near the top of the ladder.
Hussein is above them, Sorass and Gates are above Hussein (because $$$), WEF appears to be above them, and WEF definitely isn’t the top of the food chain, just the highest (or higher) visible link.
District of Criminals are probably the equivalent of a street gang in the global new world disorder.
They can be had for $10k each. Gates has more than that lost in his couch.
Will Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare?
I will … as soon as I wake up from it …🙃
Me too.
Bureaucratic and Political Ineptitude Gave Way to Institutionalized Lying
Gives way? Somehow, I think it always was.
Obsession with ‘Systemic’ Everything is Threat to American Resilience
Too Little Targeting of The Woke and The Powerful, But Hopefully Not Too Late
Censorship by Another Name Is Still Dangerous
The Republican Body Politic
It’s clear as the glitter on your body. The ideal fit body is naked or swathed in feathers or obese wearing spandex or furry bunny suits. Formerly the military had fit members. Now many are slovenly and unable to complete the regimen.
Coding fitness as far right will be another crack in the Leftist brand. People aren’t stupid.
BREAKING: Fed-Protected J6 Provocateur Ray Epps Sues FOX for Defamation… Tucker Carlson and Revolver News in Crosshairs…
https://www.revolver.news/2023/07/breaking-fed-protected-j6-provocateur-ray-epps-sues-fox-for-defamation-tucker-carlson-and-revolver-news-in-crosshairs/?utm_source=left-rail-latest
Something interesting here — rubbery bloodclots in an UN-“vaccinated” patient who had COVID-19 infection:
https://anamhalceamdphd.substack.com/p/c19-unvaccinated-have-some-blood
“C19 Unvaccinated Have Same Blood Clotting Problem As C19 Vaccinated – EDTA And Vitamin C Prevents Blood Clotting In C19 Unvaccinated”
by Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD
July 13, 2023
Good grief! The whole country is doomed then. Unless they take nattokinase.
Is it possible misinfo to deflect from the vax facts ? That way they can point to cv not the jab ?
Yes. My first thought.
IMO, it’s a complicated issue. There’s the question of exactly what the “ingredients” are, and in what amounts, in the original Wuhan Hu1 COVID-19 virus. Then, apparently the lab work on the blood was performed in Dr. Mihalcea’s office lab.
EDTA… interesting…
There’s been a lot of flak about EDTA for a few years now, as it’s a preservative in many meds (e.g. contact lens cleaning solution, etc.) and supposedly causes problems…
Could that flak perhaps be because the anti-clotting/anti-fibrin beneficial effects were known, and slated to be silenced, much like Ivermectin and HCQ….
Well, there is the shedding problem.
Was the person having intimate relations with a vaxxed? I ask because I not only saw personality and health changes in vaxxed people around me, but in other people I knew were not vaxxed, but were sexually involved with someone who was.
More than one way to be “injected” I think.
Seems like Arlo Guthrie saw it years ago…. 🙂
Great lyrics!
From “Alice’s Restaurant”, a classic album…
Arlo also sang “City of New Orleans” about a fallen flag train (i.e. one being discontinued) “This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues”….
(the song was written by Steve Goodman – the story of how it got to Arlo is in Wackypaedia… most folks think Arlo wrote it, but he was the one who made it famous)…
Cool.
I love it when you talk dirty. 😂
Lol! You kill me!
Amen!
God Given Right=Natural Right!
I feel as if we are doomed. (Sigh)
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While Washington and the nation, at large, is focused on the Southern border, there is a forgotten invasion of Florida.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/13/rep-matt-gaetz-dont-haiti-my-florida/
And were not even really focused on the Southern Border which just makes matters worse. We just have to know we are going to get “Frenched” soon, either by Biden over the election or China over Taiwan. Or combo if they are working in collusion which is a strong possibility.
Seriously thinks the 3000 call up is just starters and they’ll be followed by more and thus Brandon can toss his hands up and say… “We don’t have the troops (for dealing with Taiwan or getting Frenched in General.
Don’t forget the “… at one time” in Biden’s EO
Some think Americans have been and are ‘boots on the ground’
And… may I add… that is with CONVENTIONAL not nuclear weapons… (Andrei is a great teacher of weapons’ abilities … been following him for over a year… Larry Johnson does too.)
These 3000 are logistics troops, not combat. The US does not have combat reserves, with the exception of a couple of special ops units. This activation is directly due to the military’s failure to recruit sufficiently.
Go woke – go broke.
via https://t.me/petr_tolstoy/1846
“The law on the prohibition of gender reassignment was adopted in the third, final reading. In addition to the fact that a ban is introduced on any medical manipulations for this purpose, it is now forbidden to adopt children to persons who have changed their sex, and the very fact of such a transformation of one of the spouses is the basis for divorce. An exception is made for cases of congenital anomalies, genetic and endocrine diseases that require such treatment, the decision to start which is made not by the doctor alone, but by the medical commission of a medical institution subordinate to the Ministry of Health.
As in the case of the adoption of the law banning surrogacy for foreigners (read – child trafficking), we met with fierce resistance to the adoption of this initiative at various levels. It is clear that both surrogate motherhood and gender reassignment operations are a very profitable business for some, and for LGBT communities it is a way to increase the number of perverts, a resource for growing influence. Meanwhile, for the country it is a matter of national security. The war is not only on the front line, the war is going on in the heads and souls, and we want to protect our country from being destroyed from within.
I want to thank all the colleagues who got involved in the work, the relevant committee, which did a great job, personally Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin for his tough and principled position.”
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^^^^THIS is what Americans want to hear from our politicians …
but their pockets are so loaded with $$$ they have no will …
Why is the military failing its recruitment targets? Couldn’t be people like this in there already, could it?
https://nypost.com/2023/07/14/army-soldier-craig-chamberlains-transgender-wife-found-dead-during-his-disappearance/
I haven’t had enough coffee to understand who’s who and who’s what in that story.
It appears that they’re hitting the desired recruitment targets fairly well but I think it’s smoke and mirrors to announce non citizen recruits.
Entry requirements likely lowered to accept dregs of society AND dummies.
People here from the Hallows used to go into the military to serve the country. They are tough as both leather. They will not put up with transgender stuff. They are not dumb . My husband had many in his class and they are decent people what I have seen.
Bad touch is any touch that makes a child feel uncomfortable, afraid or nervous. Examples include hitting or inappropriate touching of a child’s body.
https://www.utmb.edu/pedi/home/treating-children-well/2020/04/20/good-touch-and-bad-touch
“Please don’t touch my child without asking,” or, “They don’t like it when people touch them.”
Why It Works: Straight and to the point, this one pulls no punches. If someone touches your child, whether it’s to feel their hair, give them a hug, or tickle them, you have a right to tell that person to back off.
When To Use It: When the boundary violation is egregious or when you just don’t have time for BS. Also good for when your child is too young to speak for themselves.
https://www.romper.com/p/9-ways-to-tell-someone-not-to-touch-your-kids-respect-their-space-3915
The pervert in chief at it again using his status and privilege as a shield. Like many molesters who use their position…church people, scout leaders, teachers, family members, coaches. They count on no pushback.
By now anyone with a small girl in the vicinity of FJB has to already know there’s a big chance their child is going to be touched inappropriately. Would they let some saggy dude at the grocery store do this ??? nope
Mama is at fault here also… imo
she should not have allowed this
Agree 100%.
May also include the dad. Both screwed up to allow it. Allow their daughter so close to Chief Pervert.
You are correct.
She could have turned around. I would have told him off. Why do women allow a creep to touch their child ? I do not even let a stranger touch my dog.
Women lost their steel ovaries We always critique guys who are mushrooms😂
Women of the past had guts we protected our kids .
Yep.
Inaction is acquiescence, or even approval…
True
Bye,Done is not just an embarrassment to Americans; he’s an embarrassment to REAL MEN, and to the human race, in general.
That pervy behvaiour is so far over the top that it beggars description or understanding…
Unless…it’s scripted????
Millstone time…
No way is that scripted. Every pore in his body is oozing demented lech . Creepy Joe
shudder, puke, repeat ad nauseum…
The Daily Chart: Behind France’s Decline | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
Gen Flynn: “May God help us in our daily lives because we’re getting to that point where only He will be able to save us.”
I understand Gen Flynn’s point and point of view . . . but, we have always been at that point where only God can save us.
Amen!
You identify the primary reason I have never been able to align with this man’s thoughts and opinions.
He’s exactly right. Although, I suspect the Almighty is already working on that.
Amen
AMEN!
This was a winner! Thank you, DP!!!
Rabbit Faced Baby Found in Iowa, Buck Toothed Mom Chewed Carrots While Pregnant
That’ll give them something to chew on 🙂
helpful info from comments there 🙂
vaporland
July 13, 2023 5:38 pm
Reply to mycroft
I don’t know about the spiders, but, if you replace everything in a WSJ URL from the ? rightward, with this:
?mod=djemalertNEWS
you can read the wall street journal for free!
for example:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ron-desantis-campaign-trump-republicans-c129381e?mod=djemalertNEWS
when you click another WSJ link on the same page, just replace everything from the ? rightward with ?mod=djemalertNEWS
before:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-feud-freedom-caucus-641b7067?mod=hp_lead_pos9
after:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-feud-freedom-caucus-641b7067?mod=djemalertNEWS
you’re welcome!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/13/rabbit-faced-baby-found-in-iowa-buck-toothed-mom-chewed-carrots-while-pregnant/comment-page-2/#comment-9997297
also in comments, handy AI description & below a way to thwart spiders
https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ae5e03971ca4af767c55d514409aa7d4?s=64&r=g
cdquarles
July 13, 2023 6:51 pm
Reply to mycroft
These things are not intelligent. They are massive if-then-elseif scripts coupled to a natural language parser (which is susceptible to error, like anything else man made). Artificial they are. Intelligent they are not. Make them throw an unhandled error ;p, like Kirk and Harry Mudd did. Mudd, the inveterate liar, except when he wasn’t.
https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d80ae9fcc0a4fbb4033e5835b77b9545?s=64&r=g
zoom
July 13, 2023 6:16 pm
Reply to mycroft
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Thank Sundance. I just linked it.
That’s what I’m thanking you for!
America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded
Note he leaves out the Federal Reserve and the TAXES that feed it.
And yes, I get that he is talking about the Marxist fomented Anger and HATE by the grievance class.
Sundance using recipe code to get info out…
“Google has never, not a single time, ever, set up sweep and search parameters to protect Republicans. Content against Obama and various Democrats was always the source material they wanted to see removed. However, for the first time ever, Google is now concerned about criticism and research related to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. In fact, Google sweeps are now demanding the removal of content that is critical of Ron DeSantis and the RNC.
In the spreadsheet below you can see 21 CTH articles that have been flagged by Google for their extremist nature.
Research, opinion and analysis of Ron DeSantis is now labeled “dangerous”, “harmful”, and/or “derogatory” by Google.”
“This should not necessarily come as a surprise, because Ron DeSantis is a candidate supported by all the billionaires and major multinational corporations in the U.S 2024 election.
In addition to being ideologically skewed to the far-left, the Alphabet Google corporation is owned mostly by Blackrock, Vanguard and Larry Page; then come the smaller institutional investment groups. The multinationals who control Google, also control most of the donor wealth behind Ron DeSantis.
You won’t find anyone on the DeSantis team that admits this fact, but our experience with the Google content police shows they are targeting and demanding the removal of content against the interests of Ron DeSantis. Google supports DeSantis.
If you thought the Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush support for DeSantis was revealing, how much more revealing is it to realize Google is supporting DeSantis? What does that tell you?
The Google blackmail goes like this….. Remove the content above, or we will pull all Google Advertising from your website. Obviously, on our shoestring budget that sucks, but whatever… the larger point is to note how Google is concerned about “harmful claims” against Ron DeSantis.
That is quite a remarkable shift.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/11/recipe-for-perfect-pancakes-3/
https://electroverse.info/southern-africa-freezes-rare-snow-johannesburg-summer-snows-india-aussies-hit-by-brutal-cold-snap/
SOUTHERN AFRICA FREEZES, RARE SNOWFALL HITS JOHANNESBURG; SUMMER SNOWS SLAM NORTHERN INDIA, EFFORT UNDERWAY TO RESCUE 300 TRAPPED TOURISTS; + MILLIONS OF AUSSIES HIT BY “BRUTAL COLD SNAP”JULY 11, 2023 CAP ALLON
SOUTHERN AFRICA FREEZES, RARE SNOWFALL HITS JOHANNESBURGSouthern Africa is enduring fierce freeze this week as a blast of polar air engulfs the likes of SA, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, as well as Angola, Zambia and Malawi.
Coastal regions are struggling to climb above 10C (50F), while at higher-elevations and inland, frosts are proving widespread, with reports of rare snowfall coming out of some unusual spots such as Zimbabwe and South Africa, such as Johannesburg.
I really wish Robert W. Felix had not died or that someone had kept his website, iceagenow, going. It was the one place that archived cold weather events that the Fake News never covered.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150213023941/https://iceagenow.info/about-the-author/
Some of the older articles are available here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150215052959/http://iceagenow.com/Sunspots_and_global_cooling.htm
Yep. Over the last five years or so we have lost a number of beacons of truth, reason, and knowledge. Also bloggers like Pointman and (not sure if he had a blog) Larry Ledwick…
I thought this was incredible to see.
summer snow? Isn’t it technically winter right now below the equator?
Yep. Midwinter, at that…
All this weather hysteria is due to the WEFfenSS (suprise, surprise)… It’s the hottest summer since, erm, last week…
People have caught on to the COVID scam, and are looking for whatever TPTB will use next. WEF have already said numerous times that they’re using Gore-Bull warming (aka CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming) as leverage for total control and total taxation…
Everything is cyclical, even the weather and climate. And their “ever” goes back only a hundred years or so, with the great majority of weather stations and their records having been shut down the last couple of decades…. fancy that… WUWT has their “Surfacestations” project, and I’m sure there are plenty more working to clean up the damage the Climastrologists have done. Also, at WUWT (and probably Chiefios, Tallbloke’s blog, and others I can’t remember right now [Help, Gail!] ) there are articles about “Climategate”… great reading (and maddening, at that). Phil Jones, UEA, the “State Penn”, Manniac, and others, with “Harry Readme” fighting for the cause of truth…
Excellent details–TY!
Summer snow refers to the Himalayan Mountains. It never gets warm there in the summer but snow is rare.
TY! I didn’t read the article & was just reacting to what was in those titles. I was thinking it might be referring to India which I wasn’t sure was even partially below the Equator either. My lacking education is showing (again) 🙂
Seems it never snows in southern Himalaya…
….but monks, don’t they warn ya….
Electric Monks (from “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” by Douglas Adams), segue perhaps to AI 😮
I think so but its unusual anyway.
OK thx 🙂
So much for the Badlands Support of Mike Pence. I always thought he was a sleasy slimy empty suit lawyer!
Wow, Just Wow – Presidential Candidate Mike Pence Says a Collapsing USA is Not His Concern, Supporting Ukraine is Priority — SUNDANCE
MORE:
Kids hit Pence with water balloons after he says he does not care about the USA.
Wow! Sign that girl up!
Sing a song of sick Pence,
Sold out for a dime
With all that he’s committed,
He should be doing time…
Pence looks like he just bit into a Lemon, with a vinegar chaser…
Well, Judas Pence, that’s about what we think about you, too…
Video title, Tucker Carlson just ended Mike Pence’s entire career.
More correctly titled,
Mike Pence opened mouth, inserted foot, ending his entire career.
P U R E GOLD.
It’s creepy how Pence almost never looks at Tucker when he’s talking to him, seems disrespectful…
And what all that weird finger pointing with whole arm movements…he learned emoting from the Master Geppetto’s acting school ?
LOL!!!
That’s because he’s lying.
Hypocrite that he is…
No doubt & botox’d &/or chemical peeled too–gag a MAGA(t) (yeah I shamelessly reused it) 😉
Exactly. He looked as if he was just waiting for Tucker to stop talking so he could say what he had already planned. He looked disdainful and then calls what Tucker said “a routine.” Very disrespectful. Tucker looked puzzled and disturbed by what he was hearing.
Good call & we share Tucker’s abhorrence!
All over both coasts this summer, close to shore. Guess the ocean is getting healthier?
Actually, the theory that the species has recovered after the mass slaughters in the 70s after the movie “Jaws” has some merit. The thing is, they really don’t like humans. We’re too boney. If information on migration hang outs was available – and warnings to humans to stay away was available….
Most of the encounters on this side socal seem to be juveniles thank goodness. Still….eek.
Ahhh, the far side… (and there are probably a bunch of Gahan Wilson ones out there too) 🙂
and
👍 lol.
Inflation be damned — Brown coal is still making electricity for 3c a Kilowatt hour « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
And once again, Montana just ain’t having it with these woke, Marxist, queer-theory freaks:
“In an unprecedented move, the Montana State Library voted on Tuesday to cut ties with the American Library Association after its new president repeatedly claimed to identify as a “Marxist.”
The seven-member commission voted 5-1 this week to “immediately withdraw” from the ALA, making it the first state entity to leave the nonprofit, the Daily Signal reported.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/montana-state-library-cuts-ties-with-american-library-association-after-new-president-identifies-as-marxist-lesbian-constitution-forbids-association-with-an-organization-led-by-a-marxist
Maybe more states will follow our lead.
Awesome!!!
Oh, my.
Montana for the win !!!!!
Stepping away from the establishment is huge
Go Joe Montana 🙂 and Bill Walsh’s Niners…
Yes. And I am glad they took the step. We don’t need the ALA’s money. Our governor just refunded $1200 in income taxes to all Montana taxpayers because we had such a surplus. And starting in August, I can apply to have my last two years of property taxes refunded, too.
This is what happens when a conservative business man runs a state. Or a country, for that matter!
wow that’s great especially when other expenses are going up up up. I’m glad to be happy for yall…it’s good new for a change
hmm these are NOT alike
“One of these things is not like the other,
One of these things just doesn’t belong.
Can you tell which one is not like the other?
Tell me by the end of this song.”
Faerie Queen…..
Looks like a Bye, Done sort of crowd…
No sellout for the sellout…
Per Foxnews – 5th circuit issues temporary restraining order staying the preliminary injunction in Missouri v Biden.
If it were my choice, I’d ask SCOTUS to vacate the TRO.
I don’t understand why they would do that.
Is 5th circus anything like the 9th circus?
Looks like we’ll get to keep Tucker around for a while, then. Good for him!
Had no idea, Tim Scott, was so stoopid, ill informed…
More stupidity:
Tucker Watches in Disbelief as Nikki Haley Says Basement-Dwelling, Baby-Sniffing Joe Biden Legitimately Got 81 Million Votes (VIDEO)
Tucker Laughs in Mike Pence’s Face For Being Reluctant to Agree that the US Should Get Rid of Electronic Voting Machines (VIDEO)
Hilarious.
Republican candidates absolute buffoons’.
Hope to see Tucker interview these fools more often.
Likely, republican candidates will run away from Tucker.
—
Looking forward to the Rob DeSwampiss interview, with Tucker.
I can’t stand to watch, but I’ll be looking for video lowlights.
Anyone who thought Tucker was not going to ask tough questions is hopelessly ill informed. The staffs of those candidates should have been studying Tucker’s style and preparing their candidates.
“That’s not my concern” has exploded now. YUGE mistake, even if Pence comes out with a statement that he didn’t mean it “that way.”
Absolutely.
Short of Trump, I rarely watch this stuuff.
Just the high or low lights, as you say. Too damn funny.
Buut, I do look forward to Rob DeSwampiss, low lights. 🙂
Nikki Haley makes ’em daily…
The Cat Is Out of the Bag: Kamala Harris Admits Climate Scam’s Goal Is DEPOPULATION
~20 second video at the link.
https://rumble.com/v302h64-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-kamala-harris-admits-climate-scams-goal-is-depopu.html
Before I watched the video, I thought it was a slip-up where she said it, or started to say it, and corrected herself. But no, she said it clearly, without stumbling and without corrections, at least in that clip. This will be great to have as ammo.
Kamala DID look exhausted, little makeup and the hair was a mess, so she may have been ad-libbing…but it is a direct quote.
After ALL, she IS Joe’s wingman.
A firm a tive action Kandidate Kamel-Hoe strikes again…
WilliBrown™ and his Klown of renown…
Laughing…
FTA
CNN PINNED ALL THEIR HOPES AND DREAMS ON KAITLAN COLLINS AND HER NEW SHOW IS LOSING TO SPONGEBOB: REPORT
When CNN announced Kaitlin Collins was going to be the new Andrew Cuomo, there was much ballyhoo about the decision. CNN had so much confidence in Collins being able to carry a primetime audience, they awarded her her own town hall event with a former president of the United States. Her show debuted this past Monday, and there is both bad news and good news. And horrible news.
The good news is she was the second most-watched show on CNN!
The bad news is she was the third most-watched cable news show out of three cable news networks.
The horrible news? Instead of being the new Andrew Cuomo, she is the new Brian Stelter, falling behind decade-old repeats of Golden Girls, South Park, and Sponge Bob Squarepants.
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/kaitlan-collins-cnn-debut
We could have told them. And Trump steamrolling her should have been some sort of clue, but no…
Spongebrain $#!tpants…
What a Kast of Klowns the left brings…
I’ve really enjoyed observing Tucker’s journey through the past decade.
https://rumble.com/v302i0m-tucker-carlson-has-been-reading-the-entire-holy-bible-he-reveals-his-one-bi.html
I find it fascinating how very many people are rekindling their relationship with Jesus in the last couple of years, of course including me.
A couple of days ago, I had a really interesting conversation with a young woman who works with my son. She is Christian, grew up that way, but her family was more nominally Christian than devout. She has greatly deepened her faith in the last two-three years.
The really interesting thing she told me, though, was that she has had five friends with no Christian background at all get baptized in the last year. She said, and I quote, “young people aren’t just converting, they are running to Jesus.” She emphasized it just like that.
And I read a couple of days ago that in the last two weeks, 11,000 people were baptized at Pirate’s Cove in California, the place where they baptized people in the true story the movie Jesus Revolution is based on. 11,000 in two weeks?! Just WOW.
Something HUGE is happening in our world right now. And we get to be part of it and live it. What a time to be alive.
I cannot get over how big Greg Laurie has made Harvest Fellowship. Nondescript building in a kind of dumpy Riverside airport neighborhood. That was well over 20 yrs ago. I have no idea how he k.i.s.s. and grounded.
https://harvest.church/
Amazing.
There’s been an uptick in the number of people coming into the Church as well. Now if we could just get more reverts….
Asa Hutchinson crashed and burned today…
And tim scott and benedict pence.
AND, Nikki. It IS great.
😎