DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 202401118

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The meltdowns at MSNBC are intensifying everyday. Today on Morning Joe, they spent 20 minutes comparing Trump to Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein and they even projected exactly what the authoritarian Joe Biden regime is doing on to Trump:

“People truly don’t understand what absolute power for Donald Trump will mean… You could end up in jail. That’s what dictators do. They take their political opponents and they put them in jail.”

Oh, the irony…

The large majority of the American people are not buying this anymore. Expect them to ramp up the rhetoric as they enter the acceptance stage of their grief.

t.me/TheStormHasArrived17/14004

120.4KviewsTheStormHasArrived17, Jan 17 at 07:50

That’s what we are looking forward to.

The President That Never Was

Badlands News Brief – January 17, 2024

‘This Country Needs A Dictator!’ Trump Fans At Iowa Rally Say ‘Absolutely’ They Want Dictator Trump Over Biden

Can we talk about this?

Comment from Anonymous Conservative: If you view all of this as a big WWE, Vince McMahon production, it makes a lot more sense.

NeoCon Nikki Haley Gushed Over Depopulationist Bill Gates and His Massive “Vaccine” Investments

The Left and Tribalism

Why Trump bewilders psychiatrists

The Intellectual Foundations of MAGA

America Works. DEI Doesn’t.

TWEETS!

Never mind people in command rejecting DEI hires….

MEMES and FUN STUFF

Palate cleanse….

Does anyone remember this? Before my time.

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MARK 3:7-12

7Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea 8and Jerusalem and Idume’a and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him. 9And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him; 10for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. 11And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” 12And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

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cthulhu

Thank you, De Pat, for this thrilling Theater Thursday post!

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Love Cackles riding in back!!!

Gail Combs

Ivan talks to @Matthewlohmeier [Fired Space Force Commander] after his testimony (3 minutes)
https://rumble.com/v471ehl-ivan-talks-to-matthewlohmeier-after-his-testimony.html

Cuppa Covfefe

The double “one-eye” is a nice touch (the right (from driver’s pov) headlight and Bye,Done’s right eye), as are the blood on the hood, and the arrow pointing at Bye,Done…

pgroup2

The bent radio antenna is a nice touch.  😆 

smiley2

how’s that No Malarkey thing workin out, Sniffy ?

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Mr. Malarkey himself!

Barb Meier

If I was his mom, I’d have named him Sniffy Malarkey. That, or I would have jumped off a tall building without a parachute but with Sniffy in my arms.

Gail Combs

Why not just accidentally drop him off the building?

pgroup2

Shame at birthing him?

Barb Meier

Can you imagine the shame of having a son who grifts off the fed gov his entire career, steals other people’s writing and uses it as his own, showers with his daughter when she’s 12 or older, pathologically lies and makes up stupid stories, and is wrong about every policy decision for the last 40+ years?

Gail Combs

  :wpds_chuckle:   :wpds_envy: 

pgroup2

My imagination, while robust and rowdy, has limits.

cthulhu

My guess is that the car is modeled after the Edsel….

Gail Combs

Look my aunt’s old 1950s car. Fins and all

Gail Combs

Here is the 1957 ford fairlane convertable

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cthulhu

That looks much closer. Edsels typically had two pairs of headlights, for instance — and the bumper matches. I just was fixated on the infamous “toilet seat”.

Gail Combs

I really liked my aunt’s car so I remember it vividly even though I was barely in grade school.

pgroup2

Our family had the station wagon version of that. I used to joke that it had bug eyes, like a dragonfly.

Cuppa Covfefe

At least the Edsel had useful features… Bye,Done and the DEMONRATS don’t…

TheseTruths

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This was news to me.

TheseTruths

E. Jean Carroll Admits to Deleting Evidence Under Subpoena – Clinton Judge Kaplan Rushes to Her Defense!

[Trump lawyer Alina] Habba: You said you receive death threats daily – but you deleted then until trial? Explain what you mean.

Judge Kaplan: Explain what she means by what?

Habba: When did you stop deleting death threats?

Carroll: I had not received how many there were.

Habba: So you have the death threats?

Carroll: I deleted them.

Habba: So you-

Carroll’s lawyer: Asked and answered.

Habba: This is a very important question

Carroll’s lawyer: I object to the commentary too

Habba: Do you keep the supporting emails?

Carroll: Yes. I tend to delete questions that I know I won’t use. But I have an entire label for supportive messages.

Habba: Do you control your email?

Carroll: Yes.

Habba: So only you deleted them?

Carroll: Yes.

Habba: Ms. Carroll, are you aware it is illegal to delete evidence?

Carroll’s lawyer: Objection

Habba: I move for a mistrial, evidence has been deleted

Judge Kaplan: Denied and the jury will disregard everything Ms. Habba just said

GWP:

Far-left Clinton Judge Kaplan rushed to E. Jean Carroll’s defense after Alina Habba moved for a mistrial following Carroll’s admission to deleting massive amounts of evidence.

“I move for a mistrial, evidence has been deleted,” Trump lawyer Alina Habba said.

Kaplan defended Carroll! 

“Denied and the jury will disregard everything Ms. Habba just said,” Judge Kaplan said.

I believe Trump will be found guilty in at least a couple of cases. I don’t know what the implications of that will be. Hard-core MAGA supporters will just be more determined than ever, but I don’t know what the Left and the RINOs will try to make of it. A conviction can’t preclude him from running, but I wonder if Ronna RNC would try to remove Trump as the nominee. Maybe that’s what DeSantis and Haley are waiting for.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

I’m just so sick of these evil Donkey Coms.

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

AMEN!!!

GA/FL

…and the Rhino Repugnant-Cons are just as repulsive and despicable.

TheseTruths

November 30, 2023, emphasis mine:

https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2023/11/30/rnc-2024-what-happens-trump-convicted-rules

The Republican National Committee’s rules for next year’s nominating contest and convention were released this week without addressing a question the GOP could well face next summer: Can the party’s delegates vote for a different candidate if the presumptive nominee is convicted of a felony?

The RNC rules don’t include any provisions specific to the unprecedented scenario unfolding.

Bound delegates must vote for a particular presidential candidate at the convention based on the results of the primary or caucus in their state. As in past years, every state party must bind its delegates to vote for their assigned candidates during at least the first round of voting at the national convention, with limited exceptions for a small number of delegates. A candidate wins the nomination if they clinch a majority, which is 1,215 delegates.

At next year’s convention, which starts July 15 in Milwaukee, there will be opportunities to tweak the rules when they are adopted or to suspend them, which can require two-thirds of delegates to approve on a vote.

“It’s a parliamentary body,” said Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer. “It can always work its will if it wants to one way or another.”

Such last-minute maneuvers are difficult to organize and there are few current signs that delegates might look for another option even with Trump’s criminal cases looming.

“They’re all going to be chosen at contests in which people are voting for Trump and I think they’re unlikely, if he wins the primary, to change up because of a court case,” Ginsberg said.

The Trump campaign issued a preemptive warning anyway.

“Any attempt by any swamp rat, by any Washington, D.C., swamp rat, to mess with the rules will be summarily crushed by those of us that know how to run conventions,” said Trump advisor Chris LaCivita, who was a senior consultant in charge of rules and floor operations for the RNC in 2016, a year when some Trump opponents considered challenging him at the convention.

One contingency section of longstanding party rules would allow the RNC to free a state from the rules prior to the convention if “compliance is impossible” and “the Republican National Committee determines that granting such waiver is in the best interests of the Republican Party.”

Such a waiver would require action by the Republican National Committee’s executive committee, which is made up of 29 members, including RNC chair Ronna McDaniel.

The RNC declined to comment on the possibility of the rules being suspended in the case of the nominee being in jail but instead pointed to recent interviews in which McDaniel was asked if Trump should be the nominee if he’s convicted of a crime, and she said the party would support the nominee that the voters choose.

I won’t rely on Ronna’s word, so I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.

Gail Combs

Depends on whether Ronna wants to be responsible for single handily destroying the Republican party.

We already have: EXC: RNC Chairs, Treasurers Held Meetings With Chinese Communist Party Officials To Discuss ‘Campaign Strategy’ & China Policy.
Not to mention:

In December 2009:
Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot – Rasmussen Reports

in 2009 a “…. new Rasmussen Reports “generic ballot” poll shows

“Democrats attracting 36% of the vote.

The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%,

and Republicans finish third at 18%.

Another 22% are undecided….”

And that is BEFORE Trump and MAGA so the party had already lost 1/2 the voters over a decade ago and that is BEFORE they woke up to the fact the Republicans are the Controlled Opposition,

GA/FL

She will do what Uncle Mitty tells her to do.

cthulhu

Is that a reference to Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Rom Mittney”?

Or is it more a call-back to Mittens Berle?

GA/FL

I’m not that well read or clever Coothie!

Barb Meier

Pierre Delecto?

Gail Combs

She will do what the Cabal tells her.

GA/FL

Yep!

para59r

Likely filling her head with more of his Uncle Mitty nonsense…

This was him just the other day… he must suck at puzzles.

Yep… sure seems that way.

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Gail Combs

Mitt Romney:

“You had a jury that said that Donald Trump had raped a woman, and yet I don’t think that seems to be moving the needle. There are a lot of things about today’s electorate I don’t understand.”

“You had a jury…”
#1. It was a corrupt Judge not a jury.

“had raped a woman…”
#2. The trial was a COMPLETE JOKE wit vague assertions from a batschiff crazy bitch who says she would LOVE to be raped.

“There are a lot of things about today’s electorate I don’t understand.”
#3. Here, I will make it easy, We are A LOT SMARTER THAN YOU and can smell BULLSCHIFF a mile away.

pat frederick

he is absolutely wrong. the jury caved to sexual abuse but NOT rape.
for the judge to say that’s tantamount to rape is wrong and he does not get to change the jury’s finding.

kalbokalbs

RNC is no different than DNC.

They do anything they want. Change rules when it fits their mood.

Voters are not part of RNC decision matrix.

Bank on RNC trying to derail Trump. It IS what RNC does.

scott467

“but I wonder if Ronna RNC would try to remove Trump as the nominee.”

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Well of course she would remove him as the nominee.

That’s the whole point of all this 😂

smiley2

exactly.

and they will not relent…their strategy, moving forward, is to bombard PDJT relentlessly with frivolous lawfare.

TheseTruths

She has said the Repub Party would support the person chosen by the voters.

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scott467

Psssst…. [looks left]… [looks right]… Rona can’t be trusted.

Not even a little 😁

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kalbokalbs

Who TF believes Ronna ?

TheseTruths

Not6 me. But she can be hounded if she reneges on her promise.

pgroup2

That blouse is a trap. Just saying.  😂 

Cuppa Covfefe

Putting up a false front…

rayzorback

Definitely a distraction…
Now, what did you say?

kalbokalbs

OK. I admit scrolling up a bit..   :wpds_razz: 

cthulhu

The caption says “this feels like a trap”. In order to verify this, are we required to feel for ourselves?

Gail Combs

The whole thing is a MAJOR FARCE!

They had to pass an EX PO FACTO LAW which is UNCONSTITUTIONAL under clause 3 of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution. 

She can not give the DATE or TIME making it imposible to mount a defense and now had DELETED EVIDENCE.

On top of that she fantasies about being raped and has made that public. ANY unbiased judge would have tossed case out and sent her for psychaitrlc evaluation.

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TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Love it! AMERICA VS EVIL.

GA/FL

The Black Communist cabal, the Chinese, the Muslim Radicals, the Elite human-child-trafficking rings and their sicko users, the LBGTXYZ and the abortion-euthanasia-eugenic-transhumanism agenda elites also do not want Trump to be president again.

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TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

I’m in the mood for DONKEY JERKY.

pgroup2

Too chewy for humans.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Perhaps! 🐺 😅

Gail Combs

“…Too chewy for humans….”

….

Nah, just use my recipe for Old Billy Goat Stew!

Place the meat in a bowl. Cover with spices, meat tenderizer, ground papaya enzyme, add wine (or beer) so the meat is completely covered. Place top on bowl and place in refrigerator (32F) for up to a week. The wine acts as a preservative as well as a tenderizer. Slow cook in the wine with veggies of your choice. The meat will be so tender it falls of the bone.

pgroup2

Now I just have to find a goat nobody wants any more …

Gail Combs

I have six extra and no more room in my three freezers.

pgroup2

Will you deliver to Tacoma WA?

 😂 

Gail Combs

NO!

pgroup2

 😂 

smiley2

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TheseTruths

“I don’t think they’ll ever find a cure for cancer. I don’t think they want to find a cure”: Roger Daltrey questions Big Pharma as he nears the end of his time at the Teenage Cancer Trust

The Who‘s Roger Daltrey is coming to the end of his hugely successful 24-year stewardship of the Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual charity shows, and his latest round of press interviews find him in typically sceptical form.

Speaking with The Times [paywalled link] about his time in charge of the Trust, Daltrey – whose sister died from breast cancer aged just 32 – expresses reservations about the scientific establishment’s approach to finding a cure for the disease.

“I don’t think they’ll ever find a cure for cancer,” says Daltrey. “I don’t think they want to find a cure. I’m being cynical here, but scientists look after the science but they also look after themselves. You do imagine if they did find a cure tomorrow it would be fabulous for the country, but there’d be an awful lot of scientists out of work. You might think I’m being cynical, but I do think that.”

Daltrey goes on to reiterate that so-called ‘Big Pharma’ has more to lose than it does to gain by finding a cure.

“It’s just human nature, isn’t it?”, he says. “You’re not going to invent something that’s going to put you out of work.”

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

I think COVID really demonstrated this. American government agencies and their science bureaucracies are in the research business, not the saving lives business.

Act accordingly.

TheseTruths

Yes, and I have thought this about cancer for years. They come up with treatments and drugs, but I don’t think they want a cure.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

After what they did to HCQ, there is no way that any simple 100% chemotherapeutic would be allowed to become established as a treatment for cancer.

Linda

Cancer doctors make WAY too much money on chemo drugs. They get paid by the drug companies for using them. They have their Standard of Care which is cut, poison, or burn, and are completely myopic to anything else. I think researchers are paid to come up with chemo drugs and immunotherapy drugs, which make Big Pharma tons of money, rather than an actual cure for cancer. I don’t think they really understand cancer and what it is, even though they’ve supposedly been studying it for many decades.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

As we saw with COVID and HCQ, it is incredibly easy to divert ALMOST ALL OF SCIENCE away from damn near anything they want. Which is scary!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

BTW, how are you doing? We’re still praying!!! 🙏

scott467

👍

Linda

I’m doing fine, Wolf. Thank you for the prayers, they are so much appreciated. I’ve pretty much recovered from the surgery. Even the surgical scars are starting to fade.

Right now I’m dealing with whether to let them do more. They want me to do radiation, even though everything I’ve read tells me not to. And they want me to take hormone blockers, which have some nasty side effects – osteoporosis, heart disease, and more. I’ve told the oncologist that I’m doing several supplements that do the same thing without the side effects. But to her, there haven’t been large double blind studies of herbal supplements, so she’s against them. And of course there never will be those kinds of studies because Big Pharma can’t profit from them.

I’m probably going to say no to both, but I need to figure out a way to do it without alienating them. I still want to get regular scans to make sure the cancer doesn’t come back.

mollypitcher5

Such a hard position to be in Linda, sorry. I can’t offer any advice but send all positive thoughts and support to you for whatever you decide will be best for you.

Gail Combs

Try telling her you want to go the less radical route for now, while monitoring it to see if a more vigorous route is called for.

Good luck!
👃

Linda

Thanks, Gail. That sounds like a good approach.

Gail Combs

Glad I could help.

rayzorback

Gail, Thanks to you and PAVACA and Wolf and others here:

You have saved many lives with your early and accurate COVID Info (Ivermectin, Zinc, vitamins, etc.).

Thanks to all that contributed to this life and death situation.

Gail Combs

I am very happy to hear that.

With luck the information we gathered here at the Qtree very early on saved many many lives.

rayzorback

I am positive that it has. Not one person in my family (wife and kids/grandkids) has taken the clot shot(s). My Mom and brothers have despite my passing along the great info seen here.

Thanks again. YOU have saved at least 6 lives that I know of.

Gail Combs

  :wpds_oops:  ThankQ!

That is very nice to know and makes the effort worth it!

pat frederick

I’ll keep you in prayers Linda.
remember it’s YOUR health and you have a right to make your own decisions

Linda

Thank you, Pat. How is your husband doing? I’ve been keeping him in my prayers.

pat frederick

thank you!
he seems to be improving. he still uses the oxygen, but not constantly. he is walking and doing things outside without it at times and his breathing is very much improved. i keep praying that poison didn’t do him any damage.
thank you for asking. please take good care of yourself!

Gail Combs

Glad to hear he is doing OK and improving.

pat frederick

thanks. i am cautiously optimistic!

Valerie Curren

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Thanks, Linda!

What you say is very interesting. I know of a recovery case similar to yours that used radiation and a hormone blocker. Sure enough, the cancer was licked for good – BUT the hormone treatment was followed by osteoporosis, which required another drug (one of those phosphonate drugs) for several years to stop the progression of the osteoporosis. Which it did, but after THAT there was joint damage – which was finally stopped by (you guessed it) joint supplements!

The radiation worked, too, but left some tenderness.

It’s a tough call either way, but in the case I’m referring to, it was a “cancer family” where about half the people die early of cancer, so reacting strongly to any cancer was warranted, IMO. I agree you have to keep up the monitoring, no matter what! And we will keep up the prayer!

pgroup2

Well, it looks like Keytruda worked for my cancer. I was diagnosed in March 2021 and got treated for a year. They can see no evidence of cancer today. I was told that Keytruda works by ‘tagging’ cancer cells so that my immune system can recognize them as invaders and kill them.

It occurs to me that I would have already died if I took one of those covid injections. My immune system would have been too weak to kill the cancer cells.

pat frederick

AWESOME NEWS PGROUP!
congrats!!!!!!!!!

pgroup2

I was blessed with a good wife, a good doctor, and a good naturopath [brother in law].

A sturdy 3 legged stool, so to speak.

Robert Baker

I am glad you decided to ignore the celebrity endorsements for Pfizer, et al, although it does bring into question your solidarity with our cultural influencers.

Valerie Curren

PTL!!!   😍  

kalbokalbs

Great news on Twofer level. !

WSB

Exactly what happened to my father.

He was scheduled for Keytruda, but he was required to have the shot and booster to be admitted into the hospital system.

The effects of the shot and booster got to him first. The seizures and fainting caused the falls and neck fractures.

Nothing could be done to get nutrition in him. Let alone his immune system would never allow for the neck recovery.

So glad to know that your episode turned out as it did.

Gail Combs

I KNOW they do not want a cure. After Dr Daly fought like crazy to get a CURE for  Rheumatoid arthritis even LOOKED at by the FDA, and the FDA REFUSED to allow trials, I KNEW they were crooked as hell. I was only 15 at the time.

She had gone to another country, taken the cure with no ill effect and had ZERO pain. It could not correct the deformities but it stopped the disease and got rid of the pain.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

He loves Sharpies, and those are dangerous beasts. The mark across his thumb is a definite ink mark, IMO. My vote is a red sharpie used for autographs.

smiley2

golf blisters.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

He’s pretty good about wearing gloves. I’m still placing my money on ink! He may address it. We’ll see!

Valerie Curren

hand shaking blisters?

TheseTruths

That seems plausible.

Gail Combs

The spots look correct for where a pen is held. So my guess is a leaky pen/sharpie.

And those marks do not come out easily! BTDT and had the black marks for a week.

pgroup2

You got it!!!

pgroup2

Hard to believe his team doesn’t have a bottle of peroxide handy.

WSB

Strategically placed? One can always out a ferret with the proper bait.

TheseTruths

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Trump lays out his case(s) in his Truth Social posts. I find it sad that he is in this position. Of course it’s maddening, too. He doesn’t deserve to have to defend himself against false charges. It’s all so obviously unjust.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

The corporate media is evil excrement. They could stop this, but they won’t.

Gail Combs

POTUS Trump is SHOW CASING the CORRUPTION of the judiciary to the public. So if/When these corrupt judges get indicted and convicted, the public sentiment will be AGAINST them.

pgroup2

He called Hoffman a piglet. A super wealthy donor who isn’t even entitled to be called a pig. Just a not full grown swine. Bwahahaha.

TheseTruths

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Cuppa Covfefe

Makes me think of the movie “Metropolis” (prescient indeed), and “In The Year 2525″… seems that’s the vision Klaus Satan Schwab and his WEFfenSS has for us all…

Here’s a riveting montage of those two…

TheseTruths

Benny Johnson:

Piers Morgan asks Kari Lake: What happens if Trump goes to Prison? “Even if he was sitting in Alcatraz, the people will vote for him” -@KariLake

We need to be mentally prepared. I would expect there to be appeals if/when he is convicted, so I wouldn’t expect him to be incarcerated any time soon, but I don’t know.

scott467

Escape from Alcatraz (1979) was (another) great Clint Eastwood movie 👍😁

Saw it in a theater with two of my cousins when I was a kid. Directed by Don Siegel, who also directed the first Dirty Harry film (1971).

pgroup2

… who also directed the first and best Dirty Harry film (1971)

FIFY.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

We have to be prepared for anything. And I am prepared.

kalbokalbs

“We need to be mentally prepared.” 

Slow Guy, is slow. But my guess is this crowd, QTree is mentally prepared.

Trump has my vote. Period.

  • At this point, I expect the worst from Bought AND Paid for corrupt trial judges AND biased juries.
  • I have NEVER accepted Briben won, 3 November.
  • Briben installed as a Viceroy, definitely. (ht GA/FL or Gail.)
  • I am Vehemently opposed to RNC, GOP, Rob, Mikki…ALL of them Thoroughbred Corrupt Assholes.

I Will Vote. Trump and only Trump.

  • I will wear my Trump hat to the voting location.
  • They usually, but Not always tell me I can’t wear my Trump hat inside the voting place. If I must remove my Trump hat, I carry it so Trump’s name is visible.
Gail Combs

“…I have NEVER accepted Briben won, 3 November….”

According to Ivan Raiklin he did not. THIRTY NINE STATES TRANSMITTED ILLEGAL ELECTORS… THEREFORE There is NO DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF OUR COUNTRY. go to 8:50 for a listing (second video)

On top of that Nasty the Pig, Chuck the Schmuck and Mitch the Turtle DID NOT CALL IN A Quorum on Jan 6th, at least the first time.

WIKI

A quorum is the minimum number of members of a group necessary to constitute the group at a meeting. In a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature), a quorum is necessary to conduct the business of that group. According to Robert’s Rules of Order…

Ivan speaks at the Freedom Fest event alongside Brad Parscale and Seth Keshel 59 minutes
the audio is terrible, it stalls at 35 min and I have not finished listening.

https://rumble.com/v47g1fu-ivan-keynote-speaker-at-freedom-fest-in-pasedena-ca-11324.html

I will see if there is a better reference.
The 39 states are where lawfare and the courts were used to change how elections were run and other such ILLEGAL moves. Nothing to do with voter fraud just NOT FOLLOWING THE LAW.

>>>>>>>>>>>>

THIS IS A BETTER VIDEO of the same presentation: (start at 4 minutes) slides start at 8 minutes.

https://rumble.com/v47oe2r-ivan-at-freedomfest-official-video-1132024.html

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Gail Combs

Using the better video,

https://rumble.com/v47oe2r-ivan-at-freedomfest-official-video-1132024.html

This is what I found.

 8:50 is the timeline of the Insurrection starting in Nov.

 rayzorback:40 Is a listing of all the irregularities across six battle ground states. Top four are applicable to multiple states…

 CMinTN:00 👉There is NO duly elected president by virtue of those 3 states.

 singularzoe minutes map of 39 states that transmitted ILLEGAL electors.

@19 minutes sent info to Mike Pence. Dec 23, (Trump retweeted) if states do not transmit CONSTITUTIONALLY viable electors it is upon MIKE PENCE to send them back to the states.

The options for the states:
1. You run another election 👉according to state laws, 
2. You abstain from sending illegal electors.
3. You have a joint session and have a vote to elect electors

Those are the three options you [the states] have….

 patfrederick minutes goes into WHO set up the Fedsurrection and how.

36:30 👉𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗔 𝗤𝗨𝗢𝗥𝗨𝗠 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗔𝗡 𝟲𝘁𝗵!!!👈 (Covid used as excuse) “…At the advice of the Sargent of Arms, and the attending Physician, only 11 members of the Democrat party and 11 members of the Republican party on the House side and similarly on the Senate side, DUE TO THE AGREEMENT OF LEADERSHIP, meaning…” McCarthy, Mitch the Turtle, Nasty the Pig and Chuck the Schmuck WERE ALL IN ON IT. Mike Pence agrees with Nast the Pig and does not allow objections. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) says “how do I do a point of inquiry?” Mikey Pence shoots him down. Saying that is considered an objection and I will not allow it.

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pgroup2

It was a well thought out and executed scheme to get a president installed even though his electors did not get enough votes.

Once the various states certified the electors, there was not much Pence could do UNLESS there were objections from the floor.

But that was prevented by the sham emergency of the pipe bombs. Then the emergency rules engineered by Pelosi [long before they were needed] kicked in and no motions could be made.

From that point forward, it’s a rubber stamp. Biden is elected by the electors of the Electoral College. All constitutionally proper.

Folks, we have some loopholes to close.

Gail Combs

What about no Quorum?

para59r

Yep. Where did the objections go? No quorum no objections.

Gail Combs

The Fedsurrection was conducted to give Nasty the Piglouse and Mike the Traitor an excuse to vacate the chamber. Once they came back the normal proceedings were not followed so there objections were not allowed.

I have my doubts whether or not it could be called ‘legal’ at all. Seems more like a sneaky Coup.

pgroup2

Controlled by the text of the constitution. It is a sneaky coup and it’s within the constitution.

Like I said, we have some loopholes to fill.

Gail Combs

If as Ivan said, only 44 members out of the the combined Senate and House, 535 then there was no Quorum.

Article I, Section 5, Clause 1:

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

The quorum principle—that a certain number of members of a governing body be present at a given meeting for the body to exercise its powers—was well established in parliamentary practice by the time of the Constitutional Convention….

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Since Ivan is a Constitutional Lawyer and I am not a lawyer at all, I will have to take it he knows what he is talking about.

Also he has been talking to various members of Congress and therefore, again I will assume he is aware of what happened Jan 6th.

WSB

Save for the conspiracy to fake an insurrection…

mollypitcher5

Do you happen to recall when Trump started asking for us all to come to DC? Was it before he won..to celebrate the win ?
It seemed like I was considering going and trying to figure out logistics well before the election but my memory is faulty!

In hindsight I wonder if it was his idea and it does sound like him wanting a big patriotic rally..yuge and all BUT the Fedsurrection was pretty well planned so I question if someone suggested it to him and he took it from there

kalbokalbs

IIRC.

Many here were pondering going to DC for the inauguration.

  • That of course vaporized with the stolen election.

Again, IIRC.

It was after the election, that Trump called for a DC rally. It was bantered around here QTree.

WSB

I have posted this still for years.

This is the balcony of the chamber at about 2:50 PM.

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This is Jacob Chansley being photographed by top Gettys photographer, Win McNamee.

Here is that actual shot.

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Firstly, how did Chansley find that balcony. With the Capitol Police?

Secondly, if McNamee is calmly photographing Chansley at 2:50 PM in the balcony…where is the emergency?

pgroup2

Who’s to say? Each branch controls its proceedings. Separation of powers and all that.

Gail Combs

Actually it is in the Constitution.

ArtI.S5.C1.2 Quorums — Cornell Law.

Article I, Section 5, Clause 1:

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S5-C1-2/ALDE_00013578/

For many years the view prevailed in the House of Representatives that it was necessary for a majority of the members to vote on any proposition submitted to the House in order to satisfy the constitutional requirement for a quorum. It was a common practice for the opposition to break a quorum by refusing to vote. This was changed in 1890, by a ruling made by Speaker Reed and later embodied in Rule XV of the House, that members present in the chamber but not voting would be counted in determining the presence of a quorum.1 The Supreme Court upheld this rule in United States v. Ballin,2 saying that the capacity of the House to transact business is “created by the mere presence of a majority,” and that since the Constitution does not prescribe any method for determining the presence of such majority “it is therefore within the competency of the House to prescribe any method which shall be reasonably certain to ascertain the fact.” 3 The rules of the Senate provide for the ascertainment of a quorum only by a roll call,4 but in a few cases it has held that if a quorum is present, a proposition can be determined by the vote of a lesser number of members.5

TheseTruths

…my guess is this crowd, QTree is mentally prepared.

Yes. Specifically, speaking for myself, I haven’t been thinking about what happens when he is convicted. In the everyday discussions of events, I don’t see this coming up. We could have a leading Repub candidate who has been convicted of a crime, and the Left is going to go crazy.

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Aubergine

All we need to do is convince a huge majority of young, urban, thug-culture people of how COOL it would be to have a “Felon Prez.”

Somebody needs to do a rap song and video.

Gail Combs

They are certainly headed that way.

Gail Combs

The fact we WILL vote for him even if he is convicted and they now know it, helps protect him.

TheseTruths

RSBN:

President Trump promises to nix plans for a central bank digital currency during speech in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Excellent.

smiley2

omg

best news yet !

GA/FL

PDJT is very cognizant of all the global deep dark state’s plans and schemes.

Gail Combs

That is why they want to be rid of him.

kalbokalbs

NO Central Bank Digital Currency – CBDC, needs to go Viral.

Repeated AND repeated until 5 November.

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TheseTruths

Making it a campaign issue will wake up some people who don’t know anything about it.

Gail Combs

From what I saw, most people are aware of the evil of the FED. Therefore they will be receptive to this new info.

TradeBait2

^^^ Good news.

scott467

2nd Amendment news (good news!)

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

This is BIG. No – this is HUGE. YUGE. And AMAZING.

Gorsuch is saying that the government always wins because THEY say that THEY know what Congress was thinking – and that this idea is fundamentally flawed. And he’s right. The point in question could always be a “thorny issue” that Congress AVOIDED because they KNEW that it would kill the bill. He’s getting to the point. American bureaucrats need to be fundamentally different, and IMO questions should go back to Congress rather than being decided by bureaucrats.

Gail Combs

Bureaucrats have ZERO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO MAKE LAWS! (regulations) Give bills are now thousands of pages, they should be the ONLY law.

TheseTruths

Very good news. The Chevron decision needs to be knocked down.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/supreme-court-will-consider-major-case-on-power-of-federal-regulatory-agencies/

Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute as long as that interpretation is reasonable. 

Reasonable?! What were they thinking? Of course, things weren’t as bad 40 years ago as they are now, but government bureaucracies will always take power and corrupt things.

On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its ruling in Chevron.  

The question comes to the court in a case brought by a group of commercial fishing companies. They challenged a rule issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service that requires the fishing industry to pay for the costs of observers who monitor compliance with fishery management plans.

We have a Constitution that outlines who can make laws, as well as a judicial branch to interpret them.

Gail Combs

‘This Country Needs A Dictator!’ Trump Fans At Iowa Rally Say ‘Absolutely’ They Want Dictator Trump Over Biden
“Can we talk about this?”

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We are a Constitutional Republic and should REMAIN ONE. That said the Bureaucrats Via Congress have accumulated more and more power at the expense of the president.

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Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978  [Passed under Carter]

is also known as the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute or the Statute. The Statute allows certain non-postal federal employees to organize, bargain collectively, and to participate through labor organizations of their choice in decisions affecting their working lives.

5 U.S. Code § 3131 – The Senior Executive Service [ALSO UNDER CARTER]

It is the purpose of this subchapter to establish a Senior Executive Service to ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality. The Senior Executive Service shall be administered so as to—

(1)provide for a compensation system, including salaries, benefits, and incentives, and for other conditions of employment, designed to attract and retain highly competent senior executives;

(2)ensure that compensation, retention, and tenure are contingent on executive success which is measured on the basis of individual and organizational performance (including such factors as improvements in efficiency, productivity, quality of work or service, cost efficiency, and timeliness of performance and success in meeting equal employment opportunity goals);

(3)assure that senior executives are accountable and responsible for the effectiveness and productivity of employees under them…

(6)provide for severance pay, early retirement, and placement assistance for senior executives who are removed from the Senior Executive Service for nondisciplinary reasons;

(7)protect senior executives from arbitrary or capricious actions;

(8)provide for program continuity and policy advocacy in the management of public programs…

(11)ensure compliance with all applicable civil service laws, rules, and regulations, including those related to equal employment opportunity, political activity, and conflicts of interest…

 Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1154.)

  :wpds_arrow: On 16 June 2015 Donald Trump kicked off his 2016 presidential campaign

OBAMA’s RESPONSE:
Strengthening the Senior Executive Service · Ex. Ord. No. 13714, Dec. 15, 2015, 80 F.R. 79225

to reduce unnecessary burdens on applicants for executive positions…   [Got rid of vetting of the applicants]

…to enhance the breadth and diversity of experiences among our Federal executives… Consistent with the requirements of Executive Order 13583 of August 18, 2011 (Establishing a Coordinated Government-Wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce) … implement a comprehensive, integrated, and strategic focus on diversity and inclusion as a key component of the recruitment, hiring, retention, and development[Diversity hires and not merit hires]

Sec. 2Establishment of PMC Subcommittee to Strengthen the Senior Executive Service.

There is established the PMC Subcommittee to Strengthen the Senior Executive Service (Subcommittee) to inform and support Government-wide priorities for improved management of senior executives identified by the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in consultation with the Director of OPM. The Subcommittee shall consist of five members of the PMC: the Deputy Director for Management of OMB, the Director of OPM, and three other members of the PMC. The Subcommittee will be advised by at least two career members of the SES to be determined by the members of the Subcommittee, and shall collaborate with the Chief Human Capital Officers Council…

(v) By May 31, 2016, the heads of agencies with 20 or more SES positions shall develop and submit to OPM a 2-year plan to increase the number of SES members who are rotating to improve talent development, 👉mission delivery and collaboration.🤔

DEEP STATE – SHADOW GOVERNMENT REVEALED: SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE

𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟴,𝟭𝟱𝟲 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗘𝗣 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗨𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗦, 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝟳,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗠𝗔.

Obama expanded the existing  program of Deep State managers and appointed over 7,000 of the 8,156 bosses who are called the Senior Executive Service… It is little known that there are many more SES appointees than any other type of political appointment…

…The Senior Executive Service plays a critical role in every presidential transition, supporting and educating political appointees about how government works, and 👉often temporarily serving in top agency jobs during the lengthy appointee confirmation and onboarding process…. [If Congress refuses to confirm appointments you are stuck with these BASTARDS!]

…The Senior Executive Service covers most managerial, supervisory, and policy positions in the Executive Branch above grade GS-15, except those that require Senate confirmation. The SES is a system in which salary and career status are personal rather than dependent on the position occupied….

On page three of the report below, you can see for yourself that the 2016 Senior Executive Services Report lists that there were 8,156 SES members in 75 federal agencies. These “bosses” can’t really be fired because they are in charge….

One article I read said these Senior execs were completely unvetted. aka NO BACKGROUND CHECK!

I did find these:

Why Do So Many Feds Shun the Senior Executive Service?

…Inspired by the 2015 executive order on strengthening the Senior Executive Service, the report—“A Pivotal Moment for the Senior Executive Service”—describes practices to bolster the SES, including ways to simplify cumbersome application and hiring processes to broaden the number and diversity of well-qualified people who apply.

Many federal agencies struggle in these areas; however, a number of agencies are doing well at finding ways to recruit a more diverse, highly-qualified pool of candidates….

The Ultimate Guide to the Senior Executive Service

The SES application comprises several components, each of which is highly important to your potential success. These elements include standard background information and a curriculum vitae, (CV) as well as the ECQs and QRB assessment…

SES Application Development Process

An SES application is like no other; however, our team of Senior Executive Resume Writers is extremely successful in landing interviews for our clients, and ultimately passing the OPM Qualifications Review Board (QRB) review….

GA/FL

Thank you, Gail!!!!

Gail Combs

You are very welcome. The article I saw a couple years ago indicated NO vetting so we could end up with a non-American terrorist in the Senior Exec Service.

Cuppa Covfefe

SES has to be eliminated entirely.

Unelected, answerable to no-one, unfireable…

Sounds just like the European Commission, who run Europe (into the ground)…

The dream of Marxists/Socialists/Communists/Fascists/NAZIs/DEMONS everywhere…

cthulhu

“Eliminated entirely” sounds like a job for Marines.

Gail Combs

All the military personnel who were forced out because they would not take the Clot Shot and those who had Clot Shot injured friends and family.

Karma’s a COLD HEARTED BITCH. 😉

GA/FL

That Babylon Bee tweet with Nancy Pelosi “Democrats Warn That Republicans Plan To Steal Election By Blocking Democrat Efforts To Steal Election” – !

That ain’t satire – it’s the actual truth!

The degenerate depraved left have become their own built in satire.

Just like Islam is its own built-in blasphemy.

Gail Combs

The CEO of Babylon Bee was saying on Tucker that they are having a tough time coming up with satire that does not come true.

smiley2

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pgroup2

That rifle looks more like an AR-15 than an AK-47. That’s a consistency failure.

scott467

Left behind with everything else, when Briben and Lloyd Vader evacuated Stanstanistan.

GA/FL

OUR GUY IS FEARLESSLY TAKING ON THE CABAL!

President Trump Pledges to Never Allow a USA Central Bank Digital Currency
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/18/president-trump-pledges-to-never-allow-a-usa-central-bank-digital-currency/

kalbokalbs

NO CBDC – Central Bank Digital Currency.

Absolute Winning position.

  • Wonder IF Rob AND Mikki will follow Trump’s lead.

EVERY American, legal AND illegal immigrant Would Agree, IF they knew the implications, of CBDC

pat frederick

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Gail Combs

America Works. DEI Doesn’t.
What a beautiful story.

pat frederick

Winston
January 18, 2024 8:32 am

Argentina’s Javier Milei at WEF 2024:
“Another conflict presented by socialists is that of humans against nature claiming that we, human beings, damage the planet which should be protected at all costs, even going as far as advocating for population control mechanisms or that bloody abortion agenda…Do not be intimidated either by the political class or by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender to political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges.”

para59r

That one made all of the World’s Deep State and their Cabalist Benefactors squirm. Powerful message resonating like rolling thunder, given by a very innocent, humble and nervous man as he stood on the world stage surrounded by vipers.

pgroup2

Is this a case of looking for something to whine about, within a feel-good situation? Sundance is pretty good at that.

Gail Combs

Either that or he didn’t bother to listen to the guy or check him out.

 Javier Milei, a radical libertarian populist, elected president of Argentinanpr.org

 Argentina elects outsider Javier Milei on platform of radical reform | Politics News | Al Jazeera

December 3, 2023 – Argentina has elected libertarian outsider Javier Milei as its next president, 

Gail Combs

Sundance is looking at it from his point of view. Milei, an economist, with a set time period at the WEF, is addressing the issues HE considers most important. BANKING and ECONOMICS.

As President of Argentina, NOT the USA, this👇 is NOT his problem/focus right now.

“…at the core of modern, Western, economic corruption – the merge of the corporation and the state….”

Milei Sets Up Argentina Privatizations for Airline, YPFNew president vows to sell off tens of state companies

Javier Milei is a self-described anarcho-capitalist.

His wiki is not bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei

Gail Combs

“…the merge of the corporation and the state….”

The guy is a libertarian for goodness sake! THEY WANT MINIMAL GOVERNMENT!

As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty: a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and are not forced to sacrifice their values for the benefit of others.

We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.

Consequently, we defend each person’s right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.

https://www.lp.org/platform/

scott467

“he never really addressed the issue that is at the core of modern, Western, economic corruption – the merge of the corporation and the state.”

_________

That’s what Georgie boy Bush told us was gonna be so great.

Public-private fascistships.

Please

I commented yesterday saying’why did they invite him if they knew what he was?”

Contemplating that line of thinking, The Evils are either giving him a chance to bend the knee and kiss the ring, and he didn’t, and/or they used this time with him as an opportunity to set up some blackmail. Maybe they got him and he just pretended to be Mr Anti-WEF.

The whole thing is curious …

Cuppa Covfefe

Reminds me of when VSTPDJT went there…

What really bothers me over here is that Tusk was “installed” the same as Bye,Done was… by cheating, fraud, machines, and all manner of crimes…

Somehow all the electronic fraud needs to be stopped…

Where are all the white-hat hackers…

Gail Combs

No more sucking the USA dry!

The Federal Reserve’s Covert Bailout of Europe

The Fed is using what is termed a “temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangement” with the European Central Bank (ECB)….Simply put, the Fed trades or “swaps” dollars for euros…

Why are the Fed and the ECB doing this? The Fed could, after all, lend directly to U.S. branches of foreign banks. It did a great deal of lending to foreign banks under various special credit facilities in the aftermath of Lehman’s collapse in the fall of 2008. Or, the ECB could lend euros to banks and they could purchase dollars in foreign‐​exchange markets. The world is, after all, awash in dollars.

The two central banks are engaging in this roundabout procedure because each needs a fig leaf. The Fed was embarrassed by the revelations of its prior largess with foreign banks. It does not want the debt of foreign banks on its books. A currency swap with the ECB is not technically a loan.

The ECB is entangled in an even bigger legal and political mess. What the heads of many European governments want is for the ECB to bail them out. The central bank and some European governments say that it cannot constitutionally do that. The ECB would also prefer not to create boatloads of new euros, since it wants to keep its reputation as an inflation‐​fighter intact. To mitigate its euro lending, it borrows dollars to lend them to its banks. That keeps the supply of new euros down. 

TThe two central banks are engaging in this roundabout procedure because each needs a fig leaf. The Fed was embarrassed by the revelations of its prior largess with foreign banks. It does not want the debt of foreign banks on its books. A currency swap with the ECB is not technically a loan.

The ECB is entangled in an even bigger legal and political mess. What the heads of many European governments want is for the ECB to bail them out. The central bank and some European governments say that it cannot constitutionally do that. The ECB would also prefer not to create boatloads of new euros, since it wants to keep its reputation as an inflation‐​fighter intact. To mitigate its euro lending, it borrows dollars to lend them to its banks. That keeps the supply of new euros down….

The Fed had more than $600 billion of currency swaps on its books in the fall of 2008.

No matter the legalistic interpretation, the Fed is, working through the ECB, bailing out European banks and, indirectly, spendthrift European governments. It is difficult to count the number of things wrong with this arrangement.

First, the Fed has no authority for a bailout of Europe. My source for that judgment? Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke met with Republican senators on Dec. 14 to brief them on the European situation. After the meeting, Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters that Mr. Bernanke himself said the Fed did not have “the intention or the authority” to bail out Europe. The week Mr. Bernanke promised no bailout, however, the size of the swap lines to the ECB ballooned by around $52 billion….

Remember thru all of this mess Ron Paul was trying to get an audit of the Fed? Didn’t matter WE, the tax payer got to bailout the FED and the EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK. Such A Deal!

TradeBait2

As you so rightly note with receipts and I continue to post with my own take – the Fed is the linchpin.

Pull the pin. The wheel will come off.

It has been one big huge scam that has enslaved much of the world in all areas of life since 1913.

pgroup2

What happens afterward? What do we use for money?

Serious questions. I really want answers that don’t depend on having most of society agree on something.

Gail Combs

That is what we have a treasury for.

Who Prints Money in the U.S.?investopedia.com

The job of actually printing currency bills belongs to the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing. But the Fed determines exactly how many new bills are printed each year.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-fed-pick-judy-shelton-GOLD-standard-explained/
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Gail Combs

Gadaffi ==> Clinton/Obama ==> Special forces?

Gail Combs

One does wonder what happened to Gadaffi’s gold.

Who Stole 143 Tons of Gold From the Libyan People?

Please

The rumors (and facts) are that the ECB (and pretty much every country) has been buying extra gold for several years now, slowly as to not alarm anyone or make the price rise too much.

“They” also have been tamping down the price (silver too) until they can buy enough to ‘be happy’. Then, they will let it rise to its true market value. That might point towards a gold backed currency in our future.

Whether that is a good thing or not depends on who controls what…

pgroup2

So you’re saying that dumping the Fed means we go back on the gold standard? I like that but how does the Treasury deal with the price of gold? It changes constantly so would we have to denominate legal tender in grams of gold?

We couldn’t even get the country to switch to the metric system back in the 70s. I can’t imagine the fighting if we were to denominate in gold weight.

Gail Combs

A GOLD standard means governments can not STEAL wealth by printing more fiat currency.

What Is the Gold Standard? Advantages, Alternatives, and History — investopedia.com

Also Mises on Money by Gary North

Because money is not capital, he [Mises] concluded that an increase of the money supply confers no identifiable social value. If you fail to understand this point, you will not be able to understand the rest of Mises’s theory of money. On this assessment of the value of money, his whole theory of money hinges.

An increase in the quantity of money can no more increase the welfare of the members of a community, than a diminution of it can decrease their welfare. Regarded from this point of view, those goods that are employed as money are indeed what Adam Smith called them, “dead stock, which . . . produces nothing”

#2. New money does not appear magically in equal percentages in all people’s bank accounts or under their mattresses. [New] Money spreads unevenly, and this process has varying effects on individuals, depending on whether they receive early or late access to the new money.

It is these losses of the groups that are the last to be reached by the variation in the value of money which ultimately constitute the source of the profits made by the mine owners and the groups most closely connected with them

[This is a critical point and the reason Bankers can steal our wealth]

MISES ON GOLD

…the attempt by modern governments to regulate in any way an international gold standard is always a political ruse to undermine its anti-inflationary bias. “The international gold standard works without any action on the part of governments. It is effective real cooperation of all members of the world-embracing market community. . . . What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion”

“Now, the gold standard is not a game, but a social institution. Its working does not depend on the preparedness of any people to observe arbitrary rules. It is controlled by the operation of inexorable economic law” (p. 462)…..

. . . The role played by ingots in the gold reserves of the banks is a proof that the monetary standard consists in the precious metal, and not in the proclamation of the authorities (p. 67).

In order to effect the acceptance of fiat money or credit money, the State adopts a policy of the abolition of its previous contractual obligations. What was previously a legal right of full convertability into either gold or silver coins is abolished by a new law. The State removes the individual’s legal right to exchange the State’s paper notes for gold or silver coins. It then declares that the new, inconvertible fiat paper money or bank credit money is equal in value to the older redeemable notes, meaning equal to the value of the actual coins previously obtainable through redemption. But the free market determines otherwise. The two forms of money are not equal in value in the judgment of the market’s individual participants. Gresham’s law is still obeyed….

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

The short answer is, the gold price would be fixed in place and would not fluctuate.

The long answer:

The way gold standards typically work is that the money unit is defined as being a certain weight of gold. Or vice versa. Before FDR, a dollar was defined such that $20.67 was one troy ounce of gold. A round slug of gold of a certain weight (a but under a quarter of an ounce wasn’t just worth five dollars, it was five dollars…even before the mint stamped it as a five dollar gold piece. The mint took great pains to ensure every planchet weighed the proper amount, employing rooms full of people whose job it was to individually weigh each piece and file some excess off. (The carpet in that room was rolled up and burned to collect any stray filings, on a regular basis.)

The goverment also issued paper money starting in the 1860s (civil war) and they did so in such a way that you could at will exchange it for actual gold. That tied the value of the paper to gold as well.

Starting sometime around the mid to late 1800s silver began to drop in value relative to gold, so it was necessary to restrict the amount of silver coinage being made…because a half dollar contained less than half a (gold) dollar’s worth of silver.

It all worked, so long as the government didn’t issue too much silver or paper, because they were kept honest by the ability of people to go to them and say, “here’s this $5 bill. I want the gold coin.” If too many people did that (because the $5 bill was too common) the government could find itself having no gold.

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oops forgot

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duchess01
duchess01

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.

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duchess01

BE MY VOICE

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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

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PAVACA

duchess01
Thank you for these, and especially for the verse Psalm 34:4. Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog. Be well.

para59r

Repackaged like this it’s hard to come to any other conclusion.
REVEALED: Person Who Discovered J6 Pipe Bomb in Washington DC Was an Undercover Capitol Police Officer
Jim Hoft Jan. 18, 2024 8:45 am 23 Comments

mollypitcher5

What’s a scripted fake insurrection without a scary fake bomb threat?

pgroup2

I’m a bit confused. The camera changed its viewpoint several times, indicating remote monitoring such as one might see in a high-end office building.

Who was doing the monitoring? Is that a regular thing? If not, what made it happen that day and time? Also, the camera seemed to be roughly synchronized with the officers’ movements – what’s up with that?

FYI – I certainly didn’t see a bomb. Must need special glasses.

pat frederick

have you sent him a sternly worded letter? that always helps

para59r

Update on Arrogant Clowns Status…

WATCH LIVE: House Homeland Security Committee Holds Second Impeachment Hearing Against Alejandro Mayorkas at 9:30 AM ET Jordan Conradson Jan. 18, 2024 8:15 am 80 Comments

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem Arrogant Clown is required to be present.
🙄😕

pgroup2

Of course not. Suspects don’t attend detectives’ briefings.

Gail Combs

Send the Sargent of Arms to drag him into Congress and HOLD HIM THERE UNTIL HIS DEPT FILLS THE REQUESTS.

Just deputize Former Green Beret Lt Colonel (ret) Ivan Raiklin. He has already said he will be happy to help. 😆

Please

have you sent him a sternly worded letter? that always helps”

First, a sub-committee needs to be chosen to write the sternly worded letter… lol

pat frederick

lol…right.
otherwise they’d get flagged on the play

Cuppa Covfefe

25 yards (years?) for illegal use of words 🙂

pat frederick

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

NEW: Senator Chuck Schumer says Democrats will only fund border security if it is tied to sending more money to fund the war in Ukraine. Borderline treason. “We said we have to do both. There were a couple of people in the room who said, let’s do border first. We said: ‘We have to do both together.'” Since Biden took office, illegal border crossings are up 277%. (U.S. Customs and Border Patrol) Your government thinks Ukraine is more important.

mollypitcher5

I fail to understand “funding border security”. Are they talking about additional money or the regular border budget ?

pat frederick

oh they will secure the border so tight a fly won’t get through!
i honestly think they’re just talking more $$ to process the hordes faster.
but i can’t really say

mollypitcher5

Hmm seems like the real issue isn’t money. The personnel is in place, there’s already a budget I presume…so why not enforce the law. Maybe that’s the problem.
These people have spent so long pulling the scams and games and people didn’t pay attention. They’re still doing it but we see it now (not that it makes any difference!)

rayzorback

They need to pay MOAR Babysitters and diaper changers
Doncha know?

pat frederick

and more buses and planes–those poor people walked across continents to get here…their dogs are tired

rayzorback

Yep

mollypitcher5

maybe Killary and Biden could duet the I ain’t no ways tired tune for them, give them some encouragement

para59r

Must be additional monies, but since it’s Chucky and the Dems we are talking about it 1) Whatever is proposed will be toothless. 2) It will go to pad Dems wallet. 3. Feckless Republican’s will call it a win. 4. America will continue to suffer until Trump gets back in the WH.

BTW… seems like Miss Lindsey has been out of the news for some time now. 😀

mollypitcher5

Miss Lindsey flitting around town so happy that the war drums are beating everywhere?
Seriously..where is he? Hiding under Nikki’s dress?

pgroup2

Unlikely. He wouldn’t be interested in anything there.

mollypitcher5

haha..true that

Gail Combs

Tell Chuck the Schmuck we will happy to send him HOME — TO ISRAEL, the Gaza strip to be specific.

pat frederick

on one of the new flights…with the diversity pilots

Gail Combs

Too quick and easy. 😜

Please

How about just enforcing the current laws with the current ample budget instead of pretending it is something you have to enact when it is something you had to make a direct decision to NOT uphold?

Withholding enforcement of current laws as a bargaining chip is typical DS BS. It’s illegal, unconstitution and downright fkin’ anti American, so business as usual for Chuck Schmucker

kalbokalbs

Then fund nothing.

Until cry’n Check caves.

Never, ever, another fucking penny to Ukraine. N E V E R.

The damn border can’t get more open.

Even IF border is funded, Briben will NOT secure the border. <<<>>> D U H !

para59r

The makings of a new conspiracy theory was tucked under the first tweet we saw posted earlier. Short on facts it’s still rather tempting to bite on even if just a red herring. If nothing else it’s good for staining the reputation of a progressive power center except it doesn’t seem to have much in the way of a following.

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Filing this one under noted and moving on, please get back to us with any new updates. 🙄

pgroup2

One mile deep? In an earthquake zone on the bluff above the Pacific Ocean?

Who takes talk like that seriously?

Cuppa Covfefe

$cienos did it over in Hemet… to protect LRH (Flubbard’s) “sacred texts”…

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Who takes it seriously?

The same people who took talk of thousands of miles of tunnels criss-crossing the US, 40,000 feet down, seriously.

pat frederick

the man whose privilege allowed him to intentionally disrupt official proceedings and not face any repercussions, is DEMANDING $14 TRILLION in reparations because we spent $7 trillion on cv and the country is still here. 
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12976909/jamal-bowman-reparations-14-trillion.html

para59r

Someone please give him 14 acers, a mule complete with harness, 14 dollars, a water bucket, plus a wheel barrel full of S&!T and tell him he can grow the 14 Trillion since it’s obvious to him that money grows on trees.

pgroup2

[snort]  😆 

Gail Combs

In the Rockies.

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mollypitcher5

Hows about reparations to white folk whose racist ancestors inflicted resulting shame and guilt to their descendants for supporting slavery? All countries of origin for the ship transport of slaves also need to chip in. as well as all countries of where the slaves were captured.
A million or so per each white person should finally “heal” us all, make us whole ya know.

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Aubergine

I don’t know what they’ll do with me; I have slave (not just African, actual slave), Native American, and European blood.

Gail Combs

Most people, unless royalty have SLAVES (serfs) in their background. Why do people think slavery was limited to ONLY Blacks?

Aubergine

Well, yes, I agree. But I have black African slave ancestry. So the American idea of reparations applies to me. And I’m pale, blond, and not at all black.

cthulhu

Wait, what? I thought you were purple.

Aubergine

Aubergine is the blackest purple 😉

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Even that royalty probably had some slave ancestry. How many royal families began as low-class rampaging thugs?

And for that matter, if you go back far enough, every single one of your ancestors is a black, Trans-Saharan African, since that’s where humanity originated.

mollypitcher5

You get the ultra reparation package. Bags and bags of cash!

Gail Combs

Freshly printed and almost worthless…

Aubergine

Yay!

mollypitcher5

All yer kissin cuzins (us) will come callin’ for the big celebration party! Yeeha

pat frederick
para59r

Well, since many of them seem to be staying at airports…   :wpds_idea: 

pat frederick

easy peasy, right?
ask them if they wanna go to a warmer destination and then board them and fly them home.

mollypitcher5

Preferably with a severely disabled and mental pilot

pat frederick

diversity is OUR strength after all /sarc

Aubergine

Don’t forget dwarf.

pat frederick

h/t Filly

pat frederick

Viva Frei

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@thevivafrei

The sad and scary thing about E. Jean Carroll and the unbelievably corrupt anti-Trump judicial system is that it confirms that it’s not even enough to not know a batshit crazy lunatic. A batshit crazy lunatic can literally fabricate a story out of whole cloth, and if the judicial system is corrupt enough, they will punish an innocent man. History doesn’t repeat. But it tends to rhyme.

pgroup2

I watched this vid with no sound.

I am shocked that she paints trees and rocks. If that doesn’t tell you she’s nuts, then her allowing it to be video recorded should do the trick.

Unbelievable that anybody gives her the time of day, let alone a paycheck.

pgroup2
Valerie Curren

  :wpds_twisted:  She’s the Jussey Smolett of Christine Blasey Fords!   :wpds_evil: 

rayzorback

E 2 door ford?

Valerie Curren

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PAVACA

THE CDC DRAFTED AN ALERT REGARDING THE INCIDENCE OF MYOCARDITIS AMONG COVID-19 “VACCINATED” YOUNG PEOPLE, BUT NEVER SENT THE ALERT!

http://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-drafted-alert-myocarditis-and-covid-19-vaccines-never-sent-it
by Tyler Durden
17 January 2024
Yours Truly: The CDC, on 21 May 2021, via Demetre Daskalakis, MD, drafted an alert to be sent out to the CDC Health Alert Network (HAN) regarding the incidences of myocarditis appearing in persons taking the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, reports of which they were aware SHORTLY AFTER THE “VACCINES” BECAME AVAILABLE FOR USE IN THE UNITED STATES VIA THE EUA GRANTED BY THE FDA IN DECEMBER 2020. The Zero Hedge article has a copy of the beginning of this draft alert memo (an email.) The Epoch Times is working on getting the entire draft alert.

The initial EUA granted by the FDA in December 2020 for the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” BNT162b2, and for the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” mRNA-1273, covered ONLY persons in the United States for persons AGE 16 AND OLDER for BNT162b2; and for persons AGE 18 AND OLDER for mRNA-1273.
Therefore, cases of MYOCARDITIS induced by these “vaccines” were ALREADY BEING REPORTED IN THESE AGE GROUPS well before May 2021.

Here is a report, dated 17 May 2021, from a CDC “work group” that was investigating the reports of “vaccine”-induced MYOCARDITIS:
http://www.cdc/gov/vaccines/acip/work-groups-vast/report-2021-05-17.html

Here the report from the same CDC “work group”, dated 24 May 2021. Notice the changes in the language of this report:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/work-groups-vast/report-2021-05-24.htnl

THE FDA KNEW, ON 30 APRIL 2021, THAT BNT162b2 DOES INDUCE MYOCARDITIS:
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
Please refer to the Appendix 1: Adverse Events of Special Interest at the end of this report from Pfizer-BioNTech.
MYOCARDITIS is listed on page 35.
PERICARDITIS is listed on page 36.
Bear in mind that this report reflects ONLY reports that were submitted to Pfizer-BioNTech BETWEEN 11 DECEMBER 2021 (the date of the initial EUA granted by the FDA for this “vaccine” to be used in the United States) AND 28 FEBRUARY 2021.
This means that Pfizer-BioNTech KNEW, BY 28 FEBRUARY 2021, THAT BNT162b2 INDUCES MYOCARDITIS AND PERICARDITIS IN PEOPLE WHO TAKE THIS “VACCINE.”

NOTWITHSTANDING THE FACT THAT THE CDC, THE FDA, AND PFIZER-BIONTECH ALL KNEW, WELL AHEAD OF MAY 2021, THAT BNT162b2 WAS INDUCING MYOCARDITIS AMONG PERSONS WHO TOOK THIS “VACCINE”, THE FDA GRANTED AN EUA FOR THIS “VACCINE” TO BE USED ON PERSONS AGE 12 – 15:
http://www.fda.gov/media/148542/download
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Amendment for an Unapproved Product Review Memorandum

NOTWITHSTANDING ALL OF THE ABOVE, THE CDC STILL RECOMMENDS THAT EVERY PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES OVER AGE 6 MONTHS GET “VACCINATED”:
http://www.cdc.gov/covid-19/clinical-considerations/myocarditis.htnl
From the document: “COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for everyone ages 6 months and older in the United States for the prevention of COVID-19.” (bolding mine)
Yours Truly: The CDC d@mnwell KNOWS that the COVID-19 “vaccines” DO NOT PREVENT an infection of COVID-19 — in fact, due to the damage to / destruction of, the “vaccine” recipient’s natural immune system caused by the actions of these “vaccines”, PLUS the CONTINUOUS “FAKE COVID-19 INFECTION” that these “vaccines” induce in the recipient’s body — “vaccinated” people CAN — AND DO — COME DOWN WITH COVID-19, WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE EXPOSED TO A PERSON WHO IS INFECTED.

Recall, also, that the “2023-2024 Formula COVID-19 Vaccines” by BOTH Pfizer-BioNTech AND by Moderna STILL CONTAIN THE modRNA + SPIKE PROTEIN (ALTHOUGH IN SMALLER AMOUNTS) FROM BNT162b2 AND FROM mRNA-1273. IMO, this means that the potential for “vaccine”-induced Myocarditis and/or Pericarditis IS STILL THERE FOR PEOPLE WHO TAKE THESE “VACCINES.”.

pat frederick

Gail Combs

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Jan 07, 2018 3:10:11 AM EST

Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 05b846 No. 13359 
US taxpayers are paying for it all.
Paris accord = scam (trillions)
RED CROSS = scam (billions)
Foreign Aid = scam (trillions)
WAR = scam (trillions)
………on…and….on……..
Who audits where the money actually goes?
Who actually receives the money?
The US taxpayer is funding the very people we are engaged in taking down.
Slush funds everywhere.
Think GS pays for Antifa out of his own pocket?
The hole is deep.
Feel sick yet?
Q

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Apr 23, 2018 4:12:36 PM EDT
Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 5b3c72 No. 1159482 
>>1159198
RED CROSS Iran.
RED CROSS Pakistan.
RED CROSS NK.
RED CROSS ……..
Define smuggle.
What is smuggled?
What funds are used to pay for the goods?
These people are sick.
Relevant to events about to unfold.
Follow the EOs.
Q
>>1159482
When was UBL killed in Pakistan?
May 2 2011
Where was UBL located?
Close proximity to?
Think logically.
When did AWANs mission op go green?
2004
Follow the timeline.
What happened during this time w/ Huma / VJ / AWAN / +3?
https:// http://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5734/text
Follow the timeline.
https:// http://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1699
SEC of STATE.
https:// http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr285
Who is protected?
https:// http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jul/11/us-aid-to-pakistan
Aid cut off in 2010?
Coincidence?
What happened in 2011?
Define ‘Exchange’.
Sick yet?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

1249
Apr 23, 2018 4:12:36 PM EDT

Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 5b3c72 No. 1159482 
>>1159198
RED CROSS Iran.
RED CROSS Pakistan.
RED CROSS NK.
RED CROSS ……..
Define smuggle.
What is smuggled?
What funds are used to pay for the goods?
These people are sick.
Relevant to events about to unfold.
Follow the EOs.
Q

>>>>>>>>>>>>

MORE:
https://qalerts.app/?q=red+cross

pat frederick

pgroup2

Pay-per-view stock value should soar.

pat frederick

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h/t Filly

para59r

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Russian Missile Strike in Kharkov Kills as Much as 60 French Mercenaries Fighting for Ukraine
Paul Serran Jan. 18, 2024 7:45 am 391 Comments

pgroup2

Hard to complain when they weren’t supposed to be there at all.

Brave and Free

From within that link, more details on #’s

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/

kalbokalbs

FTA (link above)

They’ve forced us to translate what their headlines mean to glean the truth:

“Died suddenly” = killed by the vaccine

“Sudden heart attack” = killed by the vaccine

“After a brief illness” = killed by the vaccine

“Died unexpectedly” = killed by the vaccine

“No cause of death was listed” = killed by the vaccine

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barkerjim

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pat frederick

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Valerie Curren

 😂 

Robert Baker

Just an observation: That could be an enhanced snowman.

Cuppa Covfefe

To quote Mae West, “I used to be pure as snow… but I drifted”… 🙂

She’s probably frigid… a green activist… (oh, wait, Gore-Bull warming would be bad for her…)….

Gail Combs

She would probably give you the cold shoulder…

Brave and Free

She can’t be that cold, the headlights aren’t on.

pat frederick

snort…

Cuppa Covfefe

She’s a Tesla…. no energy left 🙂

para59r

kalbokalbs

S U P E R B !

This guy does a superb job of bitch slapping WEF assholes to their faces.

Bad news…

WEF and Deep State will double down on trying to prevent Trump’s return to the WH.

para59r

Interesting… the AI part Musk mentions.

pat frederick

Judge orders hearing in fanni case on February 15th. gives her till February 2 to respond.

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/breaking-georgia-judge-orders-urgent-hearing-on-fani-willis-misconduct-mace/

Gail Combs

  :wpds_grin:  WINNING!

TradeBait2
Gail Combs

Well we already knew that OH!Bummer had fired a lot of good high ranking military people.

para59r

There is this. Pay attention to the WA Post tweet in the story

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/breaking-georgia-judge-orders-urgent-hearing-on-fani-willis-misconduct-mace/

Then there is this. Only tweet I can find now.

Spot the difference?

Whoops… they are playing loose and fast. When posted it comes out the right way. When viewed anywhere on twitter, you don’t see the “televised portion” 🤔 moar tricky then I figured… Ackkk only way you can see that is if you click on the tweet in the story.

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Valerie Curren

When I went to twitter that tweet that shows more fully here at the Q-Tree is very truncated. At nitter here is an interesting reply…

https://nitter.net/DineshDSouza/status/1746660356812931337#m

https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1746660356812931337#m

edit, it’s pretty strange that this D’Souza tweet won’t embed here, but you can watch the video at nitter or twitter, fwiw…

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Valerie Curren

Also in nitter replies…

Politically Homeless Cat
@cajunphried
14h
Replying to @washingtonpost
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@KanekoaTheGreat
Jan 11
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f6a8.svgBREAKING: Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis exposed for secretly collaborating with the January 6th committee before indicting Donald Trump.

Nathan Wade, Willis’s chief prosecutor and alleged romantic partner, documented four covert meetings held between the January 6th committee and the prosecution team:

• April 18-21, 2022
• May 31, 2022
• Sept. 7-9, 2022
• Nov. 16, 2022

In addition, court documents reveal that Willis’s team conducted two secretive meetings with the Biden White House on May 23 and Nov. 18, 2022, totaling 16 hours of discussions before levying charges against Trump.

White House visitor logs further reveal that Willis spent five hours at the Biden White House on Feb. 28, 2023, merely a week after recommending charges against Biden’s leading presidential opponent.

Willis faces additional scrutiny after being subpoenaed to testify in the divorce proceeds of lead prosecutor Nathan Wade.

A motion filed this week by Trump co-defendant Mike Roman alleges an inappropriate romantic relationship between Willis and Wade, from which both have financially benefited.

https://nitter.net/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1745340110399496498#m

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https://nitter.net/cajunphried/status/1748048988153024743#m

para59r

This is novel. New school bill in Kentucky.

New Bill Would Require Students Dressed as Furries to Be Removed by Animal Control

The Animal Control part of the bill is actually a second step if parents don’t come and pick up their kids. Not sure how this will work out, but the kids likely won’t mind, right?

mollypitcher5

 😅 

para59r

Barron is trending on X today.

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para59r

One moar cause we can.

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One in a tweet so you can see what they are talking about.

pgroup2

He already looks like a leader. Like father like son.

WSB

What an extraordinary chiseled face that man has. Barron is one for the ages.

I see his mother and a younger Donald in that face. Just incredible.

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singingsoul1

Tomorrow my husband has stends put in his heart . He took a calcium test and showed some blockage. Please keep him in prayer 💗
Has anyone ever had that procedure ?
His kidneys showed improvement from 4 months ago and almost normal. Thanks be to God.

cthulhu

I have known several people who had stents put in. It seems to be mainly routine, because they could all talk about it. They normally report immediate relief (although you don’t say what your husband may need relief from).

singingsoul1

He has some blockage and seems to function well. He walks and gardens and is always busy one way or another.
The bad eating habits he only gave up reluctantly but is all in now since having diabetic II and that is under control. He had an irregular heart bead that was fixed on that. and does well .

Robert Baker

I have never had the procedure but I have watched it done many times. It is a procedure that has been perfected to a very high level. Your husband is very likely to do well and if stents are placed he will feel much better.

singingsoul1

Thank you. They ask “if he feels bad and said no.”
He might not know he feels bad and maybe look back how bad he felt ?
He is a “A” personality and likes to be busy and on the go . Does not get enough sleep never has. I need my 8-9 hour sleep to function always have been like that.

Robert Baker

Coronary artery disease can have a number of symptoms. The most well known are chest pain and shortness of breath but some just have a feeling of nausea or a kind of “windedness” that makes them feel slightly off kilter.

singingsoul1

He is driving his doctor nuts he has non of that. He has good weight of 150-155 LB maybe that is why he does not have any symptoms ?
He is going to be 82 and looks in his sixties and walks like that also.
I think men who are in the workforce regardless what is is have stress . If they are like my husband who worked long hours traveled on spur moment do not always rest and eat right. Later in life it shows up. He never smoked drinks little maybe 2 glasses of wine a week with a meal. His father had a heart failure at 82 also did his father grandfather).

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Gail Combs

Come to think of it my Father-in-law had a stint put in when he was about 81. He was much better after that. He also worked up until a few years before he died.

singingsoul1

That is good to know. My husband’s father did also and my husband does not show he will slow down it is in his genes .

Robert Baker

It sounds like your husband has taken good care of himself. Almost anyone in their 80s would have some level of coronary disease but it sounds like his genetic profile has served him well. They may take a look and decide a stent is not necessary but they will be able to tell confidently the state of his coronary health. Either way it should give him confidence for the future.

singingsoul1

I appreciate the info thank you 🙂
I am motherly type and have to watch myself not to smother him 🙂 Have the whole process take his course and put it in God’s hands 🙂

pat frederick

i have to tell you about my Dad. He had quadruple bypass surgery TWICE. he outlived the first set and was well on his way to outliving the second, but he decided he didn’t want to undergo the surgery a third time. his doctors were amazed. but he had this unsinkable spirit and a genuine love for life.
Put it in God’s hands!

singingsoul1

What a lovely story 🙂 Thank you for sharing .

Aubergine

Most men I know don’t have very good body awareness. They are used to ignoring symptoms and discomfort. If you ask them how they feel, they say “fine.”

After he has the procedure, he may surprise you by saying how much better he feels.

kalbokalbs

Uh, yup. That’s the way it works here.   :wpds_neutral: 

pat frederick

I’ll be praying for him and for you singingsoul1!

singingsoul1

Thank you pat 🙂

How is your husband doing ? Has his condition improved?

pat frederick

i think so. the real hero to him was the respiratory therapist in the hospital. he taught my husband how to recover breathe with his asthma. this young man has asthma himself and hasn’t used a rescue inhaler in years! but he taught my hubby not to panic and how to regain control. amazing stuff and he’s using that to recuperate.
fingers crossed
thanks for asking!

singingsoul1

That is good to know that your husband had someone who understands what he is dealing with. To many rely on theory but practice and deeper knowledge can be better. God is good 🙂

pat frederick

He is!

singingsoul1

💗

Cuppa Covfefe

Amen! GOD Bless and all the best to you and your husband and gute Besserung!

kalbokalbs

Great news.

Gail Combs

One of my co-workers in 1978 and another in 1984. Both did fine.

👃Good luck and quick healing.👃

singingsoul1

Thank you Gail.

pgroup2

They were going to do that to me but when they did the angiogram I didn’t need stents so they didn’t do them.

Hopefully he is scheduled for an angiogram with stents if needed. The current philosophy is to delay putting in stents as long as possible since they have a limited lifespan and some possible side effects [like scarring inside the artery].

singingsoul1

He had an stress test and angiogram. Maybe at his age they might not worry about if he outlives the stents ?
We need to tweak his eating pattern 🙂 We are so different if i know a food group is healthy for me I eat it if I like it or not. My husband an only child had plenty of food and even if I tell him something is good for him its like pulling teeth. 🙂
He gravitates back to baker kid habits. In a free world one cannot force a person to eat what is good. I point something out one time and let it go if the other resists. One needs to be purposeful eat for health.

pat frederick

wow i admire someone like you!
I was a picky eater as a child and now that I’m an adult I don’t even pretend to hide the broccoli as I give it to the dog…
I do make plenty of healthy choices, but not all of my choices are…lol

singingsoul1

When I grew up we had little food and one ate what one could find so not to starve. I almost did. Now I feel blessed by so many choices sometimes to many. Broccoli I did not know as a child but one can make it very tasty.
The things I did not know growing up is broccoli, spaghetti, Pizza waffles, roast beef, pot roast, Soda , watermelon, melons and many other things.

Gail Combs

I do not really like broccoli, but if it is not over cooked and smothered in cheese, I will eat it. 

singingsoul1

I never really cook most vegetables. Roasting with garlic and other vegetables. Broccoli I stir fry not to get soggy.

Gail Combs

Mom’s, mother was English so we got veggies boiled an extra day in honor of the Queen. 😣 So I ate them raw!

I like to stir fry when I can.

singingsoul1

That sounds ghastly having over boiled veggies.
I like raw vegetables also. Fennel and apple salad is great.

Gail Combs

It was ghastly. I did not know asparagus wasn’t gray slime until I got into college!

Gail Combs

I am sneaking Lion’s Mane mushroom powder in to Hubby’s food. so he does not know he is eating eat. 🤓

singingsoul1

Love mushrooms. Your husband is lucky that you the extra step 🙂

Gail Combs

I love mushrooms too. He picks them out. 🙄 Any way I am sneaking Lions Mane and coconut oil into his diet along with increasing his beef. His balance has gotten a lot better and he hardly every uses a cane now. He will be turning 81 soon.

singingsoul1

That is great maybe he was missing some nutrients ?

Gail Combs

That is what we were thinking. Also it was lack of exercise during Covid.

pgroup2

I don’t understand why they didn’t put the stents in during the angiogram.

I hope it wasn’t so they could bill for two surgeries. [I’m not a cardiac doctor so what do I know]

singingsoul1

The doc told him if they do not see blockage when they get in they will not put the stent in . He has to be 8:30 am at the Hospital. I bring my iPad and check in here.

kalbokalbs

^^^ Sounds like what I experienced.

I umpteen tests, before I went in for, “likely” stents.

Docs thought I needed them, but also cautioned, when they get in, I may NOT need them. As posted, latter was my reality.

Linda

Singing, my dad had stents put in and immediately felt a lot better.

singingsoul1

Thank you hen has something to look forward too 🙂 He does not know he feels bad maybe he got used to the new -old him 😅
How are you doing ?

Linda

I’m doing well, Singing. My father was also the type that never complained about how he was feeling. But I could tell just by how he breathed and that he was a lot less active than I’d ever seen him. I really don’t think he realized how bad he felt until suddenly he felt so much better. He was probably so used to it that he didn’t even think about it.

PAVACA

singingsoul1
I knew someone who had this done a number of years ago, and did well.
Thank God your husband’s kidneys are doing better. This, IMO, is a big plus.
Sending Good Energy and Deep Healing to him, and prayers and meditations for both of you.

singingsoul1

Thank you PAVACA 🙂
How are you coming along? Hope you feel better?

PAVACA

singingsoul1
You are very kind. My recovery is going somewhat slowly but is apparently on track. It appears that I should be out of the woods by the end of February.

kalbokalbs

Several years ago, quacks thought I needed stent(s).

I was awake the whole time. Even watched the monitor, during the procedure. They went in through the carotid artery. Sent the dye in. Looked around and said, no stent(s). that day.
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Discharged a few hours later. Couple stiches, where they went in. Stiches out following week.

>>> Had they put stent(s) in, I’d have been kept overnight.

My take is no big deal for hubby. Prayers. Best wishes.

singingsoul1

Interesting and lucky you 🙂
. They told my husband that it is an outpatient procedure. Not keeping him overnight. We live about 7 minutes from the Hospital. I put my dog into the kennel just in case there are problems. Pick him up Saturday see how hubby feels.
Thanks for the prayer 🙂

Aubergine

Prayers up.

bakocarl

I’ve had 4 stents put in my aorta due to 3 aneurysms, 2 penetrating aortic ulcers and an aortic dissection with an intramural hematoma. The procedure is not difficult. The recovery isn’t bad either, but it is highly dependent on the health and physical condition of the patient.

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para59r

Mental well being too I’d imagine. That’s a bit much. Likes that you can hang in there bakocarl, your needed here.

cthulhu

Not to mention cantankerousness…..

WSB

Prayers for you both. I know others who have been through triple bypass and stents and all are still here!!!

singingsoul1

Thank you 🙂
All went well and his blockage was not as bad as doc thought. 80% in one artery. I am grateful it was not worse.

pat frederick

LOLOLOLOL
Clarion
January 18, 2024 4:30 pm

I was just wondering about this. I could not recall how it came about that he chose her, but I thought I remembered his explaining it at one time.
Trump Explains the Only Reason He Chose Haley to Be UN Ambassador
Former President Trump said the only reason he chose Nikki Haley to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was so Henry McMaster, her lieutenant governor at the time, could become governor of South Carolina. 
“Nikki Haley is a disaster,” he told supporters at a campaign rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire. “She worked for me for a long time. I know her very well. I actually put her there for a different reason. 
“I shouldn’t say this, but she had a lieutenant governor named Henry McMaster, who is fantastic,” the 45th president continued. “I figured if I took her out of the South Carolina governorship, put her someplace, any place, I put her someplace, then Henry McMaster, who is my friend and has turned out to be a great governor in South Carolina, Henry McMaster will become the governor. So, I moved her to the United Nations. And, honestly, she was not a good negotiator. She was not a good negotiator.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/01/18/trump-explains-the-only-reason-he-put-haley-in-un-position-n2633815

Robert Baker

I think Dictator Trump is doing a psyop on Ms. Haley.

pat frederick

he plays the game well

Gail Combs

Actually I thought that was the reason he moved Haley. She was a disaster as gov.

scott467

She’s good on Civil War history though 👍🙄😂

pgroup2

Bite thy tongue.

Gail Combs

At least when it comes to REMOVING General Lee’s Battle Flag.

kalbokalbs

😂😅😂

pgroup2

The instant I heard of her appt, I thought – dang he’s putting her on ice.

pat frederick

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION. ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. EVEN EVENTS THAT “CROSS THE LINE” MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD. THERE MUST BE CERTAINTY. EXAMPLE: YOU CAN’T STOP POLICE FROM DOING THE JOB OF STRONG & EFFECTIVE CRIME PREVENTION BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GUARD AGAINST THE OCCASIONAL “ROGUE COP” OR “BAD APPLE.” SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH “GREAT BUT SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT.” ALL PRESIDENTS MUST HAVE COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, OR THE AUTHORITY & DECISIVENESS OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE STRIPPED & GONE FOREVER. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE AN EASY DECISION. GOD BLESS THE SUPREME COURT!

scott467

Get Hussein, get Brandon, get Bush Jr., get Clinton, get the criminals.

These aren’t people who made honest mistakes, they are traitors who have done everything in their power to destroy our country.

The Republic cannot take another one.

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cthulhu

Peter Schickele, of P.D.Q. Bach fame, has passed at 88.

I actually saw him in concert about 40 years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok0.1duU.TRWMsMySQ7GM&smid=url-share

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singingsoul1

RIP Peter Schickele.

He was a genius and he brought many hours of joy to many people including me.

Cuppa Covfefe

From “Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice”:

“It’s Alice, it’s Alice, it’s Alice Über Deutschland” 😀

He was truly brilliant, and his comedy pieces brought a lot of people into appreciating classical music…

pat frederick

snicker, snicker

cthulhu

Finally got the last locks reinstalled. Had two that were giving me problems — one internal deadbolt, and one external lever. The internal one was different from any other deadbolt in the house, so I just took the cylinder to our local locksmith and had him do it. There was this C clip that I had no tool for because it was too thin and sandwiched in….

I had a bit of a problem reassembling the lever — I had gotten it open (fun — it was inhabited!) and re-keyed it successfully. Turns out, where you normally assemble the cylinder into the lock and clip on the handle, you had to assemble the cylinder into the handle and clip into the lock.

I hope this stays done for a while.

holly

29-year-old pole vaulter dead. Story says he had been experiencing health issues and died from medical complications. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-12980881/Shawn-Barber-Canada-pole-vault-record-holder-dead-29.html

kalbokalbs

JaJab.

Aubergine

I can’t say I trust him, but I do enjoy someone who can laugh at themselves:

Cuppa Covfefe

Oh thank Heaven for Seven-Eleven 😀

Aubergine

Lol!

Barb Meier

Oh this will be fun! I really like listening to Angie Aparo!!

@Catturd2
Don’t threaten me with a good time or an excuse to buy another cowboy hat. https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f602.svg

I’ll be there. LET’S GO !!!

@johnrich

On Wednesday, Jan 24th, @catturd2

and I will be live and in person at my bar The Redneck Riviera at 7pm for a musical livestream performance of our friend Angie Aparo! Seating is limited, so arrive by 6:30pm! The link to the stream will be posted here on X:) @RedneckRiviera

https://nitter.net/johnrich/status/1748101359574909328

para59r

para59r

Good news out of the EU. Hope they all take note. Also interesting comment.
Peter Sweden: HUGE – Sweden SCRAPPING Agenda 2030 goals
Guest Contributor Jan. 18, 2024 8:00 pm 81 Comments

Bayousavant

22 minutes ago

“Daddy”

“Yes Dear”

“I’m cold”

“Too bad. You know we have to

live like this so that the planet will only warm up a half degree

instead of a full degree in the next Century. Our leaders tell us so.

The people that come after us are depending on us. After all, technology

can’t possibly come up with a solution, It never replaced Whale oil as a

lamp fuel… err bad example… It never replaced the Horse as a means

of transportation…err -. Bad example… It never figured out how to

grow more food using fertiizers….. err– Just do as you are told by

our dear leaders, They are in their ivory towers right now thinking deep

thoughts and deciding what’s best for us, They are really really smart

and we are dumb. They must be smart because they live so well. Its

justified of course, for them to live so well because it is so important

for them to make good decisions for us, and their judgements are so

important we musn’t let them get hungry or cold. And I for one, having

received a college education at a prestigious school believe every word

they say. Plus they are the same political party that I like, with

diversity for all. It makes me feel wonderful.. “

“Daddy”

“Yes Dear”

“I’m Hungry”

/s

What do you want? Well cared for Politicians, or your children to be fed and warm? The answer is starting to become clear.

As

The Saudi Minister said- If they want to live without the benefits of

Oil and gas, they are free to do so. They do not. They want YOU TO

SUBMIT BECAUSE THEY SAY THEY ARE SO POWERFUL THEY CAN CHANGE THE

CLIMATE, WHICH THEY ASSURE YOU IS KILLING YOU. They cannot change the

climate. They can only change the ideas inside your head. Be sure,

however, are willing to wreck your life and standard of living TO

FURTHER THEIR AIMS. And believe me, they plan to makes lots of money

trying to do it. As soon as they drive your investments in energy to

low value, by confiscating all the profits of the industries, and

manipulating markets, then watch how they snap them up! The way to

their fortune is simple- Use their power to force you to destitution,

then you become their economic slave. This progression has been seen in

every society where the powerful and connected are able to override the

laws (or replace the laws) of those societies to enrich themselves.

The way to override the laws is to engender such emotions of fear in the

ignorant they they voluntarily submit to depredation, or the

politicians and central bankers wreck the economy. The politicians just

as happily take advantage of the apathy of a populace that can barely

afford a Turnip- and this is done most sanctimoniously by the

“benevolent leaders” who are “only looking out for the peoples’

welfare.” Right now look who lives the best in GREEN Europe- is it the

people? No, It is the High rolling members of the EU, steadily moving

their society into serfdom. They will never do without. You will see.

F.A. Hayak – every word is coming true- before our very eyes.

TheseTruths

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WSB

I do not know where that nose came from.

kalbokalbs

Chiefio

Prepare For Grid Down / Disruption Events
Make sure you have standby power, even if it is “minimal”. It looks like those in the know are predicting more power outages / grid down events. Cause? Decreasing nuclear, coal and gas generation intersecting higher demand spikes.

Regulars here have known this for a long time: Nuclear, Gas, and Coal generation are reliable and can be made available any time. Solar & Wind are not. They come and go on a semi-random basis. At anything over about 20% solar and wind, you have random spikes of unreliable power, and random dropouts. As the percentage of nuclear, gas, and coal power drops; it becomes impossible to stabilize the power grid against those spikes and dropouts. The EU, UK, & USA have been busy destroying their Nuclear, Coal, and Gas generation capabilities.

Well, looks like it is now being recognized that during cold excursions, we can no longer avoid blackouts (and during hot excursions in California…)

At the same time, the foolish push to “electrification” of just about everything is adding more demand spikes. We now have a lot of people who get home from work and plug in their electric car to charge it, just as demand for home heat, cooking, A/C, laundry, lighting, etc. etc. is peaking. So while the ability to meet “peak demand” is dropping, the height of that peak is rising.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/north-america-faces-elevated-blackout-risk-NERC-reliability-natural-gas/699275/

Has the obligatory genuflect to muh-“Climate Change”… and in some places disses “gas” when the real issue is pushing coal and nuclear out of the picture and shoving that demand onto rapid growth of gas generation in excess of natural gas supply; but it still makes some good points (bolding by me):

Much of North America faces ‘elevated risk’ of blackouts in extreme winter conditions: NERC

Climate change, rising energy demand and natural gas dependence mean “a massive grid disruption is inevitable,” said Mark Spurr, legislative director at the International District Energy Association.

Published Nov. 9, 2023

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/

WSB

I would like to coin a phrase tonight. For better, hopefully…The Pied President.

“The legend dates back to the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored (“pied“) clothing, who was a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away[1] with his magic pipe.

When the citizens refuse to pay for this service as promised, he retaliates by using his instrument’s magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats.

This version of the story spread as folklore and has appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, and Robert Browning, among others. The phrase “pied piper” has become a metaphor for a person who attracts a following through charisma or false promises.[2]


There are many contradictory theories about the Pied Piper. Some suggest he was a symbol of hope to the people of Hamelin, which had been attacked by plague; he drove the rats from Hamelin, saving the people from the epidemic.[3]