I was going to do a whole thing on “don’t count on the Epstein files to be published any time soon” and am glad to be proven wrong on that.
That being the case, a lot of what I collected is obsolete as of this putting together the post.
Badlands News Brief – January 3, 2024
Exclusive — Trump Plans Aggressive Expansion of Electoral Map, Says He’ll Make ‘Heavy Play’ for New York, New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, Minnesota
The GOP’s most Trump-skeptical bloc starts falling in line
Like It or Not, 2024 Is the Year of Trump
The election engines were started long ago.
Illegal Alien Invasion Maps Exposed
Big Business Took a Beating From Conservatives Over Woke Marketing in 2023, but Did It Change Anything?
2024: Do We Hit the Iceberg or Finally Change Course?
It’s No Wonder Why the Left Wants Trump Off the Ballot in 2024
U-Haul: Illinois among top states for outbound movers in 2023
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SATIRE
Not anymore.
THUFFERING THUCCOTASH!!!
IT’S THURSDAY.
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Well — that failed. Sorry.
Yeah, some images won’t translate here. Trying this:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images
Edit: Nope. The ones that end in .jpg and .gif will work.
Gab ones usually do too & they seem to mostly end w/ png, I think…
.JPEG
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all work… SOMETIMES but not always.
You can take a file called:
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and change it to
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TY sometimes that trick works, like from twitter, but not for nitter, at least not for me…
I am reminded of Thomas Edison’s quest for a filament for a light bulb. A reporter visited him and was shown into a large room with 16,000 little jars on shelves on all sides. Edison explained that each material in each jar had been made into a light bulb and none had been found satisfactory.
The reporter then asked how Edison dealt with this much failure.
“Failure?”, replied the great inventor. “Failure? I, alone, of any man on the entire planet, know 16,000 things that won’t work. I’m likely more than 15,000 items ahead of my nearest competitor.”
One of my favorite famous-person quotes.
Oh, good — I thought I was hallucinating again.
Just as long as I don’t start citing court cases….
Wasn’t Edison a great tinkerer, trial & error type, & Tesla a great thinker, prove it all formulaically before getting hands dirty, or something, & didn’t these great men pretty much despise each other?
Yes – I’ve read that!
Tesla Part I – https://marica1776.com/2023/12/26/history-of-nicola-tesla-part-1/
Tesla Part II – https://marica1776.com/2023/12/27/history-of-nicola-tesla-part-2/
Thx!
Edison wanted direct current used for electrical utilities…similar to what you get off your batteries, the wall plug would deliver a constant voltage. There are still parts of NYC that have this, the people there have to buy adapters for everything.
Alternating Current was advocated by Tesla. The voltage at the plug here is actually a sine wave, 60 hertz, that alternates between positive and negative voltage. The average voltage is zero, but that’s useless information, what you want is something telling you the height of the sine wave. The average deviation from zero volts is 120V, and that’s called the “root mean square” of the voltage (you square the voltage at any given time, then take the square root, to get rid of the minus sign).
Tesla won the argument, and justly so; alternating current is vastly better for moving electrical power over long distances.
TY. I Partially understood this but would love to see diagrams…maybe fodder for a future Saturday post, or perhaps even one in the past that I’ve yet to get to in my perpetual catch-up reading!
My husband has a degree in Electronics Technology & Used to work in that industry in our early marriage. When we run into electrical issues at home I try to get him to explain certain concepts to me but I only get it to a point, sadly. He, at least, knows how to make use of a voltmeter, I think it’s called 🙂
LOL…he should be able to explain alternating current with absolutely NO trouble, then.
I’m pretty sure I never covered it (so don’t start going through the whole long list)!
I remember taking a class in HS where the teacher tried to walk us through a voltage-ohm-meter (words possibly not correctly strung together) and after telling us that just called it a VOM. One of the students joked that it stood for “Very old mother.” (And no, that student was NOT me…)
Those units had the swinging needle with a logarithmic scale…and I could tell my classmates were struggling to read it right. On graduating college I bought a digital model which I occasionally have a use for. It helped when I wired my house.
Hubby’s got an analog one w/ like 5 different settings. I’ve never actually asked him to (attempt to) explain it fully to me but observed him using it in Many ways, including diagnosing issues when he’s pulled a playstation or CD player apart to clean &/or troubleshoot issues.
All I know is that he touches the two “probes” together briefly first to ensure there is some type of flow between them & then he does his magic, thankfully!
Our daughter repaired her furnace, a la her dad’s skill set, very recently. One of her brothers & a friend found the necessary part & she looked up tutorial videos, like how my husband does, & then did the repair herself! Michael thought he’d have to step in (he’s helped them fix their dryer & aspects of their stove). She was working for a company that installed shelves & modular offices until just before she gave birth, the only chick that worked w/ the tools & not in the office, & got Very Familiar w/ power tools & such. I think she’s got her own nail gun even & her daughter can sleep to the sound of power tools–genius! She’s a hunting honey too–we’re so proud!!!
Ah, the touching probes. He’s actually testing the VOM itself! In order to test electrical resistance your meter must supply the current. It has a battery inside it. I’ll bet he’s got it set to measure resistance when he does that, and IF the thing reads zero when he touches the probes together, he’s got a good battery. Or maybe he’s making sure it’s reading zero volts when he touches them together. It’s been a long time (40 years or so) since I used an analog unit I have forgotten the best practices.
I definitely don’t know exactly what he’s doing but when the probes (or whatever they are) touch the needle usually jumps so then he goes & uses the thing for whatever process/problem he’s dealing with.
There’s plenty of “resistance” around here but he’s never found whatever is needed to measure nor to counteract it…ahem 😉 😉
LOL. If the needle jumps, current is flowing…which means he’s got the battery connected to the probes (inside) and he’s checking that the meter reads zero resistance between the two probes and nothing else. A good procedure. Otherwise, if the battery is dead, everything will look like an open circuit because the needle doesn’t move when you check the resistance.
Not an issue with a digital one, if the battery is dead the unit won’t turn on.
Thx, that makes sense 🙂
basdically inside the VOM is a galvanometer…which measures current.
Because voltage is resistance times current, though with a bit of cleverness you can measure all three of the quantities with a galvanometer really just measuring a current.
So you can connect the leads directly to your test subject and the galvanometer and measure current. Or put a resistor in the circuit, touch your two points, and measure the current; you then get voltage since voltage is current times the resistance (which you know, because the resistor is part of the tester). Finally, you can apply a known voltage (from your battery) to the item being tested, measure the current, and know the resistance. In all three cases the guts of the thing is measuring a current, but depending on the circumstances you can display current, voltage or resistance.
When your hubby turns the knob on the front of the unit, he’s actually connecting different resistors into the circuit between the two probes. Bigger resistors to measure bigger currents and voltages. There’s also a way to connect things up to measure different ranges of resistance but I don’t recall how they work that.
I don’t know why but the word “galvanometer” is bringing to mind a version of Frankenstein I saw on Netflix (a fascinating rendering where the monster was a tragic & sympathetic central figure). There was a G, iirc, that was part of the discussion of the character, presumably Dr. Frankenstein, who was either attending a lecture, or giving one, at a medical college where they were using a G to get dead flesh to do certain things, like flinch.
When I was in college, one of my bio labs had us dissecting a frog & applying some type of electricity to the severed frog leg & getting it to kick.
“which you know”
I appreciate the vote of confidence but it is rather misplaced 😆
FWIW, I would guess that there is Some amount of electric current/signal that is part of a living being. Just like it’s probably not possible to Completely separate what is body, mind, soul, or spirit I would guess that what Exactly is the Essence of Life is just a bit indeterminate, though some type of electrical capacity would seem to be part of it, at a minimum from what causes heartbeats & probably what neuronal activity consists of.
These would seem to be horizons between religion, science, & philosophy, at least to me 🙂
You’re thinking of Luigi —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galvani
Well, not on purpose 😉 😉
Kanekoa the Great:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1742670648433090764.html
It’s a long thread that presents evidence for a number of states.
Here is the archived version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240103225152/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1742670648433090764.html
That’s incredibly damning info for the coupsters!
Thank you, De Pat, for a strong and mighty Thursday thread.
The johnny maga X post (tweet) in the open about DeSantis and Casey going to the sports bar and no one acknowledging them is kind of pathetic. DeSantis has fallen from up-and-coming governor to someone who looks like a loser. And I think, if he has stayed in the race because he thought something might happen to remove Trump from running, then DeSantis was willing to become the president of people who don’t want him and who obviously, enthusiastically wanted someone else instead. It reminds me of being second choice in a relationship. It seems so desperate. I think in politics, it’s all about the power and money.
“I think in politics, it’s all about the power and money.”
Primarily. It is also about other deviant behaviors that those two deliver. Fame, relevance to otherwise meaningless lives, sexual and relationship desires, etc., etc. Sometimes they are the end goals, other times they are the means to the ends.
I dealt with state and federal politicians in my occupation for over 30 years off and on. The LEAST liked job responsibility I ever had. I would rather clean toilets and mop floors. That is a much more honorable and productive occupation.
Rob and Casey have to go through the motions and degradation because they chose to take the money instead of taking the high road. Perhaps threatened, blackmailed, extorted, whatever in some way(s).
Do not forget that Ron wrote a book right after getting out of the Navy. I think he was ‘captured’ then if not when he studied History at Yale.
I can’t figure out the significance of the padlock.
Locking the cargo in.
What cargo?
We’re obviously supposed to notice the padlock since it’s colored and most of the cartoon is not. But what it represents eludes me.
The “kids” that Captain Clinton is talking to.
DUH! Of course. ThanQ.
YW.
The names are the KEY to the pad lock.
“…Clinton likes them young…”
👉 read…
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barf
He always did. That was his preference. He also liked them his age and older, especially if they had blow.
This is who the big money and Uniparty backed that I discussed in BIMD. I worked with his college roommate and lobbyist friend for over a year.
There is a whole lot more. They will try to keep as much hidden as possible.
So many “conspiracy theorists” on here and other sites have no idea how right they have been. Victory laps will be taken.
Note that Steamboat Willie is looking at it.
Boom!
Only a couple of days after the old Mickey goes public domain… oddly fitting… and brilliant, by Garrison (as always)…..
I love the temple in the background and the padlocked cage.
James O’Keefe:
Vivek plays Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca on the campaign trail. He’s out of practice, but has some skill.
NICE!!!
This is an op-ed by PDJT:
Donald Trump: This is how I will end Joe Biden’s border disaster on day one
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/caucus/2024/01/03/donald-trump-joe-biden-border-disaster/72093156007/
He talks about his accomplishments regarding the border while in office, and then says this:
It’s interesting that he assumes JB will no longer be in office: “Joe Biden is leaving behind a catastrophe of historic proportions.”
We only have one president at a time. So of course he assumes he’ll be in office and President Dementia won’t be.
What are you trying to say?
JOE WILL BE GONE!!!
not soon enough…January 2021 wants a do-over!
AMEN!!!
🙂
joe stolen’s already “gone”, waaay gone.
it’s the-Joe-Biden that worries me.
the
obamasseem to have a relentless hold that they will not give up !Great point!!!
Yup. Clear indication.
That Trump talks about JB being gone as if it’s a done deal. Most candidates talk about what they will do “when elected,” but in my experience it’s less common for someone to state that the current officeholder, who is also running again, will be gone. Often, they will say something like, “Joe Biden has caused a catastrophe of historic proportions.” Instead, Trump says JB is “leaving behind a catastrophe of historic proportions.” It just struck me as a little out of the ordinary.
^^^ This. Done deal, we just need to continue to do our parts.
The decision about PDT’s statements is to trust fully or not. Typically he is very careful when giving policy and procedural statements.
Alien Enemy Act June 25, 👉1798, ch. 58, 1 Stat. 570 👈 No longer exists. HMMmmmm I am running into a lot of that lately. Almost as if the Cabal wants us DUMB.
It is an OLD law. I am not sure the section I pointed out below is still in effect.
ArtI.S8.C4.1.2.3 Early U.S. Naturalization Laws
There’s no such thing as an anchor baby of illegal parents IMO.
That is why I used ‘THEY’
Babies Don’t Provide Anchors!By Publius Huldah (Constitutional Lawyer)
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment says, in part:
…An illegal alien who invades our Country is in the same status as the French Ambassador’s wife. The baby she drops here is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the Country she left.
So the 14th Amendment does NOT confer citizenship on babies of illegals born here – just as it does not confer citizenship on the babies of foreign diplomats stationed here.
Pursuant to Art. I, Sec. 8, clause 4, US Constitution, Congress may make laws deciding how people become naturalized citizens.
But Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment does not confer citizenship status on babies born here of illegal aliens.
This is important.
For a deeper understanding of this important issue, see Professor Edward Erler’s brilliant essay, Birthright Citizenship and Dual Citizenship: Harbingers of Administrative Tyranny
Sorry if my comment came off like a challenge. It was not.
All good.
I am not always articulate.😁
So birthright citizenship/anchor babies don’t exist de jure but they do exist de facto…color of law crapola again!
Ivermectin update.
Started feeling sick about two days ago. Sore throat which then progressed to headache and then just feeling miserable all over. Probably a slight fever. Could be covid or whatever other annual creeping crud goes around.
Since I have a big supply of Ivermectin now, I decided not to wait until I was in really bad shape, like I did the last two times.
Took a dose of Ivermectin at around 3pm. A couple hours later the feeling of starting to really feel not well was hitting me, so I took the Ivermectin just in time. I laid on the couch for a couple hours. Got up, and realized I felt at least 50% better.
Headache and body ache gone, and my energy level felt so close to normal that I laughed out loud 😂
Now that it’s several hours later, the sore throat is basically gone, and the only symptom remaining is sniffles. The cough never even developed.
So it has been about 12 hours since I took the Vitamin I, and I’m basically 90% better. The last two times, when I waited until I was really sick, it took about 6 hours longer to feel about 90% better, but then I still had the cough for about two weeks.
Skipping the cough this time.
Ivermectin is a miracle drug.
Nice report!!!
Good info! And, fortuitously, a good result!
feel better soon 100% ! 💞
Thank you smiley!
Do not forget the Vitamin D and C. Selenium is a good virus killer too (One Brazil nut a day is how I get Hubby to take it.)
Yes – I keep selenium along with Quercetin and HCQ – plus zinc, Vitamins D3 and C – for fighting viruses.
Even have a tube of horse Ivermectin just in case it gets bad.
The latter works well.
Or goat spit and moxidectin.
Not the kind of nuts you find in Rio during Carnival, right? 😂
I take vitamin D (2,000iu) and Vitamin C (500mg, I think) every day, along with a multivitamin.
I doubled up on the Vitamin D the last couple days.
Haven’t tried Selenium yet, I’ll give the Brazil nuts a try 👍
Just eat one or you can overdose on selenium.
Thank you for the heads-up!
You are very welcome.
I’ve been increasing my hubby’s daily Vitamin D during the colder months to hopefully stave off the Seasonal Affective Disorder that he usually battles every year. I hope it helps!
😍
That’s Awesome!!!
Same thing has happened to me with Quercetin-Zinc-D3 and HCQ-Zinc-D3/
Several times – taking either of these when I feel a virus illness coming on, it is soon gone.
I use green tea. However I drink tea as my beverage of choice every day. So I ‘extract’ the Zinc Ionophore, EGCG, store it in the frig and add some to each cup to cool my boiling tea.
EGCG: Potent extract of green tea
How to Get the Most EGCG from Your Green Tea
Good report, Scott. Generally do the same thing. I add D, C and selenium as Gail posted. Got the crud a month ago and recovered quickly.
More and more people in our experiences are going IVM and HCQ. They have stopped listening and trusting docs/medical staff. You can tell from all of the ads and promotions the regional medical industry is doing around here that they are the last resort.
Tractor Supply cannot keep the IVM stocked fast enough. Buying the pills from the India sources has helped. The compounding pharmacies in TN are legal to provide OTC, however, the cost is ridiculous. What costs less than $200 from India costs $600+ in those pharmacies.
The horse paste is $15, so that’s what I use. I’m just thrifty 🙂
Sounds like a whinney-ing strategy 😀
Lol!
I don’t know if we can get that now. Previously it was locked up. Then there were rumors of needing a vet’s prescription 🙁
Well, it’s for sale here in Montana. No locks, no prescription needed.
You live in Way more freedom than we poor saps trapped under Witchmer’s interminable jackboot…stomping on our faces in perpetuity 🙁 Glad you have that access!
Me, too!
scott467
Please feel completely better very soon! Thank heavens you have a supply of IVM around. I concur with everyone below in the thread about keeping up with vitamins C and D, selenium, Quercetin in some form, Zinc. Please stay well-hydrated (soup is good) and get some rest. Some people take IVM on a regular / semi-regular basis; others take it when they feel sick.
The old chicken soup treatment … 😀
HOME MADE of course!
I have to finish off the goat soup tonite…
I should not have said that. I just got bit by a billy goat…😜
You might try biting him back, teach him a lesson 😁
Actually he was just a bit curious to see if I had a treat for me.
Thank you RDS!
For whatever reason, the Quercetin made my heart race after I took it regularly for a month or two. I thought I was having a heart attack. That was when I went to one of those emergency clinics just before 8pm, and the door was locked.
They were supposed to be open until 8pm, so I knocked.
A nurse came to the door and opened it, I explained by symptoms and asked if she could help me. She said no, but I might try the other clinic across town and shut the door.
I just looked at her in disbelief.
After getting lost and driving several miles too far, I turned around and eventually found the other clinic, and it was packed. Apparently they’d had a power outage (it was winter) a few hours earlier.
When it was my turn at the front desk, I explained my symptoms and the woman at the desk said there was nothing they could do, but it sounded like I was having a heart attack, so I should drive myself to the hospital emergency room right away.
I just looked at her, thinking you can’t even be serious, but she was.
It felt like I had stepped right into the Twilight Zone.
So I just went home.
I think I did a little research on Quercetin later that night, and read that one of the potential side effects was a racing heart, so I stopped taking it, and the symptom stopped a few days later.
So something about my system doesn’t like the Quercetin, unfortunately.
Or maybe it was too much zinc, I stopped taking that at the same time, so it could be either one, or both, or the combination of both.
Hubby had problems with too much zinc. We eat a lot of beef/meat so we have to be careful.
ECGC is another option.
Zinc Ionophore Activity of Quercetin, Green Tea Extract and Hydroxychloroquine 2022
By Dr Frank Yap, MD – May 26, 2022
Effects of green tea and EGCG on cardiovascular and metabolic health
Mechanisms underlying beneficial health effects of tea catechins to improve insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction.
EGCG, a green tea polyphenol, improves endothelial function and insulin sensitivity, reduces blood pressure, and protects against myocardial I/R injury in SHR.
Vascular and metabolic actions of the green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin gallate
Green Tea Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) Targeting Protein Misfolding in Drug Discovery for Neurodegenerative Diseases
scott467
IMO, a safe daily dose of Zinc is between 20mg–25mg. That can go up to 30mg a day during a COVID-19 infection, then back down. It’s important to total up all daily sources of Zinc.
I concur with Gail Combs regarding Quercetin in that it’s quite possible to take Quercetin every day from foods that contain it and/or in green tea, as compared to taking Quercetin in supplement form.
11 Best Foods High In Zinc
So 2 quarter pounders with cheese, red onion (quercetin) and lettuce washed down with a glass of tea are pretty good at fending off viruses.
We are still doing weekly – probably through the beginning of April. With the daily supplements, nasal spray and gargling. Stocked up for whatever comes down the pike.
Great news.
Folks, HopeYa Stock Ivermectin.
I have a big stock of it now, that’s why I didn’t wait so long to take it this time.
When I only had a small amount, and from a U.S. doctor prescription through FLCCC (so it was expensive), I didn’t want to waste it.
There was no way to be sure whether I had covid or not, because the tests were unreliable (on purpose, it seems), and even if they were reliable, I was never going to shove a giant q-tip all the way up my nose to the blood-brain barrier.
There were non-invasive spit-saliva tests available in other parts of the world (e.g., Australia, but apparently they didn’t have enough to export), so that just added to my suspicion about the invasive chineez-made jam-it-up-the-schnoz method.
So without being sure I had covid, and with the Ivermectin being expensive, I didn’t want to use it until I was sure I was really sick. And the only way to be sure it wasn’t just a 48-hour flu is to wait and see if I got really sick.
I’d like to thank the Academy, along with the entire medical profession, for putting us all in this situation 👍
You could have compromised w/ the Chyneze anal swab 😂 That version gets closer to the blood/brain barrier of politicos–spit!
What is “No”?
😂
Bwah ha ha!!! No doubt!
Remember not to take Quercetin with Ivermectin. Per FLCCC/Kory there is some kind of interaction that isn’t good.
Good to know.
I’d like to know more about this….. I took Quercetin with Ivermectin back in the covid days and didn’t notice any problems.
WebMD
MONITOR CLOSELY
Significant interaction possible (monitoring by your doctor required).
Quercetin + Ivermectin
Quercetin will decrease the level or effect of Ivermectin by affects how the drug is eliminated from the body (via what is known as the P-glycoprotein [MDR1] transporter).
https://www.webmd.com/interaction-checker/default.htm
THANKS!
Thank you
I don’t know exactly what they mean by the “interaction” – I just know they mention it, and show ivermectin being taken in the middle of the day with the 2 quercetin does at other times, on their printed schedule. It’s all in the protocols at FLCCC.net
Thanks
Please see my post slightly up. Quoting WebMD.
Thank you Gingersmom!
I posted this before I read your quercetin comment. 🤔
I’m not sure it was a conflict with IVM and Quercetin that made me feel like I was having a heart attack, but it could have been, or at least part of it.
Sounds bad. Was this the only time you were taking quercetin, I mean you don’t take it as part of your regular supplements?
Incidentally, CV’s Deagel post is up.
Thx for the heads up 🙂
https://www.theqtree.com/2024/01/04/the-deagel-report-u-s-population-reduction-of-68-5-by-2025/
Coothie
Thank you, you are very kind. Yours Truly added a couple more thoughts to the original post; the updated version is up now.
I will go take another look. I will have to refresh the tab. 🤓
OWNERS OF ISLANDS AROUND THE WORLD
https://nitter.net/Darknessdestro7/status/1742648093504426035#m
https://t.co/t9SrXOfQEs
What is the practical effect of owning an island?
The owner is the Law of the island.
The only kind of person who can own an island is an insanely wealthy person.
Insanely wealthy people are nearly always corrupted by their wealth, falling into depraved acts of sexual perversion, because that’s all that is left to experience when you have experienced every other pleasure the world has to offer.
An island where the owner is the Law of the Land is the perfect place to act out these perversions with sex slaves.
I would guess there is likely not a single reasonably small inhabited island on earth that isn’t being used for this exact purpose by its owner.
YUP! that is why I posted that.
The other thing these bastards want is POWER! Power over other humans. That is what the WEF and the rest are all about.
When I was a kid, I used to dream about owning an island and creating an entirely designed environment there (I grew up near Disneyland). I’d even picked one out — Fanning Island, in the Gilbert and Ellice Island group [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabuaeran ].
I don’t think I was particularly corrupted or depraved at the time, being that I was about 12 years old. In fact, I was more concerned about realizing an environment than populating it — much less, bending its inhabitants toward my perverted will.
Well, you still have time to buy an island and bend its inhabitants to your will. If you still really want to, that is. 😂
I used to dream of owning an island, too. 🙂
I wanted one of the Florida Keys.
Me? I wanted a mountain. 🤓
I would have taken one of those, too!
A mountain surrounded by water.
I think whatever Celine Dion dabbled in gave her some kind of prion disease.
Mel Gibson is on the list. I would not expect him to be using an island for trafficking.
Neither would I. Remember some just want a quiet place with NO FANS.
since yesterday was his birthday, i presented a piece from justfunfacts.com about him at my place. here’s what they said about his “island”
Gibson is a property investor, with multiple properties in Malibu, California, several locations in Costa Rica, a private island in Fiji and properties in Australia.
yesterday…
“Hoax” Bomb Threats Sent To Multiple US Capitols, Buildings Evacuated
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link + CBS News clip…
‘Hoax’ bomb threats sent to multiple US Capitols, buildings evacuated – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
FBI…
hoax threats but taking them seriously
danger = to citizens (panic !)
👉 context = political
👉 removing PDJT from Primary Ballots
set the table, folks !
You want to know what is REALLY WEIRD?
Montana’s statehouse was one of the capitols evacuated.
NONE of our local news, neither TV, newspaper, nor radio, has ANY coverage. NOT ONE WORD. Not even in the newspaper in Helena, where the capital is.
WTF?!
#1. The media is tied at the hip to the DNC
#2. People are already nervous about so many UNVETTED potential Terrorists entering the country.
#3. 👉“The threats were made amid growing tensions relating to some states not allowing Donald Trump to appear on the ballot for US Presidency.“👈
That last media statement was to make it look like it was MAGA Trump voters, but ‘they’ probably realized after the fact, it would instead look like Illegal Terrorists.
Seems like they didn’t do the ‘crowd testing’ as well as they should until after the fact. Also if it was released as a story, there is a possibility that cops might let the cat out of the bag about WHO it was.
Let’s face it, there is NO WAY that the LEOs do not know WHO is on the other end of a phone doing the Swatting and these false bomb threats. If it was MAGA it would be plastered all over the media.
I think you are correct. Scary, though, that kind of media coordination.
The media coordination started in 1915 and has only gotten worse. Under OH!Bummer it go a LOT worse.
Ashe has a take similar to mine.
STORY: FBI calls bomb threats that led to brief lockdowns and evacuations of some state capitols a hoax
which is precisely why I said “set the table”, in my post.
I am really getting tired of ‘our’ government being the ones responsible for terror events.
A Conversation about 9/11 with Richard Gage kills any doubt. this video provides hard evidence showing the destruction of the buildings was caused by controlled demolition. They even have evidence of the TYPE of explosive used and it is not something a third world type would/could use.
https://rumble.com/v41xek0-rp-1205-et-a-conversation-about-911-with-richard-gage.html
also see:
https://richardgage911.org/?s=court
Jazz pianist, composer & vocalist Les McCann has died (88 yrs)..
self-taught musician and soul jazz piano innovator.
enlisted in US Navy at 17.
he mastered all instruments.
Compared To What (1967)..
Because my music collection is biased towards what is more available on recent recordings, I have only Chaquico’s version in my archive —
Thank you for bringing that version here. I was wondering if anyone else noticed.
that video I posted was from the 1969 Montreux Jazz Fest…where he recorded the album Swiss Movement for which he got a Grammy nomination.
The lyrics I posted belong to that version. There are different lyrics available for who recorded it and when.
I love to lie and lie to love
I’m hangin’ on they push and shove
Possession is the motivation
That is hangin’ up the goddamn nation
Looks like we always end up in a rut
Everybody now
Tryin’ to make it real compared to what
Slaughterhouse is killin’ hogs
Twisted children killin’ frogs
Poor dumb rednecks rollin’ logs
Tired old ladies kissin’ dogs
I hate the human love of that stinking mutt
I can’t use it
Tryin’ to make it real compared to what
President he’s got his war
Folks don’t know just what it’s for
Nobody gives us rhyme or reason
Have one doubt they call it treason
We’re chicken feathers
All without one nut goddamn it
Tryin’ to make it real compared to what
Church on Sunday sleep and nod
Tryin’ to duck the wrath of God
Preachers fillin’ us with fright
They all tryin’ to teach us what they think is right
They really got to be some kind of nut
I can’t use it
Tryin’ to make it real compared to what
Where’s that bee and where’s that honey
Where’s my God and where’s my money
Unreal values a crass distortion
Unwed mothers need abortion
Kind of brings to mind old young King Tut
He did it now
Tried to make it real compared to what
Vietnam protest song.
Not just Vietnam. He saw more clearly than that.
oh yeah
but that’s how it’s categorized, that particular era, that particular President, that particular war.
that particular rut…
but hey…
compared to what .
✌🎶
RIP, Mr McCann
edit : I posted an incorrect date there for that Jazz performance at Montreux, should be 1969.
he first recorded that song ca 1966- 67.
Power Hour…
https://rumble.com/v44x3yl-devolution-power-hour-211-1030-pm-et-.html
Starting at 13 minutes they discuss the Epstein Drop. Jon Harold says he started from the bottom. The witness says she was ‘lent out’ to presidents of other countries. Also Dershowitz came up and yeah he was accused by a witness of being a pedo.
Just Human points out the info comes from the Prince Andrew case.
Back to watching…
The guys caution that, give the media covering this, expect obfuscation and poisoning the well with lies and 1/2 truths. Also this is just the first trench.
these are the lowest of low on the human food chain.
repulsive dirtbags who are so easily compromised..
watch how they all throw each other under the bus, trying desperately to blame someone or something else & deny deny deny…
huge smear campaign coming up !
rat on each other.
squeal piggies squeal
I am hoping for REAL IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE to eventually come out. ALL those Epstein Blackmail Tapes that the FIB is sitting on for example.
That is when …
https://controligarchsbook.com/2024/01/03/epstein-docs/
Former President Donald TrumpU.K. Royal Prince AndrewFormer New Mexico Gov. Bill RichardsonFrench model scout Jean-Luc BrunelHedge fund manager Glenn DubinFormer Epstein scheduler Sarah KellenMagician David CopperfieldLawyer Alan DershowitzFormer Vice President Al GoreTheoretical physicist Stephen HawkingEpstein accuser Johanna SjobergMichael JacksonHyatt Hotels Chairman Thomas PritzkerSuper model Naomi CampbellActor Kevin SpaceyActor Cate BlanchettActor Leonardo DiCaprioActor Bruce WillisStar Wars creator George LucasActor Cameron DiazHairstylist Frédéric Fekkai
Jon Herold mentions the tape of Giuffre’s lawyer talking of POTUS Trump. The lawyer says he was the only one who came to him and gave him all the help he could. Very useful for rebutting the smear campaign that will be aimed at Trump.
July 2020 Virginia Giuffre Defends Trump
pig royalty
wallow in it.
Great info; thank you!
Yes. During questioning, names of people who are not guilty come up.
Right. In that sense, this is not the bombshell that we wanted or that people are making it out to be, but it is still valuable information.
HMMMMMmmmm
The only mention of Trump that I’ve seen is the flight log from Palm Beach, stopping at DCReagan, ending in Teterboro. With Marla, Tiffany and a nanny. Real suspicious.
Prayer Against Accursed Perverters and
satan’sWorld Systemlink…
Prayer Against Accursed Perverters and Satan’s World System — PatriotandLiberty
2024
message sent…& well received yesterday 😉 😉
There was a message?
Yeah, you guys liked that pic so I thought I’d bring it back for today 😆
we Christians are the watchers…
Restraining The Great Reset : Christians Are A Roadblock To Globalism ~ And The World Powers Know It
article link…
Restraining The Great Reset: Christians Are A Road Block To Globalism—And The World Powers Know It – Harbingers Daily
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we see the acceleration of evil and dark forces…
but the luciferian cabal sees it differently : they see things as moving too slowly…
they intend to eliminate us and to take us down because we are standing in their way.
we are The Great Resist…
keep watching !
👉 2 Thessalonians 2: 6-8
and…
👉 Romans 10: 9-10
Maranatha 🙏
^^^ This. Great post, smiley.
thank you, TB2
the Age of Grace is closing…
“…the denouement of The Age of Grace…”
everything is in a state of revolt.
stand firm.
the beginning of sorrows is upon us.
I mentioned this yesterday. Here is a newer article:
American Spies Confront a New, Formidable China – WSJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmBBZ4xDBWY.
Verse of the Day for Thursday, January 4, 2024
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“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
James 1:12 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
duchess01
Thank you for these. Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog. Be well.
Wuh????????????
It is Venice Italy. Well worth visiting if you can do so without getting killed by the RapeUgees.
i think he’s referencing DePat in the upper window
Photoshopped?
or maybe that’s where she took her gravatar photo from. mine is from the President’s mugshot.
The tourists yes, Depat no. And Bakocarol, you’ve set a dangerous precedent here, outing the location of a Q tree personage. 
Oh, I wish.
OOPS, I was not wearing my glasses.
lol been there
I lost my tri-focals and now have a pair of distance glasses for driving and my reading glasses. Neither are good for the computer.
The avatar painting is actually Spanish.
Yep. Have to watch out for those Merchants in Venice 🙂
(Always asking “How Aria” 😀 )…..
My favorite city. been twice…got sick both times….
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/building-offshore-wind-farms-can-permanently-deafen-porpoises-but-its-ok-now-with-bubble-walls/
Bubba flees, ashtrays are flying…
Epstein Docs Delayed To Give Bill Clinton Time To Flee The Country
https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/epstein-docs-delayed-to-give-bill-clinton-time-to-flee-the-country
likely excuses: we were just pickleball partners, that’s all.
🐝
Top left corner headline on Sludge Report: Trump got millions while president
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-received-millions-dollars-150016728.html
Small problem — DJT turned over ALL his business empire to Eric BEFORE he took the oath of office. He’s personally destitute IMO.
Yes, he made a media event of it. He had a YUGE stack of papers he signed.
AND YAHOO DARN WELL KNOWS IT!
What is a ‘blind trust’ and will it remove Donald…
uk.news.yahoo.com
Because, when the world is full of turncoats who claim to support you but can be bought and will turn on you, it makes perfect sense to turn over the trust to a trusted family member. But the media will make even common sense look suspicious.
Ain’t that the truth! After all His kids will inherit his empire.
I think there was an outside person running the company. Do not remember who but it was not only Eric.
Interesting thank you. Trump did all of this with legal advise of. All seemed in order.
People hand over business to wife kids and so on.
Oops. I should have posted the USA Today article about emoluments here.
Ten lashes with a soggy noodle! Assume the position!
I will eat it instead…
Homemade sauce tomorrow….
Very funny TDS:
New antibiotic uses novel method to target deadly drug-resistant bacteria, study says
…zosurabalpin is still years from clinical use…
Just call it a covid vaccine and … poof — instant EUA.
Did anybody miss the double standard employed here?
Didn’t think so…
Dems are bringing up the Emoluments Clause to try to get Trump, again.
Trump received millions of dollars from foreign governments while president, House Democrats allege
The never give up do they?
If I recall correctly Trump’s businesses LOST MONEY! (Now hard to find info.)
FORBES 2022
Study: Most Ohio Cities Saw Drop in ‘Gun Crime’ After Constitutional Carry Took Effect
Funny how that works. Less soft targets, less crime.
Particularly when the prospective perp can’t tell who the hard targets are in advance.
I am all for open carry but it works far better if it’s ubiquitous.
An armed society is a polite society.
Lame IMO. 😎
The same day…
You would think Americans would get sick of being fed bullschiff sandwiches as a steady diet.
There seems to be a problem with that woman. She lives in La La Land
Not to mention trying to find something else ANYTHING ELSE to smear Trump with.
Biden Blocked “Additional Military Response” to Houthi Attack on US Navy
Shades of OH!Bummer. It is why the US Army could never win in Afghanistan. During the ‘Nam war, I heard the guys at the Hi/Byes complain bitterly about not being ALLOWED to actually win the war. (I hung with the guys and talked hunting and cars instead of with the women talking dishes and diapers.)
Not shades it is Obama making dissensions because to many incidents being like Obama,
“ (I hung with the guys and talked hunting and cars instead of with the women talking dishes and diapers.)”
ditto!
Indeed. The only conflict we were actually able to finally WIN (as in completely crush the enemy) since Grenada was against ISIS and only because PDJT fired the generals.
I came across this info about ivermectin and am posting it in case it could be of use to anyone.
FYI: https://ivermectin.com/
In fairness to Dershowitz, the second half of that clip shows him stating he is innocent, that he wanted all the information to come out, and that he hopes nothing has been held back. He has been saying that from the beginning. Off the top of my head I can’t name one other accused person who is asking for everything to be revealed.
At least Dersh gets some fairness. Epstein wasn’t as fortunate.
I’m curious about what you believe to be true about Epstein, and what, if anything, you consider to be evidence against him.
Anybody who dies prior to conviction dies innocent. What I believe about Epstein is that the psy op that worked on the covid crowd is the same psy op they are using to protect powerful people who should not have been involved in the sex trade.
I haven’t seen ANY evidence against Epstein or any of the other well-known people that are named as child rapists. I’ve heard a lot of lurid gossip from girls who stand to get awfully rich if they can get someone to settle a lawsuit.
Everybody got all excited over these docs being released yet the first one I read was the deposition of Virginia whatsherface. I only got as far as page 18 where she admitted she couldn’t remember her age during one of these supposed encounters nor could she remember names of these alleged rapists but she sure knew they were famous.
IOW, she admitted that her testimony was worthless. She had no diary but as a comparison, look at Biden’s niece who really was likely to be a molestation victim. She had a diary and it had slimy details in it.
I suspect that this entire Epstein saga is something other than what is being presented. Is he dead? I don’t know but NYC will not release the autopsy results. There can only be one of two reasons for this – [1] he isn’t dead and the autopsy report either doesn’t exist or [2] he is dead but he didn’t die of strangulation.
I hope this answers your inquiry.
Dersh suit a girl now woman from Epstein who accused him of rape and won
I don’t think it actually went to court. She decided to drop the case. If she had had good evidence, that wouldn’t have been necessary, but I think all she had was vague memories of having seen him.
Vague memories = gold digger tale IMO.
All those girls were voluntary participants, IMO. What I want to know is why the IRS hasn’t gone after them. Considering how many girls lied about their ages at that stage of their lives, and had the fake IDs to prove it, I remain firmly unconvinced that any statutory rape charges could be proved.
He said he suit for defamation and won. The women might have said she was wrong? I at least remember something like that because Dersh was adamant about it.
Maybe someone else remembers also? I do not know where to find it.
Needs to happen. Memes need a place to live too. 
I love that Trump meme museum! I would visit it if it were a real place.
So good.
It is worth reading that entire tweet.
Thanks for posting it all. I was on my phone, and I am technically challenged on it!
You are very welcome. I try not to clutter up the place too much🤓 but still bring useful stuff.
ALL of your stuff is useful stuff!
ThankQ dear lady.
I very much value the info that you bring to the table esp on herbals.
Gail – wrt your lack of eyeglasses for your computer focal distance . . .
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Thank you
However we have a very nice older man we go to who is super. My drivers lic expires in about a 1 1/2 years and I want an exam and new glasses closer to that time.
I still have my trifocal sunglasses for outside the house.
Actually I keep hoping I can find my glasses.
I seem to have a ghost who grabs my glasses when I get near when I should have my new exam and think I need new glasses NOW. This is the second pair that has disappeared off the face of the earth.
It has also awaken me when I was about to over sleep by calling my name….WEIRD but not harmful.
It could be worse.
You could have a vision problem no conceivable eyeglass can actually fix.
My astigmatism is so bad, I could not use a Brix refractometer. My mesurements were way off from everyone else..
However I am glad I have reasonably decent eye sight.
One of my bosses could only see black and white and was legally blind with coke bottle glasses. He was a really nice guy but struggled.
We are the last generation who understands what is meant by Coke bottle glasses. 😢
Wow, that’s tough. In my case my corneas are warped, irregularly, so no conceivable eyeglass lens can correct for it. I see double, triple quadruple images and haloing without the aid of alcohol. So instead I need scleral contacts (they touch only the white of the eye) with saline behind them…which are basically prosthetic corneas (the contacts, water, corneas, and aqueous humor all have a similar index of refraction so the scleral contacts act as if they were a smooth cornea). They have to be set for a certain distance and I chose to be nearsighted, so I have ordinary glasses for distance over the contacts.
I had previously not heard of this arrangement, and my mother’s side of the family had a lot of experience with optical correction. My grandfather, for example, had an axis of astigmatism that seemed to move between examinations….I wonder if it might have been more complex warpage.
When were you diagnosed with this? Is it steady, or has it been changing over time? Did they catch it immediately, or did they misdiagnose it a time or two?
I gave myself LASIK as a 40th birthday present — I’d previously had 5+ diopters of astigmatism correction in each eye. I used the guy who had done half the 49ers (they were doing LASIK on healthy football players to give them exceptional vision on the field).
Years prior, my aunt had undergone radial-K to correct her eyesight. The thought still gives me the shudders, like Dr. McCoy walking through a modern hospital.
It is progressive but it can be arrested (and slightly reversed) with a procedure called “crosslinking” that also would give you the shivers. I had it done; it’s not as bad as it sounds (but I know you have phobias) and if keratoconus isn’t arrested eventually the cornea becomes so distorted you can’t fit a scleral lens over it.
I have a coworker who swears he’d go blind before he put ANYTHING in his eyes.
Oh, you never want to see me remove them at night, either.
In the past, was this just obvious when you were a young lad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus says that it normally shows up in late childhood/early adulthood — was there a precipitating factor (e.g. going off to college) that caused it to be recognized?
Crosslinking was only approved by the FDA in 2016, so that was probably a recent development.
I was thinking some sort of ablative procedure might be useful, but wikipoo characterizes it as a thinning of the cornea. They do, however, discuss several surgical alternatives…..which, although unpleasant, seem to generally be successful.
I don’t think it became a factor until the mid 2010s for me. I just knew I was griping that even a fresh prescription wasn’t doing jack shit for me any more.
Man, that’s wild & rough. I have astigmatism too but it doesn’t bother me Too much though I have a pretty hard time with multiple vertical lines adjacent to each other. I tend to tilt my head a bit to the left & this might be some sort of compensation for that astigmatism. I also get the haloing of lights…
In my case the haloing produces “legs” coming off the light at about 4 and 8 o’clock. if the light is really bright the two legs are bowlegged and meet in a circle; the true source of light is the top of the circle. Usually haloing is centered on the actual light.
One low-tech thing that sometimes works is if I can cover the lower half of my eye with something held close to it. Most of the warping is there, so if it’s covered, no light passes through the warped bit and I get a reasonably clean image.
Sometimes I’m reading a book with my contacts out and I will have to turn the page 90 degrees to correctly identify an accent mark or something like that. All of the double images are one above the other, so if I can still see the mark when the page is rotated, it’s really there and not a ghost image.
Amazing. We have this 6 “candle” chandelier that I get pretty funky haloing off of. It usually splits into 6 rays (off Each candle) like at 10, 11, & 12 off the top & about 4, 5, & 6 o’clock off the bottom. Since I can see this when using my laptop in the living room if that DR light is on I’ll end up shifting my head around to play with the lights. The angles are often a bit different between the 6 lights & I can do pretty interesting things by squinting & tilting my head too.
I have this effect w/ lights at night when driving & it is pretty magnified if the pavement is wet & reflective, & presumably that would be true of icy or greasy pavement if it’s reflective.
When my eyesight was diminishing by aging I used to have this large black plastic water jug I’d drink from. I noticed that when putting it close to my face that something would happen in the vicinity of my eye’s view of the black rim. Basically there would be a thin region where the letters would be much clearer in that black plastic “horizon”. I always wondered why this happened for when I pulled the cup away & looked at the Exact Same Letters they were now blurrier than when the cup was up to my face.
I was diagnosed as far-sighted when a child w/ a lazy eye that glasses corrected. I wore glasses from age 4 to somewhere in Junior High when I went to gas permeable contact lenses (couldn’t use soft contacts due to astigmatism). Sometime in college I stopped using my contacts & I could do everything fine but read really close to my face. I think I was in my late 40’s when I started using “cheaters” to be able to better read books & computers. Finally in my early 50’s I started getting prescription lenses w/ the most recent iteration being graduated lenses as bi-focals, which are cheaper, wouldn’t work for computer reading, which I clearly do A Lot of!
I use Zenni. They are awesome, and yes, cheap!
I use Zenni, also.
🙂
Have not checked personally, but a poster on SD’s site said Dubin donated $100 K to Vivek’s campaign.
Hmmm.
Clandestino Clinton! Bill emerges in MEXICO as America reels from latest Epstein list revelations in which his name came up 73 times and was described as ‘liking his girls young’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12927919/Bill-Clinton-Jeffrey-Epstein-Mexico.html?ito=push-notification&ci=2Eb4oroktE&cri=rLyPnBt9cz&si=gvyc4Ty4YFpy&xi=71c3400f-ca08-4826-90b9-05cddb066dec&ai=12927919
Why would he flee?
He got off scot free from allegations stemming from perjury he committed about being blown in the oval office. What could actually happen to this walking turd?
Not to mention getting caught taking bribes from the Chinese (‘Campaign donations’)
Yeah, well these days that’s a sign of patriotism and dedication to the job.
At least by the lights of the yellow stream media…and nothing not in the YSM actually exists, to our Overlords.
Billy Boy, certainly did a great job of selling out the USA to China. Between the WTO and giving China favored nation status, he shifted our industry, lock, stock and bottle, out of this country, mainly to China and India.
His assassination-happy wife could finally get tired of his bullshit?
I honestly doubt she really cared…except when it became a scandal (or threatened to) due to a “bimbo eruption.”
Well, yeah. I don’t think she “cared” in the traditional sense, either.
When BJ Clinton was president, her position depended on that fact. She didn’t like to see it threatened. Now her position and status do not depend on him at all; she’s an ex-senator and an ex-cabinet member and on paper at least very qualified. So she probably couldn’t care less what he does any more.
Maybe….
“Kristi Noem explains why she’s in Iowa campaigning for Trump”
To make MAGA patriots see her as one of us?
To ingratiate herself with Trump for the VP position or a place in his administration?
To set herself apart from Nikki Haley?
I welcome her support for Trump, but I don’t know if she is trustworthy or if she would cave when push comes to shove.
I should think that given your understanding of human nature in general and politicians in particular you would conclude that she is not trustworthy and that her ethics would collapse when her ambition conflicts with official policy.
I was going easy on her. There is a host of politicians who, on their own, will not always do the right thing, but under Trump’s leadership, some of them will. Knowing which is which is difficult. If every one of them were discounted, we would have maybe 8-10 people in the House of Representatives and less than five qualified candidates for VP, if that many.
In my opinion the time for easy has past. How many qualified candidates there may be is debatable but we have seen several flashes of her character when she had a chance to do the right thing. The results were not encouraging.
My statements were speculation about her possible innermost thoughts, which I can’t possibly know and thus can’t judge accurately. As I said, I would question her trustworthiness in crunch time. However, there have been others whom I never would have trusted on their own, who did the right things under Trump’s leadership. Yet, having said that, I still would not want her as VP.
I would prefer a male VP; enough of diversity and inclusion. I can’t name a female that I think is capable of stepping into the presidency with the possible exception of Kari Lake, and I don’t advocate for her candidacy as VP.
I would hope that Trump will be wise enough to consult God when he chooses his running mate and I am not talking about the RNC.
The RNC may be many things but I doubt ANYONE has ever thought of them as God. 😀
Reverse the three letters and add a suffix and get doGshit, which is close to what I think of them.
😂
Kristi Noem joins us from Suix City, Iowa. Governor, good to see you, let me ask you this. Is that Corey Lewandowski under your desk?
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THAT left a mark! Good show!
Because somebody punched her in the mouth?
Seriously, what happened to her face?
The lips…maybe Botox in the cheeks…😱
Tuckers interview with Epstein’s brother. Supposed to be open for all to view. 25-26 minutes.
https://tuckercarlson.com/mark-epstein/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=na&utm_campaign=20240104_jan4dailybrief&utm_content=292020
Proof positive of our banana republic status.
MUST – SEE:
Yours Truly added this to the Deagel Report post of today.
God have mercy.
Well in a way that’s good news.
If they don’t cover most of these shootings there’s less of an impetus for gun control.
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Mark Cuban is totally enslaved by political-correctness.
Elon isn’t.
That’s why Elon can play with Cuban like a pit-bull with a chew toy.
BREAKING: New Cache of Epstein Docs Unsealed: Minor Victim Trafficked to “Prominent American Politicians” to “Obtain Potential Blackmail Information”
TechnoFog:
The cops have a new tool to stop fleeing car jackers, or fleeing anybody, for that matter:
I received an unsolicited email from Mike Pence.
• He takes credit for Trump’s accomplishments regarding Israel.
• I’d like to know, if I sent him twenty bucks, what he would do with it, because I have no idea how it would help Israel or “eradicate terrorism.”
* The repeated use of “Friend” is annoying.
• Why is Pence fundraising? I hope the blue-haired Fox watchers don’t fall for this.
Send him a pic of a hundred dollar bill.
Or thirty silver dimes. Or better yet (if you can round em up) 30 denarii, which would almost certainly be what was paid to Judas. And the beauty of that, the English “pence” is the direct descendant of the denarius.
Nice.
Ka-BQQM!
Well crap, I have to correct myself.
The thirty pieces of silver were probably either Tyrian shekels (or tetradrachms), or staters from Antioch (as in “Holy Hand Grenade of”). Or possibly Ptolemaic tetradrachms. The silver weight per coin could have been anywhere from 3 3/8 grams to 13.16 grams. (The good stuff back then was Athenian tetradrachms with over 16 grams of silver in them.)
Unless it was thirty of those Ptolemaic tetradrachms, Judas got a better price than I had originally thought.
If he was being paid by the religious leaders of the day wouldn’t they have been using some type of Jewish coinage, suitable for the Temple? Is it even possible to know For Sure?
That’s a good question. But I think the temple coinage was supposed to be used ONLY for the temple.
They’d have used locally available coins, and shekels of Tyre, etc. were fairly local.
By the way the tribute penny (as the KJV calls it) from “Render unto Caesar” was almost certainly a denarius and of course it would have had Tiberius’ picture on it as he was the emperor at the time. As a consequence if you just want to buy a denarius of Tiberius because you’re collecting all of the emperors, you’ll have to pay a bit more than otherwise for Tiberius because many people collect “coins of the Bible” including widow’s mites, shekels of tyre and tribute pennies. I ran into this myself when I bought my Augustan denarius.
When coins were made out of specie, they could pretty much be interchanged; of course that was a job for moneychangers (just not the ones at the temple). They had to be able to spot fakes, and also know how much silver is in a real coin. Sometimes the coin was very pure, sometimes (as in the case of those ptolemaic tetradrachms) there was very little silver in them. So they’d identify the coins, weigh them, figure out how much silver was there, and count out the other coins…after extracting their fee of course.
You’re making me nostalgic for some of your money-based Saturday posts. I wonder if you dare tackle BRICS &/or bit-coin/electronic “money” at some point. BTW, I always loved your illustrations to enhance the written word.
I very much appreciate your eclectic interests & how you articulate them around here!
As far as knowing for sure even the conventional theory for what the pieces of silver were, considers that it could have been three very different coins all issued in the Eastern Med. So we probably won’t know for sure, ever.
I guess we could ask him if he ends up being where one of our final destinations is 😉 😉
LOL
Give me a few and I’ll have some thing up.
A few what, and where do we send ’em?
Roses. I’ll get back to you on where.
https://www.theqtree.com/2024/01/05/dear-maga-tgif-open-thread-20240105/
I keep looking at CV’s post and thinking, “isn’t that Gollum’s brother?”
My ex-wife used to tell me if you were on time, it meant you weren’t one of The Beautiful People. She was born and raised in Redondo Beach, CA.
Friday up
https://www.theqtree.com/2024/01/05/dear-maga-tgif-open-thread-20240105/
TY DP Many Blessings!