Blue Horseshoe

I can't lie. MAGAWOLF did make me laugh. Thanks for that.

"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:34 There are some that believe that praying and prayer is a form of active meditation. I'm not going to agree nor disagree with that, but often prayer in principle, from a physiological level, operates almost like deep breathing exercises. It's better to let go of things that we just can't control. That's obviously easier said than done. The major source of pain, IMHO, is when adults have obligations they don't want and are overwhelming. More to point, Darrell Green of the Redskins was one of the greatest cornerbacks to ever play in the NFL. And to play for 20 seasons is beyond incredible. He is often cited as saying he was not the most physically talented, but on a mental level, he learned to let the last play go. Good or bad, he let it wash away from him. Like water rolling off a duck's back. The power we have is not just in our choices, but in our reactions. There's value in finding your "center" For some, that pathway is with God. With others, it's understanding there are things we can't control in life, but we always have a choice in how we react. What calms me the most is I accept death completely. I have little time on this Earth, and that was true the day I was born, and with my failing health, even less time now. But I can't control that. I can control making today the best it can be under the circumstances. If you have an extra prayers to spare, sending a few my way would be much appreciated brother. While I accept my mortality, it's not like I want to find a speedway express towards it. Either way, I can't worry about it constantly. Be well, my friend, in all things.

The long term plan for Team Blue and the DNC is to reload SCOTUS with "creatures of their own design" You can only change SCOTUS through death or retirement. And it's not looking good for 2024 for Team Blue and Obama/Biden regime. The more cases that can be forced to SCOTUS that will end up being "perceived" to be slanted in favor of all things Trump, then that will incite more and more fringe radicals on the deep end activist left to be enraged to the point of some extremists coming to pick off a Conservative Catholic Justice on SCOTUS. There was already an assassin caught by US Marshals with a gun near Kavanaugh's personal residence. Merrick Garland literally did nothing about it. Even though those kind of "protests" are illegal. You can't just picket in front of a judge's house. The goal is to intimidate them to rule or lean a certain way. Trying to disqualify Trump from the 2024 ballot will never survive SCOTUS. Never. The potential legal slippery slope is too devastating to imagine. However that's not the design, the design is to make Coney Barrett, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Roberts and Kavanaugh as targets. To incite someone to go after them for real before the 2024 general cycle. Personally, I don't agree with the grifting done by Thomas and Alito to enrich themselves personal through big money donors. But let's not pretend about this anymore - Team Blue, the left leaning corporate establishment, the DNC and the remnants of the Obama/Biden/Clinton political machine want the FedSoc elements of SCOTUS currently to get wiped out. They want them gone. Had Team Blue realized the end result of Ruth Bader Ginsberg on current SCOTUS, there is ZERO DOUBT in my mind that she would have been handled the way Diane Feinstein was handled. There is no other way around it, the activist radical left with the hard push behind them by the corporate establishment want Conservatives put down period. They want us gone for good. What exactly did Amy Coney Barrett do to anyone? Team Blue doesn't care. They want another version of Elena Kagan ( a Clinton shill who has never served on the bench) to replace her as fast as possible.

You ask more than fair questions. I don't think anyone can answer them. While many don't agree with Oliver Stone's take on JFK, I'd have to say this might be Costner's best overall performance in any film.

Let me run a hypothetical by you. I'm not going to assert there was a conspiracy or that there was not, for the sake of this discussion. But let's say there was a 2nd shooter on the grassy knoll ( and possibly a third shooter elsewhere), if those two witnesses were armed ( Remember this was a much different time in the world and security was simply much different back then) and opened fire on the 2nd shooter, then there would be ZERO way to ignore that there was a potential shooter on the grassy knoll. What could the Warren Commission say then? That two civilians were part of the plot to try to erase it all away in a new narrative? Then that would remove the single shooter narrative completely. Let's say you and I were coworkers and we worked near that area. We both carried 1911's for personal protection, concealed, with no regard for the legality of that at all. We see someone with a rifle shooting the direction that we know there's the President and his motorcade. We both draw and open fire on the 2nd shooter. We both dump a full mag at him, reload and keep firing. There's zero way the deep state could try to handwave off the 2nd shooter then. They might try to pin it on the both of us, but that's still a hard sell. They can try to hide a few rifle bullets, but how can they hide basically four pistol mags of 45 caliber? That's the thing, the only way to have "outed" a 2nd shooter on the grassy knoll would be for a civilian to open fire on them. Someone not expected. Something that could not be controlled or planned away. Once we are shooting at him, we can scream "He shot Kennedy" and other people would likely intervene to tackle him and put him to the ground. You can bribe, extort, blackmail and assassinate witnesses and doctors and nurses. You can try to massage the official record. But nothing will stop the truth of two 45 pistols going off and dumping a couple of mags in half a minutes' time. There is no manipulation to get around that. The official "story", like you said, doesn't add up. Any number of the "conspiracy" angles could be wrong, or partially wrong, AND the belief that it all doesn't add up can be true at the exact same time. That's where the gaslighting comes in. That any theory, if it's not 100 percent accurate down to the letter, that each individual factor raised should also be immediately dismissed. Which is lunacy. A theory in total might not be workable, but it might have elements that are worth further investigation. It's the same thing with Trump fighting the 2020 election result. Just because he can't definitely prove something was wrong in total, doesn't mean it automatically all adds up. Same with the COVID19 vaccine, there were non stop purity tests that if you couldn't show everything all at once, then that somehow meant each and every component needed to be dismissed. Which is not practical reality at work. It's definitely hard partisanship though. That's the thing, jon, the radical activist leftists here will think "WE WON!" if Conservatives are fully persecuted, even if it's done without real democratic processes. As if those leftist coastal elites will give the rank and file who supported them a seat on that lifeboat. What happens when if all Conservatives and Republicans are purged? Who becomes the new "right wing" then? They don't want to answer that. Point to note, jon, the radical leftists here don't understand that they are only useful cannon fodder for Team Blue and the DNC. And when they stop being useful like an Andrew Cuomo and/or a Patrice Cullors, then maybe it will be time to put people down in some random corn field somewhere. The activists here think the "cancel" machine will suddenly and magically stop just for them. They won't figure it out until they have to watch their children die in front of them.

Cornell on high alert after hateful messages threaten to ‘slit the throats’ of Jewish students ....Cornell University was put on high alert after a series of “horrendous, antisemitic” messages — including threats to rape and gun down Jewish students and even behead babies — were posted on a public forum, school officials said.....The upstate New York Ivy League school said campus cops were taking precautions — and had alerted the FBI to “a potential hate crime” just days after “F—k Israel” graffiti was also scrawled on campus sidewalks.....The “series of horrendous, antisemitic messages threatening violence” had specifically named 104 West, “the home of the Center for Jewish Living,” university president Martha Pollack said Sunday. The vile threats were made throughout the weekend on Cornell’s Greekrank forums, which rank fraternity and sorority chapters, according to the student newspaper, the Cornell Sun....one of the posts called for people to follow Jewish students home and slit their throats — while others called for female Jewish students to be raped and for Jewish babies to be beheaded in front of their parents. ....Another post, titled, “if i see another jew” by a poster called “hamas” wrote, “if i see another synagogue another rally for the zionist globalist genocidal apartheid dictatorial entity known as “israel”, i will bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews [sic].”....The post continued: “Jews are human animals and deserve a pigs death. ....Earlier this month, a professor called the Hamas attack on Israel that left 1,400 dead “exhilarating” and “energizing.” Russell Rickford, an associate professor of history, is now on a leave of absence until at least the end of the semester.... https://nypost.com/2023/10/29/news/cornell-on-alert-after-messages-threaten-campus-jewish-community/

There's a difference, IMHO, between a "traditional liberal" and a "radical leftist" Traditional liberals want many of the exact same things as Conservatives and Republicans do ( and even independents, moderates and undecideds as well) - Good schools, good jobs, opportunity, safe streets, hope for a future, a society that will help nurture, develop and protect their children, etc, etc. However many traditional liberals will see the problem solving differently. One of the major problems is that many traditional liberals are low information voters. ( To be fair, many Conservatives and Republicans are also low information voters, however only one side is trying to grab guns, release violent criminals from jail and turn our Southern Border into an open swinging gate, etc, etc) As traditional liberals become more "high information" attuned and capable, then the appeal of the views of the radical left tend to disappear very quickly. Put it this way, timschochet might sound somewhat reasonable to someone who is completely uninformed and has close to no real critical thinking skills at all. However, to people who are actually up to date on most current events, then someone like timschochet sounds like a total gutless radical moron who hates America. I don't think many traditional liberals enjoy dysfunction. I do believe they are caught between a rock and a hard place. They can't stomach supporting many GOP policies and stances. But their only alternative is the idiotic Team Blue path to identity politics beyond all reasonable measure. Many traditional liberals know that getting into bed with the radical activist left is like taking the pin out of the figurative hand grenade. I just think many falsely believe, beyond all reason, that they can keep the spoon held down for a long as they need to do it. You'll see more traditional liberals jumping ship now because it's clear the activist radical left only want a collision course with total destruction of this country. There comes a point when even an exhausting BS narcissist grifter like Trump looks like pure relief compared to the endless stupidity of the radical left. That's how pathetic and repugnant that Team Blue's woke policies have become, they make an imbecile like Trump look like some form of hope. How sad and tragic is that? How much of a fail is that? To fail so hard that you make Trump look appealing. In 2015, more people were in a position to listen to a loser moron like timschochet ( who basically parrots all of MSNBC's talking points) Now those same people look at their grocery bill, gas bill, rent bill and endless open crime and they just can't afford it anymore. Now a pathetic dipsh!t like timschochet can't hide anymore. The masses are beginning to realize that to stay uninformed is a pure death sentence for their children's future. Times are changing my friend. In the past, someone like timschochet could recruit and maybe sway a few people because he would prey on those who were uninformed. Now they realize it's not the Wizard Of Oz. It's just regular old Kansas pigfarmer behind the curtain after all. Tim used to be great advertising for "them", now he's great advertising for "us" If you vote Team Blue, you risk having some pathetic bottomfeeder like Tim as a teacher in your kid's school. Or on your local city council. Or as your new Police Chief in your town. Or deciding important local policy that impacts your everyday quality of life. How many people here would want someone like Tim as a neighbor? In their homes? Near their kids? As a coworker? In a bizarre way, someone like Tim is the best kind of advertisement for Conservatism period. As a cautionary tale as to how stupid things and people can get if they endlessly support woke beyond all reasonable measure. Traditional liberals will have to learn the hard way. Unfortunately.

Younger voters are more likely to get almost all of their current events/news/politics from online/internet/social media. Team Blue and the DNC going after Elon Musk and Joe Rogan were massive mistakes. Musk has turned Twitter/X into a super charged independent media platform. Rogan's reach is juggernaut sized against the entire national daily media cycle. Both have strong appeal to large youth audiences. Musk has his own internal "cult of personality" fandom that is extremely rare to have. They just aren't as vocal. As corporate establishment mainstream media tanks, independent media has found a way to create a large narrative counter culture on it's own. Someone like Ben Shapiro and The Daily Wire on their own wouldn't make a dent. But it's also Andy Ngo, Matt Taibbi, Gregory Foreman, Libs Of TikTok, Jimmy Dore, The Young Turks, Breaking Points, The Hill, Brett Cooper, Rogan, Musk, JK Rowling, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Roseanne Barr, Russell Brand, Tim Pool and many others. The excuses made for Biden by MSNBC, CNN, The View and the like all have the same problem - By handwaving away the real material needs of the working class struggle, the end result is effectively calling rank and file American citizens as too stupid to see through some very thin and ridiculous lies told to them daily by the establishment activist leaning corporate media. There are more "traditional liberals" in this country than activist radical leftists. What they are told over and over again, being gaslit by idiots like Karine Jean Pierre and the like, does not add up with what they are seeing day to day in real life with their own two eyes. Biden's approval rating is tanking is because when the country is a gigantic mess, everyone now has no incentive to remain a low information voter. As more and more traditional liberals become "high information" capable with the vast independent media to support that, the lies and corruption and stupidity of Team Blue and the DNC is just too hard to hide now.

This might be the only thing you and I will ever agree on here. @SaintsInDome2006 was one of the very best and most informative posters at "the other place" He's a value add wherever he goes and I hope he posts more here in the Geek Club.

You sound like a lonely old perpetually angry woman who takes perverse joy in finding marginally useful cat food coupons.

Apparently a byproduct of "re-toxing" is it makes your forehead grow. It's documented science, I'm being totally serious here. No need to check it out. "Trust The Science"

Oops. Sam Bankman-Fried’s implosion took down Democrats’ second-biggest donor with it as the party gears up to regulate crypto The explosive demise of crypto giant FTX, led by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, may have an outsized impact on politics — snuffing out the wealth of a budding potential Democratic megadonor.....Bankman-Fried was the second-largest Democratic donor this election cycle by a longshot, according to the most recently available campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission, second only to philanthropist George Soros....He donated more than $39.7 million to primarily Democratic causes during the 2022 federal election cycle, including six-figure checks to the Democratic National Committee and the Senate Democrats' main super PAC, as well as $6 million to the super PAC leading Democrats' efforts to hold the House. The only Democratic donor to give more last cycle was philanthropist George Soros, whose $129 million dwarfed Bankman-Fried's.....In fact, Bankman-Fried about as much as Democrats this cycle than each of the next-largest Democratic donors combined — Illinois businessman Fred Eychaner and Indiana philanthropist Deborah Simon.....But while Bankman-Fried had mused about the idea of spending hundreds of millions of dollars — perhaps even a billion dollars — on the upcoming presidential election, those predictions may be in jeopardy based on the latest developments Before the downfall of his cryptocurrency exchange, Bankman-Fried joined "Meet the Press Reports" for a special episode on America's wealthiest political donors, where he outlined his hope to "support great public servants." He had said his goal was to "do this in a bipartisan way," but this cycle had given 90% of his money toward Democratic causes. https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-joe-biden-democratic-party-second-biggest-donor/ https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/sam-bankman-frieds-downfall-deprives-dems-key-donor-rcna57091

‘Son of Hamas’ in interview: Terrorists brought wrath of God with October 7 attack ....Mosab Hassan Yousef, the disowned eldest son of the co-founder of Hamas, told British talk show host Piers Morgan on Thursday that he was not surprised by Hamas’s brutality during the October 7 shock attack, but he was taken aback by its scale......“Wiping out entire communities, messing with a nuclear power, the most powerful country in the region, a country with a great trauma from the past, with a memory of a Holocaust, and all the Nazis did in the past century. They opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people,” said Yousef ...“Since its establishment, Hamas has one goal in mind, which is annihilating the State of Israel,” said Yousef. “It’s not a secret that Hamas wants to destroy the State of Israel. They cannot accept Israel or accept Israel’s right to exist.” ....Yousef is the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef. He was dubbed “Green Prince” (also the title of a 2014 documentary based on his autobiography) for his efforts to help the Shin Bet thwart terror attacks during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. The 45-year-old was born in Ramallah and vividly remembers the foundation of Hamas in 1986, he said.....To interviewer Morgan, Yousef described being imprisoned by Israel for over two years and witnessing Hamas torturing its own members in prison.....“They killed, actually, and tortured hundreds of prisoners. And this is when I start asking myself the question, what if Hamas becomes the ruler at some point? What will they do to our people? And many years later, Hamas became the ruler of Gaza. And I wasn’t surprised by their brutality,” he said.....He predicted that once Israel removes Hamas from power in the Gaza Strip, as it has vowed to do following the October 7 terror onslaught, Palestinian residents would celebrate and thank Israel for ending their oppression and “lust for power.” “We have to separate between what is the so-called Palestinian cause and Hamas cause. Hamas’s cause is a sick one. It’s coming from the pit of hell, and they need to be removed from power. This is my message as an ex-Hamas member, as a son of one of Hamas founders, enough of this. If we don’t stop them now, the next war is going to be deadlier, and only God knows what will happen next,” he said.....“Unfortunately, now Hamas left Israel, and the free world as well, with no choice but to fight them and put an end to their violence. Many civilians are dying. I understand this. Their blood is on the hands of Hamas and Hamas only,” he said.....“I am the legitimate representative of the Palestinian children. The child within me speaks: I don’t want somebody coming from London or somebody coming from the other side of the world to tell me what is the struggle of the Palestinian children. The Palestinian society has been hijacked by criminals and anybody who takes their side is participating in their crime,” he said.... https://www.timesofisrael.com/son-of-hamas-in-interview-terrorists-brought-wrath-of-god-with-october-7-attack/

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