In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.
“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”
“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”
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The disgusting omnibus bill is in the House. Right now, they are wrapping up a vote on a motion to adjourn (thus short-circuiting a vote to pass the omnibus).
We are aware that this bill was timed to come to a vote at a time that interfered with the ability of the members of the legislative branch to leave DC for the Christmas holidays. However watching this vote, you can see that most of the votes being cast are proxy votes.
There are plenty of Republican proxy votes to adjourn. What is just too “in your face” is that the majority of the people voting against adjournment (Democrats) are voting by proxy. They are not in DC. They have already left town but voting against adjournment.
Clown show. Dangerous, disgusting, joke of a clown show.
You can watch the clown show live on C-SPAN.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?525045-2/house-vote-17-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill-avert-government-shutdown&live
That’s how we ended up with Obamacare on Christmas Eve.
How much of this money will they just “redirect” later so WE can keep funding the illegal invasion?
Both parties seem to really enjoy screwing us the when they think we aren’t looking.
9 Republicans voted for, 2 Democrats voted against.
Link on vote outcome?
McDaniel could have told members, no support if you pass this bill. She did not.
Another exchange… same story.
For the first time ever I received a text message to join a Bitcoin video group today.
Am very glad to not have any idea what Binance is; and have always looked at this whole digital currency thing as just a new Enron; as there always is and always has been some new idea to step into the slot of most recent “wham-scam-thank you-ma’am” lure.
Isn’t there some famous Biblical snake oil salesman or something? Hmmm. That will always be with us?
It looks like crypto/Binance is truly the wild west. These exchanges are like the little towns that had some type of economy (mining, cattle, timber, casinos and bars). Their local economies drew people and outlaws. There does not seem to be any form of law and order in the neighbourhood because everything is unregulated. A town sheriff can only pursue an outlaw to the town limits.
Here is another example of crypto-fraud. This time it is NFTs:
https://deepfivalue.substack.com/p/how-our-team-makes-millions-in-crypto?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-do-you-assess-the-value-of-an-nft
Social Media has infected the younger generations to BE RICH at all costs.
Hard work and the journey to create wealth are no longer in vogue.
I WANT IT NOW, has created a whole class of dumbasses that will try anything and lose everything.
The risk to return ratio has been obliterated by “super smart clowns” like SBF and Elizabeth Holmes.
Real business success is boring, hard work. It is a place where solid preparation and business principles meet opportunity, and timing. Even with that, success is not guaranteed.
I’m there with you Bessie. I’ve felt all along that it was a clever way to get regular people to adopt and favor digital currency. As it’s playing out, it sure looks like that was the plan.
Now that it’s popular and gubmints won’t be seen as “pushing us to digital money”… they’re just stabilizing a “crisis” as they take over and issue their own.
Husband and I were helping a younger man who’d been in prison for dealing hard drugs. This young man was a dynamo, which my husband saw as him still using, and I saw as someone who never wanted to go back to that life, so he worked non-stop.
He was doing fairly well for a while, and then the lure of bitcoin hit him hard.
I believe addiction is a disease not only of drugs and alcohol, but of everything that pulls a person one way or another. I’ve said for years that there are things I’m addicted to — because I can feel their hard pull — so I purposely walk the other way while I can still beat the pull, thanks to the Lord.
That’s what I think happened to this man and his pull towards bitcoin.
One day he says he’s just made $3,000 by “doing nothing,” and wants us to join him in making quick cash. We listened out of respect for the person, but did not buy bitcoin.
Last time we saw him he had lost all his hard earned money and was living in his truck. Although he never asked for anything, my husband gave him $500, which he hoped and prayed would not be used on drugs.
It’s like an alien invasion…they are exiting their pods everywhere
Subtle messaging….turn your grandson trans?
Disgusting! May they get the hell they deserve.
That ad might be the most disturbing thing I have seen this entire year and that is saying a LOT!
I like the Buffalo Bill response twit on that thread
The financial kick back for companies advertising for twisted issues needs to exposed.
Not just twisted but unrealistic issues like every family in ads are bi-racial or that an ethnic person is the leader and informative person. The all seem to jump on the exact same bandwagons at the exact same time. Let’s find out the how and why of their set up to coerce free thinkers and demand to accept reality falsehoods.
I’m sure it set up by an Alphabet Agencies just like in big tech . It deserves to be exposed, as well.
Be honest! If TV land was wall to wall in ads with biracial families and ethnicities other than white were portrayed as the wisest person in the room, but these ads had MAGA approved back stories … would you be offended?
(Notice that I left out Trans crap.)
Yes. Madison Avenue pushing a false view of the country to promote a hidden agenda is wrong; no matter the product being peddled.
Honestly-There is zero balance .
I’m just looking for balance. Hold the agenda.
I saw a documentary about scotch whisky and what I remember about it from the business side is that all these formerly family distilleries (even if still a family run business) are owned by a One or possibly two large corporations which will ultimately lead to WEF through the driveways of folks like Rotheschilds
That Corporate leadership is leading this messaging
It is interesting that as former brand businesses got bought up in the globalism of WEF that the trend in market was local brews microbrews and distilleries
There are local distilleries near you
Please use them and not these international corp brands
Yep, I am Scots born and raised and have been on the famed “ whiskey trail” in Scotland.
My favourite was Laphroaig an expensive single malt.
It’s been a “few days “ since I have tasted the the stuff, however I follow the booze business and to your point a company called Diageo owns over 200 various booze frauds and sells them in approximately 180 countries.
I may be wrong, but a principal in the company is Indian.
Like many of these companies they are centred in London England.
Cheers!
Crappy scotch / crappy commercial.
They are selling poison, period.
OR you when don’t own the ACTUAL government: deep pocket campaign donors and the administrative state which includes the DO”J” and its agencies and the intel agencies.
It seems the market is ripe for truthful media competition. Time for someone to step up. Elon?
Doesn’t hurt to own the intelligence gathering entities, banks, the judicial system, the military, the LEO, and the entire academic system either
Or the courts. Or the DOJ, FBI, and IC overall.
Inflation cost households an extra $10K
https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/the-pain-isnt-goin-away-inflation-cost-households-an-extra-10k/
Inflation does cost you a penny more when you’re on welfare!
I was in Kroger yesterday, a couple hours before the blizzard hit. Packed to the gills. I was near the front of the self check out line, which was about 30 minutes long. A woman approached the lady in front of me (who had a 2/3 full cart), and offered to pay for her groceries in exchange for allowing her to cut in line. The line-cutter used an Ohio EBT card. I didn’t complain, since it was simply a case of a taxpayer retrieving stolen funds.
double insult
1- cut the line
2- and YOU’RE paying the bill
This is no joke. I have done the calculations. We averaged a $1000/mo increase in expenses without anything in our lives changing (except prices)
I don’t have an extra $10K. We’ve already started to dip into our savings.
you’re emulating the Federal Gummint
they’re out of money too
(have been for some time)
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PDJT on censored twitter would be good for your business.
Elon still has not figured out that the reason PDJT is so “divisive” is because he is a threat to the evil and corrupt systems they have built in our societies.
It really is amazing to discover that draining the swamp means exposing each and every swamp critter and their cheerleaders. Even more amazing are discovering those who are able to look those creatures head on and stand firmly on their ground.
Elon, how good are you at spotting psy-ops?
You think President Trump is divisive because the MSM TOLD you so…
Canada is even now blocking a new coal mine in Canada, don’t think the Chancellor is going to get his wish. If there’s no coal to ship to the export facilities, no need for new ones, or something.
Very sad these ‘leaders’ really are hell-bent on destroying lives, and livelihoods too.
https://www.mining.com/web/canada-blocks-glencores-proposed-coal-mine-project-in-british-columbia/
What I am interested in relates to Turdeau’s decree that relates to electric vehicles.
With Canada’s climate, very difficult technical issues have been fobbed off to the auto manufacturers. They won’t be happy about this.
I expect auto plant closures in eastern Canada as the auto manufacturers look to consolidate production in jurisdictions that don’t screw them over.
Yes, we live in British Columbia.
Our population is approximately 5 million.
We have are blessed with an incredible array of resources.
We could be truly self sufficient and much more.
Oil, natural gas, coal, fresh water,timber, fish, meat, Dairy and greenhouses on thousands of acres of agricultural land.
And a mild ( except for this week) climate in our southern region.
Yet the federal government punishes us with decrees to appease Eastern Canada.
Our Provincial government is communist, and propped up by largesse from the Feds and of course the MSM.
It’s no wonder many British Columbians keep their real estate, but are setting up second homes elsewhere.
P.S. True Dope and his family just left for Jamaica on another vacation as his country freezes.
All applauded by his bros in the media.
Cheers!
Agree; I was always under the impression that batteries don’t work very well in extreme cold. If that assumption is true Canadians are in for a very hard lesson.
“Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies, and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen.”
~General George S Patton~
This was his Christmas Prayer offered to the Almighty, with humility, faith and hope.
It is a prayer I feel is as fitting to offer today as it was then.
Where are the men with chests who may be in the military echelons…or anywhere in government for that matter…who understand that without God we are nothing. In fact they are nothing, though I am sure they think otherwise.
Let us all turn our faces once again to Almighty God, and with hope welcome our Lord Jesus Christ once again into our nation and our hearts. Our Saviour, our only mediator and advocate, our Shepherd. And pray that a merciful Father delivers us from the wickedness and evil which surrounds us by whatever means He would be gracious to provide. May He work through such men as was General Patton, a warrior with a great love of our country and the men who served under him.
And please, Father choose your warriors to fight for You and for us in these unholy times. May you imbue them with courage, fortitude, and resilience to meet the enemy head on so he will know that You are the Alpha and the Omega, Abba Father. We ask in the Name of Your Beloved Son, Whom we welcome this Christmas with great expectation and joyful anticipation. Amen.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all in the branches of this bless-ed Tree and to those who, if only passing by, will join us perhaps in the New Year. There is room for everyone. I wish for each one of my precious friends the peace which passes all understanding, good health, and joy eternal.
Blessings to all!
“Be not deceived: GOD IS NOT MOCKED. Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap.”
Many a Fool has said in his heart, “there is no God, and I have gotten away with every evil that I have devised.” Such a man is then suddenly cut off, and is no more, and his evil is reduced to nothing. When his day of Calamity comes, like a thief in the night, there is no help for him. God is not mocked. His Hand cannot be turned away, either to the right or to the left. His Word does not return to Him empty, but accomplishes every thing that He sends it forth to do.
Amen, Mike. There are warnings aplenty. And fools who ignore them.
Amen! Thank you Bessie
Give all to God!
Merry Christmas!
Awesome Wonder, a season to remember how Great Thou Are!!
Thank you so much🌲😊
Oh Betsy, you are so gifted with your words…your manner of taking a harsh existence that we are facing, into a softly worded, with strength, prayer.
Patton, a very special man, in many ways…
I am so angry right now…and this does help me…so…
Thank you…daily, you remind me of the goodness that is in others…thank you!
Merry Christmas to you and yours….stay warm…
It’s hard for me as well, Aggiegirl, to rise above the deliberate cruelty that is raining down on the heads of Americans. Of those political prisoners in the DC gulag. I’m thinking of everyone struggling to make ends meet while our mortal enemies in DC hand out billions of dollars to entities in other countries with no thought of those people who put them in positions of privilege and personal riches.
So there we all stand with our noses pressed against the windows having to watch them enjoying a good life at our expense with nary a glance in our direction, knowing that they will never stand before any person whose life they’ve ruined eye to eye. Corrupt cowards all…greedy, insatiable, and soulless who clearly have no concept of others, and of right and wrong.
But oddly enough, in spite of knowing this and watching it play out daily, I AM feeling hopeful. I can’t answer for what reason. But I sense that He is working in His mysterious ways, small though they may seem at the moment.
Are we, for example, suffering from this brutal cold so that He awakens people who swallow the inhuman existential consequences of the fraudulent hubris of “climate change” ideology? I have no idea, but all the same I suspect there will be fewer believers in this godless cult after this winter. We’ll see…
In the meantime I am choosing joy. And I shall choose it every day, knowing that His love and blessings for us (those we know of and those yet to come) are endless.
This site and all those responsible for it…Sundance, Ad rem, Stella, Menagerie, and WeeWeed, warriors all…are a huge priceless blessing. As are those who comment, who have become like family even though we don’t know each other’s faces, treasures each and every one. What greater gift?
Merry Christmas, my friend. Be well…I have left an answer to your post on the Open Thread. Enjoy your new family member who I know has given you so much happiness already. Give him a robust hug from me.🌲😘
Stated so well Betsy!
I sometimes dream of a day when the people of this Treehouse will all meet in person.
A very Merry Christmas to you and yours!
And a Merry Christmas to you, Italian Job😊🌲
Even if it is not possible, I am always saying that we know each other’s hearts. And what a wonderful thing it is, too.
So beautifully said, and so warmly felt.
I loved the George C. Scott, Patton movie. que… Battle Hymn of the Republic
God Bless you for your gracious posting’s.
Now I have a hankering to see it again!
Merry Christmas, Wheelbarrow.😊🌲
Wonderful Betsy! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
And to you and your family as.well, newtreeperPa🌲💕
Ty, Ma’am. I just came in from rounding up my half feral cats and covering my pineapple plants I have managed to keep alive for 3 seasons.
Oh bless, CR. We have a feral who doesn’t come in, the last of myriad feral kittens which have been born in our backyard. (It is said a cat should find you, and, oh wow!!! Did they ever…all caught and adopted out by our wonderful shelter).
We have an old couch in our garage which we have been meaning to get rid of, but our tabby feral goes under in the colder months. So I have shoved quilts under and arranged them so the cold is blocked, then reinforced the perimeter with boxes to make sure he is comfy.
Chez Jones makes sure our guests are well taken care of😉
I hope you can get the rest. Herding cats is not for the physically weak or the faint of heart. And I hope your pineapple plants make it.
A bless-ed Christmas, my friend. Stay warm and be well🌲😊
The Rhodesian Ridgeback/red nose pitbull mix is having a difficult time adjusting to knowing 4 cats are sequestered in my nephews old room. Normally they’d stay in the garage but it is not heated and I didn’t want to leave a space heater running in there that the cats would probably knock over anyway. The pineapples should be ok as most are planted at the base of oak trees. The trees create their own micro climate and prevent frost most of the time, but I covered them to make sure with a reading lamp that has an old school incandescent bulb underneath the blankets. I hope all our Treehouser family has a great Christmas in spite of the Undesirables best efforts.
Consider what our daughter gave us for Christmas, CR. An oil fired radiator type electric heater, Lord love her. She is always so thoughtful. And as we keep the heating down to just tolerable because of the bills, this is wonderful. The cats wouldn’t be able to knock this over! It’s solid and well balanced.
It is not huge, easily moveable (wheels), doesn’t use a lot of electricity, and warms up a large room like nothing I’ve ever seen! It is a wonderful thing. Not pricey either…
Just throwing that out there for your consideration, as you are, as we are, an animal lover. She got it from Best Buy, though I am sure they are widely available. 😁🌲
Those heaters are incredible.
Oh yes they are!!!!!!
Betsy.. I started grammar school right before Pearl Harbor ..all thru my schooling both Catholic and Public there were lessons, assemblies etc involving America..while in 6 or 7 grade I was let out at 2:30 to go to Catholic Church to be schooled in the Religious
teachings.. point is at that time God religion etc we’re not hushed .. hushed out of the Public Domain .. we pledged the flag everyday etc .. all this has now been taken out..there is more of course but you get the idea..
There are men and women out here that will not bend the knee to Government
just as many as years ago.. thing is, until you get the knock on the door..?? the rise of those moms at school boards are good example..
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BTW .. Blessed Merry Christmas to you and yours..
also to all Treepers
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Yes there are, Jim…and while it may not seem so, I suspect there are more than we can imagine. The time has not yet come to understand how many…I hope it never does. But if it is God’s plan that we should ever reach that point, we will have a Commander in Chief (🙏) whose powers will be made known to all. There is great comfort in knowing it is so.
Blessings, Jim, to you and your family for a peaceful Christmas 🌲
Merry Christmas Betsy Jones. 🎄
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your posts.
God bless you.
Thank you, lolli. I hope you will feel a wonderful peace in your Christmas. May God bless you as well🌲💕
Thank you!
Always uplifting.
Love ya, Dekester…Merry Christmas🌲😘
🏴 🏴 🏴 😉
Oooooo!!!! Nadolig Llawen🌲 my favourite Glaswegian. Coming from you this is real gift. Thank you! 🤗
Cheers!
The CTH sure is a bright spot.
All the best!
😁👍💕
Lord, praying in agreement, in Jesus’ name
…and AMEN, Bananas…Merry Christmas, my friend🌲💕
Wonderful words to and for the King of Glory, shared by one sister with her brothers and sisters in the Lord.
Thank you, Betsy.
My only addition, if I may be so bold, is to once again speak to the Christians that may read what I write.
Because God is our Father and His Word is the lamp unto our feet and the light to our way, once again I cry out to my brothers and sisters and repeat God’s Words to a nation that was in ruin, for our country that is also in ruin. My paraphrase of 2 Chronicles 7:14 —
‘If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.’
God is not speaking to the debased of this world. He is not speaking to those lost in darkness. God is not talking to the perverse and dead in sin, or to those who openly mock Him.
God is speaking to us, His children saved through Jesus death and resurrection, by His grace.
God is telling us to humble ourselves. How humble are we before Almighty God?
God is telling us to pray. Pray without ceasing the Apostle Paul writes. Pray for those in authority over us, yes, even Joseph Biden. Speaking to our Father who hears all our prayers, and those we don’t know how to speak.
God is telling us to seek His face. What does the face of God look like? Does it look like someone whom we would fall upon our faces if we actually saw it? Saw Him? I dare say we would fall over as if dead like many spoken of in the Bible did when seeing only angels.
God is telling us to turn from our wicked ways. You, me, us. Children of the Heavenly Father not pointing to anyone else’s sins but our own. Children of the Heavenly Father not pointing to anyone else but ourselves. Not thinking of the depraved among us who put make-up on boys, not the dead to sin among us who murder babies, not the person we each think of when we think of horrid sinners, because God is not calling upon them to do anything — He is calling on us.
So in this grand time of celebrating our Lord and King, let us humble ourselves, seek His face, pray and turn from our wicked ways.
Turn from sin.
God promises then He will heal our land.
Glorious Christmas blessings to you and your family, Betsy, and all the dear hearts here at the Treehouse.
Thank you, Raven. All true. But I always think of Saul who could not hear God, who persecuted those who worshipped and professed Him. Until God spoke to him on the road to Damascus…and he became Paul, the faithful servant and apostle of our Father.
So those sunk into depravity, darkness, corruption…and yes, who persecute still (in this country) those who are Christians may through His grace one day hear His voice the same way as did Paul. Perhaps not directly, but through the Holy Spirit. We can all pray for that. We should all pray for that. It is difficult to do, all considered. But in humbling ourselves before Him, somehow it becomes easier.
Bless you, Raven, for your lovely wishes. I hope your
Christmas is filled with joy, as we reflect on God loving us so unfathomably much that He became the Son of man, so we would not be lost. Is there any Gift more precious? Blessings, my friend. Your additions were very much appreciated.🌲💕
We could certainly use a George S Patton today! Great prayer Betsy Jones you have the special gift of prayer! Thank you! Have a Blessed Christmas!
Thank you, Bubby. We could use a thousand just like him. There must still be some out there. I wish you the same. Enjoy your Christmas. I hope it is peaceful and joyous.🌲😊
For my fellow cord cutters:
Here’s the full video…
The Japanese must have asked themselves, “What the Fluck?!?!” 🤡 Great piece. Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to check this guy’s channel out.
Iowa
That was hilarious.
“Say what you want about the South, but nobody ever retires and moves up North.” 🤡 I refuse to live anywhere where you might actually need to own a snowblower.
“Behold!” God sent his two angels, Mason and Dixon, and He decreed: “Thou shalt not live North of this line!”
Aggghhh . . . gotta love snow. It keeps out the riff-raff . . .
The winters help keep lay about friends and family from crashing your place and staying too long. I despised living in Florida for all 12 years I was there. Almost every person I met in Florida loved it.
Boogy, where did you live when you were down here?
With CHITOWN in the Negative Temps –> ONLY SHOOTING that are Going Down
is INSIDE !
STREETS ARE SAFE !
( UNLESS You’re JESSIE going for a Subway Sandwich at 0300CST – ( GOTTA WATCH for NIGERIANS tho Evidently they don’t mind the COLD ))
With CHITOWN in the Negative Temps –> ONLY SHOOTING that are Going Down
is INSIDE !
A temporary pause in what I refer to as the “SELF-CLEANING OVEN” that is Chicago
and the bugs
FYI: This is the Presidential thread…
Yeah, I know.
I figured since SD had a whole Weather post yesterday, maybe it was OK here.
Sketchy reasoning, I know.
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Yesterday, POTATUS had a press conference warning about the incoming polar vortex and all of the scary stuff that will happen. Your post was very informative and funny and spared me from having to watch POTATUS tell me how cold it is. Thank you.
Your post more relates to honesty in media so probably can squeak in on a technicality.
Thx, boogy. LOL.
They should switch this guy to White House Correspondent.
🙂
The greatest generation:
Here’s a link to the full first episode….
Battle 360 is an excellent series and all of its episodes are now available online. I highly recommend them all. The device that is used to tie the episodes together is “the ‘Big E’: USS Enterprise.” (No, “not the starship …” Just the single most-decorated aircraft carrier of WW2.)
The computer graphics were extremely well-executed, and very advanced for the time. (Of course, computer graphics technology advances very, very fast …) They are superbly used throughout the series to advance the storytelling. The music is good, too. A nice feature of the series is that, whenever they introduce a new plane or weapon into the story, they use a “cut-out” to tell you more about it.
P.S.: The Midway movie contains an excellent modern-day retelling of the “machine gun on a warplane” scene that is featured in the first few minutes of the above clip. Check it out.
P.P.S: This very first episode of the series is a very good place to start. Not only is it the source of the [computer] graphics that are used in the title sequences (and elsewhere) throughout the entire series, but it serves a very important role in “setting the stage” for all of it. This episode is where it all began.
I wish more was known about the battleship USS Nevada. The ship was bombed and on fire when the junior officers on board took it upon themselves to unmoor the ship and make a run for open water to avoid a bloodbath. They got underway and became the main target for the second wave of Japanese aircraft. The Nevada beached to avoid sinking in the harbor. All of the junior officers responsible for getting the ship under way were killed in the attack.
The sight of the Nevada under way fighting Japanese planes while on fire yet still waving the American flag was a morale boost to everyone in Pearl Harbor that day.
Well, as for me, I don’t think that it was entirely coincidence that none of those carriers were “home” at the time. Pearl is a strategic natural harbor located in the central Pacific, but it is not a well-protected one. Island bases never are. Ships were routinely shuttled from the American Mainland for duty station at Pearl.
We now know that, even though the Japanese assumed that their own language was impregnable, and that their cipher systems were likewise, in fact the Americans knew an awful lot about what they were saying to each other, even before the War. Very strange decisions are sometimes made in wartime and on the eve of war.
Four were in the Atlantic, one was on the West Coast getting a new air wing, and the other two were on secret missions to take air forces to reinforce islands further west.
The Enterprise had completed its mission and was returning that morning. Even had aircrew involved in the fight.
It looks like we were expecting attacks to happen, but not expecting them to happen in Hawaii. Still curious about MacArthur failing to respond even after Pearl was attacked. I am sure that they were expecting the Philippines to be targeted. The B-17s that were due to arrive in Hawaii were enroute to the Philippines.
Pearl Harbor could have been better defended. They did not deploy barrage balloons, there were no torpedo nets in the harbor. Admiral Kimmell did not sent out scout planes to search the area for potential threats. There was a threat of Japanese attack on US forced yet the battle ships did not have their flood doors closed.
I don’t think the 7 aircraft carriers were going to spend their time in the pacific if Pearl didn’t get attacked.
Did they make mistake? Or did Roosevelt know they were going to attack and wanted it to happen but made sure the ships were moved to lessen the damage?
The “eternal difficulty” here is that we, today, have the gift of “hindsight.” Looking forward, they never did.
Slightly off topic…reading the Last Hill…story of the Ranger battalion in WWII starting with the attack on Pointe D Hoc at Normandy and the attack on Hill 400 in the Black Forest.
For all you Aggies…the battalion was led by James Rudder.
Excellent read…
At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, there were only 3 US aircraft carriers assigned to the US Pacific Fleet, Saratoga, Lexington and Enterprise. The Japanese would only get 3, at best, no matter how lucky they were.
Yorktown, Wasp, Ranger and the first US escort carrier, Long Island, were in the Atlantic Fleet.
Hornet was on a shakedown cruise and hadn’t been assigned to a fleet.
The Japanese main target was always the battleships as they were considered the primary weapon in naval battles up to that point in time. Warfare changed after Pearl Harbor.
It should be noted that Pearl Harbor could have been worse for the US but the Japanese made many mistakes. The signal to start the battle was messed up and half the air force went after the airfields instead of the battleships. The planes ended up crossing paths with the other planes that thought the attack should strt on the battleships.
The Japanese wasted many bombs and torpedos in the USS Utah which was a decommissioned target ship. Also the first attack on the airfields left smoke that obscured many of the targets from the Japanese pilots.
The Japanese sent 6 carriers across the northern Pacific in the dead of winter to launch an aerial attack against a collection of aging battleships too slow to do escort duty for the American carriers. Like so many generals and admirals before and after him, Yamamoto was fighting the last war (in this case, the one against Russia won by Admiral Togo), not the current one. He should have targeted the dry docks, oil tank farms, and the one ship in the harbor really important to the US cause, the oiler Neosho.
Does Biden’s Christmas message not sound like it was written by a non-Christian?
“And we look to the sky, to a lone star, shining brighter than all the rest, guiding us to the birth of a child — a child Christians believe to be the son of God”
Uh, yeah, we do believe that. Don’t you?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/22/remarks-by-president-biden-in-christmas-address-to-the-nation/
“You will know them by their fruits”.
Not sure what else can be said…
The House is now voting toward moving along the omnibus atrocity.
Two RINOs – Jaimie Herrera-Butler and Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger – both voted “Yes” with the Democrats. So far, ten Republicans have voted “Yes”.
Rashida Tialb voted “Present” via proxy because she was not present.
One brave Democrat is voting in a manner aligned with the Republicans.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?525045-2/house-vote-17-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill-avert-government-shutdown&live
Chip Roy just spoke and pointed out that the bill passed with 226 votes cast by proxy. There was not a physical quorum present, but Nanzi’s rules prevailed and the omnibus moves to Biden’s desk.
What a hoax of a congress.
Merry Christmas, America.
We’re getting screwed daily.
It was suggested that I place this on the later pages, as it has been subsumed on p. 1.
I hesitate to do so, but perhaps “afternoon people” will appreciate it.
This morning the winds of the North are icing the fools who say they are disappearing, or that their parents are the Pollutions of Humans.
Our civilization has allowed these fools and tools of evil to dominate us, to the point where Techno-Slavery is a reality over which they slobber and for which they lust.
Consider that, if you believe that God exists, God has given us free will, i.e. God has given us Freedom to use or to misuse in our actions. If you do not believe that God exists, you might subscribe to the idea that your Freedom derives simply from being a Human, and because of your ability to ratiocinate and therefore able to ponder your own actions, you deserve Freedom from your own nature.
Restricting our Freedom, therefore, is a restriction against God and Nature. Assuming that we are not using our Freedom to create Evil, restricting our liberties to any degree is a severe interference against God and Nature and as such those restrictions are Evil in themselves.
The Freedom, the Right, to govern ourselves has been removed by Election Fraud. Stalinist elections are spreading with impunity, and as they spread, our freedom wanes, our liberties smell the forging of shackles.
It has not been sufficiently appreciated that, when tyrants and their allies take away Freedom, they are directly assaulting God Himself and are violating Natural Principles.
It is in the nature of tyrants and their fearful, slobbering allies either not to believe in God and Natural Law or to distort them for their own purposes of power: God (or Nature) suddenly blesses women with a “right” to kill the unborn, when such a “right” screams out perversity against God Himself and every tendency in Nature to promote Life over Death.
If Death is promoted in Nature over Life, where then is Nature? And God is a creator of Life first, not of Death first, an illogicality which Divinity cannot abide.
However, what happens when Freedom is in fact threatened, chained, and abolished by tyrants? What happens when Death is unleashed against populations by evil people to assure that their tyranny will stand?
Consider that to accept the removal of one’s freedom without resistance is also an affront to God and an unnatural lack of action!
Do animals willingly walk into the trap, into the noose, into the cage, or do they instinctively by their nature attempt to preserve their freedom?
That rational, thinking human beings would blindly nod and agree to be enslaved, no matter how slowly, is an abomination before God and Nature.
For such acquiescence raises Fear, Cowardice, and “Un-conscience-ness” * to virtues and perverts Human Life.
Consider the wisdom of Psalm 94:
“…How long, Lord, will the wicked,
how long will the wicked be jubilant?
4 They pour out arrogant words;
all the evildoers are full of boasting.
5 They crush your people, Lord;
they oppress your inheritance.
6 They slay the widow and the foreigner;
they murder the fatherless.
Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?...
17 Unless the Lord had given me help,
I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death….
20 Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—
a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
21 The wicked band together against the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death…
23 He will repay them for their sins
and destroy them for their wickedness;
the Lord our God will destroy them.”
However, keep in mind: The Lord God rises up only through US!
Do not expect the sky to open unless we open it with God’s help!
Every day we read of the plans of our enemies, who are “jubilant,” “arrogant,” and “full of boasting.”
Our resistance must blossom soon, lest it wither in the desert of good, yet unfulfilled, intentions. Spread your dissatisfaction, awaken as many as possible!
For the plump, satisfied man has little energy or ambition to change anything, and the sleeping accomplish nothing.
Merry Christmas!
*i.e. lacking a conscience with which to ponder our actions
Wonderful, uplifting message from Dr. Turley. Merry Christmas Treepers!
I find if they say Happy Holidays to you in a store or someplace and you
say Merry Christmas back then they say Merry Christmas like they are relived
to be able to say it..or if they say nothing and you says Merry Christmas then they
say it back …
Around here, the clerks say Merry Christmas.
With all the fake news from the corrupt leftist msm here is one accurate report!
One of my favorite twitter accts just got permanently suspended – @oilfield_rando.
Interesting as he as been calling out the USA spending grift for days on end, along with the Ukraine crap.
Where’s Elon now?
Was reading somewhere that a bunch of twitter accounts were suspended because they made comments criticizing the applause and adulation the US Senate was lauding the guy from Ukraine, and that Elon Musk was ‘looking into it’ since those comments were not against terms of service.
Maybe once Musk is done looking into things @oildfield_rondo and the others will be returned? There’s still a lot of twitter sites that have yet been made whole after that first announcement of amnesty by Musk.
Anyone who critize the Z grift on TWT automatically suspended. It seems that the CI has the backdoor on Twt that Elon has no control.
Message from Mrs. Claus and Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer:
Last Dec, this post would’ve been censored by Twit, just cuz of the comments alone.
WARNING – They Have A “New Plan” That Will Make You Poor
22 Dec 2022
Noticed this morning that the IRS is going to audit President Trump’s tax returns from his time in office. The articles made a point to mention a focus being made on “foreign related finances”.
No matter if anything “wrong” is found in those returns … links will be made and spun as pay-offs to foreign and domestic financial entities. Also, “foreign” linked finances has FISA warrant implications as we have seen in the past.
Also, something stinks about the Cryptocurrency Case involving FTX.
Block Chain can be used and abused to prove and show links between all sorts of things. ITS DIGITAL and the US as well as other Foreign Governments have the means to exploit Block Chain, if a friendly NGO entity has not already been assisting them. The illusion of Block Chain’s absolute infallibility can be exploited as “evidence”.
Waste of time since prior to taking office, and there a quite a lengthy video of it somewhere (if you tube hasn’t disappeared it) where President-Elect Trump signed document after document after document turning over to a completely blind trust 100% of all his business interests.
F = 6th letter
B = = 2nd letter
I = 9th letter
What’s that spell? 17th letter
They were hiding in plain sight.
Duran Ukraine Update 12/23:
Russia prepared for NATO War.
Zelensky Wanted Far More Than US Providing.
Patriot Battery Token Aid.
US Critical Shortage of Missiles for Patriot Systems.
Russia Military Closing Ring Around Bakhmut.
Israel and Germany have allot of Patriot missiles, especially older versions that need to be used.
The Patriot Systems in Germany have an interesting History. A Long long time ago, the US tried to sell the Patriot System to EU NATO members. The Europeans balked and wanted their own system. Lockheed even made a go of developing one with the Europeans. About 1985, the US Army needed to upgrade the M-1 Abrams Tank to deal with the armor on newer Soviet Tank Designs …. so the US Army adopted the GERMAN 120mm Smooth Bore Gun and German designed ammunition tore place the M-1’s British L7 105mm gun, in return for Germany buying a few Patriots.
Lockheed and Raytheon have been supplying patriots to Israel for a long time, plus the Patriot System is the basis for Israel’s Iron Dome System.
The Patriot system is useless without missiles in them.
We will not be producing 500 a Year until 2024.
Currently I believe only 250 per Year are being produced.
That is the supply for all countries who have the Patriot system.
The New Atlas is one of the best analysts regarding arms/ammunition.
New YouTube was released today breaking down the last “aid” package to Ukraine.
He is not the only one–just the best at explaining arms/ammunition that even I can understand.
Guess he is my equivalent to Sundance when he explains economics. I understood economics better once ..or when…Sundance explains.
From listening to him –New Atlas-and reading other articles–
My impression is the Patriot system is over rated and over priced.
My understanding is Saudi Arabia is using them (Patriot Missiles) up at a fast pace and there are no replacements available!
Yep … that is why I CLEARLY stated (you do have read my comment you know) that Germany and Israel may have stocks of OLDER missiles on hand for those launchers.
Having a blast here in WNY! Blizzards are always so much fun and this one is a doozy. So far, power has not gone out but internet is spotty. We who live here are always pretty well prepared here for this kind of weather and are managing.
Let’s see if it gets worse later as predicted.
Just read Kelli Ward’s deposition in front of Jan 6 Committee. She invoked the 5th amendment more than 250 times.
https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/20220316_Kelli%20Ward.pdf
Not good!
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/12/23/live-trial-begins-abe-hamadeh-election-lawsuit-gop-candidate-arizona-attorney-general/
Judge dismisses Abe Hamadeh’s election lawsuit, denying attempt to change state AG race results
early ballots and that tabulation machine problem resulted in rejected ballots because voters didn’t fill them out correctly. The count that was dismissed alleged that illegal votes were counted for unverified early ballots.
Initially, he ruled Hamadeh’s case was different from other GOP counterparts because Hamadeh didn’t allege “fraud or personal agendas being pushed” in his lawsuit. Instead, he claimed mistakes by election officials led to a miscount of votes that could’ve affected the outcome of a narrow attorney general race. The race saw Democrat Kris Mayes come out on top by just over 500 votes, but the race has gone to an automatic recount since it’s within a 0.5% margin.
(Excerpt) Read more at azfamily.
Appeal possible?
Kari Lake War Room
@KariLakeWarRoom
🚨 Breaking 🚨
In violation of Arizona law,
@katiehobbs
intercepted the results of the Attorney General Recount and had them delivered to her office for “reconcilation and accuracy.”
Her corruption continues in broad daylight.
Continue reading….
A visit to the US by the President of South Vietnam 60 years ago looked great but had an unhappy ending:
By the time of the coup, there were 12,000 advisers in Vietnam, but those who knew Diem best feel that neither he nor Nhu would ever have allowed 550,000 American soldiers to fight in their country, and to permit the devastation caused by air attacks, including bombing and defoliation. There is evidence that shortly before the coup took place the first tentative efforts were initiated both by the Saigon Government and the National Liberation Front to come to an accommodation. The coup against Diem had of course been arranged by the U.S. government:
The Pentagon’s, secret study of the Vietnam war discloses that President Kennedy knew and approved of plans for the military coup d’état that over threw President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963.
“Our complicity in his overthrow heightened our responsibilities and our commitment” in Vietnam, the study finds.
In April, when Boris Johnson made it clear to Zelenski that the U.S. would not support any peace agreement with Russia, he may well have thought of Diem’s fate. He decided to ditch the ongoing negotiations and to commit his country to the suicidal quest of beating the Russian army.
Accordingly Zelenski’s “epic piece of theater” was “designed” to keep him alive and to fill his bank account plus those of the owners of the U.S. war industry.
Alphabet agency starting with the letter C was behind this…and accelerated our role in Vietnam…
JKF admin had a history of failures…most over rated President …except when it came to bagging Hollywood starlets…
Abe Hamadeh
@AbrahamHamadeh
Based on the constraints imposed on us by the court and the obstruction by the opposing side, we were only given 6 hours with 3 people to attempt to go through 2.5 million ballots.
There are thousands of uncounted provisionals ballots. Thousands of voters were disenfranchised. Election Day in Maricopa County was a disaster. Election officials failed democracy.
My team will await the results of the recount before deciding our next steps.
Merry Christmas!
2:39 PM · Dec 23, 2022
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Kari Lake War Room
@KariLakeWarRoom
Replying to
@AbrahamHamadeh
and @AbeWarRoom
Maricopa County had two weeks.
You got six hours?
2:58 PM · Dec 23, 2022
Of Course the Feds Were All Over Twitter
Twitter was staffed by craven functionaries eager to please contacts and former colleagues in the national security state.
Dec 21, 2022
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/of-course-the-feds-were-all-over-twitter/
Face it … as Sundace and others have stated for a very long time …. Social Media, Big Tech Cloud Data Management Services, et al … have been operated as a form of contracted GO-CO Businesses ….Government (contractually) Owned Civilian Operated Businesses.
Many if not all the DHS, DoJ, DoD, INTEL agencies had real live live Government Employees working side-by-side with civilian counterparts.
Many of those so called ex-government employees were still employed by the government.
This is the reason FOIA’s by people with legal horsepower and resources are needed to expose the existence of the contracts as well as much content of those contacts as can be obtained.
Didn’t go as smoothly as it did in The U.S.
Any lawyer on this feed that can explain why the American people cannot file a lawsuit against the US Government, namely Congress, for misrepresentation of the people? We sent them to Congress to represent us. They do not represent me.
The case alleges that Congress failed in their Constitutional duties by ignoring the protection of critical infrastructure (election systems) during a National Emergency.
https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/12/12/supreme-court-brunson-v-alma-s-adams-et-al-case-summary-and-timeline/
chip roy for president.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=402444. Those on the fence about Kristi Noem, or who think she is on our side, should check out this post at Ace of Spades HQ. Drag shows for kids put on by government are becoming common now. A conservative organization called Noem out for her support of this garbage, and she is demanding that the head of the organization be fired. This isn’t the first government sponsored drag show in South Dakota either. She fully supports the moneyed push behind the trans agenda to sterilize children, and she also shot down an attempt to prevent woke business from forcing their employees to take dangerous experimental vaccines. She is indistinguishable from Asa Hutchinson on the issues; she just hides it better. Any ticket with her on it will not get my support. We’ve got to get better at identifying these people early on and getting the word out so they never move up the ranks.
She’s awful. Probably one of the worst Republican politicians in office. She’s petty, vain, shallow, socially liberal, economically anti-America and the American worker, dishonest about almost everything, and then there’s lots of sketchy nepotism and unethical behavior around her adult children.
She’s almost as bad as Romney.
Comment on a tweet in ZH about Sam Bankman Freid. “Hope they don’t let her walk. Sure, Sam’s the big fish and they ought to throw the book at him but she’s very culpable, too.”
Correction, he is the biggest fish they will be allowed to get. And since he is young and facing life imprisonment……he may well commit suicide to his own surprise. I doubt someone his age will take the fall silently and thus, he will commit suicide to everyone’s surprise…especially his own.
“I was stunned by Epstein’s suicide, though probably not as much as Epstein himself.” — John McAfee
January 6th committee to adjourn without fulfilling year old promise to release Epps transcript.
The one person on film telling people to go into the Capitol (multiple times) disappears from FBI list and is not even mentioned in the 845 page final report.
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie
You know BS when it is coming from the Cheneys.
CA. beaches, kids play grounds, the list goes on and on.
No vit. D or exercise for you!
Picked up grandchild from her kindergarten this month;
Playground had Swings, slides, playground climbers, spring riders, and tubes , the basics.
Kids were not allowed to play on them.
Watched a few play red light green light in an open area.
California…sigh
wow. Can’t believe they’re still doing that out there.
Those poor kids.
Thank God some were creative (and active) enough to still do Red Light Green Light.
….” The Florida Supreme Court approved a request from Gov. Ron DeSantis to impanel a grand jury with the intent to investigate mRNA vaccine manufacturers.”………
https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-supreme-court-approves-gov-desantis-request-to-impanel-grand-jury-on-investigating-covid-19-vaccine-manufacturers
More fake news released today from the democrats’ J6 Witch Hunt Tribunal:
“At least 28,000 supporters of President Donald Trump flocked to the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, 2021 — many of them carrying weaponry ranging from firearms to brass knuckles to screwdrivers, the House select committee investigating the events of that day revealed in its final report.
The 814-page document, released late Thursday, draws the previously unreported crowd figure from data from Secret Service magnetometers stationed at Trump’s pre-riot speech on the Ellipse near the White House — though hundreds of the most hardcore rioters skipped the rally and went directly to the Capitol.
The committee of seven Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans voted Monday to ask the Justice Department to charge the 76-year-old former president with crimes including inciting an insurrection — and the report suggests many attendees were indeed ready for violence.
Secret Service confiscated a haul of weapons from the 28,000 spectators who did pass through the magnetometers: “242 cannisters of pepper spray, 269 knives or blades, 18 brass knuckles, 18 tasers, 6 pieces of body armor, 3 gas masks, 30 batons or blunt instruments, and 17 miscellaneous items like scissors, needles, or screwdrivers.”
So, nearly a million patriots in DC that cold Tuesday in January of 2021 and they claim that 28k showed up to where the president was speaking, many of the “armed”. From them the feds confiscated 593 pocket knives, fingernail files, and personal self-defense pepper spray cans.
Was just watching the Lee Smith interview on Epoch TV with Mike Benz of https://foundationforfreedomonline.com and if there is anyone here, or perhaps if Sundance or someone else has a connection with either Epoch TV or the journalist Lee Smith, if there is someway that access to that one hour interview could be made available for free, so people can share it as widely as possible.
Being able to share it will enlarge the number of people who will see the strings and begin to build that populist movement the censors are so afraid will happen, the more that are able to see the game the better chance we will have of winning.
this is a link to the Epoch Times TV video, am sharing it though am aware it is one of those ppv things, I think it is only $1.00 to watch just the one episode so that might work as well. The guest, Mr. Benz’s advice, when asked how people can help, was to share the interview as often and as widely as possible.
Thinking that if more sites have the information available for people to see what’s really going on, since the Treehouse seems to be the one putting it all out there, thinking the more putting it all out there the better to waken people up and harder for there to be simply one place that can be silenced. We need to make it as hard as possible to silence the truth.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-worlds-most-powerful-spy-agency-is-targeting-you_4941802.html
just saw Sundance’s new post on ‘Your Home is the Alamo, Act Like It”, so probably should have posted this above comment there. Agree, there is work to do, and having our homes secure and sound is wise advice as we each individually find our best way of outreach and interaction.
Thanks for the heads-up on Epoch. They are offering $4/month instead of the usual $12/mo and since it’s awesome I’ve decided to join.
Main Street will get poorer. Bureaucrats get richer.. we are doomed.
Tina Smith from Minnesota, once a big-wig in “planned” baby butchering.
Surprised Amy Klobutcherbaby isn’t on the list, too.
Elon Musk is live on another Tesla youtube stream; @Jack is also on this stream:
More Scott Ritter. Patriot missile system for Ukraine is discussed among other related topics.
How I de-transed my daughter in 1 day.
https://patriots.win/p/16ZXeuD3Hn/dad-figures-out-how-to-stop-daug/c/
hilarious strategy
he’s got a good look
probably well-qualified to run a nuclear-waste disposal agency