In the alternate reality - where Joe and his wife live ...
Meanwhile, in the real world...
Obama's done with ole Joe.
I’ve been predicting a Newsom/Rice ticket for a year. Deep State, DAVOS, hard left racists, PRC (1), all have something to benefit – America much to lose.
I see that I've mentioned C.S. Lewis' book "That Hideous Strength" no less than 6 times in these posts since beginning the blog (1). It's a scifi story, written in the 1940s, which so well describes the likes of Fauci and our atheist IT nomenklatura who are pursuing technology so easily adapted to the needs of a pagan police state. In the book Lewis' plot twist is that the re-animated human head the scientists are looking to for direction is demonic.
With this new story from Switzerland I can only wonder how Lewis could have been so prescient.
1. 14 Dec 2020, 29 Jun 2022, 26 Jan 2024, 22 Feb 2024, 20 May 2024, 8 Jun 2024
Fear Porn for kiddies
Once upon a time, many years ago, I was an employee of a consulting firm hired on to assist the United States Navy with the management of its ranges in the southeast US. My technical background as a 'user' of the facilities, and knowledge of the commands and facilities in the region, was substantial so my tenure there was. I will modestly say, largely productive.
One item complicating this job was that the position was within the facilities engineering organization of the Navy and this was also where the 'progressives' were making their march through the institution with their radical environmentalism. By experience and predilection I was at heart a technician. I had a successful career in the Navy while active duty focused mainly on airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare. I had tours both as a successful practitioner, and technical bureaucrat (director of Tactical Development and Evaluation for east coast sea-based ASW airborne assets). Those tours meant I had many, many hours dedicated to investigating oceanic conditions relevant to how sound would travel from a submarine to a sensor. That pragmatic first hand experience made me a skeptic when the promoters of “Global Warming” were selling their 'science' to the largely technically clueless, and politically malleable, senior staff in the Navy. My skepticism and familiarity with technical documentation drove me to actually research and comprehend the issue.
Bottom line I arrived at then – it was BS.
And, as demonstrated recently, it remains BS.
The “Global Warming” crisis – better stated as the 'man caused CO2 engendered global temperature rise powered climate disaster ' - was, at inception, a hoax by the left intended to facilitate their marxist political objectives. As stated by the father of “Earth Day” -
U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO), then representing the Clinton-Gore administration as U.S undersecretary of state for global issues, addressing the same Rio Climate Summit audience, said: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” (1)
For two IPCC report cycles I read the draft IPCC reports distributed to Navy for review, I then read the official completed reports when released publicly. On one cycle the issue of sea rise was remarkably altered from the truth to the necessary fiction not by the IPCC expert on sea rise but by editors invested in seeing the report supported the 'Global Warming' apocalyptic vision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBUSoW6nNUk
And, as I said, this deliberate hoax continues. Check “Snopes” on Sea Level Rise - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scientists-caught-tampering-raw-data-exaggerate-sea-level-rise/ Snopes is a conspiracy of the left (2) and attributes disagreement with the “consensus” to “an ex-Fiat engineer” - NOT the late Nils Axel Morner who was the IPCC subject matter expert and lead editor on sea level change. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284890177_There_is_no_alarming_sea_level_rise_21st_century_science_technology
So, as you may expect I was not surprised to see an absurd attempt to alter data for use in another IPCC report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwlp-UzJR2A . No accident folks. This is just typical 'climate science'.
“Science”... brought to you by many of the same folks who told you the C0vid jab was safe and effective, C0vid came from a "wet market" ...
You know, the folks who visit ...
1. https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/search?q=global+warming+in+their+own+words
UPDATE: 6/30/24 - It's about control ... Global Warming Myths Debunked by IPCC Expert Gregory Wrightstone – Watts Up With That?
Unsurprisingly, earth has a repeating, immutable, cycle of temperatures. They are DRIVEN, have been for some 450,000 years, by changes in solar intensity and perturbations of orbit and axis.
While we celebrate one ship's return to Mayport ...
- the real battle has been lost.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-spent-billion-dollars-fighting-houthis-and-lost
And, while the CO and crew of the Carney did some really good work in the Red Sea, it never faced the type of threat China or Russia can dish out in the South China Sea or the Baltic.
( see 3M54K: https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/WEG/Asset/3M54K_(SS-N-27_Sizzler)_Russian_Anti-Ship_Cruise_Missile )
MEANWHILE ...
Meh, we'll make it up with that 0.6% of our society who are gender confused, diversity' candidates ... three quarters of whom are suicidal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10027312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11063965/
Just who we need in the ship's missile magazines 'eh?
Hydroxychlor0quine in the news again ...
Where would Trump get such an idea?
Maybe he got the idea from this guy ...
https://x.com/NBSaphierMD/status/1245671458505924608?mx=2
Or Fauci himself (from earlier work) ...
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-04-12-fauci-cheered-hydroxychloroquine-for-mers-2013.html
Truth is - COMBINED with zinc, it is effective. Fauci had to lie about it, and 1vermectin, so his precious jab could get the Emergency Use Authorization.
Hmmm ... avian flu seems the next plandemic. Fear porn already starting. Wanna bet HCQ/Zinc will work against that too - hence the oddly timed story?
"Christian Nationalism" is a faux flag movement that causes James Lindsay to ask "can the left dig a hole so deep that conservatives won't jump into it?"
Unfortunately, there are, along with malignant progressives, ignorant folks who for profit or in some ill advised attempt to defend the 2ndA, are producing some VERY deep holes for conservatives to leap into as well.
I've commented earlier about the 'open carry' folks: https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2023/03/drag-queens.html .
Now, in the news again, there's the 'bump stock' and its fans ...
I don't see the 'bump stock' controversy as a 2nd A thing. NO ONE I've ever met associates a bump stock with the legitimate use of a firearm as intended by the 2nd A. It's not a firearm. Discussion of such a device is not a 2ndA thing. Attached to a functioning firearm it produces a hazardous consumer product - it turns a gun into a super lawn dart.
Along with 'bump stocks" there are some products that, while they can be produced and bought, shouldn't. Their marketing brings into question the motive of the manufacturer. Things like ... consumer flamethrowers.
What could go wrong ... right?
https://throwflame.com/flamethrowers/
You can bet this guy's gonna want to wrap himself in a flag and scream 2ndA when held to account for the inevitable massacre and out of control wild fires ahead.
Not even close.
Two stray thoughts subsequent to my San Francisco visit ...
On friendship
Despite my religious conviction and political conservatism, for decades I've greatly enjoyed a friendship with a leftist whose 'atrocities' include being a campaign bundler for Hillary, and another with a former Anthropology professor from UC Berkley.
Turns out, such relationships are not that uncommon.
In one of his series of lectures on the Reformation (1) Carl Trueman, a Presbyterian (OPC) Minister and significant church historian offers this insight:
“One of the difficult things to quantify but I'm more and more convinced as the more I study history, is significant and that is friendship. Friendship is a powerful thing that often transcends party lines. ... My best friend was a atheist Jewish guy, very liberal old testament scholar we got on famously and on paper we should have been daggers drawn but our friendship was really really strong, And I can't explain it to you, we just happened to click and connect. And friendships, when you study history in terms of grand movements it can be fairly straightforward, when you get into ground level and look at the micro narrative of individual lives friendship is an incredibly powerful and unpredictable thing and Calvin has a number of friendships that are unusual and continued throughout his life and that is the same with a lot ...probably the same with yourself when you think about the friendships you have, not many of then are determined purely and simply along ideological lines.”
On atheist
Philosophically or metaphysically, there are some that cling to what they believe is rationality, and simply isn't. As one group puts it - “Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. Never distort scientific fact to one's beliefs.” Many who do not believe in a Divine Creator would claim this to be one of their tenets, though how the universe sprung into being, spontaneously, without Agency, defies explanation by a 'scientific' method. In truth, to deny the Creator is to believe what is mathematically unsupportable as is explained by David Berlinski, author of a book on "Atheism and it's scientific pretensions” - https://youtu.be/LuEaJDksxls
I will continue to pray that good people of this persuasion see the truth before going the way of Christopher Hitchens.
Culturally, it's clear that the atheist dream of a godless, socialists, utopian society is, instead, bringing us a vicious, pagan one.
1. The Reformation, part 16, Calvin 1. Original lecture series from Westminster Seminary no longer on the web that I can find. A later version of his series on the Reformation is here – regrettably somewhat abbreviated and lacking some of the personal insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEpQjtufzp0
Van Jones gave it away a day prior to the debate by saying the split between Biden and Obama was widening.
Snopes reversed on the ‘Trump said Nazis are nice people’ two days before … all knew that lie was baked into Biden’s lizard brain.
The far left, the "Justice Democrats" - who created the squad (2) - are playing their role and sounding apoplectic ... (worth the watch) ,https://youtu.be/MycxHCs9mEU
Yeah, "Justice Democrats" - we know who they are (another hint of CCP) ...
CCP vs Justice Dems ...inspired by Mao .... at the very leastMake no mistake, Obama is a deeply evil man. He used the degrading, pompous Biden as the white face on the wrecking ball the Obama manned White house staff was using to destroy … ahhh fundamentally transform … America.
Obama and Soros think there’s enough illegals that will be getting ballots to steal the election with Newsom and Rice the new, willing, puppets. And, they’ve got enough BLM, ANTIFA, FBI stooge ‘patriots’, to say nothing of PRC operators (hmmm CCP again....) and Hizballah thanks to the open border, to keep Americans distracted while they accomplish the steal.
God save the Republic.
1. https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happens-when-you-believe-orange.html
2. Thoughts: Tug of war - we lose either way (nexttobagend.blogspot.com)