william.scherk

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  1. "Unironically" does the heavy lifting (should show a Matt Binder tweet):

    And from another keyhole, recently added to my aggregation page "My Favourite League of Q-Watchers":

     

    1. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      Tonight HBO premieres episodes 3 and 4, leaving time for a "white hat" view of the so-called documentary series. Ron Watkins, via a fresh 8kun posting.

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      https://www.buzzsprout.com/1249451/8182523-mymaria777-063-into-the-storm-with-ron-watkins

  2. Evergreen ...

    Dataviz!

  3. Join an electric bike tour of the isle of Capri, Caroljane ...

    If that is too vertiginous and exciting for you, a relaxing canal-boat ride will do good things to your brain waves:

     

  4. Interests

    Fringe beliefs, pseudoscience, pseudophilosophy, fringe psychology, moral panics, cognitive neuroscience, Dusty Springfield, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, satanic ritual abuse/recovered memory therapy controversy, True Believers, cult dynamics, urban planning, 80s music, urban transportation, Grand Guignol, snarkiness . . . QAnon phenomena, Youtube 'cults,' extremism/radicalism
     
    And virtual walks above the Amalfi Coast:
     
     
    1. Peter

      Peter

      Wow. I kept looking for the guard rail. It reminds me of Port Isaac / Port Wenn in the PBS, BBC series, "Doc Martin."

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    1. Michael Stuart Kelly

      Michael Stuart Kelly

      William,

      With all the censorship by big tech and all the craziness by Dem politicians and all the calls for eliminating Trump supporters from society, are you enjoying the coming of the socialist utopia in the USA.

      Use your eyes. And try to take the core-story glasses off.

      If you can manage that, even for as moment, that's what the start of socialist and communist utopias look like.

      However, this is America. They did their surprise attack. Now lets see if they can sustain it. btw - Did I mention it? This is America. They probably forgot what that means.

      Enjoy this show.

      Michael

    2. william.scherk

      william.scherk

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      William,

      With all the censorship by big tech and all the craziness by Dem politicians and all the calls for eliminating Trump supporters from society, are you enjoying the coming of the socialist utopia in the USA.

      In the industry, that is known as a "Loaded Question."

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      Use your eyes. And try to take the core-story glasses off.

      I detect a 'core-story' side track.  "Trump can do no wrong" is a helluva drug.

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      If you can manage that, even for as moment, that's what the start of socialist and communist utopias look like.

      I live in British Columbia.  The "start of the socialist and communist utopia" began here in 1972.  A few hiccups along the way.

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      However, this is America. They did their surprise attack. Now lets see if they can sustain it. btw - Did I mention it? This is America. They probably forgot what that means.

      "They" did their surprise attack. Trump can do no wrong. Ever. He is Dear Leader. Dissent is punished.

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      Enjoy this show.

      Michael

      It's a horrifying "show" ... all the folks I know here are shocked and saddened by what happened on January 6 2021.

      Defend the President to the end. It gives life meaning.

    3. Michael Stuart Kelly

      Michael Stuart Kelly

      Quoting William: "Trump can do no wrong. Ever. He is Dear Leader. Dissent is punished."

      William,

      That's what I thought--with sadness. You can't take the bias glasses off and just look. The judgment (or prejudice) is set in stone (the core story) along with the presumption that thinking like this is all others do.

      From your response, you don't understand what I am talking about.

      So no biggie.

      Forget I asked.

      I had to ask, though.

      Michael

  6. This comes as a surprise to almost no one, I expect.

     

    1. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      From NPR ... a report that President Trump's Twitter account has been suspended.

       

       

    2. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      I got a final snapshot of President Trump's account. 

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      I wonder if the several existing Trump Twitter archives will have been able to copy the three tweets before they were flagged, before the plug was pulled. 

      I have a niggle of a doubt that public records will have been retained of each Trump account tweet at the White House (one can download one's own Twitter existence, albeit in a huge database file).

      In any case, the President can use the "official" account of the Presidency until the iffy day comes when he can't.

      He is in charge.

  7. NTD has a pro-Trump slant.  This live feed may have commercial breaks:

    🔴 LIVE: Joint session of Congress counts Electoral College votes (Jan. 6) | NTD - YouTube

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      william.scherk

      False flag? Guns are drawn in the chamber:

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    3. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      The NTD stream is now useless; they are playing recorded interviews from within the Capitol and from the earlier rally. Not one mention of the fucking shit show in Congress.

       

    4. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      One of the NTD commentators suggested that the people who forced their way into the Capitold may be Antifa, "We just don't know at this moment."

      Bullshit.

  8. The latest Trump appeal to the Supreme Court was docketed today, December 23 2020.  It is a curious thing to read:

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  9. Predictably Presidential? A lot of grievance.

    Monstrous fraud.

  10. Sebastian Gorka has some good news and some less-good news, while laying out a brief explanation of what he believes is likely to happen January 6 in Congress -- and beyond. He does not mention the special date of the 23rd of December ... 

    More Gorka from yesterday at the Turning Point USA  Student Action Summit:

    (79) LIVE! SAS 2020 is Here! Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr, and More! - YouTube

  11. Howard Roark says 'Wait a Minute' ...

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    Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
    Buildings  — Executive action makes classical style default in Washington  — Directive
     stops short of fully banning modernist architecture  —  Mr Thompson signed an executive directive on Monday making classical 
    architecture …
    Discussion:
     
    RELATED:
    Government of the United States: 
    Directive 60-442 on Federal Civic Architecture
    Discussion:
     

     

    1. Michael Stuart Kelly

      Michael Stuart Kelly

      William,

      I had a feeling someone would do something like that and I also had a feeling it would be you.

      :)

      There's another reason for President Trump doing that than being a mediocre bureaucrat in a fiction work.

      The left has been on a constant campaign to sever the current generation from the American heroes of the past, then replace that with an invented history and, ultimately, obedience to a collectivist state. They do similar with family, too. In human nature, pride in a country's heroes and love of family are cornerstones of social order that resist a takeover by a new social system. 

      The Founding Fathers of the US were great admirers of classic architecture in homage to the Roman and Greek social system models they studied and incorporated in the US Constitution. Classic architecture for government buildings is a subconscious link to the Founding Fathers in the minds of Americans. So I think it is 100% correct for President Trump to do what he did.

      In today's statue-toppling idiocy, if the left were ever permitted to choose styles of architecture for government buildings, I can just see it making buildings in the shape of tribal huts, Indian Teepees, raised fists, and pussy hats. :)  The sickle and hammer of communism would definitely become commonplace. This even happened in Brazil in the way Oscar Niemeyer did in his Memorial JK (monument to Juscelino Kubitschek, the Brazilian president who led the building of Brasilia project). The statue looks like an abstract version of a sickle and hammer. (Niemeyer was a lifelong communist and this statue used to cause the military dictators indigestion.)

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      So I say good on President Trump for keeping the American hero ancestors narrative alive by protecting the connection of modern life with the Founding Fathers through the visual form of government buildings.

      Michael

  12. Here's a couple of videos of interest to Electoral College process mavens ... the first is a brief on the 1960 Presidential Election in Hawaii, and the second is a brief on Contingent Elections. Both from YouTube account Wiki4All.

    (57) 1960 United States Presidential Election In Hawaii - YouTube

    (57) Contingent Election - YouTube

    One fun thing from the Hawaii 1960 video is a couple of snapshots of historic paperwork -- including the "certificates" all banged up with signatures and seals. 

     

    1. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      A page at the National Archives gives some further background on the Action Day of December 23, 2020. This is the fourth Wednesday in December this year. I've abridged on section and the highlights and emphasis is mind.  National Archive page: Presidential Elections & Vacancies | National Archives

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  13. Attributed to Ivan Raiklin.  The first one reads like a script, the second one reads like a "suggested format" for VP Pence. More peaceful research needed, I think.

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  14. I was curious about what happened during the 2017 Joint Session of Congress Electoral Vote counting process, which formulaic phrases were used. I cut a CSPAN excerpt to highlight the disposition of an objection. This is but one objection made. Others came -- four times from another California representative, from Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington state and from Arizona. And again from California.

    (2) WSS Memorial Gardens on Twitter: "January 6, 2017. During the counting of Electoral College votes, an objection from a Representative. See Biden deal with it ... https://t.co/0QWDu8F1bM" / Twitter

    1. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      More moves.

      Links at DonaldJTrump.com

      [added, from the page link above:]

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      “Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., President Trump’s campaign committee, today filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the US. Supreme Court to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases which illegally changed Pennsylvania’s mail balloting law immediately before and after the 2020 presidential election in violation of Article II of the United States Constitution and Bush v. Gore

      [...]

      “The petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating the appointment of electors committed to Joseph Biden and allowing the Pennsylvania General Assembly to select their replacements. The Campaign also moved for expedited consideration, asking the Supreme Court to order responses by December 23 and a reply by December 24 to allow the U.S. Supreme Court to rule before Congress meets on January 6 to consider the votes of the electoral college.”

      - Rudy Giuliani, attorney for President Trump

      Click here to read the Campaign's Petition.
      Click here to read the Campaign's Motion.

       

    2. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      I cannot vouch for any of the part that screams in yellow. Caveat lector.

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  15.   Let's see how long this video evades the Banhammer. Fair-use excerpt or piracy?

     

  16. This bit should probably go in one of the Q/QAnon threads, but hey. "While sites such as 8kun offer the Q drops in their original setting, aggregator sites like QMap offer a sheltered, mom-friendly version, removed from the immediate vulgarity of the source image board sites."

    Exclusive: Logically Investigation Uncovers QAnon Central Hub Hosting Phishing Scams; Direct Ties to Jim Watkins.

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    Investigation by Nick Backovic and Joe Ondrak.
    Supporting research by Kristina Gildejeva.

    ***

    A Logically Investigation reveals that QAnon communications are being consolidated under the control of Jim Watkins, through US based hosting company VanwaTech.
    Based in Vancouver, Washington, VanwaTech hosts only a handful of websites unrelated to QAnon, including the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.

    The connection with Watkins was previously assumed, but our investigation reveals concrete evidence.

    VanwaTech also hosts several phishing sites posing as UK banks and cellular phone service providers, aiming to defraud customers of money.
    Since the removal of QMap, VanwaTech’s operators have made a concerted effort to  develop the company into a safe haven for the aggregator sites that disseminate the conspiracy material at the heart of QAnon.

     

    "Mom-friendly."

     

  17. Dexamethasone's invention and uses over the last sixty years, via noted vote-suppressing communists 538.

    Its use in women experiencing preterm labour is now "indicated," as they say. It's also first-line treatment for altitude sickness, or so say the extremists in the video ...

    Experimenting with a writing-enhancer called Grammarly. Let's see if it catches the loaded language in this item. This item will then miraculously disappear, the Holy Spirit willing.

    Biden "town hall" snoozefest coming up. I hope they give him some of that dexa meth, enough to liven him up at least.

    On the other hand, never show weakness; give no quarter:

     

    1. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      The Biden Town Hall snoozefest is subject to a searing critique via FoxNews:

       

    2. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      This is Joe Biden on drugs.  

       

  18. Friday Dancing GIF by Robert E Blackmon

    Check out the animated gifs on offer. Thinking of Adam's often hilarious gif rejoinders ...

    1. Peter

      Peter

      I blew the video up and now I can see she is on skates. Skate boards, skis, and skates are now beyond my abilities, I think.