Footnote: As parents know, if you feed children they grow. Ladies and gentlemen, Baron Trump:
MOMENTS AGO: President Trump, First Lady Melania, and Barron return to the White House. pic.twitter.com/YBtHH93OQm
— The Hill (@thehill) August 17, 2020
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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
When all Earth’s seas shall Levitate,
Dark shawled within the skies,
Upon our eyes will Starfish dance
Their waltz of Blind surprise.
The sun will Rise within wine Dark
As Argonauts imbibed,
Whose drunken arms embrace that sleep
Where Phaeton’s horses Stride.
Upon all of Earth’s wind-sanded shores,
As dolphins Learn to soar,
All we once were on the land
Shall be sealed behind the door
Of Ivory and Chastened Gold,
That the Mystery solved complete
Shall never til the seas’ Long fall
Wake mariners from their sleep.
— Van der Leun
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Gerard Van der Leun
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Deft, clever butchery.
I dunno much about Qanon either other than the “Cool Kids” on something called “4chan” are somehow connected. But for as much as it pains me to do this, I agree with Karl Rove here: Q is either involved in a large-scale punk of anyone punkable, or they’re genuinely nutty. It would have been better for Trump to not ramble on for 2+ minutes about Q and let the topic drift off to obscurity.
azlibertarian, believing or even listening to Karl Rove (Shakin’ ma haid) on anything reduces your IQ by several points! Go to Neon Revolt blog, then go to GAB and get an education.
I’ve got an account at Gab…haven’t looked at it in months. I’m also at Parler.com and do look at that now and then. With regard to righty social media, here’s how I see things….they are a mere fraction of the big kids….Facebook and Twitter. Whatever gets said on Gab may be true, but no one will ever know. And again, Q and 4chan are equally marginal.
I’m not wild about Rove, but I’ll give him this: He got W elected over Gore, Kerry, the DNC and the media, all of whom were equally corrupt then as they are today.
As always, YMMV.
Caught the last 5 mins of that Kamala Harris person last night. Never seen video of her before or heard her voice, and have only seen a few pix. What, is she 14 or what? srsly Her whole spiel sounded like a middle school gurl trying out for the cheerleading team. WTF? If you payed attention you could hear a slight amount of “negro” in her voice, otherwise she appeared as a white woman.
At the end her husband came out, a white dood, and then Biden and his ho. That was a spectacle to behold, truly of Twilight Zone proportions. They were all distancing, and waving and laughing like they were in front of a crowd but they weren’t. It was all play acting. Like elementary school kids in the middle of another boring summer. “Mom, can we have some koolaid and cookies, pleez?”
american politics is in the shitter, and the populace will get exactly what it deserves
The QAnon question was a setup. The ‘reporter’ was fed the question by the deep state operators and dutifully asked on camera so it could all be exploited against Trump. The purpose of this is to give the MSM something to use to coverup the fact that no Democrat will denounce BLM and ANTIFA violence and destruction. Now they get to tell us all that Trump supports QAnon.
So what is QAnon’s crime? They believe that there was a deep state/Democrat plot to prevent his election AND once elected to destroy his presidency. That’s it. QAnon supporters believe in that conspiracy theory which by now everyone knows was absolutely true.
I have much concern and empathy for Barron Trump. He’s 14 years old and living in a fish bowl. When I was that age I had a hundred friends and lots of alone time with my pals to play very frisky and especially with the girls. I started smoking weed when I was 14, however, I quit at 17 because the stuff was making me edgy and nervous. Suddenly I’m contemplating death & taxes. Not very “mellow” the way it effects so many. When does Barron ever flee this 24/7 psychodrama? As for the Qanon inquiry Trump handled those softball questions discreetly and safely. He couldn’t repeat the posed proposition that he’s battling cannibals and pedophiles or else this would have erupted in a writhing box of snakes opened onto the room…. and into the news cycle for days to come. However, I sure hope he’s battling those evil bastards. Another thing, it’s been 4 years and he hasn’t aged a day.
This from Vox Day:
REPORTER: Mr. Zuckerberg, QAnon believes President Trump is secretly saving the world from a cult of satanic pedophiles. What’s your response to that?
FACEBOOK: Today we are taking action against Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts tied to offline anarchist groups that support QAnon. As a result of some of the actions we’ve already taken, we’ve removed over 790 groups, 100 Pages and 1,500 ads tied to QAnon from Facebook, blocked over 300 hashtags across Facebook and Instagram, and additionally imposed restrictions on over 1,950 Groups and 440 Pages on Facebook and over 10,000 accounts on Instagram.
It seem the zuckerbugger takes it seriously.
JWM
I am uncertain what to think about this QAnon business. Is it simply cryptically conspiratorial and a place to wonder widely, or, something more? In my perusals of the QAnon site, some of the information presented seems wildly untrue, some accurate, and occasionally QAnon is ahead of the curve informationally.
With that said, when Zuckerberg’s Facebook propaganda machine begins deleting pages, and the MSM liars begin bad mouthing QAnon and presenting them in a bad light to those who still swallow the MSM swill, well, that leads me to consider that QAnon is rubbing someone else’s rhubarb the wrong way and the so-called elites don’t cotton to their dirty laundry receiving any press.
Mr Q has certainly upset the Apple Cart-el.
I’m not sure if I understand this Q-anon business, but from the few snippets I’ve read it may have something to do with this:
https://americanmind.org/essays/sleepwalking-into-secession/?fbclid=IwAR2Amnp4gD30ic9H8ThA7WR0A9DTgYF1HUvMpyr_iylLlFlBYOF2MHGE_Lk
I hope the link comes thru. If not I’ll post it in a stand-alone post.
Ok. It did.
I just want to add that I’ve read about this gaming before this guy posted it and Powerline picked it up.
The guy get it wrong, very wrong in the middle writing about Trump (afflicted by TDS no doubt) but overall gets it right.
Podesta is one evil sonofabitch and he is responsible, along with Hillary for, among other things, the deaths of those brave soldiers in Benghazi.
I hope this link gets picked up and spreads far and wide.