As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. Fairly certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.
Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:
Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok
Survival Sunday – SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
A hat trick of past essays:
Reading the Tells & Survival (Part 1 of 2) – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
Reading the Tells and Survival (Part 2 of 2) – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
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Potassium Metathorinate – Granite Grok
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Ukraine-Russia: Look… SQUIRREL! – Granite Grok
Building off the meme seen at the top of Monday’s post:
And very much related:
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(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)
I am truly torn on the idea of mandatory service, whether military or otherwise. For years I’ve been against it, because the heart of a volunteer is far, far stronger IMHO. But at the same time, I can see the unifying effect of universal military service – or at least service of some kind. E.g., Israel is famous for both men and women serving in the IDF, but there are national service alternatives too. Together, these build a national sense of identity.
With the proviso that there be alternatives to pure military service, I think there is a compelling case for some kind of mandatory service. The concept of Civilians vs. Citizens, a la Heinlein.
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Not a good sign. When the rich, powerful, and connected go to ground – in this case, literally – you know “something’s” likely.
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The Empire Strikes…Back? – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info) (italics replaced by underlining):
Viktor Orban is more concerned with the well-being of Hungary and Hungarians than he is with the Zelensky-led kleptocracy over Ukraine. He’s also fiercely protective of Hungary’s national culture and resolute in opposing its dilution through uncontrolled immigration. Great God in heaven, a national chief executive who puts his nation first! What has the world come to?
Will the Usurper / globalist alliance succeed in toppling Orban? That remains to be seen. Also, keep an eye on Italy. Giorgia Meloni is no favorite of the globalists either.
Orban, putting Hungary First, is a thorn in their side. Just like Italy’s Meloni will be. Just like Trump was. Just like Putin is.
And a follow-up thought. In this excellent, indeed seminal, essay in understanding the Left, comedian Evan Sayet captures the thinking of the Left very well (italics replaced by underlining):
What I discovered is that the Modern Liberal looks back on 50,000 years, 100,000 years of human civilization, and knows only one thing for sure: that none of the ideas that mankind has come up with–none of the religions, none of the philosophies, none of the ideologies, none of the forms of government–have succeeded in creating a world devoid of war, poverty, crime, and injustice. So they’re convinced that since all of these ideas of man have proved to be wrong, the real cause of war, poverty, crime, and injustice must be found–can only be found–in the attempt to be right.
If nobody ever thought they were right, what would we disagree about? If we didn’t disagree, surely we wouldn’t fight. If we didn’t fight, of course we wouldn’t go to war. Without war, there would be no poverty; without poverty, there would be no crime; without crime, there would be no injustice. It’s a utopian vision, and all that’s required to usher in this utopia is the rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency–all the tools that you and I use in our attempts to be better people, to make the world more right by trying to be right, by siding with right, by recognizing what is right and moving toward it.
So now, looking at what the Left is doing to nations, and implicitly to races, I can only infer they’ve taken this one step further: that they labor under the belief that the key to eliminating all strife is to eliminate the idea of being right… therefore, “logically”, the way to eliminate wars is to eliminate nations, and the key to eliminating racism is to eliminate races.
This is the utopian fantasist enemy we face. But it goes deeper. There’s a famous Stalin quote:
Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.
No correctness, no problems. No nations, no wars. No races, no racism. Funny – but also very frightening if you think about it – how they view all the world’s problems with solutions of outright elimination. Now, of course, comes (cue ominous reverb) man-made climate change… so what’s their solution?
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Peyton Parrish – Draugr (Viking Old Norse) (Rise of Vikingr Album)
If you aren’t moved in your soul listening to this… the beat resonates in mine.
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The details of what all these shots are is not important (a little blurry here, actually). But look at the numbers… frightening, and especially with influenza vaccines – never mind the Covid Jab – apparently being problematic per Saint Fausti himself. (I’m amazed, searching for a link, at the cover that’s being given him.)
Now to be fair, we also have better diagnostics. Still, concerning.
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Pick of the post:
I’ve related the below before. I was convinced that after this open-mike slip:
Barack Obama in open microphone gaffe with Dmitry Medvedev
that Barackus was done. DONE! Stick a fork in him DONE! I could not fathom how this would not arouse the ire of enough people that Barackus would be out in short order. Yet, he won. This was when I realized America, as I knew it, was over. Yet, thanks to the over-the-top fraud in 2020, I actually take comfort – because now I know the extent to which the Left will use vote fraud. Absent that fraud machine, I now believe Barackus did lose. Which infers there are a lot more on our side than I’d thought then – and even then, that majority was overridden by the “most extensive voter fraud machine in history”.
Same in 2022. IMHO the House should be at far more R than it is; I cannot fathom how the Senate didn’t flip as well… at least, not without massive cheating. Even more massive considering the damage The Potato is doing.
But don’t worry! We’ll get them in 2024, right?
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60,000 excess deaths, is that normal?
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Palate cleansers:
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Hey, I found my reserved spot! And related:
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