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17 days...🤔
"The fatal shooting of Pretti came 17 days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renée Nicole Good. Trump claimed Good "viciously ran over" ICE officer Jonathan Ross with her car, but videos recorded at the scene contradicted that assertion. Good's death sparked anti-ICE demonstrations in Minneapolis and other major U.S. cities."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-says-body-worn-camera-video-fatal-shooting-alex-pretti-rcna255978
It was very clear from the bodycam that Good was sweet talking the ICE agent and then rammed into him.
yes, I totally agree^
but Q said to 'be the autists', so I always look for 17s first, regardless of the situation...
oftentimes find some good info.
#774
Have any recent [shooters] received therapy in the past?
Be the autists we know you are.
You were chosen for a specific reason.
Q
Netanyahu on muh antisemitism: "And of course, it's most prevalent in the social media. This is the new battlefield, and this is where we must counter with our own weapons. We're late in the game, but we will win this battle, too, as we won on the battlefield."
How about STOP Committing Genocide and destroying Sovereign Nations.
Get it all out buddy. Get all the anger and hate out of your system because you will need all the energy to focus on the real battles in the coming days.
It is a serious threat to our freedom of Speech.
You dont respect my method? What method is that?
I removed that part of my reply
I was driving today and I saw a car with a big flag that said Trump is a pedophile. Where do they get this garbage from? It’s absolutely ridiculous. Do they not understand Joe Biden was a pedophile according to his own daughter?
I searched & found links on Amazon, item currently available. There’s so much stuff like this available online. Just like the flags the protesters are using, I think they say F Trump. If can’t find something you can get it custom for cheap from China.
What a piece of shit to fly that around children.
Has anyone read the book, The Avatar, by Johnathan Cahn?
Zionism is now the only political ideology in the world that gets its own special exemption from criticism. This is the essence of authoritarianism.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ynh2dvith6linrkv4wcyrsy3/post/3mdchsm2jos2y
Pretti getting taps played at the VA ICU where he worked. Haven't been tracking this one too closely but it's clearly been promoted to "event" level so I think it's important to track comms & public perception around it.
Can anyone explain this? Watching that Somali video on Alex jones X and for a split second she is a dude. Is it Alex making fun or is Alex exposing? I took a screen shot but it is at the very beginning of the video, only before you enlarge the video. It has to be as you are scrolling thru the feed in X.
Spot silver 107.56 at 12:30
111.88 at 10 central.
114.48
$107->$118->$107
WHEEEEE
Speaking of PENGUINS, have you switched from Windows to Linux yet? Make that your new year's resolution and give the finger to the New World Order because Win11 is such an Orwellian nightmare. Today I installed Zorin OS on a coworker's laptop because he didn't want to switch to Win11 and all the crap that Microsnot is causing everyone.
It's so much easier than you think it is. Linux is not just for computer nerds anymore. It's very user-friendly, reminiscent of the XP/7 days. In fact, you can install a theme in Linux Mint to make it look just like Windows XP if you want to.
could their be a Windows 11 “winter” coming, & Linux be the safe winter haven?
AI in windows 11 instability?
I just saw a video last night which said that Linux is now at 11.4% marketshare (or thereabouts). Surpassing 11% is news to me, and the video didn't site the source. I think it had an AI voice narration, so it could just be the whole thing is AI slop. It otherwise seemed to be a well-made video.
with Dell marketing and selling computers with Linux, looking good!
Appreciate the fateful fact I was able to check GC today. I'm sitting on four outdated machines I am really overdue to put Linux on...
Haven't used it since the mid 00s, in fact I've been pretty completely out of the game for a bit over a decade, so I've had analysis paralysis... Time to move on it.
My first experience using Linux was in the mid-2000s, using Fedora. I was getting my "feet wet" so to speak, but didn't really get the hang of having to run updates on the terminal. Things have changed considerably since then. My Japanese mother-in-law is computer illiterate, but I installed Mint on her laptop because she liked Win7 and did not want to have to upgrade her laptop to Win10 and thus slow it down to a snail's pace. I had to once again remind her to run the updates when I saw her during our winter vacation, but otherwise she is in far better hands now than she was with Windows, plus she no longer has to pay for antivirus software.
Ty.
good reminder for Linux
I’ve got a PC I don’t use much, will like to switch over to Linux this year and move my saved Great Awakening research over to it away from Windows
looks like there’s ways to edit Fuji X files photos that I take of landscape, sunsets & deer, that’s all I will need
Do you know how good or bad hardware acceleration is for youtube on older laptops running Linux?
Currently using an Android x86 build on a decade older ultra book..to be honest windows 10 runs well on the secondary partition but sometimes the android side acts up
I would use the windows side for YouTube but video is choppy and less fluid on windows than it is on android.
Android... That's for smartphones, right? Android's base is Linux, but that's all I know. I have a 13 year old laptop I've installed Zorin OS onto. I can watch YouTube on it just fine.
Personally, i love my endeavour OS which is very fast and highly configurable with very little bloat.
Thanks to whoever it was here who suggested this! I really had started to get sick of my Ubuntu and this made a nice change
The numbers keep adding up.
The Rams were 12- 5 = 17
The Seahawks were 14-3 = 17
2/8/2026 = 10/10 → "Time’s Up" Mirror Code
Super Bowl 60 = Full hour completed. A cycle ends. Something new begins.
I predict that the Patriots will win the Superbowl.
Seahawks = The Watchers
(The Q movement, prophets, digital soldiers, sky vision)
Their job was to warn, decode, and see ahead.
Patriots = The Warriors
(Trump, MAGA, justice bringers, We the People)
Their job is to act, restore, and win the battle.
We were the Seahawks. Now we are the Patriots.
The Seahawks complete the mission. The Patriots win the war.
The Numbers Tell the Story
Regular Season Records:
Rams: 12–5 → 12 + 5 = 17
Seahawks: 14–3 → 14 + 3 = 17
Both add up to 17 = Q = The Plan
But only one fulfills it.
Final Score:
Seahawks 31 – Rams 27 → Total = 58 → 5 + 8 = 13
13 = Rebellion
31 = Reversal of 13 → Rebellion is flipped.
Delta = 4 → Symbol of:
Justice
Structure
The Fourth Branch = We the People
The Watchers (Seahawks) expose the rebellion.
The Patriots enforce the justice.
Timing Confirms It
Feb 8, 2026 = 10/10 → Mirror code: It’s Time.
Super Bowl 60 = Completion of the hour. The final showdown.
11 years since Super Bowl XLIX (Patriots beat Seahawks) = Justice cycle complete
The time loop closes at 60.
The Patriots don’t just win again — they seal the plan.
I remember watching the X Files and the cigarette man saying that such and such NFL football team was never allowed to win as long as he was running things.
great comment/thanks for sharing. almost like we're in, and communicating with, a Giant computer.
It's all connected!🐸
EXACTLY!!
William Combe - Ireland's Poet, Seamus Heaney, Struck A Note A poet with just the right distance to find his voice.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/ireland_s_poet_seamus_heaney_struck_a_note.html
Sunday Poem...Seamus Heaney - Digging
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/digging
Van Morrison - Madame Butterfly Blues (feat. Elvin Bishop)
https://youtu.be/-bAzd3zhh80?si=N20vFxL3GHZf7Ezu
Thanks Renaissance Pup! ✨🍀
#1 thank you for always labeling YouTube links, especially music. Just a pet peeve, nothing else. I love Van Morrison. I only know the hits. I’m starting to deep dive into 70s artists music. I listen to more dead people than alive people
"I listen to more dead people than alive people"
...with the incursion of AI generated "music", that is truer now more than ever...
❤️