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alren 3 points ago +4 / -1

It won't. They are planning some crazy scheme where they are going to find him guilty by simple majority of insurrection, and then use the 14th Amendment to make sure he can never hold office again. Don't ask me to explain because I didn't really understand and there was no TL;DR version. The Epoch Times tried to explain it:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/video-democrats-may-try-14th-amendment-to-disqualify-trump-with-simple-majority-rick-green-on-impeachment_3694218.html

What I am more interested in is where is FISAGATE in all of this? When does that come out? I was expecting that at this trial, and now it sounds like no...

Baffled.

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alren 9 points ago +9 / -0

If you listen to the talk by Dr. Simone Gold, it is this exact mechanism in animal trials that has made it impossible to develop a safe vaccine for other types of corona virus in the past.

But we are being asked to ignore all those decades of research and simply believe that this vaccine is different because we did away with all that annoying testing. And the fact that it seems to suffer from the same problems as the historical corona virus vaccines? Apparently we aren't supposed to ask that question.

I have no idea when or if this insanity will end. I just hope it does. Please president Trump do something quickly.

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alren 1 point ago +1 / -0

I was about to reply negatively to this until I saw the value of the contract... $10 million USD. OK. That might make a difference.

My original reply was that I have a friend in Bangkok who is a gems and jewelry dealer. I asked him if there was any issue with silver shot right now. He told me that there was no shortage at all and could get as much as he wanted immediately.

But he's talking about realistic industrial supplies. I imagine a huge amount for investment could create an issue. But I think you would always have that. If you ask for an obscenely large amount of any commodity, you may have to wait for delivery. In the mean time, if you want to order 500kg of silver shot for jewelry manufacture in Asia there is currently no problem filling the order.

The other question I have is how much of that short position is needed for ordinary commerce. Any industrial supplier who holds silver in inventory is going to have a short position open to hedge against a price drop. How much of that short position is investment banks vs. inventory in legitimate businesses? Has anyone calculated those figures?

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alren 2 points ago +2 / -0

Not sure. There are many elements to a government. I think that might be like saying the USA isn't on our side simply because the CIA has a different agenda. When the smoke clears, I think we will see who is actually wearing the white hats.

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alren 2 points ago +2 / -0

As long as we are doing 80's tributes, how about in honor of Q post 2668, we remember the Vengaboys:

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

(OK. This is technically the 90's, but what is a decade between friends?)

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alren 2 points ago +2 / -0

Someone very high up in the Chinese hierarchy is a friend. It very well could be Xi. We will have to wait and see.

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alren 4 points ago +4 / -0

The French also have a nuclear submarine in the Taiwan straight right now joining our forces there that include 2 carrier task forces and 2 guided missile destroyers. I don't believe this is by accident. The French government absolutely knows what is coming, and they are on board.

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alren 5 points ago +5 / -0

We all feel that way. But this is a global situation. We need to continue pretending until the CCP is removed from power in China. If we don't do that, then things will just get ugly. So hold on a bit longer. It is now the Lunar New Year. China is at their weakest. Things are going to start to move in the next few days. I can feel it. I believe this with every cell of my being. The amount of warships we have in the South China Sea right now is absurd. That can't be by accident.

So please just have patience. You need to accept the ruse for just a little bit longer.

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alren 39 points ago +39 / -0

Everyone in California needs to demand that the same signature matching protocols used to validate voter signatures in the last election be used to validate the recall signatures. Fair is fair.

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alren 8 points ago +8 / -0

Nene Modelling supplied child models all over the country. Most gigs I am assuming were completely legitimate. Some appear to be questionable. I expect more to come about this.

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alren 6 points ago +6 / -0

I am a US expat in Thailand.

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alren 21 points ago +22 / -1

Trump chose these guys for a reason. They are federal prosecutors. The one thing prosecutors are experts at is presenting evidence. He is not interested in defending himself during this trial. We all know he is at no risk of being convicted. This trial is about exposing everyone else.

Give this team a chance to do their jobs.

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alren 4 points ago +4 / -0

I've squawked 7600 before when I had an alternator failure in a single engine and lost electricals including com. Transponders can still be read even when voice communications are much too weak to transmit. Could be the guy accidentally dialed in 7700 by accident in that situation. It does happen occasionally.

There is an urban legend that is taught to all new pilots about ATC telling the pilot to "Squawk altitude" which means his Mode-C is turned off. The trainee pilot, VFR level at 7500, dutifully squawks 7500. When he lands he has a nice contingent of police waiting to arrest the hijackers.

No idea if that actually ever happened or not, but it makes for good hangar talk. So I suppose if that story were true, and if the pilot wasn't particularly good at maintaining level flight, he could use the same logic to squawk 7700. Seems a bit far fetched, but then again I wouldn't have believe a US election could be stolen either...

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alren 3 points ago +3 / -0

Very interesting. I only understand a few words of what he says. But I do speak Thai at a rudimentary level, and the languages suffer the same problem with verb tenses. Knowing that, it makes it a bit easier to guess from context when he means the future and when he means the present.

What I find very comforting from this is that he is clearly distinguishing China from the CCP. I have always thought that was the key to understanding Trump's timing. I believe it is one of the big reasons why Trump has delayed action. I think the USA is poised, right now, at this very moment over the Lunar New Year, to begin the take down of the CCP, and he will do it with the help of China. I think Trump is working with someone very high up in the Chinese government, possibly even Xi himself.

There is an incredible contingent of US military hardware in the South China sea right now. 2 carrier groups. 2 guided missile cruisers. A destroyer squadron. And a French nuclear submarine. Those are the ones we know about.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3121315/south-china-sea-us-and-allies-apply-pressure-beijing-theyre

Nobody expects this to escalate to open war, but that doesn't mean that a show of force might not be instrumental in causing the collapse of the CCP.

Watch the water.

What does that mean? Or does it have multiple meanings? The South China Sea has lots of water....

For those of you looking for hope, this is an incredibly positive message. The end of the CCP is effectively going to mean the end of the deep state. We're getting ready to destroy them.

Happy Chinese New Year.

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alren 2 points ago +2 / -0

Trying to figure out what "watch the water" actually means. A hypothesis I am considering is that it might have something to do with Taiwan. There are currently 2 aircraft carriers operating in the South China sea. Both the Theodore Roosevelt and the Nimitz. There is also a French nuclear submarine, as well as the USS Princeton missile cruiser and Destroyer Squadron 9.

The conventional wisdom is that nothing will break out, and that is likely true in the large picture, but I am wondering if there might be something going on in a more covert nature.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3121315/south-china-sea-us-and-allies-apply-pressure-beijing-theyre

Combined with the fact that the Chinese New Year holiday just started today, I am wondering if this is the water we should be watching.

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alren 6 points ago +6 / -0

The most recent tweet from @10MTNDIV was made at 12:46 EST.

https://twitter.com/10MTNDIV/status/1359559387308785670

What does post 1246 say?

"Happening now. Q"

Things that make you go "hmmm....."

by Wwg1wka
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alren 1 point ago +2 / -1

Does this mean they finally had the courage to travel to D.C.? All indications are they've been hiding out in CA until now. Did they actually go inside the fortress?

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alren 2 points ago +2 / -0

Don't believe it.

Like all protests in SE Asia, the protesters are getting paid to be there. While there are obviously some people who genuinely want to protest and are going freely and for their own reasons, many of them are being financially compensated. That is just reality in this part of the world. Those numbers would not exist for any other reason.

Someone is dropping a lot of cash to give the appearance the coup is strongly opposed. I have lived through several coups in SE Asia. I know how the game is played here. My best guess is they are all getting around $15/day plus free food.

What the number of protesters means is that the optics of this are very important to someone who wants the corrupt NLD government returned to power. 1 guess as to who wants the human trafficking and drug trade (controlled by the NLD) to be resumed, and is willing to spend money to make it happen. (cough Soros cough)

You guys don't know me as anything other that a random guy on the internet, but you really should listen anyway. If you think those people are organic, ordinary protesters as you would have in the USA then you need to educate yourselves. That is not the way the game is played in this part of the world.

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alren 149 points ago +150 / -1

Consider that the lawyers Trump decided to go with are former federal prosecutors, not Constitutional law experts, not defense attorneys, prosecutors.

Prosecutors exist to show evidence. You can't convict someone without showing evidence. Defense attorneys are the ones that like quick summary judgments early on in the trial.

So yeah, I agree. It is pretty obvious Trump wants this trial to go forward. I really want to see where he plans on taking this.

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alren 13 points ago +19 / -6

Nobody is thinking about the N word. All UhtredRagnarok accomplished is turning us against one another and destroying this community. It has absolutely zero to do with a word. It has to do with the draconian methodology used by the mods, the specific way they accomplished it, and the very scary, leftist tactics they are now employing.

This is exactly what Q would not want from any of us.

Posts like this one simply rub salt in the wounds of those of us who genuinely believe in our core shared values of freedom, and only encourage further division. I expect this kind of behavior from the enemy. I never thought it would happen from within our own ranks.

This topic should now be dropped completely. All posts should be locked and hidden. Hopefully the mods learned a valuable lesson here, and while I don't expect they will ever apologize for what they did, late at night when they are reflecting on their actions, I hope they can at least admit in private that it was a very rash decision and not something to ever be repeated.

There are ways to address a problem like this. What the mods did is not the right way. Now it is time to concentrate on something else. Don't make this worse than it already is.

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alren 2 points ago +2 / -0

If the 22nd amendment is retained, any term you serve of 2 years + 1 day or more counts as a full 4 year term. So unless you believe that all amendments since 1871 are invalid, then no. Trump can not serve 3 terms if the Constitution retains its current form.

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alren 6 points ago +10 / -4

I posted this on another thread, and I will repost it here. I am aware at least 50% will disagree with me. I don't care if everyone disagrees. I will continue to say this because I believe it is the truth:

I agree with you there is no reason to use this word, but that is not really what the discussion is about. This particular word is causing issues not because of the nature of what it is, but because of the external nature of those with whom we are fighting. We all know that Q is not a racially motivated group, but yet we are tarnished with that brush daily by the other side. Then, they send shills over here to try and poison the discussions so that they can justify their position. OK. I get it. This is cyber warfare.

But, here is the rub. If we allow them to do this with racism, what else can they use this tactic on? Maybe next they will call us Satan worshipers or baby killers or some equally horrible tag that more properly represents them. Then they send shills over here, and we have to block out another area of thought. And another. And another. And so on.

I am much more concerned about 2 things rather than the actual banning:

  1. Having given into this tactic from the globalists, how do we make sure they don't simply switch to another word? What guarantee do we have from the mods that the bans stop here and go no further?

  2. Why did the mods not discuss this strategy with us as a group before they made a blanket decision as to the best way to counter this threat? It wouldn't have taken much to ask for feedback from the group, and explain their reasoning before pushing through with a dictatorial ban.

We are discussing this because it is a very, very scary tactic the mods have embarked upon, and puts our entire community at risk. In fact, this tactic is so egregious and so opposed to what we represent, that one has to wonder if they aren't doing this on purpose as an experiment to see how we will all react.

I hate the word. I see no value in it. But I will vigorously defend your right to say it, as I expect you to defend my right to call you the disgusting maggot you are if you do. That is our core value here. How can we simply give that up?

How can the mods think that would ever be OK?

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alren 4 points ago +4 / -0

That was just one of the possibilities war gamed in the Transition Integrity Project. If you read some of the articles back in August, other possibilities also included full blown civil war and the secession of the Left Coast into a new country of what the TIP called "Cascadia". This country would then use their international connections to be recognized as the legitimate government of the USA and garner international condemnation of Trump as fomenting a coup.

It is important to keep in mind how thoroughly the other side has prepared for several possible contingencies in this battle. That is why it is important we all understand there might be reasons why the military can't just go in and "arrest them all!". Before that can happen, we need to make sure the international network these guys control is suitably neutered.

I suspect the script we are all involved in has much more to do with managing international reaction than domestic. Domestically I think military intervention would be welcomed, but internationally the cabal still has strength. As frustrating as it is, this is a chess game with moves and countermoves. I doubt even Q knows the precise timing of their capitulation. I do believe Trump has them beat, but they just refuse to resign the game.

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alren 0 points ago +4 / -4

The domain name needs some work, but the idea is good. I doubt it will be hilarious though. I suspect a lot of people will switch to it out of principle.

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alren 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think that is a dangerously Machiavellian perspective. The ends justify the means. Ever watched Star Trek? They often have these kinds of moral hazard episodes where they ask the audience to consider how much of their core values to give up in order to win a battle.

This seems to be one of those cases. To think that we shouldn't discuss such a monumentally important question is naive.

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