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Featherjourney's avatar

Wow…Ghost, BB, and Ashe on the Venezuelan story have given us the best background to their theories to date!! Thank you! I will read it again…and again…to get my solid bearings.

Very professional dives, especially from Ghost but with BB and Ashe flair to enhance!

You’ve all been digging beneath “the narratives” ever since you started the Briefs 🙏❤️ THE most helpful concept has been, from the beginning, highlighting the weapons of information and thus the strategies of illusion that are used to capture belief and thus distraction. I don’t know if your theories about Maduro are true but today’s Takes go a long way to helping me keep an open mind…or in other words, to remember “illusions” are the battlefield!!

Thus the sane response: Enjoy Watching the Movie!

Thank you 🙏❤️🇺🇸🕊🌎

Burning Bright's avatar

Thanks Feather!

Between the three of us, we're probably wrong, but in interesting ways!

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Best regards from France 🇫🇷, Ghost !

I reply here to inform you 🪶 Featherjourney 🪶 found an interesting logic on 🇮🇱 “We Save Israel for Last” 🇮🇱 and brought it in the comments of Saturday, 17th:

https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-brief-b38/comment/201219303

Your own take would be very appreciated about this matter, maybe rather in a next Brief to allow much people to read it, know, AND spread it !

I put this comment on Notes too for the same reason 😉🤗

Featherjourney's avatar

As I and everyone else here do you!!

Anna's avatar

Good morning Feather,

Great reply! They have been digging, and unearthing gold, imo. This story just gets better and better! Wow! What a book club! 👍🙏♥️😄🔥🕊

ALtab's avatar

They are so very gifted and provide us such a solid always questioning base!! Concur completely, Spirit Sister!!🕊️🙏❤️🇺🇸

cgg's avatar

I am getting cynical in my old age, but how convenient that the last name of the woman who was killed in the ICE event was Good. They are now fighting for 'good'.

Oh, and Mr. Kelly? You started it.

Joe Kronner's avatar

Well the second weekend in 2026 gave us a bit of a breather compared to the first weekend anyway. But I am glad you are back and getting my week off to a running start!

GBPH I loved this Take and enjoyed the various discussions you had over the weekend on Badlands : “So that the optics would allow Scott Bessent to lift the sanctions against PDVSA, and open up the floodgates for discovery via lawfare, which should ultimately link banks and oil companies to the cartel. Checkmate, Deep State.”. They really are Stupid, playing checkers while the game is actually Chess😊

Ashe your Take was my favorite of the Maduro story since I had not watched the Levitt video on X before your post: “There are multiple angles to the Venezuela story, and they’re all rather exciting. Here are may favorites. Angle 1: Don’t mess with America because we have weaponry you can’t imagine.”.

I have a theory about the future of the USA and the expanded number of States that we could easily accommodate : https://substack.com/@joek89/p-157676852 I believe we are constrained in our thinking about the Golden Age by the “history” of our world that we have been taught/force fed by the DS Rat Bastards.

Ashe you keep rolling… ““Minnesota Nice” has devolved into Minnesota Retarded, and people are dying from the stupidity. Attacking law enforcement will get you killed, no matter the color of your skin. Thank you, Renee, for proving that the past six years of white fragility was Marxist nonsense. Most of us already knew it was, but some people always need to be shown.”. I think the Somali IG situation has rubbed off on a portion of the Minnesota population 😊

Winning is so much fun!

God wins!

God Bless!!!

Burning Bright's avatar

Yeah things have really slowed down ... to the point where I can't even read half the storylines I want to, never mind comment on them!

Ashe in America's avatar

Not tired of winning yet!

BritishBiker Philippines's avatar

We are indeed living through a fiercely interesting period in world history and I thank you for continually bringing your ideas and theories to the rest of us.

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Best regards from France 🇫🇷, Ashe !

Re: "There are multiple angles to the Venezuela story, and they’re all rather exciting. Here are may favorites."

May we read your april favorites first ? 🤔🤗😉

🇫🇷💕🕊️🫂🇺🇲

Anna's avatar

It's as if Trump showed Maduro how it's done...stepping away in 2021...coming back in 2025. Trump narratively speaking, of course, fell on the election fraud sword, and Maduro fell on the corruption story sword years later, allowing himself to be extracted. Ironically, US election fraud and Venezuelan fraud, (election manipulation software, money laundering, caravans of migrants invading the US, oil company execs involvement, etc.) have been intertwined from the very start. It seems the Devolution playbook and COG was a template passed to Maduro to enact. And Trump showed Maduro "how to dance"! Apparently, there had to be a lot of trust, or guarantees, between the two men to pull off this level of kayfabe and rug pull.

Just think of all the undercover activity, evidence gathering, and quiet prosecutions that have been carried out, all the while, the sleeping normies, and some MAGAesk folks all scream, "but nothing is happening!"

To borrow from Joe, can't get tired of winning!

Ghost, Ashe, BB, you are an awesome team. You had me on the edge of my seat last week and this weekend. Can't wait for the next episode of the world turning, or the next day of our lives!

God bless!

Burning Bright's avatar

I mean, we could be wrong.

But I don't think so.

Venezuela may be a door opening, but I think that door is far more narrative than actual.

I also think the mass reactions from all layers of the collective mind on the back of the Maduro narrative demonstrates that it actually might not be nearly as difficult to pull off a mass psyop as we've believed, for better and worse.

Ashe in America's avatar

By “we” he means “I” 😬

Anna's avatar

Hi BB, I don't think you are wrong. From an intuitive perspective, you guys are hammers out seeking nails to pound, and I think you are on the right construction team. Narrative or actual, or both, it's a helluva story. It also makes the most sense of all the alternative stories being put out for our consumption. Thanks for replying!

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Very well stated and articulated, Anna !

I concur 💯 and applaud! 👍🏻👏🏻

Anna's avatar

Thank you Trumpist! ♥️🙏👍🕊🇺🇲🇫🇷

Sandy Jones's avatar

I agree but there's nothing wrong with Patriots calling for arrests as this pressure helps ensure results by gov and administration. Many are belittling and name calling fellow Patriots for calling for arrests - Clandestine called us "morons" and this sort of infighting needs to stop. Whether one knows the inside scoops or not, calling for arrests is never a bad thing. Keep up the good work.

Anna's avatar

Thanks Sandy. Calling for arrests is keeping up the pressure, and reminding the powers to be, as in the powers we want in power, that we are paying attention. I think there are many though, that are throwing shade on the real work going on behind the scenes. ConInc comes to mind. Thanks for your reply! 👍🙏🕊♥️

Featherjourney's avatar

Agree with Trumpist!! ❤️🕊

Anna's avatar

Thank you Feather! 🕊♥️

ALtab's avatar

Perfectly stated, Anna!!👏👏

Anna's avatar

I think my reply to you went rogue somewhere down below 👇

Thanks again, ALtab! 🕊🙏👍🕊

Wild Bill's avatar

Re. the MAGA-esque screaming 'nothing is happening:'

Remember that many MAGA folks are still in the Normie Hivemind. Just because they see the wisdom of Trump and his coterie does not mean they understand everything that is going on 'in the mists over the lake.' It's taken most of us some time to find our way here; at least they are on the right side of the fight. Trust that they will come along and understand what's really been going on, as Trump exposes and explains things. It's coming fast, which makes it more difficult... but it's happening.

Lone Star exile's avatar

Fantastic summation!

Bravo!

Anna's avatar

Thank you Lone Star! 🌟

Kelly McCulloch's avatar

Great takes all. My favorite narrative and potential actual is “Operation Money Flight.” Nothing gets me more hyper than following the money. It is what makes the “world go round,” and the world go boom. Also, excellent recent DPHs and last night’s “The Narrative.” We are fortunate to be looking at these stories through your multi-pronged perspectives

Burning Bright's avatar

Totally agree, Kelly.

The financial realm hasn't been the 'sexiest' for most, and I think that's quite by design.

I think the storytelling arm of the operation is starting to inject some needed excitement into the proceedings, which is why Scott Bessent has been my low-key favorite character to follow over the course of the last two years.

ALtab's avatar

—-‘…massive web of conspiracy…’. Maybe this will lead all the way to the IMF and the World Bank. Great analysis, Ghost. COG, 🧐 BB hits the key here, too. ‘…it is not nations that rig elections, but rather globalist swine wearing nations as Prussian skin suits.’ It ALL leads to the globalist swine. Then Ashe adds other nuance (energy weaponry/super soldiers) exposures and power projection. If I’m the cabal, I am getting nervous.😬 Maybe move to Patagonia?

—-Ashe is right. Kelly is the proof. There will be consequences to him personally, and much more importantly, to our constitutional republic. The republic’s might just be a very good thing. We the People do NOT have to put up with a corrupt, above the law, political elite. Time for all of them to go. The Venezuela situation is connected.

—-I hadn’t made the connection! Thank you, Ashe. ‘…the past six years of white fragility was Marxist nonsense.’ Yes, these readers knew this.

—-🧐. Patagonia. Years-long documentation of Israeli-connected fires? Rare earth minerals? Removing ban of foreign purchases of land AND removing delays of rezoning after fires. Sure sounds like a planned cabal move to Patagonia. Not too far from the post WWII-Nazi hideouts?🧐👀. Last stand territory?

—-The new format is great!

Burning Bright's avatar

It's been a lot of work, but a lot of fun, and we're pumped to see you guys so engaged by it.

Ashe in America's avatar

The Kelly / Seditious Six story isn’t finished, yet. Can the Congress really exempt itself from accountability for sedition? I don’t think so.

ALtab's avatar

I don’t either. Maybe 2026 is the year of accountability!

Wild Bill's avatar

IMF, World Bank, Israel, Kelly & friends... all Cabal. All scared (as they should be).

Patagonia? Tierra del Fuego? Best be careful what you ask for...

"Please lock me away

And don't allow the day

Here inside

Where I hide

With my loneliness

I don't care what they say

I won't stay in a world without love..."

-- John Lennon & Paul McCartney, "A World Without Love," released by Peter & Gordon (1964)

Featherjourney's avatar

🎶❤️🎶

And Patagonia is Western Hemisphere …or would that be considered Southern? My take is this is eastern/ western hemisphere from pole to pole

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hi Feather 🪶🕊️🪶!

When you read the map of the article on X brought by Wild Bill you easily understand HOW MUCH it's useful to center a map on a POLAR position which makes very obvious every asset of your "neighbors", friends as well as foes !

That's WHY watching the World 🌎 sliced in VERTICAL "hemispheres" (sections) makes the facts very VISUAL and easy to argue for !

Korpijarvi's avatar

> Patagonia is Western Hemisphere

And a major cultural stream in Patagonia is the horse-mounted cattle tender. I.e., cowboy. (Bagualeros, gauchos, gaos.)

How, I wonder, might that fit with the new food pyramid? Hmmmmmm.

Wild Bill's avatar

Patagonia is both Western and Southern hemisphere. They are independent (orthogonal) axes -- North/South vs. East/West. North/South demarcated at the Equator; I'm not sure exactly where the East/West demarcation is -- the logical place (to my engineering mind) would be 0 and 180 degrees longitude; 180 is approximately (with a few jigs and jags) the International Date Line and 0 is the Greenwich (Prime) Meridian, which passes through London and Paris, more or less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line

Brave AI:

"The Greenwich Meridian passes through several countries and territories, including England, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana, and parts of Antarctica.

Notably, the intersection of the Greenwich Meridian and the Equator is located in Ghana, where a monument known as the Meridian Rock marks the geographical center of the world.

The line divides the Earth into eastern and western hemispheres, just as the Equator divides the northern and southern hemispheres."

Part of the problem is that there are quite a few countries in Western Europe/Africa which might consider themselves part of the Eastern Hemisphere, but that are actually West of the Greenwich Meridian as the Brave comment notes. So where, in practice, the actual divide between Eastern and Western Hemispheres is considered to be, I don't know. The International Date Line, as I mention, jigs and jags so all of Russia and all of Alaska are in the Eastern and Western 'hemispheres' so to say.

And, there are also quite a few countries, in Africa and South America, which are on both sides of the equator -- Ecuador and Brazil, notably.

So, as always Feather, an interesting question, with an answer that is not quite as satisfying or simple as we'd like. Who designed this silly planet anyway??

Featherjourney's avatar

Very interesting!

In the context of the Monroe Doctrine / Donroe Doctrine

“American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again”

Meaning the Americas ..which will soon include Greenland.

(So that would include Patagonia ; )

Wild Bill's avatar

Yes, both Patagonia and Greenland are in the Western Hemisphere. Thus part of the Americas, though not necessarily the United States of America.

But indeed, part of what DJT was referring to when he said 'Western Hemisphere.'

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

🇺🇲🇩🇰🇬🇱🇬🇧🇪🇺🌎🇷🇺🇨🇳

Regarding the Greenland question and the stakes at play, I found out this very well documented and articulated article which puts useful information as well as historical and legal facts on the table:

"Greenland and the DONroe Doctrine – Greenlanders want independence from Denmark"

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/greenland-donroe-doctrine-greenlanders-want-independence-denmark

Featherjourney's avatar

Thanks, Trumpist. I did read it.

The Greenlanders should be the ones to decide and from what I’ve read in other articles they favor their independence. I believe first and foremost they want their independence from Denmark but since about half of their economic support is from Denmark, it gives Trump negotiating power to make them part of the alliance with Trump’s vision of the western hemisphere. It seems to be tangled up with the whole NATO problem. NATO shouldn’t exist and ending it puts Greenland on different footing.

❤️🕊🕊🕊🌎

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

I concur 💯 with your analysis and understanding! 👍🏻👏🏻

Featherjourney's avatar

The key to 5D chess is Time!

So many connections emerging into focus! Q was future proves past. Badlands seem to have knack for finding the past to clarify the present!

Love your summary and insights, Spirit Sister 🙏❤️🕊🎶🌟

Jeff S's avatar

Foreigners should not be allowed to own land in Argentina, or any other country, especially and including the U S of A. Although, no one really and truly owns any land. It's all owned by governments, which allow us little people to lease some of the land for a short while. "Silly, rabbit, Trix are for kids."

Kathy Koops's avatar

Fires. Same playbook as in Hawaii and California. They don't care who they hurt as long as they get what they want.

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hi Jeff

I invite you to read the whole thread started with this comment (and the answers ...):

https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-brief-d17/comment/198717232

Jeff S's avatar

More than a tad interesting. History is important.

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

I invite you to read the whole thread started with this comment (and the answers ...):

https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-brief-d17/comment/198717232

Karen Sweigart-Harris's avatar

Ghost I totally agree with you. I got an email from John Perkins who wrote Confessions of an Economic Hitman. In his update he said he was going to Venezuela for a trip, that had been planned prior to Maduro leaving, for a documentary about the US EHM strategy. Things that make you go hmmm.

DJL's avatar

WTF, Israel??? Why are Israelis messing with Argentina? Why can’t they keep their criminal asses in their own country??

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hello from France 🇫🇷, Donna !

🇫🇷🫂🕊️💕🇺🇲

Maybe just these equations ?

Argentina / Chile / IIIrd Reich Nazis / Vatican / Soros / WEF / Israel ...

Add large quantities of gold and values stolen and looted throughout all occupied European countries during WWII and clandestinely shipped to South America on ships and submarines (U-Boot).

[Their] 4th Reich was supposed to start and spread from German/Nazi settlements in those countries...

The answer is probably at the core of [Their] activities there !

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Add-on...

Regarding Patagonia, please don't forget one main part of it is called “Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina" and there must be an explanation (I wasn't able to find out its origin !) for such a name ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_del_Fuego_Province,_Argentina

But maybe we could think about Moloch, Baal, and some other evil divinities of the ancient Aztec, Inca empires which needed children and human sacrifices...

These empires had huge pyramids like in Egypt, and I remember I read there are theories about strange sorts of "pyramids" which would have been found in Antarctica...

I can't dodge to write too about all the mystery and theories regarding the "close" Antarctica (US McMurdo base...) and to remain everyone the very strange "urgent" trip John Kerry made there just a few days after President Trump had been just elected in November 2016 ...

Lone Star exile's avatar

Trumpist-- Google AI says:

"why is patagonia called land of the fire?

Patagonia's southernmost archipelago is called the "Land of Fire" (Spanish: Tierra del Fuego) because of the numerous bonfires spotted by early European explorers.

The name originated during Ferdinand Magellan's 1520 expedition. As the crew navigated the strait now bearing his name, they observed flames and smoke flickering along the coastline. These fires were lit by the indigenous Yaghan (Yámana) and Selk'nam peoples for several reasons:

Warmth: Inhabitants used small fires to survive the region's harsh, subpolar climate, sometimes even keeping them lit on their canoes.

Signaling: The fires served as a means of communication between distant tribal groups.

According to historical lore, Magellan originally intended to name the area Tierra del Humo (Land of Smoke). However, King Charles I of Spain reportedly argued that "there is no smoke without fire" and renamed it Tierra del Fuego for greater poetic effect.

Today, this "Land of Fire" is divided between Chile and Argentina and is celebrated as one of the world's most remote wilderness areas."

Lone Star exile's avatar

This board is over-the-top creative and God-inspired with these takes. You folks rock! PTL!

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

March 15, 2026

🤔🤔 "UPDATE" regarding all strange things we "know" about Antarctica! 🤔🤔

Today, ZeroHedge published this article which add much more mistery and questions:

"Now [They] are actually admitting that there is a massive "Gravity Hole" underneath Antarctica?"

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/now-they-are-actually-admitting-there-massive-gravity-hole-underneath-antarctica

"Antarctica has a gravity hole – And now we know how it grew in strength over 30 million years ago"

https://www.iflscience.com/antarctica-has-a-gravity-hole-and-now-we-know-how-it-grew-in-strength-over-30-million-years-ago-82581

Wild Bill's avatar

Hi Trumpist,

I'd like to ask you a favor... I will be reducing time spent on news and substack because of a project I am working on for the next few months, which is requiring all of my time.

Could you please let others including ALtab, Feather, Anna, Joe, Jim let them know why I am not commenting and responding? Thanks! 💖✝🙏🕊🕊🕊

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hello Wild Bill !

Thank you so much for tasking me with such an important matter for all of us ! 🙏🏻🫂🙏🏻

I sincerely wish you will have some time to come comment the very important points which will rapidly come to fruition around the 250th anniversary!

I am very proud of the trust you have placed in me, and of the meaningful bonds of respect and mutual appreciation that we have shared with you over the years.

We will soon miss your well-researched and well-organized contributions, as well as your insights expressed through lyrics and music, and they will remind us of you as we send you our prayers for peace and success.

I warmly wish you will succeed in this important project you want to invest yourself 💯 as I imagine you always did since you were a teen !

🇫🇷🫂🙏🏻💒🕊️🪶💕🇺🇲

WE pray to God for Him to bless and keep you and your family all along this project. I'm confident He will be at your side every time you could doubt or hesitate, and I hope you'll hear and listen to His Wisdom and benefit His marvelous Love !

🇺🇲💕🪶🕊️💒🙏🏻🫂🇺🇲

My fellow sailboat skippers would shout to you from the dock, "Fair winds and smooth seas!"

That is all we can wish for you, under His watchful eye and filled with His Love!

Best friendly regards, my friend Wild Bill ! 🇫🇷🙋🏼‍♂️🇺🇲

Featherjourney's avatar

“ My fellow sailboat skippers would shout to you from the dock, "Fair winds and smooth seas!"

I LOVE that, Trumpist. 🙏❤️Beautifully stated.

And thank you for letting us know…

ALtab's avatar

Thank you for the beautiful words!!

Wild Bill's avatar

Thank you so much, TRUMPist! Lovely...

I will return as soon as I am able and thank you again for doing this, and for all of your excellent wishes!

ALtab's avatar

Thank you, Wild Bill (and Trumpist) for letting us know! We

will miss you, but wish you the absolute best success for your project!🙏🇺🇸❤️

Featherjourney's avatar

Interesting.

Reminds me of being younger…Every week for a couple decades, a friend and I hiked a small mountain near where we live. At some point, we would have to stop, sit on a rock outcropping, catch our breath. We often remarked: There sure is a lot of gravity here! 😉

Antarctica is fascinating! And so is a “gravity hole”!! “

“Gravity remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in physics“ ❤️🕊🌟🌎

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Maybe you could share this “update” in the EKO comments under the article which spoke about Antarctica?

I can not access it any longer because it needs to subscribe…v🥺

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

The second link/article is much less catching attention but is well articulated and explanative!

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hello Feather 🕊️ 🪶 🕊️!

Thank you so much for your own take and comment !

Would it be useful to bring it in today comments ?? 🤔

Anna's avatar

Same for me. My first thought was they are trying to expand greater Israel, but I forgot about the nazi connection you mentioned Trumpist. Great post! 👏👏👏

ALtab's avatar

Excellent Trumpist!! You rock!!

ALtab's avatar

The earth is amazing and we can barely grasp the mystery of it, let along the universe. However, thank you for this link, Trumpist! There must be (unknown tech or other discoveries associated with this), based upon the secrecy and importance that it has held. 🤔. Loved the global ‘map’ as one could see the largest anomaly off India and the edge of the strongest one at Antarctica. The one off the southeast US and Caribbean is fairly large, too.

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hello ALtab!

🇫🇷🫂🙏🏻🕊️💕🇺🇲

Excellent summary ! 🏡👍🏻👏🏻😃

I concur 💯 regarding the animated globe !

What could it tell us about our today rift around Hormuz?? 🤔

ALtab's avatar

Now, I may have to go back and relook at that globe (after we finish doing our taxes)!😡

Steven Paul's avatar

If I had to guess....looks to me like Israel is trying to clear ground in Patagonia to better facilitate the initiation of mining operations once some clandestinely created shell company purchases the rights. Sounds like DRC, again. Sauron was a pain in the butt, but Saruman really knew how to spread his spindly tentacles real quiet like. Busted, again!

Lone Star exile's avatar

What I don't understand is why would Javier Milei allow for Foreign purchases of Argentina's land if he is Argentina First?

Perhaps it is to expose who comes calling to buy??

Terry's avatar

"Kelly, a former astronaut and 25-year Navy veteran, called the move politically motivated and “un-American,” and vowed to contest the actions. Supporters of Kelly have argued that his statements fall within protected speech."

Most people don't realize that the military has it's own rules and lexicon and what Kelly said is not in their vocabulary. He's still military (he's was an officer and gets a pension) so he has to continue to live by their rules. He will not win his case.

What's with the IDF starting fires in Argentina? Are they still looking for escaped Nazis who would be about 110 years old?

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hi Terry !

Regarding the fires in Argentina I invite you to read the whole thread started with this comment (and the answers ...):

https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-brief-d17/comment/198717232

NBK's avatar

US O & GA #2 CONCERN

Yep, US Oil & Gas Asc.'s No.2 concern is a biggie now, thanks to EU's fat blunder of thinking they would steal the interest off of Russians frozen Billions to fund their Ukraine war, only for the big bear to dry razor Ursula von der Leyen's moose knuckles, an uncomfortable itch she'll be contending with for months.

Damn, Ursula, and her keystone cops have stepped on more rakes than her predecessors. Putin lays them out at night, then Ursula & CO steps on them, then here comes POTUS Trump laying out more rakes on snowy night, Annnd here she comes again, ...thump thump thump! Battered rake syndrome, Ursula and her goons never learn. NBK

Featherjourney's avatar

Your visual metaphor got me chuckling 🤭

Wild Bill's avatar

Yeah, almost like a 'Three Stooges' episode 😊🍿🍻

Featherjourney's avatar

OMG…yes!! And thanks, WildBill, because it gave me a fond memory of my Dad who would catch the Three Stooges now and then and really laugh…us kids loved watching him laugh at the show more than even the show itself! 🙏❤️🕊🕊🕊

Wild Bill's avatar

Nyuk, nyuk! Wise guy!

Featherjourney's avatar

So that’s how to spell it 😂

Wild Bill's avatar

Phonetic spelling. I'm not sure if there was an official dictionary for the Three Stooges 🤣🤣💖🙏🕊🕊🕊

Jim Schout's avatar

Ashe in America Said, "It is without question that the lawmakers have made themselves above the law they make. This has been obvious for a long time, but angry mobs only stormed the capitol that one time, so apparently we’re at the show-don’t-tell phase."

This goes back to 1801! In that year Thomas Jefferson set the stage for lying politicians to be exempt from prosecution. The Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 specifically made lying to hurt the government punishable by imprisonment or by fine. But, instead of testing this in the Supreme Court, Jefferson had his Congress vote to reverse the sedition part of this Act. This essentially made lying legal because it was specifically said that lying could not be penalized.

The first amendment doesn't say anything about false speech. John Adams thought it needed to be clarified because he was hurt badly in the 1800 election by rampant lies being told about him. He believed the law should make lying illegal. To me, it is like crying "Fire" in a crowded movie theater. That is considered to be not legal, so why is any other lie legal? I agree with John Adams. Freedom of speech pertains to truth. No one should be free to lie. But, Congress decided in 1801 that lying was just peachy. If you were damaged by a lie, you were free to sue for damages. But, that just made work for the lawyers.

Andrew Foss's avatar

Ashe - “Minnesota Nice” has devolved into Minnesota Retarded - Been hanging with Chris much???