Ironhold

Alt media groups had the guy's name early yesterday, but it wasn't until today that a lot of mainstream outlets named him: https://www.kwtx.com/2024/09/16/man-accused-trying-kill-trump-wrote-book-urging-iran-assassinate-ex-president/

Even CNN is paying attention this time: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/donald-trump-safe-shots/index.html

In my case, it means that: 1. The people I tried to warn weren't listening. 2. These same people will likely either demand to know why I didn't warn them sooner or so completely overreact to whatever the situation is that I'm stuck having to try and reign things in. This is a big part of why some days I question if I just need to start leaving people to their fate a little more often on the chance that it's perhaps the only way they'll learn.

It's become a thing now to where my de facto psy ops training, combined with the plethora of experiences I've had and how long I've been around has resulted in me seeing an impending disaster far off in the distance, trying to warn people that the disaster was coming, trying to tell them how it could potentially be averted, and then needing to go lie down because the disaster happened and everyone I tried to warn started screaming about how they can't understand how it could have happened. It's one of several reasons why I struggle with the impulse to just leave the world to its fate.

When I was younger and dealing with undiagnosed mental health issues, several relatives constantly accused me of "being an Eeyore". Some of those same relatives now post the occasional missive on Facebook about how everyone likely knows an Eeyore and needs to be their friend. No, they've never apologized to me. They likely don't even remember that they used to make fun of me like that.

For those who don't know: A few days ago, various reports arose indicating that a group of Haitian immigrants in Ohio were hunting domestic pets and park animals for meat. Various groups, like The Federalist, and other outlets started gathering anecdotal evidence to support these reports. Hence Trump bringing it up at the debates and all the memes you're now seeing of Trump protecting various animals and cats in military uniforms. Rather than evaluate the evidence, however, a lot of left-wing outlets and pundits are dismissing the reports on their face and claiming that anyone who is even attempting to investigate these reports is a de facto "racist". I had to explain this to my mom last night because she didn't understand a cat video she was laughing at, this after a news & politics group I'm in screamed at me for "fake news".

Already happening. Russia, it's alleged, used a series of cut-outs, including a rabid anti-Trump pundit, to finance the Tenet Media Group, which managed several online figures who espoused libertarian and conservative viewpoints. Even though the Department of Justice has declared that the online figures themselves are innocent victims who had no reason to distrust Tenet and had no direct ties to Russia, Harris sycophants are none-the-less spreading the lie that the online figures were all Russian operatives.

I've reached my requisite midlife crisis, and as part of it I'm looking back on some things. This includes a pair of dreams that have quite stuck with me. Now, I can have very vivid dreams when I do dream. It's been a thing since childhood. In some instances, what I dream about sticks with me for a while even after I wake up, and a few remain in my mind for a very long time afterword. Given everything that's going on, two dreams I had in the past keep coming back to mind. For one of the dreams, I had just done a delivery route and then raced home to watch Conference. For obvious reasons, I was nodding off during that day's sessions. While asleep I was still able to hear one session where the speaker (I don't recall who) was talking about how everyone had a place in this world. Well, in the dream I was listening to this talk on the radio while driving down a road that my brain created. Once I heard that part of the talk, it came to me that "My place is that I have no place." Basically, I was not meant to have any sort of fixed place or position so that I could move between what I needed to move between - be it social groups or even entire cities - as easily as possible; the trade-off was that I would have no safe harbor I could take shelter in when things got bad. In the dream, this realization caused me to be so distracted I missed a turn and had to U-turn to get back to it. For the other dream, I'm lying in bed and I know that somehow, this is the end for me, that I'm actually dying in the dream. Even though I'm in my real-life bed in my real-life bedroom, the only companionship I have is a couple of vultures... who are speaking with human voices. My last mortal act was to explain that they - the vultures - had been taken care of before I died in the dream. Ever since I've had them, I've had a feeling that they were premonitions of some kind as to how my life was going to be and how it would eventually conclude. Has anyone else here ever had a feeling like this from something you've dreamt?

Yeah, a lot of congregations would also stagger their start and stop times so that one congregation would be in the chapel while the other was doing Sunday school. It's not the best way of doing things, but if it has to be done it has to be done. Again, it takes a while to get a new chapel built.

At one point in time the political machines in various major cities would make it a point to give immigrant families various public works jobs in order to ensure that these families would give their vote to the individuals who were part of those machines. Well, "police officer" was one of those public works jobs often given to immigrants, and in those cities that had a large population of Irish immigrants it meant that a correspondingly large percentage of police officers thus became Irish, with their sons following them onto the force.

If you find Clutch Cargo, you'll literally see exactly that. How it worked was that the animators would leave a blank spot where the character's mouth would be, and the live footage was then superimposed over that opening.

Things like that go all the way up to Salt Lake, and as you can imagine just even getting permission takes time. Then a site has to be selected, construction has to take place, and the wards & branches have to be re-aligned. Once that happens, the priesthood organization for what will be meeting out of that building has to be called and ordained. We're literally looking at *years* for something like this. In contrast, a sign printer can knock something like that sign out in under a day if they're not already booked. That's the issue.

IRL, a lot of jurisdictions have it that the fire marshal can declare what a particular maximum occupancy is. It's hypothetically possible that in this case, they're at maximum occupancy. Best thing to do would be to ask about that.

If you still have access to YouTube, look for either Crusader Rabbit or Clutch Cargo, the two shows most associated with this trend. Episodes should be afoot, although I don't know if they're public domain or not.

Probably more like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_Rabbit At one point animation studios actually *did* have real people's mouths depicted doing the talking so that they didn't have to animate the mouths.

It's been a thing with animation for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_Cargo Some of the earliest cartoon television shows, like Clutch Cargo, did this to save on animation.

I had to go to work last night, so I missed a supposed CNN interview that Harris did... in which she, from what I'm seeing, either came off as a darling or came off as utterly unprepared. I still need to get around to watching it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Rio,_Texas Del Rio, Texas, population 35,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Pass,_Texas Eagle Pass, Texas, population 28,000 These two cities, and several others, are smaller border towns that are opposite *massive* Mexican metropolitan areas. As a result, the number of people trying to enter these cities are far beyond what the cities themselves can ever hope to support, let alone absorb. These cities are being overwhelmed, which is why Texas' Governor Greg Abbott made the decision to begin transporting migrants to cities elsewhere in the United States that had declared themselves "Sanctuary Cities" for people who entered the country illegally. His goal was to bring attention to the plight of these border cities. It worked. New York City received so many immigrants that it collapsed *their* intake systems, leaving city officials attempting to intercept future bus transit and begging the federal government for help. The residents of Martha's Vineyard made horrifically racist and classist social media posts demanding to know why they were having to associate with these individuals. Chicago is on the brink. Et cetra. Now that hardcore leftist pro-immigration cities are feeling the pain, their residents and leaders are starting to do a 180. In the process, people have more than enough evidence of them being hypocrites who only supported mass immigration when they thought it was someone else's problem.

The military commanders themselves often had no clue what they were doing. It's said that even *decades* after General Westmoreland couldn't give a coherent explanation of his goals and objectives without deteriorating the discussion into metrics and measurements. So we also need to make sure that our commanders are up to the job or they'll do just as much damage as the politicians.

As I've noted before, I post on Quora, a social media platform where people can crowdsource answers to questions. Not only does Quora have a prompt generator bot that asks questions based on what other questions people have asked before as a way of anticipating possible questions, critics of the church like to post all sorts of inflammatory and nonsense questions in the hopes of shocking people. That's feeding the AI programs and prompt generator bot.

For the Democrats, the smart money was on Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania. Not only would that have shored up a purple state, it would have helped smooth over the fact that many prominent Democrats have a history of anti-Semitic rhetoric. There was nothing to be gained by picking Walz, and if anything he might hurt her efforts due to the stolen valor and other controversies.

The issue with Walz is that *even members of his own unit* are accusing him of falling down on the job and saying that he was all bark & no bite. Even the unit chaplain has issued an open statement saying that he failed to adequately perform his duties. These statements, combined with his falsely claiming to have had combat experience, are getting a lot of vets riled up.

It's PG-13, so it's a little over what the kiddo can handle right now. I'll have to wait until after he goes home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoviePlex MoviePlex is a digital-tier television channel that media company Starz basically offers as a loss-leader, a way to get people to sign up for the premium-tier Starz package. My digital cable provider, Charter-Spectrum, gives us both MoviePlex and MoviePlex On Demand for "free" as part of our digital bundle. I'm having to babysit one of my nephews, and got to scrolling through MoviePlex On Demand's massive and eclectic assortment of films to see if there was anything kid-friendly he could watch. Most of the films they have up are cowboy movies from the 1930s and 1940s, plus assorted random fare from the 1940s onward. I eventually get to the "O"s and find the film "Out Of Liberty" from 2019. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9844368/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_out%20of%20liberty Curious as to why a film so new would be on a loss-leader like this, I decide to check the provided description. It's set in 1830s Missouri. The cast includes Corbin Allred. I call my parents in to make sure they're seeing what I'm seeing. Yes folks, it's a movie made by members of the church about Liberty Jail. And it's just buried right there so deep in the listings that I question how many people aside from myself have ever noticed that it's there. (Pull up MoviePlex on Demand. Go to the category that says "All Movies" instead of a given genre. Scroll over to the space that has the arrow asking if you want to see all of the movies available. Select that space. Make yourself lunch because you'll need something to eat while you scroll through all of the movies they have.)

The USSR was smart enough to realize that they couldn't perpetually stop the flow of Western material into their nations, so they slowed the process by cutting deals. For example, ABBA was famously allowed to sell its records in Russia, but they got "paid" in oil rather than Russian currency. ABBA had already purchased a number of businesses as tax shelters by this point, so it actually wasn't that hard for them to divest themselves of that oil.