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== Question ==

Good afternoon, Mr. Schlafly. I hope you are doing well. I was wondering if I could be given access to uploading images to the pages that I have created? If not, how can I earn that responsibility? Thank you in advance. Have a great afternoon. -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 16:47, May 7, 2022 (EDT)
:What would be the source or sources for your images?  I'll review your posted contributions in the meantime.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 00:10, May 8, 2022 (EDT)
::I have made both the [[Mar-a-Lago]] page and the [[Let’s Go Brandon]] page, and would like to add pictures of Mar-a-Lago, as well as photos to compliment the other pages I have created, such as the [[Camellia sinensis]] page. I would also like to add patriotic photos on my user page. If I am deserving of this honor of having the privilege of uploading images, I will do so with utter care and accuracy. Thank you for your consideration. -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 10:19, May 8, 2022 (EDT)
:::From where would you copy those photos?  They would need to be available in the [[public domain]] or through a friendly licensing scheme that allows reuse.  Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 13:54, May 8, 2022 (EDT)
::::They would be through pictures in the public domain, such as websites where there doesn’t exist any copyright symbol or indication of any copyright. I would more than likely use PNG images. Thanks. -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 14:04, May 8, 2022 (EDT)
:::::I hope I can be given a chance to upload images, as I want to better improve some pages on Conservapedia. Thanks. -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 17:33, May 10, 2022 (EDT)
::::::Thanks, I'll review this further but I think more experience at contributing here and further recognizing limits on the use of images from elsewhere may be the best course at this time.  I appreciate your interest in contributing further to the entries here.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:14, May 10, 2022 (EDT)
== Discussion: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Trump administration saboteurs ==

Andy, I know you see an ''indirect'' link between Ted Cruz and some of the many saboteurs who infiltrated the Trump administration. But what about a ''direct'' link?

On multiple occasions, I’ve tried to edit articles related to this subject to emphasize the possible existence of such direct links, but those edits have been undone because some of the admins think this premise is outlandish. So, I want your opinion.

On a side note, what about Marco Rubio? Because neocon saboteurs Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo both came from the Rubio camp, I have similar suspicions about him. What do you think?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 10:50, July 8, 2021 (EDT)

:If I can insert my two cents here, it's pretty well covered in the [[SSCI]] article. We have an interesting test case now: let's see how Chairman Rubio reacts to the [[Tucker Carlson]] spy revelations. [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/07/update-the-nsa-leaked-details-of-their-tucker-carlson-surveillance-to-allied-deep-state-media/]  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 10:56, July 8, 2021 (EDT)

:Geopolitician, you make an interesting point and I'd like to learn more about this.  If have any examples or links handy that would be great to post.  I started [[Trump's inept advisers]], which m makes a similar point, though perhaps not as strong.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:12, July 8, 2021 (EDT)

::I’ve got a ton of examples, but it will take me a few days to compile them all, given my current schedule.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:32, July 8, 2021 (EDT)

=== Examples ===
I'll start with the biggest saboteur of all, Steve Bannon. You read that right. Steve Bannon.

Bannon originally came from the Cruz camp. The connections are established [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2017/04/12/report-billionaire-mercer-redeploying-steve-bannon/ here]. Once Cruz's campaign collapsed, Bannon joined the Trump campaign. He was then rewarded with the unusual position of "Chief Strategist" following Trump's victory. 

Once Bannon arrived in Washington, he proceeded to do as much damage as possible. He orchestrated a series of elaborate smear campaigns designed to sideline other Trump administration officials. Among those targeted were Jared Kushner, H.R. McMaster, Rex Tillerson, and Ivanka Trump.[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-out-at-white-house/][https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2018/01/03/trump-v-bannon/] He would leak inside information to various sources, most notably Breitbart, and coordinate with them to create twist the facts in order to incite the base into demanding that they be fired, and thus force Trump's hand. Trump eventually caught onto Bannon's antics and fired him. But that wasn't the end.

Even after his firing, Bannon continued to use his influence to pressure Trump into replacing Bannon's enemies in the White House. After several months of such pressure, Trump fired both McMaster and Tillerson, replacing them with arch-neocons John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. And we all know what happened from there. This New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/magazine/iran-strike-israel-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share article] highlights Bannon's role in Bolton's hiring. The claims in that article are corraborated [https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1100115932284964864 here], [https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1169376109198217217 here], and [https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1187152074519302144 here] by former Breitbart writer Lee Stranahan.

In other words, Bannon bears a significant degree of responsibility for the subsequent sabotage inflicted by Bolton and Pompeo. 

Bannon also played a role in supressing the DNC-Ukraine collusion story, repeatedly ignoring requests by people like Stranahan to forward relevant information to Trump.[https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1203097239004090369][https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1203098573690298368][https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1203099676641243138][https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1351743439969411075/photo/2] Bannon's motive for suppressing this information is unconfirmed, but Stranahan strongly suspects that Bannon wanted Russiagate to inflict as much damage as possible without causing Trump's removal from office, so more of Bannon's enemies within MAGA would be taken out. I'm talking about people like Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and perhaps even Michael Flynn.[https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1035975155527438336][https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/steve-bannon-flip-flopped-on-roger-stones-wikileaks-connection/] In Stone's case, Bannon may have resorted to perjury as part of his efforts to incriminate him. And in Flynn's case, there's no hard evidence of Bannon's involvement but I do believe that Bannon had something to gain from Flynn's ouster, namely the removal of a pro-Turkish voice in the White House. Remember that Bannon considers Turkey to be part of the new "Axis of Evil," and our second-worst enemy only behind China.[https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-steve-bannon-tells-haaretz-why-he-can-t-be-anti-semitic-1.6316437][https://english.aawsat.com//home/article/1066421/steve-bannon-turkey-more-dangerous-iran]

Bannon also intentionally misled Trump about the nature of the Saudi regime, prompting Trump to pursue a policy of cooperation as opposed to confrontation.[https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1053672880729481216] Out of that policy came the escalation of neocon policies in the Middle East. Note that I strongly disagree with Stranahan's take on Bannon's ''motivation'' for this specific act; I believe it had far more to do with the petrodollar than with Israel.

In sum, from the Cruz camp came Bannon, who sought to and perhaps succeeded in perverting the Trump agenda into an immoral, ideologically dishonest mess where both neocon ''and'' MAGA ideas buzzed around and regularly crashed into each other, causing much of the rest of the world to view America with contempt. If there's one thing we should learn from this, it's that there is to be no compromise between neoconservatism and MAGA. Any attempts to combine the two would only lead to disaster. Thus, we must do what we can to ensure neocon-MAGA hybrid candidates like Cruz, Cotton, and Pompeo do ''not'' get the nomination in 2024. MAGA will be destroyed from within if that happens. --[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 13:52, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

:Side note: Stranahan also claims that Bannon has spent time going around and stirring the pot on both sides, meeting with and trying to enlist the help of white supremacist groups and even Jeffrey Epstein.[https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1185626972812132352][https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1196239268160692224][https://pagesix.com/2018/08/11/steve-bannon-trying-to-get-on-disgraced-jeffrey-epsteins-good-side/] But what else would you expect from a guy who is self-proclaimed to be and acts like a Leninist?[https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-trumps-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist] Or a guy who all but believes that WWIII is inevitable and thus America must behave according to such a fatalistic worldview?[https://www.businessinsider.com/book-steve-bannon-is-obsessed-with-the-fourth-turning-2017-2]

:By the way, Stranahan undoubtedly has a wealth of additional information about Bannon's conduct and I suggest that you try to get more information from him directly, Andy.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:07, July 12, 2021 (EDT)
::Didn't Stranahan used to work for Bannon?  Isn't there some sort of personal issue there? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:30, July 12, 2021 (EDT)`

::Honestly, I watch more of Stranahan's youtube channel than Bannon's WarRoom Pandemic, and the first thing that jumps out is the quality of Stranahan's guests, which is virtually zero, compared to Bannon's. But honestly, both shows are very interesting. The one thing Geopolitician leave's out in all the cases he cites here (McMaster, Flynn, Manafort, Jared, Tillerson, Bolton, etc etc etc) are the truly guilty parties - Strzok, Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Mueller, et al having all Trump appointees under surveillance. Andy, pay Geo's blathering here no mind. 15:18, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

::Daryl Cooper just wrote in [[Why Trump supporters don't trust anything]], ''"Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration.  They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov't destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected administration."''

::Geoplitican pretends he doesn't know that a FISA warrant grants the same authority for invasive surveillance against all of a targets email and phone contacts. This is, and was, to be expected - a focus on infighting while giving cover to the real subverters of the Trump administration. We've been hearing this line of attack now for 5 years already. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:35, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

::: Yes, Stranahan did work for Bannon. He also worked with Andrew Breitbart. And Stranahan continued to contact Bannon directly even after Bannon began working in Washington. I don't know about you, RobS, but I think Stranahan of all people would know what went down behind the scenes on this matter and what didn't.

:::And of course Stranahan's show has lower quality guests. That's what happens when you get sidelined for calling out corruption within the MAGA movement and have to resort to literally working for the Russians in order to speak your mind on your own show. Because Stranahan is now working for the Russians, almost nobody within the MAGA wants to touch him with a ten-foot barge pole. Which is too bad, because they would actually benefit from doing so when the dust clears.

:::Meanwhile, Bannon, Bolton, and Pompeo all shared a common goal with Comey, McCabe, Mueller, Rosenstein, and Strzok. And that was to stop Trump from making the changes he wanted to make to American foreign policy. Sure, they adopted different tactics. But their missions were fundamentally the same. So why go after just some of them? Go after ''all'' of them.

:::Furthermore, the premise of Cooper's article is false. I wish it were true, but it isn't. The lies go much deeper than that. The biggest lie of all being the one where Saudi Arabia isn't just as big, if not an even bigger enemy than the CCP.[https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1125930986305286145]--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:12, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

::::Oh, I get it. Pompeo is a CCP operative, too, huh? Or maybe Pompeo had no influence at all in shifting U.S. policy away from the [[PRC]]. Or maybe Pompeo corrupted Trump's pro-CCP views and shifted Trump into an anti-CCP stooge, is that your point? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:57, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

:::::Just imagine, Westpoint teaching things like patriotism and America first to a guy who finishes first in his class. Outrageous, huh?  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:36, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

:::::"bu bu but Zbigniew....".  C'mon now. You have to do better than that to make an argument. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:39, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

::::Look, Stranahan obviously has been under some emotional stress with his recent divorce and moving out of D.C. to be closer to his kids in South Dakota. But I was somewhat disappointed to realize he knew much more about [[Alexandra Chalupa]] in 2018, and could have done much more to highlight what he knew two years earlier. Also, Stranahan was duped by [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]], who ultimately meant the Trump team no goodwill, and he passed her off in his extended interview with her as some sort of whistleblower on team Mueller and team Clinton. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:10, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

[[Mark Meadows]] would be ranked far higher in terms of anti-Trump infiltrators, in my opinion.  Trump's political troubles in 2020 track closely with Meadows' rise to power among the inner Trump circle.  See [[Trump's inept advisers]].--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 19:03, July 12, 2021 (EDT)
:Andy, what Daryl Cooper wrote, ''"collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration"'' limited the pool of people willing to work in the Trump administration.  Trump could not persuade the best and the brightest to come work for him. It all comes back to FISA abuse. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:15, July 12, 2021 (EDT)
:Andy, it's pretty obvious what Geo is doing here. He's dangling bait with words like "neocon" hoping you'll take the bait to trash people like Pompeo, rather than lay the blame where it belongs - the Trump-Russia hoaxers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:30, July 12, 2021 (EDT)
:Trump was forced to take on people like Meadows or Bolton - cause they were the only one's who could pass the security clearances. He never was free to choose his own appointees. We knew this before Flynn quit, when the CIA began denying clearances for Flynn's own appointments to staff. If you can't get the people to do the job, you yourself can't do your own job.  All these Trump appointees were railroaded out, Schindler the police captain who delivered Comey's firing, Hope Hicks, Omarosa, etc etc etc because of FISA abuse.  Strzok, and later Mueller & [[Andrew Weissmann]], had complete control over Trump's hiring.  After a few got fired, that is enough to scare away anyone else from even being asked to serve. Hence Trump was left with insiders who already had clearances, Grenell, Bolton, Meadows, Ratcliffe, etc. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:44, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

::::(ec) Here's the full uncut interview: *[https://youtu.be/6opPCj9gcII Lee Stranahan interview with Natalia Veselnitskaya] (uncut). of course, after unwittingly helping the coup against Trump, she sought to ingratiate herself back with the powers-that-be.  But I don't see Stranahan following up on any of that, admitting he was duped. As much as I love the guy, it does seem that he's struggling to remain relevant since Andrew Briebart of Steve Bannon or whoever fired him.
::::And what stymies me is, since he works for Alexandra Chulupa's avowed enemy, Vladimir Putin, and he knew just what coffee shop Chalupa hung out in in 2016 when she was initiating the Russia hoax against Manafort & Trump, why did he wait two years until the Trump impeachment to joke about it and not inform us Trump-Russia hoax junkies earlier? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:11, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

:::::Stranahan knew about Chalupa in 2017, and contacted Bannon regarding the matter multiple times during his tenure at the White House. Bannon intentionally ignored him. 
:::::Meanwhile, Stranahan has mentioned Chalupa many, many, many times on social media since 2017, and nearly everybody who saw his tweets ignored him until it was too late.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 12:05, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

::Pompeo ''is'' a neocon, and he ''was'' a saboteur. I laid this out in great detail in [[Mike_Pompeo|his article]]. 
::And here's a fact I left out in that article: he too was involved in supressing Ukrainegate. Just two months before the 2020 election, his State Department revoked the visa of Andrii Telizhenko, on the grounds of "election interference."[https://thehill.com/policy/international/519746-state-department-revokes-visa-of-giuliani-linked-ukrainian-ally-report]--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 12:05, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::Oh, ok. So in addition to Pompeo being in bed with Hillary, the DNC, Christopher Steele, Strzok and the corrupt FBI, and the CCP, he's also in bed with Joe and Hunter Biden. And he deliberately sabotaged Ukrainegate so he could get himself fired by the Biden administration in January 2021. Makes perfect sense.

:::As noted, it looks like critical race theory and subversion of American politics and the military was being taught at Westpoint back in the 1980s when Pompeo graduated. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 12:36, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

::::None of the above people you listed work for the CCP. They want war with China just as much as they want war with Russia and Iran.
::::And Pompeo wanted to sabotage Ukrainegate because he wanted to stop Trump from making peace with Russia. Because again, he’s a neocon who wants war with Russia.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 13:32, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::::Your anti-neocon conspiracy theories are about a decade and a half out of date. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 13:52, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

===Counterexamples===
There's a lot of comedy here, but there's also a zillion other diffs in CP to support Geopolitician's pro-Iranian and pro-CCP sentiments. 
*"after his firing, Bannon continued to use his influence" HAHAHA! [[FISA abuse]], per Geo, had nothing to do with Bannon being railroaded out of the WH.
*"in Flynn's case, there's no hard evidence of Bannon's involvement but I do believe that Bannon had something to gain" A HA! Bannon must've been part of the Hillary/FBI/Christopher Steele cabal, per Geo.
*"the nature of the Saudi regime" - yah yah yah, we know. A disguised pro-Iranian reference. I have a thousand other diffs in CP from Geo that make the point more clearly.
*"our second-worst enemy only behind China" and "a guy who all but believes that WWIII is inevitable" *Gasp!* It's hard to decipher if Geo is with Obama, who thought al Qaede was our biggest enemy while at the same time funding ISIS, or Romney who thought that Russia was.  But the CCP certainly now is not the US's biggest threat, per Geo. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:31, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

::FISA ''didn't'' have anything to do with Bannon's ouster. Trump himself made that clear way back in January of 2018. 
::Bannon wasn't directly involved in Russiagate, but he did take advantage of it to ensue that his rivals went to prison. 
::I'm not pro-Iran, and I'm definitely not pro-CCP. I just believe that Iran is a (much) lesser evil than Saudi Arabia, and I believe the foreign policy establishment is deliberately exaggerating the scale of the CCP threat in order to create a justification for another regime change war. I mean, the establishment wants war with China just as much as any Trump supporter who is blazing mad over the CCP's alleged role in the creation of COVID-19. Why? Because China, like Iran and Russia, are standing in the way of the US controlling what Zbigniew Brzezinski called "the Eurasian Balkans." Take into account Halford MacKinder's "Heartland Theory," and its post-Cold War endorsement by both Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger (in their books ''The Grand Chessboard'' and ''Diplomacy'', respectively) and it will all make much more sense.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:12, July 12, 2021 (EDT)
:::Thanks for the admission on your pro-Ayatollah views. 

:::Basically, you do not understand what [[FISA]] is.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:59, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

::::I know exactly what FISA is. And I also know that it had nothing to do with Bannon's ouster. Trump himself attested to that.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 12:05, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::::Are you saying Bannon was not under FISA surveillance? Wow. He must be squeaky clean if they couldn't come up with anything (never mind his later indictment, we can cross that ridiculous bridge later when we get to it....).  

:::::And since Bannon's squeaky clean, why do you feel the need to trash him? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 12:45, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::::Sorry, but you really give yourself away as a commie subversive with this ridiculous statement: ''"the establishment wants war with China just as much as any Trump supporter who is blazing mad over the CCP's alleged role in the creation of COVID-19"''.

:::::Yah, the establishment wants war with the CCP so bad over ''"the alleged role in the creation of COVID-19"'', they banned the President of the United States and anyone else from social media from talking about it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 12:57, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::::What makes you think it's only Trump supporters who are "blazing mad over the CCP's alleged role in the creation of COVID-19"?  Jon Stewart's not a Trump supporter.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 13:00, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

::::::I never said Bannon wasn’t under FISA surveillance. I just said that FISA or no FISA, his firing had nothing to do with it. And no, Bannon is not squeaky clean. Far from it.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 13:32, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

::::::I stand by what I said about the establishment wanting war with China. It’s about, and always has been about, control of the Eurasian heartland. Both Brzezinski and Kissinger made it clear many years ago that our China policy ought to be centered around that premise. Do you seriously believe the establishment isn’t listening to them?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 13:32, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

::::::The media only initially censored the Wuhan lab theory because Trump was promoting it. The plan was to get Biden in first, and only then make the theory more “mainstream.” And either way, the media is probably lying about the lab, even now. I’m personally convinced that the virus didn’t come from Wuhan, or even China. The real origin? Fort Detrick, Maryland.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 13:32, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::Ok, let's stop spinning our wheels. The Ft. Detrick QAnon/CCP conspiracy theory doesn't have much traction or currency. You have been consistent now over many months, if not years, on your belief that Saudi Arabia, not Russia, not Iran, not the Peoples Republic of China, not Antifa or BLM is the single biggest threat to American national security. Just make that clear to Andy, and let him decide. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 13:58, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::And because Saudi Arabia is such a threat to the peace of the world, we need to mercilessly trash Republican Presidential advisors. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:00, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

::::::::Saudi Arabia took control of our currency system through the 1974 petrodollar agreement, and it has been using its clout to blackmail our politicians into starting wars on its behalf ever since. Saudi Arabia was also behind 9/11, and the Bush neocons deliberately allowed Saudi Arabia to get away with it while also turning Afghanistan and Iraq into scapegoats ripe for invasion. They and their successors in the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have since been targeting other countries as potential scapegoats such as Libya, Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Qatar. The entire "War on Terror" is a fraud meant to perpetuate the "Big Lie" concerning who is responsible for all the Islamist terror in the world. "Saudi Arabia is blameless, and everybody else is to blame," they say. 

::::::::So yes, I do believe that Saudi Arabia and its appeasers in our government are the biggest threat to our national security. Because it's true. But hey, let's ignore that because it happens to be convenient for the GOP, right? Even though doing so would be just as convenient for the DNC.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:23, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::Ok Andy, there you have it. Saudi Arabia today has a bigger military budget than Russia cause it's recycled its petrodollars in the [[military-industrial complex]].  The US has never had a trade deficit with Saudi Arabia.  Pompeo, who wants to destroy Russia, isn't smart enough to let Saudi Arabia do it after Biden has enriched both Saudi Arabia and Russia by killing the Keystone pipeline. Covid came out of the military-industrial complex and not the Wuhan lab.  Bannon, Pompeo, and Bolton have been working with Peter Strzok, Rod Rosenstein, and Hillary Clinton to undermine Trump. And the CCP is an innocent victim of smears in all this.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:00, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::Now, if Geo had said the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] and [[Iran]], I think he may have a leg to stand on. But personally, I don't think he understands the Saudi ruling party any more than he understands the FISA Act. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:07, July 13, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::The "Muslim Brotherhood and/or Iran did it" narrative is a total lie invented by the Deep State(s) to justify more wars. Stranahan talks about that in great detail [https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1125930986305286145 here].--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:01, July 13, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::I'll let you have the last word. I've taken it about as far as it can go, for now. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:08, July 13, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::Alright, then. Here's my last word. Andy and RobSmith, please watch the video I linked to in my previous comment. It's about an hour long, and it puts a great alternative perspective on this issue. Also, keep in mind that at some point you'll hear Stranahan suddenly going off on a profanity-laced tangent about Assange. Don't mind that. He's just responding to a troll who had posted on his livestream feed an outrageous comment about how Assange supposedly faked his own arrest, "because Q."
:::::::::::And RobSmith, I just noticed you edited the Mike Pompeo article to remove the reference I made to his false claims regarding Iran's relationship with al-Qaeda. After watching the video, hopefully you'll see where I'm coming from here, and why I believe the district court's ruling assigning blame for 9/11 to Iran is absurd.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:25, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

===Background on clearances===
At the time of [[Alger Hiss]], each department did its own hiring and security background checks. After Hiss, security background checks were centralized in the FBI.  One of the most famous cases is [[Clarence Thomas]], whose FBI background check was leaked to force the Anita Hill hearings.

Since the [[Patriot Act]] Amendments of 2006, which expanded the [[IC]] and authority for surveillance, and the Obama administration, which filled those new spots in the IC, [[the left]] has taken over the function of background checks for govt employment. Now it is payback time, to deny security clearances and govt employment based on ideology, as the hard left had been screened out since the McCarthy era.  That's what happened to Mike Flynn when he tried to hire a deputy, and that's what happened to President Trump from the day he took office. He could only hire people the FBI (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Wray) said he could hire. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:04, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

President Trump wanted Sheriff [[Darrell Clarke]] for DHS Secretary.  In America, the people are free to elect their own sheriff or president, but a low-level bureaucrat like Peter Strzok has veto power over presidential appointments.  If Trump is to be criticized for anything, it would be not realizing what was happening when he took office.

We recorded here in CP, in February 2017:
*11 February. National Security aide to National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is denied a security clearance, in effect, the '''CIA exercising [[veto]] power over the President's management of national security''' affairs. The action was unprecedented and without cause. Reports say the CIA did not like the aide's attitude toward the agency.[146] “They believe this is a hit job from inside the CIA on Flynn and the people close to him," because the aide "believes that the CIA doesn’t run the world.”[147][148]

[https://conservapedia.com/Russiagate:_Deep_State_coup_1.0#cite_note-146 Read the footnote included]: "The artcle continues: "Since no one can take part in the formulation or execution of foreign or defense policy without a high-level security clearance, vetoing the president’s people by denying them clearances trumps the president....the persons who thus took for themselves the prerogative that the American people had entrusted to [President Trump] at the ballot box, chances are 100 percent that they will use that prerogative ever more frequently with regard to anyone else whom they regard as standing in the way of their preferred policies, as a threat to their reputation, or simply as partisan opponents... undermin[ing] nothing less than the self-evident heart of the Constitution’s Article II: The president is the executive branch. All of its employees draw their powers from him and answer to him, not the other way around."

Flynn was, unsurprisingly, ousted two days later (not for anything he did, but because he couldn't do his job and get his people in. "Six ways from Sunday").  Nothing that occurred after that Feb. 11, 2017 ''Washington Times'' article was surprising, at all. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:29, July 12, 2021 (EDT)

To wit: [[Alexander Vindman]]'s "interagency consensus" which trumped presidential prerogatives. By the time Impeachment 1.0 rolled around, Trump knew the rules the Deep State laid out for him, that he could only make appointments off a pre-approved list made out by the Deep State. Sure, Rick Grenell got the job of Acting DNI, but only cause he had the security clearances in a temporary position, but wouldn't pass Senate approval. Mark Meadows fit the bill cause (a) had the security clearance to read classified info, and (b) knew all the contacts on Capitol Hill that is the chief-of-staff's job to negotiate with. And (c) most importantly, was willing to take the job knowing he had the Deep State CIA, FBI, etc., and a hostile press, breathing down his back. Forget policy considerations. Trump had to work with what he could get.

And with the election cases now currently on the docket, there's no movement in Congress to improve oversight abilities of the IC.  Think about this carefully.  A second Trump term will face the same problems as the first. And a DeSantis presidency will face the same problems, unless DeSantis makes moves to negotiate and compromise with the Deep State. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 02:20, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

You want to take on the Deep State? You need F-15s and nuclear bombs. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 02:28, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

Add Bill Barr to that pre-approved list. His qualifications consisted of (a) holding the requisite clearances; (b) most importantly, willing to take the job; (c) thought it was rather undignified of the Deep State to treat the president like a hamster on a wheel or leaving him wondering about a carnival funhouse of mirrors.  Agreeing with Trump or the Trump agenda, or policy considerations, had absolutely nothing to do with his appointment. Like Meadows or Bolton, he was the best Trump could find who was willing to take the job.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 09:06, July 13, 2021 (EDT)

*'''Update:''' here's two paragraphs from a recent conservativetreehouse posting on a series about the Fourth Branch of government, the [[intelligence community]]: [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/08/the-fourth-branch-of-united-states-government/]
{{quotebox|"The second larger Obama/Holder objective was control over the FBI.  Why was that important?  Because the FBI does the domestic investigative work on anyone who needs or holds a security clearance.  The removal of security clearances could be used as a filter to further build the internal ideological army they were assembling.  Additionally, with new power in the ODNI created as a downstream consequence of the Patriot Act, new protocols for U.S. security clearances were easy to justify.

Carefully selecting fellow ideological travelers was facilitated by this filtration within the security clearance process.  How does that issue later manifest?… just look around at how politicized every intelligence agency has become, specifically including the FBI.}}
It corroborates what's been said here.

Let me add my own observation: When Democrats seek to take over a federal agency, it is often not done by firing personnel. A Democrat congress simply doubles size of the payroll and a Democrat executive makes all the new appoints. In short order, retirements and other attrition gets the vacancies filled with their stooges. This is what happened, both with the IC post-2006 (about 8,000 people under Bush), and the White National Security Staff, from about 200 under Bush to 400 under Obama. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:42, August 8, 2021 (EDT)

:And this is now happening with the proposal to hire 75,000 more IRS agents. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:18, October 7, 2021 (EDT)
:Not to drown anyone in detail, but this expansion of government is an old, old, old trick; we first saw it with the creation of the [[AAA]] in 1933, later found unconstitutional. So while the AAA was dissolved, all its civil servants were transferred elsewhere in government, like DOJ, Treasury, and State Departments.  And it was through the AAA that the KGB first infiltrated KGB agents, like [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]] and others. 
:So if the IRS expands another 75,000, you can bet in a few short years many of the hires will be working for the FBI and other [[IC]] agencies. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup>

==Does [[pi]] contain "every other number"?==
... for remembering me! I had difficulties logging in for quite a time, but I never lost CP out of sight. Therefore, I'm back to nitpicking: In the article on <nowiki><math>\pi</math></nowiki>, you wrote:
:'"The infinite length of ostensibly random decimal points in  means that it contains the equivalent of every book ever written, every birthday, and every other number."'
"Every other number" sounds like "every number like <nowiki><math>\pi</math></nowiki>", and that's obviously nonsense. Could you elaborate on the normality of <nowiki><math>\pi</math></nowiki>? --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 17:29, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
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:Check the "Keep me logged in" box, and that should help with your log in problems. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:33, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
::Thanks! --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 17:47, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::The statement is startling, but true:  [[pi]] as a random sequence of never-ending digits contains every other number somewhere in its sequence.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:58, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
You will not find <nowiki><math>\sqrt{2}</math></nowiki> in <nowiki><math>\pi</math></nowiki>! --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 18:14, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
:Are you sure about that?  As an infinite sequence of non-ordered digits, I think <nowiki><math>\pi</math></nowiki> would have it somewhere if you look long enough!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 18:27, July 18, 2021simulta (EDT)
::Yep, I'm sure. '''Normalcy''' is about finite sequences, <nowiki><math>\sqrt{2}</math></nowiki> is famously an infinite non-repeating number.... --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 18:30, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::I did some looking on the internet and found some discussion without a definitive answer to this.  Intuitively it seems that you may be right only as to infinite non-repeating numbers, but [[infinity]] has different types and I'm not sure this is resolved.  "Obviously nonsense"???  No, I don't think so.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:51, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::"''Obviously''", because if a section of &pi; resembled, &#8730;2 than all but a finite string of digits would be identical to &#8730;2 - and there would be no place for &#8730;3 left.
::::--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 02:15, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::::I have (just) placed '''nowiki''' tags around the '''math''' tags in this section because the invocations of '\pi' and '\sqrt(2)' seem to have been causing rendering errors like:-

[Ed: deleted error message from non-translated math syntax]

I wish I knew how to debug this, but if there was a software upgrade in the last few days that's where I'd start looking.  Best of luck, -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 03:31, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
: I haven't seen those errors on my browser (Chrome).  Perhaps it is an update issue with a browser?
: <span id="pi"></span>As to the substantive issue of [[mathematics]], AugustO, you haven't withdrawn your putdown of "obviously nonsense," yet cite nothing in support of your position.  You write "and there would be no place ... left," but that's usually not a problem for an [[infinity|infinite]] sequence.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 12:21, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
::Let's try this: one ninth (1/9) as a decimal is 0.111111... An infinitely long, never-ending string of ones '''and only ones''' after the decimal point. Whatever else pi contains numbers-wise, it clearly can't contain an infinite string of '''only ones''' after the decimal point, as is blindingly obvious from the first few digits. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 13:30, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::What he said. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 13:36, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
::::Can you find any citation in support of your position?  An infinite series can contain as a subset an infinite series, I think.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:18, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::::Who needs a citation? The first three digits of pi and 1/9 suffice as irrefutable proof of my position. Nobody is saying you can't make some cool claims about pi. Your (and everyone else's) phone number and birth date are almost certainly in there somewhere, and that is indeed pretty cool, and should enthuse plenty of students. There's no need to try and dress it up as something more remarkable than that by claiming (incorrectly) it contains "every other" number. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 14:40, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
::::::You don't address my point: an infinite series can contain as a subset another infinite series.  Your position is not obviously correct and the lack of any citation to support it raises some healthy skepticism.  It's possible the answer is not known.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:56, July 19, 2021 (EDT)

*I applaud our newfound interest in citations! I will get back on this in the future
*But here, you do not need one: Yes, an infinite series can contain another one as a subset. You could take the number 1234567890/9999999999, and say: "see, if I take only every tenth digit, then 1/9 is contained in it". That does not make 123457890/9999999999 anyhow interesting.
*That is different from finding your birthday in &pi;: here, you expect consecutive digits, e.g., 042761 occurs at position 214768 of the decimal representation of &pi;
--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 15:17, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
:Great catch about finding my birthday in [[pi]]!  Note that multiple mathematicians agree with me, and disagree with you (and certainly with your exclamation of "obviously nonsense"), on the [https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1608060/does-pi-contain-itself StackExchange discussion] about this.  I've added denial of the breadth and power of [[infinity]] (here, the scope of the infinite sequence in [[pi]] to include pi itself) to [[liberal denial]].--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:48, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
::With respect, you don't have a point to address. The bare fact that pi contains digits other than one ''necessarily'' precludes pi from ever containing an infinite string of '''nothing but ones'''. Thanks for the SkipCaptcha, though. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 15:56, July 19, 2021 (EDT)

@Aschlafly: close, but no cigar: The discussions are about whether &pi; could be replicate itself as a consecutive string of numbers from some point in the digital expansion, i.e., whether one special number is contained in &pi;. Your claim states that "every other number" is contained in &pi; '''''Obviously''''' 1/9 and 2/9 cannot be contained as a consecutive string of digits in &pi; at the same time. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 17:02, July 19, 2021 (EDT)
:Aaargh!  Boy, do I ever owe y'all an apology: I clean forgot that I'd switched the math rendering from PNG to MathML (ie SVG, which ought to be more efficient) in my preferences.  So it IS a server-side issue, but the dialogue does indeed warn that the feature is 'experimental' - duh!  Obviously it's slightly embarrassing that so simple a construction as '\pi' is sufficient to crash the blasted thing, but it's nobody's fault and nobody's problem, at least not here; is it worth my raising it over at MediaWiki, do you think?  Oh, and on the subject of 'obviously', for my two-penn'orth I do think a mild apology is due: remember J.R. Partington's anecdote about the very famous mathematician G. H. Hardy, who in a lecture said about some detail in a proof: “This is obvious.” After a pause, he went on: “Hmm, is it really obvious?” After another pause he left the room to consider the point, returning twenty minutes later with the verdict: “Yes, I was right, it is obvious.”  The claim about pi wasn't obvious to me: it's only obvious if you immediately think about it in the right way.  Which means AugustO is very clever, but civil, too?  Not so much.  I got there, eventually, by reasoning as follows: the claim implies that for all transcendental numbers P,Q there would exist natural powers of ten N,M such that the fractional parts of PxN and QxM are equal, which cannot be true unless P and Q were equal in the first place.  (A specific counter-example would be pi and e.)  I say 'eventually' because I tried and failed to make a diagonalization disproof work for as long as it took me to trim my hedge yesterday.  The hedge looks great, which proves either that I'm a helluva ditz, or that little is 'obvious' when one is reasoning about infinite sequences.  (Although, of course, both can be true.) -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 10:46, July 20, 2021 (EDT)
::Sorry, some of my civility may get lost in translation. But:
::*Isn't it obvious that the decimal representation of &pi; contains (at best) a countable number of consecutive infinite subsections, each represented by its starting point? We can give those numbers a fancy name - like ''piable'' numbers!
::*As there are more than countable infinite "numbers like &pi;", some (i.e., almost all) of these numbers cannot be ''piable'' - which answers the original question.
::*For an example: While it is not obvious whether ''e'',&#8730;2, or even &pi; itself are ''piable'',  it is obvious that 0.11111.... and 0.22222.... cannot be simultaneously ''piable''. 
::--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 12:03, July 20, 2021 (EDT)
:::::Indeed. To put it another way, let's imagine that - at some point, trillions of digits down the line - pi suddenly starts chucking out an infinite series of ones. Memories of basic pen & paper arthimetic should remind us that, in order to do this, the underlying ratio / division would have to start generating identical remainders (and thus identical recurring digits). Those memories should further remind us that '''it is now impossible for the calculation to generate a different digit'''. This is immediately and intuitively obvious to all but the very youngest or dimmest of pupils. Once locked in that pattern, you're stuck, and '''no amount of hand-waving about infinity could possibly justify imagining otherwise'''. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 14:46, July 20, 2021 (EDT)
:::I'm unsorry to persever in my impious stubbornness that "not so much" is 'obvious' when reasoning about infinite sequences, because one always has to be cautious, careful, in these realms, these regions, no?  Hence my "it's only obvious if you immediately think about it in the right way," which I entirely stand by.  Here's why:  From that, ''ex post'' your very well-chosen examples - for which I entirely commend your mathematical intelligence and insight, good Sirrah - it is (perhaps) "immediately and intuitively obvious to all but the very youngest or dimmest of pupils" that the claim made is true, it does not follow that ''ex ante'' such examples, all but the youngest, dimmest pupils will instantly intuit its veracity.  But perhaps we can agree to differ on that point?  Fine by me; see you around, -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 15:38, July 20, 2021 (EDT)
::::I suppose we can agree that ''obvious'' and ''trivial'' can be the most obnoxious terms in mathematics. How did all this start? I had (and have) a problem with the following statement at [[pi]]:
::::'''''"The infinite length of ostensibly random decimal points in &pi; means that it contains the equivalent of every book ever written, every birthday, and every other number."'''''
::::There is difference between the finite sequences of ''every book ever written'' and ''every birthday'' on the one hand side, and ''every other number'' on the other. Whether this is obviously problematic is in the eye of the beholder.
:::::--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 17:22, July 20, 2021 (EDT)
::::::[[Infinity denial]] prevents many of us from reaching our full potential!  Can't an infinite sequence of numbers include both an infinite sequence of 1s and an infinite sequence of 9s?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:19, July 20, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::No. No, it can't. Please stop. My most charitable interpretation at this point is that you're getting horribly mixed up between the idea of an infinite set and an infinite sequence. It's perfectly possible to imagine a ''set'' with an infinite amount of ones and nines, or even an infinite recurring sequence like 0.19191919..., but you '''can not''' have a mathematical sequence generating an infinitely recurring string of ones which then suddenly switches to generating infinite nines, for reasons clearly explained above. Indeed, even allowing such a thing was possible, in the transition from ones to nines, your recurring string of ones '''would have ceased to be infinite!''' 

:::::::If you still don't believe me, then dig out a pen and a ''lot'' of paper, and start manually dividing one by nine. Please feel free to keep going for as long as it takes to come to your senses. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 21:40, July 20, 2021 (EDT)

::::::::Do you agree that this can be done in the limit?  If it can be done in the limit for arbitrarily small [[epsilon]]s, then it is true.  I wonder if your denial might be a type of [[infinity denial]].  Do you think that infinite food is impossible?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:04, July 20, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::::You can knock it off with the infinity hand-waving, thanks. And no amount of higher maths theory is coming to your rescue here. Pen. Paper. One divided by nine. A whole lotta 0.1111111...  Get back to me once you discover a plausible mechanism for those identical remainders to start spontaneously generating other digits. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 22:20, July 20, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::There is almost no substance to your arguments, and you don't rebut or even answer mine.  You cite no references in support of your position.  That's fine, but you haven't persuaded.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:24, July 20, 2021 (EDT)
<----I'm citing no references because they are completely unnecessary here, and I'm deliberately ignoring your attempts to derail this discussion. This isn't a courtroom and there is no jury to befuddle with silly talk of well-what-about-working-under-a-limit?!! '''It is impossible for one divided by nine to ever return a recurring digit other than one'''. It's impossible because at no point can the underlying ratio ever change. You're '''always''' dividing by nine, and you '''always''' generate a remainder (and recurring digit) of one: 
*  1 / 9 = 0 r1 (0._____)
* 10 / 9 = 1 r1 (0.1_____)
* 10 / 9 = 1 r1 (0.11____)
* 10 / 9 = 1 r1 (0.111___) 
I honestly don't know how to state this more plainly. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 09:49, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
:This thread is getting to be like a sore tooth: I can't stop touching it.  Whether or not Andy's "you [ConwayIII] don't rebut or even answer mine" is entirely fair, I'm going to have a crack at answering his "Can't an infinite sequence of numbers include both an infinite sequence of 1s and an infinite sequence of 9s?"  I'm sure we all agree that an infinite sequence of ''decimal digits'' can potentially include both an ''arbitrarily long'' sequence of 1s and an ''arbitrarily long'' sequence of 9s.  Probably we all agree that Pi does, in fact, contain ''arbitrarily long'' sequences of all ten decimal digits (although I'd hate to have to prove it).  Sticking with the example, this means that for all natural N there exists a natural power of ten M such that the first N digits of the fractional part of MxPi are all 1s.  To repeat: that's true ''for '''all''' N''.  Now, I'd take a breath here because that's already a pretty amazing fact.  OK.  But Andy's question ''seems'' to want to go further, accommodating not just ''arbitrarily long'' sequences but ''infinite'' sequences.  All I have to offer here is an intuition that no ''single'' infinite sequence can in the general case '''contain''' two (distinct) ''arbitrarily defined'' infinite subsequences.  If Andy doesn't share that intuition, we'll just have to agree to disagree.  Pax, -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 11:08, July 21, 2021 (EDT) PS: If our definition of inclusion/containment was expanded to encompsss taking every Nth digit, say, then that would - to put it mildly - complicate the question somewhat.  But I think it's safe to assume that by 'include' Andy had consecutive digit sequences in mind; my 'contain' back there, on the other hand, could perhaps be interpreted more loosely (thereby making the claim stronger).
:: Take a very long series of "1"s and append them to a very long series of "9"s.  Then add infinitely long 1s and 9s to each substring, and you have an infinitely long decimal that contains both.  [[Pi]] includes that.
:: The flaw in reasoning otherwise is in limiting what [[infinity]] is, and incorrectly denying that an infinite string of numbers somehow cannot include infinite substrings.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:43, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
:::No. That's not a mathematical sequence. It's just an arbitrary string of numbers you've defined into existence. I can do the same by writing "19" and adding ones and nines to the left and right, respectively:
:::*19
:::*1199
:::*111999
:::*11119999
:::Let this process continue forever, and hey presto, I've got an infinite string of ones and nines. There's nothing mathematically useful or interesting about it, though. And, no, such a string '''could not''' be found in pi for obvious reasons I'm tired of repeating. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 15:25, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
::::A long string of 1s is 1/9th, and yes the above string is found in [[pi]].  If your position were so obviously correct then you should be able to explain why you think some patterns cannot be found anywhere in [[pi]].  I don't see anyone agreeing with you about this.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:23, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
<----Once more unto the breach...
#Pi is a ratio.
#Its decimal form is obtained by repeated division.
#For the sake of argument, it's logically possible that - at some point - those repeated divisions will stop generating random digits and start generating an infinitely recurring single digit.
#In order for 3) to happen, the repeated divisions must start generating identical remainders.
#Once that happens, it is impossible for either the remainder or recurring digit to change in any subsequent iteration. (The amount you're dividing by was always the same, and now the remainder has become fixed as well.)
#This means pi might ultimately terminate in, say, infinite ones, but then all other infinitely recurring single digit strings are ''necessarily'' excluded as possibilities. 
#The truth of 4) and 5) are simple matters of basic arithmetic, and should be self-evident to anyone who is vaguely numerate and has ever performed a pen & paper division generating an infinitely recurring single digit. 6) follows naturally from 4) and 5).
If you're actually trying to argue in good faith, then I'd appreciate it if you'd stop hand-waving, and make some (any!) serious attempt to address 4) and 5). Thanks.
[[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 19:11, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
:I thought everyone here (and elsewhere) agreed that [[pi]] includes every possible series of finite numeric sequences.  But any limit on such a sequence would be arbitrary.  Surely you're not saying, for example, that a string of 2500 "1"s can be found in [[pi]], but not a string of 2501 consecutive "1"s.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 19:26, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
::This discussion is quite clearly about infinitely recurring single digits within pi. Stay on topic, please, and address 4) and 5). [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 19:36, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
:::You don't address my points, but I'll address yours:  [[pi]] is not a rational number, so it's unhelpful to assume that it is a "ratio" (your premise).--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:22, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
::::That's quite the gambit, but it doesn't help you any. I'm happy to substitute any wording you like for 1) that accurately captures pi as expressing the relationship between a circle's circumference and diameter. If you don't want to call that a "ratio", then you can call it "Mary Shelley" for all I care.

::::Assuming, then, that you're OK with pi still having something to do with circles, are you going to attempt to deny 2) as well? If so, I'd be very keen to hear how you think we derive its decimal form. Thank you, at least, though, for starting to engage with the argument. I genuinely appreciate that. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 21:15, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
:::::I don't think your second assumption (2) is correct either, and I don't know what the basis for it as a premise is.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:21, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
::::::Great stuff. How do you propose we derive its decimal form, then? Do you further deny that it ''can'' be obtained by dividing a circle's circumference by its diameter?  [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 21:40, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::Let's not make the mistake of circular reasoning, pun intended.  [[Pi]] is not calculated by dividing a physical circle by its diameter.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 23:17, July 21, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::Since we hardly need an efficient series, how about we go with that Pi is half the sum for all natural N of the reciprocals of N(N+1)+0.1875?  -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 11:05, July 22, 2021 (EDT) PS: 0.1875 is three sixteenths, btw.
:::::::::Leaving such a lousy series for Pi unaccompanied - even on a talk page - sticks in my craw, so by way of apology I'll assert that the fractional part of Pi is precisely six times the sum for all positive (ie nonzero) even squares V of the reciprocals of V(4V-5)+1.  Ain't she beautiful?  (Who said God only made the natural numbers, huh?)  By way of explanation, or if you'd prefer to contemplate a properly-normalised, natural series (and if you don't object to lambda abstraction - but what aesthete could?), Pi is three more than six times the sum for all natural N of the reciprocals of (\FY.F(YxY)) (\Y.Yx(4xY - 5) + 1) (2x(N+1)).  (This is Nilakantha's series with the terms paired-up by cross-multiplication, btw.  Took me all morning haha - but I did overindulge slightly at a barbeque last night.  So someone else had better test it, I guess.)  Best wishes to all, -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 14:50, July 23, 2021 (EDT)
<----Once again, full marks for tactical chutzpah (seriously), but 0/10 for strategic thought. It doesn't matter if there are ''other'' methods of calculating pi, or even if those other methods are more commonly used, especially by those crunching pi to extreme numbers of digits. For the purposes of argument, it suffices that pi ''could'' be calculated by C / d, and given optimal measurements as input, produces an accurate result for pi to any number of digits. Seeing as 3) is merely restating your very own speculation, would you finally care to get to the heart of the matter, and start addressing 4) and 5)? [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 11:25, July 22, 2021 (EDT)
:[[Pi]] is an [[irrational number]], so it would not help to view it as a division when considering whether pi contains pi.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:31, July 23, 2021 (EDT)
::Indeed.  Pi is, by definition, the ratio of two ''geometric'' objects, but this dispute is about ''numeric'' objects - geometric ratios don't have digits in the first place.  Furthermore, because Pi is transcendental you can't evade a series of ''some'' kind.  If no-one thinks much of the two I've offered so far, then as close as you're likely to get to the conceptual (ie geometric) definition is that Pi is the least positive real x for which <!-- <math>\sum^{\infty}_{n=0} \frac{(-1)^n\times(\frac{x}{2})^{2n}}{(2n)!}</math> --> [Ed: commented out what failed to parse] is zero, based on the power series for cosines (and that the cosine of <math>\frac{\pi}{2}</math> is zero of course). -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 10:53, July 24, 2021 (EDT)
:::@Andy: What's your point? The irrationality of certain numbers is '''literally''' the failure of maths to fully capture and describe all the real numbers. Any expression  of an irrational number is necessarily imperfect, whichever way it's derived. Whether that imperfection is obtained by division, or some other method, is neither here nor there.

:::We do know, however, that some rational numbers like 1/9 produce infinitely recurring single digit strings. We also know those strings are the result of divisions generating identical remainders, and that once locked in this pattern, it's impossible to escape. We ''further'' know, '''by definition''', that such strings are '''not a feature of irrational numbers'''.

:::In short, you lose either way. You can agree with the established proofs of pi's irrationality, in which case ending with an infinite periodic string is forbidden, or you can go to Crazytown and claim pi is rational, in which case we know that, even if it suddenly started churning out, say, infinite ones, those ones could '''never''' switch to a different digit. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 18:12, July 24, 2021 (EDT)

That is all very interesting. When I write here at CP, I have a (bright?) high-school pupil or (interested?) layman in mind.  I updated the article on [[pi]] and created an article on [[normal number]]s with this readership in mind. Perhaps all the clever minds above would like to improve these articles?

I'm often accused of nit-picking, but I think that there are a lot of interesting nits to pick (see [['s-Hertogenbosch]]). So, the concept of normal numbers may have no real-world application, but it is an approachable concept. It could even be interesting.... --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 17:18, July 24, 2021 (EDT)

:Yes, I for one would certainly be very happy to contribute.  But, in order to do that, it would surely help if I first understand why the markup <nowiki><math>\frac{\pi}{2}</math></nowiki> yields <math>\frac{\pi}{2}</math>, but the frighteningly similar <nowiki><math>\frac{2}{\pi}</math></nowiki>, which works just fine in the MediaWiki sandbox, viz: <!--[[https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/61d9a566a0f4e1892e61f7140dacb7bed7f7b44e]], results in <math>\frac{2}{\pi}</math>--> [Ed: deleted error message from non-translated math syntax]
:which was driving me mad until I read the bit of the documentation (eg at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula#Force-rerendering_of_formulas]]) that says the PNG renderer ''caches'' bits of math markup that have already been generated.  So I think it's '''not my fault'''.  For once.  -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 13:14, July 25, 2021 (EDT)

== Infobox Image for Sasha Obama ==

Are there any fair use images on the internet? --[[User:Yeschayi|Yeschayi]] ([[User talk:Yeschayi|talk]]) 18:08, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
:I dunno; unlike Malia, she didn't show up on Hunter Biden's laptop. Try Wikicommons. 
:BTW, I did find misinformation about Malia on Hunter's Biden's laptop. Malia was born in 1998, so according to the metadata on the laptop, she was 19 and 11 months, not one-month underage, as alleged. So Hunter is exonerated of pedophilia, in that regard. Not so much in the case of his 14-year-old niece, and others. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:27, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
::Is this fair use https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sasha_Obama_in_the_Rose_Garden_of_the_White_House_(cropped).jpg --[[User:Yeschayi|Yeschayi]] ([[User talk:Yeschayi|talk]]) 19:18, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::I think so. Can't we find anything more recent, rather than this Obama-era propaganda pic? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:45, July 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::In my personal opinion, the Obama era was a nightmare for our readers, and our readers may get offended by recycling Obama-era propaganda, passing off the Obama klan a normal American family. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:48, July 18, 2021 (EDT)

== Well well well... ==
{{Warning collapse
|reason=DFTT
|content=Hi Andy, RobSmith has told me that he isn't even going to bother deleting the log details on [[Special:RecentChanges]] that contain racial slurs. Seeing that I have nearly 20,000 edits to Conservapedia, I ask for sysop powers to maintain these responsibilities RobSmith is abdicating. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User:Liberaltears/mail|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Monday, 21:57, July 18, 2021 (EDT)}}

== Larry Sanger (Tucker Carlson Tonight, Thursday July 22nd) ==

Hi Andy, did you see Larry Sanger interviewed on Fox last night? What did you think? Would you like to see Conservapedia included in the kind of 'omnipedia' Sanger seems to be envisaging? Best wishes, -J [[User:Psircleback|Psircleback]] ([[User talk:Psircleback|talk]]) 02:04, July 23, 2021 (EDT)

==Woman chess champion==
You seen this yet? [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/02/hou-yifan-and-the-wait-for-chess-first-woman-world-champion]  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:20, July 26, 2021 (EDT)
:Interesting, but competitive [[chess]] is only one small (and nerdy) part of the game.  Women are leading in chess entertainment and style.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:43, July 26, 2021 (EDT)

==The Soul of a New Machine==
Loved your add of this.  I first read an excerpt in Reader's Digest, then went and bought the full copy.  It is among my favorite non-fiction books.  [[User:Quidam65|Quidam65]] ([[User talk:Quidam65|talk]]) 23:07, August 1, 2021 (EDT)

:Fantastic edit by you.  Feel free to add more!  It should be on one of our greatest books lists, but it wasn't a "novel" so it wouldn't go on that list.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 23:17, August 1, 2021 (EDT)

== Will you ''please'' check your email and respond to my message from last night? ==

Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User:Liberaltears/mail|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Tuesday, 18:15, August 3, 2021 (EDT)
:MPL entries must have achieved a strong popularity to be included.  Thanks in advance for any future suggestions you might make here.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:45, August 4, 2021 (EDT)
::By strong popularity, are you only referring to page views, or would high rankings on search results in DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Bing, etc. also count? Given that our current page view growth isn't nearly what it was last year, trying to get high page view counts especially for new page creations will be exceedingly difficult. My hope is that ''featuring'' a well-researched, high quality article on MPL (something similar to [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Template%3AMainpageleft&diff=1632995&oldid=1632407 this] and [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Template:Mainpageleft&diff=1762638&oldid=1762285 this]) and not merely including it among the bullet points can help increase the view counts. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User:Liberaltears/mail|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 00:38, August 5, 2021 (EDT)

::Great news! I got an article on the [[Reece Committee]] going, which I'm doing extensive research on and am hoping to expand heavily. It was led by Tennessee congressman B. Carroll Reece, investigated tax-exempt foundations and uncovered communist subversion plots. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User:Liberaltears/mail|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Sunday, 22:59, August 7, 2021 (EDT)
:::That's fascinating history!!!  Well done!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 12:54, August 8, 2021 (EDT)
::::Thank you! What I find chilling about the overall theme of the report is how its forewarning was '''''way''''' ahead of its time, seeing the active complicity major organizations in the present day have in the ideological subversion of society towards destructive left-wing ideologies. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User:Liberaltears/mail|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Sunday, 13:03, August 8, 2021 (EDT)
:::::Update: Now I got an article on the [[Cox Committee]] started too. So far, I think I got the sources I need with the exception of the select committee's final report. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 20:54, September 22, 2021 (EDT)

::I would highly appreciate it if you can ''feature'' any of the following articles on MPL:
::*[[Brazilla Carroll Reece]] – 800+ page views
::*[[Bourke Hickenlooper]] – 2,000+ page views
::*[[William Knowland]] – 1,000+ page views
::I'm hoping that you can post on the top of MPL a headline like "Featured article," along with some introductory sentences under it about the political figure and a nice image thumbnail at the side. Just out of curiosity, have you read any of those articles? My article on Reece contains some interesting and extensive details not found on WP, mainly regarding his competition with [[Oscar B. Lovette]].  —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Tuesday, 23:23, August 23, 2021 (EDT)

== Conservapedia Insights ==

Is there a certain process how one of your personal insights becomes a [[Conservapedia insight]] - especially [[Talk:Pi#Andrew_Schlafly.27s_.22Proof_by_Induction.22|something so profoundly wrong]] like "[[pi|&pi;]] contains [[pi|&pi;]], despite [[liberal denial]] of the breadth and power of [[infinity]]"? --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 05:21, August 4, 2021 (EDT)
:[[Infinity denial]] can be a stubborn thing.  Do you also deny that [[pi|&pi;]] is a [[normal number]], despite the analysis of its first trillion digits indicating that it is?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 12:57, August 8, 2021 (EDT)
::#That's more like ''finiteness  denial''. I expect &pi; to be [[Normal number|normal]], I expect P!=NP, I expect [[Riemann's conjecture]] to be true. All three statements are unproven (yet). 
::#&pi; being normal is a necessary condition for your so-called ''proof'', not a sufficient one.  
::#But you did not answer my question: '''Is there a certain process how one of your personal insights becomes a [[Conservapedia insight]] - especially [[Talk:Pi#Andrew_Schlafly.27s_.22Proof_by_Induction.22|something so profoundly wrong]] like "[[pi|&pi;]] contains [[pi|&pi;]]"?'''
::--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 14:35, August 8, 2021 (EDT)
:::So you still deny pi contains pi?  For what '''''n''''' (where n is the number of digits of pi) do you think that pi no longer contains pi?  As to [[Conservapedia insights]], when something becomes true beyond reasonable doubt (which is not necessarily absolutely certainly true), then it qualifies, just like the strictest burden of proof in a court of law.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:13, August 8, 2021 (EDT)

Not much denial on my part, just an awareness of the mathematical reality.  - perhaps you could answer my questions below?
{|
|style="background-color:pink"|The repetition likely won't happen until after an infinite number of digits, so this is not a problem.  I've updated the essay on this point.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 11:01, August 6, 2021 (EDT)
|-
|style="background-color:lightblue"|Pray, what is the index of the first occurrence of this repetition? Is it x<sub>&infin; + 12 </sub>? Or x<sub>&infin; + 4125 </sub>?  Or even x<sub>2&infin;</sub>? How is the weather on the day after the infinite reign of God?
For someone criticizing everybody else for their understanding of infinity, you write some weird stuff! --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 11:32, August 6, 2021 (EDT)
|}

(This is from [[Talk:Essay:pi_contains_pi#Andy, you are nearly there!]], replicated for your convenience.... )

--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 15:33, August 8, 2021 (EDT)
:I'm not going to respond further if you continue to resort to childish putdowns while failing to answer my straightforward questions.  Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:38, August 8, 2021 (EDT)

I apologize for my "childish putdowns" - here are the answers to your "straightforward questions":
*"''So you still deny pi contains pi?''" Absolutely. Wholeheartedly. &pi; does not contain &pi;
*"''For what n (where n is the number of digits of pi) do you think that pi no longer contains pi?''" I ''expect'' &pi; to contain an '''''approximation of &pi;''''' of length ''k'' in an evaluation of &pi; to the 10<sup><small>k</small></sup>th digit. I ''know'' that &pi; does not contain &pi; as an infinite and unbroken sequence of digits.
*"''As to Conservapedia insights, when something becomes true beyond reasonable doubt (which is not necessarily absolutely certainly true), then it qualifies, just like the strictest burden of proof in a court of law.''" Whose reasonable doubt? BTW: The ''strictest burden of proof in a court of law'' is not good enough a proof in mathematics. 

Andy, you invoked the similarities to the concept of eternity in Heaven and Hell. So, I think me question is justified:

'''"Pray, what is the index of the first occurrence of this repetition? Is it x<sub>&infin; + 12 </sub>? Or x<sub>&infin; + 4125 </sub>?  Or even x<sub>2&infin;</sub>? How is the weather on the day after the infinite reign of God?"'''

--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 16:04, August 8, 2021 (EDT)

:You wrote, "I expect π to contain an approximation of π of length k in an evaluation of π to the 10kth digit."  OK, so in the limit as k -> &infin; then π contains π, right?
:In response to your question, the index of the first repetition of an approximation of π occurs before &infin;, while finding the full π requires going to index of &infin;.  Your index terminology is not helpful  in the context of [[infinity]], which is beyond enumeration.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 18:09, August 8, 2021 (EDT)

::You can count to 100, you can count to 1000, you can count to ''n'' for every natural number. But you cannot count to &infin; even in ''n'' -> &infin;: &infin; itself is not a natural number! - Can we agree here?
::It is sufficient for "the index of the first repetition of an approximation of π occurs before &infin;" to trigger the contradiction which implies periodicity of &pi;!
::The very point of "countable infinity" is that it can be enumerated! And that is what we are talking about here: the easiest, best understood concept of infinity!
::--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 18:43, August 8, 2021 (EDT)
:::As far as the first occurrence of pi in pi, I am going to leave with August a quote from Yogi Bera: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:14, August 8, 2021 (EDT)
::::Appreciate the humor!  Yogi Berra has many funny quotes.
::::"It is sufficient for "the index of the first repetition of an approximation of π occurs before ∞" to trigger the contradiction which implies periodicity of π!" RESPONSE: no contradiction because there is no periodicity for a mere approximation of π.
::::You don't address my point about the limit, using your reasoning, as k -> &infin; --[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 19:22, August 8, 2021 (EDT)

Andy, in the following I address your point about the limit in some detail:
Let's consider the following sequence: ''a<sub><small>0</small></sub> = 0'', ''a<sub><small>n+1</small></sub> =1/n!+''a<sub><small>n</small></sub> for all natural numbers n. So we have a<sub><small>1</small></sub>=1, a<sub><small>2</small></sub>=3/2, a<sub><small>3</small></sub>=5/3, a<sub><small>4</small></sub>=41/24 and so on. Every element of this sequence is a rational number (as the sum of two rational numbers). What about lim<sub><small>n ->&infin;</small></sub>a<sub><small>n</small></sub>? That's ''e'' - and therefore not a rational number. This is an example that the limit of a sequence may have properties different from every element of the sequence.

Now, let's look at the set of all  sub-sequences of &pi;: each element of this set can be characterized by a pair of numbers: a starting point and a length. (1; 3) ~ "141", (214768;1) ~ "042761", (1;&infin;) ~ "1415....." 

While the starting point has to be finite (it does not make sense to talk of the digit at place &infin;+42), the length may be infinite!

If &pi; is a normal number (and I'm quite confident that it is), then everyone agrees that any finite approximation is an element of our set: (9; 1) ~ "3", (137; 2) ~ "31", (2,120; 3) ~ "314", (3,496; 4) ~ "3141", (88,008; 5) ~ "31415", (146,451; 6) ~ "314159" and so on.

We know that our set contains strings of digits of infinite length. And our sequence "3", "31", "314", "3141" converges in a certain sense to "314152.....". The question  is: does this limit itself is an element of our set? As we have seen with the example of ''e'', that has not necessarily to be the case.

Here, our proof by contradiction comes into play: if the limit is element of our set, then it is represented by a pair (n, &infin;) - where ''n'' is a natural number. As stated above: ''n'' cannot be &infin; +45 or 2 x &infin;  - because (&infin; +45; &infin;) or even (2 x &infin;; 42) do not represent elements of our set.

So, we have a starting point ''n'' from which &pi; repeats itself - which leads to the false result that &pi; is periodical and therefore a rational number.

Ergo, our assumption has to be wrong: "314152....." cannot be in our set - though other infinite sequences are. '''&pi; does not contain &pi;'''  &#9632;

This was somewhat of an overkill - and I'm not sure that it will convince you. Perhaps you should talk about this subject with your fellow administrators [[User:RSchlafly]] or [[User:PhyllisS]].

For my part, I assume that this is my last foray into this special [[Conservapedia insight]]: as with " "Son of Man" is a liberal mistranslation" and "the theory of relativity cannot possibly be true", I'm quite convinced that it is utterly wrong. But I suppose you (and by extension "Conservapedia") won't think of my misgivings as "reasonable doubt"....

--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 10:40, August 9, 2021 (EDT)
:There is no proof that pi is a normal number. Could you give me a mathematical proof? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:30, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
::Massive computer expansions of [[pi]] to nearly endless decimal points have shown it to be normal.  That's proof beyond reasonable doubt.  It's [[liberal denial]] to ignore it.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:27, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
::: That is not how mathematical proofs work. It could be possible that pi is not a normal number just that we haven't computed enough digits of pi yet to show it. For example math experts thought that Pólya conjecture was true but someone found a counterexample around 1.845 × 10^361. Saying "a trillion digits good enough" is poor reasoning. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 21:34, August 30, 2021 (EDT)

== nighttime editing ==

is there a way to be approved for night time editing privileges? some days i stay up late (like how i slept two hours this afternoon), so that's why i ask [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 23:35, August 9, 2021 (EDT)
:Done as requested!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 00:35, August 10, 2021 (EDT)
::Appreciated, thank you. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 02:19, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

== Fair use image uploads ==

I know I can't upload images, but are there rules for fair use images on Conservapedia? For example, there's this fair use image at [[:File:TP Wii.jpg]] (I can't edit it because it's admin-protected), but I was wondering if it's allowed. There's also a [[Template:Fair use|fair use]] template that can be applied to fairuse files. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 12:42, August 10, 2021 (EDT)
:That's [[fair use]] and I unlocked it for you to edit.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 13:43, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

== Bible prediction ==

Dear Mr sir,

In science, one must make a prediction and then do a experiment based on the prediction. If the experiment happened in a way that was exactly predicted beforehand, your prediction becomes scientific theory. 

Could you please make a prediction that hasn't been proven yet that's based from the Bible and then I will do an experiment. Thanks [[User:Gyenda|Gyenda]] ([[User talk:Gyenda|talk]]) 22:50, August 18, 2021 (EDT)
:Such a prediction has been posted for a long time on Conservapedia, and continues to be proven and reproven:  a grand unified theory is impossible. ''See'' [[Biblical_scientific_foreknowledge#Impossibility_of_a_Grand_Unified_Theory]]--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 19:45, August 21, 2021 (EDT)

==America held hostage==
Andy, what do you think of running a banner headline above MPL, "'''America Held Hostage: Day 7'''"? I'll keep it updated daily. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:37, August 21, 2021 (EDT)
:Creative, but I think a daily refrain like that could be unhelpful in winning converts.  We're not just preaching to the choir here.  But I really like the bold advocacy!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 16:38, August 21, 2021 (EDT)
::Biden's [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html underwater now for the first time], and I figured giving him a little shove might help. The polling looks so grim, Realclearpolitics hasn't updated it in two days. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:03, August 21, 2021 (EDT)
:::Would you like to post it as a news headline on MPR (not MPL), citing the polling data?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 19:45, August 21, 2021 (EDT)
::::You mean keep it there for however long we can create some downhill momentum, or as a onetime story? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:53, August 21, 2021 (EDT)
:::::I think start as a one-time story, and then let's see how the news unfolds.  Thanks for the idea!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:27, August 21, 2021 (EDT)

== Conservapedia has no account for basic science ==

*The universe is more than 6000 years old.
*Evolution has been observed.
*Abortion does not cause breast cancer
*The earth is more than 6000 years old.
*Climate change is real. 
[[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:27, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:Yeah, sorry, but most if not all of those statements you made are in fact true. Namely, Evolution has never been observed. Microevolution might have, but certainly not macro. And even Planned Parenthood doctors admitted they cause cancer. As far as Climate Change, give me data that wasn't simply weather data posted right near an asphalt road, something that can't be contaminated by other factors. Otherwise, it's false. Besides, even the guy who made Climate Change admitted it was a con. I can't speak for whether the Earth/Universe is more or less than 6000 years old, however. Even Jesus said that God's time is NOT our time, meaning 6000 years for God may in fact be several billions of years in our time. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 23:34, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:When the earth came into existence, were you there? 

:Do you have godlike powers in order to know with certainty the future of the earth's climate in the 21st century? Last time I checked, my local weatherman found it challenging to give with certainty whether it is going to rain next Wednesday. See also: [[Limitations of science]] and [[Scientism]]

:'''Question:''' Generally speaking, when scientists make statements about the distant past or the future are they more accurate or less accurate? I eagerly await your response! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 20:36, August 30, 2021 (EDT)

:[[Atheistic science]]:
:*falsely denies that all recorded history suddenly disappears prior to about 3,000 B.C., see  [[Counterexamples_to_an_Old_Earth#History|here]]
:*falsely denies that [[abortion]] causes substantial physical and psychological harm to the mother
:*falsely denies that [[climate change]] inevitably occurs regardless of human activity
:*falsely pretends that intelligent life exists in outer space
:*falsely pretends that atheistic societies (such as the former [[East Germany]]) are desirable
:*falsely pretends the existence of never-directly-observed [[gravity waves]], [[black holes]], and a unified field theory 
:*falsely pretends that [[electric car]]s are so much better overall for the environment that traditional cars must be banned
--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:52, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:: Do you know that many Christians believe what is written above as well. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:58, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
::: Some [[Christian]]s are misled by atheists who control [[public school]] curriculum.  There were probably some Christian [[communist]]s, too. All that proves is that [[atheism]] misleads some people and influences culture.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:06, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::: Have you been to every single planet in the entire Universe? How can you be so certain that we are the only place in the Universe that has no life? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 21:19, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::: What do you mean no recorded life before 3000BC? Stonehenge was been built before 3000BC. And the start of the Naqada culture in Egypt was around the 40th century BCE. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 21:19, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::: And why do you expect science to "directly observe" gravity waves and black holes? You can't "directly observe" these phenomena. Do you deny the existence of X-rays, infrared and ultraviolet radiation? You can't observe these phenomena either. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 21:19, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::::Stonehenge is a pile of rocks which cannot be reliably dated.  Ditto for similar claims.  Direct observation doesn't mean see it, but to observe it in a reasonably direct way, which can be done for X-rays but has not ever been done for the hokey gravity waves and black holes.  The belief in extraterrestrial life is a common fictional belief among [[atheist]]s, disproven with every new expensive experiment (such as the giant antenna in [[Puerto Rico]]).--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:37, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::Again, have you been to every single planet in the entire Universe? Have you? How are you so, so certain considered than they are many many planets in the Universe? Again, why do you dismiss Stonehenge so quickly? Do you believe that radiocarbon dating is unreliable? And there is a literal picture of a black hole! I mean that is the most direct evidence then you can get!!! And what about atomic clocks and time dilation? That shows Einstein ToR!  [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 21:45, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::You're repeating unscientific talking points of [[atheistic science]].  We've listened for decades for life in outer space.  The [[Book of Genesis]] says it's not there, and the evidence confirms it.  Believe in extraterrestrial life if you like, but it's not science.  Ditto for dating Stonehenge rocks, believing in black holes, believing in a unification of mass and energy, and exaggerating time dilation.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:54, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::Okay, if you don't wish to believe in aliens, fine by me. But don't claim the Book of Genesis proved it didn't exist. It never commented one way or another on the status of life on planets (and quite frankly, all I have to say on the matter, speaking as someone who IS in fact a believing Christian and not an atheist, and in fact utterly hates atheists for their trying to exterminate us, is that it's extremely unlikely that God would create a galaxy and only leave ONE planet teeming with life. Actually, to be honest, someone like God would be obsessed with galaxies teeming with life to ensure constant worship of him, not just one planet). Besides, by your logic, us Americans cannot exist either, because we're not mentioned in the Bible either, in any of the books, New or Old. Let's not forget that at the time the bible was written, none of the world, whether it be the Israelites or any of the various nations would have even been aware of the American continents at all. The most they'd know about were Asia, particularly China, Europe, the Middle East, and maybe the northern portion of Africa. America as a continent was never even discovered, North or South, until either Leaf Erikson or Christopher Columbus (depending on which historical account you deem first), and in fact, both discovered the Americas completely by accident (Columbus was trying to find a shortcut to India). I know if I were to use your argument of the bible proving aliens didn't exist, I'd go so far as to deny America itself as ever existing and we're in a fantasy just because it's never mentioned in the bible, nor would there have been any way to even THINK anyone at the time would have been aware of America's existence either. The only thing I'm going to say on the matter is we can't say for certain whether or not aliens don't exist. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 23:29, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
[[File:Black_hole_-_Messier_87_crop_max_res.jpg]] Please tell me what I see is fake. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 21:56, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::(ec) Excuse me, let me ask, Do you have [[faith]] that there is life on other planets? Do you have any evidence other than what some may call 'deductive reasoning"? And lastly, if you can't decipher between "recorded history," i.e a ''written'' record and a pile of rocks, you may be in over your head already. Sorry for the intrusion. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 21:59, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::: No, its basic logic. I'm quite openminded. And why do you place a difference between written record and non-written record of human existence? Its seems quite arbitrary. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:09, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::In common parlaance "recorded history" refers to a written account, as differs from just history which can include anthoplogical studies, archeology, or maybe even oral traditions.
:::::::::::Let's apply some simple logic:
:::::::::::What has God given us?
:::::::::::*life
:::::::::::What has science given us?
:::::::::::*nuclear bomb
:::::::::::*coronavirus
:::::::::::I'll venture a draft conclusion: God can create, man's best brains can only destroy. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:15, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
God has created
*Disease (Black Death, measles)
*Natural disasters
*Box Jellyfish
*Death (we don't live forever do we?)
*Cancer

Humans have created:
*Vaccines
*Spacecraft
*Water sanitation
*Entertainment 
*Toilets

Draft conclusion: Humans and God are neither good nor evil. Its a question of perspective. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:21, August 30, 2021 (EDT)

:Oh, I see. Humans have outwitted God. Good luck with that. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:23, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:: Yep. :) [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:26, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:So, let's continue this logical argument. God, or some random processes, created life. Then God, or some random acts of nature threw obstacles in the human's path with diseases. Humans retaliated with vaccines. You still haven't answered why human's venerate the inventors of the nuclear bomb and coronavirus?  Is this what our best scientific minds are to be used for? creating weapons to kill each other? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:30, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
::As I said before science is neither good nor bad. Its a matter of perspective. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:36, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::Okay, when a nuke goes off, I'll remember that. It's just a matter of perspective. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:37, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::Same with global warming; it's neither good or bad. It's just a matter of perspective. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:38, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
And when you go to the toilet and not die of water-borne diseases, remember it's just a matter of perspective. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:41, August 30, 2021 (EDT)

And when you enjoy your computer remember it's just a matter of perspective. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:41, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:Well, my computer wasn't invented for my enjoyment - that's called spinoff technology. It was invented as a Cold War weapon against communism. And maybe in your godless world nobody ever taught you how to wipe your butt properly, as the people in ancient Egypt were visited by plagues, until God led his people into the wilderness to teach them how to live properly: witness [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deuteronomy+23%3A12-14&version=KJV Duet 23:12-14]. Don't get too puffed up in your pride, the written record teaches us that man didn't know how to take a crap properly until God instructed him. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:49, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:God invented urban sanitation, man never figured it out on his own. The Egyptians would just relieve themselves outside the front door or in the street, leading to plagues of flies and lice, and frogs to eat the flies. And the rivers turning to blood.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:02, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
::One more comment: Had Moses said at the time, "To attack me is to attack science and truth," what do you think the compliance rate would have been on all the sanitation and hygiene rules? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:58, August 31, 2021 (EDT)

See, the fact that computers are a spin off of Cold War weapon against communism shows that science is neither good nor bad. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:15, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:It's bad when all the tax dollars I paid for decades to develop technology to fight communism has now been hijacked by communists to preach godlessness and communism. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:19, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
Hey remember when Ken dropped you from his Christmas list in 2017? You said you were "butthurt". [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:22, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
And what technology, Rob? What technology is been developed that turning people into godlessness and communism? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:22, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::I can see [[desecularization]] happening. An explosive growth of Christianity in China. Sky-high birth rates of religious Africans and those Africans emigrating to Europe. Half of the population growth in the world in the next two decades is expected to happen in Africa. 

:::I have yet to see [[macroevolution]] or proof and evidence for atheism being true. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 23:26, August 30, 2021 (EDT)

::How would you feel if you worked 12 hours a day in a defense plant during WWII only to wake up one morning and see Hitler had all those weapons and occupied the White House? That's how many of us felt in 2008 when the communists occupied the White House. We didn't fight the Cold War for nothing. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:28, August 30, 2021 (EDT)

::::By the way, due to their below replacement birth rates, the populations of atheistic China and secular Europe are expected to decline in the 21st century. The writing is on the wall. I suggest you read it! Secular leftism is dying. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 23:31, August 30, 2021 (EDT)

Speciation has happen so many times it not even a debate anymore, Ken. Here is some info from NatGeo: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/speciation/ [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:36, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:[https://biblehub.com/kjv/1_john/3-2.htm Hey, change is the order of things], from birth to death. You guys are about 2 lightyears behind the times with this debate. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:44, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
::@Astaka: All that proves is that life is capable of adapting to situations and environments. The most that indicates is microevolution, where lifeforms tend to adapt to new places. You can call it Moving Day or having a good immune system as well. Macro-Evolution, which is the complete wholesale radical alteration of current life into entirely new species, has NEVER been proven at all. Let me put it another way: We can prove regional versions of a blue bird, but we CANNOT prove that, say, a whale was originally a dog. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 23:46, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::Aw shucks. Why would you be interested in that anyways? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:49, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::When I think of a lunatic asylum, that's exactly what I think of: two guys sitting at a table in a day room, one arguing that a dog had once been a whale, and the other arguing it's impossible.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:54, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
::::Hey, do you want to supply anything actually proving macro-evolution is possible or impossible? No? Then stop using the lunatic asylum example. Either contribute or don't. At least I'm trying to explain how the science despite a couple of centuries since Darwin posited the theory hasn't shown any definitive, beyond any doubt proof that macro evolution (ie, something like man evolving from monkeys) ever existed. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 23:59, August 30, 2021 (EDT)
:::::(ec) Look, it's a matter of recorded history that the human race went off the rails in 1848 with the publication of ''Origin of Species'' and ''Das Kapital'' (as if the world didn't have enough problems beforehand).  You'd think with all that's happened in the interim, with Hitler and all, we'd be able to move past all this nonsense. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:26, August 31, 2021 (EDT)

[[Atheistic science]] is a never-ending stack of lies.  Which atheistic scientists admit that there is no written record before 3,000 BC?  None.  Why do they all deny it?  What is their explanation for it?  Nothing.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 00:25, August 31, 2021 (EDT)
:Astaka, please tell Ace that unlike so-called [[dark matter]], there is [[Historicity of Jesus|plenty of evidence that Jesus existed]]! Checkmate atheists! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 02:31, August 31, 2021 (EDT
::What happened to Astaka? we were having a civil discussion. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:37, August 31, 2021 (EDT)
:::Northwest did an appropriate 1-day block based on a removal of sourced material.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 16:16, August 31, 2021 (EDT)
::::No, I mean his user page was deleted. That's more than a one-day block. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:02, August 31, 2021 (EDT)

::::Andy, this is unacceptable, to interfere in a civil discussion between CP Admins and editors by deleting an editors user account.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:46, August 31, 2021 (EDT)

::::If indeed the conduct warranted a 24 hour block, the user account should be restored  so that other Admins can view contribs. The user account was deleted with no regard given to you and myself who were engaged in a civil and constructive discussion. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:51, August 31, 2021 (EDT)
:::::User:Conservative should reply to your good question.  He did the deletions.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 18:18, August 31, 2021 (EDT)

::::::Now that the 24 hr block has expired, and User:Conservative has been absent, I took the initiative to undelete the account.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 02:55, September 1, 2021 (EDT)

::::::: Yeah, thanks RobS [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:39, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::: I know of no scientific papers that think that whales are the evolutionary ancestors of dogs, Pokeria1. Could you please give me some peer-reviewed papers that state your claim? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:48, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::: And Andy, the earliest piece of writing is around 3200BC at Mesopotamia. Yeah, I accept that writing was invented around 3000BC. Why do you think "atheistic science" disagree with this? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:52, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::: Can you link to any follower of [[atheistic science]] who admits that no writings exist prior to about 3,000 B.C. (or 3,200 B.C.), and without the "invention" fiction?  Writing is not an invention any more than language is.  Atheistic scientists will often deny basic facts.  Here's another denial by them:  that the precession of [[Mercury]]'s perihelion no longer confirms the [[Theory of Relativity]].  Atheistic scientists once bragged that it did, until the data began to show otherwise and then nothing but radio silence from them ever since. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0212 See 2011 scientific article, silence since]--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:52, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::: I literally got it from Wikipedia. Its not some open conspiracy, the only people who think there is a conspiracy is you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:02, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::: The arXive paper talks about the Moon, not Mercury. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:04, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::: Could you please show me where the paper was published outside arXiv?  [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:07, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::Wikipedia is not a credible source because of its "anyone can edit" policy and its adherence to liberal dogma to the exclusion of all else (they even, at the drop of a hat, censor and silence anyone who tries to set records straight).  Plus, you didn't provide any sources to back up your claims (and "sources" from liberal sites, which will lie, deceive and twist facts for political and ideological purposes to suit their narratives, are also not credible and thus don't count). [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 22:24, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::: Andy was saying that liberals were denying that writing only appeared around 3000BC and I was showing that Wikipedia (a liberal source) does in fact show that writing was created (invented, discovered whatever) around 3000BC. So there is no liberal denial. I wasn't trying to show that Wikipedia was a source I was just showing a point. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:30, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::Not an excuse, and Wikipedia still doesn't count (it even admits that it should not be used as a source).  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 22:34, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
I said I WASN'T using it as a source. My argument.
* Andy states that liberals deny that writing was created around 3000BC
* You yourself state that Wikipedia is "liberal dogma".
* Wikipedia states that writing was created around 3000 BC.
* Therefore there is no liberal denial. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:38, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:And yet, you're engaging in both now (using Wikipedia as a source ''and'' resorting to denial) while simultaneously denying doing so.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 22:42, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:: British Library :https://www.bl.uk/history-of-writing/articles/where-did-writing-begin
:: World History: https://www.worldhistory.org/writing/
:: Cambridge University https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8TyOC9nqEokC&pg=PA59&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
:: [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:47, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:::Actually, the first two sources you provided prove Wikipedia wrong about its claim (of writing being created around 3000 BC) because the sources go further back than that, to at least 3500 BC; the third source is redundant as there is a Cambridge University Press source already indicated at the [[hieroglyphs]] article bibliography section, without needing to use Google (which is likewise not a credible or reliable source because it censors and manipulates searches for political and ideological reasons).  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 22:59, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
So a LIBERAL source Wikipedia (that you state refuse to show conservative opinions in its articles) SHOWS, ABSOLUTLY, UTTERLY that writing was created around 3000BC. So does British Library, World History.org and Cambridge University Press. There is no LIBERAL denial whatsoever. '''Question''' how does a Liberal source Wikipedia state that writing was created around 3000BC not proof that there is liberal denial? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:07, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:Actually, you brought that on yourself when you posted the two sources that actually proved Wikipedia wrong (that they show that writing was developed at least 500 years before Wikipedia's claim), and when you got that pointed out to you, you continued going into denial mode regarding Wikipedia (which, contrary to your claims, [[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia|is still not a credible source due to its liberal bias]]).  Andy provided proof to back what he posted, and in posting two of the sources you gave, you actually discredited Wikipedia, not Andy.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 23:16, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::Ah no the two sources does not disagree with Wikipedia: Wikipedia states: ''Sumer, an ancient civilization of southern Mesopotamia, is believed to be the place where written language was first invented around 3200 BCE''
::The British Library: ''first in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) where cuneiform was used between 3400 and 3300 BC''
::WorldHistory.org: ''Written language, however, does not emerge until its invention in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, c. 3500 -3000 BCE. ''
::They are all based around 3200BC plus-minus a few hundred years (due to the uncertainty around ancient history)
:: Also you have never answered my question: '''how does a Liberal source Wikipedia state that writing was created around 3000BC not proof that there is liberal denial?'''? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:25, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:::Are you going out of your way to tie yourself in knots in denial over not only getting proven wrong (and trying to save face after the fact), but also your provision of two sources that actually proved Wikipedia wrong (which you're trying to save face over as well)?  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 23:34, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::::I ask the question again: '''You say Wikipedia is a liberal website that refuses to show evidence that contradict its liberal viewpoints. One example of a liberal viewpoint is its refusal to accept that writing didn't exist beyond around 3000BC. Yet Wikipedia states that writing was created around 3000BC. How is that writing didn't exist beyond around 3000BC an example of liberal denial if one of the largest liberal sites in the world, Wikipedia, accepts this fact as true? '''[[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:42, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:::::Sorry, but you're still actually proving Andy's point as well as the very sources you provided which disprove what Wikipedia claims.  You're not getting anywhere here with your argument.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 23:47, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:::::: They are all based their estimates around 3200BC. Read above about their different claims: Wikipedia(3200 BCE), British Library(3400 and 3300 BC), WorldHistory.org(c. 3500 -3000 BCE.) Your just comparing aqua and turquoise here. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:53, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
::::::Are you going to answer the question in bold above? Its pretty simple question to ask. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:53, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::Meanwhile, you're ignoring what you posted prior to your most recent post (Wikiepdia's claim of writing only being invented c. 3000 BC) as well as the very sources you provided that disprove Wikipedia while arguing yourself in circles, which still doesn't help your argument.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 00:04, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
Can you answer my question?'''You say Wikipedia is a liberal website that refuses to show evidence that contradict its liberal viewpoints. One example of a liberal viewpoint is its refusal to accept that writing didn't exist beyond around 3000BC. Yet Wikipedia states that writing was created around 3000BC. How is that writing didn't exist beyond around 3000BC an example of liberal denial if one of the largest liberal sites in the world, Wikipedia, accepts this fact as true? ''' If you can't answer my question, then I bet you've refusing to answer my question because you know I've got you trapped. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 00:07, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::: Again, I have answered your objections. They are all based around 3200BC. '''You are comparing aqua and turquoise here.''' What do you want, "Writing was created at 4th of June, 3200BCE at 6:00 in the afternoon?" [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 00:10, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::Sorry, but the only one you have "trapped" is yourself (via your own Wikipedia-contradicting sources) and you can't even bring yourself to admit it.  Time to cut your loss and move on.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 00:11, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::There exists all sorts of written notation back as far as 10,000 B.C. in several cultures. Most of it howevere are accounting logs.  As for story telling, epic poetry, and what we call narrative, stems from about 3,000 B.C. Just because earlier texts are indecipherable to modern readers doesn't mean written notation didn't exist, and/or those earlier peoples undestanding of the notation. For example, many readers of financial publications even today discern much about the management of a company by reading a financial report consisting mostly of numbers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:34, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

::::::::::50,000 years hence, historians trying to wade through the written language that our contemporary advanced intenet culture leaves behind, will have to wade through reams and reams of digital bianary code just to get to the meat and substance of written text and its meaning. No one person could reconstruct that in a lifetime. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:41, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

Yeah, because you can't answer the question. You know you lose if you are answer the question so you are going on about the dates. Again, they all state that writing was created around the same time in the same place. You stated that one of the source stated that Wikipedia is 500 years off but you have not given any evidence of that. I think as Conservative would as said you are in a "intellectual bunny hole". [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 00:15, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
:No dice.  You actually lost the argument yourself and you can't bring yourself to admit it or to admit the truth (which was actually ''two'' sources you provided, not one, and the evidence is right in those sources as well as in your own words).  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 00:20, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

Northwest do you know what degrees of precision means. When it comes to ancient history there is a degree of uncertainty about dates. Its impossible to get the date shorter than around several centuries. Unfortunately you don't understand that. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 00:19, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
:I understand it better than you realize or care to admit.  Now as I was saying, cut your losses and move on.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 00:23, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

:: NORTHWEST READ ABOVE. READ IT NICE AND SLOWLY. UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD. COME BACK WHEN UNDERSTOOD [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 00:22, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

:::You might also want to tread carefully regarding how you're acting right now, Astaka.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 00:25, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

Northwest you have stated that one of my sources stated that Wikipedia is 500 years off. Can you show me where it is written in my sources? If you can't even give me a sentence, I know that I have won. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 00:26, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

:No, you haven't, because all you're doing is ignoring your own evidence as well as your own postings because you got called on it and it's not convenient for you.  End of story.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 00:30, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

None? Just one sentence, just one. Come on man, its not difficult. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 00:32, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

:You're only making things worse for yourself by continuing to pursue this after your arguments got shot down (and in part by your own doing).  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 00:34, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

Ataska, Wikipedia does not directly state the fact that no written record exists before about 3,000 B.C., but instead assumes in circular manner that writing did not develop until 3,200 B.C.  This is typical [[atheistic science]]: constantly reasoning in a circular manner, assuming what an atheist then purports to prove.  The evidence is that no written record exists before then, and it is not scientific to assume why. If someone wants to make an assumption, then state it as an assumption.

As to the precession of Mercury's perihelion, why the radio silence about that for many years now?  Because it is a [[Counterexamples to Relativity|Counterexample to Relativity]] with greater precision in the data.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:04, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

: Papyrus, animal skins, etc. are biodegradable. Written language that was preserved prior 3,000 B.C. pretty much was all chiseled into stone. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:50, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

::Interesting point.  The ancients like the Pharaohs knew how to preserve things.  And even stone writings don't exist much older than 3,000 B.C.  Anyway, the science is that the written record does not exist before then.  It's not scientific for Wikipedia to say that writing wasn't developed until then.  That's hokey [[atheistic science]], often circular in reason and often assuming what is at issue.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:30, September 2, 2021 (EDT)

::: Uh on Wikipedia they state that "Sumer, an ancient civilization of southern Mesopotamia, is believed to be the place where written language was '''first invented''' around 3200 BCE" Could you please explain this "circular reasoning" as I don't quite understand your point. Also the precession of Mercury's perihelion has been used to PROVE Einstein theory of GR and was one of the first test used that proved that Einstein's GR was correct. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 19:15, September 5, 2021 (EDT)

::::Stone carvings (and image carvings or markings) date back to 10,000-12,000 B.C. and are pretty much all landmarks, kinda like street signs. Petroglyphs, for example, weren't just a bunch of bored cave-dwellers passing the time with graffiti. Their images and markings tell a story.
:::::''"Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western Nevada, the petroglyphs date to at least 10,500 years ago and perhaps even as far back as 14,800 years ago."'' [https://www.ancientpages.com/2018/09/10/petroglyphs-at-the-winnemucca-lake-north-americas-oldest-known/]  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:18, September 5, 2021 (EDT)
:::: (replying to Astaka) Wikipedia is talking about discovering a written record from 3200 B.C., and simply assumes (incorrectly) that it was "invented" then.  There is no evidence of any invention, such as a description of why, how, and why it was invented.  Wikipedia simply assumes and asserts the point that it pretends to prove, as [[atheistic science]] often does.
:::: Ditto for the precession of the perihelion of [[Mercury]].  Early, imprecise data suggested it ''might'' confirm the [[Theory of Relativity]].  Later, more precise data show the opposite, and so this is no longer discussed by the relativist promoters.  They don't even pretend today that the more precise data support relativity, while withholding the data that show otherwise.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:37, September 5, 2021 (EDT)

:::::Let's take image carvings, for example. Many of the images represent common words, such as man, bird, fire, etc. In this sense, it is a written language. The carvings aren't just random. I venture to guess some of them were like perpetual chalkboards for children in a classroom to teach them basic survival skills handed down from generation to generation. Like how to fashion a bow and arrow, to hunt, and build a fire. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:36, September 5, 2021 (EDT)

Andy what makes you believe that writing wasn't invented in Sumer in 3200BC. They haven't found anything earlier or in a different place. Thus, it makes sense this area could be the birthplace for writing. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:46, September 5, 2021 (EDT)
:[[Atheistic science]] is never-ending circular reasoning.  There are multiple more plausible explanations, other than "invention", for why there is no written record dating before 3,200 B.C.  The better question is not why I reject the assumption of an invention then, but why you believe in one (without even admitting it is an assumption).  Likewise, why the belief that the precession of the Mercury perihelion confirms the [[Theory of Relativity]], rather than looking at recent, more precise data with an open mind about it?  You can believe whatever you like, but the implausible assumptions are not science and shouldn't be promoted as science.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:02, September 5, 2021 (EDT)
::Astaka is building a theory on nothing. All the scientific evidence shows is the earliest example of preserved, phonetic writing, by guesswork, stem from about 3200 B.C.  Conjecture, which is part of the "scientific method", is not a substitute for factual evidence.  Herein is how modern atheist science perverts science, scientific fact, and scientific evidence. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 21:07, September 5, 2021 (EDT)
:: The earliest time period for the history of writing is in Sumer in 3200 BC. Therefore, this is the current scientific understanding is this is where writing is started. Of course in the future new evidence could show us and another region of the world or a different time period then my opinion will change. 
:: I am also wondering Andy what you think of the 2019 image of the black hole from Messier 87? That some pretty direct evidence of the existence of black holes. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 21:45, September 5, 2021 (EDT)
:::Astaka, the fanciful notion of [[black holes]] is [[demonic]] humor.  At most some data are consistent with a black hole.  There far fewer black holes (zero, actually) than predicted by the [[Theory of Relativity]].  It's [[political correctness]] and magazine sales that prop up the science fiction of black holes.  [[Stephen Hawking]] showed that the notion of black holes is illogical and leads to contradictions.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 23:19, September 5, 2021 (EDT)
::::I want to be clear that I don't intend to believe anything Astaka said since he's clearly adhering to scientism at this point. That said, however, I do think we need a firm rebuttal regarding that Messier 87 photograph, evidence proving it's fake. It won't be enough to claim it's demonic humor or political correctness. We need actual evidence it's fake before we can firmly dismiss it. Heck, I'm even willing to acknowledge as evidence or proof something like, I don't know, the telescope that discovered the black hole missing a key screw and causing the display to be messed up, like how Buster's telescope falsely discovered a meteor approaching Earth because one of the screws fell into the grass in one Arthur episode. Just SOMETHING besides demonic humor or political correctness if we are to be taken at all seriously and destroy his argument once and for all. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 18:12, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
::(ec) Okay, let's use some logical analysis here. We know that papyrus aand animal skins are biodegradable, and that the earliest known preserved documents using a phonetic alphabet stem from Sumer.  We also further hypothesize that intelligent life may also exist on other planets. We also further hypothesize that life may be more advanced and knowledgeable than the human species. Let's toss in a third: let's further hypothesize that advanced extraterrestrial life may have in its possession hard scientific evidence and proof that written language for the human species on planet earth occurred much earlier than 3,000 B.C.  Now, my question: Is it a universal truth that a small clique of atheists on planet earth can make judgments about what is and what is not scientic facts and truth to all living beings in the known universe? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:21, September 5, 2021 (EDT)
No, it is peer-reviewed papers in respectable journals. Science is not done by blog posts nor the words of scientist (may it be atheist, Christians, Muslims or Satanist). By the way, I am a Satanist. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 19:11, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
:Oh, you mean like the peer-reviewed papers in respectable journals [[Fauci]] engineered after being informed that all the money he funneled to the Wuhan lab created an artificial virus, denying scientific facts and research. Okay, I understand.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:49, September 6, 2021 (EDT)

:GET. OUT. Conservapedia will NOT allow Satanists to take over the site, period. God's dominion matters above ALL else, God ultimately wants Satan to starve to death. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 19:23, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
:: What happened to religious liberty? Right to practice your own faith? You hate both atheist and Satanist? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 19:25, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
::: You REALLY think I'd like atheists after they tried to genocide us Christians out of existence, or any religion for that matter simply because we even held to a religion at all since 1789 thanks to the likes of Voltaire, D'Alembert, and their ilk? As far as Satanists, God made it clear that Satanists are an enemy that needs to be removed, so I go by that. Besides, God himself is no adherent of religious liberty at all (or maybe you've forgotten that Israel underwent the [[Babylonian Exile]] due to practicing religious liberty against God's wishes). And for the record, the Founding Fathers would NEVER have accepted Satanism under religious liberty. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 19:30, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
:::: "Genocide of us Christians?" That's an interesting claim. Could you provide evidence to back this up please? Also that the Founding fathers would have never accept Satanism? That also need evidence to back this up. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 19:36, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
::::: Okay, for the Founding Fathers and how their concept of Religious Liberty was not intended by them to include Satanism, listen to this: https://lawandreligionforum.org/2019/07/29/legal-spirits-episode-012-is-satanism-a-religion/
::::: As far as Genocide of us Christians, I suggest you read up on the French Revolution as well as various Communist revolutions and governments dating back to Vladimir Lenin in fact. In fact, how about I just give you the short list:
::::: http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2014/10/22/the-french-revolution-persecuted-exiled-executed-traditional-catholic-priests-and-nuns/
::::: https://catholicexchange.com/a-new-look-at-the-french-revolution
::::: https://web.archive.org/web/20050309031846/https://culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html
::::: https://archive.org/details/BarruelMemoirsIllustratingTheHistoryOfJacobinism/
::::: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/JAN--11---Plot-to-destroy-Christianity-revealed-by-Yale-President-Timothy-Dwight.html?soid=1108762609255&aid=CbibQMZY5JY
::::: https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/Encyclopedists
::::: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05418a.htm
::::: https://classroom.synonym.com/the-communist-persecution-of-christianity-religion-12085855.html
::::: https://www.religiousfreedominstitute.org/cornerstone/2016/7/14/patterns-of-anti-christian-persecution
::::: https://thebridgehead.ca/2018/05/01/in-historys-bloodiest-persecution-of-christians-the-russian-communists-murder-millions/
::::: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/why-communist-and-leftist-governments-hate-christianity.html
::::: [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 19:47, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
These people were Communist, not non-Communist atheist. Atheism is just the lack of belief in God or gods. Equating atheism and communism is like equalling Christians with creationism. They are tons of atheist out there who destest Communism just like there is tons of Christians who accept the theory of evolution. Also, your source is just plain wrong. America is meant to be a secular state with no thought on religion and is not meant to give preference to one particular religion.  [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:09, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
:::::: That's why I made SURE to cite sources directly tied to the French Revolution in there (and in fact, the vast majority of them were on the French Revolution, NOT Communism), because it predated communism by at least a few decades and if anything was purely about atheism, so you can't use the whole "that's just Communism" as an excuse. And for the record, there are plenty of people who detest communism who otherwise were enamored with the French Revolution. I'd know because some of my teachers were like that. As far as your claim, if America were truly meant to be a secular state, it would have turned out EXACTLY like France did, where they in the name of pure secularism proceeded to commit mass genocide against Christians, including at the Vendee most especially. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 20:24, September 6, 2021 (EDT)

::::You guys are getting off-topic. God and science are two different things. God invented science. Science does not, and cannot disprove the existence of God. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:57, September 6, 2021 (EDT)

::::[https://biblehub.com/esv/isaiah/29-16.htm Isaiah 29:16]. Now since the time of Isaiah and the Babylonian captivity, you guys can continue this idiotic debate, and ignore the historical written record. But that's up to each of us individual human's to decide. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:04, September 6, 2021 (EDT)

:::::Yes, except the fact that King Solomon stupidly allowed for religions OTHER than the one God himself decreed they follow into Israel is precisely what Isaiah was referring to. In other words, their complete and utter failure to remove idolatry from Israel, Judah more specifically. But I definitely agree that God created science first and foremost, and that having science disprove God's existence is a folly. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 20:24, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
::::::Science doesn't deal with the supernatural because Science deals with observable, testable phenomena. Plus, you've got the burden of proof the wrong way around. It's up to you to prove God's existence not up to atheists to disprove the existence of God. "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:39, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
::::::: Oh, and about the French Revolution, it happened because the poorer classes (the Third Estate) had enough of the 1% of society (the nobles and the Church) from having all the wealth and prosperity. Today the slogan of the French Revolution (Liberty, Equality and Fraternity) is the motto of the French Republic. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 20:41, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::: That's a lie and you know it. The poor and downtrodden not tolerating the 1%'s wealth and prosperity had absolutely NOTHING to do with it other than PR. As a matter of fact, even before Vendee, the French Revolutionaries ended up killing over 30% of the entire peasant class via the guillotine (only 8% of the guillotine victims were in fact of the aristocracy), and the Vendee exposes the lie to the idea that they it was all about "haves and have nots", because they tried to exterminate the Vendee despite their being completely composed of "have nots" like themselves, with the only real difference between them is that unlike the Jacobins and the rest of the revolutionaries, the Vendee still supported God. I can also suggest you read ''Demonic'' by Ann Coulter as well. And BTW, it's comments like yours where they try to "justify" atheism not being murderous against Christians by claiming the ones who did so are Communists that's the reason I made sure I tried to gain as much knowledge of the French Revolution as possible, specifically to prove that, no, actually, it was in fact atheism itself that drove to murders against Christianity and, heck, pretty much ANY religion. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 05:14, September 7, 2021 (EDT)

::::::Pokeria's right, but it still falls on each one of individually to look at the evidence and decide ("shall the thing that was made say to the maker, "he hath no understanding"). The blame does not fall exclusively on Solomon. And Astaka argues against this logic, unless he wants to argue that he was not made. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 21:25, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
Hey, I would love to see evidence that the black hole photo was faked. [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 22:55, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
:Duh, wha...?  Are you trying to make an argument that a photograph disproves the existence of God?  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:04, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
No, it was to a previous assertion that the famous 2019 black hole photo is fake. Again, the burden of proof has to be the one making the claim not the one disproving it. Ever heard of Russel's teapot? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 23:30, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
:No, I haven't. Will it make me more intelligent or knowledgeable if I did? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 04:12, September 7, 2021 (EDT)

:OK, read enough of the WP article to make me want to rip my eyes out. Thanks for enlightening me on that. Now, are you ready for me to disembowel your god, Bertrand Russell, all over this talk page? (A) the "burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims". I'm not making the claim. God makes the claim that he exists. True, God is a person. So Russell's argument is with God, not others. Need I go on? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 04:23, September 7, 2021 (EDT)
::Bertrand Russell is not a god. He is a human being, from the species ''Homo sapiens'' who lived between 1872 to 1970. And it is you who is making the claim. Has God came from the heavens down to tell me that he exist? Has he shouted in a loud voice through the heavens "I EXIST"? No, it is his followers like you that state that he exists. 
:: I could use the same logic with the celestial teapot. I'm not making the claim. The celestial teapot is making the claim. True, the celestial teapot is a person. So your argument is with the teapot, not others. Need I go on? [[User:Astaka|Astaka]] ([[User talk:Astaka|talk]]) 18:56, September 7, 2021 (EDT)
:::What evidence do you have that Bertrand Russell isn't a space alien?  Oh, I know, the written record. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 01:49, September 8, 2021 (EDT)

:::''"Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I."'' - Is 52:6
:::(A) I did not make the assertion, God did. (B) We can with a reasonable degree of certainty verify the origins of these words. (C) You're asking me to accept on faith that an advanced civilization did not forge Bertrand Russell's birth certificate as part of the written record to make him appear human. The burden of the unfalsifiable claim is on you, to prove Russell is human, using the same standards of evidence.  IOWs, you cannot simply say one is a fiction or forgery, and the other is not.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 12:24, September 8, 2021 (EDT)

This discussion is utterly boring.  Mind-numbingly boring.  I've been following it off and on for two weeks now, not knowing where to begin.  Let me just say that "atheistic science" is a meaningless term.  You are welcome to disagree with me on that, but you really shouldn't disagree on basic arithmetic.
:"As to the precession of Mercury's perihelion, why the radio silence about that for many years now? Because it is a Counterexample to Relativity with greater precision in the data."
No, it is not a counterexample.  The fact that something is listed on a page titled "[[Counterexamples_to_Relativity]]" doesn't make it a counterexample.  It (number 14 by the way), like all the others, is wrong.  And its wrongness has been in the article for '''many years'''.  You, Andy, have had plenty of time to fix it.  The rebuttal page lists some measurements with error bars, and says that they fit.  For example, it says that the predicted precession is 42.98 ±0.04 arcseconds per century, and that one of the measured values is 42.94 ± 0.20, and that those measurements are within the error bars.  To say that they are not would constitute denying, among other things, that 43.14 is greater than 42.94.  Andy, you've had '''years''' to fix this, and your reference to the Sherlock Holmes ''Silver Blaze'' story shows that you've been aware of this error.

We have a page here at Conservapedia about [[Gravitational waves]].  It goes into a lot of detail about the various observations.  The discovery was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, by the way.

And none of this has anything to do with extra-terrestrial life.

[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 00:40, September 13, 2021 (EDT)

: So where's the recent data on the Mercury perihelion issue??  Relativists don't even claim anymore that it confirms the theory.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 00:54, September 13, 2021 (EDT)

::Try checking the page "9000 results for physics textbook" on Amazon: [https://www.amazon.com/physics-textbook/s?k=physics+textbook].  Textbooks covering this get written all the time, and it is a standard part of the college-level physics curriculum.

::If you are looking for recent orbital data, you are in luck.  The [https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html Messenger spacecraft tracked Mercury with exquisite precision.  I've never contacted NASA requesting spacecraft data, but I'm sure it can be done.  Now that mission ended in 2015.  I hope you aren't claiming that Mercury changed its orbit as soon as people stopped watching.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 11:06, September 13, 2021 (EDT)

:::In other words, there isn't a single current website supporting the outdated claim that the precession of the [[Mercury]] perihelion supports the [[Theory of Relativity]].  It doesn't.  More precise data would show a disproof, not a proof, of the theory.  But if you're going to rely on [[politically correct]] textbooks that are slow to correct [[liberal]] errors, then there would be no end to the discussion of ongoing [[fake news]] that continue to be in them, like their continued praise of racist 20th century [[Democrat]] presidents.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:52, September 16, 2021 (EDT)

::::Please do not put "in other words" words in my mouth, especially when they have absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote, and are completely false.  That the precession supports GR is not outdated, is true, and is universally accepted (except possibly for a few people here at CP) by every scientifically literate person.  I could not possibly have said that there are no websites supporting this; I haven't scanned the entire internet.  I suspect that many of the 9000 textbooks I alluded to above do not address the issue, since it is no longer considered interesting or controversial.  It's similar to the situation with Cassegrain telescopes--textbooks no longer write about them, but they still work and are still built by a few telescope makers.
::::I seriously doubt that a single one of the textbooks describes the precession explanation as outdated, or cites any data that would show a disproof, not a proof, of the theory.  Feel free to cite an exception to this.
::::If you are saying that the precession explanation is outdated, do you mean that it was correct at one time but is longer?  Has observational data changed?  Has General Relativity changed?  Have better explanations come along?  Are the data in the Counterexamples page not correct?  If so, why haven't you addressed that issue in the last several years?
::::If you believe that GR is not the explanation, please cite a textbook or article somewhere.
::::None of this has anything to do with Presidents, Democratic or Republican, racist or not.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 16:23, September 17, 2021 (EDT)
:::::It's been known for more than a decade that the precession of the [[Mercury]] perihelion is contrary to what the [[Theory of Relativity]] predicts, as has long been explained on this website at [[Counterexamples_to_Relativity#cite_note-21]].  You say that textbooks have not been changed on this point, but that surprises no one.  [[Stephen Gould]] complained in ''Natural History'' about the perpetration of the [[Ernst Haeckel]] embryo hoax concerning the [[Theory of Evolution]]: "[W]e do, I think, have the right to be both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings in a large number, if not a majority, of modern textbooks!" (see Haeckel entry here).  Today every textbook falsely portrays [[Woodrow Wilson]] and [[FDR]] as being racially enlightened, when in fact they were unrepentant bigots, far worse than anything racial that [[Trump]] is accused of by the same educators.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 16:43, September 17, 2021 (EDT)
::::::First, I'm not going to get drawn into distractions about Gould, Haeckel, Wilson, or FDR.
::::::The precession is ''not'' contrary to GR.  The "explanation" on the Counterexamples page, like ''every item on that page'', is wrong.  That's why I made a "rebuttal" page.  It may have been "long explained", but it was not adequately explained.  The main counterexample says that the precession is observed to be greater than the prediction, beyond the margin of error.  The precession is in fact within the margin, as pointed out in the rebuttal page, and you've had years to address that issue.
::::::The note that you cite above says that "In a complicated or contrived series of calculations that most physics majors cannot duplicate even after learning them, the theory of general relativity's fundamental formula, <math>G_{\mu\nu} = 8 \pi K T_{\mu\nu}\,</math>, was conformed ..."  Nothing was "conformed" or "tweaked".  8, \pi, and K (Newton's constant of gravitation, around for over 3oo years), are straightforward and elegant.
::::::This is not to say that GR is simple.  Everyone knows that it is very complex, and few people, especially lay people, understand it.  Most physics majors can't reproduce the derivation in full from memory. But let me try.  This is from memory.  I was not a physics major, though I'm fairly knowledgeable.
::::::Gravity arises, as a fictitious force, from the curvature of spacetime.  The curvature comes, in the form of "connection coefficients" or "Christoffel symbols" or "gravity coefficients", often denoted by a capital Greek G, from the derivatives of the items in the metric tensor.  (Yes, I could reproduce all that much from memory.)  Those connection coefficients give rise to "Riemann's tensor" or the "curvature tensor" that lies at the heart of all this.  The contraction of Riemann's tensor is Ricci's tensor.  Conservation of mass-energy requires that Ricci's tensor be transformed in such a way that its trace, or 4-divergence, is zero.  The result is Einstein's tensor <math>G_{\mu\nu}</math>.  Gravity arises from the effect of <math>G_{\mu\nu}</math> on various things like planets.  The proportionality constant is 8 pi K.  K is the experimentally measured constant of Newtonian gravitation.  So Einstein's equation is "tweaked" in that sense to match the tweaking of Newtonian gravity.  Of the 8 pi, 4 pi is the same factor that appears in Maxwell's equations--the gravitational field has the same inverse square form as the electric field, though for a different reason.  Ultimately the appearance of 4 pi is due to the surface area of a sphere being <math>4 \pi r^2</math>.  The remaining factor of 2 is because of the change to derive Einstein's tensor from Ricci's tensor, to remove its trace.
::::::So there you have it.  It's complicated.  Most physics majors can't rederive that from memory, but most chemistry majors don't have the periodic table memorized.
:::::::Sam, not even the ultimate cheerleader for the [[Theory of Relativity]], which is Wikipedia, claims that precise data about the precession of Mercury's perihelion confirms the theory.  I don't think Clifford Will, who has written extensively about the theory, claims this either.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 01:46, September 19, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::You've got to get out of the habit of claiming that various books, websites, reports, etc. say things that are utterly at odds with what they in fact say.  You can stretch the truth when reporting someone's private or personal communication to you, but you can't get away with that when it comes to websites and such that are matters of ''clear public record''.  In the case of Wikipedia, I assume you are referring to the page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity Tests of general relativity].  The page gives a precession of 42.9799, which seems to be fairly up-to-date and accurate.  And it clearly says "Thus the effect can be fully explained by general relativity."  This is around paragraph 10.  I don't see how a statement in support of relativity can be more clear.  And you "don't think Clifford Will, who has written extensively about the theory, claims this either."?  It's chapter 5 of his book "Was Einstein Right?"  If Mr. Will has since retracted his support of relativity, can you cite the place where he did so, so that we can all check?  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 00:44, September 20, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::Apparently there is an ongoing attempt to tweak the [[Theory of Relativity]] to fit the data about Mercury's perihelion. [https://physicsworld.com/a/correcting-einsteins-calculation-of-the-orbit-of-mercury/] As of now, it is not a tight fit between the theory and modern data, and due to [[political correctness]] it is difficult to find articles that fully explain the discrepancies.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:16, September 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::Not a tight fit?  Can you cite actual published data about this, so that your readers can check?  Have you read the article that you cite?  Are you aware that it is about a more sophisticated "gravitomagnetic effect", correcting the main "gravitoelectric effect that has been the staple of all this for nearly 100 years?  And that the correction is about 1 degree per 2 billion years?  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 00:44, September 20, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::Just take a look at the Wikipedia data on the link you cite:  Predicted by Relativity: 575.31.  Observed:  574.10±0.65.  The observations disprove the theory.  But [[atheistic science]] clings to its assumptions and does not view the data with an open mind.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 12:58, September 20, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::::::Please tell us where we can find out about this "apparent ... ongoing attempt to tweak [Relativity] to fit the data about Mercury's perihelion."  Is this ongoing attempt taking place somewhere other than inside your own head?

:::::::::::Finding articles that fully explain the discrepancies is not hard.  The ui.adsabs.harvard.edu article says it has those data, and "We also estimate the total precession rate of Mercury’s perihelion as 575.3100 ± 0.0015"/century and provide estimated contributions and uncertainties due to various perturbing effects."  The discrepancy in overall precession rate, between 575.31 and 574.10+-0.65 is definitely real.  And it occurs somewhere in the following subcategories: other bodies in the solar system, solar oblateness, general relativity, and Lense-Thirring precession.  Relativity accounts for about 7% of the overall precession.  Can you explain why it should get the lion's share of the anomaly?  Please publish the data from the Harvard article giving the "estimated contributions" from the various effects.  The full data require an account.  I'm not going to create an account at the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System just to do your homework--please do it yourself.  And report back to us on what it says about the correctness of relativity.

:::::::::::Actually, there are many other pieces of evidence that have arisen over the years in support of relativity's explanation of precession.  Mercury's precession is actually very messy, inasmuch as it involves subtracting off large confounding effects from other planets.  100 years ago that's all we had to go on, but there have been many more recent observations that are much sharper.  In particular, they involve "strong fields" rather than the "weak field" of the solar system.  Extremely strong gravitational fields can be found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes, and they make much more sophisticated tests of relativity.  Stellar motions in the vicinity of black holes at galactic centers precess very rapidly--much more than arcseconds per century.  And gravitational waves provide even richer evidence.  When neutron stars "ring down" and collide, emitting gravitational waves, there are no other planets confounding the measurements.

:::::::::::And don't forget to show us where Clifford Will no longer believes that precession data confirms relativity.  I can't find any reference to this.

:::::::::::[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 21:54, September 24, 2021 (EDT)

::::::::::::I showed you that the data disproves the [[Theory of Relativity]].  The data is even taken from a [[liberal]] website ([[Wikipedia]]) which is predisposed to promote the theory.  If the data doesn't convince you, what would?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:15, September 25, 2021 (EDT)

Just ''saying'' that something proves your point (something you do frequently) doesn't make it so.  You have to say why.

I'm glad you have invited me to explain what it would take to convince you of the correctness of your positions on the various matters of relativity.  This is going to take a very long time.  I'll deal with the narrow subject of Mercury precession first, and then go into the more general topic of your relativity denial, as indicated by the November 28, 2009 item in [[Conservapedia proven right]] ("Conservapedia asserts that the Theory of relativity is false") and the entire [[Counterexamples_to_Relativity]] page.  While you are waiting for me to finish this rather long project, you might want to ponder the question of why the Large Hadron Collider weighs 38,000 tons.

#One thing that would help convince me that relativity is false would be to show where Clifford Will retracted his assertion the relativity is the correct explanation for the precession.  You have made this assertion a number of times, and whenever I ask you to show me where he said it, you ignore me.
#Another thing that would help convince me that relativity is false would be to explain this "apparent ... ongoing attempt to tweak [Relativity] to fit the data about Mercury's perihelion", and explain why that attempt has failed.
#Another thing that would help convince me that relativity is false would be to go over the data in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity Tests of general relativity] page, and explain why showing a discrepancy of 1.2 arcseconds out of 575, which happens to contain a 43 second contribution from relativity, necessarily means that relativity is responsible for that discrepancy.  Even if relativity is wholly responsible, that's 1 arcsecond out of 43.  Suppose that the contributions from other sources (errors in calculating the effect of other planets, errors in calculating the effect of solar oblateness, etc) are zero.  So relativity is responsible for that entire 1 arcsecond error, and the contribution from relativity is actually 44 arcseconds, or 42.  How do you explain that precession?
#Another thing that would help convince me that relativity is false would be to respond to my challenge, made many times over the last few years, to explain the precession other than through relativity.  The best you ever do is invoke the Newcomb-Hall "exponent tweaking" hypothesis.  That is known not to work, because it would predict the wrong results for every other celestial body.  I've told you that many times.
#Another thing that would help convince me that relativity is false would be for you to look at the [http://www.conservapedia.com/Community_Portal/Archive_1#Two_millionth_page_view_for_the_.22Counterexamples_to_Relativity.22_page "Two millionth page view for the "Counterexamples to Relativity"] page that I wrote over 5 years ago in the Community Portal, and answer the 3 questions that I raised there.  You have repeatedly failed to answer them, and after several attempts to refine the questions, I came up with three, that you failed to answer.  The first questions was "Anomalous precession. Why does it occur?"  I was asking "why", not "how much".
#The second question on that page was "Time dilation. Why does it occur?"  This was in the context of the GPS navigation system and the well-known gravitational time dilation effects.
#The third question was "Non-conservation of mass. Why does it occur?"  This was a reference to the well-known change in the atomic weight when an atom undergoes radioactive decay.
#Another thing that would help convince me that relativity is false would be to explain your assertion, in an [https://conservapedia.com/Talk:Cockcroft_and_Walton_Experiment extended argument with AugustO], that the Cockcroft-Walton experiment was flawed because it used outdated technology, and that it would not get those results if the transmutation were tried today.  Also, look at [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1951/ceremony-speech/], which makes the point that "a verification was provided by this analysis for Einstein’s law concerning the equivalence of mass and energy."

I think this will be my last bullet point on this topic.  If you can satisfy me on these points, I will indeed accept that relativity is false.

Don't forget to tell us why the Large Hadron Collider weighs 38,000 tons.

[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 23:49, October 1, 2021 (EDT)

:SamHB, I apologize for the delay due to some interruptions and, frankly, not yet knowing how to respond.  You feel strongly about the [[Theory of Relativity]] and it has some neat stuff in it.  I think the data disprove the theory but honestly I don't want to try to win this argument with you.  Relativity is kind of mystical and maybe it is rewarding in some ways for you and others, as [[chess]] is for many on a different level.  If you like the theory after all this, then I'm not going to try to move you from that viewpoint.  There are other theories and ideologies that are far worse.

:I need additional time to respond to your specific points.  Thanks for your patience.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:29, October 5, 2021 (EDT)

== A refutation of your article. ==

There is a refutation of your article "Vaxxed Higher Risk of Covid than Unvaxxed" at [[Talk:Essay:Vaxxed Higher Risk of Covid than Unvaxxed|here]]. Please read. [[User:SajdjaBambala|SajdjaBambala]] ([[User talk:SajdjaBambala|talk]]) 00:09, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:Thanks, I'll analyze what you wrote, and reply.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 01:31, September 1, 2021 (EDT)
:: Have you finished analysing what I wrote yet? [[User:SajdjaBambala|SajdjaBambala]] ([[User talk:SajdjaBambala|talk]]) 19:18, September 6, 2021 (EDT)
::: I really hope you are actually read what I wrote, or I bet you are in your intellectual bunny hole. [[User:SajdjaBambala|SajdjaBambala]] ([[User talk:SajdjaBambala|talk]]) 23:31, September 6, 2021 (EDT)

== thank you ==

Just wanted to drop in again and thank you for being the founder of this great wiki, especially because it's not easy to do (given how it's been targeted by liberals and others for nearly 15 years). I'm in my early-mid 20s & I've just read a bit about [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[William Taft]] from the opening sections, and it's great to see a raw summary of these presidents without the uncertainty of what sources like Wikipedia might say. Did you feel that God called on you to create this wiki? [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 10:39, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
:I really appreciate the positive feedback!  I don't have direct instructions from [[God]] about this but there are many passages in the [[Bible]] which encourage this effort, such as the [[Great Commission]].  Please edit more!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 13:25, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
::I do edit here when I get the chance, and sometimes I don't show up for days or weeks if ever I'm preoccupied or focused on some other stuff. It makes me happy that you appreciate my efforts so much. :) One of the big things I did is point out the liberal bias within the [[Internet Archive]], as I don't think it's been brought up that much. Also, can the [[Wikia]] page be moved to Fandom (its new name)? I asked on the talk page a while ago (the page was also really outdated and even listed "political-neutral" as a benefit, iirc, which isn't true, so I removed it). [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 15:06, September 2, 2021 (EDT)
:::Moved as requested!  Thank you.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:04, September 5, 2021 (EDT)


== Suggestion: Downloadable Conservapedia For Offline Reading == 

Howdy. You and your mother are both absolutely incredible people and true gifts to this world. Thank you for what you do. I am a longtime Conservapedia fan. I am writing because I have a suggestion. Online censorship is now rampant, and it is becoming more and more important to keep backups and local copies of things. Wikipedia allows users to download its full database for offline reading. I strongly recommend that Conservapedia allow this as well. It could even be a paid feature to help support the site. (This would be very justified since allowing downloads can be expensive.) [[User:LoveExcel10|LoveExcel10]] ([[User talk:LoveExcel10|talk]]) 22:16, September 11, 2021 (EDT)

== I heard you were wondering if I've created enough "conservative content" ==

Right now I'm doing some more research on the Cox Committee, Reece Committee, and [[Patman Committee]]. If you especially know where I can find a copy of the Cox Committee report, I'd really appreciate it.

If you're also interested, I've been reading Chapter 39 of [[Robert A. Caro]]'s book ''Master of the Senate'' and picked up some good details to write about the [[Anderson-Aiken amendment]] which weakened the [[Civil Rights Act of 1957]]. There's also my page creation on the [[jury trial amendment]], another weakening amendment liberal Northern Democrats sided with Southern segregationists in supporting.

And as partially mentioned above, there's my page creations on numerous conservative Republican figures like Bourke Hickenlooper, William F. Knowland, Oscar De Priest, etc. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Friday, 19:01, September 24, 2021 (EDT)
:That's great work but I'm skeptical about some of your additions to "[[movement conservative]]."  But thanks for your efforts!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:11, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
::I appreciate you replying here. I will continue to do more persistent research and add substantial content to CP articles on both current events (mainly the [[2022 midterms]]) and historical points of interests. The goal of my efforts on Conservapedia is to strengthen the site as a high-quality educational resource for those who seek to be informed on the truth. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Sunday, 21:41, September 25, 2021 (EDT)

== American Thinker published my article on climate change ==

Check it out: "[https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/late_night_tv_unites_against_climate_change.html Late night TV unites against climate change]." [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 09:11, September 26, 2021 (EDT)

:Spectacular!  I really enjoyed "One must ask who still believes these tired old canards?"--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:04, September 26, 2021 (EDT)
::Peter, I read your article. It was informative. For example, I learned a few things about the history of global warming alarmism. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:42, October 5, 2021 (EDT)

== Adding Mike Pompeo to the Deep State template ==

It's becoming more and more apparent that Mike Pompeo was one of the biggest Deep State operatives to have wreaked havoc during the Trump administration. 

I believe it's time to add him to the list of Deep State operatives on the main template.

What do you think, Andy?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 18:59, October 5, 2021 (EDT)
:Maybe.  But hasn't Pompeo consistently been pro-[[Trump]]?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 19:00, October 5, 2021 (EDT)
::It doesn't matter what his position on Trump is. Whether one supports or opposes Trump is a small fraction of the big picture. Pompeo's actions prove that he is Deep State, and that he band-wagoned onto the Trump movement in order to steer it astray and make it unintentionally fulfill some of the Deep State's goals.
::At this time, the main goal of the Deep State (or at least the neocon/military-industrial-complex faction that Pompeo belongs to) is to start a cold war with China. After all, it was under the cover of the Cold War that the Deep State grew powerful in the first place. So what's the best way for the Deep State to forge a new purpose of existence? Start a cold war with another superpower, in this case China.
::With the [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/02/did-the-fourth-branch-of-government-release-sars-cov-2-then-blame-china/ recent bombshell article] published by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse, the idea that the US government released COVID and blamed it on China is now starting to become mainstream, at least on the right. The "Wuhan Lab" theory is dying, because people are beginning to wake up and realize that it was nothing but a neocon-manufactured diversion to trick them into supporting such a cold war, which in the end would benefit nobody except the Deep State in general and the military-industrial-complex in particular. And Sundance points to one person specifically as being among the "central players" in the decision-making immediately preceding the release of the virus, and that person is Mike Pompeo.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 19:18, October 5, 2021 (EDT)
:::What do you think, Andy?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:12, October 7, 2021 (EDT)

::::Looks like a lot of the tried and tested methods of character assassination by the & MSM and conspiracy theorists to me.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:02, October 7, 2021 (EDT)
::::We've torn apart the [https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/02/what-the-yahoo-assange-report-got-wrong/ half-truths] of [[Michael Isikoff]], who wrote the hit piece on [[Carter Page]] that James Comey and Peter Strzok used to perpetrate a fraud against the FISA court.  And the Sundance article is [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/08/the-fourth-branch-of-united-states-government/ an installment on a series about "The Fourth Branch of Government"], which itself most people would dismiss as a conspiracy theory. This proposal to besmirch Pompeo gives absolutely no context in which Pompeo's name is mentioned. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:13, October 7, 2021 (EDT)
:::::How is the "Fourth Branch of Government" Sundance refers to any different from the Deep State?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:46, October 7, 2021 (EDT)
::::::The link above is the Introduction to the series. The "Deep State" dates back at least to 1961 and the military-industrial complex, and the 1963 assassination of JFK; Sundance is writing on the reorganization and "reforms" recommended by the 9/11 Commission adopted wholesale by the U.S. Congress without debate, and the Patriot Act.  (Brief personnel comment: I believe Sundance erred in labeling it "the Fourth Branch" due to confusion with "the Fourth Estate.") [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:27, October 7, 2021 (EDT)
:Not to derail this important discussion, but I intend to write an Essay on what has happened. [[Ronald Reagan]] was famous for his quotation, "Government is not the solution. Government is the problem." Then along came Bill Clinton, fired all the US Attorneys and the FBI head, replaced them with his own, and exploited the [[Oklahoma City bombing]] for his re-election. Today the FBI investigates and labels "anti-government" ideology as domestic terrorism, using Reaganism as the basis of "anti-government" ideology.
:Not to get too far afield, but Newt Gingrich in 1995 was discussing problems with the [[FISA]] Act, how technology made it obsolete cause someone under FISA surveillance could just toss a cell phone in a trash can and it was too cumbersome to discover the new cell phone number and secure a warrant from a judge. Of course, the commie media assailed him.  Then when the Patriot Act finally did roll around a decade later, it was patterned after a bill Joe Biden wrote that never passed to target "anti-government" (read Reagan acolytes) after the Oklahoma City bombing.
:These are the issues that need to be examined in CP articles, not cheap hit pieces and anecdotes manufactured by the collusion of the Deep State, MSM, and DNC. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:53, October 7, 2021 (EDT)
::Say what you want about the Isikoff report. What about the Sundance report, which pushes allegations far more serious than those pushed by Isikoff? Is Sundance colluding with the Deep State, MSM, and DNC?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 19:31, October 7, 2021 (EDT)
:::No he doesn't. He states upfront it's a theory. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 10:16, October 8, 2021 (EDT)
::::A theory, yes. And a well-thought out theory that is backed by sound deductive reasoning.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:34, October 8, 2021 (EDT)
:::::No, you are not following the series on "The Fourth Branch of the United States Government". All you are doing is a Clintonism, trying to demonize your perceived political opponents with half-baked notions. That recent installment isn't really on the subject, it was added as a sort of addendum to recent discussions. And the piece makes one reference to Pompeo: ''"One of the central players, who likely knows the details behind who exactly executed the release, is former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has been blaming the Chinese almost exclusively.  [Methinks he doth protest too much.]"'' That's it. That's all, How do you get "he's the mastermind" from this?
:::::We know it was not the Chinese exclusively. Fauci and the NAIAD were involved. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 02:18, October 9, 2021 (EDT)
::::::"Central player" is similar to "mastermind," assuming there are co-masterminds.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 20:26, October 9, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::Well duh, a "central player" in the Fourth Branch Intelligence Community with an approved security clearance is a far cry from a "central player" in the Deep state, or "mastermind" behind the release of covid-19. And the context only speaks of "likely" knowledge of "the details behind who exactly executed the release."  You need to go back and reread the section, [[User_talk:Aschlafly#Background_on_clearances]] and all Sundance's installments on the Fourth Branch before you embarrass yourself any further. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 21:17, October 9, 2021 (EDT)

::::::::Actually, I just realized that there's one notable flaw in Sundance's reasoning in the article concerning the NC lab and Pompeo. While it would indeed be sensible to -- as Sundance does -- assume that a more advanced version of the virus was in the NC lab, and that earlier versions were being stored in the Wuhan lab, at this time it cannot be confirmed ''which'' version of the virus was released. Was it an old version, or was it the current version? If it was an old version, then it ''probably'' came from Wuhan. If it was the current version, then it ''probably'' came from NC. And I emphasize the word "probably" in the last two sentences because either way it does not totally exonerate either lab as being the ultimate source. 
::::::::With that in mind, what do you think?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 12:49, October 11, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::Peter Daszak explained it in Dec. 2019, and I can't find the video right now. The North Carolina lab is Ralph Baric; Wuhan is She Zhengli. Each one is a specialist in somewhat different but related fields, and they don't duplicate their work. She Zhengli does the gain of function work, and Baric designs or loads the protein to make the bat virus something else.
:::::::::While the [[PLA]] partnered to upgrade their weapons stockpile, Fauci, I think, was trying to revolutionize all vaccines with mRNA.  But it's a bit early to assign motives to Fauci. We don't know enough. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 13:46, October 11, 2021 (EDT)

Better late than never. Sundance has finally weighed in on the allegations regarding Pompeo in the Isikoff report, and he too finds them to be credible.[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/11/the-fourth-branch-of-u-s-government-targeted-julian-assange-for-kidnapping-or-assassination-in-2017-a-transparently-obvious-motive-being-overlooked/]--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:09, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
:So does Lee Stranahan. He in particular is livid about it.[https://twitter.com/search?q=%22assange%22%20from%3Astranahan%20since%3A2021-09-26%20until%3A2021-10-14&src=typed_query&f=live]--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:12, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
::Sundance added nothing new to what is already known. And the focus of that piece is ''why'' the Isikoff/Deep State article with half-truths appeared now.  Stranahan I'll reserve comment on for reasons already discussed. What you are missing is Prosebiec's allegation that Pompeo is thinking of primarying Trump. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:18, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::But he still finds the allegations credible, and consistent with information he had gathered through his own research prior to the article's publication.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:27, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::As for Stranahan, you may reserve comment on him, but perhaps others won't once they see this conversation. So I'll point out here anyway that has a very good point when he says:
{{quotebox|"In 2016, they got the Democrats to hate Julian Assange and love the CIA. In 2020, they are getting Republicans to hate Julian Assange and love former CIA Director Mike Pompeo."}}
:::"Are Republicans supposed to be making such an about face regarding the CIA and WikiLeaks?" That's a question that's going to be asked with increasing frequency over time as more and more Republicans become aware of this story. And I for one would expect that debate to become pretty heated.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:27, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::And yes, I'm well aware about Posobiec's recent allegation. I didn't want to comment on that one until Pompeo made a formal announcement, but either way I would not be at all surprised if he is indeed thinking about primarying Trump. Perhaps he sees himself as a substitute for Nikki Haley, who virtually destroyed her own chances with her post-1/6 comments.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:31, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
::::Once again, you ignore entirely the context of the Sundance article, and you seriously need to review the section above [[User_talk:Aschlafly#Background_on_clearances]]. Bottomline: When Trump took office, James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, and Peter Strzok controlled '''''WHO''''' received security clearances to become CIA director, National Security Advisor, or any other Presidential appointment needing a security clearance.  Even when Strzok was finally removed from the FBI counterintelligence unit, he was not fired, and only reassigned to the Human Resource Dept. to vet incoming FBI hires.
::::This is becoming tiresome, your crusade to label people as "deep staters" to attack them, without having any understanding whatsoever what the "deep state" is.  Your assumption is Andy and other conservatives are stupid and naive, and will froth at the mouth at the mention of the deep state.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:38, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
::::BTW, I'll even tell you who Sundance is: it's Joe Di Genova and Victoria Toensing.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:45, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
::::And if you look deeper, Stranahan trashes Sundance "cause he's been wrong too many times". Yet comparing the two, Sundance has a better track record. And why don't you mention Prosebiec? cause he's too close to Bannon?  Anyone can see the stupid game you are playing here. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:51, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::::I'm well aware that Stranahan and Sundance don't like each other. They even had a public feud a few years back. And yes, they have some weakenesses. For example, Stranahan isn't the strongest on the extent of the neocons' depravity, and Sundance is very weak on the links between al-Qaeda and the Muslim World League. And historically, I wasn't a fan of Sundance. It was only within the last few months that I warmed up to him.
:::::As for Posobiec, you're right that I'm not a fan of him. I personally believe he's a Deep State shill. But that's not why I didn't say anything about his recent claims about Pompeo. I just wanted to wait for Pompeo to make a formal announcement, because I was under the impression that if I added any mention of it to the Pompeo article prior to said announcment, then said would be soon be removed by a admin on the grounds that it's "hearsay." If you want me to add a mention of Posobiec's claim to the article, let me know.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:17, October 14, 2021 (EDT)

::::So let's quickly take apart the house of cards you build this ridiculous argument on: You expect us to believe that the Isikoff article, manufactured in the basement of the Deep State, is credible enough to ostracize Pompeo as a villainous deepstater.

::::So you deny Isikoff's complicity in the Trump-Russia hoax? Do you deny Isikoff's collusion with [[Glenn Simpson]] & [[Christopher Steele]]? Do you deny the Isikoff's Sept. 23, 2016 Yahoo article was used to corroborate the [[Carter Page]] FISA warrant and hoax the [[FISA court]]?

::::Do you deny the Deep State & DNC are in a panic now over the [[Michael Sussmann]] indictment? Do you deny Sussmann hired [[Crowdstrike]] to begin the "Russia hacked the DNC" hoax? Do you deny [[Shawn Henry]] and [[NBC News]] spread the [[fake news]]? Do you deny the Sussmann indictment gets a little too close to exposing the facts of the [[Murder of Seth Rich]]? 

::::And we're supposed to toss all this in the trash cause a deep stater throws out red meat and accuses Pompeo of being the mastermind behind the plandemic to exterminate the human population and subvert Donald Trump. Your allegations are offensive and sickening. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:24, October 14, 2021 (EDT)

:::::I'm not denying any of the above. But I can still believe a claim made by a Deep Stater when the claim makes sense, can't I? After all, I literally just said that I believe Posobiec is a Deep State shill, and I believe his claim about Pompeo contemplating primarying Trump.
:::::By the way, it was Sundance who accused Pompeo of being involved in planning the pandemic, not Isikoff. Unless of course you ''were'' referring to Sundance when you talked about a "deep stater throwing out red meat." And on another note, where do you get the idea that Sundance is Joe DiGenova, and not Mark Bradman?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:55, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
::::::There you go again. Sundance said Pompeo probably knows ''who'' released the covid virus. That's all he said. My impression is, you haven't the vaguest clue what the deep state is, and simply toss out terms like "Brezhinski", "neocon", or "deep state" to roil Andy's blood. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:06, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::I absolutely do know what the Deep State is. It's a collection of smaller deep states whose interests don't always align with each other. But in the end, they all want some form of: chaos, division, and slavery. And they all despise freedom-loving Americans.
:::::::Ths far, Conservapedia has been going after only some of the Deep State's factions. But there are other factions that Conservapedia has largely left alone, perhaps out of some misguided notion that it is only the factions who openly oppose Trump that are the problem. To once again quote Stranahan:
{{quotebox|"The threats from the Democrats are so obvious right now that I think the REAL threat is from openly neocon Republicans like Mike Pompeo and from secret neocon Republicans like Bannon and his Strategy of Tension (look it up) crew."[https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/1446955018205241357]}}
:::::::And that's why I do what I do here. To make a difference.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 19:11, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
[[File:27067022 1565197686869300 6687960957434384962 n.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Mainstream news sources published fake news stories put out by the [[Obama administration]] stirring up [[xenophobic]] anti-Russian hysteria to cover-up its illegal surveillance of the 2016 Trump campaign.]]
::::::No you don't. All you do is attack and demonize Republican presidential advisors. You ignore the real problems, like low-level [[administrative state]] bureaucrats like [[Peter Strzok]] having power and control over presidential appointments, or the abuses of the Patriot Act. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:20, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::People like Strzok having undue influence over the clearance process, and the ''existence'' of the Patriot Act are indeed problems that need to be addressed. But they are not the biggest problems. The biggest problems are the neocons and the rest of the military-industrial-complex. For it is they who are dragging us to the final blow: an unecessary war with another superpower (China) which would ultimately destroy our way of life, and leave untold numbers dead or maimed. And it would be my fellow millennials who would bear the brunt of the ultimate suffering, as they will be the ones who end up drafted and put on the battlefield.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 19:33, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::Nope. You're just interested in the old Clintonesque game of demonization and character assassination, while ignoring the underlying problems of corruption. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:08, October 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::I’m ignoring corruption? How so? Is what I’ve been bringing up not corruption? And if it is, then what is wrong with me focusing on those specific corrupt acts?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 12:02, October 15, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::You are not. You are focused on demonizing people with bogus evidence and not addressing the underlying structural problems that create the corruption. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:42, October 15, 2021 (EDT)

::::::::::Has Michael Isikoff and Yahoo News ever retracted or apologized for the Sept. 23, 2016 fake news story about Carter Page that Strzok, McCabe & Comey used to hoax the FISA court? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:50, October 15, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::Okay, so I don't focus on structural issues as much as you think I should be. That doesn't mean my approach is illegitimate. The big picture is more than just structural issues. It also includes ideology, words, and actions. I have a passion for addressing the latter, you have a passion for addressing the former. We are both contributing to the big picture, albeit in different ways.
:::::::::::And if you want to go back to Isikoff and talk about the validity of sources and evidence, keep this saying in mind:
{{quotebox|Truth and lies are often mixed together.}}
:::::::::::If Isikoff is a liar, that doesn't automatically mean ''everything'' he says is a lie. In even the most dishonest of his articles, there may well be an ounce of truth which can be ignored at our peril. That is the essence of the famous Russian proverb/Reagan quote:
{{quotebox|Trust but verify.}}
:::::::::::I'm sure Stranahan and Sundance (and others) are well aware of Isikoff's role in the Russiagate hoax. And I'm also sure they understand the above principle I laid out, hence why made their own assessment and concluded that the allegations regarding Pompeo are indeed true.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:03, October 15, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::Well, here's the thing: you have zero evidence Pompeo proposed killing Assange or Pompeo was the "mastermind" behind the covid release, yet you've wasted a week peddling that crap. And we have tons of evidence Isikoff is a deep state operative peddling fake news, misinformation, and character assassination to attack members of a Republican administration, and you insist the lies are credible. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:12, October 15, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::Actually, I even had something good to say about Isikoff at one time; during the Clinton impeachment, he was almost singularly the only DC establishment journalist who was critical of Clinton.  I think in recent years he's tried to make amends for that by playing waterboy for the deep state.  As for his recent activities, besides assisting Comey, [[Sally Yates]], McCabe, and Strzok to frame Carter Page, his association with Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele, we also need to look at his collaboration with [[David Corn]], the carpool buddy of [[James Baker (DOJ)]] who flipped on Michael Sussmnann in the [[Durham probe]].  In Isikoff's joint effort with Corn, they cite [[Susan Rice]] staffers who were ordered to blame [[Brian Kemp]] for the Obama [[NSC]] killing its Russia probe. You'd think with all the evidence and cites I've laid out, you'd be updating the Isikoff article to give your boy more credibility, but you don't seem to have any interest in that. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:35, October 15, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::I'm not interested in painting Isikoff as some saint. I'm only interested in addressing a specific allegation he makes against a specific Republican official. Meanwhile, you say I've presented no evidence? Then what do you call the Sundance articles? 
:::::::::::One Sundance article not only deems Isikoff's allegations regarding Pompeo and Assange to be credible, but also goes into great detail explaining why, in the process citing additional sources. For Sundance, the smoking gun which ultimately causes him to find Isikoff's allegations credible is the fact that Pompeo spend much of his time attacking WikiLeaks in his very first public address as CIA director. As if "[https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/FDD-Summit-Pompeo.pdf we're going to become a much more vicious agency]" and "[https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/alabama-nurses-paid-8percent-less-than-nurses-in-surrounding-states-shortage-continues/vi-AAPAnTQ we lied, we cheated, we stole]" weren't enough to establish that it would be very much in character for Pompeo to do something like plot Assange's kidnapping and/or death.
:::::::::::The other Sundance article stops just short of making an explicit connection between Pompeo and the COVID plot. But by establishing that he likely knows who did it (and is lying about him having no idea who did it), the article all but implies that Pompeo was in on it. And given that Sundance had previously established Pompeo as a big-time saboteur well before publishing this article or even the article about the Isikoff report,[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/29/u-s-military-strikes-iranian-militia-in-iraq-and-northern-syria-secretary-pompeo-and-esper-briefing/][https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/30/important-discussion-col-douglas-macgregor-has-suspicions-about-pompeo-esper-and-miley/][https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/31/mission-accomplished-chaos-created-the-pompeo-esper-and-milley-iraq-operation/][https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/28/general-mark-milley-admits-trump-was-being-managed-by-administrative-state-group-who-run-government-mike-pompeo-and-mark-meadows-assisted/] to me he's making it just barely subtle what role he believes Pompeo played in the COVID plot.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 23:42, October 15, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::We have been over all of this. The Sundance article gives exactly the same context I've added here. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:45, October 15, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::*[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2011/04/17/msnbc-reporter-michael-isikoff-and-currentformer-hawaii-officials-caught-colluding-to-spread-disinformation-campaign-and-protect-obama/ MSNBC Reporter Michael Isikoff and Current/Former Hawaii Officials caught colluding to Spread Disinformation Campaign and Protect Obama]
::::::::::*[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/20/inspector-general-outlines-more-gross-fbi-misconduct-with-senior-officials-and-media-collusion/#more-214281 Michael Isikoff highlighted just how enmeshed media was/is with the FBI, DOJ and Fusion-GPS team in February 2018, when he admitted his reporting was being used by the DOJ and FBI to advance the political objectives of the intelligence community.]
::::::::::*[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/10/12/cbs-obtains-94-page-outline-showing-fbi-and-chris-steele-collaborative-use-of-media-reporting/#more-201589 According to the U.K records, Christopher Steele reports this September 2016 meeting with Isikoff was arranged by Glenn Simpson. According to Michael Isikoff on his February podcast, he met Christopher Steele at a Washington, D.C. hotel in Sept. 2016. They were joined by his “old friend” Glenn Simpson, the founder of opposition research firm Fusion GPS, who Isikoff now defines as a “private investigator.”]
::::::::::*Jack Cashill: [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/08/29/how-the-cia-used-the-media-to-ensnare-michael-flynn/#more-198639 As it happens, his Newsweek writing partner at the time was Michael Isikoff. I met with both of them. Neither had any interest in seeing the information Sanders and I had gathered. Oh, yes, that was the same Michael Isikoff who in September 2016 first revealed that intelligence officials were investigating Trump adviser Carter Page’s “private communications with senior Russian officials.” Christopher Steele was Isikoff’s direct source.]
::::::::::*[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2019/12/04/devin-nunes-discusses-impeachment-and-schiffs-new-found-authority-congressional-subpoenas-for-private-phone-records/#more-177801 Can Nunes now start sending subpoenas for the phone records of Michael Isikoff around the time of the Flynn phone call leak?]
::::::::::*[Here Comes the SSCI – Senators Burr and Warner Now Advance Whistleblower Narrative...Who was tipped-off and writes the first article about the SSCI letter?….  The same journalist who was working with Christopher Steele to advance the original narrative for the Dossier; the same journalist who received leaked information from James Clapper about the content of the dossier, Michael Isikoff.]
::::::::::*[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2019/04/29/former-obama-advisor-ben-rhodes-we-didnt-know-anything/#more-163141 On August 29, 2016, Michael Isikoff published the article “FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems” in Yahoo! News.]
::::::::::*[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2019/03/28/transcript-of-president-trump-extensive-interview-on-mueller-investigation/#more-161849 HANNITY: The dossier also was leaked to The Washington Post, parts of it, and Isikoff and David Corn, to the American people, and of course, never verified. Do you have plans to release those FISA applications, Gang of Eight information, the 302s of Bruce Ohr and others, and the five buckets that John Solomon and Sara Carter, as they call them?]
::::::::::Here's a few more where Sundance mentions Isikoff: ''The Media's Role in Pushing The False Russian Collusion Conspiracy, Media, The Enemy of We The People, The Media are Just as Complicit in DOJ, FBI, Corruption and FISA Abuse, Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying to SSCI, President Trump Highlights Fake News CNN Story About Trump Tower Meeting, Co-Conspiring "Media Coalition" Sue For Names, Addresses of Manafort Trial Jurors – Judge Ellis Refuses, No Verdict Reached, The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity – Buzzfeed, WaPo and New York Times Had Unredacted FISA Application For Over A Year, Michael Caputo Tells The Corrupt Senate Intelligence Committee: “God Damn You to Hell”, Court Documents – Fusion GPS Paid Individual Journalists and Five Media Companies''
::::::::::There's more [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/page/3/?s=Isikoff].  Why don't you concentrate on qualifying your source first. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:15, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::You just verified my earlier statement about what Sundance generally thinks of Isikoff himself. And yet, Sundance chose to believe Isikoff this specific time. Why? Because Sundance (and others) have concluded that it would not be out of character for Pompeo to do such a thing, given what they already knew about him. 
:::::::::::Does that mean Sundance (and others) are going to believe Isikoff every time he publishes an article from now on? Of course not. This is a one-time thing.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 13:02, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::Sundance did not "believe Isikoff this specific time".  Sundance added the timeline and context which I did here as well, adding nothing that was not previously known, as Isikoff himself did. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 13:37, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::In Trump's final days, there were discussions of pardons for both Assange and Snowden. Snowden, because he worked for the NSA, is regarded as the worst of the two. However the consensus was that both Snowden and Assange need to be made examples of - a consensus that Trump himself agreed with by not pardoning either.  Your only other explanation is that the Deep State intimidated Trump, and he bowed to their demands, living in fear of them after he left office. That, of course, makes the idea of him running in 2024 a joke. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 13:43, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::I'm not interested in whatever excuse Trump has for not pardoning Assange and Snowden. They are both heroes in my book, and the fact that they are still being treated as enemies of the state even now disgusts me to my core. They needed to be made examples of? Give me a break.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:34, October 17, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::So Comey, McCabe, Clapper, and Lisa Page are your heroes, too? despite the damage they did to national security?  How about Hillary's leaking to China with her homebrew server, she's one of your heroes as well? Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner are also heroes? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:31, October 17, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::Let me add my own impressions of Isikoff: after his defense of Paula Jones and Juanita Broderick in the 1990s, I think the Hillary team got to him before 2016 (as they did Christopher Ruddy) and blackmailed him. He's not really the ideological type. In fact, he's just a drunk. But he didn't want to end up on the Clinton body count, so he went to work helping to elect her. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:30, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::Oh wow. The DNC hack and McCabe are back in the news. [https://youtu.be/S9wsgdkJEkk] Hmmm, where have we seen this pattern before of "getting out ahead of the story..."? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:37, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::Oh, and [[ABC]]/[[Disney]] and George Stephanopoulos are trying to [https://youtu.be/RoYRraHRJis rehab Isikoff's old buddy Christopher Steele]. What a coincidence days after Isikoff's disinformation hit piece on Pompeo. Are you sure you understand what the Deep State is? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 02:21, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::Are you saying that the Isikoff report was timed as a diversion? Who knows about that one; you may well be correct there. But that doesn't affect the overall validity of the report's claims.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 13:02, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::There is no "overall validity" any more than Carter Page was a Russian asset or the Russians hacked the DNC.  Or covid comes from eating bats. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 13:33, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::Let's say something about Sundance now, which you don't seem to understand at all.  You think cause he writes about Isikoff a day or two after Isikoff delivers another Deep State hit piece, that Sundance "believes" or "agrees" with Isikoff. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jly4dXapR9c&t=112s Not at all.] Isikoff did not include any new information (like we didn't know about Pompeo's trashing WikiLeaks years ago before Isikoff recycled it last week?).  Sundance very often comments on and explains ''"Why now?'' ''Why did this Isikoff article appear out of the blue now?"'' That's a bit more, and a bit different than Joe Lauria's ''Consortium News'' that corrects many errors (which you studiously avoid in all this discussion) and also supplies missing context. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:10, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::I'm wasn't familiar with Consortium News or Joe Lauria prior to you bringing them up, so pardon me for not including them in the conversation until now.
::::::::::::::I believe you may be referring to this article [https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/02/what-the-yahoo-assange-report-got-wrong/ here]. There, Lauria points out what Isikoff got wrong. But the he also says that the claim that Pompeo wanted Assange kidnapped or dead was ''not'' among the things that Isikoff got wrong. Interestingly enough, he does credits not Isikoff, but Max Blumenthal for being the first to break the story. The Blumenthal article, dated May 14, 2020, can be read [https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/14/american-sheldon-adelsons-us-spy-julian-assange/ here].
:::::::::::::::The Blumenthal does not outright say that Pompeo wanted Assange kidnapped or dead, but it strongly implies so through more passive language, specifically by linking Pompeo to the Spanish mercenary David Morales, who was heavily involved in the anti-Assange operations at the "on the ground" level. The article also implicates GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson as a co-conspirator.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:34, October 17, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::Yah yah yah, it's all old news. And it was summed up again in the final days of the Trump administration when Trump refused pardons for Assange and Snowden, cause Assange and Snowden are being made examples of what happens to leakers. And it's a rebuke of Obama who pardoned Chelsea Manning.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:08, October 17, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::Other leakers, such as Comey, [[Clapper]], [[McCabe]], and [[Lisa Page]] are yet to be dealt with. Would I advocate kidnapping and murder for them? it's a tuff decision, and [https://youtu.be/CCylDFbZLOI?t=184 thank God I'm not Trump, Hillary, or Pompeo who was put in such a position.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:13, October 17, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::::If ''I'' were put in such a position, I wouldn't resort to kidnapping or murder for any of them. Assange and Snowden are heroes, and the others (as well as Snowden) are US citizens entitled to due process. Meanwhile, I would also just outright abolish the CIA, which has become a ''de facto'' terrorist organization.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:29, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::::In addition to not understanding what the Deep State is, you evidently don't understand the concept of [[national security]], either. You're probably with Biden's State Department spokesman who says police are the biggest national security threat. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:15, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::::::That spokesman believes that the problem comes from local governments (who control the police departments); I believe the problem comes from the federal government (for whom that spokesman works for). And by the way, the CIA's ''de facto'' main purpose is no longer national security, if it ever was.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 23:53, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::::See, you do not understand national security. SCOTUS ruled in the case of ''Awalaki v. Obama'', that due process is served for an American citizen by a Presidential Finding and adding their name to the Disposition Matrix [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix]. Then, when the target is located, by presidential approval a death warrant can be issued without a Miranda Warning, phone call, right of counsel, or trial by jury. 
::::::::::::::::::And for non-Americans like Assange or the family of 10 with 7 children that Biden just ordered to be killed, the process is even more streamlined and simplified. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:59, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::::Special Forces snipers also refer to it as "7.62 grains of due process."  Bin Laden apparently was served with 5.56 grains of due process. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 23:26, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::::::''Awalaki v. Obama''. Yet another bad decision by SCOTUS.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 23:53, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::::::Yah well, if Biden & Blinken decide to carry through with the plan to kill Assange, it would be legal (at least under U.S. law; I don't know about UK).  Seems like a heart attack in airspace over international waters with no EMTs available would be the best bet.  Merrick Garland hasn't dropped the request for extradition.  And we haven't seen any pardon from Biden, either. The [[DNC]] has a whole lot more to lose by letting Assange speak in court than Pompeo does. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 10:46, October 19, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::::::::::What if Trump just had CIA director Mike Pompeo whack Comey for leaking rather than fire him, and then have the CIA blame Russia? kinda like how the DNC whacked [[Seth Rich]] for leaking and blamed Russia. There never would have been the [[Mueller investigation]], and they could have arrested Clapper, McCabe and the rest of them as Russian operatives under emergency powers after the assassination of a high-level U.S. official. Something to think about, being that the whole Isikoff article is nothing but hypotheticals, as well as your desire to use it to impugn Pompeo. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:46, October 17, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::Snitches end up in ditches. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:51, October 17, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::Pompeo has demonstrated many times that he is a Deep Stater and a traitor; the Isikoff article and the Sundance article regarding COVID's origins are just scratching the surface of that.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:29, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::::Now you're just inventing fake news out of your butt, and trying to use CP as a platform to promote it. 22:21, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::::I'm not making anything up. My claims regarding Pompeo are backed by sources. If go to the Pompeo page, look up the edit history, click on any edit I ever made to that article, and check out the sources cited in those edits, you'll see what I'm referring to here.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 23:53, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::An excellent example of Sundance's, "''Why does  this [[fake news]] appear now?''" technique [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/18/chris-steele-clings-to-fabricated-stories-of-cohen-in-prague-and-trump-russia-pee-tapes/ appeared last night]. These retrospectives can become more illuminating for those of us who followed every detailed, with updates we may have missed since the story faded from view.  Sure, it's quite lengthy, but now we have the perspective of time and closure, and can identify the loose ends remaining. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 04:47, October 18, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::::::::::Another is his [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/?s=benghazi+brief Benghazi Brief], it has shocking and amazing things you never heard from the MSM or in Congressional hearings and reports on the Benghazi massacre. It is the contemporaneous, definitive account historians will use into perpetuity. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 04:53, October 18, 2021 (EDT)

:'''Update: Sundance: [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/18/something-happening-in-background-with-chris-steele-and-dossier-story-searchable-copies-of-steele-dossier-being-removed/ Something Happening in Background With Chris Steele and Dossier Story – Searchable Copies of Steele Dossier Being Removed].  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:29, October 18, 2021 (EDT)

::So, let's return to the context of the Yahoo article. The UK judge in the Assange case is considering now whether or not to allow the Yahoo article in as evidence. In Assange's UK case, the 2010 evidence of the plot by [[Obama]], [[Hillary]], and [[John Brennan]] to kill Assange is already in the case, per Joe Lauria. [https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/16/what-baraitser-thought-about-the-plot-to-kill-or-abduct-assange/]  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:35, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::Obama, Hillary, and Brennan. All three of them are featured on the Deep State template, and rightfully so. Pompeo should join them there.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:29, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::They are not there for thinking about killing one of your heroes. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:15, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::Your whole argument, which you and I have discussed many times in many places over a long period of time, comes down to this: Pompeo is a CCP operative who hoodwinked Trump into opposing China to jump-start a cold war with China. Now unless you can iron out some of the inconsistencies, I think we've carried this phase of the discussion about as far as it can go. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:31, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
:::::I've never said that Pompeo is a CCP operative. Quite the opposite, in fact. He's part of the Deep State faction (or set of factions) which wants to pick unnecessary fights with China (as well as Iran and Russia) over false pretenses.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 23:53, October 18, 2021 (EDT)
::::::Ok, fair enough.  Communist China is the innocent victim of Pompeo's evil machinations to exterminate the planet with covid, and Trump is just a fool for falling for Pompeo's schemes. And poor innocent Iran, they should be allowed to build nukes to destroy those evil Jews who are responsible for all the world's problems. Okay, I get it now. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:04, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::Iran is not the enemy in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan are. Iran does not covertly support al-Qaeda or ISIS. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan do. We've had bigger fish to fry in that region ever since 9/11. 
::::::::And while China is indeed an enemy, that doesn't mean we need to warmonger against it (and in the process make ourselves look like the aggressor). Neocons like Pompeo like to warmonger against China (and other countries), usually on false pretenses. If we're gonna fight a cold war with China, we need to do it the right way.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:18, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::October 17, 2021: ''[https://tfiglobalnews.com/2021/10/17/looks-like-an-agreement-has-been-reached-between-iran-and-saudi-arabia/ Looks like an agreement has been reached between Iran and Saudi Arabia]'', TFI.
:::::::::We've given you the evidence of complicity between Iran and al Qaeda dozens of times. Let me spell it out in simple language: al Qaeda was founded to overthrow the Saudi regime. When the 9/11 hijackers departed Afghanistan for the U.S., they passed through Iran and did not have their passports marked.  Had their passports been marked, they would not have been admitted into the U.S,, or at least received closer scrutiny.  This was the conclusive evidence used to establish complicity between the government of Iran, and al Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks. [https://abcnews.go.com/International/iran-ordered-pay-billions-relatives-911-victims/story?id=54862664]  If there were any complicity between Saudi citizens and al Qaeda, they most likely were Shia living in eastern Saudi Arabia along the Gulf coast.  There is a large Shia population living within Saudi Arabia's borders who oppose the regime. You repeatedly, repeatedly, make this junior high school mistake of tossing out words like "Saudi Arabia" making no distinction whatsoever between the Saudi government and Saudi citizens. You have zero evidence of complicity between the government of Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 hijackers. And I find the way you make these charges bigoted. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup>
:::::::::As to China: all trade and academic exchanges will be cut off. It may take time, but so long as the CCP is in power, the U.S. and much of the West will decouple all trade relations.  Diplomatic relations may continue.  There is nothing you or I can do about this. And yes, we are in an arms race with China. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:04, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::Oct 20, 2021, ''Fox Business'', [https://youtu.be/kcB1jdmPVJ8 Doing business in China as we know it is ‘over,’ expert says]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 12:17, October 20, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::Mike Pompeo is an American evangelical Christina. Historically, American evangelicals are very pro-Trump and very anti-CCP.  Pompeo in words and deeds reflected this. The whole Pompeo is a deep state, pro-CCP operative is ludicrous. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:43, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::Deep State yes, CCP operative no.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:18, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
::So what do you make of this? Sundance wrote yesterday," [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/18/chris-steele-clings-to-fabricated-stories-of-cohen-in-prague-and-trump-russia-pee-tapes/#more-218613]
:::''let me explain why each of those fabricated elements of the Steele Dossier must be retained or else Steele opens himself up to a much larger issue.  You’ll understand why he cannot admit they are false when you understand where he likely got the information.  We shall start with the origin of the Pee Tapes story, and embed a bunch of links for those interested in going deep.  The story of the Russian hookers peeing on Donald Trump almost certainly came from a Russian billionaire named [[Oleg Deripaska]].''
::Then today Zerohedge reports:
:::[https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-raids-dc-home-russian-billionaire-energy-tycoon-dubbed-part-putins-inner-circle FBI Raids D.C. Home Of Russian Billionaire Energy Tycoon Known For Putin Ties]
::::''On Tuesday morning the FBI has raided the home of billionaire Russian oligarch and energy tycoon Oleg Deripaska''
::[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:40, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::Deripaska ought to answer some unresolved questions. And since Deripaska is a Russian with close ties to Putin, it should be Putin who does what he can to make him talk.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 15:40, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
::::They're not really that close. [https://youtu.be/48Kk7kobMQY "Gimme back my pen."]  The greedy billionaire tried to walk off with Putin's pen. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:27, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::::I stand corrected, then. Either way, Putin should make him talk.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:36, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
::::::He's probably closer to Mueller and McCabe than he is to Putin. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:39, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
::::::In February 2017, just after Trump took office and the coup plot was underway, Deripaska came clean in an article in the ''Daily Caller''. He spilled his guts about his involvement. With a new sheriff in town, the foreigner felt he needed to lay his cards on the table. Hillary had denied him a visa years earlier, and he wanted to get off on the right foot with the new Trump admin.
::::::So Deripaska told the story how Andrew McCabe had tried to recruit him into the "Russian collusion" plot that September at the opening of the UN.  McCabe had been Deropska's contact for nearly 10 years already. He told them, "No thanks".
::::::Two years later, Trump added Deripaska to the Russia sanctions list, causing him to divest himself from all his U.S. operations.  It's hard for me to believe Deripaska has been involved in any dirty business in the United States given all the visa problems he's had in the past. Without even reading the Zerohedge article or one other I have, I'd guess the FBI is just looking for a way to deport him before John Durham calls him before a Grand Jury. Or, it could even be directly connected to the Durham probe. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:57, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
:''''Breaking:''' Sundance confirms RobS' suspicions. ''[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/19/fbi-raids-dc-home-of-oleg-deripaska-chris-steeles-former-employer-and-central-player-in-corrupt-fbi-operation-against-donald-trump/ FBI Raids DC Home of Oleg Deripaska, Chris Steele’s Former Employer and Central Player in Corrupt FBI Operation Against Donald Trump]''.
::''It is an unfortunate situation to see Oleg Deripaska receiving the Julian Assange treatment.  Yes, that is exactly what is happening today as the institutionally corrupt FBI and DOJ attempt to throw a bag over Deripaska, in order to cover-up their previous operations.''
:[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 17:14, October 19, 2021 (EDT)
{{quotebox|"It was transparently obvious over the past few days that something was happening in the background.  The Fourth Branch of Government, intelligence apparatus, Dept of Justice, FBI and media enablers -writ large- began conducting an information warfare operation.

It is not coincidental: (1) the collective media apparatus brought Chris Steele out of hiding for an ABC interview with [[George Stephanopoulos]], and a rehabilitation of his Dossier effort; then (2) the intelligence apparatus began scrubbing the Dossier from public downloads; then (3) the FBI apparatus notifies the media in advance and shows up to raid the home of a central participant in the Dossier story-line.  There are no coincidences of this connective scale.

This is a full-blown propaganda operation carried out by the DC-based fourth branch of government.   These moves indicate a likelihood that John Durham is almost finished with the spray paint operation.   Remember, [[Lisa Monaco]] is Deputy AG, and [[John Carlin]] is back in the [[DOJ-NSD]] position. Both of them participated in the illegal weaponization and political surveillance operations against candidate Trump (that involved Deripaska), and both are now central to the ongoing clean-up and cover-up operation.}}
What more do you need to know? The Yahoo article has piqued [[Adam Schiff]]'s interest. [https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/19/house-intelligence-committee-seeks-answers-from-cia-on-plot-against-assange/]  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 10:06, October 20, 2021 (EDT)

So, why is the Deep State now trying to salvage and rehabilitate the discredited ''Steele dossier'' allegations? Glenn Greenwald just answered Sundance's question [https://youtu.be/C5GiuWJqYJg?t=2101]:
{{quotebox|"Here is a poll from March of 2018 from YouGov which determined that two-thirds of Democrats not just believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, but that they actually invaded the voting system in order to change Hillary Clinton's votes to Donald Trump's votes. They've been convinced that Donald Trump is an illegitimate president by virtue of this deranged conspiracy theory that their media outlets taught them to believe." }}
Being that Trump remains strong, the Deep State is trying to protect the Democrat base by breathing fresh life into the ''Steele dossier'', despite Mueller and others calling it bunk. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 13:14, October 20, 2021 (EDT)
:Geo, oh, and your buddy [[David Corn]]pop has an interesting update. [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/senator-joe-manchin-democratic-party-exit-plan-biden-infrastructure-deal-exclusive/]  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:43, October 20, 2021 (EDT)
::I don't care about David Corn or whatever article he writes about Manchin. If Manchin switches, he switches. It's not like the GOP taking the Senate now is going to change anything.
::I do care about Schiff demanding answers over the plot against Assange. A big part of me feels that he's just "concern trolling," and another big part of me is wondering if his obsession with Trump (which is clearly what's driving him to make these demands in the first place) could actually do the American people good for once. Unintentional, but still doing good nonetheless.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:45, October 20, 2021 (EDT)
::::ehh, looks like [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/bullsht-manchin-dismisses-report-published-far-left-reporter-david-corn-party-switch/ Cornpop got caught in a lie again.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:16, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
::::Less than 48 hours later, David Cornpop's [https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/10/25/rolling-stone-claims-major-bombshell-regarding-january-6th-n462998 editors at ''Rolling Stone''] start peddling more J6 garbage. Do I detect a fact pattern here? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:24, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
:::Of course you'd be interested in another Adam Schiff dog n pony show but you don't see the significance of [[Ron Johnson]] calling up [[Alejandro Mayorkas]] to account?  This just in: "''Yahoo News app removed from Apple store in China.''"[https://www.reddit.com/r/SaltyArmy/comments/qc4184/just_in_yahoo_news_app_removed_from_apple_store/]  I don't know how the CCP removing a deep state mouthpiece from the App store fits with your Pompeo/Covid/Deep State/China conspiracy theories.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:04, October 20, 2021 (EDT)
:::Ok, maybe it does make sense. The CCP was upset about Yahoo News exposing their deep cover agent Mike Pompeo who released the covid virus and wanted to whack Assange. And the CCP certainly doesn't approve of Wikileaks. OTOH, Assange proved he was not a racist by not publishing any Chinese leaked documents and only focused on destroying Western civilization.  It's a tuff call. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 19:28, October 20, 2021 (EDT)
:::::Again, Pompeo is not a CCP agent. He's part of the Deep State faction(s) who want war with China because it/they fear(s) China has become too powerful. I don't know what Assange's motivation is for not going after China as much (if at all), but regardless he's taking our military-industrial-complex head on. For that he is a major ally of the greater populist cause. Yet many populists both left and right don't appreciate that.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 00:37, October 22, 2021 (EDT)
::::::So with all the Deep State news breaking over just the past 4 or 5 days, where the federal government is working to further the interests of one political party, I don't understand your focus on one discredited news item that, on its face, is bulltwinkies.  Secondly, with the [[CCP pandemic]] and hypersonic weapons, it ought to be obvious to even casual observers the military-industrial complex is being strengthened, unless you're in bed with [https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/10/22/ge-workers-in-sc-walk-out-in-protest-after-company-mandates-covid-19-vaccine-1152410/ the CCP/DNC communists trying to weaken it.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 11:30, October 22, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::The military industrial complex is one of the core parts of the Deep State. If the left wants to go after it, more power to them. This is a fight that warrants the left and the right joining forces.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 11:29, October 25, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::The deep state controls the left. Now, some might argue the situation is reversed - the left controls the deep state - which superficially appears true. But in my experience and estimation, it's the other way around.
::::::::Why did the deep state move to take control of the Democratic party and leftwing movement in the US, when prior to the Obama era it was always associated with conservatism and the GOP?  Simple. Leftwingers are easier to influence and control, unlike conservatives who think for themselves and constantly re-evaluate and ask questions (even [https://rumble.com/vo4ue9-sarah-palin-now-realizes-julian-assange-was-right-apologies.html Sarah Palin has re-evaluated her comments on Assange]). Since Eisenhower, the deep state and military-industrial complex only had a partnership with conservatives based on common interests. Neither "controlled" the other. True, conservatives dominated; but since Joe McCarthy conservatives have been tolerant and welcomed opposing views for balance, whereas since Obama we've seen nothing but wholesale fascist purges of dissenters in government service. 
::::::::Left and right have very different perceptions and understanding of "national security;" since the Civil War, Republicans have thought of it as preserving the Union; since Reconstruction, Democrats think of it as destroying Republicans. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:45, October 25, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::The Deep State does not control the left as a whole. It does however wield a great degree of influence over the ''authoritarian'' left, as well as the ''authoritarian'' right. However, it also faces fierce resistance from both the ''libertarian'' left and the ''libertarian'' right. Because the libertarian left and the libertarian right, do not share their authoritarian counterparts' obsessions with using the "security" state to their advantage. Instead, they reject the "security" state entirely. 
:::::::::And while we're still on that subject, both parties are dead wrong when it comes to their perceptions and understanding of "national security." What ''should'' be their priority is preserving our natural, God-given rights. Not "preserving the Union" nor "owning the other side," both which on their own are insufficient to ensure those rights are preserved, and in fact are sufficient to ensure they are destroyed.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:22, October 25, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::Don't kid yourself by claiming that there is such a thing as an authoritarian left and a libertarian left, or for that matter an authoritarian right and a libertarian right, both libertarian and authoritarian factions are one and the same, especially in regards to the left. Or maybe you ought to remember that Lenin was a "libertarian leftist" while fighting against Czar Nikolas II advocating for unlimited free speech, yet as soon as he got power, he went all "authoritarian leftist" and squashed any remaining free speech left, and when asked about why the sudden shift, he basically said, and I quote, "I supported free speech when I was in the opposition." As far as rights being preserved, let me remind you that Voltaire, one of those idols for those rights, tried to suppress said rights against Christians as soon as he took over the French Academy, so trying to preserve those rights is pointless, especially when most times when they claim to preserve rights, they decide to trash them regardless, and even conservatives stupidly look up to Voltaire as being an idol of freedom of speech. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 21:31, October 25, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::I'll admit that the libertarian factions of both the left and the right are filled with gutless figures who unleash their inner authoritarians once their side of the spectrum takes power. But there are also principled figures as well. And those people are who matter.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:41, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::These are all very useful comments editors are making here. But before we go any farther, we should ask contributors if they agree that the deep state in America does not just consist only of government bureaucrats and officers, but public and private partnerships, as well.  That, after all, is what the tools in Vault 7 are (you will recall in the San Bernardino terrorism case, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/14/azimuth-san-bernardino-apple-iphone-fbi/ Apple backed out of its partnership agreement].  Now, that may be directly linked to the leak of Vault 7 and the case against Assange, and Apple feared for its reputation, but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself.) [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 00:43, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::Of course there are public and private partnerships involved. But those are minor players relative to state actors.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:41, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::I could give a zillion examples to clarify. The bloated federal budget empowers agencies with huge budgets to dole out grants and contracts; DOD contracts to defense contractors which makes up the military-industrial complex, CIA Vault 7 partnerships with Silicon Valley which makes up the [[media intelligence complex]]; or NAIAD grants to the [[Wuhan Virology Lab]] which effectively makes the CCP a partner and puts [[Shi Zhengli]] on the deep state payroll. 
:::::::::::::Suffice it to say, there are more people employed outside the government (and even outside the U.S.) by the Deep State, than within the federal bureaucracy.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:56, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::::::::[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-punch/id1549272440 Listen to this Facebook commercial on Punchbowl News from this morning,] which I've heard three times now, and makes me want to puke every time I hear it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:05, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
::::::::::::::Now that we can agree on. And yes, China is not entirely innocent with the GoF, even if I don't agree that it was the main party responsible for the release of the virus.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:37, November 2, 2021 (EDT)

::::Update: Looks like [[Hunter Biden]] tried to shakedown Deripaska for cash.  While that helps explain why the Biden DOJ wants to deport him, it's another direct link between Biden and the [[Obamagate scandal]], only this time dragging Hunter into it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:49, October 21, 2021 (EDT)
:::::Correction: Looks like Hunter tried to sell the product of electronic surveillance of Deripaska (which could only come from the [[NSA]], the CIA, or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and possibly FBI counterintelligence) to Alcoa Aluminum when Alcoa signed a contract to purchase aluminum from Deripaska long ''before'' the Russia Sanctions Act or Deripaska being added to that list. The question is, ''How would Hunter Biden and [[Rosemont Seneca]] have access to that information while Joe Biden was VP?''  Second question: Is the FBI investigating? Third question: Has the statute of limitations run out on VP Joe Biden influence peddling and selling classified information? Fourth question: The FBI was in possession of this evidence since at least December 2019. What did they do with it? 
:::::Now, with all these obvious abuses of power and illicit deep state activities, why is your focus on speculative issues regarding Pompeo, and not actual factual evidence of corrupt deep state activities? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:24, October 25, 2021 (EDT)
::::::(1) I like to go for the less obvious instances of corrupt activities, because I like adding to conversations. (2) Pompeo is at the center of activities whose level of outrageousness tops that of most if not all of the others you've mentioned.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:22, October 25, 2021 (EDT)
:::::Correction 2: ''Mother Jones'' and ''Rolling Stone'' are two separate entities. My error. Easy to confuse communist fronts, given their number. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 14:59, October 26, 2021 (EDT)

::::Update: [https://www.theepochtimes.com/kashs-corner-timing-of-new-steele-documentary-not-a-coincidence_4064249.html Kash’s Corner: Timing of New Steele Documentary ‘Not a Coincidence’]
:::::''"It’s not a coincidence … They want to use it to destroy the Sussman indictment and the cases that John Durham’s building.”
:::::''"On Oct. 18, ABC released a new documentary on the British ex-spy Christopher Steele. It’s his first interview since he authored the now-infamous “Steele dossier” that was used to justify surveilling the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.  The documentary comes on the heels of special prosecutor John Durham charging former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann last month with lying to the FBI and the FBI raiding the home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska—Steele’s former employer—just a few days ago."''
:::::[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 22:38, October 22, 2021 (EDT)

:Here's what you need to be reading from Sundance for background on [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/29/the-modern-weaponization-of-national-security-system-is-the-lasting-legacy-of-barack-obama-and-eric-holder/ The Modern Weaponization of National Security System Is The Lasting Legacy of Barack Obama and Eric Holder] in the [[War on Parents]] and treatment of J6 protesters. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 02:27, October 30, 2021 (EDT)

:More [https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/11/16/mnuchin-and-pompeo-were-in-cahoots-to-oust-trump-new-book-dubiously-claims-pompeo-responds-1163881/ attacks on Pompeo, this time by ABC News; Jon Karl,] President of the [[White House Press Association]]. And what do they have to lose?  It's not like they can lose anymore credibility than they already have. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:01, November 16, 2021 (EST)
:Do we detect a pattern here? Pompeo is a young man, with a career still ahead of him. And he qualifies for any position form president on down. So they go for the jugular. First, he's going to challenge Trump in the 2024 primaries, then he tried to whack Assange, now he tried to dump Trump via the 25th Amendment.  Sowing the seeds of mistrust and doubt will not stop anytime soon, and deep state mouthpieces like Isikoff & Karl are in on it.  Neither of these alleged journalists interviewed Pompeo before publishing. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:10, November 16, 2021 (EST)
::I don't believe Karl either. It wouldn't be in character for Pompeo to stab Trump in the front ''that'' early. But the other stories about him I do believe. Because those stories ''do'' have him acting in character.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 20:13, November 16, 2021 (EST)
:::Mark your calendar. Every 6 - 8 weeks for the next three years you'll see unverified headlined stories how Pompeo is a cut-throat neocon killer and anti-Trump loyalist. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:22, November 16, 2021 (EST)
:::If there was an ounce of truth to any of it, Trump insiders and loyalists would have thrown him under the bus a longtime ago, but they haven't So you have to consider the source of whose cooking up these schemes. And you oft cited quote about ''"We lied, we stole..."'' is entirely without context. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:31, November 16, 2021 (EST)
::::Pompeo is not an anti-Trump loyalist, but he sure is a cut-throat neocon killer. In fact, he's a cut-throat neocon ''mass'' killer, since he was one of the top figures in the COVID conspiracy. And no, I did not come to that conclusion because of the MSM.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 20:41, November 16, 2021 (EST)
:::(ec)In that quote of Pompeo, you fail entirely to understand it. He is not bragging or boasting, he's mocking conspiracy theorists with an element of truth. So let's look closer at Pompeo's relationship with the CIA: Pompeo served on the committee investigating the [[Benghazi massacre]], which was a joint State Dept/CIA operation, leaving the pentagon and [[Mike Flynn]]'s [[DIA]] out of the loop. Pompeo was sent to the CIA by Flynn & Trump in the early days to get to the bottom of the story which Brennan had covered up during congressional investigations.  Somewhere along the way in 2017, Brennan's other crimes involving the removal of Flynn and attempted overthrow of Trump overrode the original mission. But look at his performance in the Benghazi hearings, and your notion that he's some kinda CIA puppet is laughable. He threw out that red meat knowing people like yourself would chew on it and gobble it up. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 20:51, November 16, 2021 (EST)
::::His performance at the Benghazi hearings doesn't mean a thing to me. One, the CIA always plays both sides. And two, Pompeo is guilty of his own Benghazi: the false flag attacks on the Iraqi consulate in December 2019.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:27, November 16, 2021 (EST)
:::::Well, you ought to pay attention. The State Dept., CIA, and Pentagon are the big players in the Deep State.  The [[DOJ-NSD]], FBI, and [[DHS]] are are also involved, but that's somewhat of a peripheral function. It's extremely difficult for one person, even the president of the United States, to move them or get them to change course (tho not necessarily impossible).  You put too much inference on one man. People come and go, they die, they retire, the get voted out, they move to the private sector to make money, they go to jail, they go nuts and end up in insane asylums. The Deep State is a set of institutions, and not all of them are governmental. 03:37, November 17, 2021 (EST)

:::::Geo, [https://youtu.be/kOIrsmjRFxU?t=105 This is what makes you sound like a shill and a mouthpiece for the Communist Party of China]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:48, November 17, 2021 (EST)
:::::Geo, at a minimum, you should know Pompeo is a primary target of the [[Communist Party of China]], the MSM, and DNC before you go out on a limb to make yourself look like a subversive leftist. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 15:05, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::::And China is a primary target of the Deep State.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:54, November 20, 2021 (EST)
:::::::Oh, you really think so? Why is the Deep State so heavily invested in the Biden regime, then? Why did the Deep State actively try to overthrow the anti-CCP Trump? Why are the CIA's [[Silicon Valley]] partners still so heavily invested in China?  Granted, the CIA is not now, nor ever has been, staffed with the sharpest knives in the drawer.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 15:33, November 20, 2021 (EST)
::::::::We've gone over this multiple times, RobS. The Deep State is multi-dimensional. It consists of numerous ''smaller'' Deep States, which often cooperate and which often clash. At different times, different Deep States get what they want. This isn't a mater of black and white. This is a matter of fifty shades of gray.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:16, November 21, 2021 (EST)
:'''Update:''' [https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/12/09/journalist-authors_isikoff_corn_also_fell_for_danchenkos_mythical_dossier_source_806998.html Journalist-Authors Isikoff, Corn Also Fell For Danchenko's Mythical Dossier Source], Paul Sperry. 
:Don't let the title fool you, they didn't just "fall" for lies, they scammed the public for money to sell a book.  And they didn't do proper research in their pack of lies. And they still refuse to back off their lies.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 11:16, December 9, 2021 (EST)
::That doesn’t change the fact that it would be in character for Pompeo to do what they say he did.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 13:04, December 10, 2021 (EST)
:::It's like talking to a brick wall. In spite of facts and evidence, you still think Jussie Smollett was a victim of hate crime and Kyle Rittenhouse shot 3 black protesters. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 16:25, December 10, 2021 (EST)
::::Wrong, off-topic, and above all illogical. There are many people on the right who believe Mike Pompeo is Deep State. Do they believe Smollett was a victim of a hate crime and the Rittenhouse was guilty, too?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 18:02, December 10, 2021 (EST)
:::::No amount of facts or persuasion will deter you from your efforts at demonization. 18:30, December 10, 2021 (EST)

== Warning ==

Hello. I have good reasons to believe that user Blavek is a left-wing activist and “famous” socket puppet player at Wikipedia. I don’t know what his intentions are, but he’s definitely not a conservative in any way, shape, or form. Even the username itself plays with the name of a rather sinister figure during the Russian Revolution on the side of the communists. I’m a peace-loving and compassionate person, but this guy will cause trouble. Kind rgds and a blessed Sunday, [[User:Rhodesia|Conservapedia Guardian]] ([[User talk:Rhodesia|talk]]) 16:18, October 9, 2021 (EDT)
:Nobody likes a tattle-tale. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 16:27, October 9, 2021 (EDT)
::Does neighborhood watch turn me into a tattle-tale? Just wanted to be of help… [[User:Rhodesia|Conservapedia Guardian]] ([[User talk:Rhodesia|talk]]) 18:43, October 10, 2021 (EDT)
:::Nah, it's ok. We actually do have a clue what is going on. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]</sup> 18:50, October 10, 2021 (EDT)
::::Ok, let me know if I should do or do not something. I like clear relations. [[User:Rhodesia|Conservapedia Guardian]] ([[User talk:Rhodesia|talk]]) 19:05, October 10, 2021 (EDT)
::::What you should do:
::::* Give a valid proof that the first page you created on this site is not a hoax.
::::* If you can't give any proof, delete that page.
::::* Stop all personal attacks and at least warn me on my talk page when you write about me.
::::What you should not do:
::::* Create a sock puppet account with a name that can be confused with an admin function.
::::* Use that sock puppet to fake approval with your first account.
::::* When you receive a message you don't like: attacking the messenger and not replying to the message.
::::Sorry for not reacting earlier, I did not read this before today. [[User:Blavek|Blavek]] ([[User talk:Blavek|talk]]) 17:11, December 15, 2021 (EST)

== Since you seem to be an expert on Trump's inept advisers ==

Hi Andy, seeing that you have some good knowledge of Trump's inept advisers who have sabotaged him since last year, would you say that his endorsement of [[Corky Messner]] over [[Don Bolduc]] for the GOP primary in the [[2020 U.S. Senate election in New Hampshire]] was attributed to taking bad advice from people around him? Having paid attention to the race last year, I'm certain that Bolduc was a much stronger candidate than Messner, who won the nomination and ultimately under-performed Trump in the state.

Now, I'm also reading in more recent news that Trump [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/572659-trump-praises-nh-senate-candidate-as-sununu-weighs-own-bid praised Bolduc about a month ago]. Bolduc's running for U.S. Senate yet again in the [[2022 midterms]] to oust [[Maggie Hassan]]. Although Gov. [[Chris Sununu]] may also run for the seat and be more likely to win the general election, Sununu is a [[Moderate Republican]] and [[RINO]] while Bolduc is a strong conservative. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Tuesday, 20:14, October 11, 2021 (EDT)
:Those are excellent points.  You may be right.  I'll look into this further.  Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:22, October 11, 2021 (EDT)
::From what I recall when adding content last year about the 2020 Senate elections, Bolduc definitely seemed like a genuine conservative who wasn't sketchy. On the other hand, Messner apparently [https://manchesterinklink.com/calls-for-investigation-into-messners-colorado-based-charity/ wasn't even from New Hampshire].
::In addition, Messner seemed to be quiet in the wake of election fraud while Bolduc [https://nhjournal.com/bolduc-signs-open-letter-backing-trumps-debunked-election-claims/ triggered some leftists] by actively standing up for election integrity and signing a letter expressing skepticism over the 2020 presidential election. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Tuesday, 21:01, October 11, 2021 (EDT)

== Something you might be interested in! ==

Hi Andy, I just started a page creation on [[Perry W. Howard, II]], a prominent black GOP figure in the [[Republican National Committee]] during the 1920s. What I find very fascinating is that Howard in 1952 led the Mississippi "black and tan" delegation in supporting staunch conservative [[Robert A. Taft]] over Eisenhower. This is most likely attributed to Taft's firm pro-civil rights record, as he especially pushed for a "voluntary FEPC" bill in 1950.

There were certainly some notable instances in the 1900s where it was the conservative wing of the GOP that proved to be more pro-civil-rights than the moderate wing, despite modern-day left-wing propaganda. Stay tuned as I'll likely very soon publish an essay about this! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Friday, 21:26, October 14, 2021 (EDT)

== What do you think about my heavy expansion of the CP article on the [[Old Right]]? ==

Initially it contained only less than 1,000 bytes of content for a long time, and today I added a ton of content and increased the byte count to over 20,000! I also made sure to add interesting subsection titles and some nice images/infoboxes. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Saturday, 17:50, October 16, 2021 (EDT)
:Fascinating.  I'm reviewing further.  Thank you!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:58, October 26, 2021 (EDT)

== Racist Conservapedian essay ==

https://conservapedia.com/Essay:Race_As_A_Determining_Factor_of_IQ,_Sexual_Preference,_And_Nothing_Else 
Shame that this site is so racist. Don't bother attempting to delete it, I have already have a screenshot. [[User:SlappyTheSeal|SlappyTheSeal]] ([[User talk:SlappyTheSeal|talk]]) 20:09, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
:I wasn't aware of the obscure non-encyclopedic essay, which had very little traffic as shown by its page view count.  While essays are encouraged and of course do not represent the views of Conservapedia, that essay has been deleted.  Thanks for bringing it to my attention.  There is nothing racist about this site, and [[liberal]]s overuse that term for political motivations.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:43, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
::Can someone tell me who wrote that stupid essay? [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 22:54, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
:::A Bernie Sanders supporter.  But I would not call him a racist, and doubt most liberals would either (except to try to get some kind of political gain).--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 23:00, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
::::I believe the creator of that essay was [[User:BernieandTrumpFan]]. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Wednesday, 23:05, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
::::::What makes you think the author of the essay wasn't racist? [[User:SlappyTheSeal|SlappyTheSeal]] ([[User talk:SlappyTheSeal|talk]]) 23:07, October 26, 2021 (EDT)
:::::::[[Troll]] somewhere else.  The Democrat president [[Joe Biden]] makes racist comments almost weekly without Dems complaining.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 00:59, October 27, 2021 (EDT)

== Cascading protection ==

Hi Andy, I noticed that you changed the protection for the file of your nice cartoon to enable "cascading." Just a note, I don't see any transclusions in the source code of the file, as all the setting does is protect pages which transclude into the page you turn on "cascading" for. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 18:36, October 28, 2021 (EDT)
:You're right, but including cascading protection is just a more complete approach that it is commonly used for nearly all images here, any of which may be edited later.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 19:32, October 28, 2021 (EDT)

== Template:Mainpageright content ==

Hi Andy, can you regulate content on the right side of [[Main Page]] more extensively to prevent the extraneous/undeserved promotion of clickbait "essays," which [[Special:Diff/1651767|you have removed in the past for being "non-newsworthy"]]? Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="color:black; background:#FFABAB">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!</sup>]]''''' Tuesday, 20:12, November 1, 2021 (EDT)
:It's not clickbait.  Unlike [[Wikipedia]], which imposes a [[liberal bias]] by limiting content what appears in the [[liberal media]], educational original essays are allowed here and some have become immensely popular and enlightening.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 23:29, November 1, 2021 (EDT)

== In light of vandalism sprees over the past few weeks ==

...I humbly request rollback and deletion powers. Having made over 20,000 edits and currently being quite active on the site, I would be more than happy to help delete inappropriate spam pages and revert vain sprees of vandal edits, as undoing diffs one by one in the conventional manner is too tedious, and I don't yet have the ability to delete.

Please don't ignore this message. Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>(TALK PAGE</sup>]] <sup>|</sup> [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|<sup>CONTRIBUTIONS)</sup>]]''''' Saturday, 12:58, November 13, 2021 (EST)

== Please delete two revisions left by a recent vandal ==

[[Special:Contributions/PerterKabangsLT|Please hide the content, username and edit summaries for these diffs ASAP.]] Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>(TALK PAGE</sup>]] <sup>|</sup> [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|<sup>CONTRIBUTIONS)</sup>]]''''' Friday, 22:37, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:Done as suggested.  Thanks!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 23:00, November 18, 2021 (EST)

== Essays and MPR ==

Hi Andy, since you have implied that posting educational essays on MPR is allowed when I inquired about Conservative's "essays," can you please post [[Essay:In Defense of James G. Blaine]] (which I wrote) onto the Main Page? I don't have the "Administrator" tag yet to do it myself. Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>(The Old Right was right!)</sup>]]''''' Wednesday, 23:33, November 23, 2021 (EST)

== Happy Thanksgiving! ==

Thank you for paying the server bills and maintaining Conservapedia for all of us to edit and expand! Despite some potential differences and disagreements about site management, it's always an honor to be able to add educational content to this site. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|<sup>(The Old Right was right!)</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 14:54, November 25, 2021 (EST)
: Happy [[Thanksgiving]] to you also!!!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:27, November 25, 2021 (EST)
== I made some improvements to Conservapedia's blocking policy page  ==

Andy, I made some improvements to Conservapedia's blocking policy page 

You can see the changes at: [[Conservapedia:Blocking policy]] 

Also, I made some minor improvements to this page: [[Conservapedia:Guidelines]] at the [https://conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Guidelines#Conservapedia.27s_blocking_policy_for_editors_of_the_wiki Conservapedia's blocking policy for editors of the wiki] section. 

Generally speaking, given human nature (see: [[Fall of man]]), wikis are more prone to heavy-handed blocking than to too lenient blocking. The Bible refers to the authoritarian aspect of human nature once people have power. For example, "But Jesus called them to Himself and said, 'You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.'" (Matthew 20:25-26). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:54, November 29, 2021 (EST)
:Thanks, and great [[Bible]] quote!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 11:06, November 29, 2021 (EST)

== RINO of the Year  ==

Hello Mr. Schlafly, 

I think that a good addition to Conservapedia would be RINO of the Year. What do you think? Thanks!--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 12:15, December 8, 2021 (EST)
:Great idea!  Please start an entry on that if you like.  Thank you.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 13:37, December 8, 2021 (EST)
::I will create the page! Thank you!--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 18:43, December 8, 2021 (EST)

== Question ==

Hello, Mr. Schlafly. Hope you are doing well. I was wondering how I am doing as a contributor to Conservapedia? I know I made a few mistakes in the past, but I do hope I have rejuvenated myself and my worthiness to contribute further here. Thanks and Merry Christmas! -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 20:54, December 17, 2021 (EST)
:I looked for recent contributions by you but didn't see any.  Hope you have a good [[Christmas]] and New Year's!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:46, January 1, 2022 (EST)
::Sorry! I will now continue to contribute after the Christmas and New Year season. Thanks and Happy New Year! -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 15:56, January 3, 2022 (EST)

== RINO of the year, 2021 ==

I declared Liz Cheney RINO of the year and Adam Kinzinger first runner-up. Could you please add that to ''In The News''? Thank you!--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 23:30, December 31, 2021 (EST)
:Done!  Great work.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:44, January 1, 2022 (EST)
::Thank you very much!--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 22:20, January 1, 2022 (EST)

== Spam/advertising accounts ==

Could you delete the user pages for [[:User:Ziyyara edutech|these three]] [[:User:CurrencyExchange|spam]] [[:User:CFPBrecruitment|accounts]]?  All three have been blocked for spamming/advertising on the site.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 20:13, January 4, 2022 (EST)
:Done, thanks!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:19, January 4, 2022 (EST)

== Ted Cruz vs. Ron DeSantis ==

Hi, Andy.

As you probably know, Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis have issued statements regarding 1/6 which could not be any more different from each other. And their statements are being invoked by conservatives to establish how different the two men are as politicians. But I'm not so convinced. I see strong parallels between DeSantis and pre-2016 Ted Cruz. Both of them were very obviously trying to build a reputation as the "perfect" politician, and with it a very strong cult of personality. For this reason (among a few others), I am very, ''very'' reluctant to get onboard the DeSantis train in 2024, or even in 2022 (I live in Florida). 

What do you think?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 18:12, January 6, 2022 (EST)

== Another Question ==

Hi, Andy:
Hope you are doing well. I was wondering if I could have uploading privileges? I’m not sure if those privileges are based off of how long someone has been here, or whatnot. I hope I have proven my worthiness here. The reason why I would like to have uploading privileges is because I have created several pages, and I would like to add photos to those pages to further improve them. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks! -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 00:43, January 8, 2022 (EST)
:Thanks for your contributions.  Please explain further the entries, with example links to [[public domain]] images.  Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 00:49, January 8, 2022 (EST)

== Trumpian Mark ==

Where are you going with this? This is genuine curiosity, btw. After Jesus as author of ''Hebrews'', I wouldn't dare claim anything with certainty, but given you're clearly using "Trumpian" as praise (and implicit criticism of insufficiently Trumpian things), the thrust of your argument ''seems'' to paint the other Gospels as less conservative / more liberal. Is that really where you're going? [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 13:31, January 10, 2022 (EST)
:I think he's saying Mark is more [[egalitarian]] than the others. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 14:35, January 10, 2022 (EST)
::Right.  The [[Gospel of Mark]] is blunt [[conservative populism]], like [[Trump]] and his supporters.  Though the other Gospels used Mark's draft, they omitted his direct criticism of the [[Sabbath]] and his endorsement of [[free speech]] to evangelize.  Mark was the outsider never accepted into [[the Apostles]]' group, analogous to Trump.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:53, January 10, 2022 (EST)
:::The Gospels are one thing and one thing only: the Word of God. They are thus above all other ideas and ways of life. Conservative populism, like any other "-ism", is inferior to the Gospels because it is ''not'' the Gospels. And so it shall be, no matter how much of the Gospels it may invoke.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 15:11, January 10, 2022 (EST)
::::Well put.  But the Gospels are to be understood, and Mark was an outsider who gave us [[Jesus]]'s statement of [[freedom of speech]] to evangelize.  Mark embraced that opportunity, as we should.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:22, January 10, 2022 (EST)
:::::OK. I'll ask the question again, and I'd be eternally grateful if others would allow Andy to answer for himself. '''What, then, does this insight do for your estimation of the other Gospels?''' Specifically, if ''Mark'' somehow epitomises conservative populism, then where do ''Matthew'', ''Luke'' and ''John'' lie on your (newfound) NT political spectrum? Thanks, [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 17:31, January 10, 2022 (EST)
::::::Your question was answered succinctly by Rob, and I said "Right".  We're concise here!  To elaborate, [[the Gospels|the other Gospels]], particularly the Gospels of [[Gospel of Matthew|''Matthew'']] and [[Gospel of Luke|''Luke'']], copy heavily from the [[Gospel of Mark]], so they are not "far from the mark" as the saying goes.  The [[Gospel of John]] is very different and more philosophical in nature.  Perhaps it has Trumpian elements in it, but I'm not yet aware of that.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 18:35, January 10, 2022 (EST)
:::::::Look, man: You're the one handing out political labels to scripture like merit badges. I'm merely asking you (politely) to commit to your own logic, and I'm not sure why you're resisting. If I'm reading you right, is it fair to say that you perhaps now regard ''Matthew'' and ''Luke'' as conservative, without being truly populist, and ''John'' as somewhat less conservative altogether? [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 19:15, January 10, 2022 (EST)
::::::::Saying that a particular painting is beautiful, or artistic, or [[surrealism|surrealistic]], or whatever, is not a comment about or disparagement of any other painting.  I've observed something about the [[Gospel of Mark]].  That observation says nothing about other Gospels, or books in a nearby library, or movies in theaters.  I doubt that the other Gospels are less [[conservative]] than Mark, but I expect (without focusing yet on them) they contain less [[conservative populism]] than the [[Gospel of Mark]] does.  That would probably be due to their focus on something else.  If one compliments someone in a room, others in the room shouldn't take that as an insult.  It would be illogical if they did.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:05, January 10, 2022 (EST)

<--- Except you're quite clearly using the terms "Trumpian" and "conservative populism" as expressions of approval re. a supposed ideal form. That's implicit criticism or denigration of other similar objects, whether you like it or not. 

You can dress it up as a ''mild'' critique of the other Gospels, but that still leaves you in the deeply weird position of setting one above the others, even if only slightly. I'm aware of plenty of people who'll express a ''preference'' for a favourite Gospel, but never as anything other than a matter of subjective spiritual / literary taste. 

That's not what you're doing here: you're making a concrete claim re. Mark's (superior) efficacy in delivering the Word. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 16:54, January 11, 2022 (EST)
:I obviously disagree with your conclusion, but also disagree with your logic.  Admiring one in a group is not "implicit criticism or denigration of other similar objects" in the group, as you argue.  The flaw in such logic is its one-dimensionality.  For example, analyzing the weight of items in a group says nothing about the color, length, texture, etc., of the members of the group.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:58, January 12, 2022 (EST)
::With respect, you're clearly using "Trumpian" as a superlative. You simply do not have a higher unit of political praise in your vocabulary right now. I trust you agree re. superlatives that if something is the ''most'' beautiful, then all similar objects must be somewhat ''less'' beautiful, even if only by a fraction.

::It would easy to prove me wrong: sketch out what would be better politically than "Trumpian". You can't do that because it would mean acknowledging at least some of Trump's obvious myriad flaws, and you're way too invested in pretending he's the epitome of manly conservative populism. That's your cross to bear, and honestly, you're welcome to it. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 16:27, January 12, 2022 (EST)

== Re: Michelle Obama's biological sex ==

Andy, I'm reaching out to you because RobS and I are on the brink of an edit war.

For context, RobS has been pushing ''hard'' the idea that Michelle Obama is a secret transgender. While reviewing the edits he made to the Michelle Obama article, I've noticed that multiple sources he cited to back up his claim actually ''debunk'' it. See [https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/10/14/fact-check-doctored-photo-disparages-michelle-obamas-appearance-984292/ here], [https://medium.com/@kishowatanabe/big-mike-and-the-claims-that-michelle-obama-is-a-transgender-woman-48de393c6b0f here], and [https://www.mydailyinformer.com/michelle-obama-a-man-everything-pointing-to-the-truth/ here].

In addition, we have two of the article's sources which say that a photo that RobS added to the article was doctored. See [https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/10/14/fact-check-doctored-photo-disparages-michelle-obamas-appearance-984292/ here] and [https://stateofthenation.co/?p=31424 here].

::UPDATE: Andy, please ignore the third source above (from State of the Nation). I would remove it entirely if that didn't go against Conservapedia rules.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:20, January 14, 2022 (EST)

Again, these sources are ''all'' cited by the article directly. I did not find these through random searches. 

And as for the rest of the sources RobS cited to "prove" his point, they are all make incredibly weak arguments, and some of them are obviously not reliable given the other claims they make. Like this one [https://www.ournewearthnews.com/2019/11/05/michele-obama-bulge-gate-continues-michele-obama-goes-commando-again-as-she-tries-to-contain-her-mysterious-bulge-from-flopping-in-front-of-the-cameras-she-wasnt-completely-successful/ here]. Just look at the links at the bottom of the page and see if that site is to be taken seriously.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to fix these obvious problems, and RobS is undoing my edits. See [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Michelle_Obama&action=history here]. And my attempts to have a talk with him about this issue are going nowhere; he's only giving me [[Talk:Michelle_Obama#Doctored_photo_in_the_article|non-sequiturs and troll responses]] (btw, I'm pretty sure I would get blocked if it were the other way around; if I talked to an admin like that).

Please reply when you can.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:46, January 13, 2022 (EST)

:PBS reports Amazon facial recognition technology identifies Michelle Obama as a man. [https://youtu.be/NlJSDa_zLiQ]  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 21:53, January 13, 2022 (EST)
::You mean at 3:46 to 4:07 in the video? You do realize that by that logic, Serena Williams and many other black female celebrities are also secret transgenders, right? Do you believe that too?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 22:11, January 13, 2022 (EST)
:::The InfoWars video makes the same comparisons between Serena and Michelle. [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34zu89]
::::I saw the video, and it's more BS. Not only is the shape of Michelle's face very close to that of the middle circle to begin with, I also can't help but notice a pattern where every person who is directly looking into  the camera "fits" and every person who isn't directly looking into the camera doesn't "fit." And the photo of Michelle they used there is not one where she's directly looking into the camera.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:31, January 14, 2022 (EST)
:::::The point being, InfoWars was the first to call attention to Serena Williams and Michelle Obama's male features, which was later confirmed by Amazon's facial recognition software used by law enforcement and broadcast worldwide by PBS ''Frontline'' editors. Those facts are undeniable and speak for themselves. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 21:56, January 14, 2022 (EST)
::::::Do you believe Serena Williams is a secret transgender too? And if you do, you realize some women do have features which are normally associated with men. For example, some women have prominent Adam's apples because they have larger than normal larynxes. Notable examples include Kate Middleton, Ana De Armas, Jessica Alba, and Ann Coulter.[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b71fc48229a28f71012c43721ebefca8][https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3nGwaND8CbI/maxresdefault.jpg][https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f4/dc/a6/f4dca653c2cff687c7b77e5e41d9d6f3.jpg][http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5s67MJWOeAg/S6vmL249RqI/AAAAAAAAC5s/lxgoVinHAU4/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/coulter1248617207.jpg]--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:06, January 16, 2022 (EST)
:::::::What I think or believe has little impact on facts or reality. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 17:24, January 16, 2022 (EST)

:::BTW, [[ABC News]] uses the same picture CP uses. [https://youtu.be/zDBb88MOYuQ?t=44] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 22:35, January 13, 2022 (EST)
::No, it isn't. The neck size, the mouth shape, the shape of the lips, the teeth, the eyebrows, and the hair length have all been tampered with to varying degrees in the CP version.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:31, January 14, 2022 (EST)
:Incidentally, your SOTN source is a pretty racist, bigoted, and ant-Semitic source, and unacceptable for Conservapedia.   [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 22:04, January 13, 2022 (EST)
::Stop lying. The SOTN source is yours, not mine. I know this because the article's edit log shows that you are the one who added it. [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Michelle_Obama&diff=1706966&oldid=1706963 On November 24, 2020 at 16:37 to be exact].--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 22:11, January 13, 2022 (EST)
:::Ah, sorry, no. It was added by this user here [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Michelle_Obama&diff=prev&oldid=1706286 Revision as of 06:50, 22 November 2020] two days earlier before my revert of vandalism. Why are you hyping and depending on a blatantly anti-Semitic site to knock down the transgender theory? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 22:23, January 13, 2022 (EST)
::::My mistake. But it would still be a false statement to call it "my" source, as I'm not the one who added it to the page. The only thing I've done with it is point out contradictions between itself and the article. Speaking of which, if the source is a site which is racist, bigoted, and anti-Semitic, and thus unacceptable for Conservapedia, why did you allow it to remain on the page for nearly 14 months? Or are you just now noticing that the source is racist, bigoted, and anti-Semitic?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 22:35, January 13, 2022 (EST)
:::::You posted that site here. I made a mistake in not removing it when I reverted the vandalism. Actually, I didn't realize it was there til now. But you obviously don't know what you're talking about. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 22:39, January 13, 2022 (EST)
::::::Okay, I see that you've since removed SOTN as a source from the article. I'm not gonna argue with that. I also will do my own part above.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:20, January 14, 2022 (EST)
:::::It took two years to establish that the "lab leak" ''was not'' a "theory". Likewise, it took three years to establish Russia collusion was a hoax. It took more than year to establish that Kyle Rittenhouse didn't kill any blacks. I don't see what the rush to judgement is, being Michelle is bandied about as the next Democrat Messiah. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 22:43, January 13, 2022 (EST)
:::::::It was never an absurd idea that COVID is a bioweapon, nor was it an absurd idea that Russia collusion was a hoax. Because that behavior could be expected from bad state actors and rogue intelligence agencies. And it was ''always'' an absurd idea that Rittenhouse killed black people, because all three people he killed were clearly white. But "Michelle is Michael?" That idea has never gotten a following among anybody but the fringiest of the fringe, because it doesn't make sense and the "evidence" can be easily debunked.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:20, January 14, 2022 (EST)
::::::::Bull. People have been blocked and banned for discussing these things on social media, including the sitting president of the United States. Oh, did I mention the conspiracy theory that the communist-Democrats cheated to steal the 2020 elections? These MSM lies have been repeated to this very day, and what MSM source has taken steps to salvage its reputation?
::::::::I just don't see why the rush to debunk something for which there is "evidence in plain sight"; if it takes a team of medical doctors to perform physical inspections to establish the facts once and for all, so be it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 21:40, January 14, 2022 (EST)

:::::::::One more question: Why the [[homophobic]] and transphobic bigotry among denialists regarding the Obamas? What is there to be ashamed about being gay or a transgender person? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 21:45, January 14, 2022 (EST)
::::::::::Do you truly believe someone like Obama would be homophobic?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 16:06, January 16, 2022 (EST)
:::::::::::Possibly; the DSMV calls it internalized homophobia.  If in fact Barack Obama is homosexual, which evidence and witnesses point to, why would (a) the Obama's, and (b) MSM regard it as something to be ashamed of in this era of gay pride?   Why would role models teach children to decieve and be in self-denial? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 17:24, January 16, 2022 (EST)
::::::::::::Exactly. Which is why one would be misguided to think that Obama would still remain in the closet if he were indeed homosexual, seven years after same-sex marriage was mandated nationwide. One would also be misguided to think that he's not arrogant enough to shove his status as the "first gay president" down our throats, if he is indeed homosexual. I mean, he did just that with his status as the "first black president" for eight whole years. So it would be totally in-character for him to do it with his status as the "first gay president," and totally out of character for him not to.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 17:42, January 16, 2022 (EST)
:::::::::::::That was a lie. Obama was not the "the first black president" (unless you subscribe to the single drop theory); he was the first 1/2 black African president with no relationship to ADOS (American Descendants of Slaves). Need I go on? 19:52, January 16, 2022 (EST)
::::::::::::::I'm pretty sure most Americans subscribe to the one-drop rule. Is it a flawed rule? Sure. But still...--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 19:03, January 17, 2022 (EST)
:::::::::::::And of course you ignoring an obvious [[conflict of interest]] - the Obama's using their position and influence to normalize and legalize their own alleged transgender union. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 19:58, January 16, 2022 (EST)
:::::::::::::::So the fact that they supported mandating same-sex marriage is evidence that they're closet homosexuals?--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 19:03, January 17, 2022 (EST)
::::::::::::::::Maybe it's the only reason they did it, to convince themselves they were normal. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 23:39, January 17, 2022 (EST)
::::::I like the bit where obvious lies are an essential feature of the ''esprit de corps'' round here. I say keep it along with all the other plague signs you've plastered all over the joint. Taking the Make This Site Toxic work in-house is surely easier than policing parody. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 15:54, January 14, 2022 (EST)
:::::::Hey, we're not doing anything different than MSM fact checkers or the FBI. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 15:56, January 14, 2022 (EST)
::::::::Mate, you're doing a better job than any of us managed in years of trying. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 15:59, January 14, 2022 (EST

== Comment ==

The page [[User:Aschlafly]] needs updating: "Starting in January 2020 I plan to teach my American History course again". Also the use of the word "lectures" in the opening sentences is odd – articles, or  essays? - [[User:Jackin the box]] posted on 1-16-2022
:Great catch on the passage of time.  Your account gets promoted for that!  As to the lectures, can't they be written?  They were both written and spoken.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 22:34, January 16, 2022 (EST)

==Pro-Car Movies==
I hope I didn't destroy the premise of your page, but I remembered an old AutoZone commercial with a similar premise and added an entry with a YouTube link to the commercial. [[User:Quidam65|Quidam65]] ([[User talk:Quidam65|talk]]) 13:16, January 17, 2022 (EST)

==Re: Neurodiversity article==
Yes it is. It is written in my own words and I am citing sources. --[[User:TheAtheisticCentrist|TheAtheisticCentrist]] ([[User talk:TheAtheisticCentrist|talk]]) 23:30, January 22, 2022 (EST)
:That's welcome.  Thanks!  (Your account has been promoted to SkipCaptcha.)--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 23:32, January 22, 2022 (EST)

== Been a while ==

Hi Andy, so I been making a couple of edits again on Conservapedia. You'll be glad to know that ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', which was a red link on seven articles, now has a page (strange how Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon, etc all had pages but not Smash Bros. itself). I caught a piece of British English on the [[mouse]] article and [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Mouse&diff=prev&oldid=1837081 removed it] too. :)

Also, does Conservapedia generally rely on as little fair use images as possible? I ask because [[:File:TP Wii.jpg]] is a fair use image, and only certain users have image uploading privileges, assuming it either has to do with inappropriate pictures uploaded by vandals in the past or concerns over fair use overuse. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 12:08, February 4, 2022 (EST)
:Great to see you editing again, Patriotic Gamer!  I'd like to expand on entries on gaming, due to its influence.  That fair use image is fine.  Look forward to seeing more of your edits!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 12:22, February 4, 2022 (EST)
::Thank you :) Conservapedia can be a good way of stress relief if like you know certain subjects by heart that you want to translate into articles. I have not forgotten about this place -- I just been working on/prioritizing some other personal projects. Also, when you mention the influence of gaming, do you mean how people can benefit from knowing which games are good for their children or make writing essays in English class more fun for students? [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 12:27, February 4, 2022 (EST)
:::By influential, I mean the younger demographic is spending a lot of time gaming.  "8 hours and 27 minutes. That’s how long the average gamer plays each week." - [https://www.techrepublic.com/article/8-hours-and-27-minutes-thats-how-long-the-average-gamer-plays-each-week/ Tech Republic].  That has to have an societal influence.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 12:44, February 4, 2022 (EST)
::::Video gaming will be the death of the [[NFL]]; the 8 to 12 year old demographic - which is what the NFL built its longterm success on, no longer watch NFL and play video games instead. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 13:18, February 4, 2022 (EST)
:::::This article confirms your excellent point: "Super Bowl 55 saw a decline in the 18 to 49 viewer demographic for the ninth year running. The 2021 Super Bowl lost another 37 percent of viewers in that age demo over last year’s audience." [https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/02/10/nfl-hemorrhaging-young-viewers-under-50-super-bowl-viewership-declines-ninth-straight-year/]--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 13:41, February 4, 2022 (EST)
::::::The ramifications are immense, cause it's the NFL that sets both broadcast and cable TV advertising rates. Those two industries are entering a decline because of the viewing habits of 8 to 12 year olds. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 13:48, February 4, 2022 (EST)
:[https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/future-super-bowl  The future is leaving the Super Bowl behind.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 13:36, February 13, 2022 (EST)
::In surveys of US sports fans, soccer is now more popular than ice hockey in the US. A study conducted by the research firm, Ampere Analysis, last month, reveals 49 per cent of US.[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10253507/Soccer-overtaken-ice-hockey-fourth-popular-sport-US.html#:~:text=In%20surveys%20of%20US%20sports,hockey%20on%2037%20per%20cent.] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 16:59, February 13, 2022 (EST)
:::The NFL's problem is not competition from other sports. [https://mashable.com/article/nfl-streaming-death-cable The NFL's new multi-billion dollar TV deal prepares for the death of cable].   It is the loss of a younger market that will not spend 3 hours of family viewing together on TV. For decades, NFL locked up lifetime fans by appealing to 8-12 year olds on Sunday afternoons during what was a family viewing event. That demographic now is indulged in video games and won't wait 30 or 60 seconds for a commercial to pass during a video livestream.  The demographic and technical change is more related to the future of television advertising revenues (which pays player salaries) and the competitiveness of television (versus video streaming) than it is the survival of a sport.
:::Will the NFL survive. Yes. Will the NFL have as large a dedicated fan base in the future as in the past? No. Most importantly, will television be the kingpin in advertising revenue over other advertising platforms in the future? No.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 18:39, February 13, 2022 (EST)
:::It's a shift from television to video livestreaming, which will dethrone television as the biggest ad revenue generator.  A 3 hour NFL broadcast does not suit the demands of video livestream viewers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 18:46, February 13, 2022 (EST)
:::Yellow Page advertising, for example, was once an expensive and necessary advertising platform. Yellow Pages, AFAIK haven't been printed in more than 5 years now. Will television go the same way as the Yellow Pages? No. But realize, when we talk about NFL, what we are talking about is the gold standard as to how advertising rates on television stations throughout the US have been set for more than half a century. In the meantime, television destroyed newspaper and print media advertising.  The television era is now behind us, as the centuries old newspaper era faded after 1952.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 19:02, February 13, 2022 (EST)
::::Excellent analysis.  I'll add that the [[Nielsen]]-based rating system for advertisers is severely archaic, and people are starting to realize that money spent on advertising during football games is money wasted down the drain.  Increasingly those ads are for [[gambling]] on football, which is exploiting an [[addiction]].--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 23:14, February 13, 2022 (EST)
:::::The anecdote goes, shortly after [[Adlai Stevenson]] was nominated, he was introduced to his "television adviser."  As part of the campaign team, the advisor followed Stevenson around the country for weeks. Late one evening the call finally came for a one-on-one meeting with Stevenson in his hotel room. When he arrived, he found Stevenson in his pajamas fiddling with the antennae on the hotel TV set. Stevenson asked, "Can you get a picture on this thing?" [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 20:57, February 14, 2022 (EST)

==We need to recruit editors==
We need to recruit editors just to do the maintenance work on the articles they create. LT quit cause he felt he wasn't getting the recognition and respect he deserved. This article had [[Nancy Mace]] still listed as [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Nancy_Mace&curid=158538&diff=1840290&oldid=1825716 SC state rep from its 99th district] more than one year after she was elected to the 1st U.S. Congressional district.

CP growth was limited and destroyed because a certain unnamed Admin would not let any new editors join for the past 15 years. We need some serious changes if CP is to become competitive. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 02:04, February 21, 2022 (EST)

:I was simply ''amazed'' to read this, RobS.  You don't think a few potential contributers might find your own tone off-putting?  For example...<br /><br />* "the stupidest idiots on the planet"<br />* "remainers are just a bunch of xenophobic knuckle-dragging Russophobes"<br />* "Stupid Ukrainians, they cut off their own nose to spite their face. Donbas was an economically sane and prosperous region of Ukraine, but pro-Western neo-Nazis screwed it all up"<br />* "maybe a covid shot will do him in once and for all"<br />* "This is Journalism 101"<br />* "the UN Security [Council (presumably)] is as useless as a screen door on a submarine"<br />* "this time around, the totalitarian regimes are in the West"<br /><br />...and of these all in the last fortnight and on the same page(!).<br />Now, in the spirit of [[Saul_Alinsky|Alinsky]]'s "[[Rules_for_Radicals|the price of a criticism (I paraphrase, from modesty) is a constructive alternative]]," here is one: before you throw any more bombs like those, try pausing for a few seconds to contemplate "What would [[P.J._O'Rourke|PJ]] write?"<br />If you want more editors, you need more of Reagan's 80% rule:  you need civil discussion,  agreements to disagree, and humility of tone so as to convey acknowledgement of your own fallibilty.  Need I add that wit and humor go a long way, too? You can't have the church broad and the puritans in charge any more than you can have, as the Italians memorably put it, the wife merry and the bottle full. -SannyG [[User:CptSandra|CptSandra]] ([[User talk:CptSandra|talk]]) 09:28, February 23, 2022 (EST)
::If you wish to debate whether UK Remainers are knucledragging xenophobes, I'd be delighted. But this here isn't the page. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 14:05, February 23, 2022 (EST)
:::I'm delighted you're delighted, RobS, and I'm game, too. I came down for Brexit in the end but close family whom I love and who, if they are to be believed, love me, voted otherwise. None are xenophobes. Accordingly, and please note that I've given you the benefit of the doubt in respect of the English language's notorious some/all ambiguity, the motion that "Most 'Remainers' are xenophobic knuckle-dragging Russophobes" (where 'Remainers' is understood to mean everyone who voted to continue membership of the EU in the UK-wide referendum held on June 23rd 2016) will be debated at [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:CptSandra&action=edit&redlink=1], RobS to propose. Assuming he can find a seconder. -Sanny [[User:CptSandra|CptSandra]] ([[User talk:CptSandra|talk]]) 15:04, February 23, 2022 (EST)
:Or maybe he left because he is tired of ***'s essays regarding one dying wiki. I wonder when will the rangeblocks be reversed. [[User:OhNowItNoticed|OhNowItNoticed]] ([[User talk:OhNowItNoticed|talk]]) 09:40, February 25, 2022 (EST)
::I predict that a wiki that lost a ton of traffic in 2019/2020, will lose a lot of web traffic in 2023. The 2022 USA midterm election slaughter of the Democrats will be very demoralizing to them. And it may be a prelude to Donald Trump winning the U.S. Presidency in 2024. 2025 could well be a very BAD year for secular leftism. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 23:44, February 27, 2022 (EST)

==Top Conservative News Websites==

Mr. Schlafly - You are listed as the page creator for the "Top Conservative news websites" page. As Editor-in-Chief of [https://LibertyNation.com LibertyNation.com] I would like to respectfully request possible inclusion in this august listing. While we are a "new kid on the block" and our numbers do not yet reflect those of the high-ranking sites, we believe our all original content reflecting Constitutional and Christian values is worthy of consideration for inclusion by you and your ranking team. Our conservative bone fides are steller with a Board of Directors consisting of Syndicated Columnist Cal Thomas, Media Research President Brent Bozell, and former Attorney General Ed Meese. We would be most appreciative of your consideration in this matter. Thank you.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Leesa K. Donner<br />Editor-in-Chief<br />
[https://LibertyNation.com LibertyNation.com]

:Absolutely!  You have a fabulous website.  I inserted your site as #3 and it could climb higher.  Thanks also for mentioning this because it prompted me to clean the table overall to remove meaningless data.  Appreciate it!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:29, February 23, 2022 (EST)

== Troll vandalism wave ==

Something needs to be done about this recent rash of new accounts being created in the last two days, all of which I suspect are socks being created by the same bored kid who has way too much time on his hands and who can't be bothered to make use of that time productively.  I acted to block the majority of those troll sock accounts (including some of them pre-emptively) to stop them from doing more damage and reverted their vandalism edits.  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 15:03, March 4, 2022 (EST)
:Thanks, I was just posting praise on your own talk page before I saw this.  I'll review further but this conduct is all blocked now.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:55, March 4, 2022 (EST)

:*''all of which I suspect are socks'' - this is a false assumption applied to 116 blocks during a period of high traffic.  In addition to just an emotional response from CP Admin, the vandalism is targeted ''specifically'' to provoke Admin into blocking new good faith accounts and destroying CP efforts to build its user base.  This policy must changed.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 16:37, March 4, 2022 (EST)

:Make that 129 blocks. That's 13 more "preemptive blocks" in the past 20 minutes to accounts which have committed no violations. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 16:59, March 4, 2022 (EST)

::Reddit link https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/t64ecw/rule/

:::We need to proceed with caution; we don't want innocent civilian collateral damage. We need to get asst sysops to understand that blocking does not necessarily end the problem if the troll turns around and makes five new accounts - it can fuel the problem by creating ''more'' sleeper accounts.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 23:20, March 6, 2022 (EST

== Please do something about RobS ==
{{Warning collapse
|reason=Ukranian misinformation
|content=He thinks he can say whatever he wants to anybody who dares to voice an opinion contrary to his own. I've put up with it for a very long time, rarely if ever responding to his inflammatory rhetoric in a strong manner. But this time he has gone too far. He literally just accused me of being a "neo-Nazi Russophobe and apologist along with Facebook and the Biden regime" on [[Talk:Main Page]], all because I voiced opinions that I'm sure are shared by the vast majority of conservatives, ''and'' have nothing to do with the crisis in Ukraine to begin with. 

He knows full well that I am one of the ''last'' people on this wiki who would take the neocon/neolib position on Ukraine, but he decided to intentionally make that baseless accusation against me because he can't help himself. If you ask me, this behavior is borderline trolling, which is highly unbecoming of a user as highly-ranked as him. Please do something about this.

In good faith, --[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 02:33, March 12, 2022 (EST)

:Simple solution: Do not voice support for the neo-Nazi fascist Kyiv regime or make [[Russophobic]] attacks. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 03:01, March 12, 2022 (EST)
:We need a [[Mass formation psychosis]] article, cause it has gone well beyond covid now and extends exactly to explain the type of Nazi sympathies the term was coined for. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 03:04, March 12, 2022 (EST)
:Geo, you mischaracterize the interrogatory: I asked, "Are you a neo-Nazi Russophobe and apologist along with Facebook and the Biden regime?"  I made no such "accusation," as alleged. Thank you for lying about me. I'll be watching you. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 04:34, March 12, 2022 (EST)}}
::Shut up. You know damn well that I'm not. You're the liar, not me.
::Also, you've been watching me like a hawk for a long, long, LONG time. You're practically obsessed with me. It's kind of creepy, to say the least.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 21:51, March 14, 2022 (EDT)

RobS is continuing to engage in troll-like behavior [https://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Main_Page#Is_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War_a_.22Crisis_War.22.3F here], [https://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geopolitician#MPR_comment here], and [https://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Vince_Did_7-14 here].--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 23:27, April 17, 2022 (EDT)
:Even though I'm no big fan of the 90/10 rule, I'm even a lesser fan of trolling. And if [https://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Contributions/Geopolitician this ain't trolling], going round-and-round for months alleging that Mike Pompeo is part of a Deep State neocon cabal that includes Xi Jinping, I don't know what is. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 23:45, April 17, 2022 (EDT)

::Example: [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Geopolitician&diff=1853341&oldid=1853340 "Fauci and Xi never wanted the virus to leave the lab. The virus was leaked out of the lab by a mole who was taking orders from Pompeo and his gang."]
::Andy, this user's only accomplishments in CP have been to attack GOP candidates who hold, have held, or are running for elected office.  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 14:06, April 21, 2022 (EDT)

== Username change ==

Hello {{u|Aschlafly}}, is there a way to change my username to "CatolicoAustral", thanks in advance!--[[User:Capitalist.Chile|Capitalist.Chile]] ([[User talk:Capitalist.Chile|talk]]) 13:33, March 18, 2022 (EDT)
:I'm happy to do that, but the software may limit the change to only once (not sure about that).  So if you could just confirm that there is no misspelling or anything else you might want to adjust in "CatolicoAustral" , I'll make that change for you!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:31, March 18, 2022 (EDT)
::Yes, I confirm the name change, Thanks in advance! (PS: I need to delete this file since it didn't worked as originally intended [[:File:Coat of arms of Romania.svg]])--[[User:Capitalist.Chile|Capitalist.Chile]] ([[User talk:Capitalist.Chile|talk]]) 11:51, March 29, 2022 (EDT)
:::Renamed as requested!  (I also deleted the Coat of arms file as requested.)  Thanks!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 13:07, March 29, 2022 (EDT)

==Russians banned from chess tourny==
[https://www.chess.com/news/view/grand-chess-tour-ban-karjakin-ecu-suspends-belarusian-russian-federations]  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 17:50, March 21, 2022 (EDT)

==Editing Conflicts==
Evidently, the mere suggestion concerning the existence of Onshore Wind Farms, promotes a liberal point of view. It is an undeniable fact; onshore wind farms actually exist. How this reality can support a political viewpoint is mystifying. What is even more mystifying is the attempt by Northwest to educate me on this matter by putting an information box at the top of this article that directs the reader to an article that was deleted by CP admin TK over thirteen years ago. I’m sure Northwest thinks her actions are well intentioned, but my history with this CP editor has not been fruitful. All attempts to elicit rational responses from her end up as futile attempts to resolve conflicts. See Talk: Wind Turbine and my talk page for clarification. If anyone needs to understand why Conservapedia has a problem with retaining editors, looking at my interactions with Northwest is a good place to start. --[[User:LSimons|LSimons]] ([[User talk:LSimons|talk]]) 11:32, April 4, 2022 (EDT)
:Your comments don't link to anything.  I tried looking at [[Talk:Wind Turbine]] but could not immediately see what you're referring to.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 19:28, April 4, 2022 (EDT)
::My apologies. Most of my issues with Northwest are on my talk page.--[[User:LSimons|LSimons]] ([[User talk:LSimons|talk]]) 20:48, April 4, 2022 (EDT)
:::Okay, three things here, LSimons:

:::*One, did you just assume my gender?  I'm actually male and have been since I was born.

:::*Two, the articles about wind farms that you created were labeled with Liberal POV tags because you're using them to push pro-wind turbine propaganda, using government sites and liberal-biased sources (which whitewash, ignore and lie about the drawbacks that such technology has) to back that propaganda up - all of which are discredited by the non-biased sources used in the [[Wind turbine]] article (which you tried to change to suit a liberal POV with your edits that included the biased and propagandistic sources).

:::*Three, what you call Conservapedia "(having) a problem with retaining editors", most of us here call sour grapes from liberal-leaning editors who don't like having their attempts at imposing liberal POV and trying to turn Conservapedia into [[Liberapedia]] 2.0 reverted.  You knew what [[Conservapedia:Commandments|the rules of this site]] were when you first joined, and you should abide by them (including the use of sources that have records of truthfulness, which liberal-biased sites do not) like anyone else who edits here.  If you don't like that, then there are other wikis you can edit on that go along with what you're pushing (including Wikipedia).  [[User:Northwest|Northwest]] ([[User talk:Northwest|talk]]) 00:01, April 5, 2022 (EDT)

Mr. Schlafly: See what I mean? Like he did when I edited the ‘American Thinker’ article, he is simply abusive. If I were to ask Mr. Northwest to give specifics on how exactly my articles on wind turbines promote a liberal POV, he would simply rant and rave and not even answer the simplest of questions. He has also violated CP etiquette rules by deleting my edits without discussing the matter first. It’s rather sad how he considers the existence of horizontal access wind turbines to be propaganda, or referring to Trump administration data as a liberal-based source. The CP guidelines state: ‘Unlike Wikipedia, we do not block for ideological reasons’. Yet that is exactly what he did when imposed a one-day block for ‘liberal propaganda/POV’. I am scrupulously following the CP commandments and guidelines, for this reason, Mr. Northwest has to invent excuses to revert my edits. --[[User:LSimons|LSimons]] ([[User talk:LSimons|talk]]) 00:32, April 5, 2022 (EDT)

:Please, let's not make this personal.  These are the [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Wind_turbine&diff=1849289&oldid=1764981 edits over a period of 9 months] in question. It's two simple paragraphs with two citations appropriately cited in text to eia.gov.
:My comments:
:*Discussion needs to be on the Wind Turbine talk page, and not user pages;
:*The two paragraphs can be simply improved by fixing the leap from wind power at 8% in 2021, to "renewables" (which presumably includes solar and others) in the second paragraph at 21% in 2021. 
:*contrary or opposing views should be included with cites.
:*CP rules nowhere ban "Liberal POV", and it should not be referenced in edit summaries as cause for blocking. "Liberal POV" is often the same as [[trolling]], which is defined in CP rules and guidelines.
:[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 02:04, April 5, 2022 (EDT)
::One other point: If the sysop did not like the cited improvements, he could have cut and pasted out the "Growth in turbines" section and made it a subsection under the "Crony capitalism" header, which would have made a whole lot more sense in improving the article vs. getting into a personal dispute. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 02:44, April 5, 2022 (EDT)

== Obscenity: Lewd pictures and comments ==

I don't know if this is the appropriate word, but I'm seeing too many disgusting things on Conservapedia. See the Putin page for just one example. Is this still a Christian family friendly 'pedia that children can be allowed to visit? Are you able to clean things up? Civilization seems to be collapsing around us!! --[[User:Jackin the box|Jackin the box]] ([[User talk:Jackin the box|talk]]) 15:00, April 12, 2022 (EDT)
:The worst example is the doctored picture of [[Michelle Obama#White House years|Michelle Obama]]. This (unbelievably) is on the level with the graffiti seen in public lavatories. Another example of radical, relativistic, atheist values infiltrating the US? I realize that there are many pages on Conservapedia that adopt a conservative approach to [[pornography]] and lewd innuendo. --[[User:Jackin the box|Jackin the box]] ([[User talk:Jackin the box|talk]]) 11:50, April 13, 2022 (EDT)
::I trimmed that photo.  Earlier I looked at the [[Putin]] entry and could not see anything offensive about it.  What kids get in [[public schools]] today would offend many.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:57, April 13, 2022 (EDT)

:::Thanks. Clearly you are more broad minded than me re [[Vladimir Putin| the picture of men in high heels]]. Perhaps it is just in bad taste rather than obscene? What happens in public schools is another topic, my comment was about the lowering of standards here, unless children are barred from viewing Conservapedia. --[[User:Jackin the box|Jackin the box]] ([[User talk:Jackin the box|talk]]) 12:12, April 15, 2022 (EDT)
::::I would call that [[gay claptrap]] in bad taste.  But it is what [[Leftist]]s push in [[Europe]], and thus encyclopedic and important for people to be aware of.  It is tame compared to what [[liberals]] indoctrinate students with in [[America]]n [[public schools]].  
::::Thanks for your concern.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:53, April 15, 2022 (EDT)
:::::I think if someone could find an authentic picture of [[Winston Churchill]] in high heels this one could be considered old news and would lose its educational value. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 15:19, April 15, 2022 (EDT)
{{Warning collapse
|reason=Andy's enforcement of his own editorial decisions on his own website is now so comically limp that Rob can collapse obvious appeals for consistency with impunity. Mom facepalms in Heaven and wonders where she went wrong. 
|content=I have been accused of edit warring because I removed the same picture from the [[Barack Hussein Obama]] article. There was no warning, explanation, nor any effort to start a discussion. Presumably, in some eyes, decency is a liberal value! --[[User:Jackin the box|Jackin the box]] ([[User talk:Jackin the box|talk]]) 15:44, April 18, 2022 (EDT)
:You were accused of edit warring? by who? do you have evidence? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 15:49, April 18, 2022 (EDT)
::Not directly because another editor was also involved in deleting the picture, which led to this: <Protected "Barack Hussein Obama": Edit warring ([Edit=Administrators only] (expires 15:48, May 16, 2022>. Can the sequence of edits that led to this blocking be explained some other way? --[[User:Jackin the box|Jackin the box]] ([[User talk:Jackin the box|talk]]) 16:25, April 18, 2022 (EDT)
:::So no one accused you of edit warring, which is not in itself a violation of civility clauses. Your innuendo and playing the victim here, however borders on trolling. Especially wasting Andy's precious time with this nonsense. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 17:23, April 18, 2022 (EDT)

No, my concern was with the reverting of valid edits by two editors. I wasn't the victim, but Michelle Obama is, because other editors use childish, smutty humour. It is sad when politics sinks into the gutter. And it seems to me that Andy agrees. This has to do with normal, Christian, American decency and respect for those we don't agee with. Why are you here [[User:RobSmith|RobS]], if you don't believe in [[family values]] and support the use of doctored, [[pornographic]] pictures ( see also [[Putin]])? --[[User:Jackin the box|Jackin the box]] ([[User talk:Jackin the box|talk]]) 10:35, April 19, 2022 (EDT)
:Hey, nobody you accuse of anything is responsible for choosing Michele Obama's wardrobe or showing up at some "cultural event". [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]</sup> 13:18, April 19, 2022 (EDT)}}

== Edit warring ==
Bytemsbu is edit warring pushing the infamous conspiracy on Rothchild as if "legitimate". He also removed  / vandalized) my edit here on this page.[[User:Dianne3000|Dianne3000]] ([[User talk:Dianne3000|talk]])
:Please discuss your differences on the appropriate article talk page. Thank you. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Z]]</sup> 18:07, April 25, 2022 (EDT)

== Russia/Ukraine war and Just War Theory ==

I wasn't able to talk to you very long last time we talked, but here is the material on [[Just War Theory]].  Here is the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Just War Theory: [https://iep.utm.edu/justwar/ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Just War Theory]. The Wikipedia version of the article can be found at: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory Just War Theory].

I hope this is helpful in terms of the Russia/Ukraine war and Just War Theory.

The Russia/Ukraine war is not a just war in terms of Vladimir Putin launching a large scale invasion against Ukraine. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 09:47, April 28, 2022 (EDT)
:That's an interesting pro-fascist MSM argument based on lies. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Z]]</sup> 13:19, April 28, 2022 (EDT)

== Article deletion ==

Hello Mr.Aschlafly, please remove [[Infome Rettig]] since I misspelled [[Informe Rettig]], Thanks in advance! What other admins do have this permission?--[[User:CatolicoAustral|CatolicoAustral]] ([[User talk:CatolicoAustral|talk]]) 19:36, April 28, 2022 (EDT)
:Rob removed it.  Thanks, Rob!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:31, April 28, 2022 (EDT)

==Thought you might be interested in this...==
"For the first time ever, scientists have captured images of the flash of light that sparks at the very moment a human sperm cell makes contact with an egg." [https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-captured-the-actual-flash-of-light-that-sparks-when-sperm-meets-an-egg] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Z]]</sup> 17:05, May 21, 2022 (EDT)
:That is spectacular.  Thanks!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:26, May 21, 2022 (EDT)
::If you're not signed up already, you should consider signing up for "The Barnes Brief" daily. It's very short and has a wealth of information. You get [https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/upost/2175581/important-administrative-state-case through here]. It's free. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Z]]</sup> 22:34, May 22, 2022 (EDT)

== Conservapedia Commandments ==

Hello Mr. Schlafly, I am an [[America First]] [[Christian]] [[patriot]] who has been waiting to contribute to this superb website for the past couple of months. However, I was unable to find the button to create an account, until today. As I was familiarizing myself with site policy, I realized that page [[Conservapedia:Commandments]] is not categorized in [[:Category:Conservapedia Policy]]. Would you please add it to that category? I am unable to edit the commandments myself. Thanks! [[User:MayGodBless|MayGodBless]] ([[User talk:MayGodBless|talk]]) 18:41, May 22, 2022 (EDT)
:Another editor has inserted that category for you.  Thanks and welcome!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:35, May 22, 2022 (EDT)

== HitCounters ==

About one year ago, Rob told me that you were hesitant to update Conservapedia because of, I think, the page counter on the footer of pages. There's a MediaWiki extension [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters here] that allow for page count (not sure if it carries over the existing page count... does it?). I just trying to help out, as I worry if the MediaWiki isn't updated there could be security vulnerabilities exploited. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 11:05, June 13, 2022 (EDT)

==I cannot apologize enough==
I somehow deleted half of your page trying to fix a dangling parenthesis. I have no idea what buttons I pressed. I cannot say sorry enough; I can assure you that it was an accident on my part. Thank you for cleaning up after me. [[User:MayGodBless|MayGodBless]] ([[User talk:MayGodBless|talk]]) 22:51, June 13, 2022 (EDT)