Thursday, July 23, 2020

The Fender Mod Shop Experience



Overall, I would not do it again.  Fender says 30 days but might took 35 days.  Then, they ship by FedEx ground only and that takes 9-10 days.  Expect well over 40 days to get your guitar.  During this time no emails regarding the status of the build is sent.  The only other email will be the ship notice.

The simulated guitar you see on the mod shop after you add your features, color, etc, might not be what you envisioned.  Mine certainly is not. There is no refund for build.

Basically, doing your own “mod” is a far cheaper and faster alternative.  My price was over $1900.

Sound wise, the guitar sound great.  The roasted maple neck is as smooth as butter.  A roasted neck has no finish on it but feels like a smooth satin finish.  The action is spot on and frets are well done.  Basically, it is the same quality of craftsmanship one would find on the Fender Elite line of guitars. 

Saturday, July 18, 2020

The Q Bot



The Qanon phenomenon took the internet by storm just after Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017.  An unnamed entity or group, started posting cryptic messages on a site called 8chan.   A whole online industry sprung up to quote and decode the “Q” postings.  The mainstream media claims Q is a right wing conspiracy monger while conservatives feel Q is working with Trump. 

One popular Q post is “Still with the plan.”  What plan?  It is never defined.  That doesn’t stop people from quoting it on social media.  It’s a symbol for hope.  One that is rarely questioned about what the plan is supposed to be.  It is quite apparent that people recognize there are two types of justice.  One for the insiders and the other for outsiders with   the insiders never paying for their crimes.  Q pretends to offer light at the end of the tunnel.  

Besides being vague, many Q posts are questions that are never answered or news events one can read anywhere.  What is released is public domain, declassified information.  Anybody with a browser can find the same thing.  Since none of the postings are classified why the secrecy as to who Q is?  Because Q is psyop on the Real People that make America great.  The Powers That Be (Deep State, etc.) are deftly afraid of the People.  The People are armed.  Millions of them and that stands in the way of their aims.  Many people are aware that the Mainstream media sources are just corporate propaganda outlets for the Overlords and have plenty of online sources to find out what is really going on.

Q’s main purpose then, is to keep these armed citizens from open rebellion against the growing out reach of tyranny.  Keep them complacent and cowed waiting for Q to feed them the good news about how they are winning.  Feed them enough vague but hopeful messages such as this recent one, “The next few weeks will demonstrate our resolve. WWG1WGA!!! Q” and “As the darkness falls so does our enemies. Q”.  These common postings of Q are meant to stave off a rising up of the public.  To let them know things are going well and the White Hats are fighting back.

But by whom?  Patriots inside the Deep State?  Trump’s people?  More mysteries and shadows.  This type of Q rhetoric has been going on for years.  And so far, it has worked.  And what has changed?  The only change is we are currently living in a nightmare dystopian world of nightly riots, destruction of public and private property, virus lockdowns and the coming Global Reset in January of 2021.  None of which, Q ever predicted.  

In many ways Q posts are closely akin to Nostradamus Quatrains where the real meaning of the prophecies are  known till after a forecasted event takes place. If that.  Q will post older entries after a notable event takes place.  Sort of a “See I told ya!” Which leaves the faithful amazed with Q’s insights. Yes, Q was right again! 

On another tangent the mainstream propaganda outlets refer to the Q as a “right wing conspiracy” movement.  What is the conspiracy?  They never say.  The spend a lot of copy space attacking Q in many liberal publications.  Why bother?  What threat is Q to them?  The only conspiracy I found was when Q lost its IP 8chan and moved to 8kun, the propaganda outlets refused to list the new ULR.  It’s .top.  Dozens of liberal to leftist leaning sites made note of the change but never mentioned this important part of the ULR which one can search and easily find. It shows how in lock step they all are.  They did a lousy job covering this up.  Obviously, journalism is not about telling the public what they really know.   

A more interesting conspiracy is by Miles Mathis in his article, What Is A Parallel?  Mathis is a big-time conspiracy writer with side interests in art and physics.  A “parallel”  is an intelligence operation where a patsy is used to mimic an intended target.  It is a way of attacking someone by way of stealth and discrediting them or a whole movement.  The goal is not to attack the targeted person directly, but indirectly through someone that has similar ideas, statements, etc., as the target with the hope of when the pasty falls so does the intended victim.  Very clever!  

Mathis goes on to state his belief that Qanon is the parallel for him.  He cites this in an Atlantic Monthly article entitled, “How Q-Anon is warping reality and discrediting science.”  Mathis rightly points out that Q has nothing to do with science or discrediting it.  Must have been inserted as a teaser, but lame.  As far as “warping reality” goes the mainstream media under control of various intel agencies has been doing that for many decades.  Just read the Atlantic’s article, or any article of theirs or anywhere else in the mainstream to experience their alternate take on reality.  

Meanwhile the geeks at Langley are laughing their asses off reading the hopeful social media posts by the faithful Q followers.  When Q posts a picture of a watch and pen, the faithful spend hours trying to decipher what it means.  A metaphor regarding time running out for the Deep State?  The pen that will sign the declassification order?  So far, not the case at all.  

In 2018 the FBI listed Q as a domestic terrorist threat.  Kind of funny considering how Q posts are are not threatening in the least, announce no plans for overthrow of the government, nor promote dangerous threats to public officials.  Q is never telling the Patriots to arm up and get ready for war. As already stated, Q posts are too vague to mean much of anything.  Miles Mathis thinks Q is a CIA/FBI project. I tend to agree.  Qanon then, operates as a manufactured enemy of the deep state. That is probably as close to the truth as we will get.  Q can only tell the True Believers to follow the “Plan” for so long till it crashes and burns.  Such as being told to follow Jeff Sessions as AG and we know how that turned out.

Are you people really going to trust the word of somebody or some group whose real name you do not know?  

Notes

7/21/20
Former CIA agent Kevin Shipp posted the following on Twitter this morning:

“The, "Great Awakening" is real and inspiring to many. I fully support it. Q anons must continue their expose's and strengthen the movement. I must caution them of this: Q, which started as a legitimate insider, has been taken over on 8Kun. It is now a PsyOp.”

This is laughable!  All opinion mixed with BS.  As I stated above, there is no “insider” 
information in Q posts.  It is all public domain, declassified information.  Sorry, Mr. Shipp it was a psyop from day one.  Ironic to read this coming from someone that makes a career and out of deception.  And by the way, the Qanon crowd is not very trustful of CIA types, retired or active.


As far as Qanon being taken over by 8Kun, where is the source on that?  There is none.  Name somebody or group.  There is none.

7/18/20
The Miles Mathis’s article on “What Is A Parallel?” is probably one of the best articles available regarding what Qanon is all about.  Highly recommended.  

While the notion that the media is controlled by the CIA and other intelligence agencies may seem like yet another conspiracy theory, the congressional testimony of former CIA director William Colby is notable for him stating that anybody of any importance in the media is controlled by the CIA.  It still is.  Don’t trust, but verify everything you read online.  Do your own research to sort out the truth.


Sources

Q posts
https://qmap.pub