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Jul 1Liked by Joe Allen

Thank you for being a faithful watchman on the wall.

I'm learning from you and passing it on, and cheering you on!

No flattery. :)

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Being the emotional creature that I am it was really difficult to not break down and cry this morning, but being an ardent War Room posse member I sucked it up, and shed not a tear.

God bless and protect, Stephen K. Bannon. ♡

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Jul 1Liked by Joe Allen

Have to admit that this posse member did shed a couple of droplets when Royce White hugged SKB and told him that he loved him.

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I'm not certain about Bannon's faith or spirituality, but one cannot ignore how prescient or poignant this situation is relative to this verse from scripture:

Romans 8:35 KJV — Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

note the conjugate, "or".... Not "and".... Meaning not every believer experiences all elements....tailor-made to the individual & designed to edify. Buckle up, it's getting bumpy!

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Jul 1·edited Jul 1Liked by Joe Allen

Methinks SKB well knows the nature of 'flattery' and wants no part of it, to the point that he himself could have written this, rather than Will Shakespeare;

ADVENTURES OF PERICLES

* few love to hear the sins they love to act

* murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke

* who makes the fairest show means most deceit

* bear with patience such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself

A1S1 (Pericles) "But being play'd upon before your time, hell only danceth at so harsh a chime."

A1S2 (Helicanus) "For flattery is the bellows blows up sin"

A1S3 (Thaliard) "if a king bid a man be a villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to be one!"

A1S4 (Cleon) "one sorrow never comes but brings an heir"

A4S3 (Cleon) "Thou art like the harpy, which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face, seize with thine eagle's talons."

A4S3 (Gower) "No visor does become black villany so well as soft and tender flattery."

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Jul 1Liked by Joe Allen

Steve Bannon leads by example by his strength and determination 💪 to fight for freedom and expose the current corruption of the criminal Bid-end regime. The oppressors have lost already.

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Jul 1Liked by Joe Allen

Reading your article, it reminds me of my dad, in 1996, when he said it before dying: "I do not feel sorry for I will be dying soon, because the world has become so ugly and evil." Including what we can see happening to Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, it is nothing short of a nightmare in daylight, that it is hard for the brain to process, becoming one more mental virus impossible to eliminate.

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Jul 1Liked by Joe Allen

Great piece, Joe. Thank you. Hoping to see you on War Room during Bannon's unjust detention.

Having taught a lot of animal behaviorists the operant conditioning ropes, I've always emphasized sticking to observable behaviors, i.e., not private internal ones. I guess that'll soon be an archaic concept. One of the reasons for the rise in criminal and antisocial behavior has been the removal of consequences -- or even the reinforcement of aberrant behavior, instead of sanctioning and punishment.

An aspect (of many) of Cognify that particularly troubles me is the treatment for "hate crimes," as these require thought police and pave a short path to PKD's "Precrime."

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Jul 1Liked by Joe Allen

Bannon in jail is a sobering thought. Navarro seems to be bearing his sentence, which should soon be over. Let us pray for the same result for Steve.

On the question of operant conditioning, one wonders what the payoff is for those who remove the consequences of crime. Or, what is the payoff for the sadists who inflict consequences for non crime, such as what Peter and Steve are forced to endure.

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