Saturday, January 23, 2021

Who is Joe Biden?

The day after the inauguration, I asked that question, drew a single card -- and got just about the most confusing answer possible:


As I have explained in great detail, this card says Donald Trump loud and clear. I mean, look, it's a guy with orange hair blowing a trumpet with a flag on it. How can we not connect it with a certain orange-haired individual named Trump who was born on Flag Day? It's Trump. Name, birthdate, hair color — it might as well be his damn driver’s license! What can possibly be meant by saying it's Biden?


As I've detailed elsewhere, the Rider-Waite Tarot has accurately predicted the winner of every U. S. presidential election since 2000 -- with the apparent exception of 2020, since the 20th trump is the Judgement, the Trump trump. We can say that Trump was the "real" winner because Biden won through fraud, or we can hold out hope that the election may yet be invalidated and Trump reinstated, but as things stand right now it just looks like the Tarot got it wrong.

Of course, if this card actually represented Biden all along, then the prediction was right, and this is another example of how prophecies can be deceptive without actually lying. Gee, Bert, whatever made you think I was thinking of Trump?

How can it be Biden, though? How? All I can do at this point is explore some possibilities.


1. The point is not the details of the picture but the name of the trump: Judgement. God allowed Biden to "win" as a judgment or punishment, giving the American people exactly what we deserve.

2. The orange-haired guy with the trump and flag is indeed Trump, but note that he is an angel -- i.e., "in heaven," dead. Since the reelection of a sitting president could scarcely be represented by an angel's suddenly appearing from heaven, this angel must be departing to heaven, leaving the scene, to the cheers of the "NPC gray" people below. And where is Biden in all this? Nowhere. He's nothing. Remember how popular it was to write the words "Bye Don" in the style of Biden's campaign logo? Biden's only selling point is that he isn't Donald Trump, and so this image of Trump flying away captures his essence.

3. Biden is in some sense the second coming of Trump, continuing Trump's work. That seems impossible, but what after all was Trump's work? He obviously didn't "make America great again." His main contribution seems to have been making it undeniably obvious that the System is irredeemably corrupt -- a revelation represented by the angel sounding a trumpet, broadcasting what had previously been hidden. Biden, if his first few days in office are any indication, is certainly set to continue that work.

4. Biden is Trump's puppet. Is that any less crazy than it sounds? Someone is obviously pulling the strings, and it makes sense that it would be someone who has absolute proof that Biden stole the election and is using that to blackmail him. Who has that proof? China? The EU? -- or Trump? I'll admit this doesn't make a lot of sense. Why would Trump use that proof to control the president when he could have used it to be the president? Just brainstorming here.

5. Trump is still going to win somehow, and the Tarot is telling me to unask a question that presupposes Biden is of any account. I say Mickey Mouse, and the cards shout Donald Duck!

6. The sync fairies are just messing with me, giving me an obviously bogus answer in the hope that I'll put the cards away, disengage from politics, and get on with my life.

4 comments:

cae said...

I have a deck called the "Robin Wood Tarot" (for the name of the artist). They're quite lovely. And while the Major Arcana mostly duplicate the same imagery as the "Rider-Waite" deck, there are some differences - in particular, The Judgement and Death cards, both of which use totally different images (you can see them, if you look online)..
My point being that, if I were using them as 'predictors' of presidential elections - the card 'for' 2016 would indicate Trump (same basic "The Tower"), but the image on the one for 2020 would've been rather inconclusive...
All the above, just to say -
- perhaps the image on your "Judgement" card is an anomaly as far as 'Presidenctial elections' go -
- but when it came up in answer to your question "Who is Joe Biden?", it's meant to indicate an answer along the lines of - 'Might as well be Trump for neither one is any better than the other'...?

The link below is to a blog post by Christian & "American Constitutional Conservative", Dr. Alan Snyder (author of "America Discovers C.S. Lewis").
It is the most level headed, rational, accurate depiction of Donald Trump & 'his' Republicans that I've ever read...
https://ponderingprinciples.com/2021/01/12/im-a-conservative-but-what-does-that-mean-anymore/

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Carol, I know the Robin Wood deck and do not consider it to be inspired, though as you say many of the pictures are quite lovely.

I am well aware of President Trump's failings and once agreed with you that he was not significantly different from any other corrupt politician. However, I believe he has redeemed himself by his courageous and uncompromising response to the fraudulent election, and he now has my full support.

I read the post you linked to by Alan Snyder. He seems like a good person, but I think he believes just a little too much of what he sees on television.

cae said...

William, please don't think that my intention in pressing my point regarding Dr. Snyder is to be argumentative or to assert my own perspective.
The fact is; I appreciate you (and Bruce Charlton) too much to feel comfortable 'refraining from' urging you to read more from Dr. Alan Snyder and to consider that your esteem of Donald Trump may be 'misplaced'.

I would like to make an appeal to your integrity - There are two more highly relevant entries on Dr. Snyder's blog (Nov. 24 & 25, 2020), which make it clear that as both a Professor of History and staunch Constitutional Conservative, he is not at all inclined to form his political opinions without thorough research, using sources utterly outside "television" (mainstream media).
Please. Just, consider the information therein.

Honestly, I have no agenda - I've even questioned the validity of our election myself! At least, I did before I happened across Alan Snyder's "C.S. Lewis" book, which led me to his blog...

I'm linking the most pertinent of the two entries, in case your time is too limited to read both..
https://ponderingprinciples.com/2020/11/25/integrity-in-politics/

(brief quote from link)
"Brad Raffensperger is the Republican secretary of state in Georgia, the man responsible for overseeing elections. He has come under fire from fellow Republicans who accuse him of somehow failing in his job. Never mind that he not only monitored the election itself, but also a hand recount, and now a machine recount. In each case, the result has been that Donald Trump lost Georgia.

The Dispatch, a daily newsletter spearheaded by people who desire honest journalism not tied to a political party, has an excellent portion of the newsletter today focusing on Raffensperger. In an interview, he told them “At the end of the day, what I’ve been focusing on is: What is the law, and then following the law, and then following the process that’s based on that law, and making sure that every legal vote is counted.”

That’s called devotion to the rule of law, a concept that has become somewhat ignored in recent times."

Thank you for your patience, and please accept my apologies for 'badgering' you.
Carol

k johnson said...

It does seem more along the lines of 'people getting what they deserve' type of thing. They are deifying Biden in MSM, and the 'grey' people (the dehumanisation of the population), stripped bare and standing in coffins yet still praising their 'saviour.' They are in a deluge of lies so much they don't realise the severity of what's to come.

Ok, that's a dark interpretation. But along the lines of "Who is Joe Biden?" I have a hard time seeing it any other way. A positive note (perhaps hopeful), is that once people are stripped bare with nothing left to lose, perhaps then they will see the truth for what it really is and this is a necessary growing pains.

Another interesting aspect of this draw comes in the Wildwood Tarot equivalent called The Great Bear. Could there be a Russian element to this, that plays a part in exposing the 'Biden camp's' hypocrisy? It's also standing on an ancient burial ground. In the deck description, the sentence "The Great Bear is the guardian of the forest ways, and holds the power of life and death over those who transgress it's laws."

However things roll out in the months to come, some form of Judgement will happen.

Divinatory bull's-eye: It's 2019 all over again in China

In my reading for 2022 , I drew these two cards for the birdemic: the Four of Swords for the beginning of the year, and the Sun for the end....