I’ve been meaning to point out that my arrival in Texas a few weeks ago not only synched-up with the Masonic party being thrown in Waco, it also synched-up with Texas’ role in taking a stand against the Federal government over border issues, leading 25 other states with Republican Governors (including Montana) to openly support Texas’ showdown with the Biden administration.

Before arriving in Texas, I spent a night in Lawrence, Kansas, where my brother lives, and where I went to school MANY years ago for one and a half semesters at KU. Lawrence has a pretty interesting Masonic lodge in downtown, something Freeman references quite a lot on his podcast.

And Jericho? Well, I started off looking into the tv show, Jericho, which is supposed to take place in Kansas, but I ended up finding a few more real-life intersections with my travels as I dug deeper, so here we go for another round of WTF is going on here?

First, let’s examine why the tv show, Jericho, popped into my head as I soberly considered the 25 red states declaring open opposition to Federal border policy. Do I really need to add any emphasis as the opening of the second season is described?

The military forces of the new Allied States of America (ASA), which now govern most of what was formerly the Western United States, except the independent Republic of Texas, have restored order to Jericho and its hinterland, putting an abrupt end to the conflict between Jericho and its rival town, New Bern. As a semblance of normal returns to Jericho, the plot shifts away from day-to-day survival to life and political intrigue under the ASA government.

Did that “semblance of normal” last long for the fictional towns folk of Jericho? Of course not, because there’s a conspiracy afoot involving false flag attacks and our heroes have the evidence that JUST MAY SWAY the KEY to America’s future: Texas (emphasis, yes, is mine)

Hawkins tries to transport the bomb to his contacts in the reborn Republic of Texas. The ASA military is tipped off and after a brief chase, seizes the weapon. Hawkins narrowly escapes and the ASA military then transports the weapon to Cheyenne for safekeeping. Hawkins makes contact with Jake and the two travel to Cheyenne, where they retake the bomb from J&R contractors. Hawkins is wounded in a brief gun battle. The two make it to the Republic of Texas embassy in Cheyenne with the only undetonated bomb (in ASA territory) from the September attacks. The ASA’s military is right behind them. The Republic of Texas is considered the swing state in the struggle for power between the Eastern United States, which is led by the legitimate surviving United States government, now governed from Columbus, Ohio, and the Allied States. Texas has not decided which government to back. The Texan ambassador in Cheyenne shelters Jake and Hawkins at his embassy.

The ambassador informs his military forces at the embassy to tell the ASA forces outside the fence that any incursion into the embassy by ASA troops will be considered an act of war against the Republic of Texas. The ambassador manages quickly to smuggle Jake, Hawkins and the bomb to the Cheyenne airport. At the airport he secures a small diplomatic jet plane to carry Jake, Hawkins and the device to Texas. While they are en route, two ASA F-15 fighters intercept Jake and Hawkins and order them to turn around or be shot down. When Jake refuses to be escorted back to Cheyenne, the two jets drop back to open fire. Two Republic of Texas Air National Guard F-16 fighters suddenly appear and shoot down the ASA planes. Jake and Hawkins make it to Texas with the evidence and Hawkins ominously intones that a second American Civil War was always coming and the two of them have made history by giving the United States a fighting chance in the war to come.

For those who are somewhat familiar with America’s FIRST Civil War, Lawrence, Kansas, was a historical flashpoint, so I obviously took note when I saw that parts of the show were filmed in Lawrence:

Parts of the show were filmed in the real Kansas town of Lawrence, temporarily renamed Jericho for a day during filming. The pilot episode was filmed on location in Fillmore, California, and sets for Jericho were built at a studio in Van Nuys, California.

There was an actual location in Kansas named “Jericho”. It was a post office in Larabee Township, Gove County, Kansas, and folded in 1923.

What the hell, is this like narrative geomancy or something? I decided to see if there was a Jericho anywhere in Texas and OF COURSE there was and OF COURSE it used to be located on Route 66, but now it’s a ghost town. From the link:

The area that would become Jericho was first inhabited when a stage stop was established in the late 1880s along the stage route that carried passengers and mail from Saint’s Roost (modern-day Clarendon) to Fort Elliott (today’s Mobeetie). There was little here when the station was composed of just a dugout, and drinking water had to be hauled in from a nearby spring.

When the Indians were removed to reservations, more people began to settle the area, and in 1894, when an unusual outbreak of Malaria killed several settlers, the Jericho Cemetery was established.

When construction on the Choctaw, Oklahoma, and Texas Railroad began through the area, even more people settled there. The town was officially established in 1902 when the railroad built a station there. A post office was founded that same year, and the town was named for the biblical city in Palestine.

In no time, the small town began to grow as cattle were shipped from here and passengers could take the train to the area. When Route 66 was established through Jericho, it brought several gas stations, stores, and a motel. It was then that the town gained its infamous reputation as the Jericho Gap helped the locals to prosper.

Getting back to our MODERN era, the specific location providing the flashpoint for our present national strife is, wouldn’t you know it, named after a Confederate General, and the name (Shelby) is definitely the name of a road I biked on yesterday while enjoying Santa Fe. From the link:

EAGLE PASS, Tex. — A century and a half ago, Confederate Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby splashed into the wild waters of the Rio Grande off this border city and fled to Mexico, refusing to surrender his battle flag to Union soldiers.

Now the park named in his honor has become a front line in a feud between the state and the federal government — a power struggle over who ultimately has the right to control the border and the tide of humanity trying to cross it.

Texas National Guard Humvees carry rifle-toting troops and patrol newly erected gates to the municipal park previously used for family cookouts and Independence Day festivities. Tents, military trucks, heavy equipment and portable toilets dot the edge of a browning fairway. Along the riverbank, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has ordered the state National Guard to deploy coils of razor wire, rusting shipping containers and dirt-filled barrels to declare his state’s sovereignty.

Wouldn’t it be cool if regular, every day Americans simply didn’t fall for this shit at the level it will take to set into motion the LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND scenario telegraphed to us via Netflix? Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he? Unfortunately, I seem to be trapped in a realm where life imitates art, or some shit, which is why a guy who works with HIGH LEVEL BANKERS warned me from going to Austin, where he had just left. This happened in a Colorado bookstore after I eavesdropped enough to know this guy wasn’t fucking with me (he told his friend he has lectured with this guy after talking about the Bank of International Settlements).

How far is it from Lawrence to Kansas City, where I spent part of my formative years yearning for my CHIEFS to win the Super Bowl? Not far, less than 40 miles, and let me tell you how utterly SPOILED my oldest child is as a Kansas City Chiefs fan. Luckily, I’ve tempered my own youthful memories with the grown-up realization that EVERYTHING IS A LIE, and that goes for (probably) the relationship psyop we are seeing in full commercialized bloom between TRAVIS Kelce and Taylor Swift.

No, I’m not kidding, but the cool kids (Rolling Stone, among others) think it’s all just a funny FOX conspiracy theory. Well, THIS Travis isn’t laughing.

What I AM doing is taking note of different data points and weaving them together into posts like this one, but this VERY WEIRD data point is making me just a little bit uncomfortable, since the three friends found dead at their ALIVE friend’s house echoes the three bodies I wrote about before leaving Missoula, and then the dead bodies GHOST TRAVIS found on the latest season of True Detective.

From the VERY WEIRD link:

Police accounts say Ricky Johnson, 38; Clayton McGeeney, 36; and David Harrington, 37; went to the home of a friend in Kansas City, Missouri, to watch the Chiefs game Jan. 7. None of them made it home. Two nights later, McGeeney’s fiancé went to the home looking for him.

“When there was no answer at the door, she broke into the basement of the residence and located an unknown dead body on the back porch. Officers responded to the back porch and confirmed there was a dead body. Upon further investigation, officers located two other dead bodies in the back yard,” an initial police report on the incident said. “There were no obvious signs of foul play observed at or near the crime scene.”

Police say there are still no signs that any crime was committed.

What makes this so weird is how OBLIVIOUS the alive friend was when the fiancé literally broke into his home. Here’s some more context from a different article:

Last weekend, Picerno released a statement on behalf of Willis, saying his client knew nothing about the men’s deaths. In the days since the statement was released, however, the accounts of exactly what happened that night have varied.

Picerno said Willis went to sleep on his couch as McGeeney, Johnson and Harrington exited the home, but didn’t know they had been in his backyard and hadn’t heard their loved ones knocking on his door or breaking into the home. Originally, Picerno said that Willis hadn’t seen the men exit his home before he went to sleep, but he later told FOX4 that Willis walked the men to the door before he fell asleep.

Originally, Picerno said that Willis hadn’t seen the men exit his home before he went to sleep, but he later told FOX4 that Willis walked the men to the door before he fell asleep.

I wasn’t thinking about Kansas City and football related weirdness when I went for a short bike ride after writing the beginning of this post, but I took SHELBY street, since the name came up, and it intersected with WATER street and the Old Santa Fe Trial road, which took me to CATHEDRAL street (the oldest church in America is in Santa Fe), which then took me to SAN FRANCISCO street. Cute, huh?

I’ve got some other notes I’d like to fit into this post, but it’s getting sort of long, and tomorrow I really do need to hit the road again, so I’ll conclude with one final event I just came across, and that’s a MASSIVE fire at a chicken plant in…that’s right, TEXAS!

Westward ho!