April 24, 2025
Geoengineering Goofballs
This courtesy of Tony Heller at Real Climate Science:
"Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.”
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
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Truth is Stranger than Satire
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Why stop at $50? Why not a hundred, two hundred? Well gooollllyyy....why not just give everyone a hundred million? I mean, with all that money floating around the economy will just boom as everyone can buy stuff they want!
Economic Genius; Let's Have a $50 an Hour Minimum Wage
This isn't some average kook but Barbera Lee, former Congresswoman. Lee is mayor-elect of Oakland, California, having lost in her bid to replace Diane Feinstein.
It's been said that satire is increasingly difficult in modern America as the Democrats surpass anything that can be conceived of by the mind of satirists. This is proof of that for sure.
Why stop at $50? Why not a hundred, two hundred? Well gooollllyyy....why not just give everyone a hundred million? I mean, with all that money floating around the economy will just boom as everyone can buy stuff they want!
Economic Genius; Let's Have a $50 an Hour Minimum Wage
This isn't some average kook but Barbera Lee, former Congresswoman. Lee is mayor-elect of Oakland, California, having lost in her bid to replace Diane Feinstein.
It's been said that satire is increasingly difficult in modern America as the Democrats surpass anything that can be conceived of by the mind of satirists. This is proof of that for sure.
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Chicoms to Violate Outer Space Treaty
Timothy Birdnow
This would be a violation of the Outer Space Treaty.
China Plans for Lunar Base Include Nuclear Power Plant on Moon's Surface
China signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967. That treaty bans nuclear weapons in space, and even nuclear power by and large. To build a nuclear reactor on the Moon you would have to first ship nuclear material to orbit, then on to the Moon. There is no radily-obtainable fissile materials on the Moon.
It's also unnecessary as you have two weeks of sunlight and no atmosphere, making solar power ideal. Yes, you have two weeks of darkness too, but that can be easily dealt with. Build at the South Pole, say, and you have sunlight 24/7. Or put solar power satellites in orbit. You could also use the difference in temperatures between the sunlight surface and the shadows to generate power. The lunar regolith will retain heat for a long time and you can use the differences. It would be easier than lugging Uranium or other fissile materials, as they are extremely heavy and requier much delta v (thrust) and thus much fuel.
The reason the Chinese want to use nuclear is to "accidentally" leave some in low earth orbit so they have weapons hanging over our heads. I assure you this won't be just reactor-grade uranium but probably plutonium.
In the late '50's and early '60's the U.S. pioneered the use of atomic power to propel a spacecraft. Called Project Orion, it used atomic bombs chucked under a big, heavy plate with a shock absorber attached. The exploding nukes propelled the craft. This was the best spacecraft drive ever invented by Man, and tests using non-nuclear explosives showed it worked beautifully. You could get to Mars in a month with it (rather than the six to ten months required using chemical rockets). You could life a million pounds off the Earth. Whole space colonies could be shipped with it. In fact, the Orion is so good it actually could be used for INTERSTELLAR travel. It would take about a hundred and twenty years to reach the Alpha Centuri system, and it would require a LOT of nuclear bombs, but it is the only interstellar drive we could actually build right now with off-the-shelf technology. It wouldn't be practical of course, but you could send a probe (at enormous cost.)
We dropped it with the signing of the Outer Space Treaty because the nuclear bombs that powered Orion were outlawed in space.
The same happened with the NERVA - Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application - which used a nuclear reacttor to superheat plasma and eject it in rocket fashion. Our experiments with nuclear propolsion ended with the Outer Space Treaty and for the same reason; everyone feared nuclear material in orbit.
So the Chicoms are now going to renege on the treaty. if they do we should do likewise. I hate to start putting nukes in space because it means a much faster attack is possible, but supersonic ICBM technology has largely made this a moot point anyway; they can skirt missile defense systems and change their course on a dime. We could still possibly hit an incoming missile from orbit, but a supersonic will be extremely difficult to take out. And dead is dead; you only have fifteen minutes from the time of launch of a standard ICBM until your incinerated anyway.
Deterrence requires we have everything they have and perhaps more. It's what stopped the Big One with the Soviets, after all. But now we have China coming with smiles, our ostensible friends. And so many American politicians and plutocrats are bought and paid for.
If they want to build a nuclear-powered moonbase so be it, but we'd better have a system in place to knock out anything with that material and do so quickly.
This would be a violation of the Outer Space Treaty.
China Plans for Lunar Base Include Nuclear Power Plant on Moon's Surface
China signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967. That treaty bans nuclear weapons in space, and even nuclear power by and large. To build a nuclear reactor on the Moon you would have to first ship nuclear material to orbit, then on to the Moon. There is no radily-obtainable fissile materials on the Moon.
It's also unnecessary as you have two weeks of sunlight and no atmosphere, making solar power ideal. Yes, you have two weeks of darkness too, but that can be easily dealt with. Build at the South Pole, say, and you have sunlight 24/7. Or put solar power satellites in orbit. You could also use the difference in temperatures between the sunlight surface and the shadows to generate power. The lunar regolith will retain heat for a long time and you can use the differences. It would be easier than lugging Uranium or other fissile materials, as they are extremely heavy and requier much delta v (thrust) and thus much fuel.
The reason the Chinese want to use nuclear is to "accidentally" leave some in low earth orbit so they have weapons hanging over our heads. I assure you this won't be just reactor-grade uranium but probably plutonium.
In the late '50's and early '60's the U.S. pioneered the use of atomic power to propel a spacecraft. Called Project Orion, it used atomic bombs chucked under a big, heavy plate with a shock absorber attached. The exploding nukes propelled the craft. This was the best spacecraft drive ever invented by Man, and tests using non-nuclear explosives showed it worked beautifully. You could get to Mars in a month with it (rather than the six to ten months required using chemical rockets). You could life a million pounds off the Earth. Whole space colonies could be shipped with it. In fact, the Orion is so good it actually could be used for INTERSTELLAR travel. It would take about a hundred and twenty years to reach the Alpha Centuri system, and it would require a LOT of nuclear bombs, but it is the only interstellar drive we could actually build right now with off-the-shelf technology. It wouldn't be practical of course, but you could send a probe (at enormous cost.)
We dropped it with the signing of the Outer Space Treaty because the nuclear bombs that powered Orion were outlawed in space.
The same happened with the NERVA - Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application - which used a nuclear reacttor to superheat plasma and eject it in rocket fashion. Our experiments with nuclear propolsion ended with the Outer Space Treaty and for the same reason; everyone feared nuclear material in orbit.
So the Chicoms are now going to renege on the treaty. if they do we should do likewise. I hate to start putting nukes in space because it means a much faster attack is possible, but supersonic ICBM technology has largely made this a moot point anyway; they can skirt missile defense systems and change their course on a dime. We could still possibly hit an incoming missile from orbit, but a supersonic will be extremely difficult to take out. And dead is dead; you only have fifteen minutes from the time of launch of a standard ICBM until your incinerated anyway.
Deterrence requires we have everything they have and perhaps more. It's what stopped the Big One with the Soviets, after all. But now we have China coming with smiles, our ostensible friends. And so many American politicians and plutocrats are bought and paid for.
If they want to build a nuclear-powered moonbase so be it, but we'd better have a system in place to knock out anything with that material and do so quickly.
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Dimwits
Timothy Birdnow
The U.K. wants to "dim" the sun to stop climate change? Methinks they are the dim ones already.
UK Govt Approves New Plans to Dim the Sun to Fight "Runaway Climate Change"
I am always mindful of the children's song about the old woman who swallowed a fly; everything she did to get rid of the fly made it worse - until she died from swallowing a horse. This dimbulbs want to make the exact same mistake.
The U.K. wants to "dim" the sun to stop climate change? Methinks they are the dim ones already.
UK Govt Approves New Plans to Dim the Sun to Fight "Runaway Climate Change"
I am always mindful of the children's song about the old woman who swallowed a fly; everything she did to get rid of the fly made it worse - until she died from swallowing a horse. This dimbulbs want to make the exact same mistake.
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Jeffries Tampering with Trump Foreign Policy
Timothy Birdnow
Wouldn't this be a violation of the Logan Act?
Hakeem Jeffries to Lead Bipartisan Delegation to Denmark to Discuss Greenland
Jeffries and the others going there are doing nothing but attempting to subvert Trump's efforts to purchase Greenland for America's national security. He's tampering with our international policy.
Only two people have ever been charged under the Logan Act and there have been no convictions, but the law is on the books. If Congress doesn't want it used they are required to rescind it. I would like to see it removed from the books. Maybe an indictment of Jeffries would lead to that (I doubt he'd face any jail time although the penalty is up to three years; I suspect the law would be struck down by SCOTUS if it came to that.)
At any rate Jeffries is attempting to interfere with the duties of the executive branch of government by doing this; there need to be consequences.
Hey, maybe when Jeffries is in Greenland Trump can issue deportation orders for him and he'll have to stay there! It's the kind of island prison that suits the Democratic Party, if you ask me.
Wouldn't this be a violation of the Logan Act?
Hakeem Jeffries to Lead Bipartisan Delegation to Denmark to Discuss Greenland
Jeffries and the others going there are doing nothing but attempting to subvert Trump's efforts to purchase Greenland for America's national security. He's tampering with our international policy.
Only two people have ever been charged under the Logan Act and there have been no convictions, but the law is on the books. If Congress doesn't want it used they are required to rescind it. I would like to see it removed from the books. Maybe an indictment of Jeffries would lead to that (I doubt he'd face any jail time although the penalty is up to three years; I suspect the law would be struck down by SCOTUS if it came to that.)
At any rate Jeffries is attempting to interfere with the duties of the executive branch of government by doing this; there need to be consequences.
Hey, maybe when Jeffries is in Greenland Trump can issue deportation orders for him and he'll have to stay there! It's the kind of island prison that suits the Democratic Party, if you ask me.
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Durbin Skulking Away
Timothy Birdnow
Dick Durbin, the Turban, the Sheik of the Burning Bland, is retiring from the U.S. Senate.
The Illinois Bolshevik, er, Democrat was one of the most radical of Senators during his time in office, and offered aid and comfort to our enemies on numerous occasions. He will not be missed.
I wonder if he's not fearful of an investigation into his affairs and wants out now to escape an investigation? I am sure he's dirty to the core.
Of course he's from Illinois and his replacement probably will not be any better.
Dick Durbin, the Turban, the Sheik of the Burning Bland, is retiring from the U.S. Senate.
The Illinois Bolshevik, er, Democrat was one of the most radical of Senators during his time in office, and offered aid and comfort to our enemies on numerous occasions. He will not be missed.
I wonder if he's not fearful of an investigation into his affairs and wants out now to escape an investigation? I am sure he's dirty to the core.
Of course he's from Illinois and his replacement probably will not be any better.
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GOP Seizure
Timothy Birdnow
Time is running out for the GOP according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Gringrich is correct; he argues that the House GOP has to get off it's hands and move the Trump agenda forward now. If they wait until July it will be too late and they will likely lose control of the House of Representatives. Now they are poised to not just win the House but win it big; there are 26 House Democrats who are vulnerable right now and can be taken out, but only if Republicans show there is a good reason to do so. Mike "Tiny" JOhnson does not appear to be the man for this job, I fear. He is continuing the GOP practice of doing nothing so as not to take any heat. Cowardice is the road to defeat.
Gingrich stated:
He's right, and we won't get the economy rolling while doing business-as-usual. Time to put up or shut up. I fear the GOP is going to return to it's vomit, like an old dog, and shut up. They are always comfortable as lapdogs of the ruling Democrats and still behave like they are the minority party. It's safe and cozy there in the shadows to them.
Trump is moving very fast on some things but nnot fast enough. This requires blitzkreig, lightning warfare. Speed is of the essence in these years before the mid-term. Success breeds success. As Sun Tzu said, opportunities multiply when they are seized. The GOP seems incapable of seizing much (except themselves apparently).
Time is running out for the GOP according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Gringrich is correct; he argues that the House GOP has to get off it's hands and move the Trump agenda forward now. If they wait until July it will be too late and they will likely lose control of the House of Representatives. Now they are poised to not just win the House but win it big; there are 26 House Democrats who are vulnerable right now and can be taken out, but only if Republicans show there is a good reason to do so. Mike "Tiny" JOhnson does not appear to be the man for this job, I fear. He is continuing the GOP practice of doing nothing so as not to take any heat. Cowardice is the road to defeat.
Gingrich stated:
"This is life and death for the House Republican Party because they have to have a strong economy in 2026 if they’re going to have a chance to keep their majority. If we have a bad economy next year, Republicans will not keep the House,” Gingrich added. "So the Senate doesn’t feel the same pressure, which is unfortunate.”
He's right, and we won't get the economy rolling while doing business-as-usual. Time to put up or shut up. I fear the GOP is going to return to it's vomit, like an old dog, and shut up. They are always comfortable as lapdogs of the ruling Democrats and still behave like they are the minority party. It's safe and cozy there in the shadows to them.
Trump is moving very fast on some things but nnot fast enough. This requires blitzkreig, lightning warfare. Speed is of the essence in these years before the mid-term. Success breeds success. As Sun Tzu said, opportunities multiply when they are seized. The GOP seems incapable of seizing much (except themselves apparently).
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America is Great Because America is Christian
Timothy Birdnow
Is the U.S. a Christiann nation? Many on the Left argue it is not - the Supreme Court has repeatedly raffirmed that it is.
From an article in End of the American Dream:
This couples with the endless appeals to God and "Nature's God" by the Founding Fathers, all of whom clearly believed Christianity was the cornerstone of the country they were building. Many of the Founders stated publicly that without Christ their experiment would fail.
What they were not was sectarian. They believed in freedom of religions so Christ could be worshipped as conscience dictated, or even not worshipped. But at the heart of the American experiment was always the Cross.
This idea that we have freedom from religion as a core principle is pure revisionism. You had the right to not worship at all, or to worship Brahma or Allah if you chose, or worship no one at all, but you did so in the context of a Christian society built on Christian ethics and Christian moral codes. It was the lowest common denominator of Christianity - not based on Catholic or Anglican or Lutheran or Calvinist DOCTRINE but on what all cHRISTIANS could agree on.
It has been attributed to Alexis De Toqueville "America is great because America is good. If she stops being good she will stop being great". There is a dispute over whether he actually said that, but whoever did they hit the nail on the head. Our success as a nation stemmed from our embracing Godly first principles. America has stumbled when she turned away from those.
God created America. The Revolution had a likelihood of success well below 10% and yet we won, defeating the greatest power on Earth. Miracled happened, many of them - strange fogs rolled in to save the Continental Army, or big winds, or other acts of God. Washington avoided death or capture multiple times due to "dumb luck". When his top man turned traitor and sold Washington out at West Point the courrier who was delivering the message to the British for Gen. Arnold got robbed by highwaymen who delivered the message to Washington himself without reading it! (Washington exclaimed "my God...Arnold's turned traitor!" and vowed to hang him from the nearest tree. Arnold ran for it and got away but left his wife, who had turned him in the first place. Washington treated her with courtesy as a non-combatant despite his rage against his former friend and subordinate.) This was Washington's luck; he had several horses shot out from under him and once had a British officer with him in his gunsights - and easy kill -but the man believed in the rules of war and you didn't kill a general via sniper's bullet back then so he let Washington go.
Washington made multiple mistakes and always lived to fight another day. Shoot; he didn't realize he'd won the war at Yorktown until the French told him so. He planned on slipping away and attacking New York when the French commander said "Mr. Washington, you have won the war". Cornwallis has laid a trap for Washington. He had landed his forces at Yorktown, on a narrow, open peninusla between the James and Susquehanna rivers. The plan was for the British navy to sail up those rivers, get behind Washington, then destroy his army. But the commander of the fleet coming from Nova Scotia came down with dystentery, and his replacement took three days to move. By then the French fleet - in one of the few actions they had take in the war - sailed up those rivers and blockaded the entry. Cornwallis was caught in his own trap and forced to surrender.
At any rate the Revolution was won, and so was the War of 1812. In a previous post I mentioned how the British retreated from Washington D.C. in utter defeat despite not one shot fired at them by the Americans. God Himself was our defender.
American history is a series of royal flushes and four of a kinds. We were lucky in the extreme, at least as long as we clung to the Cross of Jesus. We saw that all the time during the Second World War, where good fortune blessed our military efforts.
America is great because America is good, and America is good because America is a Christian nation, consecrated to the Lord from the very beginning. Read the Mayflower Compact.
We are seeing a major religious revival among the young in America these days. Oddly enough Donald J. Trump was elected against all odds and is busy restoring the country to her former self. Coincidence?
Yes, Trump is a flawed human being. But so too were many of the heroes of the Bible. David couldn't keep it in his pants, for instance. Moses was a wrathful man who murdered an Egyptian. Judah was a whoremonger. Jacob was a sneaky weasel who stole his birthright from his brother and who was always scheming. And these were the best of them! Trump may be a carnal man, a venial man, a wrathful man, but he's doing the Lord's work even so. I would add he shares an Israeli coin with Cyrus the Great, both of whom aided Israel despite being non-Jews. (Yes, the israelis put Trump on one side and Cyrus on the other of this particular coin.)
You can judge a thing by the fruit it bears. Under Trump we are seeing a religious revival, and with that the restoration of our country. You are free to dislike Trump, but you cannot deny the results. I, as do many others (including Mr. Trump himself after surviving the assassination attempt) think Trump is the man God has chosen. Even if Trump is doing all this for his own purposes he's still acting under the direction of God Himself. It wouldn't be the first time.
At any rate America is a Christian nation. Always has been, always will be. If it stops being Christian it will no longer be America; Christianity is inseparable to this nation. A Christianectomy would kill the patient, like the removal of the heart.
Is the U.S. a Christiann nation? Many on the Left argue it is not - the Supreme Court has repeatedly raffirmed that it is.
From an article in End of the American Dream:
But in our system of government matters of law are not settled by what intellectuals on the left think. Rather, in our system of government matters of law are settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court has spoken very clearly on this matter.
In Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically stated in 1892 that "this is a Christian nation”…
If we pass beyond these matters to a view of American life, as expressed by its laws, its business, its customs, and its society, we find every where a clear recognition of the same truth. Among other matters, note the following: the form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the Almighty; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all wills, "In the name of God, amen;” the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day; the churches and church organizations which abound in every city, town, and hamlet; the multitude of charitable organizations existing every where under Christian auspices; the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.
Subsequently, in Zorach v. Clauson the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1952 that we "are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being”…
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. We guarantee the freedom to worship as one chooses. We make room for as wide a variety of beliefs and creeds as the spiritual needs of man deem necessary. We sponsor an attitude on the part of government that shows no partiality to any one group and that lets each flourish according to the zeal of its adherents and the appeal of its dogma.
That same opinion contains a stinging rebuke for those that would seek to remove all traces of Christianity from public life…
The First Amendment, however, does not say that, in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other — hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly. Churches could not be required to pay even property taxes. Municipalities would not be permitted to render police or fire protection to religious groups. Policemen who helped parishioners into their places of worship would violate the Constitution. Prayers in our legislative halls; the appeals to the Almighty in the messages of the Chief Executive; the proclamations making Thanksgiving Day a holiday; "so help me God” in our courtroom oaths — these and all other references to the Almighty that run through our laws, our public rituals, our ceremonies would be flouting the First Amendment. A fastidious atheist or agnostic could even object to the supplication with which the Court opens each session: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court.
If we pass beyond these matters to a view of American life, as expressed by its laws, its business, its customs, and its society, we find every where a clear recognition of the same truth. Among other matters, note the following: the form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the Almighty; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all wills, "In the name of God, amen;” the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day; the churches and church organizations which abound in every city, town, and hamlet; the multitude of charitable organizations existing every where under Christian auspices; the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.
Subsequently, in Zorach v. Clauson the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1952 that we "are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being”…
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. We guarantee the freedom to worship as one chooses. We make room for as wide a variety of beliefs and creeds as the spiritual needs of man deem necessary. We sponsor an attitude on the part of government that shows no partiality to any one group and that lets each flourish according to the zeal of its adherents and the appeal of its dogma.
That same opinion contains a stinging rebuke for those that would seek to remove all traces of Christianity from public life…
The First Amendment, however, does not say that, in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other — hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly. Churches could not be required to pay even property taxes. Municipalities would not be permitted to render police or fire protection to religious groups. Policemen who helped parishioners into their places of worship would violate the Constitution. Prayers in our legislative halls; the appeals to the Almighty in the messages of the Chief Executive; the proclamations making Thanksgiving Day a holiday; "so help me God” in our courtroom oaths — these and all other references to the Almighty that run through our laws, our public rituals, our ceremonies would be flouting the First Amendment. A fastidious atheist or agnostic could even object to the supplication with which the Court opens each session: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court.
This couples with the endless appeals to God and "Nature's God" by the Founding Fathers, all of whom clearly believed Christianity was the cornerstone of the country they were building. Many of the Founders stated publicly that without Christ their experiment would fail.
What they were not was sectarian. They believed in freedom of religions so Christ could be worshipped as conscience dictated, or even not worshipped. But at the heart of the American experiment was always the Cross.
This idea that we have freedom from religion as a core principle is pure revisionism. You had the right to not worship at all, or to worship Brahma or Allah if you chose, or worship no one at all, but you did so in the context of a Christian society built on Christian ethics and Christian moral codes. It was the lowest common denominator of Christianity - not based on Catholic or Anglican or Lutheran or Calvinist DOCTRINE but on what all cHRISTIANS could agree on.
It has been attributed to Alexis De Toqueville "America is great because America is good. If she stops being good she will stop being great". There is a dispute over whether he actually said that, but whoever did they hit the nail on the head. Our success as a nation stemmed from our embracing Godly first principles. America has stumbled when she turned away from those.
God created America. The Revolution had a likelihood of success well below 10% and yet we won, defeating the greatest power on Earth. Miracled happened, many of them - strange fogs rolled in to save the Continental Army, or big winds, or other acts of God. Washington avoided death or capture multiple times due to "dumb luck". When his top man turned traitor and sold Washington out at West Point the courrier who was delivering the message to the British for Gen. Arnold got robbed by highwaymen who delivered the message to Washington himself without reading it! (Washington exclaimed "my God...Arnold's turned traitor!" and vowed to hang him from the nearest tree. Arnold ran for it and got away but left his wife, who had turned him in the first place. Washington treated her with courtesy as a non-combatant despite his rage against his former friend and subordinate.) This was Washington's luck; he had several horses shot out from under him and once had a British officer with him in his gunsights - and easy kill -but the man believed in the rules of war and you didn't kill a general via sniper's bullet back then so he let Washington go.
Washington made multiple mistakes and always lived to fight another day. Shoot; he didn't realize he'd won the war at Yorktown until the French told him so. He planned on slipping away and attacking New York when the French commander said "Mr. Washington, you have won the war". Cornwallis has laid a trap for Washington. He had landed his forces at Yorktown, on a narrow, open peninusla between the James and Susquehanna rivers. The plan was for the British navy to sail up those rivers, get behind Washington, then destroy his army. But the commander of the fleet coming from Nova Scotia came down with dystentery, and his replacement took three days to move. By then the French fleet - in one of the few actions they had take in the war - sailed up those rivers and blockaded the entry. Cornwallis was caught in his own trap and forced to surrender.
At any rate the Revolution was won, and so was the War of 1812. In a previous post I mentioned how the British retreated from Washington D.C. in utter defeat despite not one shot fired at them by the Americans. God Himself was our defender.
American history is a series of royal flushes and four of a kinds. We were lucky in the extreme, at least as long as we clung to the Cross of Jesus. We saw that all the time during the Second World War, where good fortune blessed our military efforts.
America is great because America is good, and America is good because America is a Christian nation, consecrated to the Lord from the very beginning. Read the Mayflower Compact.
We are seeing a major religious revival among the young in America these days. Oddly enough Donald J. Trump was elected against all odds and is busy restoring the country to her former self. Coincidence?
Yes, Trump is a flawed human being. But so too were many of the heroes of the Bible. David couldn't keep it in his pants, for instance. Moses was a wrathful man who murdered an Egyptian. Judah was a whoremonger. Jacob was a sneaky weasel who stole his birthright from his brother and who was always scheming. And these were the best of them! Trump may be a carnal man, a venial man, a wrathful man, but he's doing the Lord's work even so. I would add he shares an Israeli coin with Cyrus the Great, both of whom aided Israel despite being non-Jews. (Yes, the israelis put Trump on one side and Cyrus on the other of this particular coin.)
You can judge a thing by the fruit it bears. Under Trump we are seeing a religious revival, and with that the restoration of our country. You are free to dislike Trump, but you cannot deny the results. I, as do many others (including Mr. Trump himself after surviving the assassination attempt) think Trump is the man God has chosen. Even if Trump is doing all this for his own purposes he's still acting under the direction of God Himself. It wouldn't be the first time.
At any rate America is a Christian nation. Always has been, always will be. If it stops being Christian it will no longer be America; Christianity is inseparable to this nation. A Christianectomy would kill the patient, like the removal of the heart.
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April 22, 2025
Chewing the Fat with the Brits
Timothy Birdnow
Sales of beef tallow are skyrocketing in the U.K. ostensibly over a campaign by American politicians and others claiming cooking oils are bad for your health.
Sales of Beef Drippings Surge in Britain
Color me suspicious; could it be they are trying to ditch American grown oils and replace it with something they can get on the Continent? Is this part of the "Dump Trump" movement?
Robert Kennedy Jr. is a big advocate for dumping cooking oils.
I remember when they moved to vegetable and seed oils from beef tallow and lard. We were told how bad those were for our health. Now they are moving back to them.
My great grandmother used to cook with lard. She would go out and wring a chicken's neck, pluck it, and fry it up in lard in what seemed like fifteen minutes! (I know; it was longer.) Best fried chicken EVER! Home grown green beans and home grown mashed potatoes whipped with the butter and milk from her cows and with real white chicken gravy and home-made biscuits! I would dream about her food days before we went down to the sticks to visit! She never disappointed! And her coffee was excellent too, along with peach or cherry cobbler, hot and delicious!
Those were the good old days before the killjoys told us lard was killing us and making us obese. Now we are REALLY sick and obese and it looks like the animal fats weren't the culprit after all. Thanks a lot food nazis!
At any rate the E.U. banned many beef products from the U.S. because American farmers use hormones and antibiotics on the cattle, as well as irradiate meat. So they already have the tallow.
And as for oils, the Europeans grow almost no corn since it's too cool and wet for it to be a good crop there. Their growth of soybeans is limited too. It doesn't fare well in European soil. Ditto most of the other oil-bearing crops. So it's generally imported from either Russia or the U.S. and now the Europeans want to break with the U.S. and of course will have nothing to do with Russia. So tallow is their new go-to choice, whether they admit that or not.
Well, if the old food nazis WERE right then the Europeans should start porking out pretty soon. If not we will know we were lied to all these years by our government and their health fascism.
Sales of beef tallow are skyrocketing in the U.K. ostensibly over a campaign by American politicians and others claiming cooking oils are bad for your health.
Sales of Beef Drippings Surge in Britain
Color me suspicious; could it be they are trying to ditch American grown oils and replace it with something they can get on the Continent? Is this part of the "Dump Trump" movement?
Robert Kennedy Jr. is a big advocate for dumping cooking oils.
I remember when they moved to vegetable and seed oils from beef tallow and lard. We were told how bad those were for our health. Now they are moving back to them.
My great grandmother used to cook with lard. She would go out and wring a chicken's neck, pluck it, and fry it up in lard in what seemed like fifteen minutes! (I know; it was longer.) Best fried chicken EVER! Home grown green beans and home grown mashed potatoes whipped with the butter and milk from her cows and with real white chicken gravy and home-made biscuits! I would dream about her food days before we went down to the sticks to visit! She never disappointed! And her coffee was excellent too, along with peach or cherry cobbler, hot and delicious!
Those were the good old days before the killjoys told us lard was killing us and making us obese. Now we are REALLY sick and obese and it looks like the animal fats weren't the culprit after all. Thanks a lot food nazis!
At any rate the E.U. banned many beef products from the U.S. because American farmers use hormones and antibiotics on the cattle, as well as irradiate meat. So they already have the tallow.
And as for oils, the Europeans grow almost no corn since it's too cool and wet for it to be a good crop there. Their growth of soybeans is limited too. It doesn't fare well in European soil. Ditto most of the other oil-bearing crops. So it's generally imported from either Russia or the U.S. and now the Europeans want to break with the U.S. and of course will have nothing to do with Russia. So tallow is their new go-to choice, whether they admit that or not.
Well, if the old food nazis WERE right then the Europeans should start porking out pretty soon. If not we will know we were lied to all these years by our government and their health fascism.
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Gone in Sixty Minutes
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Maybe he can work on producing Bar Rescue on Paramount Plus...
Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
Independence is one thing, making up lies another.
The rats are now deserting the sinking ship of corpolrate media.
Maybe he can work on producing Bar Rescue on Paramount Plus...
Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
Independence is one thing, making up lies another.
The rats are now deserting the sinking ship of corpolrate media.
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WaPo Tries to Infect A. I.
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Why not? The stories are all made up anyway and follow a predictable format.
Washington Post signs deal with Open AI.
Actually this is their way of trying to manipulate the A.I. search engine by putting it's own content into the machine.
Here are the money quotes:
In other words they want to make sure they get top billing on the A.I. and their views are the predominant views presented to readers.
A.I. is just another thing the Left will weaponize against normal people.
Why not? The stories are all made up anyway and follow a predictable format.
Washington Post signs deal with Open AI.
Actually this is their way of trying to manipulate the A.I. search engine by putting it's own content into the machine.
Here are the money quotes:
The Washington Post is partnering with OpenAI to bring its reporting to ChatGPT. The two organizations did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement, but the deal will see ChatGPT display summaries, quotes and links to articles from The Post when users prompt the chatbot to search the web.
"We're all in on meeting our audiences where they are," said Peter Elkins-Williams, head of global partnerships at The Post. "Ensuring ChatGPT users have our impactful reporting at their fingertips builds on our commitment to provide access where, how and when our audiences want it.
"We're all in on meeting our audiences where they are," said Peter Elkins-Williams, head of global partnerships at The Post. "Ensuring ChatGPT users have our impactful reporting at their fingertips builds on our commitment to provide access where, how and when our audiences want it.
In other words they want to make sure they get top billing on the A.I. and their views are the predominant views presented to readers.
A.I. is just another thing the Left will weaponize against normal people.
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Comparing Apples and Rittenhouses
Timothy Birdnow
Being black or Hispanic is literally a "get out of jail free card" to the Left.
Minister Defends Metcalf’s Stabbing Suspect by Citing Kyle Rittenhouse, Misses Obvious Contradictions
Video footage proved beyond a doubt Rittenhouse was using his weapon in self defense while protecting his very life (and he was peacefully protesting, which was his right to do). This guy just shoved a knife into the chest of his victim for no good reason. It was pure murder.
But since he is black the rules are different to the leftists. "People of Color" always have a built-in excuse.
Here are the details:
Seems to me Karmelo Anthony has been afforded MORE rights, so if his mother and this pretend minister want to complain perhaps his bail should be raised to two million, like Rittenhouse.
If Kyle Rittenhouse hadn't been armed he'd be dead now. Too bad Austin Metcalf wasn't as fortunate as to have a similar weapon.
If the leaders of the black community wants what they claim - equal treatment under the law - they should demand it be truly equal. They don't want that; they want special treatment.
This is just another attempt to relaunch Black Lives Matter and to try to separate the black community from the MAGA movement. We wouldn't be hearing about this if Joe Biden were still in office, or had Harris won the election.
This , Dominique Alexander claims to be a woman of God, a minister. But she doesn't ask for justice and obviously doesn't care about the victim here because he was white. She doesn't worship the God of Abraham but rather her own political god. She's going to have much to answer for when her time comes to be judged.
If you cannot call out cold blooded murder because of the race of the murderer you are a truly vile person. This woman is no different than someone who would defened the murderers of James Byrd Jr. Either innocent life is precious to you or you are a fellow-traveller with the killers.
I wonder; is the Next Generation Action Network a 501c3 tax exempt entity? If so that needs to be seriously reviewed by the IRS.
Being black or Hispanic is literally a "get out of jail free card" to the Left.
Minister Defends Metcalf’s Stabbing Suspect by Citing Kyle Rittenhouse, Misses Obvious Contradictions
Video footage proved beyond a doubt Rittenhouse was using his weapon in self defense while protecting his very life (and he was peacefully protesting, which was his right to do). This guy just shoved a knife into the chest of his victim for no good reason. It was pure murder.
But since he is black the rules are different to the leftists. "People of Color" always have a built-in excuse.
Here are the details:
"Others also rushed in to prop up her defense, including the activist Minister and the founder of a Dallas, Texas, social justice nonprofit, Next Generation Action Network (NGAN), Dominique Alexander.
Unlike others, Alexander went a step further to compare Anthony’s actions to those of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, teen, Kyle Rittenhouse, who justifiably defended himself when attacked by a mob of Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters who attempted to take his gun and use it on him.
NEW: Minister Dominique Alexander compares Karmelo Anthony, who allegedly stabbed Austin Metcalf in the chest for "grabbing" him, to Kyle Rittenhouse & Daniel Penny.
Alexander then went on to vent about the struggles of "a black man in America."
The minister falsely claimed… pic.twitter.com/2K2g2cC6cD
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 17, 2025
The minister even accused Rittenhouse of "shooting people in the back,” which totally contradicts the facts of the case. While Alexander wants to draw parallels between the two cases, he also missed glaring contradictions, as Rittenhouse tried his best to remove himself from the dangerous situation by fleeing, until he was cornered, attacked, and overpowered.
Similarly, despite suffering life-threatening injuries, Rittenhouse’s bail was set at $2 million, while Anthony’s was reduced to a pesky $250,000 to allow him to return home. Rittenhouse’s defense team even requested a lower bail of $750,000, while the prosecution sought to increase the initial amount by $200,000.
Ironically, the controversial minister demanded that Anthony should be "afforded the same rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had.” Similarly, the suspect’s mother demanded "the same rights under the law that everyone else is afforded.”'
Unlike others, Alexander went a step further to compare Anthony’s actions to those of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, teen, Kyle Rittenhouse, who justifiably defended himself when attacked by a mob of Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters who attempted to take his gun and use it on him.
NEW: Minister Dominique Alexander compares Karmelo Anthony, who allegedly stabbed Austin Metcalf in the chest for "grabbing" him, to Kyle Rittenhouse & Daniel Penny.
Alexander then went on to vent about the struggles of "a black man in America."
The minister falsely claimed… pic.twitter.com/2K2g2cC6cD
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 17, 2025
The minister even accused Rittenhouse of "shooting people in the back,” which totally contradicts the facts of the case. While Alexander wants to draw parallels between the two cases, he also missed glaring contradictions, as Rittenhouse tried his best to remove himself from the dangerous situation by fleeing, until he was cornered, attacked, and overpowered.
Similarly, despite suffering life-threatening injuries, Rittenhouse’s bail was set at $2 million, while Anthony’s was reduced to a pesky $250,000 to allow him to return home. Rittenhouse’s defense team even requested a lower bail of $750,000, while the prosecution sought to increase the initial amount by $200,000.
Ironically, the controversial minister demanded that Anthony should be "afforded the same rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had.” Similarly, the suspect’s mother demanded "the same rights under the law that everyone else is afforded.”'
Seems to me Karmelo Anthony has been afforded MORE rights, so if his mother and this pretend minister want to complain perhaps his bail should be raised to two million, like Rittenhouse.
If Kyle Rittenhouse hadn't been armed he'd be dead now. Too bad Austin Metcalf wasn't as fortunate as to have a similar weapon.
If the leaders of the black community wants what they claim - equal treatment under the law - they should demand it be truly equal. They don't want that; they want special treatment.
This is just another attempt to relaunch Black Lives Matter and to try to separate the black community from the MAGA movement. We wouldn't be hearing about this if Joe Biden were still in office, or had Harris won the election.
This , Dominique Alexander claims to be a woman of God, a minister. But she doesn't ask for justice and obviously doesn't care about the victim here because he was white. She doesn't worship the God of Abraham but rather her own political god. She's going to have much to answer for when her time comes to be judged.
If you cannot call out cold blooded murder because of the race of the murderer you are a truly vile person. This woman is no different than someone who would defened the murderers of James Byrd Jr. Either innocent life is precious to you or you are a fellow-traveller with the killers.
I wonder; is the Next Generation Action Network a 501c3 tax exempt entity? If so that needs to be seriously reviewed by the IRS.
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Genesis of the Mark
Timothy Birdnow
Sam's club is about to phase out checkers in favor of an ap that will have customers "scan and go" as they shop.
This means that anyone without a smart phone will be out of luck as it will require you scan a QR code with your smart phone.
Sam wants to eliminate human checkers in favor of this approach and no doubt if they succeed with this it will spread like a plague and everyone will be doing it. That means you will have to have this technology or die. Old folks (increasingly like me) will not be able to buy necessities. You have to join the Beast and take the mark thereof.
It would be fine if it was just an option, but it's been an option for almost a decade now. What Sams wants to do is make it mandatory.
And soon Sam's will refuse to take cash as well in all probability, making the control of the consumer complete. Why not just tattoo a QR code on everyone's hand or forehead? It's the logical next step.
I don't have a smart phone nor do I especially want one at this point. I find myself increasingly believing they are a great evil that will be our ruin in days to come. Certainly they have destroyed people's attention spans, destroyed human relations, and destroyed our ability to function without some sort of external direction. Who knows how to get around on highways anymore, outside of their limited areas? Who can read a map? Who can actually compose a blogpost like this one? I can and you, my readers, can too no doubt, but the young certainly are unable. Conversation is a lost art among them too. Increasingly the young simply obey machines and cannot function without them. This way leads to utter disaster.
The problem with this amazing technology we now have (and it IS amazing) is it is so convenient and you wind up using it for everything. But human beings are not intended for the easy path, and we lose our adaption to our environment when times are too easy. God didn't make us for paradise on Earth; we are here to struggle. Even if you do not believe in God you probably believe in evolution, and all of the history of life on Earth has been about struggle and the adaptation that that struggle gives us. What is happening now is our technology is eliminating or greatly reducing that struggle, and we grow ever more dependent on the machines that have revolutionized our lives. I do not begudge anyone that. Certainly agriculture made life easier for the starving hunter-gatherers who suddenly had a steady supply of food. Horses made life better (and allowed us to build armies capable of wiping out our neighbors and stealing what was theirs.) Fire made life better (and burned down people's homes or burned them). I am no luddite. But like anything else it must be the servant and not the master, It is becoming the master now. And it is too much, there is too much of it, we can no longer do things for ourselves. Ruin usually comes on the heels of that.
Take the Bronze Age. It was a great time - technology was revolutionizing society, there was more than enough food, and the world was largely at peace. But the great nations of the Bronze Age became too dependent on international trade; when the Sea People showed up they disrupted supply chains and all the great nations fell. The world was thrown into chaos.
Our era now is much like that, or like the last days of Rome. The machines have given all that to us, and they may just as likely take that all away. When society crumbles the majority won't be able to problem solve because they are so addicted to machines, to the machine telling them what to do. Tthe fall will be terrible.
Take going on a trip. When I was young you went to AAA to get a trip tick, a map (or series of maps) showing you how to get where you wanted to go. You had to be able to read maps and understand how to translate that into what you did with your car. You often got lost but usually could find your way back to a road that would take you back to your route. You had to have a good spatial sense; it was a skill everyone developed.
No longer. Most people can't go a mile without the GPS sytem to tell them exactly what to do. They are the servants and the machine is the master, and if the machine should fail they will be completely lost. You see that with young people today when their phones are out of power; wandering around helpless. They are like the Borg on Star Trek Next Generation; cut off from the collective and they are lost.
When the modern equivalent of the Sea People come and supply chains are broken and there is chaos most folks will just lay down and die - or accept the worst form of tyranny just to be safe. The Middle Ages started that way and we call it the Dark Ages yet the dark age that is coming will make the six hundreds look positively cheery and enlightened.
So I find this to be not just a bit disturbing a development. Maybe I'm just an old coot, incapable of change. But I have reasons for not liking these machines.
The Bible warns that in the last days everyone will have to take the mark of the Beast or he won'tbe able to "buy or sell". I think this is the beginning of the mark.
Sam's club is about to phase out checkers in favor of an ap that will have customers "scan and go" as they shop.
This means that anyone without a smart phone will be out of luck as it will require you scan a QR code with your smart phone.
Sam wants to eliminate human checkers in favor of this approach and no doubt if they succeed with this it will spread like a plague and everyone will be doing it. That means you will have to have this technology or die. Old folks (increasingly like me) will not be able to buy necessities. You have to join the Beast and take the mark thereof.
It would be fine if it was just an option, but it's been an option for almost a decade now. What Sams wants to do is make it mandatory.
And soon Sam's will refuse to take cash as well in all probability, making the control of the consumer complete. Why not just tattoo a QR code on everyone's hand or forehead? It's the logical next step.
I don't have a smart phone nor do I especially want one at this point. I find myself increasingly believing they are a great evil that will be our ruin in days to come. Certainly they have destroyed people's attention spans, destroyed human relations, and destroyed our ability to function without some sort of external direction. Who knows how to get around on highways anymore, outside of their limited areas? Who can read a map? Who can actually compose a blogpost like this one? I can and you, my readers, can too no doubt, but the young certainly are unable. Conversation is a lost art among them too. Increasingly the young simply obey machines and cannot function without them. This way leads to utter disaster.
The problem with this amazing technology we now have (and it IS amazing) is it is so convenient and you wind up using it for everything. But human beings are not intended for the easy path, and we lose our adaption to our environment when times are too easy. God didn't make us for paradise on Earth; we are here to struggle. Even if you do not believe in God you probably believe in evolution, and all of the history of life on Earth has been about struggle and the adaptation that that struggle gives us. What is happening now is our technology is eliminating or greatly reducing that struggle, and we grow ever more dependent on the machines that have revolutionized our lives. I do not begudge anyone that. Certainly agriculture made life easier for the starving hunter-gatherers who suddenly had a steady supply of food. Horses made life better (and allowed us to build armies capable of wiping out our neighbors and stealing what was theirs.) Fire made life better (and burned down people's homes or burned them). I am no luddite. But like anything else it must be the servant and not the master, It is becoming the master now. And it is too much, there is too much of it, we can no longer do things for ourselves. Ruin usually comes on the heels of that.
Take the Bronze Age. It was a great time - technology was revolutionizing society, there was more than enough food, and the world was largely at peace. But the great nations of the Bronze Age became too dependent on international trade; when the Sea People showed up they disrupted supply chains and all the great nations fell. The world was thrown into chaos.
Our era now is much like that, or like the last days of Rome. The machines have given all that to us, and they may just as likely take that all away. When society crumbles the majority won't be able to problem solve because they are so addicted to machines, to the machine telling them what to do. Tthe fall will be terrible.
Take going on a trip. When I was young you went to AAA to get a trip tick, a map (or series of maps) showing you how to get where you wanted to go. You had to be able to read maps and understand how to translate that into what you did with your car. You often got lost but usually could find your way back to a road that would take you back to your route. You had to have a good spatial sense; it was a skill everyone developed.
No longer. Most people can't go a mile without the GPS sytem to tell them exactly what to do. They are the servants and the machine is the master, and if the machine should fail they will be completely lost. You see that with young people today when their phones are out of power; wandering around helpless. They are like the Borg on Star Trek Next Generation; cut off from the collective and they are lost.
When the modern equivalent of the Sea People come and supply chains are broken and there is chaos most folks will just lay down and die - or accept the worst form of tyranny just to be safe. The Middle Ages started that way and we call it the Dark Ages yet the dark age that is coming will make the six hundreds look positively cheery and enlightened.
So I find this to be not just a bit disturbing a development. Maybe I'm just an old coot, incapable of change. But I have reasons for not liking these machines.
The Bible warns that in the last days everyone will have to take the mark of the Beast or he won'tbe able to "buy or sell". I think this is the beginning of the mark.
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Wascally Waskin Threatens Wapublicans
Timothy Birdnow
Democrat Jamie "Rascally" Raskin makes not so veiled threats against Republicans, promising revenge for supporting MAGA and the American People.
Who facilitated authoritarianism? I seem to remember Joe Biden's Administration attempting to create a Ministry of Propaganda whos express purpose was to promote censorship and control information - a key component of any authoritarian entity. I seem to remember multiple arrests and charges and imprisonment of political rivals, including Donald J. Trump, the chief then candidate for the Presidency. That too is what authoritarians do. I remember the huge number of people getting years, nay, decades for trespassing during a "mostly peaceful assembly" at the Capitol building. Some of them had not even attended the rally. I remember a host of others, people like Rudy Giulliani, who were falsely charged with fake crimes just for working for Trump. I remember multiple lawyers who were threatened with disbarment for working for Trump. I remember attempts to take Trump off the ballots in Democrat statess. I remember the weaponization of the IRS against Conservatives. I remember the weaponization of the FBI and CIA against Conservatives. I remember the framing of Trump as a "Russian assset" by the last administration. I remember under Obama the smearing of people like George Zimmerman or Officer Darren Wilson. I remember Obama going after people like the Pink Sisters for being anti-abortion.
So this guy has some elephant testicles in accusing TRUMP of being an authoritarian.
For that matter, who has traditionally been the authoritarians? It was the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights bill in 1964. It was Franklyn Roosevelt, a Democrat, who rounded up Japanese americans and sent them to concentration camps. It was also Roosevelt who refused to let Jews flee from the Nazis during the war and before it. Jim Crow was under Democrats, not Republicans. And slavery was the cause that led the Democrats to secede from the Union in the first place, triggering the Civil War (yes, there were other reasons and I supported the Secessionists but not over slavery, an abomination.) Every authoritarian impulse America has witnessed has been under Democrats. Woodrow Wilson imposed fascism in America. In fact Benito Mussolini, father of Fascism, was a huge admirer of Wilson's and modeled his system on what Wilson did in the U.S. (which included shakedowns of businesses and lawfare against his political rivals.)
The very fact Raskin is still out there shooting off his mouth is proof Trump is no tyrant. Putin would have dosed his coffee with Polonium.
Of course Bill Clinton probably did similar stuff. Remember Vince Foster? How about Seth Rich? Did you knnow there was a young intern named Mary Caitrin Mahoney who was going to testify before the Starr Committee and was shot in a Starbucks by a "stray bullet" just days before she was scheduled to testify? Look it up if you can find it (you won't find her on Google, of course, but then Google has been working for Democrats, as has Facebook under Biden's vigorous defense of freedom and democracy.)
So a very filthy charred pot is now calling the kettle black. Nobody has died around Trumnp. Trump has followed the rule of law very carefully in his first term in office and is following it now.
I assure you Raskin and the rest of the Democrats mean business, and if they take back power at some point will take vengeance on their rivals, lest anyone try to do this again. They repeatedly tried to impeach George W. Bush, for instance, over the impeachment of Bill Clinton, despite the fact Bush gave them much of what they wanted and the country moved decidedly leftward under the simpleton. And of course they impeached Trump TWICE for not quitting when they told him to do so.
These are nasty people who are more like Mafiosa than politicians. They can only be dealt with like mobsters. You don't reason with them or compromise with them.
Raskin is one of the worst. And I have little doubt he has many skeletons in his closet. We need to start digging.
Democrat Jamie "Rascally" Raskin makes not so veiled threats against Republicans, promising revenge for supporting MAGA and the American People.
"We need to be engaging in far more work of transnational democratic solidarity with the democratic governments and the democratic movements and peoples and parties of the world, to try to prevent the spread of the lawlessness and the fascist chaos that’s been unleashed against us.
But implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power, and we will, we are not going to look kindly upon people who facilitated, to use a word of the day, who facilitated authoritarianism in our country. That’s an assault on our constitution and on our people.”
But implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power, and we will, we are not going to look kindly upon people who facilitated, to use a word of the day, who facilitated authoritarianism in our country. That’s an assault on our constitution and on our people.”
Who facilitated authoritarianism? I seem to remember Joe Biden's Administration attempting to create a Ministry of Propaganda whos express purpose was to promote censorship and control information - a key component of any authoritarian entity. I seem to remember multiple arrests and charges and imprisonment of political rivals, including Donald J. Trump, the chief then candidate for the Presidency. That too is what authoritarians do. I remember the huge number of people getting years, nay, decades for trespassing during a "mostly peaceful assembly" at the Capitol building. Some of them had not even attended the rally. I remember a host of others, people like Rudy Giulliani, who were falsely charged with fake crimes just for working for Trump. I remember multiple lawyers who were threatened with disbarment for working for Trump. I remember attempts to take Trump off the ballots in Democrat statess. I remember the weaponization of the IRS against Conservatives. I remember the weaponization of the FBI and CIA against Conservatives. I remember the framing of Trump as a "Russian assset" by the last administration. I remember under Obama the smearing of people like George Zimmerman or Officer Darren Wilson. I remember Obama going after people like the Pink Sisters for being anti-abortion.
So this guy has some elephant testicles in accusing TRUMP of being an authoritarian.
For that matter, who has traditionally been the authoritarians? It was the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights bill in 1964. It was Franklyn Roosevelt, a Democrat, who rounded up Japanese americans and sent them to concentration camps. It was also Roosevelt who refused to let Jews flee from the Nazis during the war and before it. Jim Crow was under Democrats, not Republicans. And slavery was the cause that led the Democrats to secede from the Union in the first place, triggering the Civil War (yes, there were other reasons and I supported the Secessionists but not over slavery, an abomination.) Every authoritarian impulse America has witnessed has been under Democrats. Woodrow Wilson imposed fascism in America. In fact Benito Mussolini, father of Fascism, was a huge admirer of Wilson's and modeled his system on what Wilson did in the U.S. (which included shakedowns of businesses and lawfare against his political rivals.)
The very fact Raskin is still out there shooting off his mouth is proof Trump is no tyrant. Putin would have dosed his coffee with Polonium.
Of course Bill Clinton probably did similar stuff. Remember Vince Foster? How about Seth Rich? Did you knnow there was a young intern named Mary Caitrin Mahoney who was going to testify before the Starr Committee and was shot in a Starbucks by a "stray bullet" just days before she was scheduled to testify? Look it up if you can find it (you won't find her on Google, of course, but then Google has been working for Democrats, as has Facebook under Biden's vigorous defense of freedom and democracy.)
So a very filthy charred pot is now calling the kettle black. Nobody has died around Trumnp. Trump has followed the rule of law very carefully in his first term in office and is following it now.
I assure you Raskin and the rest of the Democrats mean business, and if they take back power at some point will take vengeance on their rivals, lest anyone try to do this again. They repeatedly tried to impeach George W. Bush, for instance, over the impeachment of Bill Clinton, despite the fact Bush gave them much of what they wanted and the country moved decidedly leftward under the simpleton. And of course they impeached Trump TWICE for not quitting when they told him to do so.
These are nasty people who are more like Mafiosa than politicians. They can only be dealt with like mobsters. You don't reason with them or compromise with them.
Raskin is one of the worst. And I have little doubt he has many skeletons in his closet. We need to start digging.
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Murkowski Trembles as the Gravy Train Derails
Timothy Birdnow
The question is why.
Anti-Trump Senator Lisa Murkowski Whines She’s "Afraid” of Speaking Her Mind About the President
What is Murkowski so afraid of? Does she believe Trump will send ICE to her house to cart her away and deport her to El Salvador?
Of course not. What she fears is Trump will bring his prestige to bear to promote a credible primary challenge and get her tossed out of her cushy job in the Senate, force her to actually go to work somewhere.
FTA:
Trump could perhaps get her reassigned to less desirable committees IF RINO John Thune would agree, but it seems unlikely. The main thing Trump can do is give her a tonguelashing. Apparently she never learned the children's rhyme (sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me). Other than that Trump can support a primary challenge, and perhaps pressure her sponsors to defund her campaign.
So is this a hyperbolic statement or something else?
Is she perhaps not afraid more of what Trump is doing as President in his official duties than about some revenge move? Is she afraid her name is going to show up in some corruption scandal uncovered by DOGE or by the AG office? How deeply involved was the Merk in the frame-up of Trump? In other, unrelated matters?
I suspect she isn't fearful of retaliation so much as of justice.
And of the loss of power by the Deep State, to which she pledged her life, her fortune, and her good name (sic).
Lisa Murkowski has always been rolling around in the pig pen, as did her father before her. Now she is afraid. Soap and water are never the friends of the hogs with snouts deep in the trough.
The Merky one also called for RESIST! from Congress:
That's because the American People overwhelmingly asked for what Trump and DOGE are doing, and polls show most Americans are happy with it. Congress has to give America what it wants now lest they be turned out of office. They understand this which is why the same people who wouldn't advance Trump's agenda a scant five years ago are now moving forward with him; they realize it's either play ball or die. Murkowski and the other RINO Republicans want to return to "regular order" meaning they play second banana to the Democrats and use the fact that they are in a minority to justify skimming off the top on all these programs. For the first time in thirty five years we have a President who is trying to actually restore the country rather than enrich his friends. That isn't the way the game is played and not why most of our government got into it in the first place. Government "service" was simply a way to get rich without really trying - until now.
Murkowski's fear is of seeing the gravy train derail. Little more than that.
The question is why.
Anti-Trump Senator Lisa Murkowski Whines She’s "Afraid” of Speaking Her Mind About the President
What is Murkowski so afraid of? Does she believe Trump will send ICE to her house to cart her away and deport her to El Salvador?
Of course not. What she fears is Trump will bring his prestige to bear to promote a credible primary challenge and get her tossed out of her cushy job in the Senate, force her to actually go to work somewhere.
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While Murkowski did not reference Trump directly, it was clear who she was referring to.
"We are all afraid,” Murkowski said, pausing.
"It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been before. And I’ll tell ya, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.
"We are all afraid,” Murkowski said, pausing.
"It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been before. And I’ll tell ya, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.
Trump could perhaps get her reassigned to less desirable committees IF RINO John Thune would agree, but it seems unlikely. The main thing Trump can do is give her a tonguelashing. Apparently she never learned the children's rhyme (sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me). Other than that Trump can support a primary challenge, and perhaps pressure her sponsors to defund her campaign.
So is this a hyperbolic statement or something else?
Is she perhaps not afraid more of what Trump is doing as President in his official duties than about some revenge move? Is she afraid her name is going to show up in some corruption scandal uncovered by DOGE or by the AG office? How deeply involved was the Merk in the frame-up of Trump? In other, unrelated matters?
I suspect she isn't fearful of retaliation so much as of justice.
And of the loss of power by the Deep State, to which she pledged her life, her fortune, and her good name (sic).
Lisa Murkowski has always been rolling around in the pig pen, as did her father before her. Now she is afraid. Soap and water are never the friends of the hogs with snouts deep in the trough.
The Merky one also called for RESIST! from Congress:
"It’s called the checks and balances. And right now, we are not balancing as the Congress,” Murkowski said.
"I think it’s important the concerns continue to be raised rather than letting the fatigue of the chaos grind you down.”
"I think it’s important the concerns continue to be raised rather than letting the fatigue of the chaos grind you down.”
That's because the American People overwhelmingly asked for what Trump and DOGE are doing, and polls show most Americans are happy with it. Congress has to give America what it wants now lest they be turned out of office. They understand this which is why the same people who wouldn't advance Trump's agenda a scant five years ago are now moving forward with him; they realize it's either play ball or die. Murkowski and the other RINO Republicans want to return to "regular order" meaning they play second banana to the Democrats and use the fact that they are in a minority to justify skimming off the top on all these programs. For the first time in thirty five years we have a President who is trying to actually restore the country rather than enrich his friends. That isn't the way the game is played and not why most of our government got into it in the first place. Government "service" was simply a way to get rich without really trying - until now.
Murkowski's fear is of seeing the gravy train derail. Little more than that.
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Walz Daughter Compares MS-13 Gangbangerto Jesus
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In more news of the lunatic Left/Democrats we can send forth a prayer of thanksgiving that Tim Walz never got close to being Vice President. If the apple never falls far from the tree...
Tim Walz’s Daughter: Trump Would’ve Deported Jesus, Branded Him MS-13
One can fairly hear the little birdie chirping as it comes forth from the wooden clock...
And since when do Leftists have anything but contempt for Jesus Christ? Funny how they only speak about Him when it serves their interests and never any other times. On the contrary they have tried very hard to deport Jesus from America themselves via bans on His teachings and His name. But they'll use His name to promote their policies that are intended to destroy America and the good people here who worship the Risen Lord.
Here is the dimbulb in her own words:
Like, people are all, you know, like good and stuff, except for Trump and those, like, mean guys who don't want to let people come.
Odd; you can find all sorts of quotes from DEMOCRATS calling for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Here is what Hillary Clinton said on the subject in 2008 as just one example.
But it's like clear to her that what Trump did to another human, humanity was like totally bogus! And people who look like her need to take a stand because, like, they are the only ones who can (?)
I hate to tell this little girl but Jesus was killed by the Ruling Class because He posed a threat to their power - and this MS-13 is not in the slightest a threat to the power structure. Trump is though, which is why they hunted for a situation like this to besmirch Mr. Trump. Trump is trying to devolve power from the intelligentsia back to the People from whom it was stolen in the first place. And for that he is hated, just as Jesus was hated for speaking of His own kingdom which was not of this world. The rulers then couldn't afford to have Jesus promising a kingdom outside of their control, and they can't afford having Trump promise a return to the old Republic.
BTW Trump has called for America to put her faith in God as did Jesus. Not in himself but in God. When has any Democrat done likewise? How does that comport with her ridiculous claim Jesus would have been deported (despite NOT being an illegal alien nor a criminal, as eve Pontius Pilate and Caiphas and Herod all admitted)? Garcia, on the other hand, has twice been found by judges to be MS-13, a violent narco-gang, and had an order of protection against him by his wife who feared for her life. He has also been credibly accused of human trafficking, one of the worse of crimes, and had deportation orders that were suspended under Biden TTEMPORARILY.
Walz appeared to be a very stupid man when he was Kamala's veep nominee. His daughter apparently inherited those genes.
In more news of the lunatic Left/Democrats we can send forth a prayer of thanksgiving that Tim Walz never got close to being Vice President. If the apple never falls far from the tree...
Tim Walz’s Daughter: Trump Would’ve Deported Jesus, Branded Him MS-13
One can fairly hear the little birdie chirping as it comes forth from the wooden clock...
And since when do Leftists have anything but contempt for Jesus Christ? Funny how they only speak about Him when it serves their interests and never any other times. On the contrary they have tried very hard to deport Jesus from America themselves via bans on His teachings and His name. But they'll use His name to promote their policies that are intended to destroy America and the good people here who worship the Risen Lord.
Here is the dimbulb in her own words:
"If Jesus were alive today and in the United States, this administration would already have taken him and removed him from this country without due process, claimed he was a member of the MS-13 gang as a way to try to justify not giving him due process, as if there is any justifiable reason to not giving somebody due process.
Some people don’t want to talk about that. It truly is baffling how clear and laid out everything is and there is [sic] still people standing by it.
I believe in the good of people, and like, humanity, humans, you know, deep down at our core, like, we care about each other.
But that’s really being tested, because how anyone is OK with this is terrifying to me.
But yeah, if you look like me, speak up, speak out, because we might be the only ones safe from what’s coming and some of the only people that are able to stop it.
Some people don’t want to talk about that. It truly is baffling how clear and laid out everything is and there is [sic] still people standing by it.
I believe in the good of people, and like, humanity, humans, you know, deep down at our core, like, we care about each other.
But that’s really being tested, because how anyone is OK with this is terrifying to me.
But yeah, if you look like me, speak up, speak out, because we might be the only ones safe from what’s coming and some of the only people that are able to stop it.
Like, people are all, you know, like good and stuff, except for Trump and those, like, mean guys who don't want to let people come.
Odd; you can find all sorts of quotes from DEMOCRATS calling for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Here is what Hillary Clinton said on the subject in 2008 as just one example.
But it's like clear to her that what Trump did to another human, humanity was like totally bogus! And people who look like her need to take a stand because, like, they are the only ones who can (?)
I hate to tell this little girl but Jesus was killed by the Ruling Class because He posed a threat to their power - and this MS-13 is not in the slightest a threat to the power structure. Trump is though, which is why they hunted for a situation like this to besmirch Mr. Trump. Trump is trying to devolve power from the intelligentsia back to the People from whom it was stolen in the first place. And for that he is hated, just as Jesus was hated for speaking of His own kingdom which was not of this world. The rulers then couldn't afford to have Jesus promising a kingdom outside of their control, and they can't afford having Trump promise a return to the old Republic.
BTW Trump has called for America to put her faith in God as did Jesus. Not in himself but in God. When has any Democrat done likewise? How does that comport with her ridiculous claim Jesus would have been deported (despite NOT being an illegal alien nor a criminal, as eve Pontius Pilate and Caiphas and Herod all admitted)? Garcia, on the other hand, has twice been found by judges to be MS-13, a violent narco-gang, and had an order of protection against him by his wife who feared for her life. He has also been credibly accused of human trafficking, one of the worse of crimes, and had deportation orders that were suspended under Biden TTEMPORARILY.
Walz appeared to be a very stupid man when he was Kamala's veep nominee. His daughter apparently inherited those genes.
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X Users: Vance Murdered Pope
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They really are insane people on the Left.
Ghouls Flood X With Claims JD Vance Killed Pope Francis
I am mindful of the murder of the archbishop in Godfather Part III. Did Vance toss the Pope over the staircase as One of Don Corleone's henchmen did in that film?
No wonder Hollywood is full of leftists; they have vivid imaginations if no brains at all.
I guess Vance whispered in his ear first "power wears out those who have it".
They really are insane people on the Left.
Ghouls Flood X With Claims JD Vance Killed Pope Francis
I am mindful of the murder of the archbishop in Godfather Part III. Did Vance toss the Pope over the staircase as One of Don Corleone's henchmen did in that film?
No wonder Hollywood is full of leftists; they have vivid imaginations if no brains at all.
I guess Vance whispered in his ear first "power wears out those who have it".
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Losing the Young to America
Timothy Birdnow
Remember the vaunted "youth vote" that was going to drive the Democrats to perpetual power, a new "era of good feelings"? Well...
New Yale Polling is Devastating to the Future of the Democratic Party
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Granted, this poll was conducted by UNDERGRADUATES so it's accuracy could be disputed. But it's interesting to note how large the margins have grown. Even if it's way off it still means the Democrats are in big trouble with the youth vote.
Of course the youths don't vote all that much, and they will change their minds in time probably. Building on a youth vote is like building a house on a sand dune. But usually the young become more conservative as they age, not less.
The article continues:
That is to be expected; the voters aged 22-29 came of age during the Obama ejaculation, and were inculcated with the mythos of Progressivism. Also, they had just gotten out of college where they were radicalized. The younger generation now has an example of how things work outside of the realm of Progressivism, something the older grop didn't have (except the first Trump term but that was marred by the endless propaganda against Trump and of course the pandemic which diverted their attention from Trump's success.)
And remember if you are 18 years old you spent a few years being educated at home, not in the clutches of the NEA; that makes all the difference in the world. A 14 year old kid being home-schooled, even if via Zoom, is much harder to brainwash than one who is under the watchful eye of the Kommissars of public Schooling.
So perhaps their scheme to drive Trump from office has come back to bite the Left. At least it appears the younger generation hasn't adopted the radicalism of their elders.
The problem with attempting to change how people thinnk is that everything you do can have allow it all to slip through your fingers. The American mind is like a river, the Mississippi, say. You build dams and flood walls and levees to try to keep it in it's course, a course you planned for it for your own use and benefit, but lose your grip for one moment and the thing returns to it's original course, often flooding whole towns in the process. In the case of the brainwashing of America the Left has to constantly labor to keep the thinking moving in the channel chosen by the intelligentsia. This is done with constant reinforcement, via movies, television, lower and higher education, etc. These are the levee walls designed to channel the flow. Once in a while there is a flood and a breech but usually they can repair it. Now though the pressure has built up too muchas they have pushed to hard - tried to channel all the water into a tight confined area. It's bursting through now and they are finding they are losing their grip to a degree. Covid was one such overreach. So too is the trans movement and the unrestricted immigration. Had they done these one at a time it would have worked but they went for the whole thing at once and the public has rebelled. The levee is now breeched and the water is flooding out and attempting to return to it's original course.
This will call for drastic action on their part. Watch for it.
At any rate America is a bigger place than the machinations of the Left and it is reasserting itself in the minds of the young. God Himself created America and anointed her and these Progressive types are attempting to overthrow God and Natural Law and the United States of America. Not so easy a job. (For those who doubt that statement about God creating America one need but look at the multiple miracles of the Revolution. Washington was almost killed repeatedly and miraculously saved. Catching the British and Cornwallis in their own trap at Yorktown was nothing short of miraculous! In the War of 1812 the British army retreated from Washington D.C. in utter defeat without Americans firing a shot - God Himself waged war on the British army, sending tornadoes through their camp, striking them with lightning, etc. The soldiers there were terrified; they understood what was happening - Old Testament wrath was being poured out on them!)
So now the Left is losing a whole new generation to America. And it's their own fault.
Remember the vaunted "youth vote" that was going to drive the Democrats to perpetual power, a new "era of good feelings"? Well...
New Yale Polling is Devastating to the Future of the Democratic Party
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The poll, conducted in early April and released this week, surveyed 4,100 registered voters nationwide, including a targeted oversample of 2,025 voters between the ages of 18 and 29.
Conducted by undergraduate researchers at Yale University, the survey measured voter sentiment across a range of political and cultural topics, including immigration, free speech, and public safety.
Among the most notable findings, President Donald Trump now holds a net favorability of +7 among 18–21 year-old men, while Harris has fallen to a net -48 in the same demographic — a 55-point gap between the two.
The latest Yale Youth Poll confirms the trend we’ve seen at one campus after another: The youngest voters have turned sharply to the right. Yale found 22-29 year olds favored Democrats by ONLY 6.4 points. But kids of college age, 18-21, lean Republican by almost 12 (!!
Conducted by undergraduate researchers at Yale University, the survey measured voter sentiment across a range of political and cultural topics, including immigration, free speech, and public safety.
Among the most notable findings, President Donald Trump now holds a net favorability of +7 among 18–21 year-old men, while Harris has fallen to a net -48 in the same demographic — a 55-point gap between the two.
The latest Yale Youth Poll confirms the trend we’ve seen at one campus after another: The youngest voters have turned sharply to the right. Yale found 22-29 year olds favored Democrats by ONLY 6.4 points. But kids of college age, 18-21, lean Republican by almost 12 (!!
Granted, this poll was conducted by UNDERGRADUATES so it's accuracy could be disputed. But it's interesting to note how large the margins have grown. Even if it's way off it still means the Democrats are in big trouble with the youth vote.
Of course the youths don't vote all that much, and they will change their minds in time probably. Building on a youth vote is like building a house on a sand dune. But usually the young become more conservative as they age, not less.
The article continues:
Voters aged 22–29 still leaned slightly Democratic on the generic congressional ballot, favoring Democrats by 6.4 points.
However, those aged 18–21 leaned Republican by 11.7 points, marking a double-digit swing to the right among the youngest segment of eligible voters.
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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 15, 2025
However, those aged 18–21 leaned Republican by 11.7 points, marking a double-digit swing to the right among the youngest segment of eligible voters.
The most… pic.twitter.com/UhIgCWsoHA
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 15, 2025
That is to be expected; the voters aged 22-29 came of age during the Obama ejaculation, and were inculcated with the mythos of Progressivism. Also, they had just gotten out of college where they were radicalized. The younger generation now has an example of how things work outside of the realm of Progressivism, something the older grop didn't have (except the first Trump term but that was marred by the endless propaganda against Trump and of course the pandemic which diverted their attention from Trump's success.)
And remember if you are 18 years old you spent a few years being educated at home, not in the clutches of the NEA; that makes all the difference in the world. A 14 year old kid being home-schooled, even if via Zoom, is much harder to brainwash than one who is under the watchful eye of the Kommissars of public Schooling.
So perhaps their scheme to drive Trump from office has come back to bite the Left. At least it appears the younger generation hasn't adopted the radicalism of their elders.
The problem with attempting to change how people thinnk is that everything you do can have allow it all to slip through your fingers. The American mind is like a river, the Mississippi, say. You build dams and flood walls and levees to try to keep it in it's course, a course you planned for it for your own use and benefit, but lose your grip for one moment and the thing returns to it's original course, often flooding whole towns in the process. In the case of the brainwashing of America the Left has to constantly labor to keep the thinking moving in the channel chosen by the intelligentsia. This is done with constant reinforcement, via movies, television, lower and higher education, etc. These are the levee walls designed to channel the flow. Once in a while there is a flood and a breech but usually they can repair it. Now though the pressure has built up too muchas they have pushed to hard - tried to channel all the water into a tight confined area. It's bursting through now and they are finding they are losing their grip to a degree. Covid was one such overreach. So too is the trans movement and the unrestricted immigration. Had they done these one at a time it would have worked but they went for the whole thing at once and the public has rebelled. The levee is now breeched and the water is flooding out and attempting to return to it's original course.
This will call for drastic action on their part. Watch for it.
At any rate America is a bigger place than the machinations of the Left and it is reasserting itself in the minds of the young. God Himself created America and anointed her and these Progressive types are attempting to overthrow God and Natural Law and the United States of America. Not so easy a job. (For those who doubt that statement about God creating America one need but look at the multiple miracles of the Revolution. Washington was almost killed repeatedly and miraculously saved. Catching the British and Cornwallis in their own trap at Yorktown was nothing short of miraculous! In the War of 1812 the British army retreated from Washington D.C. in utter defeat without Americans firing a shot - God Himself waged war on the British army, sending tornadoes through their camp, striking them with lightning, etc. The soldiers there were terrified; they understood what was happening - Old Testament wrath was being poured out on them!)
So now the Left is losing a whole new generation to America. And it's their own fault.
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Hypocrisy iss All
Timothy Birdnow
I thought he was supposed to be a man of God...
Raphael Warnock Slapped With Ethics Complaint for Living in Free $1 Million Luxury Home
Remember the ethics complaints against Clarence Thomas for accepting invitations to stay at his rich friend's home or go fishing? Strange how the media overlooks it when it's a Democrat.
Hypocrisy is all.
I thought he was supposed to be a man of God...
Raphael Warnock Slapped With Ethics Complaint for Living in Free $1 Million Luxury Home
Remember the ethics complaints against Clarence Thomas for accepting invitations to stay at his rich friend's home or go fishing? Strange how the media overlooks it when it's a Democrat.
Hypocrisy is all.
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The Rising Smoke
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Pope Francis is now at room temperature and media - including Fox News and the other conservative media - is pouring accolades onto the Progressive Pontiff who had made it his mission to turn the Church into an international spiritual arm of the Democratic Party. Pope Francis is praised for such things as "modernizing" the Church by blessing the Biblically condemned homosexual unions, or for his championing climatte change alarmism (clearly a pagan religion and anti-rationalist to boot), or his placing women in positions of authority in the Church in contradiction to admonishions by the Apostle Paul and others. He also championed the rights of illegal aliens to destroy nations and cultures. But hey! He has died so we are here to bury him and not to praise heim, right?
Francis came in on very strange terms. The sitting Pope RETIRED, something that has not happened for centuries. Francis was elected after only six votes, a ridiculously fast conclcave. It is almost as though there was a coup and Francis had already been chosen. At any rate since becomong Pope Francis (whom the fascist Peronistas in Argentina consider one of their own) has systematically purged the power structures of any conservatives, and replaced them with his own people. He has stacked the College of Cardinals too, to guarantee his legacy will outlive him. He's like a Barack Obama of the Vatican, laying snares for future pontiffs who actually want to follow Christianity.
A number of conservative bishops and other clergy had signed a letter warning the wayward Pontiff he was advocating heresy at one point in his pontificate, I would add. So naturally Francis turned around and sacked them all, even going so far as to charge one of his critics with schism and having the poor priest excommunicated. Francis was a vindictive man.
So who will take over is anyone's guess, but don't expect it to be someone who will restore the Church (unless God so wills it).
I suspect this conclave will be very short and that the man has been pre-chosen by none other than Francis himself. I really don't expect any surprises. More than likely the new Pope will be an African Bishop who is in the running named Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu from the Congo is a top candidate and may well get the nod. Francis was desperate to get a multicultural face on Catholicism. Besungu is a big promoter of "social justice" and Bishop of Kinshasa. He is the kind of leftist that Francis would approve as his successor.
The only thing that may prevent that is many of the Italian cardinals want the Papacy back in Italian hands, so they may elect an Italian again. Since Pope John Paul II it has been an international institution. JPII was Polish, Benedict was German, and Francis was Argentinian (although of Italian descent, which is how they sold him to the Italian cardinals). That is the only wrinkle in the drive to make the Church "look like the rest of the world" and become one with the world.
Pope St. Gregory the Great predicted that the union of the Church and the world would come near the end and would be utterly disasterous. One wonders if St. Gregory wasn't talking about our current era of crisis. Certainly St. Malachy's prophecies of the end of the world would come shortly after Pope Benedict (whom he accurately predicted). Malachi said the last Pope would be "Peter the Roman" and it has been applied to Francis since his middle name was Peter, but Francis doesn't fit any of the other aspects of Peter the Roman. But then Francis' election is a bit dubious and St. Malachi might have seen him as a usurper, an antipope.
At any rate this is going to be a wild ride. Either they pick a radical who moves the Church and the whole of Christendom into heresy and apostacy or we have a real reformer who leads a restoration (as Peter the Roman is said to do) which in itself could trigger Armageddon as the radicals make their final push for absolute power.
I'm in no hurry to see the white smoke rising above the Sistine Chapel...
Pope Francis is now at room temperature and media - including Fox News and the other conservative media - is pouring accolades onto the Progressive Pontiff who had made it his mission to turn the Church into an international spiritual arm of the Democratic Party. Pope Francis is praised for such things as "modernizing" the Church by blessing the Biblically condemned homosexual unions, or for his championing climatte change alarmism (clearly a pagan religion and anti-rationalist to boot), or his placing women in positions of authority in the Church in contradiction to admonishions by the Apostle Paul and others. He also championed the rights of illegal aliens to destroy nations and cultures. But hey! He has died so we are here to bury him and not to praise heim, right?
Francis came in on very strange terms. The sitting Pope RETIRED, something that has not happened for centuries. Francis was elected after only six votes, a ridiculously fast conclcave. It is almost as though there was a coup and Francis had already been chosen. At any rate since becomong Pope Francis (whom the fascist Peronistas in Argentina consider one of their own) has systematically purged the power structures of any conservatives, and replaced them with his own people. He has stacked the College of Cardinals too, to guarantee his legacy will outlive him. He's like a Barack Obama of the Vatican, laying snares for future pontiffs who actually want to follow Christianity.
A number of conservative bishops and other clergy had signed a letter warning the wayward Pontiff he was advocating heresy at one point in his pontificate, I would add. So naturally Francis turned around and sacked them all, even going so far as to charge one of his critics with schism and having the poor priest excommunicated. Francis was a vindictive man.
So who will take over is anyone's guess, but don't expect it to be someone who will restore the Church (unless God so wills it).
I suspect this conclave will be very short and that the man has been pre-chosen by none other than Francis himself. I really don't expect any surprises. More than likely the new Pope will be an African Bishop who is in the running named Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu from the Congo is a top candidate and may well get the nod. Francis was desperate to get a multicultural face on Catholicism. Besungu is a big promoter of "social justice" and Bishop of Kinshasa. He is the kind of leftist that Francis would approve as his successor.
The only thing that may prevent that is many of the Italian cardinals want the Papacy back in Italian hands, so they may elect an Italian again. Since Pope John Paul II it has been an international institution. JPII was Polish, Benedict was German, and Francis was Argentinian (although of Italian descent, which is how they sold him to the Italian cardinals). That is the only wrinkle in the drive to make the Church "look like the rest of the world" and become one with the world.
Pope St. Gregory the Great predicted that the union of the Church and the world would come near the end and would be utterly disasterous. One wonders if St. Gregory wasn't talking about our current era of crisis. Certainly St. Malachy's prophecies of the end of the world would come shortly after Pope Benedict (whom he accurately predicted). Malachi said the last Pope would be "Peter the Roman" and it has been applied to Francis since his middle name was Peter, but Francis doesn't fit any of the other aspects of Peter the Roman. But then Francis' election is a bit dubious and St. Malachi might have seen him as a usurper, an antipope.
At any rate this is going to be a wild ride. Either they pick a radical who moves the Church and the whole of Christendom into heresy and apostacy or we have a real reformer who leads a restoration (as Peter the Roman is said to do) which in itself could trigger Armageddon as the radicals make their final push for absolute power.
I'm in no hurry to see the white smoke rising above the Sistine Chapel...
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