Timothy Birdnow

Mike Gallagher is a nice man, and I have no problem with where his heart resides, but he just is a lightweight. I am always amazed at how myopic his reasoning can be.

Take, for example, the story about the Lesbian Bishop who insulted Trump from the pulpit recently.(I don't really know if she's a lesbian but she sure looks the part, and most certainly she is a NAG - member of the National Association of Gals - as Rush would have said.

This woman (I refuse to call her a Bishop as the Bible is quite clear women are not to be in leadership roles in the Church. See 1 Timothy 2:11-12 for just one example) began whining about how much homosexuals and transvestites are fearful and how "undocumented" (she refused to say illegal) are afraid as if Trump is some sort of monster about to devour them, and she begged Trump to be merciful. It was a hug insult and many on our side are rightly cheesed off at this woman.

But not Gallagher. And Gallagher is wrong.

Gallagher's argument was "it's a free country" and that we need to listen to the opposition. This is a monumentally stupid argument to make.

It was the argument made by Mike Pence when the cast of Hamilton called him out from the stage. Where is Mike Pence now?

First, Mariann Edgar Budde (yes, her middle name is EDGAR!) is the Episcopal prelate of Washington D.C. and as such is subject to the laws of the United States. Among these are the tax codes that exempt her church from paying taxes PROVIDED she stay out of politics. That was a requirement put in place by L.B. Johnson to get the churches in the south to stop trashing his policies. You don't have to stay out of politics, but you do have to stay away from specifics or not take the tax breaks. The Democrats have used this power ruthlessly over the years and now, for instance, the Catholic Church is afraid to excommunicate people like Nancy Pelosi who openly, willfully violate Church law and still claim to be Catholic. This is a tool the Left has used to silence conservative Christians, yet here we have an episcopal chick criticizing the President from the pulpit to his face. Time to review her church's tax status, no?

That said we get to the meat of the argument by Gallagher and why it's wrong.

Yes, it's a free country and nobody is suggesting this woman does not have a right to express her opinion, but we have an equal right to express OURS, and ours is that she is a POS. Also, it comes down to a matter of good manners; you don't do what she did, especially since Trump and Vance were a captive audience and could not respond at the time. Well, they could have, just stood up and told her off, but that would be a major faux pas and it would have damaged Trump immensely. So he sits quietly and lets this puta harangue him publicly.

You don't get to be so rude and not expect a response. But that's how it works with the Left - they violate the standards of good conduct counting on our being unwilling to respond in kind. That's why they can call Trump a rapist, for instance, and expect to get away with that lie. (Fortunately ABC settled with Trump for it, but they tried getting away with it in the first place because any other Republican would have just let it drop.) If Trump hadn't sued - as Bush would not have - the lie becomes established. As Mark Twain put it "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.”

And that is the power of the media; they take a lie and amplify it and soon the whole world knows the lie, then they retract it on page 18 of the Lifestyle section of the paper. You have to stop these things at the very beginning. We MUST smack this woman down hard or others will pull this same stunt.

Truth must be told, proclaimed loudly and clearly and lies must be called out. Trump is right in swatting back at his critics, no matter what the Establishment Republicans and even Conservative Inc. think.

And, as I say, it's the Overton Window; they are moving the rules of civil conduct to allow such things.

We've seen this before; this is the kind of thing Mao encouraged during the Cultural Revolution in China. The Cultural Revolution often saw this kind of calling out, and ultimately led to the deaths of 1.6 million people or more as these things often grew from verbal abuse to full blown massacres.

For that matter this was done in post-revolution Russia, although they were more apt to just toss people into the gulag. And we see it on college campuses today. The Left is trying to mainstream this sort of behavior (while denying it to their opponents - that's why they went after the J6 people so ferociously.) They are moving what is considered acceptable behavior. They want their people hectoring everyone with whom they disagree.

That's what's wrong with this notion of not listening to each-other. Gallagher made that argument, that we "aren't listening to each-other" but he assumes those on the Left want to be heard. They do not. Speech to them is a weapon, and they are wielding it to drown us out because they cannot compete on the field of ideas. So they spew a great flood of lies and innuendos and outright attacks, much like Satan, who "accuseth the bretheren night and day before the throne of God" and who, in Revelation The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream."

That is what the Left does; they are not trying to communicate,but rather deceive and drown. They have no interest and a frank and open discussion.

And how, pray tell, is it WE aren't listening to THEM? We've been listening to these people for over a hundred years now, and have taken to heart much of what they have demanded of us. Who, for instance, passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964? It was all the Republicans. Half the Democrats bitterly opposed that. Not sure it is WE who aren't listening.

The problem is we do nothing BUT listen to them and try to debate. We aren't playing the same game. We listen, they hector. "Listening" to them means us hanging our heads in shame while they climb upon a moral high horse and sit in judgment of us. That is their power. If we resist they tell us we should be less mean and should be more reasonable, even while they are burning down cities in displeasure. But WE are the ones who are the problem! And apparently Gallagher doesn't graps this.

Frankly, when this woman started her B.S. a bunch of the Republicans there should have risen and turned and walked out.

Unfortunately we don't do such things. Instead we sit there numbly and let the Left have their little tantrums. That may even be good strategy in a rational world where the media would report fairly and the public would judge things as they are but we all know that doesn't happen. So it becomes necessary to act against this woman, if for no other reason than to stop it from happening again. Hit the Episcopals in their most tender spot - in the wallet. Withhold donations. Protest. Send letters - lots and lots of letters - demanding this woman be removed from a leadership position.

But doing nothing or just laughing it off is a guarantee this will happen again.

Yes, we have plenty of other irons in the fire. But we can walk and chew gum at the same time, can't we? Trump is doing HIS job, we should do ours.

Gallagher needs to understand all this. His argument is vapid and shallow and I cannot understand how so many on our side STILL haven't grasped the lessons of Trump in this era of cutthroat politics. That's why we have always lost in bygone times.

Karl Rove came up with ""move on" as a strategy. He believed the public would get bored so he never fought battles, just went on to something else. How did that work out for us all?

Rove barely dragged Bush over the finish line in both elections, then we lost to a political novice who twisted America into something we no longer recognize. That's what happens when you don't fight the small fights. There are no small fights.

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