Friday Reflections on the Political Things

Amici,

I've been seeing any number of reports about what happened, first-person accounts of people who participated in the Trump Rally on January 6th, and I mean well-known Christian activists (Protestants all, I'd guess) who testify that it was definitely Antifa. This was a CLASSIC "false flag" op, and it hurt Trump tremendously – and that's because we can't get through the MSM super-barrier to get the truthful news out. Perception is everything, and these Leftists are past-masters at controlling perception.

And as per that thought of the Reichstag fire, we can now observe the literal howling of the Left about forcing Trump out in shame, etc. (The Devil himself only knows what crazy Executive Orders Biden's Puppet Masters will have him sign.) What a orchestration of lies and outcomes! We're going to have one Infernal region of a time trying to survive the next 13 days (lucky 13) to January 20. And after that, well, true Darkness.

Clearly what the Left is trying to do is "ruin Trump's brand" to prevent him from being a source of leadership after he leaves office; so, we'll have to see if he can stop them in that attempt.

Remember always that these people are unconscionsable. Literally. It is as though they've turned themselves into sociopaths to get what they want. I'm sure their Puppet Masters have "plans" for them to take on new "green" lives as fertilizer when the Puppet Masters have gotten what they want, but you never know. The Masters might end up being the fertilizer. That can happen. 

A sad day, January 6th, but we let it happen; we let the Left just push us around forever, especially about the whole "Oh, Black Folks just can't register to vote like Whites can, so we have to throw out ALL the rules to let 'em vote!" – Hyper-ironic since it was the Demented Democrats who fixed it so Blacks couldn't vote in the first place! 

But the Democrats also pushed us around since Jack Kennedy stole the election from that wimp "Tricky Dick". (Jack laid on Nixon the worse execration Jack had, saying of Nixon, "He has no class.") Then we let that excremental maniac Lyndon Johnson (literally; he used to give reporters interviews while receiving enemas), who killed Jack, sandbag Goldwater and we (Republicans in Congress, in a minority at that time, but still) let Johnson get us into Vietnam.

John Zmirak says that we have not had Republican leaders since Reagan, and he's right. An excerpt (highlights mine):

Since Ronald Reagan left the stage, the GOP hasn’t boasted a single effective popular leader. We had no way to even spot such a figure if he appeared. Instead we made do with scarecrows like George W. Bush, tin men like John McCain, and cowardly lions like Mitt Romney. No wonder that when we heard the great booming voice of Donald Trump, we mistook the man behind the curtain for something … superhuman. When we saw him rally working people, black folks and brown folks and long-scorned “Deplorables” together at massive rallies, it seemed to us like magic. And so we bowed down and worshiped this Wizard as a god. For that, we’re now repentant.
If Trump leaves the scene, we will safely return to voting half-heartedly for the evil of two lessers, for business suits stuffed with newspaper and mannequin heads, like Paul Ryan and Nikki Haley. No chance of mistaking them for anything more than what they are.

John Z is a master of sarcasm.

Should one consider it, American Conservatives or American Nationalists really haven't had a Republican leader – a true leader – since Coolidge. Eisenhower wasn't a Republican, that's for sure (and that probably benefitted him!). Before Coolidge, Theodore Roosvelt was a fantastic leader, before he went crazy after he left the presidency; but like Trump, TR (NO ONE ever called him "Teddy"!) was larger than the Repubican mold. That makes Calvin Coolidge the all-time perfect "Republican". Before TR, Americans had no Repub leaders either (Grant was a fantastic general, a superb horseman – he was nearly a "horse whiserer" and would punch you out if he saw you mistreating an equine – was a better rider than any of the flashy Southern officers – and a remarkable writer/composition artist, but he wasn't much in the way of being president).

So, really, we've only had a few "great" Republican leaders: Lincoln, of course, the first (and he was a Whig), TR, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Trump. Only Coolidge and "Ike" were universally loved and without serious critics. Lincoln was hated and finally shot to death, TR went nuts and Reagan and Trump were sandboxed in by the Democrats. Funny to think of it, but Newt Gingrich was an excellent Repubican leader in Congress, one of the greats.

So now we just have to suffer.

For balm, John Zmirak has a couple of great columns here, 

and here; both are brilliant and very satrical.

And for those who watch video, Eric Metaxas has three great guests on about what to expect next and what to try to do:

Kevin McCullough "On Where The Country Is Headed From Here". 
 
Charlie Kirk "Processes The Reality Of Joe Biden Taking The President's Chair In The Oval Office"

Charlie Kirk gives a great couple of options about what Mike Pence could have done but didn't, at around the 10 to the 13 minute marks. Excellent. Honestly, Trump should have made sure Pence was on board for this, and then had Pence say, in early December, that he would not approve any slate of Electoral College Electors that the states' legislatures hadn't voted to approve. The state legislatures ARE the ones required to do this, and it would have been easy to call them into session to do so. As it was, Pence could have sent those six states' Elector slates back to them on January 6th, saying he'd accept them when the legislatures voted on them. Instead, Pence failed us all, massively. Kirk makes a great argument. 

Then Lance Wallnau "Looks Into The 'Cosmic Conflict' Side Of Yesterday's Events," i.e. an Evangelical perspective.

This Wallnau, however, also was there at the rally and march and testifies to how Antifa infiltrated the Trump rally.

Haven't found much Catholic comment yet, or at least commentary I'd trust. Taylor Marshall speaks here about "... all three branches of the USA will not held by a single Protestant: they are dominated by "Catholics" in the shape of Pope Francis's global agenda."

And Father James Altman's most recent homily is here. He's always worth listening to! If every Catholic priest preached like this, and served his people as Fr. Altman does, there'd be no Protestants.

Basically, all are optimistic, but guarded. It's going to be brutal for months, but a backlash will build against the Dems, as it always does. They'll also need super-majorities in both Houses to advance their more radical ideas, and the margins are so close in both Houses it is unlikely they'll succeed. But the real problem remains that if the elections are going to be absolutely stolen every time, there's no remedy unless the people force them to be honest. And I think all concerned would say that as time goes on and we see just how fraudulent the election was, there's going to be a storm wind in the USA. Maybe. The Tech Titans and the MSM will do their utmost to keep most people in the dark.

It will be a cosmic judgment on the national character, and Americans are just two different nations now, the halves of which loathe each other.

An Préachán