Faces of Two of Henry VIII's wives...

Amici,

Interesting. Anne Boleyn, center of so much intrigue, mystery, and utter destruction, as how she might have looked. The "google-eyed whore" as some called her. Certainly a "gold-digger" or "social climber". God will sort all these people, that's for sure. (Henry might have suffered brain-damage at one  point that could possibly explain his cruelty. Maybe. But the nobles of England should have put a sword through him and ended his blight.) Here she is at this YouTube site, as reliably recreated as probably she can be.

At the site, the artist, who sells these copyrighted portraits, explains a bit of Boleyn's life and what images she built the portrait on. I like Boleyn here in modern dress, rather that early 16th century get-up. She was either 29 or 35 when that pig Fat 'Arry 8th ("I am, I am") had her killed. That hog actually had all his wives killed, one way or another, if you think about it, except for the German, Anne of Cleves, who lived longer and better-off than all the others, and the last, the widow Catherine Parr, who lived a bit more than a year longer than Henry.

Certainly, Anne Boleyn fulfills the old dictum: Be careful what you wish for.

Although I don't know, of course, her daughter Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth I, might not have been 'Arry's daughter at all. Especially compared to "Bloody Mary", Elizabeth looked nothing like Henry VIII, in the face, body-build, or hands. And she didn't have the chronic bad health the Tudor's possessed. But anything is possible. St. Thomas More might have gone to his death primarily because he would not recognize Elizabeth to be Henry's actual daughter, and Queen Mary might have eventually thought so, too. Strangely, Mary Tudor could have married Elizabeth off to a Spanish or French or (Catholic German) Grandee, but she absolutely refused. Odd, that. It would have been a good move for her sister, IF Mary thought Elizabeth Henry's daughter. But Mary was proud enough not to do so if she thought Elizabeth a "bastard".

Then again, because Henry had Anne Boleyn executed for adultery, Elizabeth would have been considered illegitimate by both Protestant and Catholic. The Cecils, father William and son Robert, who actually ran England (as a brutal police state) during all of Elizabeth's reign, knew that and that was why they totally controlled Elizabeth I as queen. She was their puppet, not the proud, independent ruler of Elizabethan England.

So, how did Henry include his second daughter in the line of the throne? Some say it was the humble Anne of Cleves who got him to do that. 

Here's Ann of Cleves, in period dress.  

Shy and quiet, this German-born Anne had to be one "sharp cookie" to survive that $@#^###& Henry, and end up as wealthy has she did. She eventually became a friend of Henry, a "sister" of the king's and a member of the royal family, and certainly of his daughters (well, she fell out with Mary but that wasn't hard to do). But the best thing about her is that by picking her for a wife for Blooy Henry, Henry's henchman, Thomas Cromwell, ended up being executed on his master's orders. Sweet.

At the website, you can apparently purchase these and many other such recreated images, which, while not perfectly true to life, at least gives on an idea of how these people looked. FWIW

    An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

We have no possible dialogue with a Church like this...

Amici,

In some uplifting Catholic news (for once, so, may I not die of the shock – well, it was too good to last: see below), actor Shia LaBeouf has converted to the Catholic Faith, but more than that, LaBeouf has praised the Traditional Latin Mass! Great stuff! And he's insightful about it. See "Shia LaBeouf stuns Bishop Barron with love of Latin Mass: ‘They’re not selling me a car’". Naturally, Satan, the ensconced ruler of this world (we don't have to put up with him, but we do) will now attack LaBeouf, as Mel Gibson was attacked spiritually after The Passion of the Christ. Expect it. Pray for the guy.

At the bottom of the LifeSite article linked to above, please note, LifeSiteNews contributor Kennedy Hall presents a short embedded video wherein he ponders the scene: LaBeouf, the actor, and Bishop Robert Barron, the mainstream Novus Ordo impresario and multimedia producer, discuss the attraction to the Latin Mass on Barron's show, wherein LaBeouf clearly "gets it" whereas Barron remains clueless. Barron isn't trying to play it coy or dissemble, either. He just doesn't get it. Honestly, my friends, this short video is a must-see, and Hall's comments are excellent.

Meanwhile, German novelist and author extraordinaire (außerordentlich?) Martin Mosebach, has an interview Rorate Caeli carries, and translates to English: https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-traditionalist-should-long-for-schism.html. Mosebach is absolutely the best, and I mean absolutely the best, writer on the Traditional Latin Mass and why it is so important and essential for Catholics in particular and Christians in general, and just how depraved the Modernist Bergoglian Church is. I have his book: The Heresy of Formlessness. Worth its weight in gold.

An excerpt from the Rorate interview (highlight mine):

We must accept the sad fact that a great part of the believers who have remained in the Church have been in the meantime reeducated. Goethe calls attention to the anthropological fact that reverence is not a natural characteristic of man, but that he must acquire it. In the formlessness of modern society, the old liturgy is really a foreign body. She attracts those who have an internal readiness for resistance. These will always only be a small elite, not in the sense of academic titles or economic power but of spiritual force and independence of mind. It is to be found at all levels of the society.

The catastrophe in the faith has created a paradox. The old liturgy lives from reverence for hierarchy and order, but her defenders have an anarchistic temperament. They distrust every institution and authority that is not willing to subject itself to the Tradition and that means most representatives of Church and state. The ruling pontifex, whose stated goal is, after fifty years of post-conciliar developments, to wipe out those remnants of the Tradition of the Church that are still present, has correctly recognized that his work will remain incomplete as long as the old rite is successfully transmitted to future generations. The old liturgy contains everything that a Catholic needs to be Catholic. It is even capable of replacing for a while a pope who doesn't understand his mission. The current pope understands this very clearly and this thought is unendurable to him.

AnP again:

Now, everyone, consider this Mosebach extract; doesn't this apply perfectly to the American Catholic Church (just watch Bishop Barron's reaction to Shia LaBeouf's praise of the TLM):

Like many, I am convinced that the official German Church is right at the point of total collapse. It is as hollow as a nest of termites. The stupidity and tastelessness of its representatives are not even attractive for modernist liberals, at least insofar as they are intelligent. A small remnant will remain, and orthodox Traditional Catholics will gain influence among these. What is critical in my view is that the official Church with its myriad lay employees finally disappears.

A Traditionalist shouldn't be afraid of the schism of the German Church. Rather, he should long for it, especially since it's in no way a schism but the public apostasy of the official Church. There's no basis anymore for the acclaimed “dialogue.”  Also, whether Tradition one day could be victorious doesn’t concern me anymore.  It must be sufficient to us that Tradition most closely approximates the religion founded by Christ.

AnP aríst:

Doesn't that apply to the Irish Church? The American? And so on? We should long for schism with the Mainstream Church because it would get us out from Begoglio's neo-Modernist/full Fascist boot, and it would not, truly, be a schism, since the Mainstream Church itself is in apostasy, and under a pope yearning, aching, drooling and twitching to bury the TLM because the "old liturgy contains everything that a Catholic needs to be Catholic", because the mainstream Church itself "is even incapable of replacing for a while a pope who doesn't understand his mission." There's no basis for dialogue with such a thing as that, Mosebach says. Indeed, there isn't.

We've reached, at long last, the point of no return in the Church. Little reason exists for "dialogue", as Bergoglio's recent efforts to just shut down the TLM plainly demonstrate. Another angle on this: it has come to my attention via Fr. James Altman that the priestly faculties of that abomination, the putrid Rembert Weakland, were never suspended or removed, whereas such has been done to hundreds of faithful, orthodox priests, like Altman himself. In fact, Weakland was to be given a full funeral from the Cathedral he ruined. (He hated the old liturgy so badly that he had the sanctuary torn out and a ridiculously titanic pipe organ installed so that it filled the space!)

In a Church where that is true, we have no possible "dialogue".

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Follow-up on "Covid Murder: Seven Canadian docs die in a fortnight" – It's now up to 30, and they're young...

 Amici,

This story is 72-point type headline material, like the Moon-landing was, yet you just can't get information on it. Steve Kirsch has a follow-up on it here. As does Stu Peters, here at rumble. (Since the Canadian authorities have stopped publishing the most recent data, it is probably a lot more than 30 doctors!)

We are living in historic times. Like a Biblical Judgement Day. (Among many Bible verses to chose from: Ephesians 4:18 "They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.") Until the vaccine rollout, Kirsch reports, no young Canadian doctors died, literally; the usual age for them to pass beyond this life was in their 80s. Now, not so much. Apparently now it is in their 30s. Just incredible. 

If you received one of these "death jabs", get your will in order and yourself to Confession, that is, if you can find a priest who isn't worshiping Pachaman or Xochipilli. (Second Timothy 4:3 "For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: 4 And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables." Doesn't that describe the Modernist Church?)

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Hell has another new subject: Rembert Weakland archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002

 LifesiteNews has the biography of this evil, putrid man. (He died at 95, a classic 'hardened sinner' all his life, methodically doing evil – great evil – yet a "prince of the Church". Surely, Luke 17:2 applies.)

An excerpt:

After a decade at the helm of the Benedictine Order, Weakland was fatefully appointed archbishop of Milwaukee by Pope Paul VI in 1977. The new prelate began acting on his lifelong homosexual tendencies soon after his consecration, Weakland admitted in his memoir, pursuing sodomitic relationships that would eventually bring down his career and create a national scandal for the Church.

And as archbishop, Weakland would not only be endangering young people’s faith through irreverent liturgy but abetting their abuse by some of the most monstrous serial predators imaginable. As activist Peter Isely, who was victimized as a child by a Wisconsin priest, attested, Weakland was the “architect in the widespread and systematic abuse of children by clergy of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.”

“Thousands of children were harmed under his watch, and he bears the responsibility. During his tenure as Archbishop of Milwaukee, Weakland transferred dozens of known sex offenders into new assignments where they were warmly welcomed by trusting Catholic families,” Isley related. “These offenders then proceeded to abuse their children.”

AnP again:

Thanks, John Paul II. You elevated both Weakland and Bergoglio. You had one job to do, defend the Deposit of Faith. You were given carte blanc powers to do that, but it was too much fun running about the world as a rock star, that, and bringing down Communism. Being a rock star led, I suppose, to many conversions, and bringing down Communism obviously was a great help, though you made no headway with China, and "your boy" Bergoglio has made China pure hell for all Catholics.

Old Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz told John Paul to his face he was promoting bad men to the episcopacy; of course, JP2 had appointed Bruskewitz himself as bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1992. It was the same year JP2 had appointed Bergoglio to be a bishop. So, clearly, JP2 had no real way to discern whether an individual would be an orthodox bishop or not. That was the problem he had to concentrate on. Fixing that. It is imperative that only the most orthodox priests be made bishops. But the reptiles who ran "the spirit of Vatican II" wanted more snakes in the episcopacy. JP2 seemed blind to that. 

Then too, Bergoglio – like many, actually, as we've seen since Bergoglio was installed as pope – pretended to be orthodox, but once in power, reverted to being Modernists. A great many American and European bishops have done that. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn is probably the best (worst!) example of that.

Anyway, the Church is in crisis. Absolute crisis. As with the Covid fraud, it is up to us, the average, everyday folks, to use common sense and old-fashioned grit to keep the Faith, to be among the seven thousand who did not bend the knee to Ba'al. (1st Kings 19:18) And the most important battle to fight of contemporary Church problems is to force Bergoglio and the other Modernists to leave the Traditional Latin Mass alone. If we don't win for our Lord Christ on that one, we won't win on anything.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Emerald Robinson: Big Pharma paid off Fox News to promote vaccines

Friends,

Apparently Big Pharma (a collective term for the bigger pharmaceutical companies that dominate governments around the world via paying off politicians, something they've been doing for a century now, actually) has been paying Big News in order to coax the gullible into taking the murderous vaccines. This is a "fencing" operation done partly through advertising money, party through government bureaucracies (HHS, etc.) and also through just paying off talking heads. Emerald Robinson reports on that here in her Substack column. 

An excerpt (Highlights mine):

Who can forget the fully vaccinated Cavuto announcing that he caught COVID, and still thanking the vaccines for working? The brainwashed anchor went on to say: “Life is too short to be an ass. Life is way too short to be ignorant of the promise of something that is helping people worldwide. Stop the deaths, stop the suffering, please get vaccinated, please.”

Cavuto’s extraordinary rant is, of course, a prime example of magical thinking.

As I discussed back in March, most corporate news outlets in America were paid by the Biden regime’s HHS to push the vaccines to their audiences without disclosing it — and that list includes Fox News.

That’s the largest and most comprehensive breach of journalistic ethics that has ever occurred. Almost every corporate media outlet took the money. Almost every corporate media outlet lied about the vaccines (knowingly or unknowingly). Almost every corporate media outlet refused to report anything negative about the vaccines — because they were paid to close their eyes.

Almost every corporate media outlet is implicated.

AnP again: "Stop the deaths, stop the suffering, please get vaccinated, please." ??? Forsooth! Were the world not emasculated, such similar lying wretches would have been dragged out to the commons, put in stocks, and beat till one's arms cramped. So, the levels of depravity about all things Covid, which is to say all thing health-related, knows no bounds. Consider this screenshot:

This sort of needless mortality is well-documented, and has been for years. This comes from Dr. Sam Bailey here, and has more besides, but Dr. Jennifer Daniel's book, The Lethal Dose: Why Your Doctor is Prescribing It tells the same story from the author's personal experience.

Just amazing, my friends. Covid can be a blessing if we use it to reveal all the cockroaches seething under Big Medicine's white lab coats!

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Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

John Zmirak on the Blessed Virgin Mary

 Amici,

John Zmirak, one of my favorite commentators, has a piece out trashing the ideologues at the Atlantic magazine for asserting the Rosary is an extremist weapon. After scalding them post flaying their skin off and salting what remained (the only way to do it :), he discusses the B.V.M. for a few lines.

Excerpt:

Prayers from the Bible

The Rosary, for those of you not familiar with it, consists of a series of prayers and meditations, virtually all of them taken from scripture. We pray the Our Father (which Jesus taught us), the Hail Mary (which quotes the angel Gabriel), and the Trinitarian prayer “Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.” We meditate on key events in the life of Jesus. The purpose of it? To focus us on the story of our salvation, the need for holiness, and the love of God.

For this reason, the Rosary has indeed been a powerful weapon in the hands of Christians, historically. Its use played a major role in defeating the crazy, gnostic Albigensian heresy. A Europe-wide “rosary crusade” decreed by a pope preceded the almost miraculous victory of the Christians over the Muslims at Lepanto. To mark that, the pope placed the Feast of Our Lady of Victory on the anniversary of that battle. (To mark it, I myself bought for my personal handgun a Beretta, made by the same Venetian company that forged the cannons we used at that battle.)

On the Feast of the Assumption in 1920, Christendom was menaced again, by a threat worse than the Mongols: the armies of Bolshevik Russia, invading the infant nation of Poland, to spread its godless revolution to Germany, then all of Europe. The outmanned, outgunned Polish armies crushed the Bolsheviks outside of Warsaw, after thousands of soldiers reported seeing the Virgin Mary appear to them in the sky, urging them to victory. Poles still call that battle “the Miracle of the Vistula.”

This is one dangerous lady, if you’re on the side of the demons. Nothing lukewarm about her. She’s fanatically orthodox, doctrinally rigid, and not even winsome. She had the temerity to tell people, when Jesus spoke, “Do whatever He tells you.” That has no place in the America of the Former Joe Biden, or The Atlantic.

I have an idea for The Atlantic. It ought to rename itself not for a vast, adventurous ocean but a stagnant, polluted man-made strait in New York City. I can see it now, as I wait for my root canal: The Gowanus: Turgid, Full of Garbage, and Only Relevant in Brooklyn.™

AnP again:

• N.B. Some Austrians credit the B.V.M. and the Rosary for Austria remaining neutral after World War II. Apparently, they offered a Rosary Crusade and Austria was neither absorbed into NATO nor the Warsaw Pact.

Among the myriad, profound reasons for not letting imbecile hacks like Bergoglio and Andrea Grillo – or pustulent charlatans like Bishop Barron, whom Zmirak shreds in grand style here at Is Robert Barron a Bishop of Baal? – drive me back to the Standing Stones of Lugh Lámhfhada Samildhánach, is the Blessed Virgin Mary. Even Luther was devoted to her. Protestantism since Luther is clueless about her, except for exceptional figures like the great composer Morten Lauridsen. Listen to his Ave, Dulcissima Maria for a Heavenly eight minutes of grace.

As the brilliant Medieval theologian St. Anselm (1033/4–1109) wrote in part of her (Italics mine):

To Mary God gave his only-begotten Son, whom he loved as himself. Through Mary God made himself a Son, not different but the same, by nature Son of God and Son of Mary. The whole universe was created by God, and God was born of Mary. God created all things and Mary gave birth to God. The God who made all things gave himself form through Mary, and thus he made his own creation. He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without Mary.

God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary the mother of the re-created world. God is the Father by whom all things were given life, and Mary the mother through whom all things were given new life. For God begot the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to him as the Savior of the world. Without God’s Son, nothing could exist; without Mary’s son, nothing could be redeemed.

If there's any Christian insight more profound than the truth in these two short paragraphs, I don't know what it is.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

 

'Tradervatives' at AKA Catholic...and is Bergoglio pope, or what? (Updated)

 Amici,

Over at AKA Catholic,a good article to read is Are non-infallible doctrines trustworthy? It's a follow-on to this article about the knots many Traditional and Conservative Catholics tie themselves into in trying to 'square the circle' that Jorge Bergoglio is actually pope, yet obviously a wanton heretic who needs converted to the True Faith or excommunicated (i.e. his own blatant self-excommunication needs to be recognized).

I alluded to this cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-you-face conundrum (or one could call it the "We must destroy the village in order to save it" syndrome) in recent comments about Dr. Peter Kwasniewski's efforts to defend the Vetus Ordo, the Traditionalist Latin Mass. Efforts such as Prof K's are aiming toward redefining the nature, office, and powers of the pope, rather than asserting Bergoglio simply is NOT pope, for no actual pope would do what Jorge Mario B. does on an hourly basis. OnePeterFive and other such "mainstream Trad" sites are good exemplars of Prof K's thinking. They work overtime at it, and while they generally have excellent arguments for keeping the TLM, "Bergoglio as pope" is ultimately "a dog that won't hunt".

As I've written before: a pope has carte blanc powers, indeed, but they are to only be used for defending and promoting the Deposit of Faith. No pope can change or add to the Faith. Montini deeply wounded the Church in attacking the TLM Vetus Ordo, but he wasn't teaching heresy per se (though one could argue that point, I suppose). Bergoglio is trying to absolutely, truly, and most sincerely cancel and repudiate and kill the TLM AS WELL AS teaching heresy daily. (Indeed, Bergoglio's evil henchman, Andrea Grillo, says the TLM is already abrogated completely!)

Having the greatest respect for Prof K, and many of the others, I cannot go down their road, and the papacy cannot be weakened with extreme dangers to the Church. Trying to limit the papacy's powers in order to prevent Bergoglio's treachery leads to "rabbit hole" articles like this one. Such debates cause factions and perpetual adversaries.

We can clearly solve all this by insisting papal power only be used as intended. And that means, shove Bergoglio into an oubliette. I agree with Louie at AKA Catholic and Ann Barnardt at her site that it is much, much saner, simpler, and far more truthful, far more self-evident, to admit we have not got a legitimate pope in "Bergi". Now, that would get me called a Sedecavantist or a Benedicavantist label (like Ann B argues Ratzinger is still legit pope, so she gets unfairly mocked as a "Benedicavantist").

Prof K and that crowd seem to think it absolutely verboten to go Barnhardt's or AKA Catholic's way. It causes too many problems, they maintain. Well, their position causes even MORE problems! Insurmountable ones. Catholicism is not an intellectual suicide pact. And anyway, we've had eras in Church history when we have had two concurrent popes, even three! (Great Western Schism, 1378 - 1417) And periods existed when a pope could not be elected for various reasons. Pius VI died on August 29, 1799 and his successor, Pius VII, was elected on March 14, 1800. That's six months.) And Pius had been out of power for a couple of years before that! (Our old friend "Nappy" Napoleon occupied Rome in 1796 and poor Pius ended up in exile in France for 18 months before his death.)

Some die-hard sedevacantists say Pope John XXIII, Angelo Roncalli, was not a valid pope, and none of the others after him. But it was only Montini, Paul 6, who was a catastrophic disaster – and he holds no candle to Bergoglio, who is in full Church-gutting-and-scalping mode, striding Godzilla-like across the ecclesiastical landscape, smashing all before him and snorting radioactive fire.

It seems patently obvious that the logic is clear. AKA Catholic (Louie) writes in the first article linked above, in part about whether we should get rid of what the Church has always taught:

Not so. Let’s revisit the examples given. In each case one has a choice to make, to either apply what the Church has always taught to explain the present situation, or to redefine (that is, to twist or reject) what the Church has always taught to fit the present situation.

• The organization presently in Rome claiming to be the Holy Catholic Church authoritatively teaches false doctrines. 

TRADITIONAL EXPLANATION: Based on what the Church has always taught about herself, the organization presently in Rome, since its doctrines endanger the faithful, cannot be the one true Church.

TRADSERVATIVE NOVELTY: The organization presently in Rome is the one true Church, despite what the Church has always taught about herself. Yes, it teaches false doctrines, but not infallibly, and so we are called to resist.

• Jorge Bergoglio fails to manifest the true faith; he actively opposes it.  

TRADITIONAL EXPLANATION: Based on what the Church has always taught about membership in the Church, Jorge Bergoglio is not a Catholic of any rank. 

TRADSERVATIVE NOVELTY: Jorge Bergoglio is a member of the Holy Catholic Church, despite what the Church has always taught about visible membership in her. What’s more, given that most everyone considers him pope, we have no right say otherwise.

• “Francis” attacks the true faith but claims to be the Holy Roman Pontiff. 

TRADITIONAL EXPLANATION: Based on what the Church has always taught about the pope being our rule of faith, the Divine protection afforded to the pope by Our Lord, and the witness of the past nearly 2,000 years, Francis is obviously an anti-pope.  

TRADSERVATIVE NOVELTY: Francis is the Holy Roman Pontiff and Vicar of Christ, despite what the Church has always taught about the papacy, the Divine protection afforded to it by Our Lord, and the witness of the past nearly 2,000 years. Even though he is the pope, we cannot treat him as our rule of faith, rather, we must defend ourselves against his false doctrines!

AnP again.

Read the whole article. Read both AKA Catholic articles. They are excellent, and I think AKA Catholic and Ann Barnhardt carry the day, easily.

For what it is worth. Who cares what I think? But personally, I think it worth a lot to know the truth of things and not let oneself get tied hopelessly into a Gordian knot. Speaking of which, another old-time general friend of mine famously took care of that knotty issue in a simple yet dramatic way.

He cut it. 

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'The "Vatican Rite" or "Pauline Rite" is the Novus Ordo, but NOT the Roman Rite...'

Amici,

For all of us repudiating and discarding – to the extent we can avoid it, something Bergoglio is making difficult at the moment – the hapless, never sufficiently disparaged Novus Ordo Mass, there's an essay from Dr. Peter Kwasniewski at OnePeterFive, here online that I encourage everyone to read.

Dr. K is a great defender of the Vetus Ordo, the Ancient Rite, the TLM, and I always read him with profit. Usually, my only quarrel with him revolves around whether Bergoglio (for whose pitiful soul we must all pray while he's still among the living, before it is too late for him to repent – though it is a pretty big mountain to repent: i.e. a lifetime of trashing out the Church and supporting the sexually deviant in myriad ways) is actually pope.

But leaving that issue aside, this article at OnePeterFive focuses on the infamous Sant’Anselmo professor of liturgy Andrea Grillo. Grillo has been outed as the creator of Traditiones Custodes and the subsequent liturgical garbage Bergoglio has tightened around our necks, like successive slave collars. Indeed, except for one or two individuals, Grillo is perhaps the biggest influence on Bergoglio.

The article is lengthy, but should you have interest in how the official Catholic Church (à la the "Officials" for you who know IRA history) is now so determinedly anti-TLM, well, Grillo is yer man. He's just evil. And stupid. These two estimable qualities vie in his cockroachian soul. But don't take my word for it. Read the article.

I will say that the comhrá os íseal, the scuttlebutt, that the TLM will be formally cancelled sometime next year, must come from Grillo's fevered imagination. "Grillo proposes, God disposes" ought to be a saying. Actually, Grillo is insisting it is banned already! (Read the article.) By this time next year, however, there'll be mass starvation around the world, national power outages in the "developed world", esp Europe, and social unrest on a horrendous scale. Covid vaccine mortality alone will bankrupt public and private insurance on a planetary scale. So somehow I think it will be easier than ever to dismiss Bergoglio's rantings (as indeed, Prof Kwasniewski would have us do, though not as I would, as the words of an anti-pope whom we must pray for lest he be damned).

Here is an extract from the article, a fascinating and a very revealing exchange of email Grillo had with a student; here's the student:

More and more voices, of different sensibilities, testify that the 1969 operation was truly radical, in the face of a limited conciliar mandate: from the right, as in Card. Stickler’s lengthy memoirs; and from the left, as in Fr. Gelineau’s lapidary comment: “This must be said without ambiguity: the Roman Rite as we knew it no longer exists. It has been destroyed.”

And it is precisely on account of Gelineau’s admission that I personally feel like making a concession: it is indeed true that the theorem of the two forms of the Roman Rite is fragile (to be generous) and sophistic (to be more ruthless). For the Council had called for a reform of the Roman Rite. The Consilium produced instead a “Vatican Rite” or a “Pauline Rite,” with some vestigial resemblance to the historic Roman Rite, and some superficial resemblance to some of the Council Fathers’ indications, although most were ignored de plano. Hence with a little intellectual honesty—but that is still a long way off—it will sooner or later be necessary to acknowledge that the Vatican Rite or Pauline Rite is not the Roman Rite, as indeed a forthcoming book argues.

AnP again:

• An excellent way of saying it. The Vatican II Council called for one thing and got another, something with "some vestigial resemblance to the historic Roman Rite, and some superficial resemblance to some of the Council Fathers’ indications." Touché. It's ridiculous, but there it is. We should have demanded they toss it back then, reject it on the spot, yet the "Vatican I Church" (from 1870 to 1962) had drilled Catholics to pray, pay, and obey. No longer. That sort of submission no longer exists much of anywhere in the Church.
  
• FWIW, I never bought into Ratzinger's spiel that two forms of the western Roman Rite existed, the "Ordinary" form and the "Extraordinary" form. Many others did not, either; anyone, in fact – me thinks – will come away with that realization who bothers to even remotely interact with the TLM Vetus Ordo. Hence the idea of a "Vatican Rite" or "Pauline Rite" seems so fitting. The N.O. is an alien thing altogether. A Changeling. As I say, it's a Methodist service with one of the N.O.'s Eucharistic prayers squeezed in.
  
• If you take time to read Grillo's responses to this student above, and another exchange Prof K provided, you realize Grillo is a parrot to Modernist notions purely ideological in nature. A high apparatchik in a dying cult. Such ideas cannot be sustained except by brute force (via KGB, Stasi, or FBI), which is precisely why Bergoglio acts the way he does.
• The near-term future is not conducive to the Novus Ordo: world-wide social stresses and economic upheavals will destroy, at long last, the "Vatican II Church", for as we saw with the ridiculous Covid lockdowns, that Church has no stuffing, no guts; it bent over showed its  butt to the dominant Grillo gorilla-brute culture of power, the fascist "boot on the human face forever" (Orwell) when what the world needed was the actual Catholic Faith, represented during the lockdowns best by the SSPX, which kept chapels open and priestly services ongoing, as much as possible. If you want to see that actual Catholic Faith in action, watch this video of an SSPX priest making the rounds in Alaska. 
  
  

So, we'll see. Time will tell. But remember: Motus in finem velocior. Time speeds up before the end. Or as Aristotle said: Time is the measure of motion. And things are running ever faster toward Global Dystopia.

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Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Once again: Jenner's smallpox vaccination did NOT stop smallpox in England

Friends, 

It's time to "think the unthinkable". What with all the lies our governments our spreading, lies about war, food production, "green" energy, Global Warming (now the even more vague "Climate Change"), and of course the grotesque authoritarianism in the U.S. Federal Government, not to mention the most putrid lies of all that come from the Bergoglioan hierarchy of Church destroyers, it is time to review just how long and how thoroughly we are lied to. It is time to "think the unthinkable". Scotsman Neil Oliver has a great talk on that here. 

To that end, here is Part I of a series I am endeavoring to start on how we've been lied to, let's consider medicine, specifically vaccines.

I had sent something similar to this around months ago, but it is time to consider it again. We've been told for two hundred years the legend of Edward Jenner, a plucky English physician eliminating the dreaded smallpox plague via vaccination, beginning this work in the 1790s. Jenner, 1749 to 1823, is known as "Father of Immunology".

It is an old story, and a hallowed one. But it is not true.

Despite Jenner's inoculations, Smallpox reigned in England in the mid-1800s, and they suffered the worst Smallpox outbreak in their (recorded) history between 1871 and 1880, but it has been like finding hen's teeth to uncover information on it. The bottom line is that Jenner's Smallpox "vaccine" did not work. IT DID NOT work, not the way it has been historically related. 

What got rid of the pox, then? Sanitation. Installing urban sanitation systems, sewers, what the Brits have always called "water closets" (toilets with drains to sewers) and other "boring, nuts-and-bolts" civil engineering stuff. Urban sanitation. 

So, despite the fame of Edward Jenner and his smallpox vaccine (called "inoculation" in 1796, a somewhat different protocol from vaccination, per se), smallpox remained a plague in England for a long lifetime. Contrary to the Jenner legend, and despite of – or because of – England's vaccination laws, between 1871 and 1880, 57,016 smallpox deaths occurred in Britain. 57,016 people in nine years, mind you, with a version of the famous vaccine BEING REQUIRED BY LAW. Smallpox was so common in the early 1800s that Parliament passed laws mandating the use of vaccination. (Sound familiar?) Smallpox looked as inevitable as ever.

• It looks as though the anti-smallpox inoculations caused more smallpox than they stopped. Actually, this was noted simultaneously in France regarding Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies inoculations. Back in 1909, a Dr. Montague R. Leverson wrote that Pasteur's anti-rabies inoculations "afford the most decided test of the pernicious character of that method of treatment. During the 23 years preceding the use of anti-rabic serum, there were 685 deaths from rabies in all France, or an average of 30 per annum...with a continually increasing number each year, so that according to the official returns the number of death from rabies in France for the year ending in June, 1907, was just about 300. In truth, as Professor Peter said, in his address to the Academy of Medicine in Paris, on the 11th of January, 1887, "M. Pasteur does not cure rabies, he imparts it!" (13:20 of https://odysee.com/@hipsterious:3/Dr.-Sam-Bailey---What-About-Rabies:c)

Regarding smallpox in England, something major changed dramatically, however, for between 1911 and 1920, only 110 English deaths occurred from smallpox. By that time, vaccination had evaporated as a national policy. But as noted, for years vaccination had been national policy for the British government made Smallpox vaccination a requirement in 1853, with the Compulsory Vaccination Act, with a more stringent version in 1867.

A Dr. Hadwen wrote: "After about 40 years of compulsory vaccination, Britain suffered the worst smallpox epidemic in its entire history, with the highest death rate in history." What vaccine brought smallpox to an end? No vaccine at all. Rather, sanitation policies brought smallpox to an end. City reformers in Leicester set the example: they rejected vaccination in favor of sanitation. Yes, friends, this is true. Sanitation. Boring. Unexciting. "Un-legendable". I've always said that the invention and use of soap saved more human lives than any other thing in all history. With sewers and indoor plumbing and a ban on vaccination, smallpox disappeared from Leicester, and eventually from England. 

The same thing happened in Cleveland (of all places!). A Dr. Friedrich, in charge of the Health Board of Cleveland, abolished vaccination "absolutely" and promoted sanitation. Smallpox vanished. (As reported by a Dr. John Hodge in 1902.) Clearly, sanitation played the major role in ending Smallpox. Everyone, and I mean EVERYBODY, needs to know these facts. Please, pass it on, folks. Vaccination has NEVER BEEN the panacea it has been cracked up to be, and it is time this info gets broadcasted. (Same with polio, which did not come from a virus but arsenic/lead-based fruit tree insecticide, and later DDT; once these were discontinued, so vanished the polio, or it was just renamed: "Acute Flaccid Paralysis", which is formally said to be clinically indistinguishable from polio.)

In fact, most important to comprehend of all: we have been as consistently lied to about vaccination and the Germ Theory of Illness as we have been lied to about every other category I opened this essay with.

Another name for Hell is "The Kingdom of Lies" and we've been long-term residents therein. 

An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Now I get it: a full coup d'état has been underway since November 2020

Friends,

Well, since Trump was elected in 2016.

When I read the search warrant they used to invade Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, I knew there's been a coup d'état going on in the U.S.A. since Biden fraudulent election back in November 2020. (Before, it seemed more Democrat harassment than anything else.) The terms of the warrant put everything in in perspective. This raid on Mar-a-Lago involves more than merely a major turning point wherein they are obviously impatient to go through the drawn-out "lawfare" they've been waging against Trump. They want to bring him down now, before the Fall elections. Any excuse will do. Expect to see Donald John Trump arrested soon.

A Leftist acquaintance of mine sent me a link to video commentary by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell (why do these idiots have to have Irish names?) titled: ‘Merrick Garland Has Outsmarted Donald Trump At Every Turn’. You see how they think – though "think" isn't the word, is it? They are delusional. Truly. On par with castrating boys and calling them girls.

Actually, Merrick Garland's "I'm responsible" broadcast the other day was a disaster. First of all, Biden (always an idiot and now a drugged-up zombie) must take responsibility for whatever the Executive Branch of the American government does. He's captian of the ship of state (supposedly). Biden claims he's clueless about all this (even though he's recorded saying he wants Trump taken down), but regardless, he is supposed to take responibility.

Broadcast four days after an absolute Justice Department silence regarding the raid, with mainstream news earlier leaking Garland had no say in the raid, Garland admitted he had indeed ordered the raid. (Just on how they played this, you can't believe these hobgoblins.) But the man Garland looked like a corpse and uttered a string of lies thicker than the Earth's upper and lower mantle, and core, combined. It was a grotesque performance. Democrats have been getting off Scot-free for years now where Republicans are railroaded, manacled, and "perp-walked" for the evening news. Hillary actually "acid washed" thousands of emails that were ordered to be preserved, and her peeps took hammers to her computers. Obama took literally millions of records from the White House and has them in storage at the Hoffman Estates (huge industrial park) outside of Chicago. So forth and so on. The examples are as legion as the long rosters of the Devils in Hell.

But regarding the ongoing coup, why issue a warrant the way they did? It gives warrant to search for “Any government and/or presidential record created between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021?” See the Conservative Treehouse here  for details and a fuller explanation than I can give. This warrant was so opened ended that the clear message was Trump has NO PRIVACY RIGHTS whatsoever, and no privileges as a former president.

Consider what the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1787) says, in whole:

• "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

This was an 'unreasonable search an seizure, by long-established definition. They are not be granted "fishing expeditions", such as this obviously was. You're supposed to go to a judge and say, "We have this bit of evidence for a probable cause to search, and we need to search for X, Y, and Z". If you've ever been issued a search warrant, or watched TV cop shows like the murder mystery "Castle", etc., you know cops often ask a judge to issue a search warrant, but these are always probably cause for specific items and regarding particular crimes, say, phone records within a specific time frame, or a person/house search for specific things. There's obviously some leeway; if you search a guy's flat for a gun and find a warm corpse, well. But what the Department of Justice and this judge, a friend of dead child pimp Jeffrey Epstein (who miraculously hung himself in prison when the cameras just happened to be turned off) issued this warrant to search Mar-a-Lago for, it was for everything from Christmas cards to grocery lists.

THEY WANT TRUMP. And the RINO Republicans who run the Republican Party (merely one wing of the Deep State's "Uni-Party") have made clear is they do not want Trump running in 2024. In fact, all the evidence points to the RINOs being in on just when the Deep State would raid Trump. Trump was the people's choice in both 2016 and 2020, but the Powers-that-Be will just not tolerate it. Right now, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida as come out as a RINO "Great White Hope", but he's patently in thrall to the Party's bigshots. He's being "managed" and "groomed". I am aghast, but not really surprised.

Anyway, my friends, the American government we thought we had, a representative republic, has fallen. How did it happen?

It happened incrementally, and resulted from two separate streams merging. The creation of powerful information-controlling bureaucracies after World War II (CIA being a classic example, but also the National Security Agency, etc.), and the incorporating of the prior-established FBI (established in 1908 after prodding by the famous president, Theodore Roosevelt, who had himself become president because President McKinley had been assassinated by an anarchist – just as the Department of Homeland Security was established after the 9/11 terrorists attacks. See the pattern? So the FBI in combo with the CIA and the NSA, plus a host of other agencies, including the infamous IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, the establishment of which in 1913, after the 16th Amendment was passed, rewrote the Constitution because the Founders had NO wish to create a federal government income tax. The Democrats have just funded the addition of 80,000 IRS agents and have advertised for people willing to use force (and they're having IRS agents trained to raid suburban homes commando-style!).

On top of that, and parallel to it, you had the Communists, a foreign ideology long plotting via their "long march through the institutions" (a "long march not just through secular academia, but government and even the Church), to take over the government. The Democrats were heavily infiltrated by Communist agents after Franklin Roosevelt came to office in 1933 and immediately recognized the Soviet Union. Communists were thick in the Federal government thereafter, and Richard Nixon was hated because he actually found such an American serving as a Soviet agent, Alger Hiss.

Then something profoundly wrong occurred with the KGB-style (pure, pure KGB-style, even using an American who had emigrated to Russia!) murder of Jack Kennedy. Jack was worthless on many levels, but at least he was an actual anti-communist warrior and he was turning against any further U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (The murder of the South Vietnam president, a Catholic, just before his own assassination, sickened Kennedy.) But we can't know now whether his murder was KGB or a CIA operation, because the latter themselves are quite practiced in overthrowing governments and quite capable of framing the KGB. In any case, Lyndon Johnson, a "Deep Stater" if ever there was one, then immediately took the U.S. both feet first into Vietnam, and nearly ripped the guts out of the country. Richard Nixon, who succeeded "LBJ", was as loathed by the Democrats as Trump is, but Nixon was a "RINO" before the term was coined. In any case, when "Tricky Dick" (apparently) gave the Democrats a chance, they gutted him like you would gut a fish, and the country would have been hors de combat after the disastrous Democrat Jimmy Carter, had not Ronald Reagan been elected. A true populist, he restored much of the nation's national health, but the Deep State forced on him as vice-president a "RINO of RINOs", George (Herbert Walker) Bush, who succeeded Reagan and who governed, well, like a RINO. The incompetent Bush let that poison pair Bill and Hillary Clinton get elected in their turn, and they paved the way for Obama, who of course succeeded the second Bush (George Walker Bush, yet another puppet RINO: the Republicans will foist another on us, DeSantis or whoever; it is what they do). This second Bush paved the way for Obama, a true Communist, and right now we are suffering through Obama's "Third Term".

All this has been building for decades, in other words, and only a full revolution will reverse it. But the bad guys controlling the Federal bureaucracies have so heavily armed themselves since Obama that they're just itching for a citizen uprising so they can declare Martial Law. You see the problem. As Fr. James Altman, a cancelled priest and a man and a priest of the highest qualities says, they've basically "won" and we have lost. We now have to go through the Garden of Gethsemane and the Good Friday. A full-scale civil war might actually not turn out the way the Deep State wants it, however. Anything can happen. Wars are often unpredictable. Some unknown Lt. Col. somewhere might flip the entire war over to the Good Guys.

But right now it looks like the Bad Guys are winning. So it seems, indeed.

An Préacháin

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

As the American Republic self-destructs...two theories, and a civil war?

Friends,

The Venetian Republic lasted 1100 years. The American one not so long. The Republic of Venice endured from 687 to 1797, when the French under Bonaparte, that, er, 'republican' revolutionary, snuffed it out. Many reasons exist, no doubt, for this temporal disparity, but I think a big one is the American Republic kept religion as far from having any formal say in the state as possible. The First Amendment, as far as the religious clause goes, wasn't to keep religion free from state interference (ask Mormons about that, or the 'Radio priest', Father Coughlin, or currently, Father James Altman); oh, no. It was to keep the state free from religious interference. The Catholic Church and the Venetian state, of course, weren't such strangers to one another.

Certainly the United States government seems to have an ethics problem. It is immoral as Hell. We can't seem to keep any moral men in power. We can't seem to keep an SANE men in power, as the Democrats, in this huge spending bill they just passed that will create a massive IRS to fleece the commoners, the Democrats refused to pass a Republican clause that only women can bear babies. (Insisting you believe in something manifestly not true is one of the control techniques and is an essential element to Biderman's Chart of Coercion, and THAT is what this is about.) 

Right now, this raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence is an opening of Pandora's Box (okay, okay, it was a bag, sheesh). President Trump – well, he is sort of president, as Biden isn't a real president both because the 2020 election was rigged and because he doesn't even know where he is most of the time, so I suppose Trump could still be considered president – is the Prometheus the American people need to fight a runaway U.S. federal government. Half the country sees him that way, the other, when not involved in an orgy to aquire monkey pox, seem to think Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell (technically a RINO and not a Demonrat) and Nancy Pelosi are actual people, and not Chinese mannequins. What can I say? Their supporters consist of the types who apparently think men can have babies.

About the raid, though, why it occurred, who is behind it, more information keeps coming out. One thing many are saying is this definitely appears to be a major change in just about everything relating to the American people and their government. This is just too egregious an outrage, so totally "unAmerican" on just too many levels, for it to be ignored or dismissed, as was the treatment of Roger Stone, for example, when that old man and his handicapped wife were hustled out of their house by federal agents in full battle gear, after the agents alerted the Leftist Washington Post to be there and film it all.

Donald Trump has been a target of endless investigations, official and unofficial harassment, and lies. "Russia-gate" was a fraud, then the two, TWO impeachments of Trump were frauds, and all the blather about the January 6 fiasco is dribbling madness fraud. I can usually bear reading, for a while at least, Leftist arguments about their favorite issues, but I just can't tolerate the "narrative" that January 6 was some sort of quasi coup-d'état. (Nancy Pelosi, you're lost soul is calling. Liz Cheney, in Hell you'll reside in your father's armpit – when stuck up his, er, well, ahem.)

I think the latest ideas going the internet rounds on the raid are two-fold. One theory is based exactly on all the lies about Trump. The Deep State lied about Trump and railroaded him over the course of his presidency (Russia-gate, first and second impeachment), and there is evidence of that. And Trump has this evidence, the theory goes. They are lividly desperate, therefore, to confiscate the evidence. It will truly exonerate him and also indict the Deep State. So, they pulled off this crazy raid –  keeping his lawyer out of the house, showing her the warrant only from ten feet away and not leaving her a copy, demanding security cameras to be turned off (which the staff didn't do, thankfully, so someday we may see them on vid going through stuff not on the warrant, like Melania's undies), and so on. This is a PR disaster for the Demonrats, that way, and more. Very few individuals tolerate well the idea of strangers going through their stuff.

The other idea is they want to plant evidence. Destroy Trump that way. That's a dangerous thing to try to do. And absolutely desperate. But as a sort of corollary to that, they might have re-classified documents that Trump himself declassified but didn't know they reclassified. The Conservative Treehouse, whom I often link to, has some extremely thorough articles on this. For a taste of that, here's a bit of commentary from someone with the right background to know wrote in a comment over at The Conservative Treehouse (obviously, I recommend the articles over there, and many of their comments):

In a professional organization, this is what happens. However, the reclassification of previously declassified material is a rare occurrence. In addition, material may be declassified but still have other restrictions placed on it such as Official Use Only (OUO) or Business Confidential.
...
However, if a document containing such material is found to be in someone’s possession, it is technically possible to allege that the person holding said document is doing so without proper authorization in violation of law. But to make such an allegation against a person who has no criminal intent and who is unaware of the change in status of the document is clearly an egregious abuse of prosecutorial power.

AnP again: Compare all that to how they treated Hillary, who actually, willfully, destroyed evidence. We KNOW she did, but she was never remotely prosecuted for that. We must not forget that, or how Obama's people carried out crates off documents from the White House and stuffed them in a warehouse outside Chicago, to go through them at their leisure. No one raised an issue with that, and why should they? "Presidential library" and all that.

Personally, I don't think they'll be put off by it being an egregious abuse of prosecutorial power, do any of you? They seem absolutely desperate and without even a fig leaf of legal propriety.

I think we can all expect indictments to be brought against Trump very soon, now, regardless of the merits. Why? Because the Deep State clearly wants to start a civil war and everything they're doing aims to spark one. Obviously, they intend to win. But once you "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war", as Shakespeare had Antony roar in Julius Caesar, all best are off. This raid on Trump is the equivalent of Brutus and Cassius & Co.'s assassination of Caesar. They thought that "taking him down" would put them in the driver's seat, when it instead backfired totally on them. I know very well, however, that how this goes all depends who who Anthony turns out to be.

So, we'll have to see.

    An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

"Don’t be shocked at anything our ruling regime does from here on out."

 Friends,

The Biggest News since Pearl Harbor, and probably even Fort Sumter. The bad guys in the Deep State went for broke last night.

1. First, they're fishing for a crime. That's what they did with the two impeachments, and the Mueller investigation, and fishing for a crime is not how police work in a free country is supposed to proceed. They've been auditing Trump and investigating him for years, and there's no politician alive who could have survived what Trump has gone through that way. That's how incredibly squeaky clean Trump is.
2. Second, a N.B. regarding Trump having classified documents: 1, Trump's daughter-in-law says Trump's team was cooperating; this raid was unnecessary except as theater, and of course to set precedent; 2, they can easily reclassify documents that were previously unclassified in order to bring charges against Trump, and 3, Barack Obama's people took many boxes from the White House when Obama left, and these were gone through in Chicago, without anyone saying anything about Obama stealing documents, while Hillary Clinton took not only documents, but antiques from the WH, and she was never charged with anything. 4 Besides, the question is actually about whether some documents should have been sent to the National Archives instead of home with Trump – honestly, this is the lamest joke excuse.
3. We can pray this is so over-the-top that it will produce a backlash that will finally force change in the U.S. We can at least pray it does.

Anyway, Demon worshipers of Moloch and Ba'al and Xochiquetzal are all liars. (Just ask Bergoglio.)

A lot of articles are being published on the American police state's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home last night, but for one excellent essay, look no further than John Zmirak here at Stream.org. 

If you've never read him, John is my kinda Catholic. Review his articles. This one about last night is excellent, and he also references and quotes from and provides a link to conservative scholar Michael Anton's prophetic piece published a fortnight ago.

As it is clear the mainstream Republican politicians are going to do nothing about this, we need a nation-wide strike to get their attention. At this stage of the American government's collapse, though, nothing will probably work except full-scale confrontation. As former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik says here, they'll stop at nothing to prevent Trump from being president again, including assassination. Read Zmirak and also Michael Anton for why "The Powers That Be" hate Trump so badly. 

The USA has three months to make sure a November Congressional election takes place at all, and that it isn't egregiously stolen. Were I still in the US, I'd probably end up arrested myself. As it is, I'm going to read some medieval Irish poetry.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.