Who is running the Government, and National Guard stay extended to May in D.C.

Amici,

The Department of Defense announced on Tuesday Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin approved the Capitol Police’s request to extend the National Guard’s deployment through May 23.

One wonders why (as Gollum would says, "Yessss, we wonderssss....").

Zhou Xiden will probably be gone by then, May 23rd – he’s obviously non compos mentis now (can't remember his Defense Secretary's name). And in his speech last night, he was completely removed from "the situation on the ground" regarding Covid. Pundits and commentators are having a field day. Most of America has long passed by what Biden seems to think is going on regarding Covid restrictions. But he clearly only knows (to the extent he knows anything)

• Meanwhile, "Camel-toes" "Heels-up" Harris keeps doing his various jobs. Harris is deeply unpopular, even with the Democrats (recall her utter failure in the Democrat primaries, and toward the bottom of the list of her own state, CA). Everyone who cares to look will see just how foul the “New Order/Great Reset” is shaping up by May 23rd, as well.

• And also by May 23rd the flood waters of the Covid hoax will have retreated to a large extent, and they’ll reveal stunning economic and social and psychological devastation. Just stunning.
  
• By that time, food and fuel prices will be insane, more so than now. They've already shot up over a dollar and more since "Beijing Zhou" was inaugurated, and as internationally right now there's a glut on the market, there's no market reason for this. The government "powers-that-be" are apparently milking it to raise revenue (in part, at least).
• “Civil Unrest” will be spreading by then, as the weather improves. It'll be a "long hot summer" of brutal street violence.
  

So, just a few of the reasons, perhaps, why the U.S. Capitol will resemble the Kremlin for some time. (Ever notice how Socialism-Communism is all the same? The elites rule the masses, the elites in Kremlins and the masses in "block apartment "panel housing"?) Really, of course, the above means the N.G. will be “extended” indefinitely.

Who is running the "gum'it"?

One thing to keep in mind about the Husk Biden (sort of the ontological opposite of the Hulk, isn't he?) and "Heels-Up", is that they're obviously being run. They're being managed. The general opinion I garner from the blogs is it is Obama (and his puppet master, Valerie Jarret) who are running the show. Another possibility: the Deep State Security Apparat is running the show, the CIA-FBI cabal. They bent over backwards to "elect" this zombie, that's for sure.

Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak were discussing this the day before yesterday, and below is a rough transcription of the first part of it.

John Zmirak
"The Deep State seems to have wanted Joe Biden. It seems to me, a plausible theory, a plausible theory that those guys at the Deep State wanted a kind of shadow president, a non compos mentios president and a vice president without (electoral or popular) support, are the ones making the decisions. They're being run, they're being managed.
Eric Metaxas
This is wildly unconstitutional. Wilson did this, when his wife was running the country. If we elect a leader -- it is fundamentally wrong as it gets -- we choose a leader, and it is supposed to be Joe Biden, and he's not actually running the country, we have a scandal. This is an unmanageable scandal. It's earthshaking.
Zmirak
To be fair, Joe Biden wasn't there during the campaign. He had a call of leave before 11 am every day. Joe Biden wasn't there during the campaign. ... It's a civic scandal that Americans would just sleep-walk into electing someone whom they wouldn't elect to drive a school bus in the morning.

Pelosi and Congress want to take the nuclear codes away from him. The president should be compos mentis so he can control the nuclear codes. The president should not be removed frivolously. ... We're in a kind of weird interregnum. And again, we don't know the people who are actually making the decisions. ... With Kamala Harris, there'd be no veneer of moderation, no pretense. There's probably a factional fight going on in the White House. Better a melting-down Disney automonitron dead-president puppet who is less destructive than this hard-leftist radical, vindictive Harris, an incredibly unpopular prosecutor who tried to put Pro-Life journalists in prison for doing their job, which was reporting on Planned Parenthood. This is an astonishing set of circumstances.

They complained that Donald Trump was unprofessional, that Donald Trump was a threat to the Republic, and they gave us THIS on a silver platter.
...
It's staggering to me. HR 1. The Democrats are trying to codify in federal law all of the abuses that occurred in the 2020 election. They're trying to make them permanent, so that they'll win every election from now on. It is the one-party state. It is the Stacey Abrams empowerment act of 2021. It really is the end of the Republic. If HR1 passes, if we can't stop it in the Senate, if they get rid of the Filibuster, you and I can pack up our tents and never talk politics again. We will live in Venezuela, where the elections are rigged indefinitely. You and I, we can embrace the Benedict option and go into our bunker. We're serfs under the Tsar. (17:07)

Ron again:

I also note the House of Reps has just passed yet another gun-control law, this one involve more extensive background checks. Zmirak spoke of that, as well.

In I believe 2014, 1,500 Terrorists attacking Mosul overcame 60,000 Iraqi government soldiers and raped the popuation, raping the women and children, killing the men, selling women as slaves in a computerized database. 2.5 million people. Why? Because the Iraqi government had disarmed the people. They had imposed gun control. And gun control does one thing: it allows government or criminals or terrorists (sometimes indistinguishable) to terrorize the population.

Death by Government by R.J. Rummel 170 million civilans were murdered by their governments. What they had in common: they had been disarmed by their governments. So when the Democrats or the bishops say (as Bergoglio has been saying lately) that guns have to be given up, they are making you has helpless as the people of Mosul were in the face of the Issis terrorists. 

And Zmirak brought up the absolutely enraging story about Jake Gardner. Everyone should remember Jake Gardner.

Remember Jake Gardner, Iraqi War Vet; Ann Coulter wrote Innocent Until Proven Trump Supporter

His life didn't matter.
Jake Gardner killed protester while defending his bar during BLM riots.
D.A. & police find shooting was in self-defense.
Under pressure, D.A. appoints black prosecutor to indict Gardner.
Gardner's GoFundMe page taken down.
Gardner commits suicide.

Another report on Jake Gardner story, Omaha Nebraska. An excerpt:

The shooting was reviewed by a grand jury after Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine initially declined to file charges, believing that Gardner had acted in self-defense after reviewing video and witness statements. Kleine later requested the review after his decision was criticized to ensure people kept faith in the justice system.

Surveillance video seemed to show words exchanged between Gardner, his father and protesters before Gardner, flashing a gun, backed away. Gardner was shoved to the ground by two people before he fired two shots, sending people scrambling. Scurlock then jumped on Gardner's back and was shot by Gardner.

Everyone needs to remember Jake Gardner. It can happen to anyone. Look at this outrageous story:

Retired 30-Yr Navy Chaplain Volunteered To Speak With FBI About Protest At Capitol On Jan 6th… What Happened Next Is Terrifying

We no longer live in a free country.

An Préachán

They'll rule us as the Spartans ruled the Helots...

 Amici,

As noted in my earlier posting, I had written to my Congressman (Steve Stivers) and Senator (Rob Portman) about supporting a careful count in the Senate and challenging electoral votes. As of now, today, both have actually written me back in a polite "boilerplate" responses about although we're all disappointed, we have to accept the vote and move on, etc.; i.e. Senator Portman's office wrote:

The presidential election was contentious and hard fought. Roughly half of America was bound to be disappointed with the outcome. My hope is that all of us, as Americans, regardless of who we supported in the campaign, will be willing to accept the result because a thorough process was followed and the final vote count was clear.

As I wrote the other day, this highlighted bit is a lie. I've been lied to by my senatorial representative. Outright. In my face (not "to my face, ahem, because it was an email). That, or Portman is an utter idiot. The only "thorough" process was the theft! And the final vote was ANYTHING but clear! Portman is, alas, either a fool or a tool. He must be primaried. (I'll try a polite response when I'm not so angry. Always be polite with this people, especially in these post Reichstag Fire days.)

Yet at least his office did write me back. However, they also included this paragraph:

I also want to commend and congratulate Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the county boards of elections, and the more than 50,000 Ohio poll workers for conducting a safe, secure, and transparent election in Ohio. It was not easy in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and I am grateful for their efforts.

This is important, actually. Praising Ohio's handling of the vote. Florida handled it well, too, as did a number of states. We have to work on this, promoting it within Ohio (I saw a headline where they just purged some 97,775 inactive voters from the rolls) and BE VERY CAREFUL because the Democrats will be trying to force national election laws through that turn the whole nation into Philadelphia.

My Congressman, Steve Stivers, wrote me back via email as well. He wrote:

On January 6 and 7 , members of the House and Senate had gathered to count the electoral college votes, and some of my colleagues raised objections to certain states elections process and therefore the legitimacy of their electoral votes. I swore an oath to uphold our Constitution, not a President or a party, and that means I could not support efforts to overstep the parameters set by the 12th Amendment. I did not vote to object to any of the states' elector slates as I do not believe it is within Congress's authority to overturn results that have been independently certified by the states.

There may have been irregularities in the 2020 election. However, Republican and Democratic officials across the country - including President Trump's own Attorney General, William Barr - have certified that irregularities did not occur on a scale that would affect the outcome of the presidential election. It is damaging that so many have been unable to accept that fact, and as we saw, dangerous to our most American democratic innovation - the peaceful transition of power. Clearly, work needs to be done to assure everyone that our electoral process is secure and transparent, and that alterations to our elections system adhere to each state's laws and regulations.

Classic boilerplate. I'm beyond angry. We're supposed to accept his because of BILL BARR? " It is damaging that so many have been unable to accept the fact that...dangerous to our most American democratic innovation – the peaceful transition of power?

I call God Himself as my witness! WHAT was peaceful about the endless BLM and Antifa riots ALL SUMMER and into the Autumn? What was righteous about Baby-face "Suckerberg" spending millions upon millions setting up ballot drop boxes throughout Democrat-control areas? What was peaceful about thugs keeping Republican observers out of vote-counting rooms? What was legal about starting up vote counting the next day (against the laws as written by legislatures), very early in the a.m. and pulling boxes of ballots out from under tables (as recorded on video) and trucked in from other states (as per sworn affidavits)? 

It's all so hopeless...

It was the next sentence, however, that floored me. These people are either utter tools or fools:

"I have no doubt that the 117th Congress will conduct hearings and possibly consider legislation regarding the integrity of our elections."

What in the name of all Hell from Satan himself down to the smallest imp would cause ANYONE to think the Pelosi-Schumer controlled Congress will do ANYTHING righteous about elections? If I could have spontaneously combusted, I would have.

A War of Position

As I wrote the last time, what we're facing is a "war of position" (as opposed to a "war of movement"). We have to fight in trenches, inch by inch. It is a grueling kind of fight. World War I come again. But that's what we've gotten ourselves into because the Communists have been fighting a "war of position" for over 70 years as they've moved through the institutions. It's grim. But there it is.

I highly recommend listening to an Eric Mextaxas (at Rumble.com, finally) interview with John Zmirak. If I could transcribe large portions, I would. Zmirak points out that we are being turned into Hindu-style Untouchables. Working-class people appreciated Trump because although he imself is a billionaire, he identified with and supported the American Middle Class. 

Here's an excerpt:

(Zmirak at 27:50) That score cuts across political lines. The REAL cultural divide in America is not ideological; it's a caste system. Some of us are...when Hillary Clinton used the word "Deplorables", what she really meant was Untouchables. The elites in America have formed a kind of Hindu-style caste system where there are some people who are of polite society, and they have certain ways and certain beliefs that don't even need to be discussed. "We don't even need to talk about that" (in a voice indicating elites). That can't talk about it because they have an incoherent world view where on the one hand they accept Darwinian competition and evolution and Natural Selection, as the only source of life on this planet. But on the other hand, they also want to parrot the rhetoric of the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, which is entirely founded on Christianity. 

So they have an utterly incoherent worldview that makes much less sense than Hinduism. Much less sense. Hinduism is rocket science compared to what the people of Dalton School or Yale now believe. But what is important is that they're status markers. "Oh, you're the kind of person who orders from Abercrombie and Fitch, and who goes to elite prep schools, and who lives in one of ten zip codes in America, where you don't even need a gun. We're all for gun control because live in safe neighborhoods. Doesn't everybody?" 

The Left, AND elements of the Right, the Never Trump Right, the Neo-Cons in their time: these people ALL agree on who the right sort of person is. And who the wrong sort of person is. People who followed Donald Trump were like rebellious Untouchables, or Dalits, the Oppressed People of India, as they call themselves. Traditionally they could get only the most disgusting jobs: collecting corpses, dealing with animal wastes, always cleaning out public toilets. THAT is what they have in mind for us. And in order to put a veneer of morality over this and pretend that it is anything other than one tribe ruling another – the way the Spartan ruled their Helots – they use racism, they invoke racism. But they don't point to real racism. They don't point to real bigotry. The point to a Marxist definition racism, whereby any person who is white who benefits in any way about a thing that happens, even it it wasn't intended to be racially discriminatory. But Blacks and Asians and Muslims can murder people, but it's not racism because they're not in the dominant group. That is a Marxist definition of racism, which is unfortunately our Supreme Court wrote into law when the used the term "Disparate Impact" Any policy that has a disparate impact on people in different races,is judged to be racist, regardless of what the intent was. (30:51)

The entire interview is excellent.

An Préachán

As "The World Descends into Darkness", a few reflections

 Amici,

The world descends into darkness,

China wields the ruling ring of Mordor

And Ringwraiths rule the world.

That's my death "rann" on the United States of America.

Friends, I feel emotionally like an old-time soldier who's just been shot. He knows enough to know it is fatal, but he's going to take a minute or two before he loses consciousness.

Welcome to the Darkness of the Reign of Mordor.

Across the board in the U.S., Civil Liberties are under massive assault. It is unprecedented, and Victor David Hanson, Dinesh D'Souza, and Harmeet Dillon discuss below what is happening and how horrible it is.

But as I've been saying since the fraudulent election occurred, precisely because it was so massive a fraud – made up of every fraud the Democrats have tried before, but all together, and on a scale so huge as to be staggering, although most easily seen in the big Democrat hell-holes inner-city America – that therefore they have to unleash all Hell to stop the revelation of it. They MUST create a police state to stop all discussion and revelation of the fraud, a police state so all-encompassing that the U.S. hasn't seen the like since Woodrow Wilson created the first Fascist state (even before Mussolini coined the word "Fascist"). They simply MUST cow the rest of us into silence. After all, we could watch in "real time" as votes added up for the Republican candidates in the Georgia run-off, and then watch as they were subtracted so the Democrats could win. Stalin once said that making Poland Communist was like saddling a cow, yet that's what the Dem's have done in Georgia. They'll do it to the whole nation.

It's going to get worse before it gets better, and honestly, it may never get better. And maybe we, as a nation, deserve that? (One could start with just abortion, but that discussion is for another email, as we huddle around oilcan fires, shivering from the cold and dark.)

At the Citizenfreepress site, I came across this discussion involving Victor Davis Hanson, Harmeet Dillion, and Judge Jeanine Pirro.

Victor Davis Hanson said, "We have descended into a collective madness that is a lot scarier than McCarthyism, whether it's trying – we've three times entered articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, and now they want to try him as private citizen. They've deplatformed him, they've banned his followers. We're hearing these creepy words (like) "de-Baathification" "deprogramming" "reprogramming", and Jeanine, these are not insignificant people. These are the levers of power in American society. These are five trillion-dollar Silicon Valley people, it's the corporate boardroom, it's Wall Street, it's professional athletes, it's Hollywood, it's the Media. These are considerable people.

"But Donald Trump has no voice now. He's not tweeting. He's not indiscriminately tweeting. He's gone. He has no voice. So there's going – Americans don't like bullies. They may get tired of sore losers but they can't stand bullies. And Donald Trump is taking this, and it's going to work in his favor. And I think you're going to have a backlash. You can't have a clarion call and say we're going to have blanket amnesty in a time of lockdowns...when people are terrified of this pandemic, and 8,000 people are going to cross the border without any background check and open borders.

"This is madness, and it is all about prepping for this new agenda that's going to come out in two weeks, and (this agenda) doesn't poll well, whether it's the green new deal or packing the court or a new national voting law. Smearing people as racist was a political ply to scare so they can steamroll this agenda in two weeks.

...
"I don't know whether Katie Couric prefers the Soviet, the Chinese, or the North Korean model (VDH is referring to Couric's call for "deprogramming" Trump's followers) but remember: Donald Trump did not surveil Associate Press reporters, he did not sic the FBI on the opposite political campaign, and he didn't weaponize the IRS to go after his enemies. When we have fascism, it does NOT come from somebody with orange hair and a long tie; it comes from somebody who's a suave, charismatic liberal and says he's a constitutional law professor. ...Take a look at the last administration where we really did have abuses of civil liberties on the part of the government, which was green-lighted by Katie Couric and others." 

Then Judge Jeanine spoke with Harmeet Dillon, civil libertarian and CEO of the Center for American Liberty, who said, "This is a civil right crisis of epic proportions, whether you're left or you're right, you should be deeply concerned about the weaponization of this corporate alliance that Dinesh mentioned against the citizens, and the idea that the FCC can control what's on the airwaves."

What follows is a few of the headlines of past few days, headlines the MSM might decline to publish.

• Vice-President Pence, Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader McCarthy won't attend Trump's good-bye ceremony YET Trump's approval rating hits 51% the day before Biden's inauguration. (Yes, either the Republican leadership is suicidal – politically – or they really are "Uniparty" and not Republicans at all.)
• Even after U.S. Capitol riots, a CNN poll (CNN, mind you) shows 75% of Republicans believe the election was stolen from President Trump.
• Joe Biden talks about his death during an emotional farewell speech to his home state.
• Chuck Schumer says the Senate will vote to bar Trump from ever running again. (Remember Schumer's comments about Kavanagh and Gorsuch back in March of 2020? No? Refresh your memories here (with video). What Schumer said was absolutely direct threats to the Justices. But he can get away with that, of course. He's a Democrat. Trump tells his followers to protest peacefully and he is impeached.)
• Meanwhile, Biden is set to cancel Keystone Pipeline (Canada is frantic over this; great move by Biden who wants to show world how much better at international relations he is than Trump /sarc)
  
• AND Biden will offer amnesty to TWENTY-MILLION illegals in his first week in office.
• CIA chief Gina Haspel, a John Brennan protégé, resigns as CIA director after successfully covering up Chinese involvement in our 2020 election.
• The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Biden's plan to raise minimum wage to $15/hour will kill off 4 million jobs. 
• Mitch McConnell threatened Trump that if Trump pardoned Julian Assange, "We are much more likely to convict you".
• Biden's nominee for Secretary of Defense says he'll "Rid our ranks of Racists and Extremists." (Hahaha, you know how stupid that is, especially when China's Red Army is the most "racist" and "extremist" army on Earth? They'll mop the floor with our "tranny" military. In general, the Han Chinese can be VERY racist, esp after being so prodded by the CCP.)
  
• Biden'spick for Deputy Secretary of Education believes schools "Spirit Murder" Black children and that white teachers need to undergo "Antiracist Therapy".
• "Tranny" Pennsylvania Health Director picked to be assistant Health Secretary. (That's so hellishly insane I need hardly comment.)
  
• Retired general Barry McCaffrey says of Biden's inaugural: "I'd be worried about gun-carryingg Republican Congressmen being near the president."
• Honduran heading to U.S. in caravan says Joe Biden is giving us 100 days to reach the U.S.
• Speaking of immigration, Democrats are calling for the Capitol to be surrounded by a permanent fence. (Why not just do a Kremlin and build a high brick wall?)
• Project Veritas has video of a Twitter Executive detailing plans for global censorship.
• Creepy Bill Gates is buying up U.S. farmland and is now the largest owner of private farm land in the U.S. What is he up to?
• Actor Alec Baldwin says he dreams of seeing President Trump hang (were a Repub to this about Biden, well, you get the picture).
• A former Facebook Exec calls for OANN and Newsmax to be deplatformed: "We have to turn down the capability of Conservative influencers to reach huge audiences"
  
• And Katie Couric, as VDH noted above, herself a former MSM talking head, says Trump supporters "need to be deprogrammed".

My friends, welcome to Mordor.

Here (while it is still up), Eric Metaxas remembers how his parents taught him about how bad Communism and Fascism was (as they had experienced it, losing their parents to it, etc.) and how when he first went to a regular American public school, how the American kids there were clueless to how awful the outside world could be. (Metaxas needs to get off YouTube; they cut a major interview of his with Mike Lindell yesterday.) But he details how in the past few weeks he himself has been falsely labeled – NPR spread these false reports – as promoting violence, with old friends outraged that he was advocating violence, etc., and how were the Democrats were actually convinced they legally won the election, they wouldn't be promoting all the lies, slander, and calumny against Conservatives.

This will be the "new normal" from here on out.

An Préachán

Is the Reichstag Fire Coup well underway?

 Amici,

Remember the old adage, 'You can vote Socialism in, but you have to shoot it out.'

We are seeing incredible events play out in the U.S. Unheard of, never-before-seen trashings of the Bill of Rights and, well, sanity. I don't know how much longer we'll have the internet with which to communicate to one another for, my friends, the Reichstag Fire Coup is very well underway. Reports are coming in from various American Nationalist sites of massive "lockouts" affecting people from Twitter, Facebook, Instragram and the like, and endless talk of re-education camps and mass extermination of Trump supporters. (Sound absurd? Look what happened to the Jews in Germany – they just couldn't believe that lunatic Hitler with his silly moustache would do anything he said he would – and remember: Germany was the most 'advanced' country in Europe at that time.)

And has not the Political Director of ABC News Talked about "'Cleansing' America of Trump Supporters"? Doesn't that sound like Hitler "cleansing the world of Jews"? Was the guy immediately fired? Hmmm?

All absolute insanity, and utterly, utterly unAmerican and antiAmerican (for American citizens who haven't shut down their brains, it has to be a horror). The First Amendment is being trashed. The Second will soon follow, and that will involve perhaps a true shooting war. But how will we ever know? Unless we're in it.

Right now, one can't be sure one is "shadow banned" or not. I'm sure I'm far too mucn a "small fry" to be noticed, and I've never signed up on Twitter, etc. But Twitter has banned a slew of people, not just high-focus folk like President Trump, Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, but "moderates" like Kevin McCullough. Just incredible. McCullough has been saying "Big Tweet" has been out to get him, and it has. Eric Metaxas writes that although he's still able to post on Twitter, he's losing "thousands" of followers by the hour. That's a classic tactic, of course before one is banned. Taylor Marshall reported the same thing. They're Twitter or YouTube days are numbered. I see Charlie Kirk is still up on Twitter, with him posting yesterday:

"Ayatollah Khamenei is still allowed on Twitter & Instagram but Donald Trump is not. Think about that."

Indeed. One doesn't need to think long, does one?

About Twitter banning President Trump: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/01/08/twitter-permanently-bans-president-trump-account-potus-account-responds-and-is-immediately-deleted/#more-207010

An excerpt:

The justification itself is so bizarre it is Orwellian in nature.  Interpreting the thoughts of a person to determine their violation….  Good grief, you cannot get much more twisted and subjective than that.   This is an alarming statement and directly indicates the Big Tech systems will now define subversive activity.

President Trump sent the following response from his POTUS account, which Twitter quickly took down – (but not until we captured it).

An Préachán again:

No one, NO ONE, can say any of this is good. No one sane, that is. It's insane. What sort of lunatic believes Trump egged on Antifa/BLM to attack the Capitol, or failing that idiocy, who believes a bunch of Born-Again Christians were murdering and looting, for any reason in any location? C'mon.

So, what next? Well, if they are following the Reichstag Fire pattern, and they seem to be, then the sky's the limit. I've gone over to Parler and found Kevin McCullough there, and he's quote Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who wrote, '2020 “was the year the Fake News became so powerful they could tell you there was definitely no election fraud because you aren’t allowed to check. And it worked.”'

There was no election fraud because you weren't allowed to check.

It worked indeed.

Important to remember, of course, is the words of Christ about such times:

And fear not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:28

Why silence Trump on his way out?

Some, such as Rush Limbaugh, suggest our Puppet Masters are afraid Trump will release hidden documents proving just how bad the Democrats have been, and their interaction and dependence on Chinese Communists. Blog comments on such articles are evenly divided between those who still hold out hope on Trump, and the rest who think he's folding fast. We'll see.

But it is imperative for the Left to demonize Trump and expel him before Potemkin Biden is "sworn in" (in apparently a virtual ceremony, or so rumor has it). We're in for a crazy fortnight, or what's left of it. Then begins "The Darkness" where we're in total lockdown and national mask mandates (a possibility, citing Covid as a reason); will the excellent governors of South Dakotka and Florida tell them to go to Hell? We'll see.

If the internet "goes dark", we can be sure very clever people are working to keep some semblence of communiation possible. It'll be a true Samizdat. The entire "pajamas media" began, remember, when the MainStream Media was promoting that slam Texas National Guard story on George W. Bush during the 2004 election, and average, everyday people, the "Deplorables" of Hillary Clinton, got online and started searching and communicating their findings, completely blindsiding the Left.

Martyrdom

Perhaps something like that will happen again. In the meantime, remember, martyrdom takes many forms, and I expect the version of that the Left has in store for us will be a giant, perpetual, "psych ops". Look at how much you already can't say. What public person, sports star, film star, etc., could say, "Forcing or even allowing 'sex change' procedures on children is horrific child abuse and is literally nothing but a mass sterilization of our children."? That's absolutely verboten. The mask mandates are just a physical manifestation of the larger shutting up of an entire traditional moral world. The Covid restrictions and mask mandates are part and parcel of that.

Please review these three articles by psychological expert Patrick Fagan about what mask mandates are all about.

https://thecritic.co.uk/face-masks-make-you-stupid/

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-lockdown-lobotomy/  

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-dark-psychology-of-extinction-rebellion

May God bless all who seek Him, in life and death.

An Préachán

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

The Reichstag Fire Redux in 2021

 Amici,

What a day it was yesterday. A disaster for the American Right, right? A smashing (literally) success for the American Left? Trump himself seems to have "ruined his brand" yesterday and now to have made a non-concession concession early this morning Washington time. So is it all over now? 

Oh, no. It's just beginning.

One aspect to this that no one considers

The 2020 election was certainly stolen. I've seen far too much evidence to think anything else (see below). So in the normal course of events, we would see a lot of books, films, research papers, etc., come out about it all, with incredibly mounting evidence. How can Biden/Harris be president when EVERYONE knows they stole the office? How can the powers-that-be in the Congress allow this? How can the Courts have it shown they did nothing to prevent national disaster?

Therefore, to stop the ever-mounting evidence, the puppet masters simply MUST kill the first amendment and free speech. That's already happening on the big social public platforms for the past month. Now the Left has the Executive Power to actually put an end to the Bill of Rights. How can the powers-that-be in Congress allow this? How can the Courts have it shown they did nothing to prevent national disaster?

"The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves."

                                         —George Washington (1774)

Too early to tell much of anything at the moment for certain, and that might be true for some time to come, actually, but I wanted to get this idea to you I had of comparing what happened yesterday to the Reichstag fire back in 1933 (a crazy idea of mine, but I wanted to get it to you-all before much more news breaks).

A tragedy at least it was entirely, although I know it wasn't exactly the evil right-wing fiasco the MainStream Media and the Democrats/Unitparty Repubs are reporting. Evidence seems to be Capitol Hill police were taking selfies with the pro-Trump people and taking down barriers (I've seen video of this) before it got ugly. Evidence shows Antifa getting involved at that point.

So, again, with the caveat that it is far too close in time to the events yesterday for us to know what happened for sure, or even half-sure (for example, about the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbit, who is quickly becoming a martyr), we can draw one startlingly obvious conclusion; i.e.: The Left could turn what happened in Washington D.C. yesterday into a reenactment, Saul Alinsky-style, of the February 27, 1933 Reichstag Fire.

I may be completely wrong, of course, but right now it's just too perfect, so I had to write about it.

Yes, again, it's still too early for anything definitve, and we'll be inundated with articles/interviews like this one from LifeSite News, which is an interview with someone who "stormed the Bastille" about his thoughts and feelings. In any event, with what we know now, I suggest the Reichstag gambit. And if Antifa was indeed involved, then the analogy would be a perfect fit: "Never let a manufactured crisis go to waste!"

From the Wikipedia report on the Reichstagsbrand event (highlights mine):

By the time police and firefighters arrived, the lower house 'Chamber of Deputies' was engulfed in flames. The police conducted a thorough search inside the building and accused Van der Lubbe. He was arrested, as were four communist leaders soon after. Hitler urged President Paul von Hindenburg to issue an emergency decree to suspend civil liberties and pursue a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communist Party of Germany. After the decree was issued, the government instituted mass arrests of communists, including all of the Communist Party's parliamentary delegates. With their bitter rival communists gone and their seats empty, the Nazi Party went from having a plurality to a majority (in the Reichstag), thus enabling Hitler to consolidate his power.

For a long time, it was thought the fire was not a Nazi act, but something they took advantage of, though today I think it generally accepted that the Nazi's had a crack team of the S.A. set the fire. Either way, they took advantage of the incident.

History N.B. In the national German election in November of 1932, the Nazi Party achieved a plurality – not a majority – so they didn't have outright control of the Reichstag, as the Democrats do now of Congress. Would the ambitious Hitler submit himself to be chancellor of a coalition government? You'd better believe he would; he jumped at the chance. Against his instincts, Hindenberg's advisors got the old man to offer Hitler to be chancellor and 'form a government'. Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor and head of the coalition government on January 30, 1933. Staging the Reichstag fire a month later allowed him to get the not-altogether-mentally-there 85-year-old Hindenberg (sound like someone we know?) to issue the emergency degree by what we would call today a presidential "executive order". Hindenburg died a year-and-a-half later, on August 2, 1934, and Hitler had the German presidency abolished forthwith.

Connection to today

Well, well, my friends, ain't that interesting? Whatever the specific details unique to both events, however, it is a perfect game plan to take advantage of what happened yesterday at the Capitol. Pelosi (and maybe Schumer now, too) are:

• Issuing calls for Congressmen and Senators who supported Trump and contested the elector-slate candidates to be ejected from Congress (as Hitler ejected already sitting Communist deputies).
• They're also issuing calls for President Trump to be instantly removed from office!
  
• The Tech Titans have suspended the President's Twitter and other accounts (supposedly for a short time, but long enough that he couldn't broadcast an appeal for order and retreat from the Capitol, so that he can be cast is as bad a light as possible).

We'll have to see how far any of this goes.

How did we get to this mess?

The Left. Ignorant, Godless thugs that they are, they remain both merciless and ceaseless. They plan long, as in generations long, and stay with it, like true Revolutionaries. This is their false religion, their false god, and the rank-and-file believers, at least, are wholly given over to it. Everyone else has a daily life and daily bread to earn and daily prayers to say: but the Left lives, eats, breathes for what they're trying achieve like true zealots.

However, they're also like Bourbon aristocrats in many ways:

• They talk a big show about equality, but as we know from endless examples throughout the Covid Lockdowns, what they mean is "for thee, not me" – they can party hardy, travel to the beach, and get their hair done when no one else can dare do that. They're Bourbons.
  
• They lie, cheat, and steal (for details of stealing the Georgia Senate race, see further below) and they ALWAYS accuse YOU of doing what THEY do with impunity. (For the last four years they accused Trump of doing what THEY do!)
  
• They use tactics from the past, over and over again. For example, today's standard Democrat could be said to be a Menshevik and they are about to be eaten alive by the hard-core Bolsheviks.
• They use sex to compromise the opposition and to mortally weaken the over-all society, while they themselves engage in endless depravities (thanks to the Frankfurt School theories).
  
• The Reichstag fire is a perfect example of the above, as well as a perfect example of using Saul Alinsky approved tactics.
  

Unfortunately for all of us who love freedom, and who admire and/or love the United States of America, Trump played right into their hands. And please note, I'm seeing a LOT of dislike of Trump and Don Jr. in the blogs today, so the Left achieved that, at least. If the Left wanted to discredit Trump in the eyes of his base, perhaps they succeded; it is too early to tell how extensive or permanent this is.

• They knew (as did we all) about Trump's huge march he had called on Washington, and laid their plans carefully.
  
• Antifa and BLM operatives may have indeed infiltrated mass of people and were involved in some degree, one can only hope we find out the details before a Democrat 'emergency degree' is issued and all press and internet is shut down, in inciting the violence at and in the Capitol itself.
  
• At least, of course, that is exactly what they often to and it is what Alinsky encouraged them to do.
• I've read early reports – but again, all too early for any certainty – that visual recognition technology has already identified some Antifa indiviuals in the crowd. I wouldn't be surprised. As noted above, it is what they do.
  

Clearly, all this is to scare the daylights out of milquetoast Republicans (and timid Menshevik Democrats), so it looks like they'll sweep into power on January 20th and our full nightmare will begin. And anyway, so many of the bigshot Republicans are just Uniparty types. We have heard all sorts of things about Mike Pence, but he certainly "punted" yesterday, and wittingly or unwittingly played into the hands of the Godless (which in theory he shouldn't do, being an evangelical Christian). Had he acted as Trump requested, the Supreme Court would have had to hear it. As it is, barring a true miracle, an empty husk in a suit will be sworn in as president.

Now what? Learn to suffer.

So, what now? We'll see. But if the Reichstag fire scenario is followed, or even if we get only the slow, painful insulting slide into Leftist confusion, poverty and misery, we can our expect puppet masters have brain-dead Biden issue Executive Orders to seize guns, arrest a lot of people on the right, control the press and the internet, and issue a national lockdown and mask-wearing regime.

Sound silly? They'll say what they have had the news media say for years, what they've had the FBI say for years, that it is White Supremacists who are the real trouble, and that "Red State America" is the real evil and inherently racist, and they're forced (aligator tears) to suspend the Bill of Rights to handle all us bad guys. (Don't worry; in the re-education camps, you'll be enlightened by Critical Race Theory propagandists galore.)

While you still can, therefore, watch Mark Steyn (alas, on Tucker Carlson) talk for a couple of minutes last night. Mark starts just after 3.33 minutes in. He calls out the galling hyper-hypocrisy of the Left about "law and order" and riots and all the rest. Very good. Watch before it disappears.

The Georgia Senate Vote

Just as old Lin Wood and Sidney Powell said it would be, the run-off election in Georgia was a screaming freak show of in-your-face fraud and theft. Kevin McCullough discusses it here with Eric Metaxas.

Listen to the whole thing while you can. Here's an excerpt I transcribed for you (but whole interview is very informing).

Kevin McCullough Talks About "The Big Takeaway" From Last Night's Runoff Election In Georgia:

"This is the big takeaway, and this is what I've been talking about for the last 60 days. If you have reasonable considerations about doubts of cheating and systems that are bad and possible conspiracies involving other countries and voting substractions and data that just goes missing, it's probably best not to use the same system that created all those doubts from the last election in the next election. What we saw in Georgia is – at least as we are having this discussion right now, as I am able to report the best that I can right now – we are seeing the exact same methodologies that were used on Nov 3 to no one's surprise to be used  used on January 5th in the run-pff in the state of Georgia. And that includes, most specifically – this what I have zeroed in on in the last few days – is the data itself that they will even probably try to certify, show subtractions from Mr Perdue's column, consistently, periodically throughout the night, and then no substractions ever occurring for Mr. Ossoff. I have not studied the Warnock  race as closely because the evidence is starting to pile up in the Perdue case pretty quickly. But I've multiple evidences of video substraction in real time that's happening on multiple Networks: the same amounts, the same decrements are being taken away. You should only have an incremental increase. (ends 2:14 

McCullough then explains how all this is a centralized source showing the changes. It is simply amazing. You really ought to listen it. He stresses how these voting anomalies, these subtractions, ONLY COME FROM ONE SIDE OF THE LEDGER! (Guess which side.)

McCullough ends on this note, a great summation:

17:42 By every statistical anomaly, by every piece of history that we know, everything that I based my maps on, everything that you could see on the ground, all the grassroots work, there was NO WAY by any historical standard, that Donald Trump set to lose on November 3rd. And I don't believe that Georgians voted honestly to elect two of the most radical senators that will be in the Senate last night. Georgia is still far too conservative a state for me to believe that. So how do we explain all that if evil is allowed to prosper at this moment in time? I don't know, but if I were the Church, I'd start to do some serious soul-searching and say 'God, what is it that you are asking of us, because obviously, you don't want to make it easy for us for the foreseeable future.'

Well, Kevin, I, at least, can answer that in one word: Suffering.

Catholics are used to suffering. Or I should say Trad, orthodox Catholics have never forgotten that we live in a Vale of Tears. It's about to get a lot more tearful.

Prepare to be martyrs. Not classic "red" martyrs killed in brutal fashion, or just having our heads lopped off by some honest Muslim. Not some quick, easy way to Paradise; oh, no.

No, we'll be forced to endure endless psychological warfare in a less bloody, but no less effective, strategy as the pagan Japanese used to crush Catholics in 16th century Japan. If you want to know how bad it will get, watch "Silence", the movie by Martin Scorsese. 

Get ready for that, at least.

An Préachán