They need Christ more than ever; instead, they seem to have Simon bar Kokhba come again

Friends, and
To all those defending Israel:

Every time I write one of my essays here, the world is exponentially worse than it was when I wrote the last epistle. I despair of it. God is gonna have to fix it.

• The American government is a disaster; it is totally NOT representing the American people.
• The Catholic Church is a disaster, if you count the official Church as the full Catholic Church, that is. If you think Bergoglio is pope or his regime in remotely CATHOLIC, then I despair for you.
• But I certainly despair of the Israeli-Arab conflict. It's a hopeless mess, and has been that way since the declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. For Israel, it would take a King Solomon come again to try to bring either justice or peace to this fiasco, or most importantly of all, they need Jesus. (I'll probably be labeled an "antisemite" for saying that. Imagine my response.)
  

If anyone ever needed Jesus...

If anyone anywhere ever "needed Jesus", it is the Jews and Arabs. But instead of Jesus, the Israelis got Simon bar Kokhba come again.

1. Ok, so who was Simon bar Kokhba? A warrior, the last of the Zealot types Our Lord Christ knew a century earlier. Zealots were those Jews who wanted to fight the Romans with war (or terror, however you want to put it), like the Irish Republican Army wanted to fight the British. They had their big moment in 66 A.D. when the First Jewish War began. Zealots held Jerusalem for four years before the Romans destroyed it – and most of them, along with a million or so other Jews – in 70 A.D.
2. Barabbas was one of these insurrectionists 40 years earlier in Jesus' time. St. Mark, St. Peter's secretary and the composer of St. Mark's gospel, describes Barabbas (in 15:7) as “The man named Barabbas [who] had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.” That would definitely be a Zealot.
3. Simon bar Kokhba himself was the last and maybe the greatest – in terms of power and cruelty, if not military skill – of all Zealots. He fought the Romans (when they tried to ban circumcision and force Jewish assimilation) and "the greatest rabbi of the time", Akiva ben Yosef, apparently claimed for him Davidic descent and might have given him the name bar Kokhba, which means son of the star, a messianic reference. 

Whatever about all that, when the Romans finally defeated bar Kokhba in 135 A.D., they killed 800,000 of his followers, and probably more than a million Jews died, all told. So, the Jewish people collectively chose Barabbas instead of Jesus, and 40 years later the Zealot leaders of 66 A.D., and in 132 A.D., Simon bar Kokhba. All these Zealots did was lead the Jews to catastrophe. Now they have Benjamin Netanyahu. 

The Jewish perspective

From the Jewish perspective, it ought to be a simple calculus. "We want our own nation, and we want it to be a Jewish nation, not a country where 'Jews also live'". After the bar Kokhba revolt, Jews remained scattered for two millennia, basically, and while often persecuted, they also took advantage of what opportunities they could, as well. That in itself caused them to be hated. It was like a curse: they're dispossessed and despoiled, a stateless nation who thereby incur contempt and loathing; yet when they become wealthy bankers and powerful influencers, they're hated all the more. A no-win situation.

Maybe they should not have chosen Barabbas. Or the Zealots of 66 A.D. Or Simon son of the Star, heir of David. Or just maybe Pontius Pilate got the last laugh when he maneuvered them into shouting "Crucify the Peacenik and give us the terrorist!" 

Zionism

Eventually, toward the end of the 19th century, European Jews began the Zionist Movement. The Jews supporting this romantic colonization theory (not all that many did, actually) left Europe and entered the Ottoman lower Syrian desert by hook and crook and began removing – none too gently one can surmise – many of the native inhabitants. (Jews in Europe often bought the land from Turkish absentee landlords living in Istanbul, and then European settlers showed up who told the locals to clear off.)  

1. Again, they wanted their own state – a JEWISH one – and European Jews who embraced Zionism planted European Jews in the southern Levant. 
2. Did the Zionist promoters have a plan about the Arabs? I don't know. Did they suspect the locals would rebel? I don't know.
3. The whole Zionist idea was so quixotic that most everyone probably thought it would fail, I would guess.
   
4. Events in Europe under the Nazis and the horrors of the Holocaust sort of eventually proved the Zionist argument, however, or so the non-Muslim world thought. The Catholic Vatican II Church has certainly bent over backwards to apologize to Jews for the Holocaust, that's for sure. But the problem was, the Jews had planted their colony among Muslims (originally the area had numerous Christian Arabs). 
5. And the Muslims had an insane, religiously founded hatred of Jews. That was the kicker. (Why Muslimsfrom their beginning hate Jews more than Christians is the subject for another essay. Suffice it to say "Muslim Judgement Day" is the day they get to kill all the world's remaining Jews.)
   
6. But as the Nazi tide rose, the Jews kept coming and "making the desert bloom", even as the British occupiers of the region after World War I opposed them. 
7. Eventually, when the British "mandate" expired, the Jews declared the State of Israel after WWII. At first and for many decades, it was a Socialist Eastern European-style "state", mirroring the ideas of it settlers, many of whom were from Eastern Europe. Ideological, yes; romantic, maybe, but not the booming economy it has since become.
   

The Return of the Crusader States?

Though the Muslims often enough bring them up, I'm always amazed that Westerners – especially Jews – never mention the Crusader States. That's probably because Israelis don't want to be considered associated with "Crusaders" under any circumstances, and because of the sad fate of those states.

Going on almost 1000 years ago, Western Europeans invaded the Levant in their Crusades. They wanted to free the Holy Land from Turkish Muslims who had recently set up shop. Their success was so-so, but they did capture territory (killing Jews and Muslims in the process, which both Jews and Muslims insist we remember: there's no "forgive and forget" with either) and so they set up a series of Crusader Sates – one was the "Kingdom of Jerusalem". These began to create a Little Europe in the desert heart of Islam. They implanted European law, counties, sheriffs, the whole shebang. The Muslim powers of all stripes could not tolerate that, so they kept attacking the Europeans and over 100 years or so, destroyed them. Every single one of the would-be colonists that weren't killed or didn't flee, were enslaved. Always remember Islam was founded on slavery and was and is essentially, quintessentially a slaver system. 

• Medieval Europe was essentially different than Ancient Europe in that
• A, the Medievals had Christianity and 
• B, they didn't have slavery (except in rare instances, like pre-Norman Gaelic Ireland). On the other hand...
  
• Islam has ALWAYS had slavery and it always will. Why? That's because while Christianity didn't condemn slavery in its beginnings, it became repugnant to own fellow Christians as slaves: we're all parts of the Body of Christ, after all; whereas... 
• Islam's raison d'être was to bestow on the original Arabs – a violent minority in the vast seas of people they conquered – the divine right to steal everything everyone else had: including the people themselves.
• N.B. This violence works for Muslims. It always has. It does now throughout the world (except in China: see Uyghurs, Chinese treatment of and Islam's ignoring of). One example: Muslim immigrants into England have enslaved hundreds of girls, especially; it is a national tragedy and horrific scandal, though you don't hear the mainstream media howling about it because everyone fears Muslim VIOLENCE. Anyway, slavery: that's why Islam was founded, really, to be honest.

Judaism and Islam for Outsiders

While Judaism has always maintained its separateness from surrounding cultures, basing that on its religious identity and beliefs, its special covenant relationship with God, Islam sort of mirrors that in a darker mode. Islam has always been a consensus-driven, self-isolated monocultural civilization living off the theft of entire nations, a herrenvolk taxing Christians and Jews to death, and so of course after the initial seventh-century conquest, Islam turned the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East into desert. (The conquerors were allowed to graze their herds of goats and camels wherever they wanted, you see?) 

In effect, the Muslim powers had destroyed the previous "Europeanized" Levant after their initial Muslim conquest in the 700s. That area was once the HEARTLAND of Christianity, and a rich region on every level: cultural, agricultural, linguistic. The Muslims invaded, conquered, dispersed and enslaved. And monoculturalized. Example: Alexandria on the Egyptian coast was always the second largest city of the ancient Greco-Roman world, vying with Rome or Antioch or later Constantinople. Yet within a generation of the Muslim Conquest, it was a fishing village. That's history.

So the modern-day Jews, seeking a Jewish nation-state "Tackled the Islamic Camel", as it were. In essence, they actually "stole something back" from the Islamic Empire and wow, THAT is NOT allowed. 

And also, in so doing, they revived the ancient rivalry between the brothers Isaac and Ishmael. Religious Jews (a minority of Jews, you know) still claim to be direct descendants of Isaac through his second son, Jacob, whom God renamed "Israel". Arabs claim Ishmael, Abraham's first born, as their ancestor. Both sides base their claim to the land on being heirs of these two sons of Abraham. Of course, the kicker to that is:

• A: Jesus Christ came along and said the "Chosen People" were chosen precisely to be the womb of the Messiah, i.e. to birth the young Jewish girl who said yes to Gabriel. So, their long existence was fulfilled in her Fiat to God.
• B: From a Jewish perspective rejecting such theology, they base their claim to the land on God's giving it to Abraham's descendants through Isaac. The kicker to that is Moses warned them they were to be careful to obey all of God's strict moral laws. They only ever did that for a few generations at a stretch, however; most of the time, they lived as they live in Israel now: it is a modern culture, meaning one with lots of sex behavior against the ancient commandments, like homosexuality, abortion, and so on. That concert that was attacked on October 7 exhibited a huge Buddha statue, for example. That doesn't justify the Hamas attack, but the God of Moses would zap them for it as He did of old. And maybe He is. Or if a modern-thinking person argues God is not concerned about their behavior against His ancient Covenants, then the God of revelation no longer exists. And if He has "evolved" or no longer exists, then what right can they claim to the land? See the conundrum they have? (A no-win situation, again.)

Israel bears the "five minutes of hate" right now...

Right now, it is Israel bearing the "five minutes of hate" of the world's propaganda. It seems the old Jewish war cry of "Antisemitism!" doesn't work as well as it did. Like "racism" in the U.S., it has probably been used once too often. 

Importantly, though, the ultimate source of this madness lies in Muslim culture and xenophobia. Oh, to be sure, the Jews are not blameless, either. They chose to enter an ancient minefield and planted a garden in the midst of it. They planted a tree in salted earth, a rose bush in a corral of hungry goats. They dared challenge the 1700-year-old Islamic Imperialism. Look what that has brought them. 

It has brought them continual or near continual state of war – certainly global political machinations and ceaseless spycraft and behind-the-scenes maneuvering – remains perpetual. It has also affected all the rest of us, all of non-Jews. 

• Terrorism has made life in the West miserable.
• It is the justification for the infamous "Deep State/Intelligence Community" of other nations' control of their people, such as the spying on every American via the vote on this awful FISA-702 law Congress just renewed. And it just never stops because of Arab and Muslim hatred of Jews, traditionally ingrained in that religion, and spreading terrorism far and wide nowadays, giving the "spies" the right to seize control. But also because of Islam's intrinsic xenophobia.

Islam

Muslims hate Christianity & Christian civilization. Not as much as they hate Jews, but still, it is enough. Read John Zmirak on the attack of that bishop in Australia, and why the bishop and his people are in Australia in the first place at The Stream. A most excellent, and depressing, article.

Right now, it is self-evident that Israel is losing the Gaza war (or front or operation or whatever one calls it) – many insist it is genocide, which the Israelis consider a "blood libel", but the claim of genoide is being made, nonetheless. If true, Israel has lost what it cannot regain. Meanwhile, the West Bank is hyper-tense and war is breaking out with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Persians and Israelis are lobbing missiles at each other.

I certainly can't speak to allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza. Twenty-percent of the Republic of Israel's population isn't Jewish, but Arab (Muslim and Christian). So, they obviously weren't genocidal in the past, though yes, Zionism has always wanted a JEWISH state (Islam merely wants an Islamic world). Many argue right now the new Simon bar Kokhba strives for a "Greater Israel", which would include territory (like Gaza, but much more besides) as a buffer to protect the country.

A Serious Query

What do people hating Israel want? Or what do its critics want it to do? Do they want the Jews to leave? Do they want them to confess: "Yes, we stole your desert land and created an semi-apartheid state in which we made the desert bloom as it once did before you Arabs came because after two thousand years of being robbed, murdered, and treated as pariahs, and finally slaughtered in mass by the Europeans in the Holocaust, we thought we needed a JEWISH homeland. Yet we admit we simply don't have the right to live anywhere." You want them to do that? That seems to be the idea.

Well, one can counter argue: how about we give the Americas back to the Indians. North, South, and Central – just give it back and leave. All Irish Americans can return to Ireland and all Slavic-derived Americans can go back to Russia and so forth and so on. How about that?

One can also ask quite seriously: How can any set of people mentally survive such total war, decade after decade? I don't defend genocide on either side or genocide at all in general: but in such a no-win, Hell-on-earth mess, it's no wonder they've all gone – or are going – mad. And remember that in a Muslim culture, a man can have more than one wife, and thus a LOT of children. Gaza's population explosion growth is phenomenal, and the percentage of young people is astounding. Western cultural norms, especially degenerate modern ones, can't remotely keep up in terms of number of children per father. And just how can a father be a father to 10 or 15 or 20 sons from different women?

Bottom Line
Israel either survives or it doesn't. Islam will certainly survive. Until it doesn't. But Israel? It most certainly will go the way the Crusader States did unless they nuke the Muslims. Maybe even then. It is not hard to imagine "the world" once again slaughtering Jews in rage, this time for starting a nuclear war. Iran could start using nukes and it would be a different story, somehow, wouldn't it? Or maybe the world would finally turn against Islam and decide the heirs of both Isaac and Ishmael need to depart these earthly coils.

One way or the other – unless both sides convert to Christ and forgive each other, which is, of course, very unlikely outside pure miracle and probably the Second Coming – mass slaughter will once again turn the region back into desert, and Simon bar Kokhba's unquiet ghost, and Barabbas's wandering spirit, all of the old Zealots so frustrated by Rome, will drag their chains through the empty kingdoms of Pluto once more.

AnP

Did Trump Betray Us re: Abortion? Women certainly betray themselves...

Amici,

Did Trump Betray Us re: Abortion? As abortion is such a horrific evil, the short answer is Morally, yes. But then the longer answer is politically not quite – or not immediately – when you cold-heartedly consider that "politics is the art of the possible."

Unfortunately, Trump keeps digging his own political grave. He took just the bait and answered an abortion question that will kill him with Pro-Lifers: he said he would not sign a federal abortion ban if it reaches his desk. See Lifesitenews for details. This is an "unforced error" since any federal abortion ban is impossible politically in the foreseeable future. What a fool Trump is. No conservative American politician speaks "unscripted" about abortion. Ever. Such called-out questions are traps.

Abortion should be banned outright, of course, but politically in the United States, that can't be done – not without another Civil War at least – that's the Democrats for you: they build up an evil like slavery or abortion till the only way to fight it is to fight it, literally. But then, that's what they want you to say so their "Deep State" can arrest you for threatening violence.

Consider: the U.S.A. has two parties, although they're basically a UniParty, and more or less alike in a great many ways, and nowadays under the control of U.S. Intelligence Bureaucracies. Regarding abortion, though, one wing of this UniParty is willing to restrict abortion a lot more than the other wing – more or less; recently a lot less. The other wing, the Democrats, unabashedly now want abortion up to birth, and even after. Thus, as a pro-Lifer, I have to vote for the side that is more willing to restrict it; I cannot (and have never) voted for the other side.

• HOWEVER, I am no fool, either. Abortion politically is like slavery. As John Daniel Davidson so eloquently points out here. The American nation cannot exist half abortion and half pro-Life. It will become all one or all the other, just as with slavery. We see that happening in "red state" Ohio and Kansas. Davidson's essay is a fascinating and insightful article well worth the time to read.

The 2024 Election

Well, in terms of "normal" American politics, former President Donald Trump looks to be winning the 2024 presidential campaign, except for the fact that the Democrats will stop at nothing, and I mean nothing, to keep him from swearing in January 20, 2025. Remember: the American election system is completely unstable. Election theft and fraud remain endemic to it. Since Jack Kennedy stole the election in 1960 from the feckless Richard Nixon, we've actually had a number of true coup d'états: Kennedy by the gun (two Kennedys, actually, if you remember RFK), Nixon by lawfare (remember "Watergate"?), Reagan – almost by the gun a few months after his inauguration, and by lawfare rendering him impotent in his second term (remember "Iran-Contra"?) – and so on and so forth, till Trump's first term, where The Powers That Be tried to render him impotent via lawfare (remember "Russian Collusion"?, and then they finally brazenly stole the 2020 election. (And have you never noticed how no one tried to assassinate Carter, Clinton, or Obama? Gee, how curious. The Republicans tried to impeach Clinton over a carnal escapade, but the Democrats impeached Trump what, three times – once for a phone call?) So, with a record like that, and with all the unbridled lawfare against Trump, we can expect disaster this November.

And now maybe Trump himself has shot himself in the foot over abortion. Now multiple times, as noted above. Pro-lifers across the nation groan in true heartache. In the process, though, did Trump really betray all the pro-Lifers who have supported him through all the devilish hell he's been subjected to? Or is he the Machiavellian politician – as was Stephen Douglas, Lincoln's opponent – just trying to win? See Lifesitenews for details of Trump's new abortion position (if you're not already sick of this). Trump has a stubborn streak. Note that he's never admitted the rush to Covid vaccines was a disaster. Despite the growing evidence, he won't budge on that. But now he won't budge on his pro-abortion positions that he is staking out.

First thing to consider and weigh in the scales is that the Democrats, i.e. the party who booed God at their convention years ago, the Left, the Communists and godless hoards galore who have completed their "long march" (the term is Mao's) through our institutions and academies, have won the propaganda war – largely but not entirely – on abortion. 

1. Tens of millions of women seem to regard killing a child as absolutely untouchable. And I mean, they are adamant about baby killing as were the terrible Erinyes, the Furies of Ancient Greece.
   
2. Any politician who wants to ban abortion will be defeated, and most politicians on the Right who even bring limiting it up get lambasted by the mainstream media (a.k.a., the Democrats' lap dogs). Therefore, Republicans are backing off of abortion, as John Zmirak astutely explains in this column. So it is that Trump probably thinks, "Why should I stick my neck out?"
   
3. Yet abortion as a universal carte blanc right, as in France? We've come a very long way from Bill Clinton's infamous call in 1992 for making abortion "safe, legal, and rare", that's for sure. No Democrat today could repeat Clinton's line without being ripped to threads by the pagan furies that seem to possess Leftist women, and many not so leftist women.
   
4. The Left has spent, and will spend, immeasurable oceans of money to promote "Women's Reproductive Rights", and pump money into red states like Ohio and Kansas to garner state constitutional changes mandating unlimited abortion (and also bring on "gay rights" and "sex change" and so on). It is as though the Supreme Court ruling opened Pandora's bag (yep, Panni had a bag, not a box.)  
5. It's obvious that abortion has become the spear point the godless use to pierce the hearts of millions, especially women, regarding the sanctity of life, turning living hearts into stone. "Who among you would give your children a stone if they asked for bread?" Well, today, they stone 'em to death, just kill them, or mutilate their young bodies. 
6. Just as with slavery by 1860, abortion has gone beyond any sort of civil discourse now. Beyond civil discourse, or even rational discourse. It's taken on quasi-religious tones; indeed, it is the worship of Moloch, Ba'al, and Satan in the technological age.
   

Trump the Fool

Against this seeming juggernaut from Hell, Trump plays by its rules. All Trump had to do in terms of callow political expedience was stop soon after he started on his abortion statement. Yes, were he not going to remain 100 percent pro-life, he should have begun as he started out: i.e., abortion is now, thanks to the Supreme Court, a states-right issue. He did start with this. Then he should have stopped and said: "I'm not running for governor of a state, but as president of the nation, and as a nation we have absolute Armageddon hanging over us economically, Armageddon in a fight against Communism within our own Federal government, and obviously Armageddon with our insane foreign wars! We need to focus on those national issues first and foremost."

All of that is desperately true. How hard would that have been?

• That should have been that. But no. Trump brought up Democrat talking points, like the infamous "rape, incest, or health of the mother" smoke and mirror. It's a fraud. Had he had to open his mouth on that, he could have said regarding "rape, incest, health of the mother", that that's for the states to work out in their legislatures. But no, he had to endorse those "exceptions".
  
• That's a grotesque cop out, as well. Donald John Trump should meet and have a long, long talk with Rebecca Kiessling, a woman, a lawyer, a pro-life fighter, who was conceived via a rape. Watch her profound eight-minute presentation here. Donald Trump, you should be ashamed. Political expedience or no.
  
• In terms of IVF, Trump has actually endorsed it! IVF is the artificial fertilization system that creates dozens of fertilized eggs/zygotes in order to produce ONE child, Trump should have been honest and declare, "I don't know much about this and I'll have to research it for myself, in terms of science and religion. When I know what I'm talking about, I'll form an opinion." 

Simple. Again, simple re: political expedience. Morally lame in the extreme.

Abortion is absolute evil, and we are nowhere near getting it banned

Now, obviously, my Machiavellian-inspired suggestions above would be a "cop out". A political dodge. It's what Stephen Douglas tried 150 years ago. Machiavellian maneuvering to get elected. Morally, abortion remains an absolute evil. One stands either appalled by abortion, sickened, horrified, and want it to end, or one can say he's uncaring about it, or one is a worshiper of Moloch (like so many Leftists in the world and Democrats in America) to the loss of one's soul. Those are the three options. No others exist.

Many pro-Lifers say we have to elect Trump, or the country is lost. I tend to do that myself because it is true, but then, what kind of country would we be saving? An abortion horror? A narcissistic nirvana of stunted "juveniles for life"? Sodom and Gomorrah 2.0?

• Abortion is the only crime where the absolutely innocent one gets the death sentence. Also, fully 97 percent of all abortions, it is said, occur BEFORE 15-weeks. Mainly are now done chemically; i.e. "the morning after pill". This little factoid is crucial to understand because it shows how pointless the Left's manipulation of Conservative politicians is: they don't do it to "keep abortion legal" at all, they fight this fight to manipulate women and win elections. The whole thing is one big fraud.
  

IVF

And finally, Trump highly touts the execrable IVF method with creates extra zygotes then kills them (after freezing them).

That, readers, is not merciful. It's the height of narcissism. Yes, it is. Think about it. I feel very sorry for couples (and yes, I mean a married man and woman!) who cannot have kids. Any healthy person would feel sorry. But what person possessing any sort of moral mind or with a moral soul at all wants to have ten or twelve kids just to "harvest' one of them? That's sick in the extreme. Purely diabolical. That's like killing babies to test drugs, etc. 'For the greater good, many must die." Bovine guano.

And Trump covered himself in it. Was he ever truly pro-life? He was a pro-abortion Democrat for most of his life. Did he have a real conversion? God knows, and God will pass the judgment. 

Clearly, everyone can see that Biden won't last even the summer, let alone to November, and that Kamala Harris is a complete idiot. (That's been proven again and again out of her own mouth. And her uncontrollable laughter is freakish. And unnerving.) The Democrats will replace them when expedient. But whoever they run for the presidency, he or she will be "more of the same" as Biden and Harris. Thus we find ourselves between Scylla and Charybdis. If Trump isn't elected, the country is finished. Yes, but again, what country would be saved, really?

Then there's the women who make abortion possible

Do not mistake me. Women are easily manipulated by men. Worthless, immoral men want cheap carnal "full-body contact with women" and for the past 100 years have worked on women's self image to get it. Abortion exists almost solely because guys want to carnally take advantage of gals, and pay no penalty. Read that sentence again. It's part of the over-all contraceptive culture that is hollowing out our civilization. That's why men scientists developed "the Pill" in the first place. Women test subjects DIED in testing it. But they sold it as a "freeing" of women, a "liberation" of women. But that was all a lie. It enslaves women to endless male predation.

Nowadays, abortion owes a lot of its unshakable, iron-clad position in America (and Europe, etc.) to the support of women. Unmarried women tend to be Leftist anyway, and then again, married "soccer moms" have tended to vote Democrat because that party cynically cries up the poor and downtrodden and supports abortion, as well. American Jews have traditionally voted Democrat for protection from what they saw as an aggressive Christian culture; women vote Democrat because they are taught to feel like a threatened minority, as well.

1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt owed his second to fourth elections largely to women who voted for "that handsome, feline man". 
2. And of course he flooded the country with bureaucrats to "look after" everyone. 
3. Women elected FDR the second time in 1936, when his policies had left the country in a worse state than when he came in. (Women, and the Republicans, who ran utter non-entities against him.)
4. Women elected Jack Kennedy (voted for him enough that he only had to steal the vote in Illinois), and women voted for Bill Clinton and Obama, the "Metrosexual".
   
5. And today, Democrats keep harping on the "Alpha-Male" Donald Trump and what a threat to women he is. (Anyone who knows Trump knows this is not true, except maybe per aborting them.)
   

Women and the State

Also, many women tend to vote for "the state", a paternal state that promises to look after them and their children; see this excellent Ann Barnhardt essay here. There's also this. 

Now, of course, the country has millions of sane women, conservative women, patriotic women. And a Catholic author, Kimgerly Begg, writes about them and why they tend to "give in" to peer pressure here: Survey: Most Young Women Hold Conservative Beliefs But Hide Them. I recommend this very thoughtful article; it is fascinating.

Conclusion

But this is our situation. Because worthless miserable Leftist godless men, ruthless ideologues and narcissistic hedonists, have been manipulating women ceaselessly for generations so that women tend to vote against their own self-interests. Again, it is much like Jews who reflexively vote for Democrats. Now, the flood of "tranny" men who insist on pushing women out of sports and gyms and toilets and even redefine the female sex entirely may finally drive home to women how wretched their conditioning has been. Maybe. Maybe not. The incredibly blatant antisemitism that's everywhere now might get Jews' attention, too. Maybe. Maybe not.

Truly, everything is such a mess that only a full return to God can save what's left of our civilization. But where is the Roman Catholic Church? Read that John Zmirak article linked to above for that. It ain't pretty. And our situation is dire.

AnP

 

Bergoglio's war against contemplative and traditionalist nuns...

 Friends,

John Zmirak has a column here about how the anti-pope Bergoglio has been attacking traditionalist nuns. Anyone who has been paying attention knows about this, of course, and Zmirak brings it up in the context of that Satanic group of homosexuals in San Francisco who parody Catholic nuns, being invited to a Los Angeles Dodgers game. Zmirak's piece is excellent reading about an obscene subject.

It's not just that Bergoglio is an abomination, (he's technically a "material heretic" i.e. not a formally Church-declared heretic) but that the world's bishops tolerate him – that's the kicker. The bishops know, especially those who (such as many of the Italian ones, have traditionalist nunneries) what Bergoglio has been doing to the traditionalist orders. The bishops' sin is therefore the greater. They know better, or ought to know better. What are we to make of their apostasy?

Louie Verrecchio at AKA Catholic has an important column here about the bishops regarding the Dodger fiasco, about why the outrage now after tolerating militant homosexuals for decades. An excerpt:

When the city of San Francisco named a street after “Sister Vish-New,” Co-Founder of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, did Sal Cordileone protest, or would doing so be a little too “Church & State” for his conciliar tastes?

The drag-fag group has been headquartered in his archdiocese for the entire time he has been there. Has he ever spoken out against their irreverent mockery of Our Lady, Our Lord, and His Church?

The post-Vatican II Church has tolerated the decomposition of our world into the worst sort of socialist, moral carrion offal. It has absconded from its divinely required witness to God's truth and to His moral requirements to a Fallen World. Bergoglio, of whose salvation before he dies we can try to pray for, is the epitome of this dereliction. Were the Argentine to convert to Catholicism from his pathetic New Age paganism tomorrow, however, it is too late for him to undo the evil he will leave after himself. And it is highly improbable he'll convert, partly because his habit of evil lies so deep on his soul and has warped his mind (the obviously good and pious in his mind is bad, and the bad good, even necessary), and partly because he does not get any witness to the True Gospel from those around him. Bergoglio, like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and so many other "Catholics" do not hear, and would recoil from, any true witness. (Biden, who no longer has his right mind, cannot repent at all.)

Thank God He seems to be sending us a message via the incorrupt body of of the founder of the traditionalist Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster. Can it be a coincidence that during this time of homosexual mockery of women religious, and on the verge of the Gay Inc's infamous attempt to turn June into "Pride Month (it is actually dedicated to The Sacred Heart), Sister Wilhelmina rises, as it were, to bear profound witness to the power and truth of God?

The timing of this revelation of Sister Wilhelmina's is deeply significant. In time and with investigations, we'll learn more. It seems, however, that if what is apparently true now gets confirmed, then we can be assured that in the midst of general episcopal disdain and contempt, and confounding Bergoglio's efforts, an order of traditionalist women's convent will become a place of pilgrimage, inspiring piety and devotion in thousands. 

  An Préachán

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.

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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.

 

"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.

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.

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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

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