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

Friends,

Well, since Trump was elected in 2016.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Préacháin

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

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

Mike Lindell's Big Exposé About the Election Steal

 Amici,

Have you seen this? Eric Metaxas interview an exuberant Mike Lindell. It is some interview, I hafta say.

Anyway, I went to https://michaeljlindell.com/ and it is just up!

I'm watching the video now. It is supposed to be the whole enchilada. So, we'll see. Lindell says he's going to reveal the biggest attack (a cyber attack but an act of war none-the-less) in all history.

He says he has the hard evidence (computer server IDs, computers in U.S. I.D.s, etc.) that China stole the election through direct manipulation.

If Lindell is correct, this is an act of war, most definitely, as in the Pearl Harbor Attack or the Firing on Fort Sumter. If Lindell fails to prove his shocking claims, then it's the end of the "Stolen Vote" narrative – at the very least.

An P

More Covid Lies and Madness, Multiplied, and a Little U.S. History

Amici,

Covid. The news I'm hearing from friends about the "vaccine" distribution sounds like a classic S.N.A.F.U. situation all around, doesn't it? "Hey, we have a big deal, something really super important, so let's let government manage it!"

Yeah, that'll work. /sarc

Consider for a moment Anthony Fauci, who receives the biggest paycheck of anyone in government ($417,608 last year; and his budget is 10 times higher than when he first began), a guy landed in D.C. nearly 40 years ago, with the job to deal with AIDS, a disease still going strong, but just not talked about by the MSM. 2018 saw some 15,820 deaths of individuals having AIDS, although the CDC officiously says "These deaths may be due to any cause."  Oh? Is that true, now? And why doesn't the that say that about the Covid deaths, hmmm? Recent allegations are that the government has lied profusely about those. 

At least here one can sign a petition to force the government from forcing experimental "vaccines" on us.

Anyway, I'm assuming these are the Moderna or Pfizer mRNA "vaccines"? They're not "vaccines" at all, as Dr. Merrit (and others, such as Dr. Theresa Deisher) explained, and won't prevent a person from getting the virus. It doesn't prevent transmission. They actually create that "spike protein" pathogen in your body –  if it does even that. We don't really know that it does, actually. Only a few elites know what is really going on. Anyway, the spike protein is what kills you to begin with. However, we developed vaccines to begin with because we had no treatment for smallpox and polio. However, we have "cures" for Covid and other viruses in the Lysosomotropic drug family such as Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin. These work extremely well (if applied early, with no pussyfooting around). But the $69 BILLION vaccine business doesn't want you to know that! So, instead, they're going to rewrite everyone's DNA?

No, thanks.

Honestly, upon reflection, can anyone trust what the government says? My friends, this is a Serious Question. Think about it.

Some History:

• Early on in our lifetimes, President Eisenhower warned us in his farewell message about the military-industrial complex, or what we'd call today the "Deep State".
  
• The 1960 election was almost certainly stolen (people tend to focus on Chicago, but it was probably stolen in Texas, too; but according to the government and most historians, Jack Kennedy won).
  
• However, Jack Kennedy in power found out about "the Deep State"; it pushed him around and he was embarrassed by "Deep State" in the Bay of Pigs fiasco and then the assassination of Ngo Dinh Nhu, who was nothing less than the president of South Vietnam, our erstwhile ally). Then soon after that, Jack Kennedy himself was bumped off. And of course the government, about all this, said, "Nothing to see here; move along."
  
• Lyndon Baines Johnson then set up the hapless "show trial", the Warren Commission, to investigate the assassination – a murder which Johnson may well have arranged in the first place! – and of course the Warren Commission found "nothing to see here; move on". Then Johnson got us hopelessly "quagmired" in Vietnam – resulting in the strongest country on Earth bound hand and foot in a hopeless mess, a Fiasco SNAFU to beat all Fiasco SNAFUs, one that ended up killing 55,000 of our best young men – for Johnson to make out financially on his defense money kickbacks, according to various investigators.

• Then we get Nixon, whom they brought down because he ordered a cover-up on a crime he didn't order in the first place.
  
• Nixon, the coward, should have gone for a Senate trial and had his lawyers bring out ALL the dirty laundry of the Johnson Administration – which did far worse than Nixon's "plumbers" and, as well, what Vietnam was REALLY all about, and even go back to FDR's days when HE ordered the very stuff Johnson did to be carried out! (This is something Trump should do now, just unload on the Deep State, especially regarding this stolen election, which as I so often has said, will be ever more clearly proved in the coming months.)
  

• But no, "Tricky Dick" ran away.

• Then we got the utterly feckless Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter. Carter had at least been a competent nuclear technician in the Navy, but he was hapless as president.
• Then when Reagan came in, everyone tried everything to get him out (I'll never believe the assassination attempt on Reagan was what it appeared to be, especially as it would have put the preppy, shallow George H.W. Bush, a "country club" Repub, into the presidential office), and so they tied up Reagan's second four years (he won 49 states, remember???) with the Iran-Contra idiocy. (N.B. The only reason the Republican elites let Reagan run was because he picked G.H.W. Bush as his veep.)
  
• Then we FINALLY got the feckless First Bush, "The Preppy One" (amazingly, also a WWII naval fighter pilot; one would never image him to be such) as president. He promptly lost to an empty headed, glad-handling/woman raping dirt bag, name Bill Blythe (oh, wait...).
• Then the feckless tool Clinton, a sexual clown of clowns, formerly Blythe, or whatever it was – and his harridan Commie wife.
• Then as if the FIRST Bush wasn't depressing enough, we got the feckless second Bush, eight years of that fiasco, and finally Obama, who literally sold out the country to the ChiComs and the Iranians. (Well, both Bushes and the Clintons were pushing China as well. Remember, only an utter, utter, utter economic IDIOT would move a country's manufacturing base to another country, because manufacturing makes ACTUAL wealth! 'Wealth' isn't money (unless the money is precious metals), 'wealth' is product, material goods that people what, things of value to them. So our high muckety-mucks are unspeakably stupid, or traitorous, or both.

• Now we've had an election stolen from us right before our eyes, even as we watched it on news shows and later on video, all as we literally watched accumulating tallies suddenly decrease and as we saw on video cameras boxes of ballots pulled out from under tables, etc. Now (as I predicted, I may boast) they're making even discussing the Vote Steal something illegal, trashing the First Amendment. They'll lock you up should you bring it up, but again, as I have said, evidence just keeps mounting and mounting. 

So, honestly, everyone, Amici, I ask you, in all seriousness: why would ANYONE trust the government?

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is on an anti-vax crusade, and has been for years. (I don't agree with all of that, but I'm open to evidence.) He says often that his father, Bobby Kennedy – "RFK" also assassinated way back in '68; he had dared to run against LBJ, of whom Nixon told Roger Stone: "Johnson and I both wanted the presidency, but I wasn't ready to kill for it" – think about that. Anyway, Bobby Kennedy used to tell his son, "Government lies to you."

Truer words were never spoken.

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

More US troops now in Washington than in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan

Amici, 

They've got more US troops now in D.C. than they do in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. AND they're using the FBI to check these troops to see if any are "disloyal" to Comrade Stealin. 

Honestly, reading this Gateway Pundit piece is just incredible. We're no longer in possession of our country. Just look at all the craziness. Shoot-to-kill orders, CCTV everywhere, bridges closed, razor wire, you name it. Washington is a conquered and occupied city.

I think this info latest info about the FBI vetting the troops pretty much puts paid to any idea that the troops are there to stage a counter-coup. The FBI is "coup central" and has been since November 2016.

A couple of things need to be noted and kept in the forefront of our minds. First, we're hearing a level of rhetoric from Democrat/Left/Socialist politicians and commentators that is far beyond "over the top". Examples: Republicans are too radical to allow to roam freely, Trump's followers have to be "re-educated", Republican politicians who supported challenging the Electoral Votes need to be expelled from Congress (real Reichstag fire stuff). But remember some time ago when Schumer stood in front of the Supreme Court and openly threatened both Kavanagh and Gorsuch? Schumer threatened them personally, by name. Remember that? Unbelievable, and Schumer gets away with that just as current day Dems get away with saying truly police state garbage about Trump and Republicans.

We all know that were it the Republicans saying that, they'd be rounded up and arrested pronto. But Democrats can say that about them.

The second thing to keep in mind is that when anyone – anyone – tells you they're going to hurt you, attack you, come after you in some way, then BELIEVE THEM. "Civilized" Germans back in the 1930s NEVER imagined Herr Hitler really meant what he said he was going to do. But of course, he did. So what with the Democrats talking this way, I think the chances are very good that we'll see the country collapse even further than it has.

Thought Experiment

Let's try a thought experiment. Suppose we had time machines with which we could visit ourselves 12 months ago, in January 2020. Imagine being your January 2020 self and hearing your January 2021 self telling you what it is like with Biden about to be inaugurated. Your 2020 self would think your 2021 self was drunk! Or go back to January 2019! Your January 2019 self would think you're stark barking mad!

But that is how far we've fallen and how awful the situation is. And how dangerous.

Personally, I'd welcome a Trump-led counter-coup, but it far too late for that, I think. He had every right to send in Federal Marshals and seize voting machines and ballots the morning after Election Day. But he didn't. They wasted time fooling with the useless courts, and massive amounts of evidence was destroyed. They utterly made fools of themselves over that Georgia run-off election, as old Lin Wood said they would. Etc., etc., etc.

However, there's always another possibility, depending on how crazy and unstable the Democrats actually try to rule: a true, old-fashioned military counter-coup in a month or two, if certain sections of the military (special forces, basically) would move to seize the government. I don't look for this to happen, either, mainly because the military chiefs are so far gone from true patriotism that they'd allow the Communist Democrats to do ANYTHING they wanted to the nation, A, and B, those chiefs have plenty of spies inside the Special Forces, and will spend the next month vetting Special Forces members just as the FBI is doing the National Guardsmen.

On the other hand, possibly, were the Communist Dems to actually go as far as they're saying they're going to go, then things might be so insane that a coup could occur. And of course as ever more evidence comes about the fraudulent election, the Biden Administration becomes ever more criminal. (At some point, like I keep saying, the Democrats have to cancel the First Amendment or deal with the Steal becoming an absolute, unquestionable fact.) Maybe then we might see a true coup d'état.

One big question is how soon Biden will try to cancel the Second Amendment. That might be the causus belli of all causi belli. A lot depends on how strong Republican governors react. Keep an eye out for that. 

Another, of less significance but still a factor: how soon will he get us into another war, such as in Syria. After the endless fiasco "forever wars" of the past two decades, I don't think it would take much for a major anti-war protest to gather gale force.

Of course, they'll probably so enrage people with Covid nonsense. For example, The Epoch Times reports that 55 people have already died in the U.S. taking the vaccine. (A friend of this blog sent me this link. And then there's looming economic disaster ($15 an hour wage! They'll turn the whole country into California!), or reverse Trump's Nationalist economic policies and return manufacturing jobs to China. That would, at the very least, make us have the least popular government in the history of the country. 

And remember too, that unlike Trump, Biden is no leader, and now he's non compos mentis. He was left looking bewildered after a short speech the other day. He's clearly not "there". Harris is hopeless (that'll be a 'old saw' soon: "As hopeless as Harris"), and so who will be running things? 80-year-old Pelosi? George Soros, who already looks like the Emperor Palpatine, might as well as move into the White House now.

Prayer is necessary, of course. But we need to be learning the prayer of martyrs.

An Préachán

I'm seeing Eloi everywhere...

The Eloi

The Eloi were a fictional people in H.G. Wells fable, "The Time Machine". A childlike humanoid race descendant from us, and apparently the white collar "us", during the day the Eloi loitered about in crumbling cities; at night, however, they were hunted by the Morlocks, a gorilla like race also descended from us, the factory worker  segments of "us". The Morlocks lived underground and maintained vast machines; but just as the Eloi no longer knew how to read books in the deteriorating libraries, the Morlocks apparently no longer knew what they maintained the machines for.

I'm seeing Eloi everywhere

For me, seeing everyone wandering about wearing Covid masks reminds me of the Eloi, It should be patently obvious to any rational human being that since whenever or wherever mask wearing as been mandated over the past six months, Covid infections supposedly rise ever higher. Therefore, logically, masks don't work. Or for me, the fact that all previous-to-Covid studies showed masks don't work for viruses, but then suddenly, after Covid, studies are produced that do say that, indicate an obvious fraud. (Now the long-awaited Danish study show's masks done't work, but then, we already knew that! (See also: "More New Research Shows Only Those With Symptoms Spread COVID-19. Masks School Closings & Lockdowns Couldn't Have Been More Pointless.")

For me, hearing or reading someone say to me, "Stay safe," is infuriating beyond measure. Am I an Eloi? A child in an adult body, one unable to read, to think? Or are they the Eloi? And just who are the Morlocks?

• Yet THAT's exactly what Socialism/Communism/Progressivism (it changes its name periodically to mislead, literally, people) is intent on doing: creating Eloi.
  
• The infamous Frankfurt School of Marxists in the 1920s figured out that emasculating men was central to making Eloi – indeed, eunuchizing them, and correspondingly making women ever more masuline...
• ... all done through fostering an over-the-top sexual hedonism (not fully coming online in Europe or N. America till the 1960s, of course, because WWII got in the way, and then the necessary rebuilding).

An Anti-Eloi Reflection  

Finally, a note on true freedom, which was not a political notion, originally. The idea of political freedom derives from it, and the latter thus depends and relies on an understanding of true freedom, political freedom's antecedent. If you don't get the original idea, you won't apprehend the derivative idea. Here it is: "Freedom" was traditionally understood as the innate-to-human-beings (and Angels) free choice ability to choose God – as opposed to choosing not serving God. This is of course a religious teaching, but it was founded in the revelation that God created Man in His own image.

This may be hard to understand after 250 years of John Locke and 150 of Karl Marx, but the following explains it:

• An internal combustion engine designed to run on gasoline is "free" as long as it runs on gasoline: that is what it was designed to do and it fulfills its nature in doing so. That's its freedom. It is true to its nature, and successful. Conversely, it is not "free" if someone loads kerosene into its tank, or whiskey, or crankcase oil or aviation fuel. It can't run on those, and is not successful.
  
• But of course the gasoline engine is not free to choose to run on gasoline (or "free" not too). Something with an active will has to chose the gasoline. We, however, by our nature, have such wills, and are free to choose to run as we were designed to, or to choose otherwise.
• Yet here's the kicker: choosing otherwise is not freedom, because when we do that, we're not running as intended, and we cannot be "free".
  

So, made in God's image...

And what does God do? For one thing, He creates. He makes. Angels may make too, for all we know (angels dallying about in natural history would explain giraffes and ostriches!), but humans are supposed to make things. And it just so happens that in economics, "wealth" is created things from naturally occurring material, especially created things people want. Money is not wealth in itself (unless made of precious materials), but it is a means of exchanging wealth. A form of shorthand for barter and trade. So our very own proto-Eloi: Obama with his $50 million, or Bill and Hillary Clinton with their $250+ million, or the Biden family, with their $200 million, do not and have not created wealth; they merely live large on their paper, well, electronic, money, as long as it can buy things they want (rich lifestyles). Perhaps they invest to some degree in businesses that do make things, in classic Capitalistic fashion, but I would bet they'd rather "invest" only in politics, and most of what they do involves foreign nationals paying them to gain U.S. access, and both sides gaining ever more control and power.

Capitalism per se is the free-market economic system that allows for large amounts to money to be invested in invention and manufacturing: the market aspect of it is an efficient way of making of things people want. Both invention and manufacturing employs large numbers of people who find their divinely mandating creation longings thereby satisfied. But notice how Democrats and Establishment Republicans keep sending manufacturing jobs to China. They've also allowed the Chinese to steal American technological inventions. If one wanted to utterly destroy and impoverish a nation, one would do EXACTLY what they've done: i.e., remove the wealth-making engines of invention and manufacturing from that nation. 

They are, in short, intent on turn us all into Eloi!

Interesting, isn't it?

Donald Trump reversed those policies, and so he's hated by the Democrat bigshots and Establishment Republicans. (I mean, they loathe him to an insane level!)

Interesting, isn't it?

And now they've spent billions of their hoarded non-wealth creating money to eject Trump from the White House.

Interesting, isn't it?

An Préachán

COVID-19 news as of March 25, 2020

Amici,

Today, March 25, has produced a list of interesting articles.

The first is shocking. (As in, "I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this establishment!")

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/25/inaccurate-virus-models-are-panicking-officials-into-ill-advised-lockdowns/

Read it and weep. Why, why, oh why do we let ourselves get bamboozled by Leftist political hacks with an agenda?

An except:

So why is the organization or seemingly innocent online mapping tool using inaccurate algorithms to scaremonger leaders into tanking the economy? Politics, of course.

Founders of the site include Democratic Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and three Silicon Valley tech workers and Democratic activists — Zachary Rosen, Max Henderson, and Igor Kofman — who are all also donors to various Democratic campaigns and political organizations since 2016. Henderson and Kofman donated to the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, while Rosen donated to the Democratic National Committee, recently resigned Democratic Rep. Katie Hill, and other Democratic candidates. Prior to building the COVID Act Now website, Kofman created an online game designed to raise $1 million for the eventual 2020 Democratic candidate and defeat President Trump. The game’s website is now defunct.

Perhaps the goal of COVID Act Now was never to provide accurate information, but to scare citizens and government officials into to implementing rash and draconian measures. The creators even admit as much with the caveat that “this model is designed to drive fast action, not predict the future.”

Countering the lies and hype, yesterday, Dr Birx, on Trump's Coronavirus team, confirmed what a number of people (usually called idiots, hacks, "deniers" and what not) were right.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/we-were-right-dr-birx-confirms-who-was-way-off-in-their-3-4-mortality-rate-and-it-will-likely-drop-under-1-as-tgp-predicted/

An except:

On Tuesday Dr. Deborah Birx confirmed our earlier allegations that the WHO was wrong with their coronavirus predictions.
The actual mortality rate will be significantly under 1%.

President Trump: I think the main factor is the mortality rate. We talked about the mortality rate when we first started, people were thinking about 3 and 4 percent and now they’re talking about a much lower number. I think it is a number that will be a lot different than people thought.
Dr. Birx: The mortality rate is driven almost exclusively by what we have been talking about by people with preexisting conditions and older. So that has become from the very beginning that was our emphasis. When we started two or three weeks ago talking with one another our focus has been how do we protect those with preexisting conditions and the elderly…
President Trump: It’s a lot lower than we originally thought. Frankly, it’s a lot lower.
Dr. Birx: Yes, you know the estimate in Wuhan was originally. It was over three percent. When they (Chinese) looked outside of Wuhan it was 0.7%. In South Korea it was 0.7 to 0.8%. That’s like a tyranny of averages. That’s probably missing 50-60% of the data because no one was testing asymptomatics. Remember in every country you had to be symptomatic to get a test. So we’re making case fatality rates when we’re missing a significant part of the data.

The Gateway Pundit was right. And they were first with this news.
The media and medical experts have not yet discovered the absolute irresponsible comparisons coming from the World Health Organization Director that set this global economic panic into motion.

An Préachan again:

For a very detailed analysis of the virus's death rate, and all sorts of related issues, such as how many people will get it, how long it might last, etc., see:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-israeli-expert-trump-is-right-about-covid-19-who-is-wrong-1.8691031?v=CDBFACA5662E8174BA824BAD929EA12B

So many amazing bits of info, I can't begin to excerpt anything.

And if you're wondering about Italy, this one should enlighten you:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/24/the-italian-connection/ This one contains not only info about Italia, but also about Korea, for a friend of the author, a friend who resides in Korea, writes a long Comment explaining how Koreans are keeping the virus down.

Meanwhile, in China:

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/communist-quality-control-beijing-sends-150000-wuhan-virus-testing-kits-to-prague-80-fail/

Gee! How could that happen? I thought the Chinese were exemplars at all this medical and CoVid-19 related? Surely this must be "fake news?" /sarc

And wow, if you're Chinese, you had better not be critical, or remotely report the truth:

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/03/24/china-critics-governments-handling-coronavirus-crisis-simply-disappear/

That's right. They just vanish.

And the accounts of tens of thousands -- indeed, apparently millions! -- of cell phones and land lines have been cancelled in China in the Wuhan area. What happened to their owners?

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/03/24/21-million-chinese-cellphone-users-disappear-in-three-months-of-pandemic/

Also, about the World Health Organization:

https://spectator.us/abolish-world-health-organization/

Since the coronavirus has become a global pandemic, halting the world’s economy in its tracks, Adhanom has taken it upon himself to repeat Chinese state talking points about shifting blame for their own role in the spread of the virus: ‘When fighting an outbreak such as #COVID19, we must be guided by solidarity, not stigma. The greatest enemy we face is not the virus itself; it’s the stigma that turns us against each other. We must stop stigma and hate!’

This has been a familiar refrain from the Chinese state, whose government which runs forced labor and concentration camps. China repeatedly eludes scrutiny by the not only the head of WHO but sectors of the American media as well.

Since his appointment as head of the WHO in 2017, with the full backing of China and its vast financial resources, Adhanom has come under fire for his role in covering up multiple cholera epidemics in Ethiopia. Shortly after his appointment as WHO D-G, Adhanom bestowed the honor of Goodwill Ambassador on late Zimbabwean president and tyrant Robert Mugabe. It was only after a deluge of outrage from human rights groups and WHO members that Adhanom withdrew the honor.

According to a Washington Post report at the time, Adhanom’s decision was based partly on rewarding China for backing his appointment. ‘Some speculate that Tedros’s decision to appoint Mugabe was a pay-off to China, which worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help Tedros defeat the United Kingdom candidate for the WHO job, David Nabarro. Tedros’s victory was also a victory for Beijing, whose leader Xi Jinping has made public his goal of flexing China’s muscle in the world.’

Oh, and there's this:

https://theweek.com/speedreads/904845/g7-joint-statement-coronavirus-failed-because-insisted-calling-wuhan-virus

How do the Chinese get away with bullying the world? It is just jaw-dropping incredible.

An excerpt:

But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he believes it's important to highlight the fact that the Chinese government didn't warn the rest of the world about its initial outbreak. "We tried, you'll remember, from the opening days to get our scientists, our experts on the ground there so that we begin to assist in the global response to what began there in China, but we weren't able to do that," he said. "The Chinese Communist Party wouldn't permit that to happen."

Pompeo said Beijing's ruling party "poses a substantial threat to our health and way of life, as the Wuhan virus clearly has demonstrated."

And so it goes. And it goes so consistently; it is easy to become paranoid.

For some paranoia-building vitamins, check this out:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/the_curious_political_path_of_the_chinese_virus.html

An excerpt:

For those who have observed the incessant effort by the Deep State and the left to destroy the Trump presidency, the events of the past few months fall into a well established pattern.

SARS coronavirus was first identified in 2003 after infecting humans in southern China in 2002.  A microbiology review paper published in 2007 concluded, "Coronaviruses are well known to undergo genetic recombination, which may lead to new genotypes and outbreaks."  With the Chinese cultural practice of wet markets, mixing the viral secretions of multiple exotic wild animals, "[t]he reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses from animals or laboratories" was a "time bomb," and "the need for preparedness should not be ignored."

The time bomb warning fell on deaf ears.  Or was someone actually listening and preparing?  A time bomb sits idle until activated.  Once the fuse is lit, the bomb will explode at a predetermined time in the future.

An interesting coincidence is that this virus started in Wuhan, China, which just so happens to be the home of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China's only level 4 bio-safety lab.

An Préachan again: Despite all the (to a very large extent, false) bad news, I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful because I think the HydroxyChloroquine will either live up to the studies and trials already done with it, or its results will at least be close enough we can all relax a bit.

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/mike-pence-doctors-are-testing-hcq-all-over-the-country-we-will-know-soon/

Otherwise, we're facing financial/economic Armageddon. We won't have to worry about some "Wuhan Flu" killing us -- starvation and the "law of the jungle" will do that just fine.

And do you notice how few articles there are out there addressing the mental health/suicide issues this incredible lockdown is building up? Silence.

An Préachan

The Left Is Tenacious, But Also Both Insane and Incompetant

Amici,

Chesterton wrote somewhere, perhaps in Orthodoxy, that Economic Determinism (the materialist philsophy of economics of the Left) was like saying, "Because I have feet, I only walk around on them to find shoes for them."

The "Left" is much in the news as they continue, feverishly, to take down President Donald J. Trump. 

They are tenancious, of course. But isn't that all they are? I mean, isn't that their only good quality? Other than that, they are insane.

Honestly, they are insane, don't you think? Their Old Testament prophet, Karl Marx, was disproved in his own lifetime as the incredible progress of technology mated to free market economics resulted in ever increased wealth, and now, today, it has resulted in a "First World" were even the "poor" have TVs and a material level few have ever had in mankind's history. (Had it not been for World War I, Marxism/Communism would have conquered nothing.) But here's the Left today, still acting like we're in a Charles Dickens-world of Blake's "Dark, satanic mills." The world they think exists is so NOT the world that does appear before us, that surely we must necessarily conclude they gone mad.

I've talked at length to a middle-aged Leftist, a woman who had a good life after her parents escaped Communism -- but she just seems to be fixated on the idea that private property, corporations, and all that, are E.V.I.L., yet somehow, "government" is good, pure, utterly unselfish and absolutely altruistic. It amazes me. She just seems incapable of any other "computing". And of course, Trump to her is a buffoon, an ogre, etc etc.

My point is that such utter disconnect with reality is unsustainable (to use a favorite word of the Left). The Left neither spins nor reaps, as Our Lord said, but how long with God feed them (as it were) when they are BOTH useless in themselves, and of such a nuisance to competent, working, achieving people? 

Perhaps they suspect this in some unconscious way, and realize this is their last chance -- either get rid of Donald J. Trump or he will, in eight years, reveal all of them to be -- from Obama to this acquaintance of mine -- to be complete twits. Incompetent scolds. Puritanical lechers. Envy-dominated mannequins.

No wonder they hate Trump so. 

AnP

Is a U.S. Civil War Coming? "The signs of the times..."

For some time, various commentators (and I mean, both Left and Right, high up the pundit food chain to down low) have been suggesting a new U.S. Civil War might develop, or is developing as we look at it. That may sound extreme, but oft times the Cri de coeur one can find in blog comments "says it all" as to why such a thing might happen.

People are at their wits' end, and of course that's why Trump was elected. They took a desperate gamble. "The powers that be" loath him and they're trying to unseat him, pig-headedly ignoring all the social unrest warning signs against doing so – the middle America that elected Trump is far more armed than Hillary's supporters. Therefore, depending on how the November elections go, we can expect things to reach a boiling point, either from the Left or the Right.

(Because of the daily demands of life, most people don't have time to think about all this: but serious social disruption may be coming and knowing "the signs of the times" is necessary for simple survival.)

Regarding this possibility of civil war, I found both of these Comments I've included further below at The Conservative Treehouse. (The "young girl" referenced was one Mollie Tibbetts. Highlights are mine, of course, but every line of both Comments need highlighted.)

N.B. "Angel families" (also mentioned below) are those with loved ones killed by illegal immigrants. Debates rage about just how many people are killed by illegals, and obviously more are killed by U.S. citizens. But the point is, all illegals commit the basic crime of entering the country illegally; they should not be in the U.S. in the first place, so when some of them commit murder, rape, drug dealing, and so on, legal citizens naturally are outraged. "We have enough crime of our own; we don't need to import it." 

In Europe, with many of the various governments importing Muslims (mostly younger Muslim men), the resulting crime overwhelms their "multi-kulti" thinking, as now intense crime occurs where before it was very rare; for example, Sweden now being "the rape capital of the world". Of course, whether that is true is quite complicated, as reported here. For example, in Sweden, a husband can be accused of raping his wife, which can increase the rape statistics, whereas in Egypt, which has the lowest reported number of rapes, that's apparently because of Islamic law's attitude toward women (women can be out-and-out murdered by their Egyptian husbands if the husbands accuse them of adultery, and so on). And that's just women. Boys are raped all the time in Islamic lands, as reported here:

https://nypost.com/2015/09/25/yes-our-troops-were-ordered-to-ignore-afghan-pedophiles/  and also: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/10/the-muslim-world-is-more-tolerant-of-homosexuality-than-you-think/

Such is the world we live in. Ignorance of it is no excuse.

  

Jan says:

August 23, 2018 at 2:59 am

Before I get emotionally wrapped up in the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings after Labor Day, are the damned Republicans going to vote to confirm Kavanaugh or are they going to withhold their vote based on Schumer’s command that Pres. Trump is an unnamed co-conspirator in a crime & so voting on anything now stops until Pres. Trump is impeached before or after the mid-terms? I saw Kevin McCarthy stand up for the president tonight, and that’s about all I’ve seen of our “Republican leadership”. Sessions/Rosenstein approved a plea agreement where the defendant plead guilty to 2 non-crimes, naming a “candidate” who told him to do the non-crimes. And the Dimms think it’s okay if a man here illegally or legally beats a young girl to death; so long as we allow all illegals to enter our country and we must let sex traffickers take unaccompanied children who are not their children with them AND then we must find the parents of these unaccompanied kids because it’s our fault.

I am heart broken for the Tibbetts family and all American angel families. And I am heart broken that our unAmericans hate their country, our President & us Americans so much they would rather see us dead and America a s**t-hole country. Underneath all this is cold anger, but what happened to Mollie Tibbetts should never have happened; yet it does, every single day. And we have to make it stop. And we have to stop the unAmericans before they kill us.

tjm says:

August 23, 2018 at 1:33 am

“We are faced, not with a situation that can be overcome by rational or moral arguments, but with an unleashing of emotional forces and ideas engendered by the spirit of the times… The dictator State has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up his religious forces. The State has taken the place of God; that is why, seen from this angle, the socialist dictatorships are religions and State slavery is a form of worship. But the religious function cannot be dislocated and falsified in this way without giving rise to secret doubts, which are immediately repressed so as to avoid conflict with the prevailing trends towards mass-mindedness. The result, as always in such cases, is overcompensation in the form of FANATICISM, which in its turn is used as a weapon for stamping out the least flicker of opposition. Free opinion is stifled and moral decision ruthlessly suppressed, on the plea that the end justifies the means, even the vilest.”
–C. G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self (1957)

China Africa, nasty Westerners, and Reparation: an answer to a Leftist

Someone of the Left wrote recently about some comments of mine a relatively standard Leftist response. I took some time to reply. Here it is, first, the Leftist. For the most part, I left the spelling as it was written.

{T]he biggest issues are missing  from [An Préachán]s analysis. they are: slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism and imperialism. trillions spent on arms race, and now trum [Trump] wants to colonize the space. terrorism has cost europe 200 billion euros in ten years, fine. how much is the worth of all the human and material resources stolen from Africa? a thousand times as much? ten thousand times as much? and now these poor africans are trying to cross the med. just for the opportunity to make a small living for themselves and their families that they left behind. the truth is the only way to save white man's honor a small bit is a massive marshall plan type of program in africa to stop the desperate migration. the ultimate truth is that we have created a barbarian civilisation based on money and power run  by ignorant and selfish people like trump. it cannot last, it is sooner or later doomed. this utter nationalism and global capitalism is a disaster: the inequality is unbearable, the rich are getting richer, some are getting crumbs, and the poor are getting poorer.

[name]

My rejoinder: 

In response, I'd express a couple of basic ideas. First, in general, one has to deal with the world as it is, not as one wishes it to be. Second, an individual may well feel responsible for their ancestors' wretched behavior, and try to do something about it, sure, but depriving your own children in order to repay strangers for some ancestral sin won't sit well with your children.

This is just human nature.

Then, as for past colonialism justifying current invasions, consider:

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/30/china-targets-africa-with-debt-trap-diplomacy-and-military-expansion/

According to a recent report, Chinese investment in Africa could create national economies entirely dependent on China.

Although infrastructure projects can create jobs, provide an opportunity for skills development and the transfer of new technologies, Chinese loans  amounting to more than $86 billion bring dangerously high levels of debt that can prove unsustainable for vulnerable African nations.

The lure of short-term benefits for developing or troubled economies while masking long-term burdens is exactly the scenario now playing out in Pakistan, which is becoming progressively subjugated by Chinese loan-based investment

Africa faces immediate, dire, chilling "recolonization" by China. This is extremely important to know about and to call everyone's attention to.

Besides this, Africa has myriad problems we can't solve. One small example: South Africa is driving out its Whites. Someone might say, "Good! They deserve it!" but only a certain type of mind will agree with you. Everyone else sees such a development as both unjust and "racist". Also, as noted above, Africa is being exploited today -- and the Chinese are big into that. They're investing heavily in Africa, and have a military base somewhere in the Horn of Africa now. The point: Does anyone think the Chinese give a damn about "past wrongs" or "colonialism". (Try going to their embassy and protesting their actions.) True, they too were taken advantage of in that way in the past, just look up the Opium War for an example of Western perfidy. But the Opium War doesn't mean modern Britain should be invaded by the Red Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Of course, perhaps you'd still rather live as a subject of the Red Dragon than as a British colonial. Fine. But that's your decision. Others don't have to take it, and it is unjust to force it on them.

More generally about "nations" and "nationalism": People are born into nations that have languages and culture, both language and culture being traditional and rooted in the soil and also in their ancestors' past lives and in the lives and experience of the current generation. It's a holistic experience to be Irish, or German, or Magyar, or whatever. You can't just tell them to forget it, pack up, move aside, go away as their nations now belong to X, or is it Y? Maybe Z. Whoever, someone who able to make a claim that their ancestors were taken advantage of in the past. But beware: people will react very negatively to that.

That's a great way, in short, to start a revolution. And get yourself in serious trouble with everyone around you.

Also, there's no argument in: "My grandfather owned your grandfather, so I have to give you my house." You, yourself, if you want, can do that, but then the obvious question is, (again, as noted above) where do your wife and kids live? You usurp their rights to an identity. Not to mention a home. And what would your brothers and sisters say? And as noted, try to do that to your neighbors and they might attack you.

Bottom line: One generation can't owe its contemporaries for previous generations' sins. First of all, it is simply unjust. But practically, who could possibly determine how much would be owed, and then who would have the power force the redistribution? And then, thirdly, to whom would such redistribution go? Fourthly, who could handle the social upheaval and civil war that would result?

Yet it is the inherent injustice of the idea that prohibits it. An individual is owed the respect every human owes another, and that includes respect for their person and their private property; without respect for private property, we have nothing, because all we have can be taken away. Also, it is theft to take from someone who has done nothing wrong, even if one's ancestors manifestly did not show the natural respect one human owes another.

Example: How could I, being Irish, demand of the English (many of whom are of Irish descent) that they give me a bunch of money because they starved my ancestral family to death, all except for the two who escaped, one to American and the other to Australia?

Then there's slavery today. Sex slavery (usually). We need to stop that before we pontificate on reparation for our ancestors acts. In England, now, today, literally thousands of young English girls have been treated as "sex slaves" by Muslim immigrants and/or their English-born children. That's not something from the past, but all too very much in the present. Or would you dare to consider such repeated rape a good atonement for England's rule of India (and Pakistan)? A just comeuppance?

Related to all this is the perennial and unstoppable problem with Socialism. Socialism is an utopian idea; people simply won't work for free. Elizabeth once told me she thought being a doctor was like being a priest, one did it for conviction, not pay. Well, treat doctors like that and you won't have too many of them.

Far more to the point, [the author] brings ups slavery and colonialism. Islam was essentially -- aside from its famous handful of philosophers who managed to exist for a time after the Asherite takeover -- was a slave-trading empire. From the very beginning, it was all about slaves. Entire peoples were moved about the Middle East by Muslim rulers of various dynasties, and the great city of Alexandria, a wonder of the ancient world and the only purely intellectual and commerce-founded city in the ancient Mediterranean world, in one generation was turned into a fishing village. The Arab conquerors didn't know how to govern it, or even what it was for. So, when the populace rebelled (they were famously hard to rule) the emirs killed off a third of them, sold another third directly into slavery, and moved the rest to their new Egyptian capital city of Cairo.

Problem of what to do with Alexandria solved.

Also, something most of you don't know about: the Viking Age was funded by Arab silver. Arab slave markets on the Black Sea and the Caspian paid Swedes to run newly acquired slaves down the Russian rivers from the Baltic. The Norwegians and Danes captured the slaves in Western Europe and ran then over to the Swedes in the Baltic. So on and so forth.

In other words, why bemoan "the West's" "slavery, neo-colonialism, and imperialism" when it has always been a central element to Islam, and even humanity in general. They've always done so. They still do so. Act today to stop it today.

Finally, as for Trump being, as the Leftist puts it: "ignorant and selfish", well, guess what? Black Americans are doing much better financially under Trump than they ever did under Obama, and indeed, all Americans (legal ones) are doing much better financially under Trump. Jobs, money, companies, all are "coming home" to America, and Trump's popularity keep rising. It's not super high, of course. But it keeps rising slowly. National feeling is strong. And that's just natural, too.

Pretty good for a guy both ignorant and selfish.

An Préachán