Sovereignty. The election was stolen. What was stolen is our Sovereignty.

Beannachtaí Dé, everyone, (and we need God's blessings, now and ever!)

Bad news, the past few days. As John Zmirak so appropriately says, America is a kidnap victim. We are Patty Hearst. We are being beaten, robbed, and raped. And we're being robbed of our sovereignty, our right to rule ourselves.

I hate being right, but the election was stolen, brazenly. Of course, a great many commentators and people blogging have warned that it would be stolen. Biden admitted as much in his smug confidence in recent days. Before the 2020 election, he also smugly boasted they'd win easily. He knew.

So, we were right. We should have expected it because in Pennsylvania and Arizona, nothing was done to correct the voting irregularities of 2020. Because, according to the Powers-That-Be, there was nothing wrong with that election.

For details of the steal, myriads of proofs exist, and Emerald Robinson has a compendium of events here. Check out Robinson's article for its many charts and grafts showing sudden Democrat ballot dumps in various places. It is preposterous. Brazen. In-your-face, but they did it anyway.

• RINOs
• And they could not have done it without the help of the RINOs, the right-wing of the UniParty, who did the best they could to sink MAGA Republican candidates and are now howling for Trump's blood.
  
• The RINOs want DeSantis for president, of course, because they control him in terms of their big-money donations. Trump, they cannot control. DeSantis (or anyone else), however, will not get elected nationally without the help of the MAGA Republicans.
• As the RINOs loathe the MAGA, and vice-versa, we cannot expect anything but disaster going forward.
  

And anyway, in general, you know the voting has been rigged when just about every poll, Leftist, Middle, or Right, show tremendous public dissatisfaction with government yet these unhappy legions of voters unaccountably vote the people responsible for their misery back into power. You also know something is up when in states like Florida and Ohio, states possessing sensible, same-day voting systems, Republicans win big, very big, actually, in both those states; yet Democrat states having "election seasons" rather than "election days" take days to count and candidates whom all polling shows enjoy large leads (again, general Left-leaning pollsters to pollsters with platinum track records, like Trafalgar) see their leads evaporate. Even professional gamblers predicted a "Red Wave". So, what happened?

Bottom Line: Ballots, not Votes

This is no longer about voting. It is no longer about candidates being likable, intelligent, or arguing for smart policy proposals. Biden doesn't even know who he is half the time, and now this literal idiot elected senator in Pennsylvania is quasi brain-dead (his wife will replace him). That state elected a Democrat state legislator who died back in October. What a hell-hole. (Sam Faddis describes what happened in Pennsylvania here, and it involves RINOs.)

No. It isn't about all that stuff, which is so passé. It is about ballots. Ballots, ballots, who has the ballots? Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse has an excellent column on this here. This is a highly important article for one to read if one wishes to grasp what's going on here.

My long-held thesis

My long-held thesis is that an individual or group (like a political party) that intentionally accepts or "believes" or embraces such obvious contradictions like abortion or Covid or climate change, go crazy. They become demented. They are cursed, as the Belbury bigshots were cursed in C.S. Lewis' novel, That Hideous Strength. They were turned into vicious subhumans by the Curse of Babel.

This is like with abortion, and Covid, and Climate Change. Advocates for these abominations do not want you to look at facts, either of biology, embryology, the unscience that is virology (and it is a joke), and climatology. They lie to you, right into your face. Abortion is the best example. "That's just a clump of cells, not a baby." Utter Stercus tauri. Where is Sterculius when you need him? (BTW, Every pro-life republican governor who signed an abortion ban won re-election.

My thesis is that in trying to act as though you believe something so obviously not true, your moral and intellectual underpinnings begin to fray. Sooner or later you become a moral homunculus. Over the years, I've known individuals who seemed to lose their identity because they became abortion supporters. One guy wanted to advance in the Democrat Party and over time went from a regular guy to a nasty piece of work. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?" (St. Mark 8:3)

Sovereignty, who has the Sovereignty?

Another elemental, fundamental truth that needs to be intellectually apprehended is that the Authoritarians, whether Communists or Nazis or "Watermelon" Fascists, is that they do not care for your sovereignty. If you don't get this, you will NOT know what's going on.

Sovereignty is the ideal about where the right to govern lies. In Ancient Egypt, it lay with Pharaoh, who was a god. In China, for millennia, it lay with "Heaven", which bestowed it on a ruler who was ruthless enough to seize it and keep it. The same was true in Islam, from its inception. In Ancient Greece, it lay solely with the citizens of a city-state. Most of the people who made up Classical Athens' population were slaves; only the citizens had the power to vote and partake of rule. In the Roman Republic, it lay both with the Senate and the popular house, the plebs, who over time had gained rights, so the Roman Republic resembled the American one (because the Americans modeled theirs after Rome).

Then Christianity came along. In Ancient Judaism, sovereignty lay solely with God, yet they wanted a king, so God gave them one, but told them they wouldn't like this transfer of sovereignty from God to the state. When Rome converted to Christianity, the already sovereign Roman state became sovereign directly because God made it so. The "divine" pagan emperor became a divinely appointed ruler. But in the West, with no empire surviving, sovereignty still rested with God, and it was administered by the Church. The Church made and unmade kings. The Church also recognized guilds of tradesmen and manufacturers. These "lower classes" always had more political clout in the West than in the East. Parliaments had their nobles, yes, but also their "Commons", not individuals but communities.

Then post the Reformation, wherein kings decided what religion would be allowed, sovereignty shifted more to the kings, and finally the Divine Right of Kings became the rule. It was first promoted by the Protestant James I of England, but more fully embodied in the Catholic Louis XIV. Yet the Bourbons made such a mess of Europe that this theory was overthrown and replaced with two very different, and eternally contending views. 

1. One, sovereignty was seen to lie with the people, in general. Englishman John Locke did the most to promote this, and the U.S.A. is in essence his child, his creation. 
2. The other, sovereignty lay with those who had the guts and willpower to seize it, whether the French Revolutionary Directory, or Napoleon, or whoever.

N.B. Over time, the Left came to control this idea of sovereignty. Basically, their ideology became sovereign. We live to bring their utopias to birth. We live to labor for the state in order to fulfill the ideology. We live to keep those who rule the state in luxury. We have no rights except what the state decrees. But of course, no one of the ruling class really believes the ideology (workers' paradise or National Socialist breeding farm or stone-age "green" utopia).

2020 & 2022

Today, in the U.S., the issue really is who has the sovereignty. If it is the people, then votes count. The people employ the state and can dismiss it. But we are not seeing that, are we? Not at all, not in the slightest. These elections of 2022 and 2020 show that the people cannot dismiss the state. The state, the Deep State, impersonates God. It manufactures fraudulent ballots, and then counts them. Voting is meaningless. Those who have seized power are the ones who count.

Please, everyone, understand this. It is our reality.

Can we defeat it? Maybe. I'll be highly interested to see if Kari Lake wins Arizona. She'll be a major weapon against our enemies. But as of this writing, that election is in Limbo.

 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.

 

Election Day, the Steal Is On, and the U.S. National Anthem sung by Brazilian singer

Hi Everyone,

Election Day is upon the U.S.A. And it is a blood-moon election day, at that.

First things first: I've linked to a great rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner, sung by Brazilian Dan Vasc in a sort of heavy-metal version. Senhor Vasc just belts it out; no nuance, no artsy-fartsy rendition, this. And Vasc belts it out like he means every last syllable. It's what Francis Scott Key must have actually felt seeing "Old Glory" waving through the smokes and bombardment targeting it from His Majesty's ships. Come to think of it, I don't easily remember hearing any man sing the anthem. That can't be quite right, but whatever, it is a notorious difficult piece to sing, and singers try to do their "musical" best, but Vasc just roars it out. The way he does it bestows on it its inherent bellicose meaning. Pride. Guts. Defiance. This is a war song. We need to hear it like this on this election day. (And just every once in a while, too.)

Second, of course, it is election day and as they day progresses, numerous people are reporting the steal is on. In highly contested districts, voting machines are malfuncting en masse, and chaos reigns. (An Orthodox Hasidic district in New York City seems to not have hired enough poll workers and incredible lines are forming. They all vote Republican.)

Emerald Robinson reports on the larger steal here. This article at American Thinker gives a good history of the recent election thefts, and a review of what happened in 2020. An excerpt:

So-called “bellwether counties,” counties that typically predict the winner, sided with Trump 18 out of 19 times. Before 2020, these 19 counties voted for the eventual winner of the Presidential election every time from 1980 until 2020.

This article discusses the "Red-Mirage" phenomenon. The article explains:

As early Election Day results come in on Tuesday, it will likely appear that Republican candidates vying for any number of the federal or statewide races appear to be leading their Democratic opponents, even by large margins.

Their leads will dwindle, or crumble completely, after perceived “dumps” of votes are recorded by state election officials who count mail-in and absentee ballots in the days — or even weeks — following Election Day.

All those Republican votes are mirages, you see. The bad guys need time to find out how big the Republicans won, then gin up the votes to beat them. Simple. And this is only one way that they cheat. That's the way the game is played. However, my friends, shame me once, shame on you, shame me twice... and now we know for certain how they do this, so we must stop it. Brazil knows the score. They must. We have to stop this vote corruption or Brazil will end up a province of China and we'll end up like John Zmirak so aptly describes:

I’m trying to manage my expectations of the upcoming midterm elections. If you asked me what I think the most likely outcome tomorrow, I’d say the following:

• The Democrats win in every race, 99% to 1%.
• Military vehicles fill the streets of the capitals of red states.
• Fox News gets another “facelift” as it did on Election Night 2020. Tucker Carlson disappears into some CIA “black site,” and gets replaced without explanation by a sneering Chris Wallace.
• The Fox news anchor blondes give way to stodgy men in brown paramilitary uniforms, who report the results in Romanian.

But call me a sunny optimist. Because if the Democrats were to reveal their final intentions that obviously, the average American might do something wild and rebellious, before it’s too late.

AnP again. They might, John. They might.

Thugocracy

The Biden Department of Justice has announced it is sending around teams of "agents" to "monitor" the voting in key cities and counties. As commentators have said, were that to happen in other countries, the U.S. would rule those elections fraudulent. Interference from the hated central government! But it is happening here. The central government is "enforcing" its will.

An excerpt:

In a press release published one day before the midterms, the DOJ said it plans to send its attorneys to 64 jurisdictions in 24 states to monitor polling locations “for compliance with the federal voting rights laws.”

In explanation, they're still pretending modern America is no different than the Segregationist South of the 1950s, and Blacks need federal agents paratrooped in to enforce their "civil rights". What about the civil rights of those who find their votes discarded, or that they've already voted!

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won't allow it. Good for him. I see another state's attorney general is protesting this, as others are beginning to.

The Democrats have sunk themselves in their effort to sink us.

The Bottom Line is that the Democrats have demonized the Republicans so thoroughly that they, the Democrats, cannot allow any Republicans to be elected. Their "logic" comes to zero sum. The Democrats have not run on their accomplishments because the American people – except for the Left – loathe the inflation, the high fuel costs, the endless race-baiting, the child genital mutilation, an all the rest of it. Lee Zeldin, running for governor of New York, says he's heard it a million times "If you are not elected, we're leaving!" Democrat-controlled states are losing millions of people. Well, the 2/3s of the whole country that works and maintains the rest cannot "leave". There's nowhere else to go to.

But here are the Democrats going scorched earth – just like they did in the 1860 election. (Old habits die hard.) They cannot allow "Nazis" and "Fascists" to "take over America", quite forgetting that they are psychologically projecting: it is they who are combining corporations to the state in one big group (goose)stepping conglomeration. For example, the Democrats are 100 percent into child sex mutilation and sterilization, and in the entire country, there's not a large corporation that opposes this "Transgender" abomination. In fact, bar Elon Musk buying Twitter, the billionaire tech people and their social platforms are all for child sex mutilation and sterilization. And abortion! The Democrats thought – they really did – that the country worshiped Moloch so thoroughly that Democrats would sweep the election on that one issue alone.

That factoid, by itself, shows how delusional they are. The following must be written: They are no longer our fellow countrymen. They're something else, an American zombie knock-off of the authoritarian-style of political thought that produced the Nazis and Communists, and first took over a nation during the French Revolution. You could say they demonize because they don't believe in demons. Their godlessness provides them with no restrictions to their passions, and the same was true of the Nazis, the Communists, and the radical French revolutionaries.

We, for our part, don't need to demonize them in turn. They need conversion to the Faith that built Western Civilization, though right now that Faith now needs to reconvert itself. Most of all, however, we need to understand them. Get our minds around (technically, philosophically to "apprehend") them so that we can finally agree we must treat them as mentally ill, or possessed, and never – never – let them near power again. 

They simply don't believe sovereignty rests with the people, or God, or Natural Law. For all intents and purposes, sovereignty for them rests in their goofy ideas, or in their passions: "I feel like a girl, though I am a boy; therefore, cut it all off!" kind of passion. That's insane, but it encapsulates all their doctrine, and their prophets, as well.

  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.