No Debate About It

Everyone knows where the very public and transparent Trump stands on issues. Democrats know and are doing everything they can to keep Trump out of the White House. And it is not because of his personality or his past immoral peccadillos, or because he poses a “threat to Democracy!” No.

Donald J Trump is a threat to the status quo of the Blob – a clandestine network of members of the federal government, working in conjunction with financial, industrial, media, and social media entities and leaders, to exercise power alongside with and apart from the elected United States government.

(That is the “Russia Russia Russia!” (and many others) deception-generating Blob, that I am referring to, that is focused on taking out Trump and retaining Blob power.

More than 700 deep state security and military officials have officially endorsed Kamala Harris for president, claiming that former President Donald J. Trump “endangers” democratic ideals, ironically as Harris was never democratically nominated by her party. (Emphasis mine.)

The Entire Deep State Just Endorsed Kamala. (thenationalpulse.com))

Trump has openly talked about bursting that foul blister to save the country, its citizens, the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Democracy! And that’s why Blob parasites continue, even after a second attempt on his life, to call Trump a “threat to Democracy.” They hope that someone listening to Blob media and deep-state prepped will take him out by any means necessary. They want to continue feeding on America.

Did the Harris/Biden DOJ just make their last-ditch move to ensure Trump’s assassinated before election day? – Revolver News

In a shocking and dangerously irresponsible move, the Harris/Biden DOJ put out a letter showing there’s a $150k active bounty on President Trump’s head. Why would they release something like this right after yet another assassination attempt? Most would say it’s because they’re absolutely desperate to take him out before Election Day

That is the “Russia Russia Russia!” (and many others) deception-generating Blob, that I am referring to, all meant to smear Trump and retain Blob power.

So far, Trump has dodged bullets and Kamala has dodged interviews.

Where does the blob/Democratic party’s second basement candidate stand on the issues?

What did we learn about the Blob’s amorphous candidate during the Tuesday, Sept. 10 ABC presidential three-against-one debate?

Kamala said things that were not true and wasn’t fact-checked. Trump, on the other hand was interrupted over and over and “fact-checked” – not with facts but with the Blob media’s skewed talking points. That’s how the totally biased and condescending ABC moderators rolled. The purulent matter of the Blob media seeped out. The biggest loser in Tuesday night’s presidential debate was ABC News. No Debate About It.

The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left wing and its media.

Decade of untruth: Tallying the media’s Trump, Biden lies (nypost.com)

Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript – ABC7 Los Angeles

There was no newfound knowledge about the Blob’s hand puppet. There was a lot of coached mannerisms that reminded me of the Blob’s snarky media hosts.

If you switched off the sound for the ABC debate Tuesday night and just watched the images, you would come away feeling deep distaste for the haughty flibbertigibbet who kept making faces while Trump was speaking. 

The many, nasty faces of Kamala Harris: VP only reinforced the fatal inauthenticity of her debate performance (nypost.com)

American writer, social critic, public speaker, and blogger James Howard Kunstler, in his brief Substack post What You Don’t Know Might Surprise You, writes about Hollywood influence shoring up Kamala and comments on the debate: “everything she said was disingenuous or an outright lie.”

And then he flags the debate “whopper”: an admission by Kamala Harris regarding her whereabouts on J6 when a “joint session of Congress was about to certify her as the first female veep in US history.”

“. . .at 11:15a.m. on 1/6/21 — hours before protesters breached the Capitol — Kamala Harris was spirited away a few blocks to 430 South Capitol Street, the headquarters building of the Democratic National Committee, where a pipe bomb (or facsimile of one) had been planted hours before by some DC law enforcement person.”

Kunstler explains why:

“The plan, you see, was to disrupt the election certification process underway at mid-day in the House chamber by creating a furor over the discovery of the pipe bomb planted to assassinate veep-elect Kamala Harris — a joint blob / Democratic Party operation.”

To further the J6 and “threat to Democracy” ruse by the Blob, a recent August 2, 2024 article was posted:

Vice President Kamala Harris came within 20 feet of a pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Kamala Harris came within 20 feet of pipe bomb on Jan. 6, report finds – Washington Examiner

Kunstler goes on to say that the pipe bomb hoax wasn’t needed. Deep state actors – FBI instigators – stoked the J6 crowd into disrupting the procedure. (Unarmed Ashli Babbitt was murdered that day by capital police officer Michael Byrd.)

You won’t hear about any of this from the MSM or in your “higher education” bubble where discernment and wisdom are denied admission. Darren Beattie at Revolver has done extensive investigative research on the pipe bomb hoax: You searched for pipe bomb – Revolver News

The debate between President Trump and Kamala Harris was a complete nothingburger for her. She didn’t go in and wow anyone or change any hearts and minds. All she really proved is that she’s running on “vibes.” Kamala is banking on feelings and emotions because she’s got nothing when it comes to actual policies. And what little she has to show is a track record of failure and hopelessness.

President Trump unleashes hot new tactic to beat Comrade Kamala… – Revolver News

The Coming Civil War and Financial Crisis

What isn’t a nothing burger: Democrats, the “Save Democracy” party, is setting us up for another stolen election with reports that election results will take time to count, and, of course, with the influx of illegal immigrants being set up to vote as if they were U.S. citizens and had skin in the game.

But when Trump wins reelection, Democrats will provoke civil war.

If there is a Democrat majority in the house this next election, Trump’s reelection will not be certified on January 6th 2025. Democrats will claim (falsely) that he is an insurrectionist. A conspiracy theory? No. The “Save Democracy” Party is very open about this.

[Jamie] Raskin then suggested that there would be “civil war conditions” and that Congress would “need bodyguards for everybody.” The Democrat lawmaker claimed that civil war conditions and bodyguards would be necessary because the Supreme Court justices “simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great Fourteenth Amendment means.”

Democrat Rep calls for ‘civil war conditions,’ to disqualify Trump (americanmilitarynews.com)

“…so it’s going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified.”

Rep. Raskin in February: It’s Up to Congress to Disqualify Trump if He Wins (legalinsurrection.com)

Published February 23, 2024:

How Democrats Could Disqualify Trump If the Supreme Court Doesn’t – The Atlantic

I have no doubt that Trump will win reelection and I have no doubt that the Democrats will not certify his reelection. Never Trumpers and Evangelicals for Harris, who cast their vote for Kamala, will have to lie to themselves again to be OK with the loss of Democracy and the takeover of the country.

When the takeover happens, we will not have a legitimate government. No debate about it.

As a result, there will massive civil unrest. The dollars in your pocket, your bank account and retirement accounts will lose most of their value. The fiat U.S. dollar is backed, not by gold, but by the full faith and trust in the government that issued it. Faith and trust will be blown away by the illegitimate government. No other country will want to deal with the dollar.

Right now, BRIC nations, “a Russia- and China-led consortium has apparently settled on using gold as the basis of a planned new international currency system separate from the US dollar and euro.”

Forbes: The BRICs Go For Gold

The stock market will likely crash 50% (hurting retirement accounts) and Marshall law will then be imposed by the “Save Democracy” party. Everyone needs to prepare for what is coming. Right now, make sure that America First republicans are elected to the house so that there is majority to protect against the “fundamental transformation” plans of Democrats.

More on this in a future post.

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Analysis of the Trump-Harris Debate:

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc analyze Tuesday’s debate and Kamala mid-debate-prep trip to Penzey’s.

Analysis of the Trump-Harris Debate – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

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‘You’re Wrong’ With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 114: ‘Fact-Checking’ (spreaker.com)

WORD SALAD: Kamala Harris Gives Total Non-Answer When Asked How She Plans to Lower the Cost of Living (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

David J Harris Jr on X: “This pastor just obliterated Kamala and what she’s doing to our country! We need more pastors like this!!! 🔥 https://t.co/Tuh3YXy81Z” / X

Chicago citizen raises hell.

TONY™ on X: “WOW! This man absolutely destroys Biden and Kamala Harris for Chicago’s iIIegal aIien crisis and the cities billion dollar deficit 🔥🔥🔥🔥 This man is speaking facts!!! https://t.co/2f9qOuyCq6” / X

Another “poor little foreigner”: drunk, driving 114 MPH and resisting arrest:

Female Arkansas state trooper fights illegal alien on side of road, shoots him in head.

electionmeltdown24.com

The 2024 Election Meltdown (paradigmnewsletters.org)

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A cure worse than the problem?

Big Pharma? 14-year-old girl on SSRIs changes medication-a week later she murders her mother and invites friend over to view the dead body… – Revolver News

I know someone who was given the antidepressant Zoloft – a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) – during a time of going through a divorce. The drug was making her so lethargic that she didn’t care about anything. So, she stopped taking it. Then she crashed and became severely depressed. She didn’t want to go on with life like that. She found help.

Antidepressants Can Cause Suicide and Homicide — Peter Gotzsche, M.D. (youtube.com)

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Kamala’s debate coach:

Big Mike started the victimization rhetoric during the 2008 presidential campaign – until David Axelrod had her stop. Here’s Big Mike at the recent DNC doing it again:

David Sacks: Would-be Trump Assassin Was Quoting Biden, Harris, and the Media ‘Chapter and Verse’ (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

The 2024 Project

“They start from a desire for unity, and they are taught a contrived notion of right and wrong through criticism and struggle so that we can arrive at a new, contrived unity on a new, contrived basis. Everyone outside of the desire for unity is an enemy of the people.” ~Maoism.

There’s a project afoot pre-election 2024. Maoist in nature, it’s formula – unity, criticism, unity – is being used to transform the faithful into having “correct” political opinions.

Gurus have come out of their ashram bubbles to tells us how to be good little political Christians because . . . “You people are so extreme. We must address divisive forces and soften your stance on everything. You must rid yourself of old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas that get in the way of fundamental transformation. We will free you from wrongthink. We have books, podcasts, MSNBC media spots, and church seminars to stretch you beyond what you know. The goal is to expose you to voices you need to be following so you can learn to love each other better.” So goes the hectoring.

(Submit to our purpose-driven struggle session and over your personal spiritual journey with us you too will soon agree with us on critical race theory, liberation theology, queer theory, climate change, open-borders, gun control, same-sex marriage, abortion, hating Trump, and saving “Democracy!” by any means necessary. We want you to love God and the State!)

I don’t know the motive of these moralizing gurus other than they want to “reclaim Christianity from right-wing extremism” or some such thing such thing. (David French, who has an extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, says he wants to pry away the conservative movement from a deranged man [Trump]. That’s why he’s all in on the radical Leftist Kamala-Walz duo – to save conservatism from itself.)

Is there mal-intent by these evangelists of the Left, these missionaries of Progressivism – for Progressivism is a political religion? Maybe not. They likely have turned their eyes and ears away from reality to follow Wide Way myths – contrived notions of right and wrong. Some have become paid influencers who find ways of being in the spotlights of media’s Great White Way. In any case, they have become disciples of Mao and the Left.

And the Left, like Mao in support of his Cultural Revolution, has shown that it will do what it wants by any means necessary including rig elections, creating hoaxes, spreading lies, censorship, purging of political opponents, and unjust lawfare in the name of “Democracy!” to bring about its own Cultural Revolution.

In order to satisfy their craving for ideological purity, the wolves of Left have no problem gobbling up pastors and Chrisitan leadership in order to steal the flock. (See Megan Basham’s book Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda and video below.)

The Left’s spiritual guides employ the Maoist formula of unity, criticism, unity. They’ll start by talking about wanting to unite Christians in a better way of love and then they’ll criticize in Saul Alinsky-like fashion. You’ve heard the ad hominems: “deplorables” “bitter clingers” “extremists” “conspiracy theorists” “homophobes” “xenophobes”, “authoritarians”, “fascists”, “threats to Evangelicalism” AND “DEMOCRACY!” and the latest put-down: “they’re weird.”

(They finally got something right: “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” Flannery O’Connor)

They ridicule “Christian Nationalists” as being backward reactionaries and project a threat to Democracy on to them. And it’s no wonder: would-be dictators, Marxists, fascists, autocrats, and MSNBC use the word “Democracy” the most. It’s used by them in a bait and switch scheme.

These “purveyors of Democracy” offer to sell “Democracy”, which they do not actually intend to sell. This is “the bait.” They switch customers from buying the advertised “Democracy” that the seller initially offered into buying a different product or service that is usually at a higher price (loss of freedom including free speech – vox populiand therefore Democracy!) and has advantageous effect to the advertiser (dictatorship). This is the “switch.”

From a Marxist perspective, the Left wants to subvert the nation-state and nationalism. Marxists think that the Proletarians who embrace nationalism do so out of false consciousness. The working class should therefore abandon their parochial worldview and understand that their struggles against the bourgeoisie, the means of production and capitalism, transcend national boundaries. Nationality would disappear as people come to identify by class instead. So goes Bolshevik theory. The working class has no homeland!

Added 8-20-2024: Victor Davis Hanson and The Myriad Projections of the 2024 Campaign:

 . . .the political projectionist knows best his own hazardous or off-putting conduct and policies. And so, he can most skillfully attribute just these liabilities to those who have had no experience with them.

Shaming people till they break down and pledge Progressive values or to at least get them so muddled in their thinking that they back off and become controlled opposition is their means to their unity.

Below are some of the long-form journalistic revisionist (and unsubstantiated) works (ala The 1619 Project) that takes a critical view of backwater Evangelicals living in flyover country (“the ragged edge of the universe”- Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby).

You see, sneering elites and the literati decided that anyone not like them was not worth knowing–an attitude reflected in such quotes as this one from H.L. Mencken, who said of Willa Cather, “I don’t care how well she writes, I don’t give a damn what happens in Nebraska.”

To wit:

Tim Alberta and The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, published December 5, 2023

Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman with White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy published on February 27, 2024

Jim Wallis: The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy, published April 2, 2024

The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics, Nancy French and Curtis Chang, based on project by David French, Russell Moore & Curtis Chang, published April 23, 2024

And before the 2020 election:

Kaitlyn Schiess: The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor, published September 8, 2020

I wonder. Did these spiritual guides come to their conclusions about people they don’t agree with and are irritated by through Leftist media sources?

Certainly, if one were a disciple of MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, WaPo, The Atlantic, Christianity Today, Trinity Forum, and other Progressive Left sources, one could easily conclude that Christians who are not like them are “enemies of the people.” For, media disciples are an enlightened bunch but everyone else – they don’t know any better, and worse. They are racist rubes, are in a cult of personality and are involved in political idolatry. Christians in this sad group, so they tell us, are making Christianity look bad. But THEY have the answer – be discipled by the Left!

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris (more below) are OK with the disastrous record of destructive monetary and fiscal policies under Biden-Harris. Are they OK with the modern monetary theory of spending and dollar printing that has created high inflation and massive debt for future generations? To pay off the huge debt, the government will come after retirement funds and checking and saving accounts.

Are they OK with people unable to pay their bills and not able to buy a house or maintain their business? How does this show love for your neighbor? Are Evangelicals for Harris OK with soviet-style price controls as proposed by Kamala Harris? David Brooks actually gets something right.

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK with the current inversion of justice: criminals without bonds are released to do harm again, great grandmothers are sentenced for praying, political opponents are brought to trial on spurious charges. Many of the political prisoners of J6 are still awaiting trial. This is equity in Harris world. How does this show love for your neighbor?

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK with a stolen election and a stolen candidacy and stolen valor. How does this show love for your neighbor?

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK with the current geo-political nightmare of wars and potential wars on several fronts that have come about under Biden-Harris. How does this show love for your neighbor?

One has to wonder – are they OK with the Afghanistan debacle? Joe and Kamala (of the party of gun control) had the U.S. flee Afghanistan, leaving behind $80+ BN in weapons and equipment and “a security vacuum into which all the Islamic terrorist organizations on the planet flooded. The results will be catastrophic for the entire world. Joe and Kamala never speak of it and do nothing to stave off what is at this point the inevitable.” The Terror Factory Joe And Kamala Built – Afghanistan (substack.com) How does this show love for your neighbor?

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK aligning themselves with those who want to destroy Western civilization? They might not view themselves as pro-Hamas protestors, but the party they are joining is showing its hatred toward Israel, that in truth, is also hatred of Western civilization and America. How does this show love for your neighbor?

Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson:

Foreign Policy cites what it calls Harris’ “mantra” of favoring “what can be, unburdened by what has been.” In practice, this “mantra” and her public statements show a pronounced indulgence toward Iran and a hostility to Israeli efforts to ensure its own survival. . .

A Harris foreign policy promises genuine departure— “what can be, unburdened by what has been”—acknowledging a multipolar world by retreating from its friends in the face of its enemies.

Kamala Harris Would Be Disastrous for the Middle East | The National Interest

Communist China is a threat to Western civilization. Tim Walz, who has made many trips to China, praises the communist system there.

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris (more below) are OK hitching their wagon to the party of anger and grievance? To identity politics, victimhood and the need to constantly produce guilt? To condemnation and holding a grudge? To a party that reconciles itself to all manner of evil and refuses to be reconciled to people not like them? How does personal animus toward Trump and MAGA folks show love for your neighbor?

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK with scientism, with masks and mandates, with lockdowns, with the closing of schools, churches and businesses, with snitching on your neighbor, and the ill treatment of the elderly that happened during COVID? Are they Karens? Do they want vaccine passports and everyone to be monitored 24/7 by some government entity? How does this show love for your neighbor?

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK with censorship, when Jesus said, “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” How does censorship show love for your neighbor?

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK with abortion used as Satanic ritual? Are they OK with the guy who identifies as a Christian and was the former head of NIH, Francis Collins, doing Mengele-like experiments with aborted baby parts. And what about fetal tissue trafficking? How does this show love for your neighbor?

Evangelicals for Harris and the party of death and depopulation: DNC Attendees Will Have Opportunities For Free Vasectomies, Abortions | The Daily Caller

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK with arresting pro-life activists? In true Maoist fashion, A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Be a Nightmare, Putting More Pro-Life Americans in Prison:

Recently released videos from a citizen journalist who went undercover to expose Planned Parenthood’s involvement in fetal tissue trafficking — and was subsequently investigated by then-California Attorney General Harris — reignited criticism of her role in his prosecution. As prosecutions of pro-life activists have increased under the Biden administration, Harris’ past actions amplify concerns that her administration would take an even more aggressive stance, using the Department of Justice (DOJ) to selectively target political opponents.

One has to wonder how it is that groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are OK with open borders that allows in deadly fentanyl and murderers and all kinds of terrorists and disease. Gang leader wanted for 23 murders was released into US: ICE (youtube.com) Do they pretend that Scripture makes it all OK? How does this show love for your neighbor?

Did Evangelicals for Harris join up out of feelings for and a myopic obsession with DEI, CRT, and climate crisis myths coming out their “higher-education” ashrams?

Do they identify with identity politics? Are they Marxist and socialists?

Did Evangelicals for Harris join up to show their hatred of all things Trump like good little foot soldiers of MSNBC? To show their disdain of Trump’s now-distant past remarks and behavior while aligning themselves with characters of all kinds of unscrupulous and perverse behavior? To show their contempt for patriotism and America just like the Left? How does this show love for your neighbor?

Added 8-24-2024:

It seems to me that all such groups like Evangelicals for Harris see themselves as freed up thinkers and Rousseauian in the sense that they feel good about themselves and what they do for they think they are morally good apart from any outside reference except for their tribe. And more so.

They believe that the “politically correct” views they hold would create a perfectly unified democracy. And so, they ply Evangelicals to transfer allegiance from what they hold to be true to what they say is true. As such, they reveal themselves to be the prophets of “totalitarian democracy” – the majority living under the tyranny (“unity”) of a one absolute and perfect political truth.

By any measure – facts, science, Scripture, common sense, and the common good – groups such as Evangelicals for Harris are at war with reality. And, it’s no wonder. They are the products and facilitators of the struggle session known as The 2024 Project.

In Paul’s last letter (II Timothy) he tells his young protégé Timothy what to look out for:

For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.  So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. II Timothy 4:3-4

New Whistleblower Book, ‘Shepherds for Sale,’ Sends Regime Christians into ‘Attack’ Mode – The Stream

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Evangelicals for Harris, formerly Evangelicals for Biden, is a project of Faith Voters, a 501(c)4 organization. It is a group claiming to represent evangelicals who are voting and advocating for Harris-Walz.

Apparently, they are running interference for Harris-Walz while seeking to downplay their radical agenda on issues like the economy, race, climate change, open borders, abortion entrenchment and expansion, LGBTQ promotion, destroying the nuclear family, and trans-ing the children – all in the name of Evangelicalism.

Even Billy Graham’s granddaughter has joined Evangelicals for Harris: ‘Voting Kamala, for me, is so much greater than policies.’ Apparently, wisdom need not be applied to issues beyond her wrinkled nose. The country can go to hell so long as Trump is not elected. A Faustian bargain, indeed.

A recent Evangelicals for Harris Zoom event was hosted by an activist who has a long history of bashing “Whiteness” and calling for the destruction of police departments.

Ekemini Uwan hosted the Zoom call, one of many identity-based online Zoom meetings in support of the new Democratic Party nominee that have sparked controversy.

Uwan describes herself on her website as a “reparations activist whose work spans the globe, as she has advocated for global reparations on behalf of Africans and African Descendants on the floor of the United Nations three times.”

Uwan spoke at Sparrow Conference 2019 where she gave “a historical, sociological, political, theological and gospel-saturated clinic on racial identity.” At that conference, she said we have to talk about what whiteness is:

“The reality is whiteness is rooted in plunder. theft. In slavery – enslavement of Africans. Genocide of native Americans. We’re sitting on stolen land. Everywhere in America we’re sitting on stolen land. This is the reality of land that was stolen from native Americans. We’re Americans we have to recognize and acknowledge that. It’s a power structure, that’s what whiteness is . . .”

Elizabeth Eziashi comments on what Uwan says:

“WHITENESS IS WICKED”… at a Christian Conference ? | Sparrow 2019 Breakdown PART 2 | Ekemini Uwan (youtube.com)

I wonder. Did the whites on that Wednesday Zoom call, including Wheaton College prof. Amy Peeler, divest from their whiteness?

Just more greed, envy, racism, and class warfare but now encapsuled in the virtue-signaling ‘respectability’ of anti-racism rhetoric. This Christian-coated pill gives groups like Evangelicals for Harris a way to swallow Marxist Progressivism.

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Get to know the Evangelicals for Harris Mind Games at work to woo voters away to their liberal agenda.

For many Christians, “Evangelicals for Harris” sounds like an oxymoron but there is a simple political strategy behind it.

The strategy is this: Harris doesn’t have to appeal to a lot of Republican-leaning churchgoers. She just needs to win over a few, David Brody, chief political analyst for the Christian Broadcast Network, said on American Family Radio Wednesday.

(The following Harris campaign Mind Games clip is meant to shame Trump and those who vote for him.)

Harris wooing Sunday School class while Trump woos Gen Z (afn.net)

The Shift Leftward:

Exposing Corruption in the Evangelical Church: The infiltration of a Leftist agenda, w/ Megan Basham (youtube.com)

Megan Basham: Abuse and accountability | WORLD (wng.org)

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The credentialed elites look down on “muscular jobs” workers.

“Dirty Jobs” Mike Rowe talks with Victor Davis Hanson about his article America’s Lab Rats? – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

Victor Davis Hanson, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, Pepperdine professor, syndicated columnist, bestselling author, and fifth-generation California farmer, argues in his July 29, 2024 article that American society is treating its citizens like lab rats, resulting in harmful outcomes. Read the article here: https://victorhanson.com/americas-lab…

Mike Rowe Takes Up CLASS WARFARE with Victor Davis Hanson | The Way I Heard It. (youtube.com)

Half the country thinks something has gone drastically wrong in America, to the point that it is rapidly becoming unrecognizable. Millions feel they are virtual lab rats in some grand research project conducted by entitled elites who could care less when the experiment blows up.

America’s Lab Rats? – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

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Mao Zedong wanted to thought-reform, that is, brainwash, the whole Chinese population, and he had a formula (https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar…) for doing it: “Unity – Criticism – Unity.” That is, he sought to induce in people a “desire for unity” so they would join his socialistic cult, and then once that desire was strong enough, criticism and struggle sessions (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/12/sur…) would begin to cement adherence. Finally, through criticism, struggle, and study, unity with the socialist cult would be achieved.

Under Mao Zedong’s drive to “ideological purity” and “unity” millions were murdered.

Man who says he accompanied Walz on trip to China calls VP candidate ‘Maoist to the core’ (alphanews.org)

Mao, Criticism, and Unity (youtube.com)

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Victor Davis Hanson: Why would Kamala Harris brag about this? (youtube.com)

DATA: Most Voters Unaware of Harris’s Radical Views. (thenationalpulse.com)

 A “study, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on behalf of The Media Research Center, found that on ten aspects of Harris’s political record, between 71 percent and 86 percent of respondents were either unaware or unsure of her positions.

“The issues surveyed include her support for the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, and eliminating private health insurance. Additionally, the data reveals that many voters obtain their political news primarily from broadcast networks (ABCCBSNBC) and cable channels (CNNMSNBC). The lack of voter knowledge of Harris‘s record suggests these outlets have not provided adequate coverage of the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.”

Explained here:

Expert warns Kamala Harris’ tax agenda could be more ‘radical, devastating’ than Biden’s (youtube.com)

Who determines “the same place”?

Harris Unveils COVID Vax Mandate for All Campaign Employees, Raising Eyebrows (resistthemainstream.com)

From Bad to Walz

“Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.” -Aldous Huxley

Just when you hear that the phoniest candidate ever, a media astroturf job without a single vote in primaries, is now running for president, we find out that the running mate is the pro-riot Maoist Tim Walz.

It was bad enough when the media would have us ignore reality one moment – “Biden was never better” (MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough) – and in the next breath say that Biden was incompetent and had to go. Now we find the media again wanting us to ignore reality – the record of the radical Leftist Tim Walz – and working to invert that reality.

The Pravda-like media would have us warm to and even fawn over the alternate reality the man presents to the public. We are to believe that Tim Walz is just a folksy Minnesotan, normal and neighborly, a populist ‘everyman’, a military and football wonder, and even a Bernie Sanders of the Prairie in hunting gear. But we can’t ignore reality like this Walter Mitty of this election.

Unlike many of us including Trump, Tim Walz “never ran a business or worked long in the private sector. His entire career has been spent working for the government, either as a teacher or as a politician. His politics, despite a pivot to the middle while in Congress, are rooted in the far left.”

One Christian website that apparently has sold its soul to Progressivism gaslights with Walz’s faith bona fides. These include being a Lutheran dad. These include being a great unifier, as he “rallied” with faith leaders after the death of George Floyd and advocated for the Minnesota Muslim population. And, these include having to feel sorry for Walz, as he faced blowback from religious communities during the pandemic — including conservative Lutherans —for closing churches.

What the article does not say about Walz’s faith bona fides:

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz attends a church that preaches beliefs related to gender, race and sexuality that many Christian denominations strongly oppose.

Walz, who is the governor of Minnesota, identified Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul as his parish during a 2020 briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials published by Pilgrim Lutheran Church instruct parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, push congregants to support reparation funds, encourage them to celebrate Ramadan and include a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord’s Prayer, among other liberal practices.

Tim Walz’s Church Doesn’t Like To Call God ‘Him,’ Supports Reparations And Pride Parades | The Daily Caller

(Walz’s faith bona fides remind me of Barack Obama’s faith bona fides: 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side, under the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and “God damn America.”)

Walz has feminist bona fides, too. J. Robert Smith writes at American Thinker that “Walz is attractive to feminized progressives because he’s a feminized progressive.”

Smith asks . . .

What can we say about a man who protects those who mutilate children’s bodies in the name of “gender-affirming health care?” How about promoting the savagery of no-limits abortion? How about banning counseling for gender dysphoria sufferers? How about safeguarding graphic LGBTQ themed pornography in public libraries and schools?

RVM reports (Emphasis mine.):

Walz signed a bill last year that makes Minnesota a “sanctuary state” for so-called “trans kids” (there is no such thing as a transgender child because there is no such thing as a transgender person). What this means is that a parent who wants to mutilate her child can take him to Minnesota, and the state will not obey an extradition or arrest orders from the originating state—even if the family is in a custody battle and the father does not want his child surgically abused.

So this won’t be any surprise, either. LibsofTikTok highlighted a story about how Walz used taxpayer money to hire a “Satanic” drag queen to perform at a show open to children.

Quite the faith bona fides!!

Who is Tim Walz? He was not the obvious, logical, or straightforward choice to be Kamala’s VP. He’s the in-your-face radical choice and what the puppet Kamala needs as her ventriloquist.

Don’t ignore reality! Tim Walz . . .

1. Fueled BLM Riots in 2020, stalled on deploying the National Guard for an entire day

2. Let rioters loot and wreck Minneapolis “Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents” (Fahrenheit 451).

3. Changed MN state flag to resemble Somalia’s

4. Was a COVID-19 tyrant; sent sick, elderly patients back to nursing homes where the infection often spread to other vulnerable people, causing a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths

5. Pushed youth trans surgery, ‘hormone therapy’ agenda

6. Put tampons in boy’s bathrooms

7. Embellished and selectively omitted facts about his military career

8. “Quit” on fellow soldiers under him when they were deployed

9. Got a DUI in 1995 going 96mph in a 55 MPH speed zone

10. Praised socialism; Minnesota Gov. Tim “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness” Walz.

11. Signed a law that provides driver’s license for illegal aliens in Minnesota

12. Traveled to China 30+ times; governs like a Maoist/communist

13. Married June 4, 1994, the five-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown – on purpose

14. Has ties to the Chinese Communist Party

15. Backed an Orwellian hate speech registry

16. Has never seen a California energy policy he didn’t try to implement in Minnesota

17. Managed to oversee the largest COVID fraud scheme in the country

18. Oversaw a net loss of 13,455 individuals leaving Minnesota for other parts of the United States in 2021-2022. 

19. Tim Walz marched in an “Abolish ICE” protest in Minneapolis on June 30, 2018

20. Wants all of America to be the same as Minnesota

John PhelanBill Walsh write at American Experiment, What America needs to know about Tim Walz of Minnesota (Emphasis mine.):

During his first term as governor, Walz faced two major challenges: The riots following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and COVID-19. He fumbled both.

As the Twin Cities burned for three days in May 2020, Walz froze, terrified of upsetting his party’s activist base which sympathized with the rioters, for whom Kamala Harris raised money. Walz hesitated to commit the National Guard – whom he dismissed as “19-year-old cooks” – but when they finally were deployed, the violence ceased immediately. . .

In response to the second challenge, COVID-19, in defiance of the science, Walz shut down schools, churches and businesses and instituted draconian mask mandates and shelter in place orders. . .

Tim Walz also created a phone line for people to snitch on their neighbors who violated COVID regulations.

From snitching on your neighbor to censoring your neighbor, Tim Walz is a true communist:

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) responded to a question on what he will do to make sure there are penalties for disinformation about elections by claiming that “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.” (Emphasis mine.

Dem Gov. Walz: ‘There’s No Guarantee to Free Speech on Misinformation or Hate Speech,’ ‘Especially Around our Democracy’ (breitbart.com)

This will happen in America if Harris-Walz are elected:

Citizen Free Press on X: “Tim Walz embroiled in military controversy. Accused of stolen valor. https://t.co/KDwEZ4h8iB” / X

The Harris-Walz Burn-it-down Open Borders ticket is the most radical ticket this country has ever seen. If you ignore the reality of what they have said and done – the inversion of the good for the inflation of evil – then whoever you are, wherever you are, you will not be isolated from the price. Be careful what you vote for. This is election is about our survival.

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From Bad to Walz – Politicians with Policies that Plunder

These short videos provide more perspective on Tim Walz:

“He’s the most anti-parent candidate.” Tiffany Justice on VP pick Tim Walz (youtube.com)

Under Tim Walz, Something Happened That Never Happened Before. People Packed Up [Out Of Minnesota] (rumble.com)

‘RED FLAGS’: This is just ‘inexcusable’ from Tim Walz, China expert warns (youtube.com)

Paul Ramsey:

The Passion of Tim Walz (youtube.com)

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6360090369112

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Podcast

Be Careful What You Vote For

In the Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Jamie Raskin’s call for invoking the 14th Amendment to take down Trump, the Harris choices, the Squad losing re-election bids, how the Left deals with debt, Biden’s absence from the scene, and California as Kamala’s offering to the country.

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Links exposing Tim Walz:

You thought Governor Tim Walz was bad before? Well, wait until you hear his latest… – Revolver News

In short, Walz has never seen a California energy policy he didn’t try to implement in Minnesota. His standard tactic has been the bait-and-switch, first proposing a seemingly moderate policy during election season and then lurching to the extreme end of the spectrum at his first opportunity.

Green New Walz – by Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling (substack.com)

Jesse Watters: Tim Walz is a ‘trick pick’ (youtube.com)

FLASHBACK: Tim Walz Will Invest in ‘Ladder Factory’ If Trump Finishes Border Wall. (thenationalpulse.com)

Norm Coleman slams Harris-Walz as ‘most far-left, radical ticket this country has ever seen’ – Alpha News

Nearly 13,500 people moved from Minnesota to other parts of the United States from April 2020 through July 1, 2021, making it the eighth highest state for population loss through domestic migration, according to Dec. 21, 2021, data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Minnesota’s ranked in top-10 of highest outbound migration states | Minnesota | thecentersquare.com

#TamponTim goes mega-viral, threatens to derail ‘Harris/Walz train’ before it even leaves the station… – Revolver News

Tim Walz’s Authoritarian Shift: His Ties to Communist China and Radical Policies will Reshape America – Stephen K Bannon’s War Room

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found.

Tim Walz repeatedly hosted Muslim cleric who celebrated Oct. 7 and shared pro-Hitler website link – Washington Examiner

No more of Politicians with Policies that Plunder:

Tim’s (and Kamala’s) disastrous policies have plunged this country into a black hole of despair. How do they counter that? Well, if you’re a liberal, you treat Americans like they’re clueless and pretend everything that’s tearing us apart is actually “great.” They better cook up a better strategy, because real Americans are just getting started on this ticket that is straight from the pit of hell. Things are about to turn very ugly, very fast.

Hillary makes one of her biggest online blunders trying to defend #TamponTim… – Revolver News

“Open Borders” Harris-Walz:

Just when you think it can’t get any worse for the Dastardly Duo, more dirt surfaces. Now we can add “wide open borders” to the list of radical issues Harris and Walz are pushing, thanks to some old info that’s made its way back to the surface.

Who can forget when Kamala Harris likened the hardworking men and women of ICE to the KKK? That old video has resurfaced, perfectly timed to undermine Kamala and Tampon Tim.

After all, you have to admit that likening ICE to the “KKK” and showing up at an ABOLISH ICE march reveals a deep commitment to keeping our borders wide open and fully vulnerable. Maybe that’s why Kamala, the so-called “border czar,” hardly shows up at the border or does anything to curb the Biden/Harris invasion. With their support for Abolish ICE and Defund the Police, it’s clear that Kamala and Tampon Tim are pushing for a lawless country overrun by foreign illegals and ruthless criminals. Is that the kind of country you want? Vote wisely. (Emphasis mine.)

Harris/Walz takes another savage blow thanks to a fresh round of dirt that was just unearthed… – Revolver News

Lisa Hanson warns Americans against electing Minnesota Gov Tim Walz as vice president: ‘He will take your rights away’

Minnesota grandma jailed for defying Walz COVID lockdown orders warns ‘you do not want tyranny at this level’ | Fox News

The K Files

“The old man nodded. “Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.””

-Faber to Guy Montag, in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

Despite our country needing to be unburdened by what has been the last three-and-a half years, the Democratic party, caretaker of decline, is foisting Kamala Harris upon the nation. Burning it all down needed a smiley facelift.

Put another way: to show its continued disdain and hatred of all things American, including you, me, and democracy, the Democratic party – the party of “preachy women”, of soy boys and the apron-string attached, of suborned reality, of thrusting men into women’s spaces, of censorship, show trials, cheating and “Democracy!”, of celebrity hype, and wealth transfer by any means necessary including war and green policies, of record inflation, of smash and grab, of masks and mandates, of open borders, fentanyl deaths and favoring criminals over victims – has, in furtive fashion, nominated the failed border and broadband czar and socialist to be their Maduro for president.

This is the same party that allowed sinister Hillary Clinton to rob presidential candidate socialist Bernie Sanders of the Democratic nomination that now anoints zero-votes socialist Kamala Harris, once the most liberal senator in Congress, to be their DEI hire in the White House.

The same party that told us that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen just stole the 2024 nomination from their own party member.

Victor Davis Hanson writes on X: Democracy Really Is Dying in Darkness—But by Whom?

Never in modern presidential history has a political party staged a veritable inside coup to remove their current president from his ongoing candidacy for his party’s nomination and reelection.

Stranger still, the very elites and grandees, who now are using every imaginable means of deposing Biden as their nominee, are the very public voices that just weeks ago insisted that candidate Biden was “sharp as a tack” and “fit as a fiddle.” And they damned any who thought otherwise! . . .

So, to make sense of what these self-appointed and sanctimonious protectors of democracy are trying to pull off demands an Orwellian vocabulary—memory hole, newspeak, unperson, and groupthink.

Kamala Harris: “Unburdened by what has been” – an Indian-American past

Kamala ‘Chameleon‘ Harris has become opportunistically black to suit her political purposes. 

Paul Gottfried writes, in What ‘Black’ Really Means to the Left, that “Part of what now defines blackness is holding leftist political views.” And, . . .

 The larger point made by [Miranda] Devine and by Matt Boose on at Chronicles is of course correct. Kamala Harris has no fixed identity other than her career as a leftist minority celebrity-victim, the details of which she’s been free to change with media assistance. In this respect, she’s like Al Sharpton, the Obamas, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and other media darlings, who have been able to change their stands or obliterate no longer useful aspects of their past, with lots of outside help.

No DEI here:

‘Failed The Community’: Indian-Americans Sound Off On Kamala Harris’ ‘Submerged’ Indian Heritage, Focus On Black ID | The Daily Caller

Kamala Harris: “Unburdened by what has been” – a Border Czar Position

President Joe Biden put Vice President Kamala Harrisin charge of efforts to control migration at the southern border, and most voters don’t think she’s done a good job of it. 

Now, with the border as a top election issue, the media is scrambling to change the narrative. They’re pushing the claim that Kamala was never officially appointed ‘border czar.’ Unfortunately for them, the internet remembers everything.

Absolutely devastating one-minute clip reveals the entire US media’s propaganda game… – Revolver News

Media switcharoo:

The party, to make Kamala happen, must scrub the past from memory, just like they are doing about Joe Biden.

Just like they did in Stalinist Russia:

Media’s Soviet-Style Airbrushing of Kamala Harris’ Problematic History (legalinsurrection.com)

Corporate Media Continues Scrubbing Negative Stories About Kamala Harris. (thenationalpulse.com)

Kamala Harris: “Unburdened by what has been” – a Broadband Czar Position

Kamala was put in charge of the broadband distribution and she opted to do nothing, apparently to protect her image. She must have known she would fail.

Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris to serve as the rural broadband czar in 2021. Part of her task was overseeing the implementation of a $42 billion program to connect Americans in rural and remote parts of the country to the Internet. According to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Brendan Carr, however, after almost 1,000 days, not a single person has actually been connected to the web. (Emphasis mine.)

Kamala Was Made ‘Rural Broadband Czar’ Overseeing $42bn Program That Has Yet to Connect Anyone to Internet. (thenationalpulse.com)

Kamala Harris: Kringe worthy Kampaign

Miranda Devine writes in Rise of Kamala Harris solidifies Dems’ full embrace as the party of ‘preachy females,’ scolding shrews:

As polls show America’s young men are lurching rightward at a rapid pace, the Democratic brand has finally evolved into the party of scolding shrews, nagging Karens and “preachy females,” as Dem dinosaur James Carville calls them.

Its image is tied to a type of unserious, self-involved, neurotic, dogmatic Dem-fem who insists on telling you her pronouns and whose highest goal is abortion on demand right up until the moment of birth. 

And there’s more Kringe . . .

And more . . .

Team Kamala is showing its desperate true colors. Kamala in such bad shape that she’s now begging for white votes. Recently, they launched a cringeworthy “White Dudes for Harris” campaign featuring out-of-touch elites and effeminate poofs gushing over Kamala. It went about as well as you’d expect and spawned a plethora of hilarious online memes. . .

This time, it’s “White Women for Harris,” and they’ve got a real doozy heading up this cringe fest. Enter Arielle Fodor, arguably the most insufferable human being on the planet, who is, of course, the voice of the “White Women for Harris” campaign.

This ‘White Women for Harris’ leader is the most insufferable human alive… – Revolver News

Columnist Camilla Long, despite being unfriendly to former President Donald J. Trump, bemoans the way “All [Harris’s] faults, flaws, back story are now also being hastily tidied away, as [Joe] Biden’s were; the snafus, word salads, ‘border tsar’ errors drowned out.”

“This is the first true AI election: synthetic candidates are magicked up almost out of nowhere, suddenly given huge projection, campaigns, ready-made armies of Twitter followers. They’re mere products,” Long argues.

Murdoch Paper Explains Similarities Between Kamala’s Campaign and Putin-Style Fakery. (thenationalpulse.com)

‘Dystopian Sh*t’: Kamala Harris’ Online Support Is Well-Funded And Inauthentic, Influencers Claim | The Daily Caller

Harris Is Recycling the 2020 Democrat Campaign – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

Kamala Harris Secures Liberal White Women Vote By Always Being Drunk And Intolerable | Babylon Bee

Kamala Harris: Krippling policies

On Jobs . . .

Data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the Biden-Harris government is continuing to replace native-born American workers with immigrant labor entering the country both legally and illegally. Over the last year, native-born Americans have seen total job losses hit 1.2 million. Meanwhile, foreign-born employment has risen by 1.3 million jobs. (Emphasis mine.)

Jobs Data Shows Biden-Harris Regime Replacing American Workers with Foreigners. (thenationalpulse.com)

On immigration . . .

The Joe BidenKamala Harris government has halted a controversial program allowing up to 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the U.S. legally through so-called parole powers. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed the suspension after an internal report uncovered significant fraud in sponsor applications.

Biden-Harris Regime Admits Migrant Flights Are Rife with Fraud. (thenationalpulse.com)

On energy . . .

While [Biden-Harris] policies have resulted in a steep rise in the price of energy over the past few years, they absolutely pale in comparison to what Kamala Harris would have in store should she become the next president of the United States.

Like most of her Democrat colleagues, Kamala Harris clearly believes that climate change is an “existential threat.” However, her policy agenda to combat climate change makes her far more radical than President Biden, and most other Democrats.

On Energy Policy, Kamala Harris Is Clueless – The Heartland Institute

Kamala Harris Is Even More Radical on Climate than Joe Biden – The Heartland Institute

Candidate Kamala Harris: What You Need to Know – In The Tank #458 – The Heartland Institute

On nonsense . . .

Amalia C. Halikias:

Took a leisurely e-stroll through the legislation Kamala Harris introduced or sponsored during her time in the Senate.

It is not an exaggeration to say the vast majority of it is inane race equity stuff, squatter’s rights, and mandating useless environmental reports:

Introduced the “Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act,” which is a generic form of affirmative action in hiring for the Federal Reserve

An internet warrior digs deep to expose Kamala’s Senate days, and it’s scarier than you ever imagined… – Revolver News

On the economy . . .

Pay no attention to the sky-high interest rates making home ownership unaffordable or the sky-high inflation that has doubled the cost of basic necessities.  So what if the average person’s paycheck barely covers monthly gas and grocery bills?  Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris identifies as a female “person of color.”  She is a shiny object that should help everyone forget about personal financial troubles. (Emphasis mine.)

Deep State Carnival Barkers Distract Us with Kamala – American Thinker

On law enforcement . . .

To overwhelm the system, law and order must be destroyed and replaced with government handouts to pacify the masses. To wit:

Harris said in the June radio interview the movement “rightly” called out the amount of money spent on police departments instead of community services such as education, housing, and healthcare, emphasizing that more police did not equate to more public safety.

Kamala Harris praised ‘defund the police’ movement in June 2020 radio interview | CNN Politics

Newly uncovered damning video footage of Kamala Harris could be the end of her 2024 campaign… – Revolver News

On her desire to control outcomes . . .

Vice President Kamala Harris toured a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota on Thursday, becoming what is believed to be the first president or vice president ever to visit a clinic that provides abortion services in U.S. history.

Kamala Harris visits Planned Parenthood clinic (nbcnews.com)

BREAKING NEWS: Shelley Moore Capito Directly Accuses Biden Bill Of Funding ‘Anti-American’ Groups (youtube.com)

VIDEO: Capito, Ricketts: EPA, Vice President Harris Doling Out Inflation Reduction Act Funds for Radical Groups (senate.gov)

Kamala Harris: Kreepy Komrade Kandidate

It’s easy to mock word-salad Kamala Harris. Her mind on Marxist, Maoist and Green isms has become mush, her talk, spoonsful of regurgitated pablum. But with such an otherworldly aura she maintains the charisma of a feisty radical in the minds of suburban women who take in MSNBC, CNN, the NYT and WaPo for their daily groupthink.

Let’s not forget: Kamala was put in charge of the border and she did what the basically lazy Marxists of a Cloward-Piven mindset do: She sat back and let things collapse into crisis to overwhelm the system and aggregate power to the state and to herself thereby leading to the complete control of citizens through Socialism/Communism and control of outcomes. She’s a proud communist.

Despite our country needing to be unburdened by what has been the last three-and-a half years, the Democratic party, caretakers of America’s decline, is not only foisting Kamala Harris upon the nation, it is also fostering division and hate.

The same Democrats, always reading from the same script, who recently called Joe Biden sharp as a tack and Kamala Harris dynamic and transformative, want their minions to believe that people who are not of their exclusive tribe are “weird”.

This from the party that gave us ‘What is a woman?’ Ketanji Brown Jackson.

This from the party that pushes DEI, the run-amok spawn of racist affirmative action, but now views it like a “scarlet letter” that Kamala shouldn’t be forced to wear. Yet, she, and justice Ketanji Jackson Brown, don’t seem to mind being a “DEI hire” for Joe Biden and the Dems.

This from the party Miranda Devine describes: Its [Mean Girl] image is tied to a type of unserious, self-involved, neurotic, dogmatic Dem-fem who insists on telling you her pronouns and whose highest goal is abortion on demand right up until the moment of birth. 

This from the party that wants Kamala Harris to be geo-strategist leader of the free world

This is the most crucial time in our country’s history. Should the ship of state be piloted by someone whose only competence is that she plays to perfection her role as prom queen placeholder for radical Leftist policies?

It’s time for America to grow up and to stop playing with DEI Barbie.

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Podcasts:

Andrew Klaven with Megan Basham discuss her book, Shepherds for Sale.

Churches are being infiltrated – Megan Basham with Andrew Klaven

Podcast:  John J. Miller is joined by Megan Basham to discuss her book, Shepherds for Sale.

‘Shepherds for Sale’ by Megan Basham | National Review

‘Shepherds for Sale’ by Megan Basham | National Review

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A vicious, conniving, immoral, unpopular, third-rate politician with extreme radical views has come to within an inch of the presidency. Kamala Harris could be sitting in the Oval Office as soon as next week. She is far from the best America has to offer. “In a functioning meritocracy,” said Tucker Carlson, “Kamala Harris would be a C-list massage therapist working out of a strip mall. Yet somehow she became our vice president. How’d that happen?”

The Perfect Stooge: How Did as Kamala Harris Get This Far? – American Thinker

One would-be socialist dictator- Kamala Harris- to another– Maduro:

Maduro Declared Venezuelan President For 3rd Term, But Opposition Claims Victory In ‘Stolen’ Election

Kamala – disloyal to Americans:

Kamala’s Minnesota Freedom Fund (youtube.com)

The Kamala Harris Veep Reboot | The Daily Show (youtube.com)

Kamala Harris impersonator teaches Tucker how to cackle (youtube.com)

Exhausted Journalist Finally Gets To Bed After Long Day Of Copying And Pasting Democrat Talking Points | Babylon Bee

Kamala Harris Ad PARODY (youtube.com)

Ep. 1192 – Mean Girl Nation (youtube.com)

Mark Levin: America can’t afford any more media-installed reprobates (youtube.com)

Recoil From Hate

The Left’s daily (MSNBC, CNN, The View, WaPo, NYT, etc.) Two Minutes Hate directed at Donald J. Trump, MAGA, “rural whites” and at a democracy and a Supreme Court that allows them to lose power has become kinetic.

According to The New Republic, Trump is the next Hitler. The Left trotted out Rober DeNiro to spew his hatred of Trump. MAGA, rural white Americans, people praying at abortion clinics are called “domestic terrorists” and “extremists.”. Dehumanization is the very coin of the realm for progressives.

‘Eliminate Him’: A look at the violent rhetoric against Donald Trump — RT World News

Theater director Oskar Eustis put on a version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar portraying the Roman leader as Trump, complete with a bloody assassination, the same year.

While in the United Kingdom in 2017, Johnny Depp asked a festival audience, “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? … [I]t’s been a while and maybe it’s time”—referencing the murder of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.

Trump Assassination Attempt: A History of Liberal Incitement. (thenationalpulse.com)

Campus Reform | Rutgers prof after Trump assassination attempt: ‘Let’s hope today’s events inspire others’: EXCLUSIVE

Campus Reform | Prof claims ‘Black people’ wish shooter had killed Trump to cause ‘the death of evil’

Read what Victor Davis Hanson had to say about Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left below.

This unhinged Leftist is also unhappy the shooter missed:

Those of us who love our country and would vote for Trump are constantly being lectured by academics and journalists about being full of “rage”, of wanting a “civil war”, of being a “threat to democracy”, and of not being good little Christians. It is the Left (and NeverTrumpers) that never recoils from hate. Never. To wit:

Here’s the shooter saying that he hates Republicans, he hates Trump and “you’ve got the wrong guy.”

Thomas Crook Saying We Got The Wrong Guy ???? (bitchute.com)

FBI Confirms Would-Be Trump Assassin as Thomas Matthew Crooks, Matches Democrat Donor Description Per FEC Data. (thenationalpulse.com)

Suspected Shooter Had Explosive Devices in His Car, Sources Say (wsj.com)

Thomas Matthew Crooks: What we know about Donald Trump shooting suspect (bbc.com)

How Hate becomes weaponized:

Mayorkas denied ‘repeated requests’ for more Secret Service protection for Trump, GOP lawmaker says (msn.com)

The Dark Questions We Don’t Want To Ask, But Have To Ask, About The Secret Service (you’ll never guess what agency they’re under) – Revolver News

New talking point from media scum… – Revolver News

Sam Faddis: “I am not an expert in protective details. I have worked with them extensively in the field. I also have well in excess of thirty years of experience in clandestine operations, both preventing them and carrying them out on enemy soil. From that perspective, let me ask some questions about what happened yesterday in Butler, Pennsylvania when Donald Trump came within a hair’s breadth of being assassinated.”

How did the shooter know he could safely and securely occupy the elevated firing position from which he shot? 

How is it possible Secret Service left an elevated firing position in proximity to the stage unsecured?

Why were the Secret Service agents on stage so slow to react? 

Trump Is Lucky To Be Alive – I Have Some Questions (substack.com)

40 people saw assassin before shooting started.

Melania Trump:

“A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald’s passion – his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration. The core facets of my husband’s life – his human side – were buried below the political machine. Donald, the generous and caring man who I have been with through the best of times and the worst of times. . ..

 . . . “Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now. This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family is first, and love transcends.

READ: Melania Trump’s Moving Statement on ‘Generous and Caring’ Husband Donald. (thenationalpulse.com)

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Added 7-15-2024:

Here’s what Victor Davis Hanson had to say on X:

Victor Davis Hanson 

@VDHanson

Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left

If we were leftists and we were to use leftist tropes to editorialize the recent attempt on Trump’s life, then we would frame the assassination attempt in the following way:

We have witnessed for years blatant exceptions to the once common custom that we don’t normalize the imagined killing of any president or presidential candidate and thus lower the bar of violence.

But the Left constantly makes Trump an exception. Now, it as if the imagined killing of Trump had been mainstreamed and become acceptable in a way inconceivable of other presidents.

(Do we remember the rodeo clown who merely wore an Obama mask during a bull riding contest and was punished by being permanently banned by the Missouri State Fair authorities?)

So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump:

By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).

Or should we deplore the use of telescopic scope imagery, given that the Left blamed Sarah Palin for once using bullseye spots on an election map of opposition congressional districts, claiming that such usage had incited the mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner?

 Yet, recently POTUS Joe Biden was a little bit more graphic and a lot more literal.

In a widely reported call to hundreds of donors last week, Biden boasted, “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”

“In a bullseye?” At least, Biden did not go back to the full Biden beat-up porn of the past (e.g., “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him”/ “The press always asks me, ‘Don’t I wish I were debating him?’ No, I wish we were in high school – I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish.”).

Then there is the question of the Secret Service and one’s political opponents. Given the tragic history of the Kennedys, why in the world did the Biden administration not insist that third-party candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. be accorded Secret Service protection? Because his candidacy was felt to be disadvantageous to Biden?

And why just this April would the former head of the January 6th Committee and 2004 election obstructionist Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduce legislation ridiculously entitled, “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act” to strip away Secret Service protection for former President Trump and by this April current leading presidential candidate?

Had Thompson’s bill passed, would that not have been confirmation for a potential shooter to feel his task was just made much easier?

But in a wider sense, if the common referent day after day on the Left is that Trump is another Hitler (cf. a recent The New Republic cover where Trump is literally photoshopped as Hitler), then it seems reckless not to imagine an unhinged or young shootist believing that by taking out somewhat identical to one of the greatest mass murderers in history, he would be applauded for his violence?

So is their logic, shoot Trump and save six million from the gas chambers?

After all, The New Republic defiantly explained their Hitler-Trump cover photo this way, “Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”

Well, New Republic, recently someone took you up on your argument that Trump was “damn close enough” to Hitler and so he likewise chose to “fight”— albeit with a semi-automatic rifle.

If ad nauseam, a Joy Reid is screaming about Trump as a Hitlerian dictator (“Then let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out of the White House”) or Rachel Maddow is bloviating about studying Hitler to understand Trump, then finally the message sinks in that a mass murderer is about to take power—unless….

Finally, the idea, if true, that bystanders spotted a 20-year-old on a nearby roof with a gun, a mere 130 yards from Trump, and in vain warned police of his presence, is surreal.

Is it all that hard for the Secret Service to post a few agents on the tops of a few surrounding buildings closest to the dais, or at least coordinate with local law enforcement to do the same?

That is a no brainer. Whoever made the decisions concerning the proper secret service security details for presidential events should be immediately fired.

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Was Corey Comperatore one of those “Christian nationalists,” one of those “extremists,” one of those “threats to democracy” that armchair academics and haughty journalists and talking heads warn us about?

‘A real-life superhero’: Retired fire chief Corey Comperatore killed by would-be assassin at Trump rally, took bullet to save wife, daughter

“He was a man of God, loved Jesus fiercely, and also looked after our church and our members as family.”

‘A real-life super hero’: Retired fire chief Corey Comperatore killed by would-be assassin at Trump rally, took bullet to save wife, daughter | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Heart wrenching dissection of the assassination attempt on President Trump shows grave compromise by the security agents. I completely agree with this compelling expert analysis. Further revelation has shown that attendees even saw the gunman on rooftop before shooting. While condemning this dastardly act in the most strongest terms, I pray for President Trump’s quick recovery.

Darren Beattie just asked the mind-blowing million-dollar question about the Trump shooter… – Revolver News

Note: Post to be updated as more information is released.

Build Back Better Evangelicalism?

Does Evangelicalism need image consultants for damage control? Evangelicals on the Trump train – are they on the wrong track?

I ask because there are certain Christians who think that the image of Evangelicalism has been damaged by an “unholy” association with Trump and his supporters. Certain Christians are worried about what people think about Evangelicalism with its brand of Jesus and the gospel.

The Build Back Better campaign to restore the image of Evangelicalism is concerned about two things:  Evangelicals promoting a man of Trump’s character and (using the language of the Left) the “extremist” and “fascist” character of so-called Christian nationalism.

No doubt, Trump has an earthy communication style. He’s from New York. He speaks like a New Yorker and not like Evangelicals and Evangelical elites. On the record is a September 2005 conversation when he spoke in graphic, vulgar language about trying to commit adultery and forcing himself on women. 

Eleven years later (October 7, 2016) and one month before the United States presidential election, the Washington Post published a video and article about the conversation between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and television host Billy Bush. Trump immediately issued an apology on Facebook, posted Friday, October 7, 2016:

“Here is my statement. I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me, know these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, it was wrong, and I apologize. I’ve travelled the country talking about change for America. But my travels have also changed me. I’ve spent time with grieving mothers who’ve lost their children, laid off workers whose jobs have gone to other countries, and people from all walks of life who just want a better future. I have gotten to know the great people of our country, and I’ve been humbled by the faith they’ve placed in me. I pledge to be a better man tomorrow, and will never, ever let you down. Let’s be honest. We’re living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we are facing today. We are losing our jobs, we are less safe than we were 8 years ago and Washington is broken. Hillary Clinton, and her kind, have run our country into the ground. I’ve said some foolish things, but there is a big difference between words and actions. Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday.”

After hearing about the conversation, Trump’s wife Melania put out her own statement:

“The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me. This does not represent the man that I know. He has the heart and mind of a leader. I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world.”

And Trump’s former campaigner, Corey Lewandowski, said on CNN, “Is this defensible? I don’t think so.” 

“But we’re not choosing a Sunday school teacher here.”

I wonder. Should all Christian Never Trumpers have their past conversations exposed, as was done to Trump? I think it should be done. Never-Trumpers, as they are wont to tell us, are very concerned about the character of those they surround themselves with and support. For example:

Christians Against Trumpism & Political Extremism, was founded by friends and partners John Kingston and Joel Searby. It is at root a spiritual endeavor, because John and Joel believe in the potential for renewal in our church and the nation.

The wife of the staunch Never Trumper David French, Nancy French, is a supporter of this organization as are other of our Christian “betters” who are very worried about “the darkness of Trumpism and other political extremism.”

But the following recent report is sullying for all in support of this “informal yet organized group of Christian leaders, thinkers, influencers, and everyday believers who publicly stand against the personal behavior, degrading policy proposals, and poisonous rhetoric modeled by President Trump and extremist groups from the far left and right.”

The “Christians Against Trumpism” co-founder [Joel Searby] is facing charges for lewd/lascivious conduct, two counts of obscene communications related to luring a minor to meet for sex, and using a two-way communications device to facilitate a felony.

‘Christians Against Trumpism’ Co-Founder Arrested for Soliciting Sex from 15-Year-Old Boy | The Gateway Pundit | by Brian Lupo

And, here’s Never-Trumper David French in “extremist” mode:

CANNON: Never-Trumper David French Picks Half a Million Abortions Over Trump Being Re-Elected… Seriously. – The National Pulse

And, again, David French in “extremist” mode:

NYT Columnist Says Trump Support Less Excusable Than Slavery. (thenationalpulse.com)

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Can Anything Good Come Out of Trump Tower?

Would God use a person of “questionable character” to lead the country?

In the previous post I wrote . . .

Like all of us, Jacob is a work in progress. He is of questionable character and not someone we would have thought of to be the namesake (Israel) of a nation of people who are to represent God’s character to the world. But God, in His wisdom and mercy, works with Jacob – his faults, his dysfunction, his deceitful ways, and his sins – and seeks to redeem him for his purposes. God is slow to anger and plenteous in mercy (cf. Psalm 103: 6-18) (unlike many judgmental types today who are loathe to work with God to redeem relationships with those they do not consider worthy of redemption.)

No doubt, if today’s Evangelical image consultants lived back then they would have worked vigorously to keep the scoundrel Jacob out of that role. They sure wouldn’t associate with Jacob. “He’s not one of us,” they would say.

“Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”

“Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.

-The gospel of Mark 9:38-41

Over and over in the gospels I find Jesus being counter-cultural. He isn’t constrained by demands of the image consultants – the Pharisees and legal experts, the religious types.

There are certain Christians who are very ‘concerned’ about Trump being associated with Evangelicalism because he is “not one of us.” (Trump’s not the squeaky-clean sweet old Sunday School teacher type– someone who looks Evangelical and talks Evangelical-ese – that we had in mind for the position.)

But haven’t Never-Trumpers and all Americans received a cup of water in the form of humanitarian goodness – peace and prosperity – under the scoundrel Trump’s first term? Was Trump working against Christians or for us? Wasn’t the Unprecedented Economic Boom under Trump something of a miracle?

The arm chair holier-than-MAGA disparagers no doubt benefitted from Trump’s presidency.

Trump Administration Accomplishments – The White House (archives.gov) 

A summary:

Unprecedented Economic Boom (3-1/2 years before the Chinese-Fauci virus), including:

Jobless claims hitting a nearly 50-year low

The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record

Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.

Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.

The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.

Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue-collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.

Tax Relief for the Middle Class

Massive Deregulation

Fair and Reciprocal Trade

American Energy Independence

Investing in America’s Workers and Families

Life-Saving Response to the China Virus – Restricted travel to the United States from infected regions of the world.

Remaking the Federal Judiciary

Achieving a Secure Border

Restoring American Leadership Abroad

Serving and Protecting Our Veterans

Making Communities Safer

Cherishing Life and Religious Liberty, and more.

During Trump’s first term there were NO wars. There was a Middle East peace deal – the Abrahamic accords. Constitutionalist SCOTUS justices were installed, securing Democracy. (Abortion decisions are to be made at state level.) And, . . .

Supreme Court delivers MASSIVE VICTORY for J6 politcal prisoners and a crushing blow to regime’s lawfare…

Supreme Court overturns Chevron deference, striking MASSIVE blow to the administrative state…

By shooting down ‘Chevron deference’ doctrine, SCOTUS restored democratic rulemaking, experts say | Just The News

Under Trump there was no invasion of our southern border.

There were no flood of illegals murdering our daughters.

Illegal Alien From Turkey Accused of Raping 15-Year-Old Girl in Albany, NY (legalinsurrection.com)

Open Borders Subject Women and Girls in the US to Rapes and Wanton Violence | Frontpage Mag

Under Trump there was no deluge of fentanyl killing people.

There was no surge of terrorists, gangs and drug cartels.

Inflation was around 2%. People had money to support themselves, buy a home, and to give to charitable causes like The Roy’s Report and The Trinity Forum, (where Never-Trumpers hawk their Never-Trumper wares.)

Americans weren’t ghosted by Trump. Trump was ghosted by Never-Trumpers who supported the mess we have today.

Under Bidenomics – “You will own nothing and be happy.”

This Is Fine: Average Salary Required to Own a Home Increased 80.5% Under Biden – Twitchy

During Trump’s four years in the White House, Never-Trumpers sat around and whined and nitpicked about all things Trump. They had the time and the means to write books about terrible Trump and Evangelical MAGA “extremists” who will destroy “Democracy!!”

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“White Raging” Rubes and MAGA Christians

Keep in mind two of Saul Alinsky’s 13 Rules for Radicals that are at work in Never-Trumper’s campaigns:

– “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.”

– “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

The sneering class has deemed people of MAGA persuasion “deplorables” “bitter clingers” “extremists” “conspiracy theorists” “xenophobes”, “authoritarians”, and “fascists.” And MAGA Christians are deemed not just “a threat to Evangelicalism!” but to “DEMOCRACY!”

This while, (Our Statement – Christians Against Trumpism) . . .

“Political extremism, whether from the “left” or the “right,” uses violence, chaos, and degrading language as tools for social change.”

See above for who uses degrading language. But who uses violence and chaos as tools for social change? The “extremist” Left, for example;

Portland’s grim reality: 100 days of protests, many violent | AP News

47 arrested, 59 officers injured in Seattle protests that turned violent – KIRO 7 News Seattle

Masked Activists Violently Attack Jews at North Carolina Public Library – Algemeiner.com

Judge Rejects Biden Admin Bid To Dismiss Lawsuit Over ‘Illegal and Dangerous’ $1.5 Billion Palestinian Payment Plan (freebeacon.com)

We are told on MSM that us hobbits are white raging rubes who don’t know any better and are in a cult of personality and that the Christians in this sad group are making Christianity look bad. With the election season upon us, there’s a growing list of shaming screeds promoted on MSNBC.

These Never-Trumper books are meant to make readers feel morally superior if they make the ‘right’ choice: to not support and vote for Trump. Three of these authors want to move you in the direction of being an ‘acceptable’ Christian and politically ‘acceptable’ in their eyes:

Tim Alberta and The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, published December 5, 2023

Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman with White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy published on February 27, 2024

Jim Wallis: The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy, published April 2, 2024

The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics, Nancy French and Curtis Chang, based on project by David French, Russell Moore & Curtis Chang, published April 23, 2024

Please don’t tell me that these authors are writing and talking about these things to protect Jesus from the rabble. “Put down your sword, Peter.” Jesus – very God and the One who cast out demons and calmed the storm – is not beholden to anyone for protection. Their version of Christianity is what they are protecting.

Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman of White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy went on MSNBC to push their polemic rant of a poorly researched book. They posit “fourfold threats” coming from the “White rural” rube demographic:

  1. Rural “Whites” are racist and xenophobic, adverse to DEI and are an impedance to a pluralist society
  2. Rural “Whites” embrace conspiracy-mongering because of their proclivity to anger
  3. Rural “Whites” rubes form authoritarian rebellious groups with “right-wing” money
  4. Rural “Whites” harass, intimidate, and are violent

Victor Davis Hanson reviewed On White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller & Paul WaldmanAll the rage | The New Criterion. He handily refutes the book’s “often-incoherent polemic.” Here’s his response to number 3 of the “fourfold threats” posed by raging “Whites”:

“In their psychodramatic formulation, the authors allege that

“U.S. democracy is in peril. Ballot blockers, wannabe authoritarians, White Christian nationalists, and constitutional sheriffs each pose existential and often overlapping threats to American constitutional government. Unfortunately, rural Whites form the tip of the spear for each of these movements.

“No data is supplied to support such an “existential” threat, much less one originating in rural white America—other than polls that suggest about half the nation feels that America is a Christian nation.”

Hanson’s impression of the book . . .

“White Rural Rage is for the most part a compilation of misleading polls, left-wing news accounts, interviews with state and local Democratic politicos, and sloppy, cherry-picked references to and quotes from kindred academics that reinforce the authors’ preexisting belief in a vast rural white cabal of violent racists and conspiracists. . .

“In the end, White Rural Rage is not so much a warning about a national, seething, rural white danger to democracy as it is a projection of the fears of elite white authors, conspiracy-minded as they often are themselves.”

Tim Alberta, journalist  and staff writer for The Atlantic and author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, was also showcased on MSNBC to promote his own psychodramatic formulation about MAGA Christians. He also podcasted on The Trinity Forum where he talked about his book and on The Roy’s Report where he talked about The Corrupting of American Evangelicalism. Julie Roys interviewed Tim Alberta and shares his concerns about Evangelicalism.

Listening to the Trinity Forum podcast, I understood Tim Alberta to say that Christians should understand that as Christians they live “under siege” and basically that they should cool their jets (don’t get out of hand) and get used to abuse and persecution because that’s the way it is for Christians. I get the sense from Tim that Christians should be more like white suburban women, like Julie Roys.

Alternatively, on The Roy’s Report website – “reporting the truth and restoring the church” – Julie Roys posts articles and podcasts exposing abuse within the church. Victims of abuse (typically women) submit to the abuser (typically male) for a while and then they react and take action. You hear their stories on the website’s podcasts.

Per Alberta, shouldn’t church abuse victims just be quiet and take it like good little Christians?

Are we to believe that reacting to church abuse is more Christian than reacting to political abuse?

Isn’t it good to work to forestall persecution in society? Should Christians clamor to be martyrs?

Is it OK to expose and denounce abusive leaders in church but not leaders in politics? Never-Trumpers criticize Trump all day long. If MAGA criticizes what is being forced on them by the Left they are labeled
“extremists” and “a threat to democracy.”

What about “reporting the truth and restoring America” – is that out of Evangelical bounds?

Aberta labels “Trumpism as a kind of sub-cult in the evangelical world,” Wow. To use his own term, that is “extremist” language.

Is it Ok for Never-Trumper Christians to vilify MAGA Christians?

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“Unholy mix”

The Roys Report promo for Corrupting of American Evangelicalism podcast:

“On this edition of The Roys Report, bestselling author and journalist Tim Alberta joins host Julie Roys to explore a disturbing phenomenon in American evangelicalism. Though once evangelicals understood that the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of men are separate, now the two are being combined into an unholy mix. And sadly, for millions of conservative Christians, America is their kingdom—and proper adherence to their political ideology is their litmus test for Christian orthodoxy!

“. . .major players and institutions within the evangelical movement that have succumbed to political idolatry.

“. . . mixing political advocacy with the gospel is misleading and wrong.”

Huh?!? You wouldn’t advocate for someone willing to abolish slavery and drug and sex trafficking? You wouldn’t advocate for someone willing to bring peace and prosperity and uphold the rule of law? Are these good things outside the bounds of The Roys Report gospel?

“Though once evangelicals understood that the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of man were separate, now the two are being combined into an unholy mix.” Huh?!?

When Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the good news of God and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news” the kingdom of God and the kingdom of man came together in an “unholy mix” and Christians have been trying to sort out what that means.

And when Jesus sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. Now there’s an “unholy mix” according to the scribes of the Pharisees – guardians of their religion’s image.

Jesus taught his disciples to pray May your kingdom come, may your will be done, as in heaven so on earth? Sounds political, especially when the elements of this world fight against that happening and work to divide Christians with books, documentaries, media campaigns, etc.

Calling Jesus “Lord” is political. Living under his lordship is political.

(I don’t understand Jesus of the gospels as docile, demure and worried about image. He did take offense when the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.” They were implying unholy things about the Holy Spirit.)

(Note: In the podcast, Tim Alberta and Julie Roys set their disapproving sights on Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Sr., Jerry Falwell, Jr., Robert Jeffress, and Ralph Reed. They don’t talk about Francis Schaeffer, Focus on the Family or other Christians who were engaged early on in the culture and politics.)

The Roys Report put out another NeverTrump article, one written by Jim McDermott promoting a documentary:

‘Bad Faith’ Sounds The Alarm On The Past & Future of Christian Nationalism (julieroys.com)

(BAD FAITH is a feature-length documentary that explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentlessly sought to weaken and destroy American democracy in order to promote its authoritarian vision. Bad Faith – Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes)

Jim McDermott writes:

“In Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy, filmmakers Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones trace the origins of Christian nationalism from the Ku Klux Klan in the 19th century through the creation of the Moral Majority, the sudden rise of the tea party and the election of Donald Trump. What they uncover is an essential aspect of our current political situation, one that puts evangelical Christianity in new light.”

(Note: The records of Congress reveal that not one Democrat either in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th Amendment. Three years after the Civil War, and the Democrats from the North as well as the South were still refusing to recognize any rights of citizenship for black Americans.”)

One of its filmmakers, Stephen Ujlaki, spoke in an interview by phone in Los Angeles, about the making of “Bad Faith”. Here are excerpts from that interview:

“When Trump got elected, I was shocked. Nobody thought he had a chance. He was obviously a joke. It was never going to happen. When he got elected, I realized I didn’t really know anything about what was going on. I was in a bubble.

“More than anything, . . . the film was just to find out: How did [Trump} do it, how did he win, and who were the Christian evangelicals (who supported him)? But then I discovered all of this plotting, all of these deals, and the fact that those behind them were anti-democratic from the beginning.”

“Would it be fair to say Christian nationalism’s goal is fascism?  Yes. It’s pure fascism. It’s pure power.”

“Bad Faith” . . .  tells of how a large swath of religious voters came to believe that President Joe Biden is in league with the devil while Trump is essential to the spiritual salvation of America.”

(Not: Joe Biden is in league with a lot of bad actors as we find out more and more about his dealings. Trump during his first term did “save’ the nation from decline and left Democracy still standing.)

Ujlaki wants us to know that Christian nationalism “has nothing to do with theology, nothing to do with religion, nothing to do with God or with Jesus. I don’t even consider Christian nationalism as a religion. What is its ethos? What is its morality? It’s actually amoral, which is why it uses the church. The church lends it that moral, ethical authority that it doesn’t have otherwise.”

“If you look around you at the divisiveness and the distrust of institutions that exist today in this country, you will realize how incredibly successful they have been in executing their plan. It’s been like a slow-motion revolution in a way, happening bit by bit all over the place.”

The creators of Bad Faith have shown their own Bad Faith by knowingly misrepresenting, with a broad brush, Christians who want to restore America and Chrisitan values when having to deal with Progressivism’s in-your-face values. It appears the documentary, like the books above, was created in time to impact the 2024 election – to scare voters away from anything Chrisitan and Trump.

Never-Trumper David French has continuously railed against Trump. He thinks Trump supporters have “unrighteous rage.” In this self-promoting mea culpa, French uses the divisive language of the Left: “rage.”:

“French, who has now spent the best part of a decade bemoaning the 45th President, now acknowledges the “bond” between Donald Trump and most Republican voters and concludes:

“I don’t regret my arguments against Trump. I’d make them again, and I will continue making them. I do ask myself how I missed the sheer extent of Republican anger. And I’m deeply, deeply grieved by the thought that I did anything in my life before Trump to contribute to that unrighteous rage.”

Do white suburban women and their epicene men find railing against Trump both titillating and necessary to emote their tribal scorn of Trump?

BTW: Democratic strategist James Carville is very concerned that ‘preachy females are to blame for Biden’s polling numbers:

“A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females. Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you – the message is too feminine,” Carville said. “If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election. I’m like: ‘Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?”

‘Preachy females’ blamed for Biden’s polling numbers: ‘This is about driving men out of the Democratic Party’ | Fox News

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“unrighteous rage”?

According to people like French there were no catalysts for MAGA anger. There was no hellish COVID handling with church closings, social distancing, masking and vaccine mandates. There has been no “fundamental transformation” of America. Our children were never indoctrinated with CRT and Queer Theory. There has been no “trans” mutilation of children, no drug trafficking and fentanyl deaths. There has been no FBI monitoring of Catholics who want Latin masses. There has been no massive illegal migration. No highest rate of inflation. There has been no janky lawfare to hamstring Trump and no political persecution. Yeah right.

This Is Fine: Average Salary Required to Own a Home Increased 80.5% Under Biden – Twitchy

The Left, along with the enabling Never-Trumpers, have created the existential crisis they claim Christians on the Right have created. The Left, along with the Never-Trumpers, have created a Constitutional crisis just like what happened before the Civil war. Our country has been exposed to great evil, incompetence, and risk under Joe Biden and the Democrats with the help of the Never-Trumpers who put them in power.

We are told that Christian Nationalism poses “a threat to democracy!” This is projection and a lie. It is the Democrats who are putting political opponents in jail. It is the Democrats who wanted to take Trump off the ballot. It is the Democrats who stole the 2020 election and are working to steal the 2024 election.

15 Secretaries Ignore Subpoenas While Refusal Lands Bannon In Jail (thefederalist.com)

Tell me, is it the Christians who are in control of things or is it the Progressives who taken over every aspect of society with their long march through the institutions? Progressive Christians write against Christians who oppose them calling them an “extremist threat.” But Christians working against Progressivism’s lies and authoritarian ways are not “a threat to democracy!”

Given that it’s an election year, Democrats and Never-Trumpers will unleash every tactic under the sun to disrupt the 2024 election. See the above for a sample. They are franticly trying to keep Trump out of the White House. Trump will take apart the administrative state that rules every inch of our lives, that so enjoys having rule over every inch of our lives.

Who will the Never-Trumpers vote for this November? Will they vote or stay home? Will they vote for the continued destruction of America and more of the Biden regime. Will they vote for neo-con Nikki Haley and more wars? If they vote solely on the basis of character, as they say they do, then who will they vote for? Is there someone who looks and talks Evangelical like the stiff Mike Pence? Ron DeSantis?

It seems that elite Christians, of either political stripe, spend their days with their tribe and in their bubble. And it seems they believe themselves to be the voice of reason, pluralist, inclusive, and magnanimous to a fault. Next to the Trump they portray they come across as good little Christians. And that is why they are loved by the Left and paraded thru MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, NYT, etc. They are controlled opposition.

The image consultants of Build Back Better Evangelicalism have no clue about us Hobbits. They view people from top down – not as one of them. Middle America has been ghosted by them.

God works in mysterious ways, but the elites – the scribes and Pharisees of Christianity – proscribe ways, fundamentalist ways, that God must not work. How sad! My Lord doesn’t need image management. And I don’t need their sanctimonious scolding.

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Are people now afraid to put the American flag in front of their home out of fear people will think them patriotic and Christian and nationalist? Fear is the psyop produced by the Left to get people to back off love of their country. Progressives along with Globalist-dominionists have plans for you. Totalitarians include, as I have written about, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Democratic party.

“If you grew up in the 21st century, all you know is our current hangdog, ashamed, self-conscious country, embarrassed by its own shadow, tail between its legs, stooping and supplicating, begging everyone’s forgiveness for its sins.

“But if you were fortunate to have experienced any of the last few decades of the 20th, then you know: it was not always thus! The national vibe (until quite recently!) was cool confidence bordering on arrogance.”

American Swagger – Peachy Keenan’s Extremely Domestic

Independence Day is Thursday. Put your flag out.

Patriotic picture of the day

“After a windstorm last July, the flag in front of our home got flipped up and stuck on the flagpole. My boyfriend, an Air Force veteran, went outside to untangle it. About 15 minutes later, I realized he was still there, admiring the flag and watching the cars go by. I grabbed my camera and took this photo from our kitchen window. My boyfriend had no idea until he came inside, but now he thinks it’s just as idyllic as I do.” —Michele Garrant, Mooers Forks, New York

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Evangelicals, after all, have made heroes of those who have smuggled Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, who have sought to evangelize tribes that met them with arrows, and who have engaged in bait-and-switch campaigns closer to home, such as “study skills seminars” offered on college campuses or “neighborhood clubs” hosted in summertime backyards that conclude with an unadvertised gospel call.

The ultimate end of winning souls justifies a sometimes-startling variety of means. One might wonder to what extent this tradition of pragmatic ethical bargaining has enabled evangelicals to support Donald Trump.

Evangelical support for Trump continues to be wildly inconsistent with some basic Christian values. It is also, however, consistent with a combination of fear and exceptionalism—along with a flexible pragmatism—that has been part of the story of American evangelicalism going back to its seventeenth-century roots.

Donald Trump and the Exceptions of American Evangelicalism – The University of Chicago Divinity School (uchicago.edu)

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The Left Doesn’t Want You to See What You See

Remember Build Back Better and the Inflation Reduction Act?

The Biden Economy Image Consultants want us to believe Trump will be a disaster for the economy.

But, The Nobel Laureates Strike Out | City Journal (city-journal.org)

Modern Monetary Theory employed by the Biden Regime has created the massive debt and inflation that we and our children and grandchildren must live with.

“Most Americans believe it is unhinged to deliberately destroy the border and allow 10 million illegal aliens to enter the country without background audits, means of support, any claims to legal residency, and definable skills. And worse still, why would federal authorities be ordered to release repeat violent felons who have gone on to commit horrendous crimes against American citizens?

“Equally perplexing to most Americans is borrowing $1 trillion every 90 days and paying 5-5.5% interest on the near $36 trillion in ballooning national debt. Serving that debt at current interest exceeds the size of the annual defense budget and may soon top $1 trillion in interest costs, or more than 13% of the budget. . .

“The Biden years did the country great damage and rendered Biden himself one of the most unpopular incumbent presidents in American history. But his agendas may have fundamentally changed the country for decades, if not longer—and will require tough remedies that may be almost as unpopular as the wreckage they wrought.” – Victor Davis Hanson

The Logic in All the Madness – Victor Davis Hanson

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The Character of The Lincoln Project:

21 Men Accuse John Weaver, Lincoln Project Co-Founder, of Online Overtures and Harassment – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Inside the Lincoln Project: Claims of harassment, sexism, ‘toxic’ workplace (usatoday.com)

Lincoln Project founders knew of alleged harassment months before they claimed (usatoday.com)

Anti-Trump ‘Lincoln Project’ Paid $35,000 to Hackers. (thenationalpulse.com)

Lincoln Project, Co-Founded by ‘Predator’ John Weaver, Funded ‘Bloodbath’ Hoaxsters MeidasTouch. (thenationalpulse.com)

The Lincoln Project: Leadership

Regarding Steve Bannon going to prison:

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Water, Rural Rage, and Popular Classes

June 13, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the California water madness, the Gaza pier bust, white rural rage hoax, and why the international leftists hate the popular classes.

Water, Rural Rage, and Popular Classes – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

Home – VDH’s Blade of Perseus (victorhanson.com)

Biography – VDH’s Blade of Perseus (victorhanson.com)

Read this instead:

The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart: Carl, Jeremy: 9781684514588: Amazon.com: Books

The Unprotected Class – Chronicles (chroniclesmagazine.org)

No wonder, then, that we should expect some sort of similar hoax to arise before the 2024 election. Do not be surprised when told of a “secret” Trump plan uncovered to round up critics in 2025 and send them to “camps,” or lurid revelations about “evidence” that Trump is in worse physical and mental shape than is a debilitated Biden, or some fantastic MAGA plot to implement “voter suppression,” or allegations that the Trump campaign’s “dark money” involves “collusion,” “disinformation,” and “sinister foreign actors.”

How Left-wing Conspiracies Work – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

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Watch Young Voters Explain Why They’re Walking Away From Joe Biden and the Democrats (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

I said this would happen:

Outrage as Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis

Honey, They Shrunk the Choice Architecture

You and I being are being directed to change our behaviors.

Felt a Nudge lately? A reminder to do something to better your health, your finances, the environment? Felt a Nudge during COVID to mask and social distance and sanitize and to be vaccinated?

Felt a Nudge Down With RYBELSUS? A Nanny State Nudge to buy into a government service? A pop-up nudge? A click-bait nudge? A text nudge? A nudge to buy something before its gone? A nudge to pay for something using only digital payment and not cash? A Nurge (Urgent Nudge) to decarbonize to prevent “climate catastrophe”?

Behavioral science is being used to direct our decisions.

Influencing behavior in a libertarian paternalistic way with active engineering of choice architecture is behind the concept of nudge theory developed by Richard Thaler, a professor of economics and behavioral science at the University of Chicago.

Why influence behavior in a libertarian paternalistic way? It has been said that . . .

“In recent decades, behavioral economists have shown that, out of impulse, impatience, or ignorance, people often make choices that are not the best or even good for them: we are not the rational self-interest maximizers that conventional economists have long assumed [see “The Marketplace of Perceptions,” March-April 2006].” Cass Sunstein on the constitution in the 21st century | Harvard Magazine

The “nudge”, a gentle prompt that influences people’s behavior in a predictable way, was popularized in the 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein. The book discusses how it is both possible and legitimate for private and public institutions to affect behavior, while maintaining freedom of choice, to help steer people to people make better choices in their daily lives, because in Thaler’s and Sunstein’s assessment . . .

“People often make poor choices—and look back at them with bafflement!” And . . .

“We do this because, as human beings, we all are susceptible to a wide array of routine biases that can lead to an equally wide array of embarrassing blunders in education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, happiness, and even the planet itself.”

Nudge theory is based upon the idea that by shaping the environment, also known as the “choice architecture” – a term coined by Thaler and Sunstein in their Nudge book – one can influence the likelihood that one option is chosen over another by individuals who feel in control of the decisions they make.

Terms

Choice architecture is the framing of different ways choices are presented. These would include the number of choices presented, the manner in which attributes are described, and the presence of a “default.” One example: how food is displayed in cafeterias. Offering healthy food at the beginning of the line or at eye level can contribute to healthier choices.

Libertarian paternalism is an oxymoronic term coined by Richard Thaler. Being “Libertarian” “means being free to make your own choices about your own life, that what you do with your body and your property ought to be up to you. Other people must not forcibly interfere with your liberty, and you must not forcibly interfere with theirs.”

Paternalism is “A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities. Paternalism can be “excessive governmental regulation of the private affairs and business methods and interests of the people; undue solicitude on the part of the central government for the protection of the people and their interests, and interference therewith.”

A Libertarian approach preserves freedom of choice and being able to opt out. A paternalistic approach assumes a restriction of choice. Libertarian paternalism is “an approach that preserves freedom of choice but that authorizes both private and public institutions to steer people in directions that will promote their welfare.”

Nudge is a gentle prompt that influences people’s behavior in a predictable way to make better decisions. It doesn’t mandate, order, enforce, or control. It uses motivational techniques most people respond to – such as the need to fit in with social norms. A nudge is meant to move people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.

Nudging, like persuasion, can be used with more or less ethical intentions. When it is less ethical it is known as Sludge. A lot of nudging involves changing a choice architecture that people are faced with.”

 10 Important Nudges: Simple Things That Can Change Behaviors – The World of Work Project

Examples of using “choice architecture”:

In Retail:

1. Placement of items in a store

2. Use of scarcity and social proof in marketing

3. Use of loyalty programs and rewards

In Technology:

1. Default settings on devices and apps

2. Push notifications and reminders

3. Gamification of tasks and activities

In Health and Wellness

Use of reminders and goal-setting tools

Design of workout spaces and equipment

Use of social support and accountability

In Finance

1. Automatic savings and investment plans

2. Design of banking apps and websites

3. Use of behavioral economics in financial education

Nudge Theory: Definition and 10 Examples (2024) (helpfulprofessor.com)

Small nudges to giant leaps: Examples of nudging in the workplace (applaudhr.com)

Examples of Nudge Theory in Public Policy:

Nudging supposedly makes it easier for improved access to public services and help people achieve their goals in life.

In the UK the Nudge Unit was established in the Cabinet Office in 2010 by David Cameron’s government to apply behavioral science to public policy. The Behavioral Insights team, or “Nudge Unit”, plays a big role in helping the government formulate its response to coronavirus. “The Nudge Unit is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care in crafting the government response. The most visible manifestation of its influence to date is in the communication around hand-washing and face touching – in particular the use of “disgust” as an incentive to wash hands and the suggestion of singing Happy Birthday to ensure hands are washed for the requisite 20 seconds.” -Jill Rutter, “Nudge Unit” | Institute for Government

Boris Johnson’s government tried to fight the coronavirus pandemic by using the nudge theory to encourage “herd immunity”.

The Canadian Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), established in 2014, emerged from the original “Nudge Unit” in the British government, which was founded in the Cabinet Office in 2010. It uses a consultancy model to support government and the not-for-profit sector to support BI [behavioral insights] policy interventions. Nudging the way to better public policy (irpp.org)

One example in Canada is to make Elections and voting day need an injection of fun and celebration. Nudge theory illustrates ways to inspire anyone too busy, too “irritated” to vote.

Personal freedoms are a fundamental value of our liberal democracy. Citizens have the choice to opt out of participating. Thus, we should focus on making voting easier to opt into but not mandatory. We should act in ways that will nudge, not force, people to the voting booth.

We need to nudge joy into voting (irpp.org)

Both David Cameron and Barack Obama employed the nudge theory to advance domestic policy goals in their countries.

In the U.S. . . .based on research from University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard law school professor Cass Sunstein, Obama’s regulatory czar. . . who argued in their 2008 book “Nudge” that government policies can be designed in a way that “nudges” citizens towards certain behaviors and choices. . .

On September 15, 2015, Obama issued Executive Order 13707 “Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better serve American People” directing Federal Government Agencies to apply Behavioral Science Insights to design their policies and programs.

Per Donald Marron at Forbes:

“President Obama established the unit—officially known as the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST)—to use insights from psychology, behavioral economics, and other decision sciences to improve federal programs and operations. Those social sciences increasingly appreciate what regular folks have long known: people are imperfect. We procrastinate. We avoid making choices. We get confused and discouraged by complex forms. We forget to do things. We sometimes lack the energy to weigh decisions thoroughly, so we act based on what we think our peers do or how choices are framed. And we sometimes cut corners when we think no one is looking.”

The Executive Order also charges the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST), a cross-agency group, to make it happen.

Per Megan Fella at Obama’s effort to ‘nudge’ America (politico.com)

“Ultimately, knowing what drives us puts us in the driver’s seat.” – Susan M. Schneider

The Social and Behavioral Science Team (SBST) is a small, but mighty group of leading behavioral scientists and innovators from across the country. Housed within the Office of Evaluation Sciences at GSA, the SBST realizes that “seemingly small barriers to engagement…can prevent programs from effectively reaching the people they are intended to serve” and that “an effective and efficient government must, therefore, reflect our best understanding of human behavior.”

According to Meet the Social and Behavioral Science Team (usa.gov):

In order to create a better government, the SBST looks for opportunities in four aspects of program design:

Streamlining access to programs and benefits

Improving how government presents information to consumers, borrowers, and program beneficiaries

Enhancing how government presents and structures choices within programs

Examining the frequency, presentation, and labeling of benefits, tax credits, and other incentives

Chuck Ross, on September 15, 2015, voiced his concerns: Obama’s Nudge Brigade: White House Embraces Behavioral Sciences To Improve Government (forbes.com)

“President Obama’s federal health care law, Obamacare, is replete with “nudge” language and experimentation. . .

“Another nudge contained in Obamacare was brought to light in the debate over whether the individual mandate contained in the law was a tax hike.

“Republicans insisted that it was a tax increase, but the White House portrayed it as a penalty on the logic that the word “tax” has a negative connotation.

While the Obama administration touted nudge policies, others were hesitant to get on board.

““I am very skeptical of a team promoting nudge policies,” Michael Thomas, an economist at Utah State University, told Fox News in 2013.

““Ultimately, nudging…assumes a small group of people in government know better about choices than the individuals making them.”” (Emphasis mine.)

The purpose of this post is to provide a simplified overview of behavioral science manipulation tactics being used and to make readers aware of “nudging”. The little pokes and prods to improve behavior sound benign:

“Sunstein defines nudges as “simple, low-cost, freedom-preserving approaches, drawing directly from behavioral economics, that promise to save money, to improve people’s health, and to lengthen their lives”—small pushes in the right direction, like a restaurant disclosing the calorie count of each dish so patrons are more likely to order healthy food, or a company setting up its 401(k) plan so employees are automatically enrolled in the savings program and must choose to opt out.”

– Lincoln Caplan, Cass R. Sunstein – Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School

Richard Thaler – Nudge: An Overview (youtube.com)

My concerns:

Who’s nudging me? Who’s arranging my choices? Who’s engineering my “choice architecture” and by what values?

Using motivational techniques most people respond to – such as the need to fit in with social norms to positively change people’s behavior, I’m OK with. Automatically enrolling employees in an optional 401(k), for instance, or easily allowing organ donors to opt out, I’m OK with. But what about the motivational techniques behind consequential choices like healthcare or the COVID vaccine or whether I need more government decision making in my life? Can I opt of the choices given me?

As employed by government policies and programs, behavioral science “nudging” seems to be making big government more attractive and more conducive for an individual to rely on government for more and more decision making. Nudge’s low intensity manipulation seems to always advance the goals of the federal government while couched in ways as helping people make good decisions. As such, “nudging” seems to be growing the Nanny State.

Certainly, there are concerns about the ethics of nudging. Nudges can engineer people’s choices to reach certain ends desired by a policy maker. A policy “choice architecture” can, by design, make certain options have a greater chance of being chosen. Ergo, the government should be transparent in its behavioral approaches to ensure that policymakers, media, and the public have the evidence they need to judge their merits. Yet, I don’t every government agency will be transparent with its manipulation or propaganda.

When nudging seeks to frame behavior with limited choices to achieve a political outcome, then formerly well-intentioned nudges give way to outright manipulation. We will then be influenced to do whatever those in power want done. Example: When “We’re all in this together” becomes the stigmatizing “The pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

What happens when the owners of a technocratic control group known as social media shrink your choice architecture” on the inter-web and you do not see all there is to know? Such frames are difficult to combat because we are not often presented with the alternative frame, and thus we often don’t realize how the frame we see affects our decisions.

When information leading to truth is censored by technocrats with government approval, tyranny is slowly being put in place to rob common people of their health, savings, freedoms, and their futures. In other words, “Freedom of choice be damned!”

You will want to read this>> Exposing The CIA’s Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media | ZeroHedge

What happens when sensible “choice architecture” that nudges people toward the best decisions for themselves, their families, and society without restricting freedom of choice, shrinks to “choose this or else” as with a mandate? “Honey, they shrunk the Choice Architecture and have grown the size of their influence!”

A [San Francisco Democrat’s] bill before California lawmakers would require new cars sold in the state in coming years to beep a warning whenever drivers exceed the speed limit by at least 10 mph

New cars in California could alert drivers for breaking the speed limit – ABC News (go.com)

According to the write up, the signal can be turned off – the driver’s choice architecture.

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More information:

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his “contributions to behavioral economics.”

Cass Sunstein is an American legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics. Cass R. Sunstein – Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School

“From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [under Obama], and after that, he served on the President’s Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the Behavioral Insights Team in the United Kingdom.”

How Nudging Can Change Customer’s Behaviour – Radiant Copywriting

Frontiers | Nudge politics: efficacy and ethics (frontiersin.org)

Nudge and Nudging in Public Policy | SpringerLink

Nudging in Public Policy | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

Behavioural Insights Team: ethical, professional and historical considerations | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core

Nudge theory: what 15 years of research tells us about its promises and politics (theconversation.com)

Nudge theory doesn’t work after all, says new evidence review – but it could still have a future (theconversation.com)

Barriers to Converting Applied Social Psychology to Bettering the Human Condition (tandfonline.com)

There’s a backlash against nudging – but it was never meant to solve every problem | Cass Sunstein | The Guardian

Freedom and Flourishing: Is economics becoming a branch of psychology?

Nudge: How Small Changes Can Significantly Influence People’s Choices – Effectiviology

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Winston Marshall Matters

Laura Dodsworth is a photographer, artist and author. In her most recent book Free Your Mind: The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist it, Laura draws on the Nudge Unit, behavioral psychology and fact checking services to analyze the range of ways in which our minds are manipulated. On the podcast, Laura talks about the government propaganda machine and how this all relates back to issues such as climate catastrophe, the pandemic and free speech. 

Laura Dodsworth: How to protect yourself from government propaganda

Laura Dodsworth: How to protect yourself from government propaganda | The Spectator

Learn how to recognize and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.

There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling?’

Free Your Mind is your field manual to surviving the information battlefield. In this indispensable book, Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan draw on interviews with mind-control experts ranging from monks to magicians, infiltrate cults and forums to uncover their most deceptive techniques and expose the hidden tactics used to influence you, from social media to subliminal messages.

Free Your Mind: The must-read expert guide on how to identify techniques to influence you and how to resist them: Amazon.co.uk: Dodsworth, Laura, Fagan, Patrick: 9780008600945: Books

This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our health and our minds. It’s also about how the government weaponised our fear against us – supposedly in our best interests – until we were one of the most frightened countries in the world.

A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic: Amazon.co.uk: Dodsworth, Laura: 9781780667201: Books

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I have often posted about those who seek to engineer our lives – my previous post Central Planning or I Know What I Know?

I am cynical about those who seek to control us for “our own good.” There are always people in the world who want to manipulate and control others to have them make ‘better’ decisions, i.e., think like them. And this is true in the church:

There’s a growing list of the controlled opposition’s shaming screeds promoted on MSNBC to influence voters by making them feel morally superior if they make the ‘right’ choice: to not support and vote for Trump.

These Nudge-mental authors want to move you in the direction of being an ‘acceptable’ Christian and to be politically ‘acceptable’ in their eyes.

Tim Alberta and The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, published December 5, 2023

Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman with White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy published on February 27, 2024

Jim Wallis: The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy, published April 2, 2024

The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics, Nancy French and Curtis Chang, based on project by David French, Russell Moore & Curtis Chang, published April 23, 2024

Ironically, these holier-than-MAGA disparagers no doubt benefitted from Trump’s presidency. There was peace and prosperity. There were no wars. Look at Trump’s Middle East peace deal. There was no invasion of our southern border. Inflation was around 2%. People had money to support themselves and to give to charitable causes like The Roy’s Report and The Trinity Forum, (where these guys hawk their wares.)

During those four years and since, these guys sit around and nitpick about people who are not like them at great benefit to themselves.

And please don’t tell me they are writing these things to protect Jesus from the rabble. “Put down your sword, Peter.” Jesus – very God – is not beholden to anyone for protection.

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Well before Nudge, the book of Proverbs talked about those who act out of impulse, impatience, or ignorance. Proverbs talked about people who often make choices that are not the best or even good for them. What Does the Book of Proverbs Say About Fools? – Bible Gateway Blog

Wisdom was in place long before Nudge came along:

The Lord Created me [Wisdom] at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old, Proverbs 8:22-31

Wisdom, personified as a female in the book of Proverbs, aspires to produce much more than a nudge toward a rational self-interest maximizing approach to decision making. Wisdom’s desire is to expand one’s personal bandwidth with the experience of the knowledge and fear of God.

Wisdom wants you to tap into God’s creation.

Wisdom is coupled with humility – you don’t have all the answers. (I get the image of a wife telling her husband to ask for directions when they are lost.)

You can ask God for wisdom in your decision making and God will supply you with wisdom.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart,

and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge Him,

and He will make your paths straight.

Be not wise in your own eyes;

fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

This will bring healing to your body

and refreshment to your bones. Proverbs 3:5-8

“The wise shall inherit glory (all honor and good) but shame is the highest rank conferred on [self-confident] fools.” Proverbs 3:35

“A foolish person will believe anything. But a wise person thinks about what he does.” Proverbs 14:15

You don’t need to be a tenuous reed in the wind, nudged in every direction. Seek wisdom from God.

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Nudge them not before a TV screen:

“. . . while screen time may be harmless or even enriching in moderation, it’s still rife with pitfalls. Screens can tempt kids away from physical activity and imaginative play, for example, and could stunt development of critical skills like emotional self-regulation if overused.

“According to a new study, screen time for babies and toddlers is also linked to an additional risk many parents may not have considered: developing atypical sensory-processing behaviors. . .

“The behaviors include “sensation seeking” and “sensation avoiding” – when a child seeks out more intense sensory stimulation or is more averse to intense sensations, respectively – as well as “low registration,” a lower sensitivity or slower response to stimuli.”

Screen Time Could Have a Surprising Effect on Our Children’s Ability to Process Sensations : ScienceAlert

There be NO Health choice architecture if Dr. Tedros of the WHO becomes the health dictator:

Exposing WHO Chief Dr. Tedros: Militant Marxist and China Stooge (rumble.com)

The World Health Organization is working with the European Union to roll out international, interoperable digital IDs. If you go to the World Economic Forum website these digital IDs are touted as means to enrich our lives by making the following tasks easier: Accessing healthcare, opening a bank account, traveling, engaging in online transactions, accessing Medicare/Medicaid, voting, and paying taxes. Without these IDs, you won’t be able to do any of those things. Or, if you step out of line in some way (say, if a certain vaccine is mandated that you refuse), the WHO could interfere with your digital ID to limit your access to any of these very basic activities. (Emphasis mine.)

Reggie Littlejohn: “We Should All Be Worried About The WHO’s Pandemic Treaty”

Celebrity “Nudge-mentalism”:

Nudge-truth:

Central Planning or I Know What I Know?

“If science is really given a free hand it can now take over the human race and re-condition it: make man a really efficient animal. If it doesn’t – well, we’re done.”

That is Lord Feverstone speaking to Mark Studdock in C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength.

Feverstone, a shrewd sociopath, uses idealism to lure gullible Mark Studdock, an ambitious, self-centered and shallow intellectual looking to ‘upgrade’ his life. Feverstone wants Mark to join the National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.)

N.I.C.E. is a scientific social engineering agency and a front for dark supernatural forces. It is bent on world domination through scientific management. Propagandistic media is used to persuade the educated, like Studdock, to join in disseminating N.I.C.E. propaganda:

One interesting feature in the effort toward totalistic control over society, as developed in That Hideous Strength, is the matter of influencing public opinion through the news media. Mark, the insecure protagonist in the story, finds himself drawn into the “inner ring” of the technocratic project; he eventually discerns his role to write stories that support the agenda of the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.). -Ted Lewis, Jacques, Jack and the Technocrats | | The International Jacques Ellul Society

Feverstone continues working Mark . . .

“Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest – which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can. You and I want to be the people who do the taking charge, not the ones who are taken charge of. Quite.”

[Mark] “What sort of thing have you in mind?”

“Quite simple and obvious things, at first – sterilization of the unfit, liquidation of backward races (we don’t want any dead weights), selective breeding. Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it’ll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we’ll get on to biological conditioning in the end and the direct manipulation of the brain . . .”

“N. I. C. E.’s symbol, devoted as it was to “Technocratic and Objective Man” (That Hideous Strength, 259), was a muscular male nude grasping a thunderbolt (That Hideous Strength, p. 215).” – The Devils in Our World – Official Site | CSLewis.com

There were significant parallels to N.I.C.E.’s scientific management activity and the characters involved in 1945, when Lewis came out with the final book of his Ransom trilogy. Mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915) the “father of scientific management”, could have been one of the characters in the technocratic project. And there’s Le Corbusier (1886–1965), a Swiss French architect, designer, and painter who was an urban planner.

Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. In one sense, he had less excuse for his activities than Pol Pot: for unlike the Cambodian, he possessed great talent, even genius. Unfortunately, he turned his gifts to destructive ends, and it is no coincidence that he willingly served both Stalin and Vichy. Like Pol Pot, he wanted to start from Year Zero: before me, nothing; after me, everything. By their very presence, the raw-concrete-clad rectangular towers that obsessed him canceled out centuries of architecture. Hardly any town or city in Britain (to take just one nation) has not had its composition wrecked by architects and planners inspired by his ideas.

-Theodore Dalrymple, Le Corbusier’s Baleful Influence: The Architect as Totalitarian (city-journal.org)

Today, there are significant parallels to N.I.C.E.’s scientific management activity and the characters involved. I suppose one could replace the Lord Feverstone character with a number of elites: Lord (Klaus) Schwab of the World Economic Forum (WEF) or Lord (Tedros Adhanom) Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization (WHO) or with the infamous Lord Science, Anthony Fauci and his COVID boss Lord (Francis) Collins who now Confesses Lockdown Damage Was ‘Another Mistake We Made’.

The scientific management of COVID “to save a life” went in a horrible direction against humans. Many of my posts from March 2020 onward document the destructiveness of central public health planning and what other experts were saying.

Certainly, there are those today who want to rework humans with neural links, gene therapy, AI, and scientific management via central planning.

The following well-produced documentary Trust Us is an absolute must for understanding the central planners and the elites. Homeschoolers should show this video to the charges.

““Trust Us” traces the rise of American technocracy: governance by bureaucratic experts. Beginning in the early 20th century, “Trust Us” reveals how our leaders funneled power to unelected experts, who were convinced they could engineer solutions to all our nation’s problems. Not only did these experts fail to solve those problems, but in example after example, they caused irreversible damage to the country.

With The One Best Way – scientific management – Progressives “impose an ideology that not only can every corner of society be planned and controlled from the top down, but that it must be.”

Trust Us | The Rise of American Technocracy (youtube.com)

As we saw during COVID, the collusion of science and state powers forms a dangerous mix. We were told and made to “trust the science” about masks, lockdowns, social distancing, and the COVID vaccine for a flu virus that was 99.9 % survivable for healthy adults who were not very elderly.

The elites of public health central planning lied to us about immunity so that the vaccine could be pushed by the medical-industrial complex. They told us lies about hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin so that the vaccine could be pushed by the medical-industrial complex. They told us lies about the origins of COVID to protect the medical-industrial complex that created a gain-of function virus.

At the same time, you would be mocked as “misinformed” and as a “conspiracy theorist” if you questioned the elites of public health central planning. You would be punished by censorship or loss of license or worse.

See this link for the lies we were told and for the adverse and deadly effects of the COVID vaccine: Investigations Archives – DailyClout.

A world-renowned scientist and leading immunology expert has raised the alarm with an explosive warning to the public that everyone who has been vaccinated with Covid mRNA shotswill die within 3 to 5 years, even if they have had only one injection.”

The alert was issued by Professor Dr. Dolores Cahill.

Renowned Scientist: All Covid-Vaxxed ‘Will Die in 3 to 5 Years’ – Slay News

The Onrushing Death Wave – by Richard Sauder (substack.com)

C.S. Lewis tried to warn us about the collusion of science and state powers used against humanity for “the public good.” (Who determines what “the public good” is should concern us all. Should the Godless determine “the public good”?)

That Hideous Strength “is a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked scientific and technological advancement.

The National Institute for Coordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.) embodies the perils of divorcing knowledge from ethics. Their vision of progress, which seeks to dominate and control nature, starkly contrasts the traditional Christian understanding of humanity’s role as stewards of creation. In this, Lewis critiques a growing cultural trend that prioritizes technological advancement at the expense of moral and spiritual values.” Manrado Gorgio

C. S. Lewis’s Blend of Sci-Fi and Theology: ‘That Hideous Strength’ Analysis (sciencefictionclassics.com)

I am not against technological advancements. I have worked in engineering for many years. Experts are needed and should be given a platform but not the power to coerce.

Do not become so desperate and afraid that you beg government to do something.

I am against technological advancements tied to bureaucratic machinations and coercion by the state. I am against top-down scientific management central planning of my life. I am against elites telling me how to live my life. I am against being experimented on.

We, of Middle Earth America, are sick and tired of elites telling us how to think, speak and act!

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Currently, there are organizations plotting world domination in terms of scientific management. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is one such cabal of elites chomping at the bit to control every corner of our lives. Another is the World Health Organization (WHO), the public health arm of the UN with more elites hankering to centrally plan our health under One Health.

Be aware! May 27th – June 1st, the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly is being held in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of this year’s Health Assembly is: All for Health, Health for All. There will be scheduled votes on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic treaty and the proposed changes to the International Health Regulations (IHR). The votes on this treaty and the IHR won’t be the end of an attempt at a global health security state; they mark just the beginning.

I do not want WHO oversight of my health/life. Nor do I want a Federal or State apparatus that has oversight of my health/life. I don’t want to exchange one authoritarian central planning system for another. I don’t want to live under a health technocracy. I prefer practical wisdom over central planning.

“. . .an unlettered peasant is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feelings or social complexities.” Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions

In the video you will learn:

The status and legality of the WHO treaty and IHR votes.

How we got here.

What’s in the ever-shifting documents.

What states are doing about it.

How state AGs and U.S. senators are stepping up for health freedom.

WHO Update 5/13/24: The votes are still on! (rumble.com)

WHO Update 5/13/24 – STAND FOR HEALTH FREEDOM

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If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left. Thomas Sowell

Government central planning means over-riding other people’s plans. – Thomas Sowell

“What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves.”
― James C. Scott, Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

“Social order is not the result of the architectural order created by T squares and slide rules. Nor is social order brought about by such professionals as policemen, nightwatchmen, and public officials. Instead, says Jacobs, “the public peace—the sidewalk and street peace—of cities … is kept by an intricate, almost unconscious network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves, and enforced by the people themselves.”
― James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Here’s an inciteful brief description of James Scott’s Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed:

“. . . the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry?

“The author [James Scott] builds a persuasive case against “development theory” and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a “high-modernist ideology” that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large- scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.” (Emphasis mine.)

What remains of hubristic endeavors. . .

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

— Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias”, 1819 

31 reasons why central planning failed in the Soviet Union | by Charles Orton-Jones | Medium

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That Hideous Strength: Is technology dangerous?

Alister McGrath explores how CS Lewis addresses the perceived conflict between God and science in That Hideous Strength. What insights can Lewis give about pertinent issues such as the atomic age, eugenics and Artificial Intelligence? When does technology becomes technocracy and why was Tolkien so anti tech? What are some of the ways religion is being challenged and how does Lewis expose these critiques?

#143 That Hideous Strength: Is technology dangerous? – ThriveCast

John J. Miller is joined by Michael Ward of the University of Oxford to discuss C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength.

The Great Books — Episode 224: ‘That Hideous Strength’ by C. S. Lewis | National Review

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The Disconnected Ones

From parents pampering their progeny (Indulging “I-Me-Mine”) to priests and pastors preaching Progressivism (‘Inspired’ “I-Me-Mine”) to professors promulgating political propaganda (Ideological “I-Me-Mine” & Illiteracy) to the phenomenon of ‘political correctness’ (Ideological Conformity & Indulgent Illiberalism) to policies promoting pseudo pronouns (Indulgent Illusions of “I-Me-Mine”) to protestors pronouncing “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” (Indulgent Intifada), the Left’s Long Maoist/Marxist/ Marcusean March through institutions has left a trail strewn with social pathologies and pogroms. Ptooey!

The humorless Left, a product of its own Polarizing and Infantilizing Process, is self-absorbed but not self-examining. The Left refuses to learn from anything outside itself including history to account for its own dysfunctional and belligerent ways. If it did, it would turn from its deceptions – the filtering mindsets of victim-oppressor and of passion as morality – and it wouldn’t continue the Long March, inchoate, with those who have been patently processed like themselves to destroy whatever is in its path including “Democracy!”

Today’s products of the Polarizing and Infantilizing Process, disconnected from history and reality and preoccupied with self, are working diligently to take down Western civilization and its Judeo-Christian foundation. In its place they want to build sand castles, imagined communist and Islamic utopias, from the river to the sea.

Yet, as history has recorded as happening under all preceding totalitarian impulses, the season of indulging one’s passions and the rush to violence will soon pass. The revolutionary impulse inevitably turns inward, as the “I-Me-Mine” of the leaders begins to indulgently purge all dissent including thought crimes in order to impose mindless uniformity. Thus, the season of torture, torment, and tedium begins for the disconnected ones.

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Retired prison psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple (pen name for Anthony Daniels) speaks and writes with keen insight gathered from his experience of the human condition and of its surrounding culture.

Having read several of his books, I recommend two books to start with:

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (Start with this book. It will change how you look at the world.)

Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality

Here’s Theodore Dalrymple’s address at the London National Conservatism Conference on May 15, 2023.

Theodore Dalrymple | Historiography and the State of the Western Mind | NatCon UK (youtube.com)

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The New Criterion’s Roger Kimball takes the audience through a history of America’s cultural revolution of the 1960’s and its effects on American politics and culture today.

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s Changed America by Roger Kimball (youtube.com)

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Per Italian communist Antonio [ Gramsci] “If the Left truly wanted to win, it needed to first seize the “cultural means of production”: the culture-forming institutions such as the media and universities and even churches. He saw societal transformation coming about by a “march through the institutions.” …

“Gramsci insisted that leftist intellectuals needed to question everything, including moral absolutes and the Judeo-Christian basis of Western civilization. They needed to frame seemingly benign conventions as systematic injustices that must be exposed. This is where we got professors fulminating against everything from “the patriarchy” to “white imperialism” to “transphobia.””

Marx at 200: Cultural Marxism’s Long Happy March Through the Institutions

Expand your temporal bandwidth . . .

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

. . . because . . .

“We live in an age of full spectrum deception.” — Edward Dowd

Why I read novels . . .

“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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The Way I Heard It, Mike Rowe podcast:

382: Individualism Rightly Understood with Scott Mann 1:19:03

The former U.S. Army Green Beret, NYT bestselling author, leadership consultant, and perennial storyteller talks about the division and tribal behavior that permeates our country now, the death of honor, shame, and consequence, and why Alexis de Tocqueville was right when he observed that America succeeds because she puts the individual ahead of the collective. You can preorder Scott’s newest book here.

Individualism Rightly Understood Mike Rowe with Scott Mann

Podcast – Mike Rowe

LAST OUT (lastoutplay.com)

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Controlled Opposition

The growing list of the controlled opposition’s shaming screeds promoted on MSNBC to influence voters by making them feel morally superior if they don’t vote for Trump:

Tim Alberta and The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, published December 5, 2023

Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman with White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy published on February 27, 2024

Jim Wallis: The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy, published April 2, 2024

Apparently, the only way to be a Christian is to be a Democrat like the author/s and to vote for all of the things that your faith disagrees with and for the continued destruction of our country. Got it.

“Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”

“Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.

Mark 9:38-41

Apparently, there are people who are very ‘concerned’ about Trump being associated with Jesus because Trump “was not one of us.”

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You realize, don’t you, that what’s going on in our country is the collapse not just of an empire, or an economy, but a comprehensive paradigm of human progress. The hallmark of post-war life in Western Civ was supposed to be a return to sanity after the mid-twentieth century fugue of mass psychotic violence. The wish for just and rational order was not entirely pretense. But that was then. Now that we are going medieval on ourselves, the not-so-ironic result will be our literally going medieval, sinking back into a pre-modern existence of darkness, superstition, and penury, grubbing for a mere subsistence in the shadow of scuffling hobgoblins, our achievements lost and forgotten. . .

The source of anguish in all that is the struggle to understand why they [the “governing apparatus”] would want that to happen. What debauched sense of history would drive anyone to such lunatic desperation? It’s a cliché now to say that the Democratic Party has turned its traditional moral scaffold upside down and inside out. It acts against the kitchen table interests of the working and middle classes. It’s against civil liberties. It demands mental obedience to patently insane policy. It’s avid for war, no matter how cruelly pointless. It’s deliberately stirring up racial hatred. It despises personal privacy. It feeds a rogue bureaucracy that has become a veritable Moloch, an all-devouring malevolent deity. And now, rather suddenly, it aligns itself with a faction that seeks to exterminate the Jews.

James Howard Kunstler at https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/pep-talk-on-a-dark-day/

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As of 5-5-2024, we are 22 days away (May 27th) from the WHO approving One Health One World control of countries and of our health and freedom.

Find out more and how to act>>>

Exit the WHO, Take 2! – STAND FOR HEALTH FREEDOM

WHO and global health update – STAND FOR HEALTH FREEDOM

49 Republican Senators REJECT Pandemic Treaty From WHO | WLT Report

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Citizen Free Press on X: “Babylon Bee presents Woke Jesus. This is really well done. https://t.co/RWA5KYMp5o” / X (twitter.com)

Polly Want a Crisis?

If only it was something that remained on the pages of a dystopian novel . . .the ways the anointed ones deal with us. But the stark reality is that the anointed ones have learned that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste and that a manufactured crisis affords the anointed the opportunity to wield total power for its own sake.

“When the anointed say that there is a crisis this means that something must be done —and it must be done simply because the anointed want it done.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision Of The Annointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy

The fourth anniversary of “15 days to slow the spread” has come and gone. But the harm inflicted upon our lives and our country during the COVID “crisis” has not. More “public health” strategies are being developed to tyrannize us into “wellness” (See the WHO treaty below.) We will be made to follow “the science” even into hell if it suits the anointed ones.

We (the remnant) somehow lived through the “something must be done” ill-treatment by means of the public health anointed: Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, Rochelle Walensky, Francis Collins, and others of the anointed ilk.

And somehow, we lived through the abrogation of our freedom by the anointed ones. We came out the other side of the social experiment with the knowledge that the anointed ones conceived the abuse done to us and will do it again. What we had to endure mentally at the hands of the anointed arch-COVIDians was horrible: their fearmongering, their lies, their scientism, their silencing of contrary evidence, and their absurd mandates – clearly a test of wills as common sense was not considered “the science.”

The introduction of the anointed anxiety-soothing shot – the SOMA serum – has had devastating implications on the health and livelihoods. Many have suffered the loss of loved ones with an “unexpected death”, the loss of livelihood, and the loss of health. It has only been recently reported that the anointed of the CDC intentionally HID more than a quarter of a million adverse effects reports for the COVID-19 “vaccines.”

We continue to be subjected (via the anointed one’s talking heads) to the badgering about a (non-existent) climate “crisis.” We are told to do away with gasoline-powered vehicles and natural gas ranges and with all thought of fossil fuels as an energy source. We are told to become completely dependent on weather-dependent turbines and solar panels, and on hydropower and on their “climate science” directives for the energy to power a modern industrial economy.

(See my post Earth Day – Don’t Re-Greta Green Energy | Kingdom Venturers where I wrote about the exploitation of children and poor countries to secure the minerals needed for millions of electronic products e.g., rechargeable lithium batteries, sold year after year. The anointed ones have hearts of darkness.

“. . . cobalt, mined by the Congolese (and the Uyghurs in China), is a coveted substance in man’s conquest of earth. And we find, if we dare to look, that Green Energy-based colonialism is no different than the ivory-based colonialism talked about in [Joseph Conrad’s] Heart of Darkness.”)

The anointed of the World Economic Forum (WEF) had included “Climate-related risks” as “the biggest future threat facing the world.” The WEF have since moved on to “misinformation and disinformation” as the biggest risk near-term risk (to their narratives), followed by extreme weather events, social polarization and armed conflict.

Citing soaring energy and food prices resulting in inflationary pressures and a cost-of-living crisis, social unrest, conflicts, carbon emissions and future pandemics, the anointed of the WEF have created a new word for the cascading and connected crises they envision: Polycrisis.

For, the anointed of the WEF must make alarming predictions and announce sweeping solutions to create a demand for their services. These “Teflon prophets” (Thomas Sowell) predict that there will be future social, economic, or environmental problems in the absence of their anointed intervention.

It will be noted by those with an expanded personal bandwidth (informed common sense), that the cost-of-living crisis has been caused by the massive deficit spending and reckless energy policies of the anointed ones in our government. They also know that the shutdown of our economy during COVID was caused by the public health anointed ones. Wars are caused by the anointed ones. Carbon emissions have not risen to any threatening level except in the “acceptable” papers the anointed present to the WEF and the UN.

The WEF will not let their Polycrisis go to waste. They are conspiring to centrally plan the world because “something must be done” and done “for our own good.” Did anyone ask you about wanting a Great Reset?

Public health anointed ones are setting up for the next medical “crisis”. The World Health Organization (WHO) wants complete sovereignty (To call the shots!) over our health . . . and anything it calls a “crisis”. A “crisis” would include the climate, the water supply, gun ownership, how food is produced – basically, anything they can claim is an existential threat to humanity.

For these anointed ones to have complete say and sway over us, they must make an end run around to subvert our own physical sovereignty and the sovereignty of the U.S.

Dr. Meryl Nass: ‘We’re undergoing a soft coup’

Dr. Meryl Nass explains how the WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty will enable the WHO “to take over jurisdiction of everything in the world by saying that climate change, animals, plants, water systems [and] ecosystems are all central to health”. In addition to that, it will remove human rights protections, enforce censorship and digital passports, require governments to push a single “official” narrative, and enable the WHO to declare “pandemics” on a whim.

In a nutshell, the WHO is all in for whatever it takes to promote disease-related pharmaceutical interventions, including surveillance, digital health passports, tracing, the ability to impose lockdowns, and mandating vaccines, even experimental ones like the mRNA COVID-19 shots. (Emphasis mine.)

More on this here: Short Videos – Sovereignty Coalition

“The COVID-19 mandates and resulting lockdowns taught us that, given the chance, governments worldwide will seek to control citizens if a pandemic emergency is declared. The World Health Organization (WHO) closed its negotiations on May 27 with the production of an accord consisting of two treaties that could meaningfully impinge on our sovereignty as Americans. The proposed WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty threatens to give unprecedented power in real or maybe even perceived “public health emergencies of international concern.” -Wendi Strauch Mahoney

The WHO Accord: Global Governance is a Real Threat to American Sovereignty | uncoverdc.com | uncoverdc.com

If only it was something that remained on the pages of a dystopian novel . . .the ways the anointed ones deal with us.

Coming May 2024!!!!!!!!!

Global Health Project – Protecting the Health & Future for All Humans – The Global Health Project

You may be clutching your pearls and saying “I don’t know what to think or do.” Does Polly want a crisis so that Polly can find out what to think and do from the anointed ones?

Take Action Now!!!!! At this link: “Not Now” on the Surrender of Our Sovereignty to the WHO | AlignAct

Listen. We can’t change the past. But we can continue to learn from it and work to prevent it from happening again, so the next “crisis” doesn’t represent the death of our Constitution, our livelihood, and our freedom.

For what has happened During COVID, we must demand answers. We must demand accountability. We must demand that those who perpetrated this be tried and, as appropriate, fined and sent to prison.

The takeover of our lives “for your own good” by the anointed ones must stop now.

I am not vaxxed and not because of some partisan influence or misinformation as the Leftist media is wont to claim. I took the time to read and understand the science from various sources and I knew my own almost seventy-year old body.

I did not comply during the COVID “crisis”. I did not come to love Big Brother. I raised my voice and held strong. (See my posts since March 2020). Unfortunately, many swallowed the slogans and were like sheep led to the mRNA slaughter.

All I want from the government or any authority is information to make my own decisions. I do not want, unless authorized by me, to have decisions made for me. (One might say that a transmissible disease warrants strict compliance to “health standards” or someone might die. But there would be no evidence of such transmission, only speculation and finger pointing.)

The United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the First and Second Amendments are the Supreme Law of the Land – not the WEF, not the WHO, and not a warrantless FISA.

The eclipse came and went but the tax man cometh again and again to overshadow our lives. April 15th – the day when the work of our hands is conscripted into the service of the oligarchical ruling class.

Characteristics of the anointed one’s Big Brother approach:

Increasing depression, despondency, mental illness, and suicides.

Ugliness in tone, in art and architecture – beauty is deemed subversive.

Truth, facts and language are manipulated (Newspeak).

There is a militant focus on “misinformation and disinformation” (Ministry of Truth).

History is destroyed (doublethink).

Constant surveillance.

Systematic brainwashing (Ministry of Love). 

There is obsession with population control and control of population.

If only it was something that remained on the pages of a dystopian novel . . .the ways the anointed ones deal with us.

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There are those who see themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the general public and therefore superior to Democracy and its laws created by elected representatives.

Ad hoc justice, not established rule of law, is one product of their superior ways as is remaking society with inegalitarian means to create equal outcomes. Promoting the hatred of whites to promote blacks is another product of their superior ways.

Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Angelo Codevilla had this to say about America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution:

“This dismissal of the American people’s intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its principal article of faith, its claim to the right to decide for others, is precisely that it knows things and operates by standards beyond others’ comprehension . . .

“Because ordinary people will pervert reason with ideology, religion, or interest, science is “science” only in the “right” hands. Consensus among the right people is the only standard of truth. Facts and logic matter only insofar as proper authority acknowledges them . . .

“That is why the ruling class is united and adamant about nothing so much as its right to pronounce definitive, “scientific” judgment on whatever it chooses . . .

“The fact that the “hockey stick” conclusion stands discredited and Mann and associates are on record manipulating peer review, the fact that science-by-secret-data is an oxymoron, the very distinction between truth and error, all matter far less to the ruling class than the distinction between itself and those they rule.”

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Anointed ones run our cities:

The Democratic-run city of Denver, Colorado, plans to defund its police department to pay for illegal immigrants.

Denver’s police department will be hit with an $8.4 million reduction — about 1.9% of its total operating budget, the city confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Blue City Plans To Defund Its Police Force To Pay For Illegal Immigrants | (dailycallernewsfoundation.org)

The anointed ones who run our cities into the ground want to create new hell holes:

Hamster cages for humans, the 15-minute cities, are on city planner agendas. Soy boys and girls can walk around the city and look at their screens without a worry – “the idea is that every need is fulfilled within a 15-minute walk or short bike ride.”

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“Democracy!” is in crisis, according to the anointed ones on the Left: Trump is on the ballot and might be elected! Anointed talking heads want to tell you what to think and do about it: “Whatever you do, Don’t Think. Accept what is said about Trump and “Democracy!””

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
—Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals

(Replace “liberty” with the Left’s “crisis of Democracy!” and you will understand what they are after.)

Tucker Carlson: For the Third Time in Three Consecutive Cycles, Secretive Federal Agencies are Trying to Rig Our Presidential Election – This Is What They Call ‘Democracy’ (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

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You won’t get the common sense found in the words and writings of Thomas Sowell from the anointed ones.

Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society (youtube.com)

Sowell argues that American thought is dominated by a “prevailing vision” which seals itself off from any empirical evidence that is inconsistent with that vision.

“…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

The vision of the anointed — with Thomas Sowell (1995) | THINK TANK (youtube.com)

Thomas Sowell and a Conflict of Visions (youtube.com)

Original air date: October 12, 1995

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Were you assigned George Orwell’s 1984 in school? I wonder if it’s being assigned in schools today.

We are living in an age that is increasingly characterized by the eerily prophetic 1984. Authoritarianism and coercion. The censoring of speech. The mandates. The propaganda. Utopia for the brotherhood elite. Dystopia for the rest.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell’s dystopian novel where the state rewrites history, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength – and Big Brother is watching you

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Novel Conversations: “1984” by George Orwell

 1984 follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of ‘the Party’, who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes of the party, and its ominous ruler, Big Brother. Orwell effectively explores the themes of mass media control, government surveillance, how a dictator can manipulate and control history, thoughts, and lives in such a way that no one can escape it.

“1984” by George Orwell

“1984” by George Orwell | Evergreen Podcasts

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Mike Johnson Is Fighting to Protect the Government Spy Program Used on Trump (youtube.com)