Discernment Knows Better
July 20, 2026 Leave a comment
History and current events reveal that anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal. The same holds true when empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal – anything can be rationalized.
Wayward Christian empathy covers the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti, making it look like an underground car park, in order to represent the voices of “marginalized communities.”
Cosplay Christian empathy speaks with Christian platitudes and acts out the story it tells itself listening to the MSM narrative about immigration. Its theatrics would have us place a high value on a foreign invader’s human dignity to discourage deportation and place a negative value on immigration law, law enforcement, the country, and thereby, the human dignity of those living here.
The destructive effects of open borders – the flooding of communities and neighborhoods with unvetted foreigners, many with diseased bodies and diseased mindsets – are ignored in MSM narratives and the echoed Coplay Christian stories. Coplay Christians want to be the heroes of their own narratives, as I wrote in my post Self-Central Casting.
Tell me. Have you seen reports on MS NOW or CNN about those invaders who kill, maim, rape, drug to death our neighbors, and do horrible things to our children (See Arrested: Worst of the Worst)?
Tell me. Have you seen those outlets report on those who take jobs and housing and resources from those living here? Have you seen those outlets report on those who want to overthrow the country? Have you seen those outlets report on those who want to turn (colonize) areas of our country into Islamic no-go zones and force Sharia law on the everyone in the area?
See what you see and not what MS NOW or CNN or the NYT wants you to see.
Careless regard toward our neighbors by forcing foreigners upon them via an idealism of “welcoming the stranger” inclusion is not Christianity. Rather, it is coercive Marxist-like redistribution of resources and it is authoritarian, just like what is projected onto Christian nationalists.
The plea for acceptance of the idealist boot on the neck of our neighbor and for Progressivism’s ‘anything goes’ terms of Christianity comes from Christian leaders without discernment and with a desire to be relevant.
From the May 31, 2026 post No Country for Old Men Without Borders:
In the past six months I’ve come across two pastoral letters imploring Christians to think kindly toward the millions of foreign invaders who have illegally crossed our borders to appropriate our country’s resources and thereby impacting the future of our neighbors and the country.
Like with the end game of politics, when empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal, anything can be rationalized.
And that’s how the Rev. Kate Penney Howard finds a way to equate Christian nationalism with the KKK.
The following Facebook post was forwarded to me for comment. I am not on social media and thankfully so. https://www.facebook.com/rev.kate.penney/posts/10243888131684638/
My response is below the post.
Response:
One can expect generalizations and projection in opinion pieces, and that is what you get in this snappy op-ed.
Pastor Howard begins with the generalization “we” referring to Hoosiers and goes on to relate a story about the Indiana KKK that the “we” are retelling themselves.
Her history redux, a 1920s story of “churchgoing” people seeing the KKK as a Christian movement and moral crusade, is projected onto current Indiana citizens that she believes are promoting Christian nationalism involving political will. She warns “we are telling ourselves a story we have told before. It did not end well.”
What are the “we” to do with this op-ed sermonette claiming that Christian nationalism is KKK-like by deciding “who belongs and who does not?” What’s the implication? What’s the sermon’s application? The reader is left to speculate as to the “who” she is referring to and about what “belongs” means to her. Maybe her Facebook followers take in the same media as she does and know what she is inferring.
When empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal, anything can be rationalized. And others can be slandered.
Equating Chrisitan nationalism with the hate-group KKK . . . is she, while decrying Christian nationalism, advocating in a backhanded way for a national policy of inclusion – open borders illegal immigration?
Is she against the Spirit-filled wanting to exercise their right as an Indiana and U.S. citizen to vote for the candidates and polices that decide who’s in and who’s out of the country for the safety and flourishing, not to mention the human dignity, of their family, their neighbors, their communities, and for the common good of all citizens? Would she consider them to be Christian nationalists and therefore KKK-like?
I wonder. Is she inclusive about everything? For example, is she OK with men in women’s sports and women’s locker rooms? Does she ever draw the line? Set boundaries? Exclude?
What does national exclusion and setting boundaries look like in scripture? Let’s ask Nehemiah.
Why did you rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, Nehemiah?
“It was done to restore the city’s protection and honor. The walls had been broken down, leaving the city vulnerable and causing shame among its people. Without fortified walls around the city, the people were left defenseless against enemies. Opponents could easily enter and cause “great trouble” to the people. Rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem was a sign to the enemies of Israel.” (Read more here.)
What did you tell Israel’s enemies, Nehemiah?
“The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it” (Nehemiah 2:20).
I know that Nehemiah is OT and not ‘enlightened’ or WOKE as progressive Christians are today, BUT, it sure looks like Nehemiah was a Jewish nationalist and that he rebuilt the walls to keep out bad elements. Apparently, not all the strangers encountered in the Bible are the “strangers” that open borders sermonizers want us to welcome with open arms.
Nehemiah didn’t do the Deuteronomy 10:19 “stranger” thing. He didn’t do the Leviticus 19:34 “stranger” thing. And, fast forward, he didn’t do the Matthew 25:38 “stranger” thing.
Remind me. Did Jesus cast out Jewish nationalists or did he cast out unclean spirits – the demonic forces of the strong man in human vessels that were making havoc in the territory around Galilee?
Let’s review the tactics of the forces of the strong man. Those are to smear, slander, poison, accuse, lie, destroy, negate, censor, produce fear to bring about submission, and grab power and more power and more power.
Didn’t Jesus cast out what was trying to corrupt and usurp his kingdom on earth? (Read Mark 5.)
Pastor Howard states “We are hearing pastors and politicians say God has chosen a side.”? I’ve never heard a pastor or politician say this, but Nehemiah and others in the OT have.
Nehemiah certainly says that God had chosen a side. And, he is not alone in his declaration of confidence in God being on his side, a side he understands as aligning with God’s purposes for the defense and good of Israel.
The shepherd-king David, when going to fight Goliath, said “The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” He also said “The Lord is my shepherd” and “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.” That’s imperious of him, in pastor Howard’s way of thinking.
And when he became king, David’s accountability didn’t disappear because God didn’t abandon him. We learn that David couldn’t justify his adultery and murder before the prophet Nathan. He received the consequences of his actions.
Would you choose a president who acknowledged God and invoked his favor or someone like Obama who considered himself and invoked his ideology?
Contrary to the reverend’s misleading projection onto our nation’s founders about what they understood about claiming divine authority, they (and Abe Lincoln) did align themselves with divine authority and assigned that authority to safeguard their efforts.
The Founders concluded the Declaration of Independence by stating, “For the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
The Founders, building a republic and not a theocracy or a utopia, did decide who or what belongs and who or what does not.
Clauses like the Naturalization Clause and the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution’s framework establish a strong federal role in immigration, to regulate immigration and naturalization.
Congress has almost complete authority to decide who may enter or remain in the United States. Congress can create rules for the admission of aliens.
(The recent reckless Supreme Court ruling, Trump v. Barbara, regarding birthright citizenship was decided by four women and John Roberts. The dissenting opinions rightfully claimed that the majority decision was a misread of both the Constitution (the intent of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866) and American history. John Roberts decided that English common law was the basis for US. Citizenship. The Constitution says otherwise. Roberts apparently didn’t want to be subject to the jurisdiction thereof. More below.)
With the following, the reverend projects onto Christian nationalism her understanding of what the founders rejected:
“Our nation’s founders [understood] what happened when governments claimed divine authority, how quickly God became a justification for control, exclusion and violence, and they made a choice.”
The founders did reject a state religion such as the Church of England that held significant influence over religious and political life. So, “The Constitution does not mention Jesus.”
But the founders did use religion as justification for “control, exclusion and violence.”
As The Library of Congress records, “Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British–an assurance to the average American that revolution was justified in the sight of God.”
Many Revolutionary War clergy argued that the war against Britain was approved by God. In this sermon Abraham Keteltas celebrated the American effort as “the cause of truth, against error and falsehood . . .the cause of pure and undefiled religion, against bigotry, superstition, and human invention . . .in short, it is the cause of heaven against hell–of the kind Parent of the Universe against the prince of darkness, and the destroyer of the human race.”
The Founders, when establishing the federal government and a framework for conceiving of government and justice, did claim divine authority in the form of God’s providence as revealed in the Judeo-Christian scriptures and nature.
The Founders believed that humans are created in the image of God. They believed that human beings are inherently sinful and there would be no utopia on earth. They believed that God is the source of moral standards and that legislation should be in agreement with moral law. And, they believed that religious liberty is a God-given right and must be protected. The Left in America does not accept any of grounds for government and that is why Christian nationalism is seen as a threat.
The founders were the original Christian Nationalists. America’s earliest statesmen put national interest first.
Perhaps the reverend and her Facebook followers should read the following to gain insight into the founders:
and
Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World
What about a version of Christianity that rejects what the founders established? What about disregarding immigration laws? What about disregarding your neighbors for the sake of better-than-thou religious beliefs? What about promoting open borders globalism? What about the deceitful religions of Progressivism and socialism that undermine reality and the Constitution?
Pastor Howard’s oblique use of “side” is the crux of the op-ed. What “side” is she on? The right way of thinking side as opposed to the “we” side that “feels faithful while it is happening?”
If people want to restore the nation to its Judeo-Christian bearings, is that Christian nationalism? Our heritage is worth preserving. The heritage of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms is worth preserving. Even now, Democrats are working to do away with all that in order to produce a secular totalitarian communist state that they believe will heal all wounds. Discernment knows better.
Anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal. The same holds true in Christian circles when empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal – anything can be rationalized.
If people want to restore law and order and justice in the courts, is that picking sides or sound judgement? If people want to remove foreign invaders that came to plunder the homeland, is that KKK-like or removing that which is trying to corrupt and usurp what the founders established?
History, which has “a way of exposing what we would rather keep comfortable” has it that there was a coercive demand for the right way of thinking in the Soviet Union. Perhaps the reverend is more comfortable with the ideological orthodoxy of a closed society than the cultural pluralism of an open society she pretends to offer. (Listen to the podcast on the sidebar.)
The reverend reveals her side, her right way of thinking, when she condemns her opponents: “Certain policies were once political preferences but are now divine mandates. Opposing them is seen as rebellion against God.” What are the policies and divine mandates she is referencing? We are left to speculate. Is this about closing the border and deporting illegal migrants?
She says Jesus didn’t want or need political power. OK. But then she says “God does not need a government to do God’s work.” Is she thinking Jesus did away with nations and borders and now everything is open to inclusion and needs her Christian touch?
Yet, God did use government to do His work.
When Jesus was born, Rome had unified much of the world under its government. Under Pax Romana, the empire was relatively peaceful, travel was possible. This allowed Christians to spread the gospel. The Septuagint, the gospels and epistles and other texts handed down to us were not censored.
Romans 13 teaches that all governing authorities are established by God. The role of government is to maintain justice, restrain evil, and serve the common good. Governments provide security and order. Open borders and the Illegal immigration of millions is chaos and anarchy.
While Jesus did say “My kingdom is not of this world” he also taught his disciples to pray, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Government, in part, enables the latter. A government founded on Christian principles empowers the latter even more so.
The most dangerous thing about smearing Christian nationalism is that it feels faithful while it is happening. It wraps itself in inclusion theology but speaks the language of SPLC. It makes opposition into the KKK. Discernment knows better.
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I cannot impute a motive onto Rev. Howard for her op-ed in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette other than concern about Christian Nationalism. But I can ask if she is concerned with other exclusionary isms.
Is she concerned about the Democratic Socialists of America and their plan to destroy America and bring in communism? Communism will exclude those who don’t align with it. See history.
Is she concerned about the political rise of red-green alliance, a fusion of progressive socialism and Islamism? This alliance will exclude those who don’t align with them. See Mamdani’s NYC.
I can impute a motive onto the hate-funding Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Demonizing others is what the nasty Southern Poverty Law center (SPLC) does with hate maps and reports. “Democracy is threatened by anti-democracy extremist white Christian nationalism” is a SPLC narrative and an outright lie to produce fear.
For, Progressivism/globalism/socialism/communism – tyranny itself – cannot take over along as there Christians who are not controlled opposition. Projecting authoritarianism and tyranny onto Christian nationalism is a means to frighten people into submission to their lies. (Fear has also been used to produce submission to the COVID and climate crisis narratives.)
Because the narratives from the nasty Southern Poverty Law center (SPLC) are so pervasive as they filter through various media, it would not surprise me that there are Christian leaders who take them in and then feed these same narratives to their flock (and to social media) using one-part “Christianese” and one part media narrative while thinking they are being apolitical.
Learn about the SPLC. Learn how people are being manipulated:
Mike McDaniel writes Just when you thought SPLC revelations couldn’t get worse… – American Thinker:
A large part of what the SPLC did was to brand innocuous organizations like Turning Point USA or the Family Research Council as “hate” groups. The evidence of that “hate” was that they opposed Democrats and organizations like BLM and Antifa, which somehow were never so SPLC-branded. . .
It’s hard to imagine an organization and people more depraved. Should the allegations be proved, and it seems likely they will be, the SPLC defamed innocent, decent Americans, enriched and helped small groups of evil but largely ineffective people, and badly damaged America by stirring up racial hatred that wouldn’t have existed without their behind-the-scenes manipulations. They knew what buttons to push among black Americans and played on white guilt like harps from Hell, and we’re all the worse for it. (Emphasis mine.)
Even Red States Quietly Use Content from the SPLC | Headline USA:
Parental rights organization Defending Ed published an investigation revealing that nearly 200 school districts and 30 state government entities spread across 42 states and Washington D.C. publicly promote curriculum materials from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The SPLC currently faces a federal wire fraud indictment. Prior to these charges, the organization became infamous for including mainstream conservative groups on its “hate map.” The Justice Department also opened a criminal investigation into claims the group directed funds to individuals tied to white supremacist movements and allegedly poured millions into efforts to influence Southern elections. . . .
Just the News documented how certain school districts employ aggressive tactics to conceal curricula, psychological programs, and information about which adults interact with students. These same districts, however, openly advertise their partnerships with the SPLC.
The SPLC’s “hate map” designated groups including the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, Defending Ed, multiple Moms for Liberty chapters, Alliance Defending Freedom, Gays Against Groomers, and the Family Research Council. The FRC’s placement on that map motivated a terrorist attack against its Washington headquarters in 2013.
“The content often pushes or reinforces far-left cultural and political ideologies such as left-wing activism, anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, gender ideology and queer theory, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness, and transgenderism,” according to Defending Ed. (Emphasis mine.)
More about the SPLC:
Superseding Indictment Alleges SPLC Funded “Ku Klux Klan garments” and “Cross-Burning Events”
SPLC – Creating Hate To Fundraise To Fight Hate
SPLC charged with offering would-be KKK, Neo-Nazi defectors salaries to stay in, spy on hate groups…
SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account – AOL
CEO of the SPLC confirms it stands by its May 2025 decision to add TPUSA to its ‘hate map’…
SPLC’s Hate Inflation Strategy…
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History has a way of exposing what Democrats would rather keep comfortable.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was closely associated with the Democrat Party, especially in the South, where most Klansmen were Democrats during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Klan supported Democrat efforts to establish one-party rule and suppress black political power through violence and intimidation.
The Democrat Party is not against using KKK tactics while denouncing the KKK. They are not against spewing negativity and hate 24/7/365 online and in the media. Read the NYT op-eds. Watch MS-NOW. Watch the View and late night TV Democrats want the strong man’s power to take control.
History and current events reveal that anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal.
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Todd Bensman refutes the left’s narrative in Is Trump Trying to Deport Venezuelans to Earthquake ‘Hell’?:
In June 2025, the Supreme Court cleared the administration to send illegal aliens to agreeable safe third countries other than their own. Since then, the administration has collected formal agreements with 15 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean with more coming.
The administration and all those who support its deportation goals have facts in pocket to smoke the patently false binary choice being peddled that it can either heartlessly send Venezuelans straight to “hell” or let them remain illegally in the U.S.
Beyond its opportunity to beat down a fake narrative, the administration possesses the moral and legal authority—and a rich buffet of options it probably didn’t realize it had—to actually speed up this large new deportation project.
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The four women on the Supreme court ruled in favor of birthright citizenship . . .
Helen Andrews wrote in The Great Feminization | Compact
“Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently . . .
Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition . . .
“The threat posed by wokeness can be large or small depending on the industry . . . The field that frightens me most is the law. All of us depend on a functioning legal system, and, to be blunt, the rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female. The rule of law is not just about writing rules down. It means following them even when they yield an outcome that tugs at your heartstrings or runs contrary to your gut sense of which party is more sympathetic.
“The problem is not that women are less talented than men or even that female modes of interaction are inferior in any objective sense. The problem is that female modes of interaction are not well suited to accomplishing the goals of many major institutions.” (Emphasis mine.)
Here’s a woman with discernment:
American Thinker Takeaways, July 6, 2026
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Guiding the left is the fear that if permitted to go unchecked, the fact that America is indeed a Christian nation as designed would not be questioned. And so the left continues its enduring war on faith by trying to make it so that you’re an outcast simply for trying to insert the Judeo-Christian God into the conversation. Divide and conquer.
And so we have a battle today where a minority would have you believe that America is not a Christian nation, that if it can’t defeat Christianity through persuasion, it will do so by generating sheer numbers of imported people from other countries who practice other religions; by destroying anyone who would dare to mention their Christian faith in public life; and by shunning anyone who would openly and unapologetically profess his or her faith in Hollywood, the entertainment industry, or in the news media; and by marginalizing Christian faith in academia and in the schools. (Emphasis mine.)
On America 250: A Prayer for Our Country – PJ Media
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The most damaging decision of the term, however, was Trump v. Barbara. In a ruling that will stand as a stain on the Court’s legacy, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett joined the liberal justices to effectively preserve near-blanket birthright citizenship. This was a profound misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. The authors of that Amendment, including Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois — a close friend and ally of Abraham Lincoln — made clear on the floor of the Senate that the clause was intended to secure citizenship for the children of emancipated slaves, not to create a magnet for illegal immigration or confer citizenship on the children of foreign nationals who owe no allegiance to the United States.
Not only the 14th Amendment, but the Civil Rights Act of 1866, passed by the same Congress, expressly limited citizenship to those “not subject to any foreign power.” That phrase, alone, signaled congressional intent to end blanket birthright citizenship. (Emphasis mine.)
The 2026 Supreme Court — a ‘C Minus’ at Best – American Thinker
Trump v. Barbara: Suicide by Cop-Out – American Thinker
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Cindy Wity 
When Trust Goes Bust
August 24, 2026 Leave a comment
Public trust. Is it engendered or eroded when elites, experts, and egos generate and double down on “dead right” narratives that distort and even deny reality leading to deception, disorder, dysfunction, and even destruction of life and do so for dubious and decidedly power-hungry and vainglorious ends?
You know the answer but here are few recent examples that answer this question:
Public trust in higher education eroded when Claudine Gay, the first black woman to become a (DEI-hire) president of Harvard, was forced out over plagiarism allegations after only seven months in the post.
And again, public trust in higher education eroded when elites at Cambridge University failed to do its due diligence and DEI-hired the youngest Black professor in the university’s history and described the plagiarist as a “respected scholar.”
Public trust in the Supreme Court eroded when the Joe Biden-nominated and DEI-hired Ketanji Brown “black girl magic” Jackson, a woman who would not define what a woman is and does not understand the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, was seated on the highest court in the land.
Public trust in the Supreme Court eroded when the Barack Obama-nominated Sonia “wise Latina” Sotomayor, a vocal political partisan and a woman who “gruesomely compared babies in the womb to being brain dead during oral arguments,” was seated on the highest court in the land.
Public trust in major institutions and professions, and especially the legal profession meant to support the rule of law, erodes as female participation increases and feminine patterns of behavior are applied: “prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.”
Public trust in a brand eroded when a company’s female marketing executive ignored customers and partnered with a trans-activist to suit a woke agenda and almost single-handedly destroyed the brand.
Public trust in a brand eroded when a company’s female CEO ignored customers and redesigned the company’s logo to suit a woke agenda causing shares of the company’s stock to drop like a rock as customers vowed to never step foot in the store again.
Public trust in the church and church leadership eroded when Sarah Mullally, another preachy Progressive who is a self-declared feminist and supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and activism and who has strongly backed asylum and migration, was elected Archbishop of Canterbury on January 28, 2026.
Public trust in the church and church leadership and the transcendent eroded when The Church of England covered the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti in order to represent the world to the world.
Public trust in climate experts eroded with the climate alarmism claims of Al Gore and with the scientific consensus predictions of climate doomsdays that never happened.
Public trust in the media and journalism eroded with the fawning over the DEI picks Claudine Gay, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and fabulist Jason Arday, and with the whack-a-doodle nonsense of climate experts.
Public trust in the MSM erodes every day with its talking heads calling people “election deniers,” (nee “COVID science deniers” and “climate science deniers”) for questioning the integrity of the 2020 election – “the most secure election in history” – and for questioning anything that comes out of their mouth.
Public trust in scientific authority has gone bust with the exposure of a public health official with a God complex – the man, the myth, and the legend who calls himself “the science” . . . the vainglorious Anthony Fauci.
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The misanthropic handling of COVID by public health “experts” caused public trust to go BUST . . .
When medical freedom was ignored. . .
When Americans weren’t fully informed about natural immunity. . .
When Americans weren’t allowed fully informed consent about the COVID vaccine. . .
When Americans weren’t fully informed about adverse events from COVID vaccinations from each of the three vaccines— Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. . .
When siblings who had received the COVID jab to keep their jobs now have serious physical issues and the siblings who hadn’t received the jab have none. . .
When pregnant women weren’t fully informed about the possibility of a miscarriages following the COVID vaccination. . .
When Americans weren’t informed about the prophylactic benefits of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin so that an mRNA vaccine with a spike protein could be rolled out and tested on the public . . .
When the FDA and the media ridiculed the use of Ivermectin for treating COVID by saying “You are not a horse” . . .
When the unvaccinated were made social pariahs and scapegoats and their livelihoods threatened for not taking the mRNA vaccine for a flu-like virus that has over a 98% survival rate . . .
When service members in all branches of the military who refused the vaccine were discharged and lost pensions, military housing and medical benefits for their families. . .
When, during lockdowns, Black Lives Matter was OK’d to gather and march for a political social justice cause but churches could not gather. . .
When anyone – especially Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist – thought that a mass protest would bring an end to “systemic racism” . . .
When schools, businesses, and churches closed but not liquor stores and cannabis shops during the 14 days “to flatten the curve” . . .
When “two weeks to flatten the curve” extended into months during the spring of 2020, and schools remained closed for the following year and most students had to endure virtual learning as teachers’ unions demanded that schools remain closed . . . (See PDF below.)
When children, who have a 99%+ COVID survival rate, were made to take the untested vaccine . . .
When the “science was settled” and science shapeshifter “Fauci routinely replaced one narrative with another, contradicting what he had previously insisted was true” . . . (See PDF below.)
When the highfalutin Anthony Fauci “became the “’infallible leader’ whose words could never be questioned and whose lies were turned into a functioning reality” . . . (See PDF below.)
When a man so full of himself – a Mao of a man with a diary instead of a Little Red Book – was given totalitarian authority over science and public health . . .
When Mao’s mass murder legacy based on “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” became Fauci’s gain-of-function mass murder legacy based on “personal power grows out of the needle of a syringe.”
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” – John Adams
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If I had one-trillionth the ego of Princess-Diaries Anthony Fauci and one-trillionth the gall of the talking heads of legacy media and of the politicians and celebrities who worshipped Fauci and themselves worshipping him, I would say “I told you so” about that pompous ass. But I’ll let the record speak for itself.
In a December 29, 2020 post My Unmasked Hero, I wrote
“Are you angry yet?
“Why is Anthony Fauci, a media hog, goal post mover, and dangerous buffoon, telling us how we should live our lives?
“Why are hydroxychloroquine and alternative COVID19 treatments blacklisted? Do you think Big Pharma and Big Tech oligarchs and their foundations have something to do with that?
“Did you know that “the country’s lockdowns were meant to emulate those carried out by the Chinese Communist Party – modeled to strip civil liberties and exert authoritarian control over citizens?
“Why are all deaths reclassified as COVID-19 deaths?
“Why are healthy people being masked and locked down?
“No more studies are required. I am angry (and mask less)!”
My Unmasked Hero does not refer to Anthony Fauci.
My Unmasked Hero refers to a woman who stands her ground in a CVS store when being confronted by an employee and customer about being maskless. The woman adamantly declares that she is “done” with being a sheep and blindly following COVID-19 orders that restrict her freedom:
“I am a healthy person. I am not crazy.”
“I’m not saying COVID’s not real. I’m just saying, I’m not sick. I’m not sick and asymptomatic spread has been shown to be a myth, so why am I going to be treated like a sick person?
“Do you know that there have been fewer deaths in [2020] than in [2019]? All they’ve done is recategorize all the deaths. This is not what they’re telling us it is. It’s a lie. This is a lie, I’m telling you.
“It’s a lie and everyone’s buying it. And it will go on, and on, and on as long as they feed us this lie and we comply with it, and I am done. Tonight, I’ve reached a breaking point, I’m done. I know I’m not reaching any of you in here, I don’t care.”
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Thousands of people from all over the world read my posts during COVID. With dozens of posts I warned readers about the fiendish Dr. Faustus Fauci and about his scientism sorcery.
I warned readers in dozens of posts and short stories about the authoritarian ways people were being dealt with under Fauci’s flip-flopping-keep-the public-on-the hook public health decrees.
I warned readers about the effects of lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing, and about vaccination requirements that included vaccine passports and a possible roll out of a digital social credit system to control the public.
In my April 11, 2021 post Are We to Be Their Playthings? I noted the disdain for the unvaccinated in a NYT article (White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort): “Distrust of scientists has become part of cultural identity, of what it means to be white and evangelical in America.”
And, I asked
“So, we are to trust Anthony Fauci, who with Francis Collins of the NIH, was behind the gain of function experiments gone awry in Wuhan China? Are we to trust scientism – scientific claims devoid of empirical evidence and debate and derived from ideology?”
I warned readers in an October 17, 2021 post about the adverse effects of the COVID vaccine. Here’s an updated summary: (UPDATED) Exclusive Summary: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns | Sharyl Attkisson
In my September 26, 2020 post Tales from the Lockdown Crypt I warned about the increase of suicides and opioid overdoses due to COVID lockdown policies. And I posted The Great Barrington Declaration:
“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.”
I warned readers about good people being canceled on social media and in MSM for speaking out.
I warned readers about the CDC-planned quarantine camps (for a flu-like virus!).
I warned readers about the NIH’s devious Dr. Francis Collins colluding with Fauci to create the gain-of-function virus and to hide its Wuhan lab origins.
I warned readers about the untested COVID vaccine and the suppression of any talk of natural immunity by public health officials under the back-room direction of the self-enamored Fauci. We now know that lockdowns were enforced and any talk about natural immunity was delayed so that the vaccine might be rolled out.
I wasn’t alone in my warnings about the dangerous effects of the untested vaccine:
Fauci Privately Said Covid Shot Could Be Associated With Miscarriage Before Publicly Claiming “No Red Flags” | Evie Magazine
Fauci Privately Flagged Miscarriage Risk Before Telling Pregnant Women There Were ‘No Red Flags’ | ZeroHedge
Fauci privately raised miscarriage risk from mRNA vaccine dose two | Fox News
‘Error in Judgment’: Former CDC Director Says it Was ‘Mistake’ to Recommend Covid Vaccine to Pregnant Women
On November 7, 2021 I provided a document which says . . .
We conclude that the claims made using these data on the safety of exposure of women in early pregnancy to mRNA-based vaccines to prevent COVID-19 are unwarranted and recommend that those policy decisions be revisited.
In my January 2, 2022 post Mysteries of the Known Knowns I asked
“Why are we being used as lab rats?
“How is it that government entities demand our accountability about all things COVID BUT the manufacturers of the vaccines are NOT held accountable for what they dispense? If the risks are not discussed, how can there be informed consent?”
And
“If it can’t be questioned, is it science?
Bureaucrat overlord Anthony Fauci has effectively declared “I am the Way, the Science and the Life. No one comes to COVID freedom except by me.””
And
“Is COVID Absolutism behind the Current Psychic Epidemic?
“How is it that countries with the majority of their populations vaccinated are in panic mode? Why are there calls for more panic, lockdowns, passports, and mandates? Is science, logic or even altruism behind this? OR, is the desire to create a new social order under totalitarian control behind creating a fear-based populism?
“Why are people going along with the manufactured panic? Why do “the masses whole-heartedly accept everything that Dr. Fauci or other national and global health officials proclaim”?
“Why the collective psychosis?”
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On March 5, 2023 I posted this video:
In a May 19, 2024 post I wrote:
“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.”
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I warned readers about scientism – the deadly admixture of science and politics to produce the transfer of power into the hands of a few elites. And now that Anthony Fauci’s diaries and emails and texts have been exposed, COVID scientism can be described as the deadly witches’ brew of science and egotism.
Anthony Fauci epitomizes what the elites and experts of the Ruling Class, of Progressivism, of socialism and communism are capable of: draconian measures to ensure compliance to massive egos
Long time readers will know that I have warned against the totalitarian impulse so prevalent in misanthropic group above. For, they deem the public as eggs for their glorious omelets.
As a reminder, the nature of totalitarian ideologies include
Simple, Irrefutable Beliefs (the “science is settled”)
Promise of Utopia (“two weeks to fatten the curve” & “vaccinations will stop COVID”)
Blame and Persecution (“the unvaccinated are the cause of increased cases and the need for continued lockdowns”)
Concentration of Power (Fauci: “I am the science.”)
The Means Displace the Ends (the Big Pharma-sponsored Pravda media censoring opposing voices and posting daily death counts to produce mass fear and compliance with COVID scientism)
The Illusion of Perfecting Humanity (“We’re all in this together.”)
The above is taken from Totalitarian Ideologies 101: We need to start teaching students to recognize totalitarianism so they can resist it. (See PDF below.)
With this post and the many I’ve written, I am pointing out that there is information that the Pravda media (MS NOW, CNN, NYT, etc.) never gave the public, information that would have engendered public trust and saved lives.
History and current events reveal that anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal. Public trust erodes when elites, experts, and egos generate and double down on “dead right” narratives that distort and even deny reality leading to deception, disorder, dysfunction, and even destruction of life and do so for dubious and decidedly power-hungry and vainglorious ends.
“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.” – Edmund Burke
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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.”
https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class
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“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
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“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.)
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Doc>>> Totalitarian Ideologies 101
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I Read 1000 pages of Fauci Diaries. It’s Bad. | Dr. Vinay Prasad
In late July, Senator Rand Paul publicly released over 1,000 pages of notes that Fauci had kept—on a government server—during his time as Covid-19 czar, between 2019 and 2022. Shortly thereafter, Fauci was forced to testify before the Senate, on July 29. Then in early August, Paul and fellow Republican senator Ron Johnson released a set of texts, obtained from Fauci’s government-issued cell phone, between him and other health officials. In the following weeks, the “Fauci Diaries” sparked a new debate over Dr. Fauci’s legacy.
The pages, as well as Fauci’s testimony and subsequently released text messages, revealed an alarming gap between what Fauci told the public and what he told others privately and admitted to himself—about the virus’s possible origins, concerns over vaccine safety for pregnant women, the effectiveness of boosters, the efficacy of school closures, and more.
Dr. Vinay Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist who broke early with conventional wisdom on how to handle the pandemic and later became the FDA’s top vaccine regulator. He has also read the Fauci diaries in full, and he’s here to break down every revelation.
I Read 1000 pages of Fauci Diaries. It’s Bad. | Dr. Vinay Prasad – YouTube
COVID: The Cover-Up & Crimes Against Humanity with Sen. Ron Johnson
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Nothing to hide . . . but the truth.
Damning clip of Fauci that makes Swiss cheese of his ‘Fifth Amendment’ scheme… – Revolver News
Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed | ZeroHedge
Tim Robbins tells Joe Rogan — ‘Ivermectin cured me during Covid.’
Anthony Fauci’s Fifth Amendment Strategy May Not End the Investigation | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
The Princess Diaries of Anthony Fauci – The American Conservative
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Jeffrey Tucker interviews Dr. Naomi Wolf, author and early public intellectual who first raised the alarm in May 2021 about COVID injections and severe menstrual disruptions in women. They discuss her rapid cancellation, the Missouri v. Biden discovery showing CDC and Biden administration officials circulating her tweet as an example to suppress, the FDA’s attempt to seal Pfizer documents for 75 years, and the crowdsourced work of 3,500+ doctors and scientists through Daily Clout that uncovered high miscarriage rates, ovarian and placental damage, and drops in sperm counts buried in those documents. (Emphasis mine.)
Sounding the Alarm on Women’s Health: Naomi Wolf on the COVID Shots & Cancellation
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Republicans make their first move against Fauci… – Revolver News
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Flattening the Fauci Ego Curve:
Legal Experts Explain How States Can Hold Fauci Accountable
Anthony Fauci and the Collapse of Scientific Authority
Fauci’s Personal Diary Just Got Released and It’s Brutal – Self-Absorbed, Fame-Seeking, Celeb Worshiping, Power Mad Liar
Anthony Fauci Celebrated ‘Flattering’ Press Stories in Diary
Check out some of these Fauci quotes, incredible.
Rand Paul has everything organized here, including Dr. Baric.
This entire diary thread is wild.
BOOM: Ugly truth about Jake Tapper just revealed, thanks to Fauci’s private diary entries… – Revolver News
Journalists Are Still Defending Fauci Because They Spent Years Dehumanizing Covid Dissidents Based On His Lies
Fauci’s Diary-Uh: ‘Science’s’ Biggest COVID-Era Lies Thus Far – PJ Media
Vinay Prasad: Anthony Fauci’s Vaccine Deceptions
Watters: Fauci knew he BLEW IT
BREAKING: Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment in Senate hearing bombshell…
The Rise and Fall of Anthony Fauci › American Greatness
Watch: Fauci shakes uncontrollably while reading his opening statement…
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies at Senate hearing on COVID-19 origins…
Rand warns Fauci he’s playing with fire…
The Ivermectin Question Heard ‘Round The World…
Fauci told on himself…
Never forget what this man did…
Revolvers 5-year-old investigation on Fauci still holds today…
The Ivermectin Question Heard ‘Round The World…
Never forget what this man did…
Mike Benz explains why Fauci pleaded the Fifth and how it can’t save him…
These Newly Released Texts Prove What a Monster Fauci Really Is – PJ Media
A Romp through the Fauci Diaries: Fame Turns to Shame
Top 27 Revelations in the Fauci Diaries | The Epoch Times
Fauci In Hiding As ABC Censorship Bombshell Explodes | ZeroHedge
Ex-ABC News Reporter: Fauci Whined and Killed Our COVID Story
An unanswered first-order question from the COVID-19 pandemic is this: Why was America’s pandemic doctrine in 2020 apparently so lacking after nearly forty years under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership and after spending more than $60 billion preparing for the next inevitable outbreak? (Emphasis mine.)
Fauci And The Pandemic Playbook That Wasn’t – American Thinker
In May 2021, Janet Woodcock, the Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sent an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Francis Collins, then director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, expressing concern about the large number of adverse events she was hearing about following COVID vaccinations. . .
Woodcock said she had personally received reports from people, including many healthcare professionals, experiencing hard to classify adverse events that were not being captured by existing surveillance systems like VAERS.
She said all three of the vaccines— Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson—were resulting in these injuries. (Emphasis mine.)
In May 2021, Acting FDA Commissioner Emailed Fauci With Concerns About COVID Vaccine Injuries, Said ‘No One Takes Them Seriously’ › American Greatness
[David] Morens and his co-conspirators also used his Gmail account to share nonpublic information from the NIH about COVID-19 and “back-channel” information to an unidentified senior NIAID official, who appears to be Anthony Fauci, the institute’s former director, according to court filings.
David Morens, former NIAID adviser, pleads guilty in COVID-19 records scheme – CBS News
Fauci diaries, released by Sen. Rand Paul, touch on COVID origins and tense relationship with Trump – CBS News
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“That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.”
-Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad
“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.”
-Mark Twain, Official Physic
Day of Reckoning
We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. . .. If the foundation be firm, the superstructure will stand.
Calvin Coolidge, Vice presidential address at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, June 19, 1923
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Jane Austen’s Fight Club
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