By Charlie Johnston
(Back when I was managing editor of a group of suburban newspapers, my political column that appeared in all papers was entitled, “Just Politics.” The title was actually specific to the newspaper group, having been used by four or five writers over the course of a quarter century. It became so identified with me, though, that it was retired shortly after I left the paper. The popularity of that column when I wrote it led the station manager of a regional radio station to recruit me, thinking I was just the thing to revive what he considered a certain staleness in their lineup. It worked for both of us. When I discovered how many people were desperate for a chance to get into broadcast, I felt a little guilty about how I got in. Our program director was initially appalled by the idea of bringing in a guy with no broadcast experience – but he was also the guy who put my guilt to rest, telling me I was good and had earned it fair and square. “After all,” he said, “You won me over – and are the best talker we have ever had here.” I was always amused at the subtle oxymoron the title conveyed if one was paying attention. So today, I trot that old title out for a final ride – though politics is now more unjust than at any time in this country’s history. -CJ)
As all who read this regularly know, I do not expect us to get to the next election before our coming ‘irrepressible conflict’ overtakes us, shuffling the deck for America, the world, and our Churches. That said, the commentary I see on the state of politics today is as shallow and vapid as I have ever seen in my life. Perhaps it is because of the general state of chaos gripping the country. Perhaps it is because all columnists now think they must always act as thinly disguised cheerleaders and activists. I certainly did my share of advocating for certain people and causes in my day in the media. But I also took my partisan hat off and often told readers and listeners that I was going to give them pure analysis – not what I wanted to happen – but how I thought it would happen. That is what you get today. Why? Because I have spent a lifetime doing it and, like an old warhorse, when the bell rings, I’m compelled to go marching off.
As I write this, the latest polling shows Trump at 56% and DeSantis at 10% in the Republican Primary. That has led all the armchair political geniuses to declare that DeSantis is dead in the water and should just quit. In the first statewide race I ever ran, starting back in 1995, the first public poll in our race did not even hit the papers until mid-September. When it did, it showed our opponent at 61% and us at 2%. In September. We won that primary race, albeit with plenty of columnists explaining how we had no chance and were delusional as we forged our path to victory.
Once I started doing primarily federal races, my specialty was putting together a path to victory for underdog candidates. It, of course, had a high failure rate, but for years around the turn of the millennium, the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee would refer candidates of substance but little name recognition to me, asserting I was the best in the country at it. Certainly, my candidates always overperformed to the extent that the Illinois press corps took a candidate I signed on seriously even if they had never heard of him before. Put very basically, I had five rules for “come from behind” campaigns that I was adamant about:
- Theme is Critical: An ideal theme should highlight your strength while simultaneously highlighting your opponent’s vulnerability. It should NEVER be an issue, but should be like a coat rack, on which you can hang every issue. In 2016, Trump’s “Make America Great Again” was perfect, highlighting his aspirational goal while reminding people that Democrats openly claimed to want to manage America’s decline. DeSantis’ theme is something about wokeism. It should have been, “He gets it done.” Grade: D
- Unite the Factions: Candidates often like to deal with their interest coalitions as discreet factions. That’s okay if you start with a huge lead. If you start way back, unless you can unite them, you can’t win. Whether it is gun people, pro-lifers, anti-taxers or others, each organized faction thinks itself as the “good” conservative while viewing other such groups as suspect. If you get them all working together, they discover they are all pretty much about the same things with a different emphasis and you can powerfully fuel a movement. If you can’t or won’t do it, you can’t win. For DeSantis, he has a hard way to go. Grade: Incomplete
- Field Work is King: Putting together a solid field team is labor intensive, shows results late, and draws little media attention. But it moves mountains. If you have a committed team in place across the geography of your entire polis, support can erupt like a California fire once ordinary people first notice you – because you already have your people in place to confirm those impressions. You must use volunteers. Volunteers are committed regardless of the odds – and their validation comes from all the little successes before the eruption. You cannot win an uphill race using mercenaries, for mercenaries, wherever their paycheck is coming from, ultimately desperately want to be on the side they perceive to be winning. If they are effective early, they are vulnerable to the first sweet nothings they hear from the other side. If serious adversity comes, they wilt like lettuce in the noonday sun. DeSantis is putting a premium on field work, but at this early stage it still seems comprised of mercenaries. Grade: C
- Diplomacy: Most seasoned operatives are more willing than most think to support an ideologically focused movement. What they are not willing to do is join a suicide run. They are also wary of losing the influence and perks they have spent a lifetime gaining. You have to effectively let them know that you mean them no harm and that, in victory, you will welcome them as valued members of the team. This is a tricky business. Ideological movements attract purists, people who will not tolerate anything less than 100 percent agreement. But politics is about multiplication and addition, not division and subtraction. If all you have are purists, you will rarely even influence, much less win, anything. Simultaneously, your base must feel confident that you will not betray them on core issues. They must feel that you are purer and more committed than they are. My core issues were always pro-life, gun rights, taxes, and individual liberty. I would NEVER make any agreement that would mitigate those issues…and the agreements I did make always helped secure those issues. It built confidence in my base and gave me a lot of latitude for diplomatic action, so long as I stayed true to our core issues. Representing a candidate at a gun group’s state convention, a newby asked me what type of guns I owned. When I replied I had never owned a gun, he said he couldn’t trust anyone who didn’t own a gun – and they should ask me to leave. The head of the group replied tartly that he didn’t know the newby so didn’t know whether to trust him or not, but had worked with me under the most intense pressure and would trust me with his life. NEVER betray a core principle. It makes all groups wonder when you are going to betray them. Use your diplomacy to show them a path to victory and they will stay ferociously loyal. Non-ideological operatives, seeing you can be a friend and dislike suicide missions as much as they do, will astonish you with their eager cooperation. DeSantis has a very tough job here, as he is campaigning from the same lane as Trump. Grade: incomplete.
- The Big Cats Walk Late: Everything has to go nearly perfect to pull off a big upset. I always wanted the opposition not to know there was even a real threat until it was too late to stop it. That means working frantically at the organizational and diplomatic efforts that the media does not understand and, so, pays no attention to. It also means de-emphasizing flashy press issues until you already have the organization at white heat in what it is accomplishing. You have to do stuff, not just posture and preen. On the night of my first statewide primary, a lazy reporter called me to ask if we had any comment on our loss. “What loss?” I asked, “We won.” Astonished, she asked if she could come over to our victory party – and I assured her I would get her a few minutes with the victor. Staff for the Speaker of the House once told me their polling showed we would lose by 10 points a week before election. I modestly told him the polling was in error. I expected we would win a close one. We won by 10 points. If you want a lot of aggressive headlines, you only alert the opponent to the danger and allow him to defray it. And yes, playing the dumb mope is more difficult once people have taken your measure – but even then, it is easier than you think. If your opposition is arrogant and knows how shrewd you are, they LOVE to think they have outsmarted someone notably shrewd. I loved to help them along in that thinking. Stay focused on work that moves the chains, do not be a press hog, and you can move mountains. At this point, DeSantis has successfully lowered expectations, but I don’t know if there is much steam behind the scenes. Of course, if he is really shrewd about this, that is what I would expect. Grade: Inconclusive but not looking good.
I am not quite sure whether Donald Trump is the most vulnerable gifted candidate I have ever seen or the most gifted vulnerable candidate I have ever seen. Certainly, he is the best I have ever seen at taking a shrewd, tactical move and masking it as emotionally driven. That is more important than you might think, for used effectively, it is a deadly way of drawing an opponent’s natural aggression into an ambush. The problem is that Trump also frequently makes undisciplined, emotionally driven decisions. He is simultaneously shrewd and clumsy, which makes him dangerous to opponents but leaves his team constantly on the edge of chaos.
Mentally, I laid out a path by which Trump could be taken down by his own undisciplined ways…and then watched to see if DeSantis would shrewdly follow such a strategy. Done right, DeSantis’ fingerprints would barely be on it. I loved having opponents who had over-sized egos or were over-aggressive. You could take them down almost every time – and rarely leave an incriminating fingerprint behind. But DeSantis has only used the same sort of blunt object Trump favors for his opponents – and is not as handy with a blunt object as Trump is.
Trump’s temperament clashes with mine. I wouldn’t even think of supporting him if he did not have such a good track record of real accomplishment. DeSantis’ temperament is much more in tune with mine than Trump’s. Fortunately, I have never been a purist in insisting that people accomplish things in the same way I do. If they get the bulldog fed, I am a supporter regardless of how different they do it than I do. For all his histrionics, Trump did get the bulldog fed effectively.
I have not been impressed with how DeSantis has gone about running a come-from behind campaign. There is only one of my five key priorities he has seemed to take seriously – and he has bumbled at that. I understand that Trump’s flaws have largely been covered by the Biden Justice Dept’s furious persecution of him. But DeSantis seems clumsy and out of his element entirely – which is striking for one of the three or four most effective governors of my lifetime. The guy is a legitimate superstar. But there was a moment in last week’s debate where he really lost me. When the moderators asked which candidates would pardon Trump, DeSantis looked nervously around to see what everyone else was doing before he raised his hand. That frosted me. He does not usually need a poll to know his own mind – but in this case, he did. A reparable error, no doubt, but one that suggests to me it would be better for him to continue seasoning himself by successfully making Florida the archetype of liberty for a while.
Meantime the authoritarian left is determined to make this an existential battle for basic liberty with Trump as the foil. I have long believed that you cannot wait to go to war with the army you want: when liberty is at stake you go to war with the army you have. Events have conspired this time to make Trump the army we have. He has more guts than a slaughterhouse – and he fights. While he often provokes needless battles, he never shrinks from a needful one. When he governs, he governs well and for all the people – even with the occasional eccentricity thrown in. He is a known germophobe – and the left used this to sucker him into the biggest failure of his career, the badly mishandled Covid scare. I pray that, at least internally, he has contemplated how badly he got played on this and taken steps to correct the vulnerability (hopefully in a bigger way than just the Covid nonsense).
I find myself back in the Trump camp, in part because of his fighting resolve and in part, because this is the hill the left has decided to die on. If they don’t die there, liberty and justice in America will die there, instead.
Of course, as I mentioned at the start, I think America will collapse into existential dysfunction before we get anywhere near election day. It is not irrelevant, though. The habits of mind and action that will carry us through the crisis and into the rebuilding are being forged right now.
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I was talking with a friend of serious political substance last Friday about the Republican debate. I told him in frustration that the thing that so maddened me was that all the candidates seemed to think they were in the ‘70s or ‘80s, relatively normal times, rather than dealing with a true existential crisis for the nation. It was as if, on the Titanic as it was sinking, they were preoccupied with how they were going to change the décor in the dining hall. It was so unserious it was downright surreal.
Later that evening I read this marvelous article by the American Spectator’s Melissa MacKenzie. God bless that woman. She knows what time it is in America.
For most of my life things have developed later and more slowly than I expected them to. For the last two years, things have been happening faster than I expect them. It is like going from a horse and buggy to a Mercedes…and now it is starting to feel like a ride on a disabled plane plummeting toward earth. Unable to get its way by persuasion, the left is determined to get its way by force – and force usually breaks the thing being forced. Just a few items from the last week…
- Biden’s Injustice Dept. is now suing Elon Musk because his SpaceX company will not hire illegal aliens. I kid you not.
- The left is in a lather that Trump and company are not rolling over and cowering in fear over their politicized arrests. The left thinks they have the power so conservatives should be begging for mercy.
- The left thinks that calling the defenders of liberty and truth on the right “fascists” and “Nazis” will confuse low info citizens from seeing clearly that the left is trying to seize plenary power by means used by fascists and Nazis.
- Fourteen American cities have pledged to ban meat, dairy products, and private cars within a decade. They aim to take America down hard.
- Having failed in every particular at making people’s lives better, the left now just brazenly tries to boss them without any pretense of bettering their lives.
The malevolent glee with which the left parties over Trump’s mugshot is reminiscent of the White Witch’s celebration at the murder of Aslan. The feral left exults in its triumph, arbitrarily issuing orders while stomping the rule of law to display its mighty power. It is completely unaware of what it has unleashed.
Much of what the left does now is intentional provocation, such as Joe Biden’s hint that he will issue new Covid shot mandates this fall. The left is hoping to provoke violent resistance from normal Americans to justify even more extreme crackdowns and measures of control than it is using now. Serious resistance will come, no doubt. The shock for the left will be that few outside of their cadre of flying monkeys will be disturbed by it – and will NOT buy into giving the left more power. We are rushing headlong into a confrontation that will only be settled by force…if we avoid catastrophic collapse from the left’s incompetent, destructive policies long enough. The best case scenario is probably open lawfare, as I suspect several state attorneys general and district attorneys are now planning. Typically, Democrats are more zealous to violate traditional norms, but Republicans tend to then use the violations more effectively. (See Harry Reid’s elimination of the filibuster in confirming judicial nominees). That would postpone the existential confrontation even as it made it more bitter. From the brightest standpoint, it might prod state legislators into real secession before violence became widespread. Ignore those historically illiterate folks who say secession is illegal: secession is never a question of law, but of political will.
No matter how it unfolds, expect more eruptions of violence, often senseless violence, before the existential confrontation hits. A society devolving into deep instability is always marked by increasing acts of violence, both political and non-political, before the devolution is complete. Just study the decades before the revolutions in France and Russia, then the takeover by Hitler in Germany. A dying polis is a violent polis.
There will soon be no place of neutrality as we continue to devolve. The battle lines are hardening and we all must choose our side. If you have not yet joined your talents to the CORAC community, I encourage you, again, to do so now. There is no charge to sign up nor any membership fee. It gives the best chance of standing together with the least provocations for violence. It helps you build the skills needed for chaotic times while simultaneously building a real community of support around you. If secession comes, it will be useful and influential even in captive states.
If you have hoped fervently that this madness would eventually pass over without a confrontation, I pray that you see more clearly now. It will not pass over and our best efforts should be directed now to managing the confrontation in the most peaceful way possible, while defending liberty for us all. It is risky to take a stand while the Biden Injustice Dept. busies itself indicting every conservative or Christian ham sandwich it can find. But it is deadly for your children if you do not take a stand. CORAC offers you a way to stand that does not involve suicidally stupid, futile gestures.
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Earlier this summer, perhaps the holiest woman I have ever known passed on. Margaret (Margy, with a hard “g,” to her friends) McGlynn of Belleville, Illinois finished a full life in her ‘90s in June. She was the Mother of two of my dearest friends. While we are never to presume that someone went straight to heaven after passing, if anyone I have known ever did, it was Margy.
I literally never heard her speak ill of anyone. The worst she would do in contemplating someone vile was purse her lips in mild disapproval.
Just after finishing my pilgrimage, I went back to Belleville to help a dear friend in a judicial race covering over 30 counties. A large multi-county race is a very different animal than a single county race, even if it is a very large county. The things that work well in a single county race can torpedo you in a multi-county race. That is one of my skill sets, so it was only natural that I would go to help my friend. While in Belleville for this project, I started almost every morning by going over to have coffee and pastries with Margy and her husband, Bob, who had long been managing partner of the oldest continuing family law firm in southern Illinois. Bob would make tartly pointed, witty comments on the issues of the day while scanning his paper, while Margy would speak fondly of her many children and friends. It may not sound like much, but those cool, easy mornings are among my fondest memories. If Bob and Margy did not quite treat me as one of their children, they certainly did treat me as their favorite nephew – whom they were always delighted to visit with.
Margy was a long-time volunteer at Our Lady, Queen of Peace Parish in Belleville, and a very active helper at the school attached to it. A Priest, speaking in memoriam of her, recounted that when he first came to town 40 years earlier, he was speaking to an elementary school class. At one point he asked if the children knew who Our Lady, Queen of Peace was. One little girl raised her hand and tentatively asked, “Mrs. McGlynn?” It wasn’t the most right answer possible, but it wasn’t exactly wrong, either.
Margy McGlynn was a joyful sign of hope to everyone who encountered her. I know she often prayed for me in life. What a comfort it is to know that she now advocates for all her children – and for me – in the next life.
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I just finished reading “True Grit,” by Charles Portis for the fourth or fifth time. I know most people have seen one or both of the movies made from it, but you are missing a lot if you have not read the book. I rank it in the same league with Huckleberry Finn. It is a true American literary classic. I love it so much I often lend my copies out so that others may discover this literary wonder. I seldom see it again. The two books I lend out that I never seem to get back are “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis and “True Grit.” So, when I see a paperback copy, I pick it up and savor the pleasure of reading it again. If you have never read it, do yourself a favor and pick a copy up.
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A Sign of Hope 
WOW!! Thank you for your candor, Charlie. We can see it, hear it, feel it and nearly smell the cresting into the heights of this Storm. Thank you for articulating, so faithfully and consistently, the signs all around us.
As I pray, ponder and continue with NRSs, shades of words spoken in Akita Japan resonate with Kurt Schlichter’s dynamo piece: “The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops.” God IS the ultimate Authority, and from Him flows all manner of Church and temporal authority. With the Church now in a state of massive division and disarray, it seems that from her own Passion Time ripples division absolutely e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e. And it ain’t pretty.
Being drawn to reading the Psalms in these days, Psalm 90 is a sweet balm of HOPE as we are mired in the current darkness.
Psalm 90
1Lord, you have been our dwelling place
throughout all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn people back to dust,
saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
4 A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
they are like the new grass of the morning:
6 In the morning it springs up new,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
7 We are consumed by your anger
and terrified by your indignation.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.
10 Our days may come to seventy years,
or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
12 Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Relent, LORD! How long will it be?
Have compassion on your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
16 May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.
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Man. I need a nicotine pouch after reading this. I’ve been panning around for a good book to read and in the mood for a western.
Also I work at a public high school and the ‘business as usual’ mindset regarding the current political dumpster fire is beyond baffling.
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I’m with you, Chase; lately I’ve been feeling the need to reread Louis L’Amour’s Sacket series.
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I have been re-reading them! I am pretending I am gleaning survival skills. But now that the 54 Day novena has begun, I do not read novels until after the first Tuesday of November. It is my fasting time. I love Louis L’Amore.
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Hi Mick! Louis L’Amour’s books are such a fun, easy read. I loved the Sacket series before I ever read the first one (just because I think Sacket is a cool name).
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Thank-you, Charlie.
I am sorry for the loss of your friend, Margy. Requiescat in pace.✝️🙏🏽
God bless us all in these turbulent times ~ be not afraid,
katey in OR
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I am with you in this, Katey. 🙏💖 Also, I love this: “Margy was a long-time volunteer at Our Lady, Queen of Peace Parish in Belleville, and a very active helper at the school attached to it. A Priest, speaking in memoriam of her, recounted that when he first came to town 40 years earlier, he was speaking to an elementary school class. At one point he asked if the children knew who Our Lady, Queen of Peace was. One little girl raised her hand and tentatively asked, ‘Mrs. McGlynn?’ It wasn’t the most right answer possible, but it wasn’t exactly wrong, either.”
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Thank you for the political analysis, Charlie ~ which, in your case, is always seen through the lens of your Christian (Catholic for more than thirty years) faith.
As you’ve always said, you don’t, and we don’t, know exactly how and when all will play out; hence, what each of us can do (and do together with others) is simply to make prudent preparations and remain poised for whatever. And then: “Acknowledge God. Take the next right step. Be a sign of hope for those around you.”
I first read those words in mid-August 2015 ~ more than eight years ago ~ in your original blog, The Next Right Step. Even then, I was deeply concerned about the state of our country and the world. I was not in despair, but I was seriously discouraged. I couldn’t see how the trajectory would not continue to spiral down. For me, those words (and all of your essays at the time) reversed the trajectory of my heart, soul, mind, and strength (cf Mark 12:30-31).
You are a servant of the Lord. May we all be, and may we all be so together.
Sister Bear
PS: Aslan is on the move.
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Thank you, Sr. Bear. I have had more than a few people tell me they were overwhelmed by anger or grief until someone got them to start reading me. It is one of my greatest consolations when I hear that. When you can give hope and resolve to anyone shaken by the dire events surrounding us, well, that makes me think that, for all my flaws, life is gloriously worth living in service to the Lord – by living service to His people.
And like in Narnia, while Aslan is not yet visible to us, he clearly is on the move.
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Charlie your writings have changed my life of great despair to great hope and joy! I’ve told you this often! I’m forever and eternally grateful! God bless and protect you always and forever!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … 😉 PM
https://www.afa.net/the-stand/faith/2023/08/following-the-shepherd-not-the-sheep/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-vigano-spadaros-blasphemous-article-a-manifestation-of-the-counter-church-and-its-false-dogmas/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/senior-jesuit-priest-and-close-friend-of-pope-francis-accuses-jesus-of-being-stymied-and-callous/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/banking-crisis/covid-ii-the-next-fake-plague-to-control-civil-unrest/
https://www.lifenews.com/2023/08/28/joe-biden-is-a-radical-who-supports-abortions-up-to-birth-and-opposes-law-stopping-infanticide/
https://www.lifenews.com/2023/08/28/national-day-of-remembrance-on-september-9-will-remember-65-million-babies-killed-in-abortions/
https://www.westernjournal.com/cdc-mysteriously-stops-accepting-covid-vaccine-adverse-event-reports-ahead-new-vaccine-push-report/
https://defendingtherepublic.substack.com/p/learning-who-to-trust-6f4
https://www.wnd.com/2023/08/watch-biden-curtain-goes-block-view-hawaii-ground-zero/
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://patriotpost.us/humor/100024-never-say-never-2023-08-28
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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Glad you are still working “just politics” for Corac, Charlie. Your guidance in these times is so valuable for me.
Margy sounds lovely and I think we could all learn a lesson from her life. What high praise that small girl gave her. I pray that the same could be said of me some day–to be mistaken for Our Lady! Praying for her soul and for peace for her family and friends.
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I sure wish we had someone like you here in Ireland Charlie. God bless you
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Ah, Bernie, I am told that my forbears were border folks…some in Scotland, some in Ireland. We are all one people, formed in God’s own image, and all who call on the Lord will be rescued together.
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Howdy, Bernie! Which county do you live in? Some of my ancestors came from County Donegal and from a county in what is now Northern Ireland (either Derry or Antrim, not sure which). 🙂
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P.S. Bernie, have you joined CORAC? We are an international organization; and if you haven’t joined yet, we’d love to have you. 🙂
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Bernie: try John Waters. He was sacked from the “Irish” Times for not being on board with The Agenda™. You know, the “paper of record”, endlessly congratulating itself on its journalistic integrity (yadda yadda) because it’s owned by an independent trust (yadda yadda).
He’s on Substack. There are others, thank God, but he’s one of the best, because of his (well, formerly) high profile. He writes long, literate, articles on a very wide variety of subjects, cultural and political.
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Charlie, always insightful! The article by Ms. MacKenzie was spot on.
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Read her regularly when you can. That wonderful woman is almost always spot on.
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Just wanted to share this with the group…been detaching from politics but there is a political fight to be faced
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PS: JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉
I’ll chime in on Politics with an addition that must be included in de Mix!
MONEY, $$$$$, Filthy Lucre ……. Who Owns Who and Who is paying The Piper!??
I looked up an old quote and found old time CA Democrat, Jesse Unruh:
On campaign contributions: “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” 1966..
On lobbyists: “If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and then vote against them you’ve got no business being up here.”
I trust Sundance @ CTH and his research on Desantis and who is paying The Piper ….. Establishment (DC SWAMP UniParty) is funding Desantis.
No doubt GOP Swamp Establishment is funding the others too. The minor Lilliputians, like Christy, Hutchinon, are being paid to Trumpet “Hate Trump” Soundbytes on ABCNNBCBS-NPR whilst others are hoping for a Feral Gubermint Gig when the dust settles.
DC UniParty Swamp Establishment HATES TRUMP and US too ;-(
On ChinaPlague Hoax 2.0
Steve @ MILINET did a good job of replying to a posted ChinaPlague Hoax article:
“Do not read this if you believed the government during the last covid “epidemic”. Do not read this if you were caught up in doctors’ receiving huge financial awards for getting high percentages of their patients to get vaccinated.”
https://thehighwire.com/editorial/the-next-covid-wave-is-the-cover-up/
“However, if you believe, as I do, that the last international Covid event was a Scamdemic used to give Billions of dollars to huge pharmaceutical companies, who then provided kickbacks to politicians and paid huge license fees to CDC/FDA officials, then you might be interested in this. Do read it if you understand the effect that medical insurance companies made on the nation when they paid medical hospitals and practices to vaccinate huge percentages of their patients; how hospitals received huge bonuses for refusing certain cheap medications and forcing patients onto respirators, and then refusing to remove the patients until they either got better or died. Do not go blindly into the next variant of the ElectionYearCon.”
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/papal-participation-trophies/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/was-john-the-baptist-welcoming
https://catholicexchange.com/if-its-just-a-symbol-to-hell-with-it/
https://catholicexchange.com/endow-women-an-antidote-for-our-culture-of-loneliness/
Our USA (Old Christendom) is like an airplane that has been flown past it’s “G” Limits once too often. It’s not will a wing break off …. it’s when!?
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/nixon-closed-the-gold-window-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-national-debt/
https://catholicvote.org/coalition-of-scientists-no-climate-emergency/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/29/democrats-arent-interfering-in-2024-election-with-trump-trial-theyre-blatantly-rigging-it/
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/total-lack-critical-thinking-experts-question-covid-vax-mask-mandates
https://www.govexec.com/technology/2023/08/government-websites-are-loaded-misinformation-and-s-big-problem-ai/389759/
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/08/29/first-censorship-now-outright-bans-of-politicians-and-political-parties-n574349
https://pjmedia.com/columns/dennis-prager/2023/08/29/why-young-americans-are-not-taught-about-evil-n1722794
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/08/memo-to-gop-field-does-no-one-have-the-wit-to-attack-the-bossy-state.php
Every Feral Gubermint (BlueState) Alphabet Agency is chock-full of Radical Activists be THEY Green, LGBTQ, Marxist, Open Borders, BLM, ANTIFA, godless, …. You Name It?
THEY are presently throwing every Agenda against the walls to see what sticks and all to much is with the assistance of Agents in Media, Weaponized Agencies, Public “Education” …… and even “Mainline” Churchdoms ;-(
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258jdh8p.1p4i/c09b7cbd
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://www.thedailybs.com/news
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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I like the viewpoint that SteveBC recently posted on his blog about Trump. The link is here…
I also agree with Steve’s statement in the article…
“It is unbelievable to me that this man has been investigated so much and so hard by so many people who are truly out to take him down and yet has come through all of these attempts (so far) unscathed. Nobody could build a real estate empire and live the life he has lived and not done anything his enemies can use against him, if he were actually incompetent or egotistical or unthinking in his remarks or daily acts. Such a clean record is an extraordinary accomplishment that could only have been done by someone who accomplished all he has accomplished while remaining strictly within the Law and the moral order every day for decades.”
What disturbs me the most about DeSantis running for President now is that it was Trump who endorsed him during his race for governor. Now his running against Trump for President seems to me to be stabbing Trump in his back. This shows me that DeSantis has a lack of integrity and loyalty to the one person who helped him in his race. Just my opinion.
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I was really surprised when Charlie also posted on Politics right after I did.
Perhaps the two of us should have gotten together and melded our stuff.
We could have called the post “Just Guerrillas” or maybe better, “Just Gorillas”! 😀
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What an interesting article you wrote, Steve BC!
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I have often thought how fully amazing it is that Trump has survived and thrived in spite of so much lengthy scrutiny. Even Atty. Dershowitz says that the current charges will not hold. Oh, he will probably be convicted by a biased anti-Trump jury in an unfriendly city/state, but these are charges that will not hold up on appeal. However, I think that the real intent is to prevent Trump from being on the presidential ticket due to such a conviction which will appealed but maybe not resolved in time for the next presidential vote.
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I’m with you, Tex, until the part about DeSantis betraying Trump comes in. Accepting an endorsement does not indenture you to the endorser. I always thought it was childish of Trump to think that anyone he had ever endorsed must always defer to him in everything. There are unwritten rules, but DeSantis has broken none of them here.
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Trump also chided Governor Kim Reynolds for not yet endorsing him and immaturely refused to partake in her popular Iowa state ‘fair-side chats’. The Governor was resolute stating it was too early and wanted to hear all the candidates’ positions.
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Hi Charlie,
Some time ago, you made some reading recommendations for the teenaged son of a female commenter…I recall that one title was City of God. Just hoping you’d be able to share the other titles again, so I can suggest(require?) they be read by a certain youth who lives in my home….? 😉
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I think the most important for a beginning Christian or one considering the faith is “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis.
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I just read that our pope things we U.S. Catholics must evolve our thinking. Did he really say this?
https://www.offthepress.com/pope-francis-blasts-us-catholics-for-reactionary-views-backward-thinking/
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Yes, he did say it…and for the most political Pope in memory to call Americans “political” for wanting to safeguard the Magisterium is an absolute outrage. You remember back when he called those who wanted strict rules on marriage, “pharasaical?” I was utterly astonished. It was the Pharisees who wanted loose rules on marriage and Jesus who insisted on strict ones.
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Yes, I was thinking that he is very political and to level this accusation against those who are really just trying to follow the long-time teachings of the church is incredible.
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It’s hilarious how leftist elitists often used the word “backward” to try to belittle those who don’t agree with them and who refuse to be led astray. Don’t they understand that talking down to us and looking down on us just cause us to dig in more deeply? Yeah, Pope Francis thinks I’m a knuckle-dragging, toothless troglodyte. So? 😂
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The so-called elites forget that there are still some citizens around who were actually trained to think with logic and common sense. And many went to traditional Catholic school or studied Catechism in Church. That does not mean anyone knows everything. But a lot of us can see, feel and smell a lie and it makes us cringe in disgust that they would consider us so very ‘deplorable’ . They, in fact, are deplorable in many respects because so many know that they are lying….. all for more control, money and power. They reject God at every moment.
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And this is why Trump will always lead in the polls…..in spite of his flaws. At least citizens know who he is and what can be expected. He will work for all Americans, negotiate pro-American treaties, get the real economy going again, and keep us out of war, replace deep state lifers who have too much power in government agencies, and appoint judges that follow the Constitution. That is just to start! And even though he pushed for vaccines, I do not believe that he would ever have forced anyone to take them……And no, I do not believe that he was leading an insurrection. It was a protest. It it were a real insurrection, the politicians would have been hanging by their necks in the Congressional chambers…..as we see in many true insurrections outside the U.S…… The other candidates have not been proven and many are unknown enigmas wrapped in a mystery, regardless of what comes out of their mouths. I was recently advised that Vivek R. previously gave money to serious leftist candidates and causes. This does not jive with his new list of commandments. So, one has to ask: Is this guy a Manchurian Candidate? Nothing at all would surprise me at this time in history……And Francis, a fully political man who invited and blessed a pagan image at a mass inside the Vatican (among other things) is supposedly meant to act as a Shepherd of Christ’s Church? I think that we should be praying for his soul because he is working against the Catholic Church and its teachings. I have long thought and f e l t this about him but now it is obvious to all who follow the very basic teachings of the R C Church….And please pray for me as well! We all need prayers. None of us see all of our flaws.
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I am always amazed at how many young people have never seen the move, The Wizard of Oz. Today I was thinking that the wicked witch in that movie was one of the best ever done. Your image of the massive number of flying monkeys swirling around right now will stay in my mind as I continue to contemplate the madness of the modern day.
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I have read that running an average ceiling fan costs about a nickel per day and, therefore, cannot really burn much energy. Yet the Prez is apparently now focused on these as an energy concern. This focus on the ceiling fan simply highlights feeble incompetence. What a tragicomedy……..except I am not smiling. Do you think that he may insist on bringing back the washboard with a wave of his mighty pen?
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
True Renewal ….I’m discouraged about what I’m seeing … Worldwide… though as a student of History and acquainted with Scriptural Truths I know it is ALL meant to be and as foretold.
On the whole, I’m seeing the usual boilerplate platitudes-n-BS from most churchmen and politicians and near zero serious talk/actions about The Storm that we are engulfed in … NOW! … and what to do!?
YES! We have CORAC, Glenn Beck, Pastor Dana, Archbishop Vigano, various Christian/Conservative Websites …. but 80% of BoobLand is Oblivious …. as historically and as foretold ….Sooo … We Press-On!
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/true-renewal-why-is-it-so-hard-to-grasp/
https://www.afa.net/the-stand/faith/2023/08/the-spiritual-soldier-and-the-bible/
https://theacru.org/2023/08/29/desperately-needed-republicans-with-political-killer-instincts/
You are safe NOWHERE in Democrat Occupied USA! …. ALL the below is planned destruction of Republic of the USA …. then “Build Back “Better” …. For The Children! …See!? …. those that are allowed to survive the womb ;-(
https://www.christianpost.com/news/71-year-old-woman-held-at-gunpoint-outside-christian-school.html
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/financial-firms-new-york-california/2023/08/22/id/1131596/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/29/university-of-alabama-dean-identity-politics-is-the-whole-purpose-of-the-university/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/21/i-rented-a-tesla-for-a-week-and-am-totally-sold-on-gas-powered-cars
Something is ROTTEN in the State of Hawaii … Feral/State Gubermint Cover-Up!!??
https://new.americanprophet.org/im-beyond-furious/
https://mauinow.com/2023/08/29/epa-begins-months-long-work-of-removing-hazardous-material-from-5-square-mile-burn-area-in-lahaina/
https://mauinow.com/2023/08/29/fbi-underwater-search-evidence-response-team-begins-probe-in-lahaina-waters/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-29-ten-obvious-lessons-every-intelligent-person-should-have-learned-from-covid.html
https://revolver.news/2023/08/murdoch-funded-post-debate-poll-destroys-entire-establishment-hate-trump-narrative/
https://www.americanthinker.com/
https://www.frontpagemag.com/nothing-sacred/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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PS: JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉
https://catholicvote.org/new-evidence-emerges-in-feud-bishop-carmelite-nuns/
The Below are ALL TinFoil Hat MAGA Conspiracy stuff articles … Move Along! … & Tune-In to CNN/CNBC/NPR!
https://spiritdailyblog.com/news/prophetic-pulse-of-an-initial-event
https://www.declassified.live/p/judge-chutkan-compared-january-6
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/we_the_targeted_how_the_government_weaponizes_surveillance_to_silence_its_critics
https://thecommonsenseshow.com/economics-health-martial-law/universal-basic-income-will-be-used-ultimate-strategy-both-control-and-depopulate-america
https://www.wnd.com/2023/08/school-surrenders-fight-ban-dont-tread-flag/
https://www.westernjournal.com/armed-feds-pay-visit-amish-farmer-faces-hundreds-thousands-fines/
https://newstarget.com/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://townhall.com/
https://www.thedailybs.com/news
https://defendingtherepublic.substack.com/p/living-with-courage-and-fearlessness-c2b
…Tsk, TSK! I’m sure this is just one of those Silly Coincidences that seem to be more common These-Days! Media, DOJ & DC Swamp UniParty would never conspire like this .. Right!?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-means-congress-never-been-session-while-former-president-trump-been-indicted
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/08/30/mutually-assured-destruction-is-the-only-solution-to-political-lawfare/
Truth from M Levin:
https://allenwest.substack.com/p/congress-constitutionally-mandated
Pastor Dana gives a Point-Out to much of the Above …Plus the sense that A Switch has been tripped… Ya Think!?
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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A new Trump presidency may save the West (and with that, the whole world too).
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/30/hungarys-orban-trump-can-save-the-west/
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Well, but most likely the solutions and strategies for partnering with God to bring about the fullness of His Plan will not come from the current political realm. While Trump was a wonderful president, it seems to me that God is looking for much more than one good man to lead us from the current darkness into His Light of a New Day. We need leaders for sure, yet, this IS the Ballad of the Ordinary Man and there are still too, too many who have not made a return to the Lord. For this reason, among other reasons, it seems to me that collapse must come. Rules of Regency come to mind.
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Beckita; I think about Rules of Regency often. Maybe time for a re-post for anyone who hasn’t seen it or may have forgotten?
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I’ve also had that sense about Rules of Regency, Christopher, but it’s not quite yet time for re-posting. That said, it’s easy to search for the series which I just did for you:
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Agreed.
It’s not my opinion, I just posted this article because it is inline with this post.
Both Reagan and Trump prayed for help as President.
God cannot be outdone and those in positions of power are given special success because of this prayer.
I do not commend either ‘man’ for their success but that like the Samaritan woman of faith who believed Jesus could heal her daughter they trusted in God”s power to do good through them.
It will be no different for us as Ordinary Men.
Jesus, I Trust in You!
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The biggest lost opportunity for DeSantis was that he did not express outrage regarding the assault on Trump by the leftists. He would have gained a lot of Trump supporters. Now DeSantis seems to be a lost cause no matter what strategies he pursues from now on. It was only Vivek Ramaswamy who strongly opposed and is opposing the unfair treatment of the former president. Now Ramaswamy might be picked as VP by Trump…
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Here we go: Staten Island wants to secede from NYC.
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://www.markmallett.com/blog/an-apostolic-timeline/
https://catholicexchange.com/st-john-vianneys-witness-dealing-with-difficult-people/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-lord-will-help-to-heal-our-memories/
https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/08/29/watch-catholic-comic-series-with-george-tautkus/
https://www.catholicleague.org/critics-of-bishop-mcmanus-fall-flat/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255240/bishop-accountability-group-dismissal-of-charges-against-former-cardinal-mccarrick-hugely-disappointing
https://www.micatholic.org/advocacy/news-room/news-releases/2023/catholic-conference-responds-to-gov-whitmers-comments-on-abortion-paid-family-leave/
https://catholicvote.org/new-christian-school-loudon-county-sees-massive-enrollment/
https://www.lifenews.com/2023/08/30/emergency-petition-filed-to-get-pro-life-advocate-out-of-prison-who-was-convicted-of-rescuing-babies-from-abortion/
https://www.lifenews.com/2023/08/30/ted-cruz-slams-joe-biden-for-weaponizing-department-of-justice-to-target-pro-life-americans/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/christina-bobb-jesse-binnall-joe-biden/2023/08/30/id/1132690/
https://catholicvote.org/ohio-abortion-activists-suing-officials-unborn-child/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/the_republican_debate_was_unsatisfying_because_no_one_addressed_the_most_important_issue.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/how_the_trump_indictments_destroy_the_constitution.html
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/30/secretaries-of-several-states-begin-legal-review-to-determine-if-they-can-disqualify-president-trump-from-2024-ballot/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/30/old-mules/
https://reclaimthenet.org/dhs-used-personal-phones-for-misinfo-censor-meetings
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/30/american-library-association-faces-backlash-over-m/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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PS: JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉
WAT!!??
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/alarms-about-the-st-michael-prayer
HeadLine Overload till The Grid goes down … or Jackbooted Feral Gubermint Thugs kick the door down …….. “PERFECT STORM” ;-(
REMEMBER!
85% of what Ya need to know is in Headlines …. Trends and Indicators …and what’s important for YOU to survive in your 100 square miles … or escape to a more friendly 100 square miles!
https://www.americanthinker.com/
https://www.thedailybs.com/news
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://dailycaller.com/
https://www.thedailybs.com/news
https://revolver.news/
https://pjmedia.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://thefederalist.com/
https://justthenews.com/
https://hotair.com/
https://newsbusters.org/
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://catholicexchange.com/get-behind-me-satan-why-does-jesus-rebuke-peter/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255241/an-update-on-the-status-of-fulton-sheen-s-beatification-cause
Feral Gubermint Jackbooted Thugs … In-Action!
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/the-case-for-reviving-the-rescue-movement/
https://www.lifenews.com/2023/08/29/five-pro-life-advocates-found-guilty-of-rescuing-babies-from-abortion-face-11-years-in-prison/
https://catholicvote.org/father-jailed-for-refusing-to-use-daughters-preferred-pronouns/
In The People’s Democrat Socialist Republic of Oregon ……!?????
https://catholicvote.org/fire-at-oldest-parish-salem-causes-severe-damage-to-st-josephs/
https://onepeterfive.com/mccarricks-escape-allegory/
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/st-vincent-of-lerins-and-doctrinal-development
https://www.thefp.com/p/free-press-high-school-essay-contest-winner
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/coach-who-won-supreme-court-fight-to-pray-on-field-vows-to-kneel-again
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-lands-mongolia-home-tiny-catholic-flock-2023-09-01/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abortion-survivor-desantis-mentioned-gop-debate-speaks-did-exist
https://www.catholicleague.org/nashville-murderers-manifesto-still-secret/
https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-757050
Nice …but … Evil THEY will burn down USA (EU) first …. THEY are already well on THEIR way to doing just that ;-(
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage/2023/08/29/id/1132527/
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2023/08/31/column-n2627780
THEY are lying to US about EVERYTHING!!
https://headtopics.com/us/report-armed-citizens-stop-active-shooters-8x-more-than-fbi-claims-43317279
https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/08/at-the-precipice/
https://tldavis.substack.com/p/opposition-to-everything
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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T. Carlson has suggested that the ruling classes will try to stop Trump any way they can. Including the ultimate end of him. I am sure that he realizes this…..I also think that JFK, Jr., realizes that he is putting his life on the line. He has asked for protection of the Secret Service as a pres. candidate but so far this administration has denied this. Given the history of the Kennedy family, I feel it should be provided! These two men are definitely putting their lives at risk during this increasingly crazy time. Their politics may not be the same, though both are stirring the pot and trying to reveal certain truths, to the great dismay of the people who control the reigns of power. I pray that our Lord will send his angels to protect them both in honor of their courage and tenacity to save this republic and the rule of law. I find the news unbearable these days. There is always an outrageous happening and things will surely become ever more so. I pray for fortitude, more faith, patience, discernment, and all other gifts the Holy Spirit deems that I and you all need during these dark days. May the Lord be generous with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. How we need these gifts! May God bless you all this day and all the days to come.
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I meant to say RFK, Jr. …..I am very tired. I make a lot of silly writing errors/spelling errors these days.
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/no-need-for-facts-when-criticizing-church/
https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/08/31/weekly-news-roundup-backwardist-catholics-orban-interview-parental-rights-and-public-schools/
https://catholicvote.org/story-of-mass-graves-canada-likely-false/
https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/08/31/abp-vigano-new-piece-of-evidence-proves-innocence-of-carmelite-mother-prioress/
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/09/01/mongolia-pope-francis-visits-mongolia-amid-china-tensions/1011693571060/
https://juddgarrett.substack.com/p/devil-in-the-white-miter
https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2023/09/01/joe-kennedy-returns-to-field-to-coach-and-pray-in-bremerton/70738551007/
https://www.lifenews.com/2023/09/01/joe-biden-wants-to-force-every-employer-in-america-to-fund-abortions/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/01/newest-nato-country-escalates-prosecution-of-christians-for-quoting-the-bible/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/31/predictable-georgia-republican-governor-brian-kemp-rises-to-defend-honor-and-character-of-corrupt-da-fani-willis/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/01/twitter-updates-privacy-policy-notifying-users-their-content-will-be-used-to-train-and-develop-enhanced-ai/
THEY want US enslaved … or DEAD!
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/conflicting-evidence-mrna-technology-raises-serious-concerns-about-rush-use-new-vaccine
Just another Sign of Old Age when ya have to say So-Long to somebody ya grew up with. I knew a Gal in Grad School who was a Huge Buffet Fan and would fly around the Country for his concerts … she is mourning today I’m sure … ….. can’t remember her name … another Sign ;-(
https://americanwirenews.com/tributes-pour-in-for-margaritaville-singer-jimmy-buffett-dead-at-76/
……….His Theme Song for my Big Diet 😉
“Cheese Burger in Paradise”
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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CD, I know what you mean about remembering J.B. and feeling old! Hubby and I were dating and the music was played when a bunch of squadron people got together for a party! It almost seems like yesterday; where have the years gone?!
Along those lines of time flying, I often think of that Scripture, especially these years: “The time will be shortened for the sake of the elect.” I wonder if the Lord meant it for these times?!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://onepeterfive.com/14th-sunday-after-pentecost-life-in-christ-is-no-gay-fling/
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/blessed-andre-grasset-canadian-martyr-of-french-revolution
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-globalism-is-satanic-preparation-for-the-rise-of-the-antichrist/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/on-the-trail-of-ignatius
https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2023/09/02/today-in-history-a-forgotten-christian-warrior-saves-the-west-from-islam-n1724166
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/1/-campus-bible-program-public-school-students-irks-/
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-quoting-buddha-urges-religious-dialogue-fight-fundamentalism-2023-09-03/
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/letter-from-ukraine-orthodox-church-00113373
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-news-why-it-matters/oklahoma-drag-queen-hired-as-elementary-principal-despite-former-child-pornography-charge
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/sen-cruz-88-attacks-crisis-pregnancy-centers-doj-uses-entire-weight-and-force
SIGNS!?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2022/11/07/report-cannabis-ranks-the-6th-most-valuable-crop-in-the-us/?sh=62acdad31b10
The Feral Gubermint & SwampDC Idiocy continues .. ;-( .. Up The Resistance!!!
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/09/02/sec-booty-juice-says-all-cars-are-bad-n575365
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/02/tone-deaf-democrats-move-to-block-maui-and-florida-disaster-relief-over-ukraine-funding-n2163347
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2023/09/02/jonathan-turley-wapos-philip-bump-n2386801
This article was published two months after Obama was Sworn-In … just a coincidence that it seems to all be unfolding in his Third Term …!!!??? … ;-(
https://listverse.com/2009/03/07/16-signs-that-you-live-in-a-tyranny/
https://aflegal.org/new-hunter-biden-emails-obtained-by-america-first-legal-from-lawsuit-against-the-national-archives-reveal-over-1000-emails-between-rosemont-seneca-and-the-office-of-vice-president/
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://www.zerohedge.com
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Labor Day 🙂
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/the-towering-virgin-statue-that-watches-over-highway
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/afterlife/forums-purgatorial-souls-who-visit-churches
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255267/tim-ballard-real-hero-of-sound-of-freedom-i-ve-spent-more-than-20-years-in-this-fight
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255266/wheel-of-fortune-s-pat-sajak-to-retire-hillsdale-catholic-converts
https://www.themainewire.com/2023/08/judge-denies-maine-governors-bid-to-halt-lawsuit-alleging-her-covid-19-vax-mandate-violated-religious-freedom/
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/09/becoming-nation-gollums-joseph-pearce.html
Ya think that The Evil that perpetutated the below does not exist in Our USA Today!?
https://catholicvote.org/first-unborn-child-to-be-beatified-with-martyred-family/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mexican-parents-blaze-textbooks-infected-virus-communism-fiery-protest-against-gender-ideology
https://spectator.org/two-popes-on-church-doctrine-rupture-and-retrospect/
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/2023-09-01/archaeologists-in-turkey-have-identified-massive-structures-below-a-roman-era-castle
My Hope is the Trump MAGA Movement causes the DC Uni-Party to act stupidly and trigger a BackLash that, Please God!, will at least preserve some of The Republic!?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/03/iowa-republican-party-begins-to-make-their-move-against-maga-reminder-of-the-core-battle/
Nothing to see here! … Move Along!!
https://rumble.com/v3dgq2y-julie-kelly-breaks-down-judge-chutkans-outlandish-remarks-in-court.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/explosive-revelation-fani-willis-linked-massive-election-fraud/
https://spectator.org/kemp-effectively-says-arresting-opponents-is-constitutional/
https://thenewamerican.com/us/crime/injustice-american-style-blm-rioters-walk-j6-defendants-get-almost-20-years/
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://townhall.com/
https://www.thedailybs.com/news
https://newsbusters.org/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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“In other words, the revolution is not so much political as anarchist. Nothing escapes it—not ceiling fans, not natural gas cooktops, not parents at school board meetings, not Christian bakeries, not champion female swimmers, not dutiful policemen, not hard-working oil drillers, not privates and corporals in the armed forces, not teens applying on their merits to college, not anyone, anywhere, anytime.”
Victor Davis Hanson
Ordo Ab Chao, (Order from Chaos,) is one of the oldest mottos of Craft Freemasonry.
This, my friends, is the real agenda. To create disorder in order to reestablish a new order of their design and control. I think they want a rebellion to institute martial law, suspend elections (forever) and rule by dictate.
“The operating principle is either to allow or to engineer things to become so atrocious in everyday American life—the inability to afford food and fuel, the inability to walk safely in daylight in our major cities, the inability to afford to drive as one pleases, the inability to obtain or pay back a high interest loan—that the government can absorb the private sector and begin regimenting the masses along elite dictates.” (VDH).
https://victorhanson.com/what-the-left-did-to-our-country/
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and people are blind to this
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://catholicexchange.com/ceremonial-for-priests-the-craft-and-art-of-the-liturgy/
https://onepeterfive.com/catholic-synodality-era/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-early-visions-of-st-mother-teresa/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/do-we-believe-souls-are-worth-saving/
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/biden-scandal-widens-question-what-obama-knew-and-when-rises-top
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/jihad-in-fargo
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/what-if-were-the-meanies-here
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/time_for_another_great_awakening.html
HullyGee!
Is there ANY doubt that Our Dept. of Defense is just another DC Swamp corrupt Rainbow Feral Gubermint Agency!??
….& Killing & Maiming Comrades of Mine ….. and doing THEIR best to get US embroiled in a Global War …. or, at least, some Global (False Flag) Unpleasantness to camouflage THEIR Evil Deeds!!
“CDC & FDA Ignored U.S. Military Investigation Revealing Vaccine Failures, New FOIA Documents Reveal”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/cdc-fda-ignored-u-s-military-investigation-revealing/
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_next_crisis_is_anyones_guess_but_the_government_is_ready_to_lockdown_the_nation
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/04/musk-confirms-current-status-of-ad-twitter-revenue/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258jevzn.21gx/9c126dc9
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://www.thedailybs.com/news
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://www.newsmax.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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Thank you for your comments about the life of my mother, Margy McGlynn.
And finally some real analysis of DeSantis.
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Ah Greg, your family has been a surrogate family to me for a good couple of decades. God bless you – and so sorry for our loss.
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Thank you Charlie
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