By Charlie Johnston
Almost all the political commentators (with the notable exception of Kurt Schlichter at Townhall) are complaining that Donald Trump is complacent about Kamala Harris because he is unusually quiet instead of in full-throated attack mode. This is one of the reasons so many otherwise competent commentators would make such terrible political strategists.
The first thing you do in any competitive race is make a candid assessment of both your candidate and your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses. Then you assess what the most likely driving forces behind the particular contest will be. If you can, you do issues polling (insisting that your pollster give you good data – and not ‘pushed’ data) on a whole variety of issues to see which of them pop with voters – and which pop with particular subsets of voters. This can confirm or refute your gut on what will drive the contest. Amateurs constantly demand that a candidate focus only on what pops for them – without any awareness that others have different concerns and priorities. You do NOT abandon basic principles because of what this data reveals, but you know how to package it. I once got a large minority of moderate, pro-choice women and gay activists to support a pro-life, pro-family candidate. From that you can plot a path to victory that includes field-work, key issue priorities (no more than three in normal times), timing, and forcing your opponent onto your home field.
Always I watched for an opponent’s tin ear on certain subjects, things they were focused on that that did not cut their way or could be easily flipped on them. Then I would lay back, subtly encouraging them to dig themselves in so deeply into those issues that they could not credibly claw it back when we sprung our offensive. It is like setting the hook when you are fishing. Admittedly, that was probably my favored technique. I was very good at it, so good that near the end of my regular work in Illinois, opponents often would not spring on errors from a campaign I was running, for fear it was one of my little traps. Often, it was. To do that successfully, you have to lay back in the weeds frequently, letting the opponent think he is making hay with an ill-conceived tactic. If you just start barking from the get-go you scare the opponent away from that area and can never get them into position to spring the trap. Most commentators think if a candidate is not constantly barking, he’s losing. Sheesh! (By the way, my traps were all designed so that only your own malice could get you snared in them.)
I loved opponents who were over-aggressive. They were easy to lead into traps. I loved opponents who would, without discipline, speak at length on every issue thrown at them. Without the message discipline to draw every extraneous question back to their fundamental priorities, they could never clearly define who they were in the general public’s mind. The perception of them was always hazy. The only candidate I ever saw who could survive this was Barack Obama – who had the advantage of being a soothing black man in a nation still eager to prove it was not racist. He talked like a moderate and governed like a hard left activist, permanently disfiguring the medical industry in his signature ‘accomplishment.’
Candidly, since 2009, I have not been near as good at assessing the opposition or the electorate as I once was. I don’t think that is a decline in my analytical prowess, but because of a major warping of the once-shared values of the electorate. There is no consistent, coherent philosophy underpinning modern Democrats’ strategic thinking. It is all a hodge-podge of opportunistic stabs at exercising power over ordinary people and holding onto that power. As a point of illustration, just 50 years ago Richard Nixon was driven from office for ineffectively trying to spy on a political opponent, trying unsuccessfully to use the IRS to target political opponents, and trying to cover it up. Obama did ALL of these things successfully and is hailed as a hero for it. We are no longer a nation where the majority stands for any sort of fundamental, objective principles. Just get opponents and dissidents by hook or by crook, no matter. It is much harder to make astute assessments when one side’s strategy is always catch-as-catch-can. Then, the other side’s strategy is warped because sometimes it must react in kind – and that conditions the other side to act that way when it is not necessary. That spiral accelerates what the late, great, Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan described as, “defining deviancy down.” At a certain point, the decline becomes irreversible until a cataclysmic crisis is reached and passed.
If I were formally advising Trump I would be encouraging him to do exactly what he is doing right now. Kamala Harris is a candidate who incorporates all the fundamental weaknesses I looked for in an opponent – and more. She chose a running mate who may well have more baggage than she does. This is a team sent by heaven to run against. BUT, the Democrats have already pulled a switcheroo once this cycle because of electability. Pledged delegates to the Democratic Convention were required to vote for Joe Biden (or the candidate who they were pledged to when elected) on the first ballot. Whatever their promises, those delegates are NOT required to vote for Harris on the first ballot. If Harris faltered badly before the convention, there is a huge hole in which party power-brokers could potentially drive a replacement through. The primary task for Trump right now is to make sure she gets locked in as the Dem nominee. The best way to accomplish that is to continue to criticize her, but mute it so as not to give Dem powerbrokers the willies.
Most in the media are obsessed with the horse race aspect of polls – the least interesting and least informative thing about them. I used polls to identify hot button issues, dead ends, and in what subsections of the electorate various issues did – and did not – resonate. From there I would work out a path to victory. The horse race question was useful in telling me how much we had to make up and to plan accordingly in my path to victory calculation. In one statewide race, the first publicly published poll – in the Chicago Tribune – showed our opponent at 61% and us at 2%. We won. In a Congressional race, a senior staffer to the Speaker of the House confided in me a week before election that we were going to lose by 10 points, but that did not diminish their respect for me, as we had started from much further behind. We won by 10 points. Once in a local race against a 20-year incumbent and his entire slate, I managed the opposition slate. At the courthouse all manner of people commiserated with me early on that I had run a great race, but it is impossible to dislodge a 20-year incumbent. That stopped when I finally growled that “the surprise of the night is not going to be that we win, but how much we win by.” When returns came in and our lowest vote-getter polled just over 60%, everyone looked at me as if I were some exotic tiger who had just slipped his cage. Don’t get me wrong: that is not how it always happened or even how they usually happened – but a polling deficit is just one of many types of obstacles to be factored into your calculations. In a close race, polls have a rhythm. You worry less about where you are in the poll than how to influence the rhythm to your advantage. A puckish part of me sometimes wants the polls to show my guy behind – because sometimes the most effective way to beat an opponent is to do it before he ever even realizes he has a problem. If you work it effectively, you can use polls to both foster overconfidence and then panic in an opponent.
One candidate who was like a brother to me was, himself, obsessed by polls. He is also very Catholic. Once in the state Capitol building, he asked me for the umpteenth time about the latest polls. I looked at him with portentious gloom and said, “In those days there will be polls…and rumors of polls.” He well knew my contempt for the horse race question. He was silent for a moment – and then busted out laughing. We both did. To his credit, he did not press me near as much for polling info after that.
It’s all just an internal part of devising the proper strategy and tactics to put you in a position to win. My state or district wide coffee shop sessions and reports I got door knockers to give me were more useful to me, on a daily basis, than polls (a lot less expensive, too).
If Trump ramps up hard the week after the Dem convention, be thankful you have a nominee who is smarter and steadier than all the one-trick-pundits out there. BUT, every bit as dangerous to a sound campaign as panicked, defeatist gloom is irrational exuberance. I loved – and applied – the line from the old Kenny Rogers song, The Gambler: “every hand’s a winner and every hand’s a loser.”
I think a much better strategist than I ever dreamed of being is guiding current events in the country – and the world, for that matter. We are, literally, living an illumination of conscience right now. I, personally, think it is THE Illumination of Conscience – but in the subtle way God always does it rather than the simplistic, literal way His followers always expect it. (God ALWAYS leaves room for doubt: it weeds out the self-serving sunshine soldiers who can never get past thinking what is best for them, temporally, in their own estimation.)
The gaslighting from the Godless, globalist left was once cloaked in a profusion of distracting veils. Now it stands naked in the public square for all to see clearly. The gutter press once lied and memory-holed what it had said a decade ago that proved inconvenient to it today. Now it lies and tries to memory-hole what happened yesterday to make way for today’s narrative. It has reached and surpassed Orwellian levels of gaslighting: “We have always been at war with Eastasia…we have never been at war with Eastasia.” The Secret Service, Homeland Security, and the Justice Department clearly intentionally subverted Donald Trump’s security protocols (and Robert Kennedy’s, for that matter), if it was not actively complicit in the assassination attempt. The FBI and Justice Department actively collaborated with social media to censor people – and some news outlets, throughout and just before the Biden administration. That is a conspiracy, but it is not a theory. The public medical establishment actively lies to the American people to accomplish their ideological goals – even if it kills people. (Might want to check out that last link: I used a different subject than the mountain of Covid lies to illustrate the point this time). Author Jack Cashill is just about to release a book offering compelling evidence that J6 was a planned, inside job to smear conservatives and prevent serious investigation of massive vote fraud in the 2020 election. Even before the book is released, he offers much compelling evidence. I could go on and on, making an encyclopedia of such transparent frauds and gaslighting, but you get the point.
There is an old story about a man who, when asked about the universe, posits that it sits on the back of a giant turtle. If that is so, he is then asked, what is the turtle standing on. Shaken, he pauses, then finally blurts out, “It’s turtles all the way down.” He could not bear the idea of simple, irrefutable logic destroying his cherished narrative fantasy.
Remember the sequence I wrote about how God generally gives us rescue. First there is revelation of the depth of the disorder. Then we are forced to choose where we stand. Then battle ensues. After much strife, the forces standing with God win.
You may think we are deep into the revelation stage. We are not. Eyes that could see and ears that could hear knew years ago what was confronting us. We are smack dab in the middle of the choosing stage. The lies now are so obvious that even the most obtuse partisan knows they are lies. That is God’s intention. Everyone knows – and now they must choose. Will you serve the truth or will you parrot and justify the lies? You must choose. When you stand before God in judgment, you may still parrot your narrative, but you will not be able to excuse yourself by pretending you did not know what you were choosing. Even if you did not know the consequences, you knew you were serving lies. You knew. You chose your doom. This is not just for the Godless, globalist left. Almost all of us have certain cherished beliefs that events are pricing and will prove errant. If, confronted with irrefutable proof of error, you petulantly choose “turtles all the way down,” you will need a lot of luck – and a multitude of charity – to avoid the fires of hell.
Not only naked in its lies, the left is casting away the last veils hiding its furious malice. The alphabet agencies and the Justice Department ignore – or even empower – violent criminals while focusing on arresting peaceful dissidents: parents at PTA meetings, people praying at abortion clinics, and traditionalist Catholics. They weaponized the system to try to destroy everyone close to Trump, for example – America’s hero Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, General Michael Flynn et. al. They actively try to disbar and jail, if possible, any lawyers who dare to take up Trump’s cause. This is both to destroy his lawyers and prevent others from working for him. What would make anyone think that, if the left loses in November, it will go gently into the night? At that point, what would it have to lose by staging a genuinely violent insurrection? Its members have committed genuine crimes that do not have to be manufactured to be prosecuted. You think they will be consistent? No, they will just go into, “We have always been at war with Eastasia” mode – and the gutter press will desperately follow them. If they win (by hook or by crook) will you just allow yourself, your children, and your grandchildren to submit to tyranny? To be told what they can and cannot think, what they can and cannot eat, what they can and cannot do? Will you stand idly by as the state grooms them for sexual service, up to and including genital mutilation?
God may have a way that avoids violent – and perhaps extended – confrontation, but I can’t think of one. Normal people will not submit; the left will not concede. One side must win and the other lose – existentially. But that is where this sequence almost always leads when the goals are so diametrically opposed. I often say that the disorder before us has no political solution – which is not to say politics has no bearing in it. But we will have to stand to prevail, IF the globalist left will not concede. Do you think they will?
We love to envision easy resolutions. There are many who peddle such things. Lord knows, through my lifetime I have brokered many compromise deals and kept the peace between warring factions. But when one side wants to go west into ordered liberty and the other wants to go east into a one-party command state to rule everyone, there is no basis for compromise. Last Monday, the first reading at Mass was from the 28th Chapter of Jeremiah. On the one hand, there was a false prophet who gave the people soothing words. Jeremiah told them true – of the dire danger they were in that they had brought on themselves. Of course, the people chose the soothing fantasies and largely rejected Jeremiah – and so had no plan to deal with the doom that came upon them.
If we miraculously avoid extended violent strife (and it would be a great miracle to do so) I will be very glad. Shoot, maybe I can even retire. Like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, I often think that, “I’m too old for this (stuff).” But it would not be prudent or responsible to count on that. So I plan for engagement, how best to subdue violence, how best to rally ordinary people to unity, and how best to rebuild from the ashes the left is determined to reduce us to.
But make no mistake: revelation is not what God is doing right now. He is busy separating the sheep from the goats in the decisive conflict between good and evil. I would that all be delivered from the evil that surrounds us. I don’t think that will happen. Some people, inexplicably, choose evil in order to dominate others. In that case, I devote myself to practically helping everyone who would be delivered find a way forward that does not mutilate their souls. Again, make no mistake: this is the time of choosing.
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I was angered to learn that Fr. Chad Ripperger has been the victim of phony videos imitating him and attributing statements he never made to him. A few years back I was ambivalent about Fr. Ripperger. Some of what he said was undoubtedly true, but some I thought was just him venting his spleen and attributing things he merely did not like to the devil. I have been deeply impressed these last few years – as Fr. Ripperger is one of those rare public voices who, as things got crazier, got more steady and solid. I feared he might be backsliding. But according to a letter he sent to the Spirit Daily website, he is being maliciously imitated and misquoted. (Boy, can I ever feel his pain on that!)
There are several offenders here, but the worst are coming from an organization styling itself “Most Holy Trinity” and its affiliate, “Spiritual Messengers.” Help Fr. Ripperger out and don’t let these groups slander him. And take care not to fall for the devil’s tricks just because he hijacks a pious name. The devil will be doing more and more of that to try to deceive the faithful.
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My friend, Guy Murphy, has sponsored many Marian Conferences in the Chicago area over the years. I was a featured speaker there one year, along with Drew Mariani of Relevant Radio. He gets a nice crowd out – over 1,500 people at the one I spoke at.
He also has a tour company, Totally Yours Pilgrimages, specializing in Catholic Pilgrimages. He has a couple of very nice ones coming up late next month. There are choices involving Medjugorje, Fatima, Lourdes, and Garabandal. If you’ve been thinking of one as things get stranger, I can tell you Guy is a top-notch guy with great enthusiasm and love for the faith. It came to mind because he contacted me and offered to bring me along as his guest on one of the tours. I had to decline for now, but told him I would let people know. You’ll have a good pilgrimage – and good company. You can reach them at info@MEDJ1.com or at (630) 315-0533. If you go, say a few prayers for CORAC and for me!
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A Sign of Hope 
Honestly, Charlie. WOW!!
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I lightly tease you, Charlie, on your use of the word “amateur.” Classically, it was defined as someone with a trade or skill who does it for the love of it, not necessarily to make a living off of it – that would be a professional. An amateur could be more skilled and talented than a professional. I know that common parlance defines it as someone woefully underdeveloped in the trade they claim to have expertise in. However, “amateur” radio enthusiasts can be quite skilled and have “Mr. Miagi” levels of mastery.
– My playful elbow jab
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Hey Mr. Jape…I have often considered the irony and incongruity of that, as well. I have known quite a few amateurs who were far more knowledgeable and gifted than a lot of professionals I know. The lack of precision has led to a certain mania for credentials. Recently, that midwit California Congressman, Eric Swalwell criticized Ronny Jackson, saying he is not even a doctor (because Jackson did not renew his license when he won a Congressional seat). The man Was White House physician to both Obama and Trump and a very gifted doctor. He is still a doctor, just doesn’t carry a credential anymore. As for modern professional experts: I prefer my experts to have a little actual expertise. Actually, that is what a credential was originally for – to certify a minimum level of expertise. But I used the word as it is used in common parlance.
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If I can muster the presence of mind when reaching the Gate, and St Peter asks me how well I thought I did, I will respond, “All things considered, I did very well, turtles all the way down!” This world is in such shambles, it is hard to know where it’s at, and where I fit in. So, yes indeed, “turtles all of the way down.”
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day! 😉
https://onepeterfive.com/catholic-orthodoxy-not-mere-traditionalism/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/with-friends-like-these-12029/
https://rcdow.org.uk/news/the-philosophical-legacy-of-edith-stein/
Frankly, George! I don’t give a **** about Synod 2024! I’m more concerned about survival of me/mine in our 50 square miles these next 18 months!
https://denvercatholic.org/potholes-on-the-road-to-synod-2024/
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1821169375350813005
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/09/he-asked-for-it-victor-davis-hanson-on-tim-walz-meltdown/
https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/leaked-democrat-zoom-totalitarian-takeover
Yep! Trump needs to Hammer: ECONOMY, BORDERS & CRIME … and let the underlings do the other & necessary Electioneering BS ….the Second After KamalBreath-Stolen Valor Ticket is in concrete!
https://www.westernjournal.com/special-counsel-unleashes-devastating-evidence-regarding-hunter-biden-foreign-official-new-filing/
The “Pot is Boiling” Over-There in several places & I’m not sure that The Harris-Walz Ticket is a Done-Deal. Convention/Insider Shenanigans are to be expected. I Pray that The DemonRat Party fractures & implodes …. DC Uni-Party DeepState too … & SOON!
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/09/who-elected-you-boss-of-this-outfit/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
https://babylonbee.com/news/8-harrowing-war-stories-from-tim-walz-the-man-who-was-there
https://patriotpost.us/digests/109241-mid-day-digest-2024-08-09
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://townhall.com/
https://hotair.com/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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”So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.”
Jack. You are right — we’re your supposed to be just a turtle to carry the load!
St Francis, while hoeing a garden, was asked if tomorrow was the end of the world what he would do. Unabashedly he replied that he would keep hoeing the garden. St Francis recognized God’s will for His people was to seek out the ordinary and do just “what we are supposed to do” with the intent to do His will. The prince of this world plants seeds of desire in us to ” make a name for yourself”. “Thy will be done” is the opposite of this mindset. We must become comfortable in who we are and our place in this world as God’s hands and feet which do the boring, mondaine work for the Head as is proper for hands and feet! I like just being a turtle. Owning a turtle farm, God has allowed me an intimate insight into this concept of turtles all the way down especially since I have almost 1000 turtles! Here it’s turtles everywhere and all the time!
(PS, since my main job is tile setting I’m probably just an “amature” turtle farmer).
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Philip,
That’s my ‘life verse’ as our Protestant brethren say. It’s a long story, but makes me appreciate Charlie’s NRS plan all the more. The trouble I’ve caused myself with MY big ideas… This is a good one, Charlie- a helpful behind the scenes look.
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This story of St. Francis (attributed to St, Francis?) has been a mantra my whole life. When I met Charlie in 2015? in Katy, TX, his next right step fit right in. (Even though I always want to know more.) Keep on keeping on. Following in the next right step of a whole lot of saints.
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Nance,
My wife and I were also there in Katy, Tx. We are now in Hockley, Tx.
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Fantastic! We are practically neighbors! Granny’s Farm is one mile north into Grimes County! i don’t see you on Ed and Michelle’s map. but I’m google-able, give me a call, let’s get together!
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I sent you a phone text
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Hi Charlie,
Letting you know that your writing is much appreciated by a reader here in Canada. I’ve been following your blog for a while now (referred over a long time ago by Susan Skinner). Although most of your piece today refers to the November election in the US, it is a brilliant inside look into what a political strategy should be. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I also really appreciate your clarification/ clarity on the current Illumination of Conscience.
God bless you.
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I can’t wait to someday visit Canada again. Back in 1975 I spent some serious time there. I absolutely loved Nova Scotia. I spoke fluent French at the time and hoped to pass as a native in Montreal. Mission partly achieved…some knew I was American while some thought I was a French tourist. My buddies and I got into the far west of Ontario. At one point we drove a day and a half and encountered almost no one. Your western wilderness begins a lot earlier than ours does down in the States.
Thank you for your kind words.
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Always awesome and brilliant analysis, Charlie! The American Greatness article seems very accurate about the parallels between the assassination of JFK and the attempted one we just witnessed! Looking back at the past many years, it seems like a book of fiction at this point; but we watched it happen slowly. Like the proverbial frog in the cold water. In regards to Cashill, I pray that he stays safe.
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Welcome, LFrancis! Just yesterday I was thinking back to a childhood trip with my parents to Canada. I will never forget, even as a child, the powerful experience at St. Anne de Beaupre, and staying in a cabin on beautiful Lake Mempphremagog. I was very young, in grade school, but will always remember the effect it all had upon me. (I had to look up the spelling of the Lake! 🙂
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👍!!
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Wonderful, just wonderful! Not sure why, but this one gives me a lot of hope. All your pieces give hope, Charlie, but there is just something about this one for me.
When you state, “If I were formally advising Trump I would be encouraging him to do exactly what he is doing right now…” Can we assume you might be informally advising Trump? ;).
God Bless and, as always, thank you!
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This article is what one could call a “paragraph” turner.
Reading your insights into the political web is fascinating.
My favorite Charlie quote is “In those days there will be polls…and rumors of polls.”
One of your most tragic subjects is the J6ers. I do truly hope the truth comes out. How many innocent lives were destroyed for nothing, some even ending in suicide.
“Author Jack Cashill is just about to release a book offering compelling evidence that J6 was a planned, inside job to smear conservatives and prevent serious investigation of massive vote fraud in the 2020 election. Even before the book is released, he offers much compelling evidence. I could go on and on, making an encyclopedia of such transparent frauds and gaslighting, but you get the point.”
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That bit of a book by Jack Cashill is a masterpiece! I thought I was up on the J6 saga, but find I know nothing! i never knew all this happened BEFORE Trump was even finished speaking!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day! 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/coming-to-believe-nineteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
https://onepeterfive.com/diebus-saltem-dominicis-12th-sunday-after-pentecost-mugged-by-the-truth/
https://stpaulcenter.com/audio/sunday-bible-reflections/take-and-eat-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-nineteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-god-had-the-eucharist-in-mind-all-along-jesuss-eucharistic-congress-3
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/remembering-a-forgotten-poet
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/in-our-day-is-apostolic-work-impossible/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258599/planned-parenthood-of-new-york-scales-back-abortions-citing-financial-problems
https://rairfoundation.com/cross-crescent-quiet-islamic-conquest-american-churches-christians/
UK Catholics like 50% of USA “Catholics” are “Shocked” at what they are seeing on the Streets ’cause for 60 + years they have drunk the godless Kool-Aid, watched/read LeftStream Media Propaganda and refused to “see” The Evil infiltrating ALL aspects of their insular worlds!
https://www.osvnews.com/2024/08/10/uk-catholics-voice-shock-and-concern-at-new-outbreak-of-nationwide-disorder/
https://catholicherald.co.uk/editorial-one-seminarian-for-the-whole-of-dublin/
https://mises.org/power-market/new-war-threatens-bosnia-and-herzegovina
https://floppingaces.net/2024/08/11/sunday-funnies-807/
https://catholicvote.org/read
https://townhall.com/
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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Charlie, Tucker Carlson posted an interview the other night with an attorney who was in the Nixon White House during the time of Watergate. The man has collected enough information over the years to prove that Nixon was the victim of a deep state coup. The guy is also involved with a newly released or about to be released documentary on the matter. It was a fascinating two hour interview. The burglars were all CIA but one and he was FBI. Woodward (or Bernstein) was also CIA and had no journalistic background until he joined the Post a few months before breaking the story. Looking back all these 50 years, you can see it did not make sense.
Back to the election, Elon Musk is interviewing Trump tomorrow night on Twitter ( Trumps’ return to Twitter?). It might change the direction of a number of issues right now.
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I worked for Congressman Robt. McClory then, who wrote the 3rd article of impeachment (I was just a kid – I drove him on weekends in the district and wrote some speeches). When the tapes came out, I was flabbergasted. They proved that John Dean was the architect of the cover-up. The first Nixon knew about it was at the famous “cancer on the presidency” talk in June of 1973. They also proved that Dean lied through his teeth in his testimony before Congress. Dean was a serial liar and schemer – and like, I said, the architect of the coverup. But he turned on Nixon and so became a hero…which he still is to this day to the left. I asked McClory about it – but Nixon was one of the few things where a bitterness came through from him. Apparently Nixon treated Congressmen with high-handed condescension when he was flying high – and so he had no serious allies when he was in trouble. But was it a coup? Part of me thought it was bitter revenge when I was just 18. The ensuing 50 years have only cemented that view as more info has come out. And Judge John Sirica was a partisan hack who literally collaborated with the prosecution to get Nixon.
I should note, I think Nixon was a terrible domestic policy president. I don’t understand why the left hated him so – he gave them everything they wanted on that front. But he may well have been the most gifted geo-political strategist ever to hold the office. But he surely was the left’s first big scalp – and they have been warping government/media ever since to try to complete what they started with him.
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When Nixon opened China to trade, my husband was in one of the first business groups to visit! At that time, before internet, he took pics of everything. I showed those slides to so many groups.
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Almost everything you wrote in response was mentioned in the interview. The guy interviewed just about said word for word what you wrote about Dean. So you two are pretty much in agreement with regards to the process and players. And Judge Sirica, to think we thought he was a good guy. Not only was he a partisan hack he was corrupt. They mostly all were in on it. This guy has records and paperwork from a great number who are long dead. Hopefully, the real story will get out.
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I sometimes wish I could go back as the mature me. I really think I could have convinced McClory to follow the evidence, no matter what a jerk Nixon had been at a personal level to so many Members of Congress. But at just 18, I figured these guys must know something I was too immature to glean. Turns out it was the opposite.
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I don’t know how many others are “old” enough to remember all this, but it seems that we’ve been on the same trajectory ever since! Back then I was busy with children and not too well informed, but we can sure see now that corruption is nothing new……..it’s just gotten worse.
Interesting, Charlie, to read about all you share from behind the scenes.
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day! 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/fr-als-lone-helper-and-the-endless-line-of-the-sisters-of-mary/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258637/dictatorship-in-nicaragua-seven-priests-left-the-country-and-arrived-safely-at-the-vatican
https://catholicexchange.com/what-enhances-our-freedom-a-lesson-with-fulton-sheen/
https://onepeterfive.com/hope-lies-not-in-some-future-pope/
https://benedictinesofmary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/webSummer24.pdf
https://www.markmallett.com/blog/when-we-doubt
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/08/11/logical-fallacies/
What are THEY gonna do to Stop Trump … This Time!??!!? THEY are EVIL and THEY are desperate and THEY will do anything, NOW, to NOT be held accountable for THEIR MANIFEST Evil Deeds!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/08/11/big-question-how-are-ukraine-stakeholders-cia-and-u-s-intelligence-community-going-to-stop-donald-trump/
I think it would be best to Hold-Fire until after phony DemonRat Convention. It seems to me that a FringeLeft WordSalad Kammie – StolenValor Timmy Ticket would be best for the Good-Guys …. but Evil Princes & Principalities are …… ?????….soooo??? …… PRAY!!
https://johnkassnews.com/can-harris-walz-hide-who-they-are-without-media-help/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ptsd-stolen-valor/2024/08/11/id/1176080/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/walz-gun-control/2024/08/11/id/1176086/
https://www.peachykeenan.com/p/beijing-tim
https://thefederalist.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://hotair.com/
https://justthenews.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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https://catholicexchange.com/why-still-believe-faith-and-the-cradle-catholic/
https://catholicexchange.com/heading-to-college-remember-the-catholic-origin-of-universities/
https://catholicexchange.com/garments-are-symbols-of-the-churchs-unity/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/gossip/
https://www.ncregister.com/news/eucharist-survives-church-fire
https://onepeterfive.com/3rd-annual-trad-womens-conference/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-failure-of-interreligious-dialogue-with-islam
https://crisismagazine.com/editors-desk/war-must-become-a-primary-issue-for-catholics-in-presidential-elections
Not the Latest Vatican Lavender Marxist View if you please!
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/08/words-made-flesh-r-jared-staudt.html
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/a-flight-into-reality
https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/12/dont-let-the-camo-hat-distract-you-from-tim-walzs-radical-record/
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-slow-dying-of-american-democracy
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://patriotpost.us/humor/109287-kamalas-teleprompter-2024-08-12
https://catholicvote.org/
https://www.lifenews.com/
https://www.americanthinker.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://spectator.org/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/imitation-in-the-moral-life/
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/stories-from-the-sidewalk-sarah-richardson
https://reclaimthenet.org/us-court-reimposes-disinformation-device-monitoring-on-january-6-defendant
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/13/the-overclass/
https://floppingaces.net/2024/08/13/trumps-twitter-flex-when-billion-viewers-tune-in-media-hits-the-panic-button/
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://www.frontpagemag.com/
https://thefederalist.com/
https://townhall.com/
https://hotair.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258lnzq2.1rfc/9f429ce1
https://patriotpost.us/digests/109326-mid-day-digest-2024-08-13
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-clear-advantages-of-sending-your-kid-to-government-schools
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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https://spiritdailyblog.com/afterlife/surfing-to-heaven
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/sacred-scriptures-rhetorical-power/
https://www.countdowntothekingdom.com/luisa-piccarreta-given-vatican-nihil-obstat/
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/mystics/christina-the-astonishing
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/seeking-the-stylite
https://catholicexchange.com/mother-angelica-vs-charles-darwin/
https://catholicexchange.com/mary-as-gift-to-humanity/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258675/lourdes-baths-have-fully-reopened-as-30000-expected-for-assumption-pilgrimage
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/brush-with-death-zest-for-life-demarco
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/braced-for-the-quake
https://www.catholicleague.org/dems-celebrate-obscenities-and-racism/
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/08/crown-jewel-carmelite-convents-failing-john-horvat.html
https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/14/behind-tim-walzs-hunter-facade-is-a-plan-to-take-your-guns/
https://catholicvote.org/read
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://www.frontpagemag.com/
https://www.americanthinker.com/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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Here is more information about the above Countdown to the Kingdom article from Spirit Daily: “8/12/2024The nihil obstat for the resumption of the Cause of Beatification of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta has been issued.
This was announced by the Postulator of the Cause, Msgr. Paolo Rizzi, in a note dated August 10, 2024, the text of which is published here: https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/rome-makes-statement-on-piccarreta-cause
Read the article from Spirit Daily or https://www.luisapiccarretaofficial.org/news/comunicato-del-postulatore-mons-paolo-rizzi-circa-la-causa-di-beatificazione/1944 for more info.
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This is great news that a friend shared with me on Monday, jeslyou. Now, prayers that people will seek the Vatican edition of the writings as well as teachers who are grounded in the goodness of what Jesus conveyed to Luisa.
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https://catholicexchange.com/new-theology-of-the-body-program-for-middle-schoolers-an-interview-with-jason-evert/
https://www.declassified.live/p/another-suspicious-moment-in-dnc
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1823380364796047698
https://afn.net/politics-govt/2024/08/14/tsa-whistleblowers-say-gabbard-became-domestic-terrorist-day-after-laughing-at-v-p/
https://afn.net/national-security/2024/08/14/zero-percent-chance-clever-ccp-not-connected-to-their-buddy-walz/
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/109364-profile-of-stolen-valor-msg-tim-walz-2024-08-14
https://allenwest.substack.com/p/tim-walz-duty-honor-integrity-valor-empty-words
https://www.dossier.today/p/media-gatekeepers-are-losing-control
https://reclaimthenet.org/letitia-james-demands-big-tech-curb-election-misinformation
https://reclaimthenet.org/vp-nominee-jd-vance-calls-for-breaking-up-google
https://pjmedia.com/
https://hotair.com/
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258lo95v.1uig/547a5bf7
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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Fr. Ripperger on US Grace Force!
Breathtaking.😧
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NATIONAL EMERGENCY! General Mike Flynn Joins Redacted. I think the Gen Mike Flynn segment is worth a listen! Go to to 40:00 minute point:
https://rumble.com/v5aykoz-national-emergency-general-mike-flynn-joins-redacted-for-special-warning-br.html
GOD SAVE ALL HERE
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Here’s the transcript of an excellent recent interview by Pierre Kory, MD, MPA, with The Vigilant Fox and A Midwestern Doctor (their Substack handles). I know that many ASOH readers are familiar with all three of these unexpected heroes of our age:
https://vigilantfox.news/cp/147629157
It seems to me that each one has Acknowledged God, Taken the Next Right Step, and is A Sign of Hope for Those Around Him.
God bless,
Sister Bear
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Yes, Sister Bear, all three are excellent folks.
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Assumption of Mary Day! 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/8-reasons-assumption-mary-important/
https://catholicvote.org/titians-assumption/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/a-council-without-a-soul
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/cna-20240814-assumption-threat
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/self-referential-synod/
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/cna-20240814-st-maximilian-kolbe-beard
https://denvercatholic.org/repurposing-the-catholic-campaign-for-human-development/
https://www2.cbn.com/news/world/irans-jesus-revolution-mosques-close-1-million-muslims-accept-christ
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/08/dying-roman-catholic-diocese-of-buffalo-new-york-sells-historic-churches-to-muslims-for-mosques
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/kansas-city-vandals-behead-virgin-mary-statue-desecrate-churchs-prayer-garden
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2024-08/nicaragua-revokes-legal-personality-of-the-caritas-of-matagalpa.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-814582
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/08/15/robert-kennedy-jr-confirms-he-is-offering-to-endorse-kamala-harris-in-exchange-for-a-cabinet-position/
https://www.lifenews.com/
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://www.newsmax.com/
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://freebeacon.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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Wow, we waked up to China having a coup and a data breach (at first seemed like the Social Security Dept, later downplayed to a lesser one) of 2 billion social security numbers and folks’ total info associated with this. I thought it was the “other shoe” dropping but no one at Mass had heard of it.
CrewDog, I’m hoping you can find the links. No word of either on the morning talk shows. How can these not be huge stories?
From China, Xi apparently had a medical incident, like Biden, then everyone jumped him. Now two others will run the country, while Xi will continue as figurehead.
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What is your news source, Nance? Rumors of a coup in the Chinese government were rampant in 2022, and most recently there were unconfirmed rumors last month that Xi had suffered a stroke, but I see no reported Chinese coup in the news sources I check or on X or FB.
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I don’t have it. I was hoping CrewDog could find it. Maybe it was that old one? It was an English speaker speaking and he did mention that Xi had a stroke (or medical incident.)
and I googled: xi jinping latest news. I can’t seem to copy these, but they all say yesterday. Quite a few.
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Granted, we’d be hard pressed to find news out of China that gives an accurate and full story, Nance, but a search is not showing anything about a current or recent coup.
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Just cancel this whole feed. Who knows. Certainly not me!
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Time will surely tell what develops in China – and all around the world as onward we go through this Storm.
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Nance, I’ve not noticed any “China unrest news”? China’s Economy is troubled as US/EU slide into Recession/Worse? Plus Mideast turmoil and Oil Delivery ???? concerns impact Far East …..
Humanity is ALL on Jesus, I Trust In You TIME!!
https://catholicexchange.com/why-the-lord-purges-us/
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/will-there-always-be-an-england/
https://humanevents.com/2024/08/13/john-mac-ghlionn-the-uk-riots-are-playing-into-the-hands-of-big-brother
https://victorhanson.com/the-weird-creepy-surreal-and-dangerous-2024-campaign/
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/08/14/peter-schweizer-democrat-vp-pick-tim-walz-tied-chinese-secret-police-stations-kidnap-ccp-critics/
…. but Stolen Valor AWOLZ, AKA: Tampon Timmy told MN Guard & Cops to Stand-Down when BLM, ANTIFA and assorted DemonRats burned down Minneapolis
https://nypost.com/2024/08/13/us-news/cops-enforcing-tim-walzs-curfew-shot-residents-with-paintballs-video/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/08/15/the-u-s-secret-service-has-collapsed-as-an-organization-just-like-the-fbi-before-it-stunning-example-follows/
https://www.city-journal.org/article/covid-public-authorities-pushing-health-practices-contrary-to-medical-and-scientific-knowledge
https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/15/kamala-harris-economic-proposal-price-gouging-controls-food/
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258lojkx.1ydb/485c06aa
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://floppingaces.net/
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day! 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/assumption-customs-around-the-world/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258709/drama-reenacting-the-assumption-of-mary-returns-to-valencia-cathedral-after-400-years
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/08/09/eight-apparitions-one-priest-and-the-endless-miracle-of-the-sisters-of-mary/
https://onepeterfive.com/archbishop-vigano-and-the-question-of-pope-francis/
https://onepeterfive.com/archbishop-vigano-and-the-question-of-pope-francis-part-ii/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/non-defenders-of-the-faith-christianity-under-assault-in-england
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/nj-diocese-and-priests-sue-state
https://www.catholicleague.org/walz-punished-churches-during-covid/
https://catholicvote.org/medical-advances-give-micro-preemie-babies-a-good-shot-at-survival-but-many-hospitals-have-yet-to-catch-up/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rev-franklin-graham-calls-out-evangelicals-harris-trying-mislead-people-using-his-father-ad
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-8-11-2024/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-racism-of-the-left-instantly-exposed
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/08/14/texas-ag-ken-paxton-scores-another-win-against-the-biden-harris-anti-women-agenda
https://wilderwealthywise.com/kamala-the-npc-candidate/
https://pjmedia.com/
https://townhall.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://newsbusters.org/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS 😉
https://spiritdailyblog.com/apparitions/death-of-seer-brings-message-to-fore
Victor Davis Hanson – “The Case for Trump.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/08/16/october-surprise-biden-resigns-and-kamala-assumes-the-presidency-n2643483
Any number of “Distractions” be coming from The DemonRat Party & THEIR godless Global cohorts next 90 days! …. Out of Africa Pandemic 2.0!
https://rumble.com/v5b6yrp-this-is-how-they-will-control-all-of-us-pandemic-2.0-plans-emerge-redacted-.html
The Global Debt can’t be repaid …that means … Global Unpleasantness!!??? ;-(
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/countries-drowning-debt-does-uk-113000084.html
https://www.frontpagemag.com/our-three-silent-mice/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
https://thefederalist.com/
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258lou6p.1msm/bfd805c9
https://patriotpost.us/digests/109449-mid-day-digest-2024-08-16
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day! 😉
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-world-of-st-augustine
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/look-at-this-monstrance-on-the-mississippi
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/olympic-spirit-rip/
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/is-the-pontifical-academy-for-life
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258741/montana-ends-parental-consent-requirement-for-minors-getting-abortions
Sadly, our once great cities (& Borders) are little better than Haiti! ;-(
https://www.churchinneed.org/haiti-we-must-overcome-our-fear-and-bestow-hope/
https://crisismagazine.com/editors-desk/antisemite-a-now-meaningless-term-that-should-mean-something
Ain’t this nice that PF has the time to mingle with two Big Time Supporters of The DemonRat Party of Abortion, Perversion & destruction of The USA Republic plus the godless Global Re-Set ;-(
https://people.com/lauren-sanchez-jeff-bezos-meet-the-pope-8696184
Bezos owned WashPo DemonRat Party Mouth Organ … In-Action!
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2024/08/17/washington-post-ads-twitter-tout-stories-promote-kamala-attack-trump
Some Naughty Words but much Truth here:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251865
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-shocking-things-jd-vance-did-in-high-school
https://catholicvote.org/read
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://www.newsmax.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://townhall.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day! 😉
https://catholicexchange.com/title-twentieth-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-why-would-he-want-us-to-eat-his-flesh-jesuss-eucharistic-congress-4
https://onepeterfive.com/diebus-saltem-dominicis-13th-sunday-after-pentecost-be-a-backwardist/
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/the-maturity-of-the-expositions-of-the-psalms/
https://spiritdailyblog.com/afterlife/50238
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-8-18-2024/
https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/17/democratic-national-convention-attendees-free-vasectomies-abortions-chicago-planned-parenthood/
Rev Billy is Spinnin’ in his grave. I’m sure the Radical Marxist Rainbow “Catholic” Contingent will expose THEMselves at de ChiTown DemonRat Convention plus get wide Media exposure from ABCNNBCBS-PBS/NYT/WashPo ;-(
https://www.christianpost.com/news/billy-grahams-granddaughter-joins-evangelicals-for-harris-call.html
https://catholicherald.co.uk/exclusive-vatican-wrong-to-open-door-to-euthanasia-says-lcp-whistleblower/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/08/18/why-did-barack-obama-and-eric-holder-select-kamala/#more-263371
https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/16/j6-praying-grandma-slammed-with-six-figure-fine-and-probation-for-walking-around-capitol/
https://justthenews.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://townhall.com/
https://pjmedia.com/
https://www.newsmax.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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