The Revolting Jezebel Revolt

By Charlie Johnston

Omaha, Nebraska – I departed home yesterday for my latest missionary tour. About 70 miles northeast of Denver, a prairie fire swept across the road just before Wiggins, Colorado. After sitting for 15 minutes in the backed-up traffic, my GPS announced that the road ahead was now closed. Taking a gander at the median, it looked doable, so I pulled across it figuring my GPS would come up with an alternate route. Sure enough, after taking me through five miles of dirt road, it delivered me to the secondary road I had walked on as I approached Denver over 12 years ago on my pilgrimage. I thought, wow, if I went through a time warp that took me back, I might see my younger (and skinnier) self walking towards me. The only major thing I went by that I had a vivid memory of before getting back on I-76 past the fire was a huge sheep lot. A little over 12 years ago it took me the better part of a day to get past the smothering, pungent smell of the thing. I understood then why so many Bishops are not that anxious to get the smell of the sheep on them. So much for my brief trip down memory lane.

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Shortly after I arrived in Denver, the late Fr. Regis Scanlon became a dear friend. He was not a man given to mysticism. We worked together on a few very practical projects. About a year after I got here, the story of my mystical experiences went viral. Fr. Regis, with a big grin, told me he got asked about me six or seven times a day – and always said the same thing: “I don’t know about his prophecies, but he’s not nuts!” A few years before he died Fr. Regis did start delving into some overtly mystical events – particularly the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, which he wrote about in several publications.

One of the pleasing aspects of my work is that I have chatted with a host of Priests throughout the country who, having previously avoided all discussions of mysticism, enjoy exploring the subject with me. I think the phenomenon is similar to when I first ran a statewide Republican primary for a Senate seat. Everybody told me that the establishment, including all county chairmen, were the committed enemies of conservatives and could not be reasoned with. While keeping that in mind, I did sustained outreach anyway. It turned out that, at the county chairman level, at least, most were not enemies at all. In fact, quite a few of them relished the meaning that principled initiatives added to the daily grind of wheeling and dealing. They just were not fans of the sort of suicide missions most conservatives insist on instead of actual campaigns. With carefully crafted, coherent campaign plans that were vigorously prosecuted, I had a LOT of conservatives jumping on board – along with more than a few RINOS. Turns out that not being a wild-eyed nut opens a lot of doors with people who are interested, but don’t want to be smeared as a fanatic.

Six or seven years ago, a very well-known Priest, who is not given to mysticism, was giving me a ride back to my hotel after an event. We were discussing the rapidly degenerating culture we inhabit. I said, at one point, that when the men in a society go bad it is terrible, but that when the women in a society go bad, it is downright horrifying. The Priest turned to me and animatedly exclaimed that he had been wondering for some time if the spirit of Jezebel had been unleashed upon us. We had a lively, speculative conversation about how things could have gotten so culturally sick so quickly. In the years since then, I have often thought of that talk. The Old Testament Jezebel turned her followers away from worship of the one God, Yahweh. She promoted worship of Baal and Asherah. Baal was a sort of weather God who brought storms, lightning and destruction. Mainly, his followers prayed that he would pass them by. Asherah was a hypersexualized goddess or cultic object which worshipped trees – in part, by all manner of fornication and perversion. The hypersexuality, which treated children as an unwelcome nuisance, was at the edge of overt child sacrifice. Serial perversion, itself, became a substitute for meaning – and of course, welcomed in a progressive storm of destruction. Of all the demons running rampant in our world, I have come to think the spirit of Jezebel is, indeed, prominent among them.

Even among the most secularized people there is a profound longing for meaning in life. It is, perhaps, the most profound of all longings. St. Augustine, who spent his young adulthood in lechery and ambition said (and I paraphrase) “There is a hole in our hearts that only God can fill and make whole – and we are restless until we rest in Him.” Those who don’t find their meaning in God adopt cheap – and sometimes horrifying – substitutes in their restless effort to fill that hole. In our time, the restless search for power and dominance over others is the de facto substitute. But it can be much worse. Witness the Manson Family.

The Manson Family was comprised, mainly of young girls in their teens into their 20s who were completely devoted to Charles Manson – so devoted that they brutally murdered strangers at his command and rejoiced in the savagery. The most murderous of these women were girls who, just a few years earlier, had literally been church choirgirls, Campfire Girls, and members of their high school homecoming courts.

I have long been fascinated by – and study – severely aberrant behavior. I read people pretty well and pretty quickly. But the seriously aberrant mystify me, particularly sadistic serial killers. I cannot get to the heart of them, but I try to see how they impact those around them. In the case of the Manson girls, there was always some serious breach with their families during adolescence. Do not think that this was always – or even usually – the parents’ fault. Much of it was youthful rebellion that led to a sort of nomadic wandering, both in the streets and in the restless search for meaning. The vast emptiness in their hearts that was only being made bigger by promiscuity, drugs, and alcohol came to an end for many when they met and began following Manson. Their agonized search for meaning showed, as many claimed to believe he was Jesus Christ. What an absurdity! They knew enough to know that Christ is the exemplar of the good, but devoted themselves so mindlessly to a man who validated their basest appetites that they happily committed savage murders for him. So strong is our need for meaning and our capacity for self-delusion that we can embrace even the most raw savagery and justify it to try to fill that hole.

Polls consistently show that single women of child-bearing age rate the availability of abortion as their greatest need. That got me to thinking of the Manson girls. What vicious turn has our culture taken when the maternal instinct is superseded by a homicidal instinct? Yet despite the reality that such single women have almost universal access to abortion in the first trimester, they constitute one of the most miserable, angry, unfulfilled cohorts in human history. Why is that?

The devil has unleashed one of his most brilliant gambits. All the modern cultural leaders insist that a woman finds her highest dignity by imitating men. Choosing to be a homemaker is greeted with a sneer. It is only in the job market that women can find dignity and worth, the cultural arbiters say. Alas, when they arrive women find what men have long known: the task of the modern day hunter/gatherer is not particularly glamorous. It is a scramble and a grind. The cultural gatekeepers say that women must imitate the worst qualities of the worst men – to be sleazy and promiscuous without consequence – to be truly equal. And they find, as many men have over the ages, that it is a formula for unfulfilled misery. I once sat and comforted a man I worked with – a cheerful Don Juan, macho man who had often mocked me for my more traditional ways (even when sexually active, I was never promiscuous). He had privately confessed to me that he was empty, bereft of love and companionship – and miserable. He desperately wanted to know how to build a real life. He was crying for much of our talk. I figuratively held his hand for weeks as he tried to embark on building a life that was previously alien to him, but that he desperately wanted. To everyone else, he was still the slick Lothario. All other folks saw was that he was off his game – not chasing after everything in a skirt. Always, what starts as irresponsible fun, if pursued to its logical end, leads to desperate, unremitting misery. And our cultural arbiters are telling young women that this dead end is the path of “dignity and autonomy.”

The invasion into women’s sports by men pretending to be women has dramatically put the lie to fantasies of “gurl power,” with cinematic 110-lb. waifs tossing around 220-lb. men like rag dolls. Physically speaking, women ARE the weaker sex. So what? Why is biological reality such an offense? Women are NOT the dumber sex. For millennia the sexes have been complementary. Yes, there have been societies where men abused their superior physical strength to oppress women. There still are – primarily in Islamic countries. Paradoxically, most of the gurl power brigades are allies with these countries that still oppress women. In the English-speaking world, it is primarily Great Britain that was the most misogynist – prompting philosopher John Stuart Mill to publish a treatise denouncing it in 1869. In America, historically, the differences between men and women have been used primarily as an efficient division of labor rather than rank oppression. Even what is regarded as the most patriarchal period and section of American history, the antebellum south, turns out to be largely a matriarchal society when studied closely. Yes, the men conquered the land and dominated politics, but the women ruled the home with an iron fist (though in a delightfully velvet glove). Traditional southern women are past masters at making men think they are in charge while exercising the final word.

Interestingly, current polling shows 56 percent of married women supporting Donald Trump while 68 percent of single women support Kamala Harris. The left says that is because married women just do what their husbands tell them to do. Really?! That shows how little leftists know – or care – about family life. The truth is that, in a healthy relationship there is an ebb and flow, a give and take, in a real partnership. It is immensely rewarding and brings a great sense of security. You do not have to grapple with your toughest sorrows, your greatest challenges and your quiet fears alone. Are there misogynists out there. Yes, there are. But there are also misandrists (haters of men) – and there are more of them today than there are misogynists. Both are pathologies that make happiness and fulfillment nearly impossible. Yet while misogyny is rightly denounced, the cultural arbiters encourage misandry as the key to feminine empowerment. The term, itself, is a deception. Empowerment assumes victimhood – and makes every slight, every misunderstanding, every normal disagreement into victimization. No one can live like that. I knew real survivors – survivors of the holocaust and of Soviet purges. One woman who worked with me saw her husband and her son murdered in front of her by Soviet agents in Hungary. She, like every other genuine survivor I ever knew, fought with vigor and resolve against actual oppression, but refused to hate. I was the manager of a hotel in which the woman I speak was a housekeeping supervisor. All the girls in housekeeping sought her counsel and confided in her because of her wisdom and kindness. None of them knew of her tragic history. She only told me because of a deep conversation we had one day (people tell me stuff. I pray it is because they sense I am a safe repository for their deepest sorrows and fears) and she sought – and got – my pledge not to tell anyone about it. Those who have survived real hardship and victimization tend to be marked with a serene largeness of spirit, not a shrieking sense of ever-unfulfilled entitlement…and real gratitude for small things.

I think modern cultural arbiters have set suggestible women on a self-fulfilling death spiral of despair and anger. The very things these arbiters say will empower their victims (and yes, women who have bought into this toxic misandry are victims – just not the way they think they are) are what leads them to bitter self-destruction. And, Lord, we need genuinely strong women! If men, at their best, are the conquerors of the land and providers women, at their best, determine and are keepers of the culture. The love of a good, strong woman is what motivates a man to give his all to conquer the wilderness and build a place for his family. The love of a good, strong man is what motivates a woman to make a joyful home and culture. Paradoxically, perhaps, it is not when we are looking inward to determine how we should be served that we find joy and fulfillment: it is when we are looking outward to see how we can serve that joy, fulfillment, and meaning take up residence in our hearts.

As we navigate the treacherous waters of this great cultural storm that has overtaken us we must, indeed, fight against the assaults the modern-day visigoths bring against us. But we must be aware that, while much of the screeching is, indeed, a hostile assault on the entire concept of the family, some of it is the misdirected anguished cry of people searching for meaning. We must offer resistance to depravity while also offering the hope of a better way. I have often said that nine times out of ten a cynic is just a disillusioned idealist looking for a reason to believe. It is our duty, under God, to be that reason while simultaneously battling all efforts to kill that hope.

The spirit of Jezebel is warring throughout the world, particularly against the very women who create and sustain the culture. Let us resolve together to crush the death spiral of despair this dark spirit brings. We must exorcise this demonic spirit that is wreaking so much havoc against us all. (Why is a herd of swine never handy when you need it?)

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Beckita and a few others have suggested that I need to revisit my warnings of a decade ago about how, in extreme circumstances and dire emergencies, we must consider doing things we would otherwise never consider in order to survive and revive the culture. Below I copy an answer I gave Beckita in an email on the subject:

“I have been edging up to and even dancing around this topic a bit already. Actually, it is the single biggest holdup to finishing the manual. I am trying to calibrate this just right. We may literally have to form battalions and such. I want to have the mechanisms in place to do that quickly without prodding for it. We know that there are many overly excitable sorts out there who will hear a dog whistle at even the plainest instructions and jump the gun. And there are others who so desperately cling to normalcy bias that they will struggle to respond when doom is at their doorstep. I feel kind of like Mel Gibson in the first major battle in Braveheart where he had designed very long pikes and was telling his people, while the English were charging, “Hold. Hold….hold!” If they lifted the pikes too soon the English would see the gambit and be able to avoid them. If they waited too long, they would be overrun by the English calvary and their pikes splintered. I have seldom had a situation where timing was so critical to everything.”

I do not expect this election to bring resolution, but decisive confrontation. It is the fundamental reality we face in the immediate future. How we handle that will be dispositive in how – and how effectively – we get back to a culture that brings life rather than a warring, disjointed culture of despair and darkness.

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A couple of years ago I unleashed a full-throated blast at Madison, Wisconsin Bishop Donald Hying. It was over what I considered the entirely political (but thankfully, mercifully brief) suppression of Fr. Richard Heilman. I am not an acolyte of the nonsense that one must never criticize a Bishop or Priest. But I also am a big advocate of the need to recognize good, solid work.

Bishop Hying was the first Bishop I saw to publicly and clearly denounce the disgusting, blasphemous parody of the Last Supper opening to the Paris Olympics. In the month or so since then, I have talked to several friends and allies in Wisconsin who have told me, independently, of how Bishop Hying has quietly taken the lead in supporting and advocating for several important orthodox initiatives.

He probably doesn’t care for me anymore than he did when I took the shot, but my regard for Bishop Hying has gone up significantly these last few months. He has been a courageous and great defender of the faith – both publicly and privately. I wanted you to know.

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49 thoughts on “The Revolting Jezebel Revolt

  1. Many a gem of insight here, Charlie. I hope and pray that our readers – me too! –will spend time in contemplation with these thoughts you’ve expressed, the better to be open to Holy Spirit’s guidance for each of us in whatever we’re particularly called to do. And there is s.o. m.u.c.h. to do as we “… offer resistance to depravity while also offering the hope of a better way. “ Whew boy!! Absolutely a LOT of wood to chop.

    PS How fitting is the icon: “Our Lady of the New Advent.” I’d love to see an iconographer write a “Mother of the New Dawn” icon.

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  2. Hello Charlie. I want to send you a homily by Saint John Chrysostom, bishop. But first, if you pray the Divine Office for today it is the Second Reading! “Life to me means Christ, and death is gain”. I think you do pray the Divine Office but if not, let me know so I can send it to you!!! Powerful given our future!!! Conni

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      1. Hello,

        Wishing all a blessed weekend. Longtime follower, commented maybe 7 years ago, still following and just joined Corac.
        Thank you for everything and God Bless, sorry Im nervous about posting

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  3. Great piece here Charlie!!! I haven’t always gotten things right but for quite a few decades now I just shake my head at the number of women who work outside the home, bring their most cherished possession to people who could care a less about them, and women invading men’s sports!!! It just drives me nuts!!! I feel so sorry for everyone because no one is happy! You nailed it again Charlie!!! Bravo!

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  4. “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires. Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.  And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will”. (2Timothy3)

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  5. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS 😉

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  6. I love that you wrote about this necessary, but sad, situation. It had to be over 20 years ago that the Lord showed me in prayer that the evil one was repeating his Garden of Eden seduction all over again. He has targeted women in a huge way, as you point out. As a conservative, very traditional woman, I agree with my husband that (many) women will ruin the outcome of this election. We, here at ASOH, know that there is no savior coming, but it sure would be nice to have a fair election, without fraud, to elect someone who seems to make sense!

    I had to chuckle about your trip past the sheep lot. It reminded me of driving near Assisi in Italy many decades ago, stuck on a dirt road waiting for sheep to get by so I could continue driving.

    God bless us all and give us strength, as we keep Mama’s mantle around us!!

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  7. thank you Charlie for this post. You have framed this issue in a way that brings light and clarity – and exposes the spiritual component brilliantly. I believed the false glitter of the world that being a surgeon would bring me great fulfillment. I prioritized my patients over my children when they were small. Praise be to God that He opened my eyes with the COVID pandemic so that I could fully see the error of my ways. He has given my children and me the opportunity to make up for the moth eaten years of the past, and for that I am eternally grateful.

    Blessed Mother, please wrap your mantle around this generation – boys and girls, young men and women who are being swept away by the lies of the enemy. God, please bring our world to our knees so that we turn away from what is evil and seek you above everything else. Have mercy on me, a sinner.

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    1. Thank you for this, Kate. I very much appreciate the highlighting of the many career options for both men and women. (Kate, by the way, was one of my trusted doctors during my deadly battle with Covid a couple of years back). I do not understand, at all, the denigration of child-rearing as something “less than…” though. As most know, I was a full-time single father – and my now 37-year-old son was still in diapers when it happened.

      A year or so ago, a fellow was talking to me about all the roles I have played for so many in my life. He asked me what was my favorite, how I privately defined myself. I told him immediately that it was as a Dad. Nothing else has ever been so gloriously rewarding, sometimes so intensely painful, or provided me with so much lasting joy and meaning. If I could do only one thing with my whole life, that is what it would be. I remember once, my son broke his wrist at a baseball game while I was at work. I met him and his grandma at the hospital. He was laying on a table and had not made a complaint. When I walked, he silently teared up as I took his good hand in mine and held it until his other was set and wrapped. Such a brave little fellow he was – and is.

      Fortunately, my first spiritual director, the late Msgr. Bill Stetson, was not just a brilliant intellectual, but a profoundly wise man, as well. He was the first person I told of my mystical experiences. He was deeply skeptical (until he figured out I was not trying to convince him of what I saw, but desperately hoping he could give me a way out.) He told me in late ’96 that he had come to believe that I did, indeed, have a unique mission from God, but added that that was NOT where my salvation lay. My salvation, he said, was dependent on how I cared for the little souls God gave into my care for a time. How wonderfully true that is!

      When modern nabobs treat with utter contempt the most important and rewarding job any of us can live, while simultaneously elevating the most trivial, mundane things as the pinnacle of meaning, is it any wonder we are so messed up – and that so many are leading such anguished lives of quiet desperation? To paraphrase the old song, we are looking for meaning in all the wrong places – while it lies in plain sight right before us. Thank you.

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      1. thank you Charlie, but I must correct you- I was not the doctor who brought you back from the brink. That doc (Dr B) is an amazing doctor and mother!

        God opened my eyes once I repented of using contraception – as a convert, I never questioned the use of this poison before entering the Church. Once I realized that beyond its shiny exterior, a great and ugly evil lurked, I was able to received a torrent of graces that have changed my life and that of my family forever.

        I now ponder what is going on in our society. How many people are prevented from receiving the healing power from the Sacraments because we are walking in darkness? That our minds are clouded, yet we do not even realize it?

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        1. I’m finally upright today, Kate, and was just going to send Charlie an email after checking in to moderate comments. 🙂 Honestly, it is such an easy mix up between you and Dr. B, mainly because so much of those 21 days that Charlie was in Missoula and under my care, he was in another plane of existence, sometimes intensely contending the virus and sometimes just floating in an ethereal zone, as his body was recovering from what looked like his ticket to, as St. Philip Neri would say, Paradiso!!

          Dr. B IS an amazing doctor and mother who freely offered all she could as she ministered from afar to the situation at hand with Charlie… and so.are.you., Kate, an amazing doctor and mother in your own calling and ways of living as you balance your professional, personal and family life.

          I checked in to respond to your initial comment by thanking you for your candor. It takes courage – and it’s beautiful – to witness to personal conversion and change because this kind of testimony infuses courage in others to do the same. And when I think of all the lives you’ve touched because of the experiences which have filled you with wisdom, I think of you walking in the footsteps of Christ as you carried your own crosses. Just as His wounds were transformed into Life for all who would receive the graces flowing from Him, I see how your own healed wounds have been transformed by Him as He continues to bring new life to others through you. How blessed are the people who will awaken from the darkness in which they now sleep and find you at their sides, ministering to them in both spiritual and corporal ways as we make our way though what will be in this process of purification and a New Beginning!!

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    2. There is nothing more fulfilling than having a child and being a parent. It certainly is a lot of work, and there are no manuals that come with raising a child, but it is the most important and rewarding thing I have every done. I agree with Katea.

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  8. Charlie, I come at this issue from another viewpoint: that of my dearly departed mother, who would have been 87 this year.

    She grew up poor, from a poor immigrant Polish family. She graduated high school in 1955. The message for women was be homemakers. Nothing else. There was no other option. She however didn’t want to marry at 18. She had to work to provide for her mother who didn’t speak English. So off to NYC she went for eight years until she retired to be a homemaker at 29.

    I followed in her footsteps, working for a while but ultimately staying home for 18 years.

    Staying home is best for the children in my opinion, but it shouldn’t be the default. That’s what’s going on in many traditional religious households. That’s the real issue.

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  9. In 1992 at my 10 year high school reunion (long time ago) they asked the women from our class if anyone wanted to get up and say what they did for a job/career. There was going to be a vote by the crowds reaction to see which job was the most interesting. There was even a prize. I went up there along with about 5-8 others. There were teachers and such and even someone who owned a sky diving school at a small local airport. When it was my turn at the mic I stated that I was a house wife. I could feel the looks of surprise and confusion from the other women as if to say why are you up here? I have to admit at that moment I thought the same thing. To my surprise the crowd erupted with applause. The “house wife” took the prize. I was proud of myself for getting up there and representing. I don’t think the “house wife” would take that prize in todays society.

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    1. It would still take the prize from the children who benefit so greatly from it. Though she has a little business making hand-designed religious plaques, my daughter-in-law is a housewife…a homemaker, actually. You can see the results in the joy and laughter of their four kids and the whole household. I spend most of December there each year – and it is one of my greatest joys. Shoot, the kids don’t think it is Christmas until “Pops” shows up. (Personally, I don’t think it is Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi Tower.) She is one of the best Moms I have ever known. Their kids hit the jackpot!

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  10. I like Homemaker better myself too. Thanks for the great article and reminding me what an honorable roll all homemakers play. And for what it’s worth I can picture in my mind Hans Gruber’s fall. Epic!

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  11. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day! 😉

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    I don’t buy Rapture business but Hal speaks truth.

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    Trump is rich/influential enough to know who, exactly, The THEY are behind his/supporters political persecutions …….. and the Assassination attempt!

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/melania-trump-blasts-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid-serves-warning-all-americans

    The DemonRats w/THEIR confederates in corrupt Uni-Party DC, BlueStates & Media have done plenty of Nasty Deeds and gotten away with it. Blue States have thumbed THEIR noses at Federal Drug, Immigration & ??? Laws plus have dismantled The Bill of Rights …. and Gotten Away With It!! THEY have politically persecuted Trump, his Family & his supporters ….. and Gotten Away With It!! THEY have stolen Elections and flooded the entire USA with millions of Illegal Alien “Democrat Voters” … and Gotten Away With It. ALL in the belief that THEY will rule indefinitely and NEVER be held to accounts! THEY are close, VERY CLOSE! ……. but …. THEY are now wondering … What If!!?? THEY know that THEY/confederates could never withstand the Witch Hunt LawFare scrutiny that THEY have inflicted on others!

    Ya better believe that Dirty ex-presidents and lesser officials are worried ….. and THEY will do ANYTING to avoid Justice!! …. Get Ready!! ….. for serious Global unpleasantness!!!

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/15/peter-thiel-gives-his-perspectives-on-election-2024-and-various-geopolitical-aspects/#more-264099

    https://townhall.com/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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    1. Yep, Judy,

      Without H2O you are dead in Five Days!

      My Ol’ Marine Uncle Bob once quipped: “With Water and Ammo, Ya can get the rest.”

      Cut off the H2O in any Urban Area (really anywhere) and Ya got a concrete desert filled with ….. Serious Unpleasantness!!!!!!! ;-(

      One Gallon of H2O per person per day to Survive …. Ya got some?

      GOD SAVE ALL HERE!

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  12. Jesus, I Trust In You ….. Happy Day! 😉

    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/if-one-person-returns-sydney-archbishop

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259295/body-of-armenian-patriarch-on-path-to-possible-sainthood-returns-to-lebanon

    https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/09/the-pope-and-other-religions

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/picking-our-poison-with-pope-francis

    https://catholicexchange.com/the-catholic-antidote-for-narcissistic-abuse-modern-day-witchcraft/

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/fruits-vatican-beijing-agreement-just-facts/

    https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/the-moral-cowardice-of-european-christian-leaders/

    https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2024/09/16/the-pope-was-wrong-now-what/

    https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/another-trump-assassination-plot-the-medias-double-standard-strikes-again

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/09/16/hillary-clinton-trumps-politics-of-hate-and-division-puts-americas-security-in-danger/

    YEP … GE OUT of Blue States or Red State Urban Areas! ………  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259317/families-are-moving-out-of-blue-states-and-heading-for-red-and-purple-researchers-find

    https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/09/16/jewish-groups-issue-travel-warning-about-massachusetts-county-where-man-charged-in-self-defense-shooting-n1226239

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/16/transition-leader-howard-lutnick-explains-president-trump-economic-policy-tariffs-and-energy-inflation/

    https://catholicvote.org/

    https://stream.org/category/us/

    https://www.lifenews.com/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258lvumk.1oc6/95df4e34

    https://floppingaces.net/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  13. Jesus, I Trust In You ….. Happy Day! 😉

    https://catholicexchange.com/mother-angelica-and-cardinal-burke-two-miracles/

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259015/5-hispanic-priests-who-are-evangelizing-millions-on-social-media

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/an-open-letter-to-conservative-dads

    https://catholicexchange.com/focusing-on-our-goal/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/what-the-pope-wanted-to-say-probably

    https://spiritdaily.org/blog/spiritual-warfare/exorcist-says-all-fully-possessed-have-false-religious-visions

    https://catholicstand.com/short-answers-does-possession-of-statues-violate-the-first-commandment/

    https://www.thesaintmaker.com/blog/a-modern-catholics-complete-guide-to-ember-days

    https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/this-is-the-largest-statue-of-the-virgin-mary-in-the-world-which-is-in-argentina

    Lies, Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” & Assassins is ALL THEY got!
    THEY are going full Joe Goebbels & Joe Stalin this election! Win or Lose THEY will unleash THEIR BLM, ANTIFA, HAMAS and Latin Gangs … NATIONWIDE! …… https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/11/25-lies-kamala-harris-told-in-her-debate-against-trump/

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/18/professional-political-gaslighting-from-the-white-house-press-secretary/

    https://www.newoxfordreview.org/daily-news/

    https://www.lifenews.com/

    https://stream.org/category/us/

    https://townhall.com/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

    https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/

    https://floppingaces.net/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  14. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS 😉

    https://ewtn.co.uk/chpop-incredible-archeologists-uncover-steps-in-location-jesus-healed-the-blind-man-in-jerusalem/

    95% of the Election Interference .. & FRAUD is orchistrated by the godless Global Left (think Soros/WEF/UN), DemonRat Party USA, THEIR Media and corrupt Uni-Party DC Swamp Scum like Mueller & Billary!

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/russia-election-interference-robert-mueller

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/18/hillary-clinton-wants-to-jail-americans-for-misinformation-lets-start-with-her/

    https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-rising-threat-to-free-speech/

    https://www.declassified.live/p/my-latest-for-real-clear-investigations-e37

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13864849/Cops-explosives-car-near-Trump-rally-Long-Island-second-assassination-attempt.html

    https://galganov.com/2024/09/15/the-rats-are-looking-to-leave-the-sinking-ship/

    https://x.com/MrReaganUSA/status/1816826660089733492

    https://x.com/marionawfal/status/1836203232328134753

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/09/18/the-revolution-comes-for-those-who-cant-believe-it-it-always-does/

    England & it’s Old Colonies have become Demon Possessed … including parts of USA ;-( ….. https://www.infowars.com/posts/canadian-military-wanted-to-investigate-removal-of-tampons-from-male-washrooms-as-hate-crime-report

    https://feministlegal.org/counsellor-faces-tribunal-for-opposing-male-to-female-breastfeeding-claims/

    https://www.americanthinker.com/

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258lw3j1.1l92/f5807fe6

    https://newsbusters.org/

    https://www.newsmax.com/

    https://freebeacon.com/

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

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  15. Remarks made by Francis favor the a plan for the new world order and one world religion. He is becoming a real poster boy for their plans, I think.

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  16. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PM 😉

    https://cforc.com/2024/09/stmichaelbillboardcancelled/

    https://patriotpost.us/alexander/110355-the-demos-demolition-of-our-constitution-2024-09-18

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/18/fox-news-cuts-off-pundit-for-outlining-opinion-democrat-party-wants-trump-dead/

    Yep! … Watch all interviews!: ….. https://rumble.com/v5fcckt-ryan-wesley-routh-is-a-patsy-groomed-by-the-cia-and-trained-at-fort-bragg-e.html?e9s=src_v1_upp

    https://rumble.com/v5f7ns5-putin-is-preparing-a-massive-invasion-to-end-this-war-col.-douglas-macgrego.html?e9s=src_v1_upp

    https://theacru.org/2024/09/18/the-delusional-and-dangerous-hypocrisy/

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?538475-1/senator-tuberville-news-conference-secret-service-funding

    Quote from: thedoc00 September 18, 2024 9:22 am Reply to  TwoLaine

    “A just a small note to the “worried senators” …. there was an interview with the “Acting” Secret Service Director just few days ago … where he claims the Agency is 400-500 FIELD agents SHORT and the agency has ENOUGH BUDGET to fund them. Just a minor point. [The secret service is AUTHORIZED about 7,000 personnel.] Yet somehow the ranks of 87,000 IRS agents are being filled and other paramilitary branches of the Executive Branch (except the DoD and Secret Service) all seem to be topping off manpower just fine. Kind of interesting … ya think.

    One would think the the staff of the good senators would have noticed these small details … if an old guy just scanning headlines found the info. ///sarc”

    https://patriotpost.us/digests/110354-mid-day-digest-2024-09-18

    https://www.theblaze.com/

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/

    https://revolver.news/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  17. Jesus, I Trust In You ….. Happy Day! 😉

    https://catholicexchange.com/christs-love-dissolves-our-shame/

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kamenita-vrata-our-lady-of-the-stone-gate

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-personally-invites-pro-lgbt-fr-james-martin-cardinal-cupich-to-october-synod

    https://catholicexchange.com/benedict-xvi-an-apology/

    https://www.catholicleague.org/beware-psephologists-during-an-election-season/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/this-just-in-language-grammar-and-kamalas-deal

    https://religionunplugged.com/news/2024/9/11/meet-the-swiss-guard-a-history-of-protecting-the-pope-for-5-centuries

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/dishonest-agreement

    https://irishrover.net/2024/09/former-planned-parenthood-executive-featured-in-inauguration-keynote/

    https://spiritdailyblog.com/news/vatican-approves-devotion-to-medjugorje

    https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/our-out-of-control-federal-law-enforcement-agencies/

    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/the-fda-simplifies-experimentation?publication_id=870364

    https://tennesseestar.com/policy/despite-billions-in-backing-studies-show-diversity-trainings-just-arent-working/dcnf/2024/09/15/

    https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1836429342806806920

    https://catholicvote.org/read

    https://www.lifenews.com/

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258lwdy6.1s72/883a955c

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    https://stream.org/category/us/

    https://thefederalist.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  18. Jesus, I Trust In You ….. Happy Day! 😉

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/20/45-days/#more-264266

    https://catholicexchange.com/the-mirror-on-the-wall-in-defense-of-human-dignity/

    https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2024/09/19/weekly-news-roundup-september-19th-2024/

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259369/new-pilgrimage-brings-christians-muslims-and-jews-together-in-holy-land-at-abraham-house

    https://spiritdailyblog.com/archives/50547

    https://onepeterfive.com/vatican-sort-of-approves-medjugorje/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-recreational-catholicism

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/free-the-uhuru-three

    YEP! …… https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/09/20/mad-to-the-max/

    THEY have done NOTHING to address this danger in the 20 YEARS since THEY became aware of the Danger!

    https://sonar21.com/an-emp-attack-on-the-u-s-power-grids-and-critical-national-infrastructure/

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/09/19/fcc-commissioner-slams-biden-harris-for-focusing-on-climate-change-dei-and-not-underserved-areas-n2645046

    https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/09/18/to_many_it_looks_like_the_justice_dept_is_honoring_political_neutrality_in_the_breach_again_this_election_year_1058691.html

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/09/20/mad-to-the-max/

    https://floppingaces.net/2024/09/20/the-week-in-radical-leftism-the-nation-edition-2/

    https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-promises-next-trump-assassin-will-be-a-woman-of-color

    https://www.lifenews.com/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    https://www.breitbart.com/

    https://newsbusters.org/

    https://pjmedia.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  19. Jesus, I Trust In You ….. Happy  St Matt & Fall Day! 😉

    https://catholicexchange.com/i-desire-mercy-not-sacrifice-a-reflection-for-the-feast-of-saint-matthew

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/sinning-against-witness-martyrs/

    https://stpaulcenter.com/babylonian-exile/

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259395/catholics-for-harris-walz-online-meeting-downplays-abortion-concerns-among-faithful

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/abolish-the-family-upenn-writing-course-touts-feminist-slogan/

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/faith-in-time-socio-political-disintegration/

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/21/alinsky-and-lawfare-in-2024-election/

    https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/dont_trust_the_government_not_with_your_privacy_property_or_your_freedoms

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/19/fbi-says-iran-hacked-trump-campaign-then-sent-information-to-biden-and-harris/#more-264250

    https://www.glennbeck.com/glenn-tv/globalists-cannot-trump-win-november

    https://www.glennbeck.com/glenn-beck/anti-trump-media-assassination-attempt

    Skip to 2:20 point to avoid prelim chatter …… https://allenwest.substack.com/p/secret-service-scrutiny-after-2nd-trump-attempt

    https://reclaimthenet.org/senators-big-tech-content-moderation-info-sharing-2024-election

    https://amgreatness.com/

    https://townhall.com/

    https://justthenews.com/

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

    https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/

    https://www.lifenews.com/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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