THE NEW AMERICA LAST POLICYA BLUEPRINT FOR FAILUREBY E.P. UNUMDecember 27, 2020
Listed below is a snapshot summary of just a handful of the items contained in the so-called Covid Relief Bill the Congress sent to the President for approval. When you review it, keep in mind that this is only a very brief summary. The items contained in it read like a Santa Claus wish list for democrats and the bill itself has very little to do with Covid Relief:
DOMESTIC FUNDING:Kennedy Center                               $     26,400,000Smithsonian Museum                        $ 1,000,000,000National Art Gallery                           $   154,000,000National Art & Humanities                $   167,000,000Woodrow Wilson Center                 $     14,000,000US Postal Service                                $20,000,000,000U.S. Dept of Education                       $30,000,000,000Transit Infrastructure                         $25,000,000,000Amtrak                                              $ 1,018,000,000Public Broadcasting System               $    300,000,000

FOREIGN AID:Egypt                                               $ 1,300,000,000Sudan                                                $   700,000,000Ukraine                                             $   453,000,000Israel                                                 $   500,000,000Nepal                                               $   130,000,000Burma                                              $   135,000,000Cambodia                                          $     85,500,000Pakistan                                            $     25,000,000Asia R.I.A                                         $ 1,400,000,000
AMERICAN PEOPLECitizens                                            $ 600 one time payment
Is there a better illustration than this of just how dysfunctional and incoherent our government has become? 
The above contains $4.6 Billion in direct foreign aid to some nations that actually hate us. In addition, government financial commitments to domestic programs (only those cited above; there are many, many more) total $57.4 Billion. But none of these financial spending commitments includes anything for the American people or for small businesses who have borne the brunt of the sacrifice and all of the hardships associated with the Chinese Covid Crisis! Moreover, it begs the question: what the hell does any of this spending have to do with Emergency Covid Relief?
What does this Covid Relief Bill provide to American families and businesses? All of $600 per individual making less than $75,000 in Adjusted Gross Income or $150,000 per family. It also extends unemployment compensation of $300 per week up to eight weeks. This is much needed, to be sure, but it is a paltry sum when compared to the huge financial commitments associated with the “pork” elements contained in the Bill.
Pure Covid Relief…direct financial assistance to families and small businesses should have been much larger and, more importantly, agreed to months earlier than December 2020, and quite properly should have been unbundled from a pork-filled democrat/socialist wish list containing billions in wasteful spending and foreign aid. 
It is important to remember that every dollar of government spendingis provided by the taxpayer and our government cannot give money to one groupwithout taking it from another. That is a fact which many in America simply donot understand.Another fact many people do not understand is that all of this spending represents money we do not have! That’s right, we will need to “borrow it” (or print more money). And when you print more money, you diminish its value and create significant debt…and our debt level today is larger than our Gross Domestic Product for the first time in our nation’s history.
Americans are in need. Their need was brought on by a Chinese Virus Caused directly by China. Our Government’s first responsibility is the protection of its people. But sadly, Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic party stonewalled aid to American citizens because they did not want to provide President Trump with yet another victory prior to the Election. And, when pressed to the wall, they reluctantly structured the above Bill, laden with pork, and put it all into a 5,593 page Bill, giving Congress four hours to review and approve it, in much the same way they put forth Obamacare during the Obama Administration. 
If President Trump signs it, the Democrats get all of their pet programs through on the backs of the American people once again. If the President refuses to sign it, the democrats can point a finger at him and accuses him of being uncaring and insensitive to the needs of the American people. Unconscionable. 
Irresponsible. Ask yourself this question: Can you read 5,593 pages of a Bill containing Trillions of Dollars in spending in four hours? I know I could not.
President Trump, to his enduring credit, has refused to sign the Bill. His policy has always been America First, and it has proven to be very successful. This New, America Last, Policy is but the initial step in a series of liberal-socialist actions designed to cripple capitalism and democracy as we know it, and move us closer to the Global New World Order vision, a faux utopian concept espoused by people like Bill Gates, George Soros and other uber-wealthy elites.
The path ahead for us is fraught with danger. But that is nothing new for Americans. It reminds me of a quote from Alexander Hamilton in one of his letters on the topic of our Independence. He wrote: “A nation that prefers disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one” 
Well, Americans have never shrunk from danger. They have never shied away from risk. But, Unless We The People step up and refuse to embrace this strategy, we will find ourselves no longer free. 
Do not for a single moment believe this cannot happen. Do not become complacent or resigned to accept that which you know is wrong. And above all, do not be afraid. I remain hopeful, taking strength from the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
“This great nation will endure, as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my belief that the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance”
Never forget we are Americans!
Never forget we are Americans.

Rip McIntosh

The Next Civil War?Five States Now Considering This Drastic ActionBy: Deep State JournalDecember 22, 2020 America is at an undeniable crossroads. The next year or two may decide if our republic remains intact or not. And some are saying we may soon see the next Civil War as at least five states are ready to take this drastic action. The last year has been filled with everything from a Communist Chinese-released virus to government lockdowns, mask mandates, and massive economic hardships. We’ve seen rioting, violence, arson, looting – even murder – all across the country. Unemployment has skyrocketed as hundreds of thousands of businesses have closed their doors forever due to either unconstitutional government lockdowns or the continued rioting and vandalism. Police and other first responders have been targets of assault and murder by the deadliest domestic terrorist activity in our history. And Antifa and their BLM running buddies show no signs of letting up, even if Joe Biden is able to successfully steal the presidency through widespread voter fraud. As one government official recently told Deep State Journal, “I won’t be surprised if this all ends in another bloody civil war as polarization and vilification by the socialist left continues.” As scary as that sounds, it isn’t too far-fetched. The anger and animosity of the American people have simply boiled over in 2020. In fact, a conservative Congressman recently told this editor that he’s had staff leave his office because they’re just too afraid of the increasing violence against conservatives in our nation’s capital. This comes fresh on the heels of new reports showing a massive migration of Americans from urban cities to places like Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Tennessee, and South Dakota. And now it appears there are at least five states where some kind of secession is being seriously considered. Much like in Europe, separation and secession fever is sweeping across the U.S. as tenacious bands of frustrated rural Americans, suburbanites, libertarians, and conservatives seek to break free from the socialist-leaning states controlled by big cities, leftist mobs, and union boss money. In Virginia, the Democrat majority’s progressive legislation on issues such as gun rights, abortion, taxes, and Right to Work laws has spurred “Vexit” (Virginia exit), a campaign to merge right-leaning rural counties with neighboring West Virginia. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has put out the welcome mat to his neighbors. In fact, a state resolution inviting Virginia counties to cross over has cleared a House committee and enjoys “overwhelming support,” says its sponsor Republican state Rep. Gary Howell. Rick Boyer, a leader of the “Vexit” movement and former member of the Campbell County Board of Supervisors says, “To be honest, if this works — you’ve got a lot of red areas in this country that are totally dominated by a blue metropolis, if it works in Virginia, there’s no reason it can’t reshape the political map.” Ironically, no state has split since West Virginia was carved from Virginia in 1863, but the growing interest comes as those living outside the big cities face increasing government mandates, higher taxes, and restrictions on civil liberties foisted on them by legislatures controlled by the big cities and college towns. G.H. Merritt founded a grassroots nonprofit, New Illinois, in an effort to kick Chicago out of Illinois by using the Article IV process, which will require the consent of the legislature and Congress. “We have operations in 49 of 102 counties,” Ms. Merritt said. “We kind of compare it to the way Solidarity worked in Poland, where the people just decided they were done and transitioned from a communist government to a democracy without having a civil war.”In New York, Divide New York State has long since advocated for three autonomous self-governing regions, which would eliminate the need for Congress to create separate states.  Even more ambitious are two competing plans from California. “New California” seeks to create a 51st state, while “Calexit” wants to make California its own nation. And in Oregon, three counties have already agreed to place a measure on the ballot that would allow local officials to begin negotiations to “relocate the Oregon/Idaho border to make this county a county of Idaho.” So far, several Oregon Republicans have endorsed the idea, including Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger.  Also on board is Idaho Gov. Brad Little. Adam W. Dean, a history professor at the University of Lynchburg in Virginia, said the idea of moving Virginia counties to West Virginia is legal under Article IV, Section III of the U.S. Constitution. The question now is: should any of these efforts take hold, will the federal government “allow” it or will it lead to another Civil War? SOURCE: https://deepstatejournal.com/2020/12/04/the-next-civil-war-five-states-now-considering-this-drastic-action/ RIP MACINTOSH

The Next Civil War?Five States Now Considering This Drastic ActionBy: Deep State JournalDecember 22, 2020 America is at an undeniable crossroads. The next year or two may decide if our republic remains intact or not. And some are saying we may soon see the next Civil War as at least five states are ready to take this drastic action. The last year has been filled with everything from a Communist Chinese-released virus to government lockdowns, mask mandates, and massive economic hardships. We’ve seen rioting, violence, arson, looting – even murder – all across the country. Unemployment has skyrocketed as hundreds of thousands of businesses have closed their doors forever due to either unconstitutional government lockdowns or the continued rioting and vandalism. Police and other first responders have been targets of assault and murder by the deadliest domestic terrorist activity in our history. And Antifa and their BLM running buddies show no signs of letting up, even if Joe Biden is able to successfully steal the presidency through widespread voter fraud. As one government official recently told Deep State Journal, “I won’t be surprised if this all ends in another bloody civil war as polarization and vilification by the socialist left continues.” As scary as that sounds, it isn’t too far-fetched. The anger and animosity of the American people have simply boiled over in 2020. In fact, a conservative Congressman recently told this editor that he’s had staff leave his office because they’re just too afraid of the increasing violence against conservatives in our nation’s capital. This comes fresh on the heels of new reports showing a massive migration of Americans from urban cities to places like Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Tennessee, and South Dakota. And now it appears there are at least five states where some kind of secession is being seriously considered. Much like in Europe, separation and secession fever is sweeping across the U.S. as tenacious bands of frustrated rural Americans, suburbanites, libertarians, and conservatives seek to break free from the socialist-leaning states controlled by big cities, leftist mobs, and union boss money. In Virginia, the Democrat majority’s progressive legislation on issues such as gun rights, abortion, taxes, and Right to Work laws has spurred “Vexit” (Virginia exit), a campaign to merge right-leaning rural counties with neighboring West Virginia. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has put out the welcome mat to his neighbors. In fact, a state resolution inviting Virginia counties to cross over has cleared a House committee and enjoys “overwhelming support,” says its sponsor Republican state Rep. Gary Howell. Rick Boyer, a leader of the “Vexit” movement and former member of the Campbell County Board of Supervisors says, “To be honest, if this works — you’ve got a lot of red areas in this country that are totally dominated by a blue metropolis, if it works in Virginia, there’s no reason it can’t reshape the political map.” Ironically, no state has split since West Virginia was carved from Virginia in 1863, but the growing interest comes as those living outside the big cities face increasing government mandates, higher taxes, and restrictions on civil liberties foisted on them by legislatures controlled by the big cities and college towns. G.H. Merritt founded a grassroots nonprofit, New Illinois, in an effort to kick Chicago out of Illinois by using the Article IV process, which will require the consent of the legislature and Congress. “We have operations in 49 of 102 counties,” Ms. Merritt said. “We kind of compare it to the way Solidarity worked in Poland, where the people just decided they were done and transitioned from a communist government to a democracy without having a civil war.”In New York, Divide New York State has long since advocated for three autonomous self-governing regions, which would eliminate the need for Congress to create separate states.  Even more ambitious are two competing plans from California. “New California” seeks to create a 51st state, while “Calexit” wants to make California its own nation. And in Oregon, three counties have already agreed to place a measure on the ballot that would allow local officials to begin negotiations to “relocate the Oregon/Idaho border to make this county a county of Idaho.” So far, several Oregon Republicans have endorsed the idea, including Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger.  Also on board is Idaho Gov. Brad Little. Adam W. Dean, a history professor at the University of Lynchburg in Virginia, said the idea of moving Virginia counties to West Virginia is legal under Article IV, Section III of the U.S. Constitution. The question now is: should any of these efforts take hold, will the federal government “allow” it or will it lead to another Civil War? SOURCE: https://deepstatejournal.com/2020/12/04/the-next-civil-war-five-states-now-considering-this-drastic-action/ RIP MCINTOSH

Why Sidney Powell’s case before the SCOTUS is a gamechangerEverything up until now has been like the pre-game warmups for the judiciary. Now, it’s game time as Sidney Powell’s case heads to the Supreme Court.
by: JD RuckerNOQ Report  December 17, 2020

A week before Christmas, many Trump supporters have resigned themselves to the notion that this is their last holiday with a duly elected president in the Oval Office. Former Vice President Joe Biden is going to win, they think because everyone from mainstream media to Big Tech has said it will be so. Even many in conservative media have thrown in the towel.
What the left and some on the right don’t want you to know is there’s still time to make things right. The Supreme Court verified that today by docketing attorney Sidney Powell’s case on voter fraud in Michigan.They do not take cases that have no potential of making a difference.
Now, some will say that since the previous Obama-appointed judge who heard the case dismissed it with insults and vitriol, the case is already dead in the water. That’s the narrative you’ll hear from nearly everyone. After all, the Supreme Court wouldn’t even hear a case from the state of Texas. Why would they take a case seriously when a judge labeled it “an amalgamation of theories, conjecture, and speculation”?
The answer lies in what Powell, many pundits, and I have said is the most important information the Supreme Court needs to hear. As “CulturalHusbandry” noted on Twitter, the lawsuit has the forensic audit.
This is what Powell has affectionately referred to as “The Kraken.” The information found on the Dominion Voting Systems servers details clear evidence of massive voter fraud, the type that is capable of flipping an election if allowed to proceed unimpeded. This audit shines a bright spotlight on what every contested state in the nation (and technically every state, period) should be addressing in a hurry, namely the technological side of 2020 election fraud.
With this information before the Supreme Court, we have an opportunity to see how they will treat complex vote-count manipulation issues. Unlike other cases, this one does not dwell on suspicious changes to election protocols or constitutional challenges to COVID-19 lockdown prompts. It deals with hard evidence, and the Supreme Court is much more likely to address an issue of blatant voter-count tampering than whether or not mail-in ballots are fair.
Many have lost faith in the Supreme Court because they declined to hear the last two cases, but those cases had challenges from the start. As I detailed in episodes of the NOQ Report before those ruling came down, I had zero confidence in either of them yielding fruit. The Kraken, on the other hand, will challenge the Supreme Court to make a decision on merits. Sidney Powell’s case has unambiguous merits, particularly as it pertains to Dominion Voting Systems.
Some Trump supporters have little hope that the Supreme Court will act based on the last two cases. But Sidney Powell’s case is 100% different. Unlike the last two, this case has hard evidence of Dominion Voting Systems fraud. 

rip McIntosh

Stolen Election: What YOU Must Do Before Jan. 6, 2021

By Devvy Kidd|December 21st, 2020

SILVIO MATTACHIONE

By: Devvy

Without any doubt whatsoever, the election Nov. 3^rd was an attempted fatal shot fired directly at We The People using rigged electronic voting machines and human resources.  Make no mistake about it.  I’ve been at this for decades like many others I know.  The global power elite were never going to allow Donald Trump a second term. [Must watch: “NSA Whistleblower Kirk Wiebe Warned Congress in March of 2020 About Election Coup & Federal Judge Verifies Existence of HAMMER and Scorecard“]

However, their century long quest to destroy this constitutional republic was in jeopardy.  The Overall Picture:  “According to our records President Trump entertained 1.1 Million supporters at events from Labor Day till the election.  Joe Biden entertained less than 2,000!  Trump’s events this year were even bigger than 2016 and he contracted COVID which kept him home for a couple weeks.  Trump absolutely crushed Biden in rallies – it was as if Biden knew he didn’t need to campaign.”

They cheated big time and got caught.  Since Nov. 4^th, they’ve been rubbing our noses in it with the help of gutless cowards in state legislatures and judges.  Forget the whores in the MSM and that includes FOX.  Forget the ‘know nothing’ screeching sycophants in the Hollywood crowd who are only driving away fans.  Forget the filthy dirty traitors to this country in elected offices who have NO integrity and NO honor.  Anyone who has examined all that has been exposed since Nov. 3^rd cannot come to any other conclusion:  Donald Trump did not lose the election.  The cheating is massive, the evidence is clear and overwhelming.

What we must concentrate on right now is, and I know Christmas is but four days away, stop counting of the Electoral College votes on January 6^th.  I know Christmas will be miserable for tens of millions of Americans because of the obscene lockdown restrictions by tyrannical governors.  But each of us must decide whether or not we will take the time or simply give up.

Yes, there are lawsuits still waiting to be kicked to the curb by gutless, partisan judges.  There is one that might stand a chance of getting heard on the merits of the case and that would be:  Why Sidney Powell’s case before the SCOTUS is a game changer, Dec. 17, 2020:

“What the left and some on the right don’t want you to know is there’s still time to make things right. The Supreme Court verified that today by docketing attorney Sidney Powell’s case on voter fraud in Michigan. They do not take cases that have no potential of making a difference.

“The answer lies in what Powell, many pundits, and I have said is the most important information the Supreme Court needs to hear. As “Cultural Husbandry” noted on Twitter, the lawsuit has the forensic audit…The information found on the Dominion Voting Systems servers details clear evidence of massive voter fraud, the type that is capable of flipping an election if allowed to proceed unimpeded.”

OUTRAGEOUS: Supreme Court Is Purposefully Delaying and Slow Walking Sidney Powell Emergency Petitions – State Responses Not Due Till January 14–  Dec. 17^th:  “The #Supreme Court electronic filing system shows our EMERGENCY Petitions docketed for #Georgia & #Michigan but SLOW-walking w/ state response not due until JAN 14! Today it FINALLY submitted our #Arizona & #Wisconsin EMERGENCY petitions filed Friday INEXPLICABLY rejected them.

“The Supreme Court can attempt to delay the President’s rightful claim as the winner of the 2020 election but Americans won’t put up with this.  Americans who love their country are reaching their limit. This is the most important moment in our history. We will either have our country or we will not.  The Supreme Court needs to understand that their delays will not be tolerated. Americans want justice now.”

Judge in Delaware Revokes Attorney Lin Wood’s Appearance as Counsel for Carter Page After Filing Georgia and Wisconsin Cases Against 2020 Voter Fraud, Dec. 18^th:  “Over 43 years of law practice, I have appeared in cases in 27 states. I have never had my pro hac vice status denied or challenged. Now I fight for truth to be exposed & law upheld in cases involving @realDonaldTrumpelection & am accused of improper conduct. Connect the dots.”

Dec. 17^th Wood also tweeted:  “The documentation of my claims about Justices Roberts & Breyer has been placed in hands of several third parties. When one cannot attack message, all too often messenger is attacked. But TRUTH cannot be denied. It cannot be destroyed. I have made sure of that TRUTH.”

I suppose we’ll see what comes of that, just like this claim – and don’t get me wrong, I fully support and appreciate all the phenomenal work done by Russell Lamsland, but we’ve heard this over and over since Nov. 3^rd  and we’re still being beaten down by COWARDS on the bench: “There’s Going to Be Evidence that Comes Forward in Next Few Days what Will Drastically Change the Playing Field” — Security Expert Behind Antrim County Audit Says Something Big Is Coming (VIDEO), Dec. 18, 2020

Regarding the claim made last week that allegedly an employee at the Supreme Court overheard a shouting match between Chief of Injustice, John Roberts and other “justices”, the Supreme Court responded, formally, that there was no in-person meeting because all business of the court has been done remotely since March using COVID as their excuse.  Was that official statement a lie?  It would be too easy to catch them in such a lie.

There is a second case that potentially could make a huge difference if the judge actually looks at the evidence and isn’t a coward.  Dr. Ayyadurai Wins Key Victory in Election Fraud Case   (And he did it pro se), Dec. 17, 2020:

“Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD., scored a major victory in his lawsuit claiming that his campaign for Senator in Massachusetts was fraudulently stolen thanks to Dominion Voting Systems machines used to tabulate and calculate the vote.

“Dr. Syyadurai, not a lawyer, faced off with the Secretary of State William Galvin and won the right to present an amended complaint (see Case 1:20-cv-12080-MLW).  Judge D. J.  Wolf, the man who put Whitey Bulger in prision, made the ruling.

“This case will provide Dr. Ayyurdai the opportunity to present the evidence of the fraud that involved Dominion Voting Systems machines and erased votes that should have been counted for him.  Not only that, it also will show that the same fraud was perpetrated against Donald Trump.

“Dr. Shiva’s amended complaint provides him the opportunity to lay out the evidence–documentary, eye witness and statistical–that should be compelling.  Pray for Dr. Shiva.”

Timing in life is everything as the old saying goes

The drop-dead date for DNI Director, John Ratcliff and Trump’s Executive Order dealing with foreign influence in our elections was due Dec. 18^th.   Dud so far.  Ratcliff was informed by intelligence agencies (none were listed by name) two days before the mandated date they would not be ready with their report due to conflicts in trying to protect Communist China.  How very convenient.

On Dec. 16^th:  BREAKING: Catherine Herridge Reports DNI John Ratcliffe Confirmed “There Was Foreign Election Interference by China, Iran, Russia in November” (VIDEO)

Also well timed this is dropped on America,Dec. 16^th:  Massive cyber-attack allegedly by Russian hackers into our nation’s nuclear stockpile networks, Energy Dept, National Nuclear Security Administration, Treasury Dept, Los Alamos National Laboratory and others as well as Mircrosoft was blasted onto the airwaves and Internet.  Then we find out this hack took place NINE months ago.  HOW in Hell was this kept secret from Trump for nine months? Or was it?  It is reported DNI Director John Ratcliff personally briefed President Trump last Thursday but was it an update?

Remember, Trump abruptly fired Chris Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Nov. 15th.  On Nov. 16, C-SPAN broadcast the live hearing of The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee headed up by Sen. Ron Johnson.  I was able to watch most of it including the fireworks between Johnson and scabby, Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI] who suffers from parum penis syndrome.  The other particularly odious clown was Sen.  Thomas Carper [D-MD] who wears a headband on his forehead which reads:  Room for rent.

Krebs testified under oath. Both Republicans and DemonRats on that committee were kind enough not to mention he got his arse handed to him the day before when Trump fired him. Act surprised:  All the DemonRats on that committee – the same as we saw throughout the entire phony impeachment hearings – completely ignored all testimony.

None of what came from the witnesses bothered any of them in the least.  Water off a duck’s back.  Trump Campaign Attorney Tells Senate Committee Over 42,000 People Voted More Than Once in Nevada (VIDEO):  “Binnall said people were able to vote more than once by using different variations of their first name such as “William” and “Bill” – Other individuals were able to register under a married name and a maiden name.  At least 1,500 dead people are recorded as voting and more than 19,000 people voted even though they didn’t live in Nevada.

“Binnall said there is a minimum of 130,000 instances of voter fraud.  The corrupt Democrat machine in Clark County stole Nevada for Joe Biden by harvesting ballots and flooding the system with illegal ballots.”

While it was nauseating to watch, I do hope you will take the time to watch it, maybe do a half hour at a time here and there.  The first couple of witnesses list a plethora of proven, damning vote fraud as well as the verbal fight between Johnson and Peters.  Just go here to watch.

And 24/7 the DNC’s MSM pimps both electronic and print continue to write Trump’s presidential obituary.  The WH issued their annual Christmas card showing Trump and his wife.  Media pimps all used nearly the same language:  The last Christmas card from Trump as he prepares to leave the WH.

Crush them

Funny thing.  While gearing up to write todays column I discussed our dire situation with a couple of friends and told them many hundreds of thousands need to be in the District of Criminals on Jan. 6^th.  Later in the day, Dec. 19^th, President Trump let loose: President Donald Trump Calls For Protest in DC on Jan 6., Says ‘Be There, Will Be Wild’

Yes, I wish a million Americans would brave the cold January weather out in DC and shout down the U.S. Congress.  But, before that, we MUST flood the phone lines – DISTRICT OFFICES NOT DC.  Why?  One House member and one Senator must object to the Electoral College votes.  So far, 2 Reps and not one senator.

If we don’t stop the vote and the Electoral College votes are accepted, Biden will have stolen the election.  If one Rep and one senator stand and object and after debate no agreement it goes to the house where the GOP controls the number of state delegations.  That’s how critical Jan. 6^th is for this nation.

Mitch China McConnell came out with this that angered millions of Trump voters: McConnell Urges GOP Senators to Refrain from Objecting to Electoral Votes, Dec. 15^th

“McConnell, who formally recognized Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as president-elect and vice president-elect on Tuesday, reportedly told colleagues that an objection “isn’t in the best interest of everybody,” per the Hill:  “McConnell warned that any GOP senator who signed onto a House Republican objection to a state’s electoral votes would then force the Senate to debate and vote on the objection, putting fellow GOP senators in a bad position.

“McConnell was not the only Republican leader to make the request, with Republican Whip Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Rules Committee Chairman Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) making the same call, though there is no indication, currently, that any GOP senators plan to object to the results.”

That’s right you dirty traitor.  It’s not in your best interests which means China.  It’s not in the best interests of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the tech giants and globalists.  It doesn’t matter to Mitch McConnell the election was rigged.  It doesn’t matter to Mitch that we will NEVER again have free and fair elections in this country if we lose this fight.  Our glorious republic WILL be dead in less than two years after Kamala ‘Mattress’ Harris takes over from China Joe.

None of that matters to McConnel or dung bags, Thune & Blunt.  WE do not matter.  America is a beacon light for freedom for the world and the world is waking up.  Just take a look at this 1:39 video, President Trump Releases Video – ‘FIGHT FOR TRUMP – SAVE AMERICA – SAVE THE WORLD‘ and then come back to this column.  When in your lifetime have you ever seen such a response to an American president?  Not for China Joe or the criminal imposter president, Barry Soetoro aka Hussein Obama, who stole his two elections via fraud.  The American people back then did not fully understand ‘natural born citizen’ but they sure as hell have eyes and eyes and have heard and seen the evidence of massive vote fraud for over a month.

McConnell said challenging the Electoral College would force the Senate to debate putting fellow senators “in a bad position”.  For defending the U.S. Constitution and our RIGHT to a legitimate election outcome?  You dog.  You’ve got 7 states with dueling electors.  What?  You’re just going to ignore them as judges have ignored the merits of very case so far?

Every Republican U.S. House member and Senator should have come out and strongly told their constituents:  You’re darn right I will stand and fight because the evidence is overwhelming.  Oh, no, Trump haters like Mittens Romney and this jackal would rather see America destroyed: Repulsive Illinois #NeverTrumper Adam Kinzinger Continues to Attack President Trump While Claiming His Military Service Allows Him To Act Insubordinate (U.S. House, RINO.)

Kinzinger made this grotesque comment in a tweet:  “History reminds us that standing against the passions of emotions in defense of our Constitution is always right.”  How about rock solid evidence of cheating?  You shame your uniform.

Nov. 17^th, newly elected senator from Alabama, Tommy Tuberville, said he might join with Rep. Andy Biggs [R-AZ] in objecting to the vote Jan. 6^th.   Might?  It should be a given.  Let me remind Republicans in Congress:  The Trump Train brought a record number of voters who voted down ballot and is responsible for gaining more seats and keeping incumbents in the house and state legislatures as well as giving the GOP a huge redistricting advantage next year.

You gutless cowards will not stand for the U.S. Constitution, the future of this country and the man who has fought against the shadow government and endured Hell heaped on him the past five years?  Shame on all of you but then again, you have no shame.  Your ONLY consideration is the next election and how much you can enrich yourself and your families while in office.

And how about Sen. Rand Paul?  What did he say during that senate hearing last week?  “The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen and the only way it will be fixed is by in the future reinforcing the laws.”

There is no future but hell for this country if Biden is allowed to be sworn into office along with that Marxist piece of baggage, Ho Harris.  America will not recover for decades, if ever, because the DemonRats have gotten away with this stealing this election so far and all your babbling about reinforcing the laws in the future means nothing in stopping the steal NOW.

Listen to your words, Senator:  You say in many ways the election was stolen – yeah – in every dam way possible and your solution is reinforcing the laws in the future?  Why didn’t you announce then and there you will stand up and object to the Electoral College vote because the evidence of cheating is overwhelming?

How about Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN] who has been a vigorous supporter of President Trump?  Are you just going to sit there on Jan. 6^th and sanction this steal? How about Sen. Ron Johnson [R-WI] who chaired that senate committee hearing last Thursday who absolutely knows the election was stolen and has been a vocal supporter of Trump?  You sat and listened to an ocean of fraud and how the election was stolen yet you will not stand and fight the steal? Your state is one of the six states drowning in fraud.  Is freedom just an empty word for you?  Well, it isn’t to tens of millions of Americans.

Trump-ultra loyalist senator Ron Johnson says he WON’T object to Electoral College vote after Mitch McConnell told his member protests would split the party and fail – Yeah, Mitch.  It’s the party, not We the People that’s so important to you.  The split would be cowards vs those who will uphold their oath of office.

Rand Paul is up for reelection in 2022, Blackburn in 2024 and Johnson in 2022.  I’m sure they believe their constituents will forget all about them not standing for America on Jan. 6^th.  As for the House, Rep. Mo Brooks and Rep. Matt Gaetz are the only House members I know of as I write this willing to stand up for the truth.  Where’s Jim Jordan & all those members of the House Freedom Caucus?  Are they all words and no courage?

Let me give you senators and house members (federal or state) a little history lesson: “Sybil Ludington had just turned sixteen in April of 1777, when a messenger dismounted his exhausted horse, stumbled into her house and announced that the British were burning Danbury, Connecticut–less than a 15 hours march from the Ludington farmstead in Fredericksburg, New York. After delivering the unexpected, shocking news, the exhausted messenger promptly collapsed in front of the cozy Ludington fireplace. It was obvious that he and his horse were no longer able to spread the alarm.

Sybil’s father, Colonel Henry Ludington, was in charge of 400 local militia minutemen who, like himself, were now at home planting their fields. Henry Ludington agonized: if he were to ride to muster his troops, then he would not be able to organize the men when they arrived at his farmhouse. And since his soldiers were mostly farmers who were only marginally trained, they would require much of his attention before they set off to meet the professional British Army.

“They needed to march at first light. When Sybil eagerly volunteered to ride in the messenger’s place, her father was horrified but quickly came to realize that there was no other choice. He knew she was an excellent rider and that her horse, Star, was her best friend. Sybil set off shortly after 9:00 p.m. in pitch black darkness. She rode all night long through cold, penetrating spring rain, dodging trees on the muddy trails leading to the militia men’s farm houses. Nearly all of her father’s 400 men were already busy arming themselves and preparing for battle when she returned home, beyond exhausted, at dawn. She had ridden 40 miles–twice as far as Paul Revere had done in Boston. The Patriots were ultimately successful. They pushed the British, who were not expecting a serious confrontation with the local militiamen, all the way back to their landing boats.

“The heroic action of a sixteen-year-old girl had started what turned out to be the Battle of Ridgefield where the most powerful military force in the world at that time suffered a humiliating defeat. Because of Sybil Ludington.”

No limousine, no street lights.  No freeway, yet a sixteen-year old girl was willing to put her life on the line.  All of you in your $500 or $1,000 suits and your perfumed airs will be forever known as cowards if you do not stand up and put a stop to this crime.

The lead role in this movie, Benjamin Martin, was based on real life revolutionary hero, Francis Marion, known as the Swamp Fox:  “Dan Scott. Barely a week ago I heard you rail for two hours about independence. Mr. Hardwick, how many times have I heard you speak of freedom at my father’s table? Half the men in this church, including you father, and you, Reverend, are as ardent patriots as I.

“Will you now, when you are needed most, stop at only words? Is that the sort of men you are? I ask only that you act upon the beliefs of which you have so strongly spoken and in which you so strongly believe.”– 17 year-old Ann, from the movie, The Patriot w/ Mel Gibson

It’s now up to us.  Important read: Explainer: Dueling Electors and the Upcoming Joint Session of Congress – No, Professor it’s not a long shot and no, all the legal challenges have been political or cowardly.  Evidence of overwhelming vote fraud has simply been ignored by the courts.

I would ask everyone to starting calling only Republican House members and senators from now until January 5^th.  The list of senators is here which gives party affiliation.  U.S. Reps, click here to also find phone numbers for their district offices.  DC calls to their offices get only a recording.  What to say in a non-threatening manner?  Personally, I have been so enraged since Nov. 4^th I’d like to tell my rep and senator to go straight to hell if they don’t find the courage to stop the stealing of this election, but politeness can keep one out of trouble.

I want you to tell Rep. ______ or Sen. ________ the following:

If he/she does not stand up and object to the Electoral College vote and stop the stealing of this election (1)  I will never donate another penny to the Republican Party no matter how many emails they send begging for money, (2)  When Rep. _____ or Sen. _______ comes up for reelection, I am committed to making it my number one goal to make sure he/she does not win their next primaryand (3)  I will make it my life’s mission to support his/her opponent in the primary and if my candidate loses, we will be prepared for immediate action against vote fraud.

If Rep. _____ or Sen.  _____ refuses to stand and object, he/she will forever be known as a coward willing to throw away our republic because they might be intimidated by riots.  The anarchists have been rioting and destroying cities in this country for almost a year.  Trump has at least ten million armed Patriots willing to assist local law enforcement or even the National Guard if requested since we have no constitutional militia.

If it happens and most surely it will, that’s when President Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 which has been used 14 times since it was passed – a move I fully support.  (You may not agree on that one.)  For Congress or the gutless U.S. Supreme Court to shirk their duty to uphold their oath of office out of cowardice is the greatest slap in the face to those who fought and died to birth this country.  End.  You can use the same for your state legislators.

If you live in PA, WI, MI, GA, AZ and Nevada (some of them are Republican majority in both chambers of their legislature) get on the phone to their district offices and tell he/she:  You know the election was stolen so de-certify the vote.  Sending GOP Electoral College votes is not enough.  You must withdraw certification and force Congress to stop the vote on Jan. 6^th.

How bad do we want to stop this steal?  Is it worth 5, 8 minutes of your time EVERY DAY (except Christmas, New Year’s Day and weekends) to stop China Joe from getting into the White House?  Then, please do it as I will be doing every day to my CON-gress critter; I’m not in one of the contested states.

Now, you can change or add to the message I’m using above.  Trump is not going to invoke what people refer to as martial law.  His tweet yesterday:  Martial Law = Fake News.

We know Trump had a meeting with Sidney Powell this past Friday evening.  While there’s been speculation about what was discussed, we simply do not know.  One thing I do know, Trump has got to go on prime-time live TV as I said in my column last week and tell the American people about the Frankfort raid in detail, list each disputed state and the proven fraud.  He cannot keep depending on tweets.  Trump needs to reach not just his base but all Americans.

Get this out to every social media there is and let’s burn down the phone lines until Jan. 5^th.

I wish you and yours a safe and blessed Christmas.

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Stop the steal.

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The steal – New from ones I posted in my last couple of columns; an ocean of it:

Dec. 20, 2020:  A short video with Trump on radio.

REVEALED: ‘Simple Math’ Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election

Dec. 20:  NEW: Trump Campaign Takes Fight Over Pennsylvania Election and Mail-In Ballot Laws to US Supreme Court

Dec. 20^th:  MUST-SEE VIDEO: Voter Fraud Occurred in Arizona – The State Certified Fraudulent Results (VIDEO)

Dec. 17^th:  Numbers Don’t Lie: Data Scientists Break Down Voter Fraud in Arizona and It’s Shocking – 790,000 Laundered Votes Injected Into the System (VIDEO)

Recount Confirms Trump Won Michigan County That Reported Biden Win on Election Night

Georgia Poll Workers Who Spoke to Media or Signed Affidavits about November Election Integrity Are ‘Fired’

IT WAS SYSTEMIC-PURPOSEFUL FRAUD: Clark County Nevada Dominion Machines ALSO Kicked out “About 70% of Ballots” – It Was in the Settings!

True the Vote Partners with Georgians to Challenge More than 300K Allegedly Ineligible Voters, Dec. 18, 2020: “True the Vote has submitted 364,541 written Elector Challenges on behalf of voters in Georgia, representing all 159 counties.  News of the challenge came in a press release in which the organization defined the challenge as a “unique feature in Georgia law,” identified as GA. CODE ANN. § 21-2-230.”

Dec. 18, 2020:  Georgia Official Warned Counties Not to Grant Open Record Requests for Voting Software: Memo

Georgia has a GOP governor, a GOP Lt Gov who said continuing challenge of the election results “damages our brand”.  Yeah, back to party loyalty and screw the voters in your state.  The GOP State Party Chairman can’t find his tongue.  Their legislature is GOP controlled .With their state drowning in provable vote fraud they went ahead and certified the vote anyway for China Joe.  Your brand isn’t damaged, it’s shredded.

Dec. 20^th:  MUST-SEE VIDEO: Voter Fraud Occurred in Arizona – The State Certified Fraudulent Results (VIDEO)

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Refuses to Comply With Subpoenas to Turn Over Dominion Voting Machines for [Independent] Audit (VIDEO) – They claim it’s to protect the voter’s privacy.  How many times have we read so and so voted in the 2016 election, some candidate or person of interest?  Too many to count.  That information is obtained at the county voter registration office.  They simply gave the finger to their Senate Judiciary Committee.

Voters of AZ:  You are one of 19 states that allow recall from County Board of Stupidvisors to Governor.  Make use of it.

MI Attorney Matthew DePerno: Dominion CEO Did Not Tell The Truth About “Sealed and Locked Ballot” Machines In Antrim Co…Photos Taken During Inspection Reveal Missing Seal – He lied under oath several times.  Will he be held accountable? Fat chance.

Dec. 18, 2020: Georgia Supreme Court Slow Walks President Trump’s Lawsuit Claiming Election Fraud – Case Yet to Be Assigned a Judge

Rep. Mo Brooks and 18 Colleagues Request Election Fraud Hearings Before January 6th Electoral College Vote

MI Sec of State Official Caught On Video Telling Volunteers To Count “Multiple Ballots with the very Same Signature” During “Audit” Of Votes In Antrim County

THERE IT IS: Fired Cyber “Expert” Chris Krebs Admits in Senate Hearing that Dominion Voting Machines Linked to the Internet

The Immaculate Deception:  Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities

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NYTimes #1 Bestselling Author Biden Steal RINO “Nicknames”: Barr-BarrStool, Tucker Carlson-Tuckster, Romney-Minion, Mitch-Yertie, Jeb Bush-Yeb…

December 25, 2020

NYTimes #1 bestselling author Larry Schweikkart on Twitter showed the Biden Steal Democrat and RINO nicknames:   Larry Schweikart@LarrySchweikart

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Note: The Catholic Monitor implores all CM readers to now or as soon as possible to “Contact Governor Brian Kemp and DEMAND that he IMMEDIATELY call a special session of the legislature”:

1. Call him at 404-656-1776
2. Email him at brian.kemp@georgia.gov or use this contact form.
3. Message him on Facebook and Twitter. Also, please ask your friends and family to “Contact Governor Brian Kemp and DEMAND that he IMMEDIATELY call a special session of the legislature” and their elected officials now”[LifeSite says] “It’s imperative… that ordinary citizens contact their elected officials now all the way up until January 6. Politicians usually respond when their offices are inundated with phone calls”

“Click here to access LifeSite’s Voter Voice initiative so you can find your representative’s phone number.”

“I sincerely hope all of my American readers will head those words. Your country is at stake! There is no more crucial time than right now. God love you.” [https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/act-now-contact-your-representative-to-ensure-election-integrity-on-january-6]

Important Note: The publisher of the Catholic Monitor has made a pledge to wear the Brown Scapular and say the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary everyday for a Rosary Lepanto-like victory for President Trump. He asks all CM readers to make this pledge.

“THE HOLY ROSARY, MOST POWERFUL WEAPON AGAINST THE ENEMY OF GOD AND MAN… Saint Pius V ordered the faithful to recite the Rosary to impetrate victory from God in the epic battle of the Christian Armada against the Turk in the waters of Lepanto: still today, at noon each day, the bells ring in our cities to recall [the victory of] October 7, 1571… Let us pray for the United States of America; let us pray for our President; let us pray for his victory, that the Lord God of Hosts – Dominus Deus Sabaoth –will grant that he may know how to place himself under God’s protection.” –  Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

Note: Please put President Trump, Steve Bannon, all the Republican state and national legislators as well as Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Neil Gorsuch in the following Prayer of Command against “satanic forces”:

Prayer of Command of  Exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger: In His Name and by the power of His Cross and Blood, I ask Jesus to bind any evil spirits, forces and powers of the earth, air, fire, or water, of the netherworld and the satanic forces of nature.  By the power of the Holy Spirit and by His authority, I ask Jesus Christ to break any curses, hexes, or spells and send them back to where they came from, if it be His Holy Will.  I beseech Thee Lord Jesus to protect us by pouring Thy Precious Blood on us (my family, etc.), which Thou hast shed for us and I ask Thee to command that any departing spirits leave quietly, without disturbance, and go straight to Thy Cross to dispose of as Thou sees fit.  I ask Thee to bind any demonic interaction, interplay, or communications.  I place N. (Person, place or thing) under the protection of the Blood of Jesus Christ which He shed for us. Amen Note: Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]  Voter fraud attorney Sidney Powell’s renowned statistician, Dr. William Briggs stated that the “conservative” SCOTUS Justices did a Pontius Pilate by “cuck[ing]. There is no other word for it. Their entire argument for rejecting the suit brought Texas and joined by almost half the States was Nyah nyah nyah!” [https://wmbriggs.com/post/33854/] Will Kavanaugh, Barrett and Gorsuch in the upcoming “Kraken”case cowardly run away from it as they did with the Texas case and be accomplices in the United States becoming the next totalitarian impoverished Chinese Communist satellite like Venezuela by not joining the fight for truth and justice against the massive voter fraud that is attempting to destroy America?    (Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html)  The famed Bishop Rene Gracida answered the above question, which Kavanaugh, Barrett and Gorsuch must answer to God now and at the the hour of their death, saying America is in a battle for its very survival as a, free and independent, God fearing nation: 

“This month’s battle for the republic is tremendous and earth-shaking. The only comparable moments in our history are those moments before the American Civil War and those days leading up to George Washington’s battles against the British.” [https://abyssum.org/2020/12/03/this-months-battle-for-the-republic-is-tremendous-and-earth-shaking-the-only-comparable-moments-in-our-history-are-those-moments-before-the-american-civil-war-and-those-days-leading-up-to-ge/]

Bishop Gracida was a courageous WWII airman, monk, friend of Pope John Paul II and the “Savior of EWTN” as Raymond Arroyo called him in his book who at 96 looks like his is in his 70’s, is mentally sharper than most men 40 years younger than him and looks by a large margin younger than Pope Benedict XVI or Francis. 

Gracida is declaring that America is in a battle between good and evil.

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.

Pray an Our Father now for President Donald Trump, the legal teams including Sidney Powell and justice in the United States of America.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

THE FORGOTTEN RADICALISM OF JESUS CHRISTThe New York Times    //    December 24, 2020“Get used to different.”That line comes from a marvelous new TV series on Jesus’ life, “The Chosen,” in which Jesus, played by Jonathan Roumie, invites Matthew to become one of his disciples. Simon Peter, already a disciple, registers his fierce objection. Matthew is a tax collector, who were viewed as tools of Roman authorities, often dishonest and abusive. They were therefore treated as traitors and outcasts by other Jews.“I don’t get it,” Simon Peter says to Jesus about his decision to invite Matthew, to which Jesus responds, “You didn’t get it when I chose you, either.”“But this is different,” Simon Peter answers. “I’m not a tax collector.” At which point Jesus lets Simon Peter know things aren’t going to be quite what his followers expected.First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly radical and radically inclusive figure Jesus was, and neither are today’s Christians. We want to tame and domesticate who he was, but Jesus’ life and ministry don’t really allow for it. He shattered barrier after barrier.One example is Jesus’ encounter, in the fourth chapter of the gospel of John, with the Samaritan woman at the well. Jesus and the woman talked about Jesus being the Messiah, why he was even deigning to talk with her, and the unnamed woman’s past and present, which she initially sought to hide from Jesus. (It included her five previous husbands, according to the account in John, and the fact that “the one whom you now have is not your husband.”) Yet not a word of condemnation passed the lips of Jesus; the woman felt heard, understood, cared for. Jesus treated her, in the words of one commentator, “with a magnetic dignity and respect.”The encounter with Jesus transformed her life; after it the woman at the well became “the first woman preacher in Christian history,” proclaiming Jesus to be the savior of the world to her community, according to the New Testament scholar Kenneth Bailey.This story is a striking example of Jesus’ rejection of conventional religious and cultural thinking — in this case because Jesus, a man, was talking earnestly to a woman in a world in which women were often demeaned and treated as second-class citizens; and because Jesus, a Jew, was talking to a Samaritan, who were despised by the Jews for reasons going back centuries. According to Professor Bailey, “A Samaritan woman and her community are sought out and welcomed by Jesus. In the process, ancient racial, theological and historical barriers are breached. His message and his community are for all.”This happened time and again with Jesus. He touched lepers and healed a woman who had a constant flow of menstrual blood, both of whom were considered impure; forgave a woman “who lived a sinful life” and told her to “go in peace,” healed a paralytic and a blind man, people thought to be worthless and useless. And as Jesus was being crucified, he told the penitent thief on the cross next to him, “Today you will be with me in paradise.”Jesus was repeatedly attacked for hanging out with the wrong crowd and recruited his disciples from the lower rungs of society.And Jesus’ parable of the good Samaritan, a story about a man who helps a wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, made the hero of the story not an influential priest, not a person of social rank or privilege but a hated foreigner.For Christians, the incarnation is a story of God, in the person of Jesus, participating in the human drama. And in that drama Jesus was most drawn to the forsaken and despised, the marginalized, those who had stumbled and fallen. He was beloved by them, even as he was targeted and eventually killed by the politically and religiously powerful, who viewed Jesus as a grave threat to their dominance.Over the course of my faith journey, I have wondered: Why was a hallmark of Jesus’s ministry intimacy with and the inclusion of the unwanted and the outcast, men and women living in the shadow of society, more likely to be dismissed than noticed, more likely to be mocked than revered?Part of the explanation surely has to do with the belief in the imago Dei, that Jesus sees indelible dignity and inestimable worth in every person, even “the least of these.” If no one else would esteem them, Jesus would.Among the people who best articulated this ethic was Abraham Lincoln, who in a 1858 speech in Lewiston, Ill., in which he explained the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence, said, “Nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows.”Yet another reason for Jesus’ connection with outcasts undoubtedly had to do with his compassion and empathy, his desire to relieve their pain and lift the soul-crushing shame that accompanies being a social pariah and an untouchable.But that is hardly the only reason. Jesus modeled inclusion and solidarity with the “unclean” and marginalized not only for their sake but for the sake of the powerful and the privileged and for the good of the whole.Jesus must have understood that we human beings battle with exclusion, self-righteousness and arrogance, and have a quick trigger finger when it comes to judging others. Jesus knew how easily we could fall into the trap of turning “the other” — those of other races, ethnicities, classes, genders and nations — into enemies. We place loyalty to the tribe over compassion and human connection. We view differences as threatening; the result is we become isolated, rigid in our thinking, harsh and unforgiving.Jesus clearly believed that outcasts had a lot to teach the privileged and the powerful, including the virtues of humility and the vice of supreme certitude. Rather than seeing God exclusively as a moral taskmaster, Jesus understood that the weak and dispossessed often experience God in a different way — as a dispenser of grace, a source of comfort, a redeemer. They see the world, and God, through a different prism than do the powerful and the proud. The lowly in the world offer a corrective to the spiritual astigmatisms that develop among the rest of us.It’s easy for us to look back 20 centuries and see how religious authorities were too severe and unforgiving in how they treated the outcasts of their time. The wisest question those of us who are Christians could ask ourselves isn’t why we are so much more humane and enlightened than they were; rather, it is to ask ourselves who the modern outcasts are and whether we’re mistreating them. Who are the tax collectors of our era, the people we despise but whom Jesus would welcome, those around whom are we determined to build a “dividing wall of hostility,” to use the imagery of the Apostle Paul?“How Christians, including me, responded to the AIDS crisis in the ’80s haunts me,” my longtime friend Scott Dudley, senior pastor of Bellevue Presbyterian Church in Bellevue, Wash., recently told me. “Had we, like the first Christians, cared first and cared most for modern day ‘plague’ victims, I think we’d be in a whole different conversation with the L.G.B.T.Q. community. We may still have significant differences of opinion. However, I believe the dialogue would be one of more mutual respect, and I believe the L.G.B.T.Q. community would feel less afraid of the wounds Christians can inflict.” But even if the conversation were not different, as Scott knows, caring first and caring most for those victims of a plague would have been the right thing to do.No society and no religious faith can live without moral rules. Jesus wasn’t an antinomian, one who believes that Christians, because they are saved by grace, are not bound to religious laws. But he understood that what ultimately changes people’s lives are relationships rather than rule books, mercy rather than moral demands.Jesus’ teachings are so challenging, so distinct from normal human reactions and behaviors, that we constantly have to renew our commitment to them. Every generation of Christians needs to think through how his example applies to the times in which they live. We need our sensibilities to align more with his. Otherwise, we drift into self-righteousness and legalism, even to the point that we corrupt the very institution, the church, which was created to worship him and to love others.The lesson from Jesus’ life and ministry is that understanding people’s stories and struggles requires much more time and effort than condemning them, but it is vastly more rewarding. And the lesson of Christmas and the incarnation, at least for those of us of the Christian faith, is that all of us were once outcasts, broken yet loved, and worth reaching out to and redeeming.If God did that for us, why do we find it so hard to do it for each other? Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, served in the last three Republican administrations and is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.

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Abp. Viganò: We’re witnessing ‘general rehearsal for the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist’

‘In my opinion,’ Viganò writes, ‘what we are witnessing represents the general rehearsal for the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist, which will be preceded by the preaching of the False Prophet, the Precursor of the one who will carry out the final persecution against the Church before Our Lord’s definitive and crushing victory.Wed Dec 23, 2020 – 12:13 pm EST

December 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, in a new interview with LifeSite, comments on LifeSite’s report that since the first coronavirus lockdown in March, Pope Francis is not anymore using the papal altar in St. Peter’s Basilica for his public Masses, an altar which is situated on top of St. Peter’s tomb. Instead, the Pope is using another altar at the basilica. For Viganò, this papal act is symbolic in light of the fact that Pope Francis himself ordered during the closing Mass of the October 2019 Amazon Synod that a bowl of plants dedicated to the false goddess Pachamama be placed on that very papal altar at St. Peter’s. Not long after that act, the Pope also decided that he would no longer use the title “Vicar of Christ” in the 2020 Vatican Yearbook.

The Italian prelate here finds strong words about the recent developments at St. Peter’s and the Vatican.

“In my opinion,” Viganò writes, “what we are witnessing represents the general rehearsal for the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist, which will be preceded by the preaching of the False Prophet, the Precursor of the one who will carry out the final persecution against the Church before Our Lord’s definitive and crushing victory.”

The Italian prelate compares the placing of a Pachamama bowl on the altar with the enthronement of the “Goddess Reason” at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral during the Terror of the French Revolution in 1793. However, he explains, this time, the profanation of an altar came from within, committed by the highest levels of the hierarchy. “The Bergoglian church is giving itself an increasingly more disconcerting image, in which the negation of Catholic truths is accompanied by the explicit affirmation of an intrinsically anti-Catholic and antichristic ideology, in which the idolatrous cult of pagan divinities – that is, of demons – is no longer hidden, who are propititated with sacrilegious acts and profanations of holy things.”

He goes on to say that this “presence of an idol of ‘mother earth’ is a direct offense against God and the Most Holy Virgin” and “a tangible sign that explains in a certain sense Bergoglio’s many irreverent utterances with regard to the Blessed Mother.”

Here, the Italian archbishop sees a link to the warnings of Our Lady of Salette from the 19^th century. For him it is not surprising “that those who want to demolish the Church of Christ and the Roman Papacy do so from the highest Throne, according to the prophecy of Our Lady at La Salette: ‘Rome will lose the Faith and will become the seat of the Antichrist.’”SUBSCRIBEto LifeSite’s daily headlinesSUBSCRIBEU.S. Canada World Catholic

In accordance with this increase of sacrilegious acts – Viganò mentions here also the ugly and occultist Nativity Set in St. Peter’s Square – Pope Francis also does not wish to carry the name “Vicar of Christ” anymore, nor has he, for months now, had a public Mass televised from his private chapel at his Santa Marta Residence.

Commenting on the fact that Pope Francis removed from his entry in the 2020 Vatican Yearbook the title “Vicar of Christ” – he merely placed it at the end of his entry, under “historic titles” – Viganò states that “whoever refuses to be called Vicar of Christ apparently has the perception that this title does not suit him, or even looks with contempt at the possibility of being the Vicar of the One whom by his words and actions Bergoglio shows that he does not wish to recognize and adore as God.”

All these papal acts taken together are seen by Archbishop Viganò as a development toward apostasy and sacrilege, that is, demon worship. And for him, this development has its beginning at the Second Vatican Council. “I believe,” he explains, “that the premises that have been laid down up to this point – which in good part go back to Vatican II, but also to later events such as the Interreligious Prayer Meeting in Assisi – will inexorably lead in an ever more explicit way towards a ‘profession of apostasy’ by the leaders of the Bergoglian church.”

But Archbishop Viganò also gives us encouragement and strength. He recalls that “the Church does not belong to the Pope, and even less does she belong to a clique of heretics and fornicators that has succeeded in coming to power by deception and fraud.” He continues, by saying:

Therefore, we ought to unite our supernatural faith in the constant action of God in the midst of His people with a work of resistance, as counseled by the Fathers of the Church: Catholics have the duty of opposing the infidelity of their Shepherds, because the obedience that they owe them is aimed at the glory of God and the salvation of souls. We therefore denounce everything that represents a betrayal of the mission of the Shepherds, imploring the Lord to shorten these times of trial. And if one day we are told by Bergoglio that, in order to remain in communion with him, we must perform an act that offends God, we will have further confirmation that he is an impostor, and that as such he has no authority.

It is the archbishop’s hope that this crisis in the Church will open the eyes of many a lukewarm Catholic. He hopes that it will “permit us to see that where Christ the King does not reign, the tyranny of Satan is inevitably established; where Grace does not reign, sin and vice spread; where the Truth is not loved, people end up embracing error and heresy.” Perhaps, he hopes, this crisis will make many people who have difficulty adoring God realize “perhaps they can now understand that without God our life becomes hell.”

Archbishop Viganò concludes this interview with the hopeful words: “And let us pray that we will see the day on which a Pope will return to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice on the Altar of the Confession of Saint Peter, in the rite that Our Lord taught the Apostles and that they handed down intact through the centuries. This will also be a symbol of the restoration of the Papacy and of the Church of Christ.”

Below is the full interview with Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò:

Archbishop Viganò with Dr. Maike Hickson
on the empty Papal Altar

Omnes dii gentium dæmonia.
Psalm 95:5

LifeSiteNews: Your Excellency, in my recent article I noted that the Papal Altar of the Vatican Basilica has not been used anymore not long after it was profaned by the offering presented to the pachamama idol in October 2019. On that occasion, in the presence of Bergoglio and his court, a very grave sacrilege was carried out. What are your thoughts about this?

Archbishop Viganò: The profanation of the Vatican Basilica during the concluding ceremony of the Synod on the Amazon contaminated the Altar of the Confession, since a bowl dedicated to the infernal cult of the pachamama was placed on its surface. I find that this and other similar profanations of churches and altars re-propose in a certain manner other similar actions that have taken place in the past and allows us to understand their true nature.

What are you referring to?

I am referring to all the times when Satan has been unleashed against the Church of Christ, from the persecutions of the first Christians to the war of Khosrow of Persia against Byzantium, from the iconclastic fury of the Mohammedans to the Sack of Rome at the hands of the German Landsknechte, and later the French Revolution, the anticlericalism of the 19th century, atheistic communism, the Cristeros in Mexico and the Spanish Civil War, up to the heinous crimes of the communist partisans during and after the Second World War and the forms of christianophobia that we see today all over the world. Each time, invariably, the Revolution – in all of its various forms – confirms its own Luciferian essence, allowing the Biblical enmity between the offspring of the Serpent and the offspring of the Woman to emerge, between the children of Satan and the children of the Most Holy Virgin. There is no other explanation for this ferocity against the Blessed Mother and her children.

I think in particular of the enthronement of the “Goddess Reason” which took place on November 10, 1793, in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, at the height of the Terror. On this occasion as well, the infernal hatred of the revolutionaries wanted to replace the cult of the Mother of God with the cult of a prostitute, erected as a symbol of the Masonic religion, carried on their shoulders on a sedan chair and placed in the sanctuary. There are many analogies here with the pachamama, and they reveal the infernal mind which has inspired them.

Let us not forget that on August 10, 1793, a few months before the profanation of Notre Dame, the statue of the “Goddess Reason” was erected in the Place de la Bastille, in the guise of the Egyptian goddess Isis. It is significant that we find this reference to the cults of ancient Egypt also in the horrid “Nativity scene” that is presently standing in Saint Peter’s Square. But obviously the similarities we find in these events are also accompanied by something absolutely new.

Would you like to explain to us what this new element consists of?

I refer to the fact that whereas up until the Council – or, to be indulgent, up until this “pontificate” – profanations and sacrileges were carried out by the external enemies of the Church; since then the scandals have seen the active involvement of the highest levels of the Hierarchy, along with the culpable silence of the Bishops and the scandalization of the faithful. The Bergoglian church is giving itself an increasingly more disconcerting image, in which the negation of Catholic truths is accompanied by the explicit affirmation of an intrinsically anti-Catholic and antichristic ideology, in which the idolatrous cult of pagan divinities – that is, of demons – is no longer hidden, who are propititated with sacrilegious acts and profanations of holy things. Putting that unclean bowl on the Altar of the Confession of Saint Peter is a liturgical gesture with a precise value and a purpose that is not only symbolic. The presence of an idol of “mother earth” is a direct offense against God and the Most Holy Virgin, a tangible sign that explains in a certain sense Bergoglio’s many irreverent utterances with regard to the Blessed Mother.

It is therefore not surprising that those who want to demolish the Church of Christ and the Roman Papacy do so from the highest Throne, according to the prophecy of Our Lady at La Salette: “Rome will lose the Faith and will become the seat of the Antichrist.” It seems to me that today we can no longer speak of a simple “loss of Faith,” but we ought to take note of the next step, which is expressed in a true and proper apostasy, just as the initial subversion of Catholic worship by the liturgical reform is evolving into a form of pagan worship that includes the systematic profanation of the Blessed Sacrament – especially with the imposition of Communion in the hand under the pretext of Covid – and into an ever more evident aversion towards the ancient liturgy.

In essence, many forms of initial “prudence” in concealing the true intentions of the Innovators are decreasing, revealing the true nature of the work carried out by God’s enemies.  The pretext of common prayer for peace which legitimized the slaughter of chickens and other scandalous abominations in Assisi is no longer needed, and it is theorized that brotherhood among men can leave God aside as well as the salvific mission of the Church.

What is your assessment of the events beginning in October 2019, in particular Bergoglio’s abandonment of the title of Vicar of Christ, the fact that he does not celebrate anymore Mass at the Papal Altar, and the suspension of the public celebration of Mass at Santa Marta?

The philosophical principle “Agere sequitur esse” teaches us that everything acts in conformity with what it is. Whoever refuses to be called Vicar of Christ apparently has the perception that this title does not suit him, or even looks with contempt at the possibility of being the Vicar of the One whom by his words and actions Bergoglio shows that he does not wish to recognize and adore as God. Or, more simply, he does not consider that his own role at the top of the Church ought to coincide with the Catholic concept of the papacy, but, rather, with an “updated” and “demythologized” version of it. At the same time, since he does not consider himself to be Vicar of Christ, Bergoglio can also exempt himself from acting as such, casually adulterating the Magisterium and giving scandal to the entire Christian people. Celebrating in pontificalibus at the altar erected over the tomb of the Apostle Peter would make the Argentine disappear, would overshadow his eccentricities, his perpetually disgusted expression that he does not succeed in concealing as often as he celebrates the papal functions: instead, it is much better for him to stand out on the deserted Sagrato of Saint Peter’s, in full lockdown, drawing to himself the attention of the faithful that would otherwise be directed towards God.

Do you therefore recognize the “symbolic” value of the acts of Pope Francis?

The symbols have their own precise value: his choice of name, his decision to live at Domus Santa Marta, the abandonment of the insignia and vestments proper to the Roman Pontiff, such as the red mozzetta, the rochet and stole, or the papal coat of arms on his fascia (sash). The obsessive emphasis on all that is profane is symbolic, as is the intolerance of everything that recalls specifically Catholic content. And perhaps the gesture by which, at the epiclesis during the Consecration of the Mass, Bergoglio always completely covers the chalice, plugging it with his hands, as if he wants to impede the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, is also symbolic.

Likewise, just as in the act of kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament one witnesses to faith in the Real Presence and an act of latria (adoration) is performed towards God, by not kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament, Bergoglio publicly proclaims that he does not want to humble himself before God, but he has no problem getting down on his hands and knees before immigrants or officials of an African republic. And in prostrating themselves before the pachamama, some friars, sisters, clerics, and laity have performed an act of true and proper idolatry, unduly honoring an idol and offering worship to a demon. Symbols, signs, and ritual gestures are thus the instrument by which the Bergoglian church reveals itself for what it is.

All of these “rites” of the new church, these “ceremonies” that are more or less indicated, these elements borrowed from profane liturgies, are by no means accidental. They constitute one of the shifts of the Overton window towards that which in reality Bergoglio had already theorized in his interventions and the acts of his “magisterium.” On the other hand, the witch doctor who made the sign of Shiva on the brow of John Paul II and the Buddha adored on top of the tabernacle in Assisi may be understood in their perfect coherence with the present horrors, exactly as, in the societal sphere, prior to considering abortion acceptable in the ninth month it had to be legitimized in more limited cases, and prior to legalizing marriage between persons of the same sex it was prudently preferred to allow people to believe that the legal protection of sodomy would not eventually call into question the institution of natural marriage between a man and a woman.

Your Excellency, do you believe that these events will have a further development?

If the Lord, the Eternal High Priest, does not deign to put an end to this action of general perversion of the Hierarchy, the Catholic Church will be increasingly obscured by the sect that abusively superimposes itself upon her. We trust in the promises of Christ and in the special assistance of the Holy Spirit, but we must not forget that the apostasy of the highest levels of the Church is a necessary part of the eschatological events [the events of the end times] that cannot be avoided.

I believe that the premises that have been laid down up to this point – which in good part go back to Vatican II – will inexorably lead in an ever more explicit way towards a “profession of apostasy” by the leaders of the Bergoglian church. The Enemy demands fidelity from his servants, and if at the beginning he appears to be content with a wooden idol adored in the Vatican Gardens, or an offering of soil and plants placed upon the Altar of Saint Peter, he will shortly demand public and official worship that replaces the perpetual Sacrifice. Thus there would be realized what Daniel prophesied with regard to the abomination of desolation that stands in the holy place. I note the precise expression of Sacred Scripture: “Cum videritis abominationem desolationis stantem in loco sancto” [When you see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place] (Mt 24:15). It is clearly written that this abomination will stand, that is, it will be in a position of brazen and arrogant imposition of itself in the place that is most foreign and alien to it. It will be a disgrace, a scandal, an unprecedented thing, of which there are not adequate words to express condemnation.

What awaits us, if things continue in this direction?

In my opinion, what we are witnessing represents the general rehearsal for the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist, which will be preceded by the preaching of the False Prophet, the Precursor of the one who will carry out the final persecution against the Church before Our Lord’s definitive and crushing victory.

The “symbolic void” of the Papal Altar is not only a warning for those who pretend not to see the scandals of this “papacy.” It is in some manner a way in which Bergoglio wants to accustom us to taking note of a substantial mutation of the Papacy and the Church herself; to see in him not only the last of the long line of Roman Pontiffs whom Christ has ordered to feed His sheep and His lambs, but also the first head of a philanthropic multinational organization that usurps the name “Catholic Church” only because it allows him to enjoy a prestige and authority that are difficult to equal, even in times of general religious crisis.

The paradox is therefore obvious: Bergoglio knows that he can effectively destroy the Catholic Church only if he is recognized as the Pope, but at the same time he cannot exercise the Papacy in the strict sense of the term, because doing so would necessarily require that he speak, behave, and appear as the Vicar of Christ and the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles. It is the same paradox that we see in the civil and political sphere, where those who are constituted in authority to govern public affairs and promote the bonum commune are at the same time emissaries of the elite and have the task of destroying the Nation and violating the rights of citizens. Behind the deep state and the deep church there is always the same inspirer: Satan.

What can the laity and clergy do to prevent this rush towards the abyss?

The Church does not belong to the Pope, and even less does she belong to a clique of heretics and fornicators that has succeeded in coming to power by deception and fraud. Therefore, we ought to unite our supernatural faith in the constant action of God in the midst of His people with a work of resistance, as counseled by the Fathers of the Church: Catholics have the duty of opposing the infidelity of their Shepherds, because the obedience that they owe them is aimed at the glory of God and the salvation of souls. We therefore denounce everything that represents a betrayal of the mission of the Shepherds, imploring the Lord to shorten these times of trial. And if one day we are told by Bergoglio that, in order to remain in communion with him, we must perform an act that offends God, we will have further confirmation that he is an impostor, and that as such he has no authority.

Therefore, let us pray. Let us pray very much and with fervor, mindful of the words of the Savior and of His final victory. We will be judged, not for the scandals of Bergoglio and his accomplices, but for our fidelity to the teaching of Christ: a fidelity that begins with living in God’s grace, receiving the Sacraments frequently, and offering sacrifices and penances for the salvation of the Ministers of God.

What is your wish for this coming Christmas?

My wish is that these times of trial may permit us to see that where Christ the King does not reign, the tyranny of Satan is inevitably established; where Grace does not reign, sin and vice spread; where the Truth is not loved, people end up embracing error and heresy. If up until now many lukewarm souls have not known how to turn to God, recognizing that they can find the full and perfect realization of their existence in Him alone, perhaps they can now understand that without God our life becomes hell.

As the shepherds prostrated themselves in adoration at the feet of the Infant King, placed in the manger but significantly clothed in the swaddling bands that in antiquity constituted the prerogative of sovereigns, so we too must gather in prayer around the altar – even though it may be in an attic or a cellar in order to escape persecution or bans on gatherings – because even in the poverty of a clandestine chapel or an abandoned church the Lord descends on the altar to mystically sacrifice Himself for our salvation.

And let us pray that we will see the day on which a Pope will return to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice on the Altar of the Confession of Saint Peter, in the rite that Our Lord taught the Apostles and that they handed down intact through the centuries. This will also be a symbol of the restoration of the Papacy and of the Church of Christ.

Where Did the New Mad Left Come From? Utopianism is age-old, as are its tragic consequences— and we haven’t seen the worst yet. By VICTOR DAVIS HANSONDecember 15, 2020 Bouts of extreme leftism are frequent in history. Plato’s Apology, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Vladimir Lenin’s What Is to Be Done? — all offer us insight into the mind and methods of the hard Left. America has experienced surges of mainstream anarchism, socialism, and communism, most profoundly during the late 19th century, amid the Great Depression, during the Soviet-American alliance of World War II and afterward, and in the 1960s. But rarely have these radical movements openly and without apologies made such inroads into and inside government and the establishment as during the past decade. We had earlier seen massive rioting, looting, and iconoclasm, similar to the chaos of summer 2020. But seldom did they continue with the de facto approval of mayors who restrained the police and turned their downtowns over to virtual occupiers setting up “autonomous”zones. Nor had we see seen city councils defund police operations. New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio and Seattle’s mayor Jenny Durkan were not so much hard-Left Democrats or socialists as they were anarchists who ceded control of parts of American cities to other anarchists. We cannot recall any district attorney in memory who simply declared that an entire array of crimes no longer existed, and that those convicted of them would be let loose on the public. Yet Los Angeles County district attorney George Gascón recently announced that his office will not be charging anyone arrested for making criminal threats, possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia possession, being publicly intoxicated or under the influence of a controlled substance, loitering to commit prostitution, resisting arrest, or a host of other crimes. In essence, Gascón simply overrode the California legislature and his own county statutes. He has made up his own laws in his own private fiefdom of Los Angeles County — a jurisdiction of over 10 million, larger than 40 states. Where and how did radical ideas such as the non-enforcement of laws, the Green New Deal, open borders, the -studies curricula of the university, or the political weaponization of professional sports come from? What happened to the mainstream liberal, left-wing party of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton that it has been transmogrified into the neo-socialist movement of the Squad, Antifa, BLM, Kamala Harris, Bernie, Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren? When and how did the three-decades-long socialist loudmouth of the Congress, perennially barking at the moon, suddenly become the driving force of the Democratic Party? WorldismGlobalization certainly changed the financial dynamics of the U.S.Big Tech, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street became not multibillion-dollar centers of commerce, but multi-trillion-dollar nexuses as they capitalized on a new 7-billion-person market. This staggering concentration of wealth had a number of profoundly negative effects on the country. Many in the new plutocracy were not business people in the traditional sense of making, growing, or transporting things. The old fortunes of timber, farming, railroads, gas and oil, construction, real estate, mining, manufacturing and assembly, and shipping paled in comparison with global finance, communications, media, entertainment, social media, and computer/Internet access. There was a certain grittiness, grounding, and earthy realism to the old money that is completely lacking in the new. Once our generation’s multimillionaires reached billionaire status, they turned utopian. They psychologically squared the circle of their own privilege by supporting the sort of left-wing causes that would never have allowed them to make their own money. And they did this always with the understanding that they had enough money and influence to ensure that the consequences of their utopianism did not apply to themselves: Walls on the border are passé; walls around Silicon Valley and Napa estates are necessary; guns should be banned, except for my security detail; big carbon footprints are killing the planet, except those of my own private jet. The really big global money now came more quickly and easily, as billionaires were harder left and younger, and discovered that they were exempt — in their tie-dyed T-shirts, flip-flops, and nose rings — from the usual leftist hits on capitalist “parasites.” As a result, staggering amounts of penance and indulgence money have poured into left-wing media, foundations, universities, and Democratic-driven activism. The monopolist Mark Zuckerberg’s various fronts invested $350 million to “help” government bureaucracies “oversee” the vote. The piratical George Soros’s giveaway empire explains the rise of city and district attorneys whose radical agenda is to decriminalize much of what we used to call criminality. The old “dark money” no longer exists. The once-demonized Koch brothers’ funding of conservative political activism is mostly now apologized for by its original architects — and yet it’s small potatoes compared with the new Democratic slush fund. In radical-chic fashion, nothing makes a hip billionaire hipper than to brag at cocktail parties that he funded a local BLM chapter. Corporate boardrooms, enmeshed in vast lucrative partnerships with the Chinese and enjoying global markets, are now among the most powerful forces of radicalism. CEOs assume that they have a blank check from the Left to leverage as much Chinese money as they wish, as long as they subsidize the radical agenda. And so they do, as they fund and advertise the entire climate-change, identity-politics, and globalist cause. None of this elite moral preening is completely new, when one remembers the naïve, culotte-wearing aristocrats who joined the Committee of Public Safety during France’s Reign of Terror, or the Russian landed gentry who believed that Lenin would work out for them too, or the mau-mauing flak catchers Tom Wolfe described in his account of late-’60s radical chic. Indebted Wannabe GeniusesFrom the 1970s to the 1990s, universities had lots of culture wars. But they were still constrained by budgets from hiring too many nonessential diversity and inclusion czars. Globalist capital had not yet quadrupled college endowments. Nor was there yet $1.6 trillion in federal money to institutionalize the new idea of massive student debt, which posed a moral hazard for the country. Students and universities now no longer worry about budgets, inflationary tuition, or cost-to-benefit analysis of the new therapeutic undergraduate curricula. The result? Today 45 million students are in debt. Many are credentialed but ill-educated, and they lack the means to pay off their compound-interest obligations. They have grown accustomed to the good life on campuses, many of which are Club Med retreats where late teenagers play-act by bullying faculty and administrators with primal screams. All too many lecture the country on their superior morality — and then graduate and face the reality that no one cares whether the barista who serves you a beer or the Uber driver who gives you a lift has a degree in environmental studies. Delayed marriage, delayed childbearing, delayed home purchases, delayed everything — all further radicalized youth, who are intrinsically prone to radicalism. Again, the most dangerous cohort in history has been the half-educated — the on-and-off university student or upper-middle-class elite who is aggrieved that his youthful genius is neither appreciated nor justly compensated. “Elite glut” well describes millions in debt who feel they are owed quite a lot. The nasal-twanged Antifa wannabe Bolshevik is mostly furious that we who watch his psychodramas on television have not extended to him the status and wealth he thinks he has long ago earned. Big TechBig Tech, as an original offshoot of university research centers, and geared to self-described young geniuses, became a leftist monopoly. When social media and the Internet began, the naïve assumed these were just delivery systems, not new tools of ideological persuasion. But like a virus that alters the DNA of the host, the very ways we now access knowledge, communicate, fathom the news, advertise, buy, and sell are controlled, massaged, politicized, and weaponized by a few thousand prolonged adolescent, thirtysomething techies in Silicon Valley and its spin-offs. When an ideology can use its monopolies to Trotskyize the past, cancel a career, depersonalize, censor, and ban — or warp the very ways we retrieve information — then 1984 is already here. We scarcely appreciate Silicon Valley’s power and how it has vastly changed our very language, culture, and politics. The Obama YearsBarack Obama really did, as promised, “fundamentally transform”the country. He destroyed the old pretense of a centrist Democratic Party helmed by Southern twangers like Jimmy Carter (who promised to kick Ted Kennedy’s ass in the 1980 primary and did), Bill Clinton (who used to decry illegal immigration), and an earlier incarnation of Al and Tipper Gore (who used to rail about music-industry-sponsored pornographic lyrics). Obama’s chief accomplishment was twofold. One, he ended the idea of affirmative action as a “white” population owing reparatory consideration to a largely African-American population in admissions and hiring as atonement for the wages of slavery, Jim Crow, economic disparity, and what is now known as “systemic racism.” Two, Obama mainstreamed “diversity” as the new binary replacement. Anyone with even one drop of nonwhite ethnicity in his ancestry, or who was not male or heterosexual, joined an updated “rainbow coalition” of victims — including even Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill. And the oppressed didn’t need to worry about their own actual ancestry, the historical basis for claims of discrimination, or their own private experiences with prejudice — or lack of same. Class mattered not at all. Nor did intermarriage, which under the melting pot had been making race a superficial construct, as the pedigrees of Americans became increasingly multifarious. The consequences of this retrograde return to one-drop racialism and the stigmatization of the white male were that suddenly 30 percent of the country — from Oprah to Colin Kaepernick to Lisa Jobs to Pete Buttigieg to Jorge Ramos — was “diverse,” meaning somehow the victims of a toxic majority, which in truth under the new race and gender rules was a minority. Barack and Michelle could be worth $100 million, own three mansions, enjoy multimillion-dollar corporate-consulting sinecures — and yet venture out from their enclaves from time to time to lecture the lathe worker in southern Ohio or the insurance salesman in Tennessee on their “systemic racism,” or hijack a funeral encomium to badger the country on the need to get rid of the “Jim Crow” filibuster and the ossified idea of a 50-state United States. Residence on a bluff in Martha’s Vineyard was not at all incongruent with the radicalism of kindred souls hitting the streets to protest “systemic racism” and capitalist exploitation. Antifa and BLM were grifters whose criminality in the street, like Roman gangs of the past, could be turned on and off before the election as needed. No such groups would ever march, burn, or loot on Martha’s Vineyard or in Kalorama. Once class under the tenets of cultural Marxism was largely ignored, the ranks of the victimized not only swelled and but grew wealthier and more powerful. So influential were they that the nation embraced flagellantism. Qualifying as a victim (however slight the grounds) meant that one could now castigate the entire unprivileged lower-middle working classes as privileged. The immigrant CEO from India, the African-American multimillion-dollar media anchor, the Facebook female mover, and shaker — all could now write off the deplorables/clingers/dregs/scum/ugly folk/chumps/irredeemables/smelly and toothless. And they could thereby obtain virtue-signaling tenure, despite their class privileges. If globalization and the universities had not bifurcated the nation enough, Obama finished the project by divorcing the authentic history of bias, violence, and institutionalized racism of the African-American experience from the new official ecumenical victimhood. The medieval indulgences sacralizing diversity worked for Obama as well. Who could believe that a diversity president really would build cages on the border, weaponize the IRS for his own political agenda, surveil the communications of Associated Press reporters, run guns to the cartels in Mexico, jail a video maker to mask the scandal of Benghazi, offer a quid pro quo on missile defense with Putin to help his own reelection campaign, and discredit the CIA, FBI, and DOJ to destroy an oppositional campaign, transition, and presidency? Diversity people just don’t do those things. If they are suspected of unethical behavior, then they must have a good reason for it; any perceived lapses are only a result of their passion for fighting bias, racism, sexism, and other -ologies and -isms. Incredibly rich people in a few zip codes, wealthy left-wingers’ thirst for penance, the global accentuation of class and regional differences, the corporatization of the universities along with the pauperization of students, the construct of a new “diversity,” social media and the Internet, and the idea that the affluent can be oppressed on the basis of their appearance, while the poor and lower-middle-class can be privileged on the same grounds — all that has created a radical new/old progressivism. And our collective madness is just getting started. RIP MCINTOSH

Progressives Are No Longer Defenders of Free Expression
Censorship, character assassination, and calls for literal book-burning are the Left’s tools of choice when faced with opposing views.
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSONDecember 3, 2020 
A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art, music, and literature to allow nudity, profanity, sexuality, and anti-American boilerplate.
Now?
The Left is Victorian — increasingly puritanical, regressive, and hypersensitive. Even totalitarian censorship and book-burning have weirdly become part of their by-any-means-necessary methods.
University of California, Berkeley, professor Grace Lavery was so outraged by author Abigail Shrier’s latest book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, that she went way beyond the usual calls to ban the book. Lavery advocated burning Shrier’s book.
“I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre,” Lavery tweeted last month.
Did the self-appointed liberal watchdog the American Civil Liberties Union step in to defend free expression?
No. Instead, one ACLU official poured gas on the book-burning fire.
“Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on,” tweeted Chase Strangio, the ACLU’s deputy director for transgender justice.
Note all of these melodramatic humanitarian verbs such as “steal,” “burn,” and “die.”
Staffers at the Canadian branch of Penguin Random House recently confronted management over the company’s publication of libertarian Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order, a sequel to his earlier bestseller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.
What were their objections to the book? Peterson, who has criticized the notion of white privilege and contends that masculinity is under attack, was accused of “white supremacy,” “hate speech,” and “transphobia.” These are simply our generation’s synonyms for their predecessors’ bogeyman labels “heretic,” “witch,” and “Communist.”
Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter are more refined in suppressing books, films, communications, and ideas they don’t like — and don’t want others to like, either.
Author Alex Berenson self-published a series of pamphlets on Amazon that offer a dissenting view about the efficacy of forced coronavirus lockdowns. Suddenly, Amazon blocked his most recent installment — at least until public pressure forced the multibillion-dollar company to relent.
Amazon did something similar to Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele, declining to stream his documentary What Killed Michael Brown? about the fatal 2014 shooting of Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo., and race relations in America. Once again, public outrage forced the company to back down from what appears to be a systematic and ideologically driven effort to stop the dissemination of books and films that don’t advance the progressive/regressive cause.
Note the pattern here. Publishers and platforms are not arguing that these books and films are mediocre. After all, they had initially agreed to publish or disseminate all of them.
Their subsequent flips and flops arise from fundamentalist progressive pressure of the sort used by social media to de-platform and cancel unwelcome politics and ideology.
So the First Amendment of the once freest nation in the world is comatose. This time its enemies are not hooded Klansmen seeking to intimidate African Americans or right-wing conspiracy theorists rooting out supposed Communists.
No, the culprits are progressives and leftist elites in publishing, the media, Silicon Valley, academia, entertainment, and government. They so lack confidence in the logic and persuasiveness of their own arguments that, in fear, they increasingly try to ban whatever bothers them.
The classic To Kill a Mockingbird and other books about racial issues were banned from the curriculum in the Burbank Unified School District in California last month.
The Left did not just oppose the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh; it sought to destroy his career and reputation through smears.
Professors at Stanford University hounded Hoover Institution fellow and public-health expert Dr. Scott Atlas. His apparent crime was advising President Trump that lockdowns and quarantines might ultimately cause more damage than COVID-19 itself. Atlas resigned from his role as Trump’s coronavirus adviser earlier this week.
Efforts to censor, cancel, discredit, or destroy the work of anyone with contrasting viewpoints are canonized by the wealthy, powerful left-wing elites and their institutions.
In Orwellian fashion, they have redefined being illiberal and vindictive as being woke, enlightened, and progressive — and for the public good rather than their own interests.
How ironic that the kindred spirits of today’s progressives are not Socrates, Galileo, and Harper Lee, but the Athenian mob, Joseph McCarthy, and the Taliban.
Past and present, all of these zealots and character assassins cloaked their intolerance in the pretense that they were advancing truth — by destroying it.