I haven’t written about Donald Trump’s inauguration, or about his opening wave of executive orders and pardons, because I doubt I have anything to say that you haven’t already thought of: beautiful event, powerful symbolism, all lights showing green in the control room.
I knew the old regime maddened me with all their insane rhetoric and virtue signaling, but I never knew how oppressed I felt until the day of deliverance! I am positively rejoicing!
I seldom read (Twi)X, but saw last night that a spontaneous army of jubilant intelligent people has swarmed into view. And are taking-to-the-cleaners the habitual pontifications of the furrowed-brow wrong-headed.
The Bonfire-of-the-Vicious tableau could serve as a miniature sparkling shadow-outline of the last chapter of the Book of Revelation. I had not before grasped the shared magnitude of mental-moral suffering caused by the crime, humiliation, and dishonesty forced down our muted throats.
The tears twinkle as they evaporate. And taste like the salt of the good earth.
It's the beginning of actual confrontation in a war that previously had only one side in combat. It ain't Appomatox. Didn't you see that femmie-pastor, preaching her feminist LGBTQRXZ religion? They are legion and women still rule over you.
Last night when I watched Trump sign the Jan 6 pardon and then stop his aide from moving on to the next doc, and instruct him to get the pardon order moving to the various prisons “now” so they could be released “tonight,” I almost started crying. Tears came to my eyes (even now they return). (I’m a hard-hearted bastard, and the last time I cried was at my sister’s 2005 funeral at Arlington.) The idea of mercy and intense personal concern from the sovereign is always moving.
I heard Mike Lee was on Glen Beck today and said only 2 were released so far. Don’t know status now but maybe the prison authorities don’t know who their new boss is. 🤷♂️
This really puts the lie to the pessimism “It doesn’t matter who you vote for.” I’m not sure there’s EVER been such a diametric reversal of policy so fast in history. Not even Reagan after Carter.
I think the keys are that Trump has experience, and his orders are specific, thereby precluding wiggle room by disinclined agency subordinates.
For example, today’s order to prosecute local officials obstructing ICE efforts to round up illegal aliens REQUIRES U.S. Attorneys making a non-prosecution decision to IMMEDIATELY notify the Attorney General DIRECTLY. Outstanding!!
This is appalling and infuriating! How is it that these American citizens can be so mistreated, but if illegal aliens were treated in the same way, all hell would break loose? Muriel Bowser should be removed from office!
Reports are coming in that the D.C. prison refused to release more than 2 prisoners the 1st night because “there were too many family members and protesters gathered outside the jail and they will have to leave before the inmates are released.” The next morning, the D.C. police wrote parking tickets to all people waiting for inmates, pursuant to “instructions.”
The medieval French invented a form of execution called the “oubliette” (place of forgetting), which was a tiny stone hole into which the condemned was locked, the outer sound proof door closed, and the inmate forgotten. Essentially being buried alive above ground. I’m thinking the D.C. authorities, principally the Mayor, are ripe for the oubliette. It wouldn’t take more than a few days & a concrete truck to make one. They have forgotten what happened to Robespierre – that what goes around comes around.
(BTW, Poe wrote a short story “The Cask of Amontillado” about a man taking revenge for an insult through analogous means. Compelling reading in my junior high English class.)
Too many people who bring up “Marxism” are dismissed as kooks.
But the source of this hatred of the average American is a combination of “the right of the intellectual aristocracy to rule” and “cultural divisiveness,” both taught indirectly and widely in universities throughout the West since the 1970’s. These are both core tactics of Marxism. The ultimate objective is the collapse of Western civilization and the establishment of a new order with Marxist totalitarians in charge. The vast majority of people subscribing to this claptrap are what the Marxists call “useful idiots,” because either they’re subscribers to the (false) effectiveness of communal ownership and sharing, or they’re social climbers hoping to be one of the eventual rulers.
Most people working for the Federal government at a senior manager level & above are in this latter category. They basically detest the citizenry. They subscribe to the old school parenting adage “Children should be seen and not heard.”
I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that if they could have conducted public executions on the National Mall after 1/6, they would have been happy to do so.
The French have a great saying “Pour encourager les autres.” (For the encouragement of the others). In WWI, the French had a recurring problem with whole units breaking in the meat grinder of trench warfare and running into German machine gun fire. So they developed the periodic practice of selecting several men from the survivors of a broken unit (regardless of innocence) and executing them in front of mass formation of French troops “for the encouragement of the others.”
Any parallel between the French military leadership in WWI and the U.S. DOJ under Biden is purely intentional.
Any organization that doesn't start evicting women like this from leadership positions is going to be increasingly irrelevant. I've had enough of this weakness masquerading as virtue, and have seen enough of where it leads.
Amen. Our family left in 2016 when our priest retired and was replaced with a priestess along the lines of the bishop of D.C. Found a solid, Biblically-centered Reformed church that has been a huge blessing, and has grown steadily as the local mainline churches wither.
Vermont Farm Wife: you have company. Her diatribe is demeaning to every legal migrant who has come to this country and abides by its laws. She ought to have been applauding the folks who are here legally and work hard to contribute. They ARE citizens.
As one of those you’re referring to, I couldn’t agree more. I doubt anyone despises illegal immigration’s more than those of us who did it the right/legal way, brought education and other qualities of value to the table, and continue to value the unique attributes of the constitution and why it stands for.
THIS. We are good friends with a family who went through all the hoops to immigrate from South Sudan, and become naturalized citizens. They do NOT appreciate the flood of illegals, and the contempt for our immigration laws.
I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church - by the bishop of Washington. My mother was on the vestry at St. John's. The church left me a long time ago. Faith unmoored from reason and humility.
You nailed it. I walked away from any idea of joining that church when I taught a year at one of the National Cathedral's schools. It just took one to many Monday morning Cathedral services with my students to see the going-thru-the-motions farce. One too many sanctimonious ivory tower self-centered minds among the leadership at the Cathedral Close grounds like that idiot, un-Christian, virtue-signaling woman who wouldn't recognize a true diplomat if he or she smiled at her. And, if she ever saw a leper, I expect she'd likely shun him or her in loathing and fear.
We need to remember it’s a relationship, not a religion. That’s why need to put on the WHOLE armor of God. Lots of anti-Christs. Follow Christ. Leave a church if your shepherd talks like this.
That was pretty much always Anglicanism's game though. The Anglican church started so Henry could divorce his wife and gain control of all those wealthy monasteries in England. It was created as a vehicle for Earthly power not Heavenly. Thus it retained the forms of Catholicism without those pesky marriage rules. But if the king can wipe away 1 rule, he can wipe away others, thus the great moral hollowing out of the Anglican Convention.
It's staggering how little push back there is, this time around, to the Trump presidency. Of course there are law suits, inevitably, but the Left has no weapons against this move in the Culture Wars. No weapons at all. What do they have to promote? Open borders, men in women's sports and in women's prisons, promotion based upon race?
We are all so sick to death of that.
And now we can look forward to our friends around the world receiving the message. Just wait until AfD wins in Germany, and the equivalent wins in France and Italy.
I still don't get how transgender children is a thing if nobody is doing surgery on kids. The boy running against girls is still a boy, just a boy on drugs. (Or not, depending on the state!!)
I can pray for transgenders to be touched by the Lord and repent, but to encourage their lie is a sin. Same goes for the sicko adults encouraging this in children.
Yes, well, sorry about that - I seldom find anything with which to disagree with you on but it is disturbing to say the very least, to see what is meant to be -stress here on "meant" - a Christian speaking from a pulpit and therefore even if vicariously, speaking out the Word of God and not using said pulpit as a political platform from which to spout a nonsense political agenda. If I were not actually living in such a time as this (to quote Scripture) I would not believe it- would you ? would anyone with even one sole brain cell ?
Has anyone asked them to expand on that purported threat? *How* exactly are their lives in danger? Because I believe statistics show "trans kids" are more likely to die after transitioning? Am I wrong? God bless these people; the irony is completely and utterly lost on them.
Like the ones on the Mall in DC who had to change the name of the "Women's March" to the "People's March" due to lack of interest on the part of enough women. Their hearts weren't in it either, and the legacy media had to get very creative with camera angles to make it look like there were huge crowds
Yeah, I saw some of the lefty slop accounts on substack trying to pretend it was a massive march and it was obvious as soon as you saw the ridiculously tight camera angles of the vids they were posting that they were full of it.
Don't underestimate the lack of funding for the protests. The Dems just grifted everything that wasn't bolted down during the last 3 months of that last election, there isn't a lot of free cheddar to be spread around to the Profesional Protestor Rats right now.
Canada is still in a rear-guard action up here; as Chris said we're in a performative-stasis mode where the panjandrums of the country still think and believe and act like it's 2020. It's stale, old, stupid and pointless, and the more Trump succeeds in what he wants to do, more and more Canadians will silently tell themselves, "I want *that*". I think once Trudeau finally slithers offstage the fever might finally break up here, especially if Poilievre is elected and actually grows a spine.
The uber-rich, in L.A. ,are getting a hard dose of reality, and feeling the pain all at the same time...and all at the same place.
There's a reason all the tech moguls immediately kissed the ring. They've essentially built empires reading and anticipating changes in the zeitgeist.
It can only go on for so long when expectations do not comport with reality before people realize they're working against their own interests. Plus these people fear one thing more than anything:
Being the last to know something socially.
Its over. It's ending just how it began; slowly, then all at once.
You'll notice that the gnashing of teeth are coming from people that are no longer relevant and have no lasting influence.
It's a dead position. The movement is dead. And history will record it as parareligion with a cross between the tulip craze, the Salem witch trials, and a cargo cult.
She is the living embodiment of proof satan has infiltrated the church. No mention of Jesus while embracing other gods,sexual perversion and child sexualization and mutilation. No doubt she believes in a women’s “right to choose “
She is a heretic, not a person of god. And I love how she racially stereotypes Hispanics as maids and vegetable pickers. Hilarious. I live in south Florida, Hispanic and latino population is huge, none of them pick vegetables.lol..these northeast shitlibs live in la la land. The most privileged pack of assholes around. They have zero knowledge of how the average person of any skin color or nationality lives.
If we'd all done that at the beginning of the plandemic we would've brought it to a swift end, like our forefathers brought the British empire to its knees from the "war rooms" of Taverns.
They knew that and that's why they did everything they could do to isolate us from each other.
I missed two things from a very long inauguration day yesterday\today, and that would be whatever that person is speaking, and the ball at the very end. Apparently I missed the worst and most indulgent parts of the day, and I am okay with it. I cannot fathom or decipher the fact that there is a dude in the White House who sat behind the Resolute desk: LIVE! From DC! fielding questions from a hostile press *while signing* the absolute destruction of the last four years of leftist hell in America. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen on television. It's that, or I have such a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome that I didn't think it could ever happen. Amazing day yesterday, I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did!
My 76 year old, Trump-phobic mother last night at dinner: "Trump took questions for several hours from reporters in the White House today. He just talked to them. I'd kind of forgotten that Presidents actually did that, but it was refreshing."
Mom has always been my barometer of the average, politically disengaged, Boomer who watches the CBS News. Because that's what she is. And if the Democrats are losing her, they're in deep doo-doo.
For me it had the sort of delight I always feel when I watch film of Charles deGaulle marching through just liberated Paris, in 1944. I don't think that's an inapt comparison. There are different kinds of tyranny, we all know it, and it always takes courage to oppose it. The right kind of defiance is exhilarating.
For me it's the image of those young, East German border guards with confused looks on their faces as they watched the crowds grow larger and larger. You can tell what they were thinking: no way I'm shooting anybody.
Just one thing to keep in mind about that image of DeGaulle: it was untold thousands of American soldiers who fought, bled & died from Normandy to the edge of Paris, only to be halted so French troops could transit though the lines of Third Army (led by Patton) to form the head of the column and make the just-arrived DeGaulle appear to be the conquerer of the Nazis.
It is worth noting that U.S. forces embarked from England on June 5, 1944.
French forces embarked from England on July 29, 1944.
I share your connection between Trump’s inauguration and the liberation of Paris. I just have considerable indigestion with DeGaulle’s “role” in it.
It's right to be skeptical of just how much The New Deal contributed to mitigating The Great Depression. But Roosevelt's leadership, his indomitability, was essential. He may have been talking bullsh*t for the most part, but it was necessary bullshit.
My admiration of the General's degaulle is endless. It was more complicated than the following, but ultimately, it was that he more or less just showed up at the BBC, said, “I am the leader of the French Resistance,” and they said, “Well, we guess you are.” Who can't love that?
Also, you must remember that DeGaulle was implored not to march. They had good reason to fear snipers. And if you have ever read an account of the assassination attempt against him in 1962, you might have started to giggle at the man's ballsiness. The cops recovered something like 175 shells. When the limo arrived at the airport, DeGaulle's only comment was, “That was close.”
Yes, he had brass balls. But the metallic content of one’s testicles does not make a statesman.
My personal view of DeGaulle was shaped by him giving the finger to NATO’s military arm (Allied Command Operations) in 1966, but retaining the French seat on the “North Atlantic Council,” the top entity in NATO and its policy-setter.
NOTHING was more important to DeGaulle than preserving vestiges of French superiority. Thus he was happy to sit on the “board” of NATO telling everyone else where, when & how they should fight, while refusing to subordinate ANY French troops to the control of any other ally’s officers. He was able to do this because NATO might well need French ports for resupply in an armor battle with the Soviets, and thus he could enjoy American protection (conventional and nuclear) while contributing nothing. He ejected all U.S. forces from French soil, leading Secretary of State Dean Rusk to ask “Does that include the dead Americans in military cemeteries as well?" Apparently it did not. How generous of him.
Oh my Lord, Rusk’s line should be garlanded in The Hall of Great Wit. I hadn't known about it. Yes, DeGaulle had a way about him, didn't he? FDR hated him, an unusual thing, really, because FDR doesn’t seem to have been given to real hatred anymore than Trump is.
You may have heard of the late 1960s Broadway musical, “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” ( a most unwise title, for obvious reasons ). There is some video of Brel performances on YouTube, and I'm almost sorry there is. He was said to be an electrifying performer, but it doesn't come across to me. But then, as you no doubt know, the French thought Jerry Lewis was a comic genius.
But as a songwriter, I can't find off arguments for the man's brilliance. That soundtrack is what The White Album might have been if The Beatles had been from Venus.
I bring Brel up in regard to DeGaulle because at around the time the show opened in 1968, Brel gave an interview in which he whacked America hard for all sorts of things, which many years later prompted a great critic of Broadway musicals to remark that the French never have had much use for us except when they needed us to rescue them from subjugation.
Having read up on Brel and listened to a few videos of him
performing, I join you in having to take the brilliance of his performance capabilities on faith. Then again, it was France in the 60’s and rock’n’roll with indoor fireworks was as yet uncommon. 😂
As to Jerry Lewis & the French, my impression (after working 16 yrs for or with French companies) is that the French are emotionally constipated, and require excessive comedic stimulation to release laughter.
It's all so hopelessly passe. I'm working on an article about this for tomorrow so I don't want to spoil TOO much, but that idiot Chris Murphy not only tweeted about the "ELON NAZI SAULTE", he brought it up during the Stephanik's confirmation hearing!
Or perhaps they're simply insane. So far removed from our reality that they actually think they inhabit a world in which their twisted beliefs ARE reality. And that words, or even minor disagreements, are violence.
It's POSSIBLE, but as an example, Chris Murphy posted about the 'bipartisan border bill' every day for MONTHS. And every single day he was 'corrected' about what that bill did and the fact the Senate was sitting on HR2. (Also that Congress need not be involved in the first place.)
Every single day he got ratioed into oblivion, but he was right back at it the next day. IMO, that's not stupidity, it's narrative control.
True. But I believe, or hope, that we're seeing the beginning of the end of the incessant narrative control efforts from our would be lords and masters.
The stupid component is evidenced by the continued, blatant, persistence shown by creatures like Mr. Murphy, who continued his efforts long after it was apparent that particular horse was, if not dead, at least in need of a cosmetic re-shoeing and new harness.
They're not going to give up. They can't! It is part of the core of what they are. The "struggle" is ALL to the Marxist. We can expect a (very) brief respite, and then - a new onslaught. Perhaps new tools, or new techniques, but the same old message, dressed up with a different hairdo and new clothes.
Even the ADL, which sees an anti-semite under every bed, put out a statement that NO, that was not a Nazi salute. At the same time X was filled with pictures of Democrat politicians making the same gesture. To continue to push a lie under those circumstances is malicious.
No need to panic over the really stupid comments made by Democrats and the media. The Democrat Central Narative Department has taken an extended vacation after the inauguration for a “mental health“ break, so Democrat politicians are being forced use outdated talking points or just wing it. The results have been predictably aweful. Left wing politicians and the media will once again sound like the familiar trained parrots we've all come to love when the staff returns from holiday.
Lenin or Stalin, I can't remember which, referred to "Useful Idiots" (I know, I could look it up on the interwebs) I sincerely doubt this is evidence of a "Useful Idiot" I have long suspected that folks like this are "Willful idiots" He justifies the mendacity because of his firm belief in the superiority of his particular religion over what he assumes is my religion. Its like a magic incantation that keeps some who are starting to stray from the holy path, it is a liturgy that solidifies is place as a certified communicant in this derainged religion, and it might just miraculously move someone slightly toward the holy path, however unlikely that is.
It's funny to me. The ones that are gnashing their teeth the hardest are the ones who are no longer relevant, with dwindling influence, and are unaware they're holding onto a dead position.
I think this lady, and those like her, really don't know how they look. I think she really thinks she is talking to a bunch of rubes who are desperately in need of her instruction. Leftists generally feel that way and wonder why we, the poor benighted, never seem to get it.
I’ve been arguing in my head with those crying about J6 pardons for the “violent ones” who fought with cops. Because I keep seeing a cop murder a woman that day and then make a call saying he needed help because shots had been fired. I just can’t reconcile it so I can’t put it behind me. Suggestions??
Note also that the shell of "Joe Biden," in his final hours as "president," commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who murdered two FBI agents -- one with a final gunshot to the head as he was disabled on the ground. So the "how dare you pardon people who attacked cops" screeching we're going to hear for the next four years is going to be...ironic.
The Episcopal church has fallen. They're no longer biblical. All the Episcopal churches, where I live, have rainbow flags out front. My last visit to the Episcopal church near me the wiccan, I mean priestess, was "hell" bent on supporting "Palestinians". During her sermon, a dozen people got up and walked out. I too left. Hamas invaded Israel two months later. Sad. Why alienate? This one's a TikTok heroine by now I bet.
I’m not convinced that we never fully left the era of STFU. That Biden became president was the result of a highly.improbable statistical anomaly….or a blatantly rigged election. Your pick. As a result, the bonehead emboldened the freaks of the left and the media backed them, making them appear greater in number than there ever really were.
Saul Alinsky, Rule #1: "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
This is a battle over the kind of people we wish to be, and that battle wages first in the individual; what kind of person do I wish to be? In that sense, it is first a spiritual conflict with wide ranging implication. Trump can fight for us, but he cannot win for us, that we must do for ourselves.
I knew the old regime maddened me with all their insane rhetoric and virtue signaling, but I never knew how oppressed I felt until the day of deliverance! I am positively rejoicing!
I seldom read (Twi)X, but saw last night that a spontaneous army of jubilant intelligent people has swarmed into view. And are taking-to-the-cleaners the habitual pontifications of the furrowed-brow wrong-headed.
The Bonfire-of-the-Vicious tableau could serve as a miniature sparkling shadow-outline of the last chapter of the Book of Revelation. I had not before grasped the shared magnitude of mental-moral suffering caused by the crime, humiliation, and dishonesty forced down our muted throats.
The tears twinkle as they evaporate. And taste like the salt of the good earth.
TwiX is my new fav name for it! ✌️🙏
High class stuff.
Exactly. Trumps a master at marketing. He called it "liberation day" for a reason...because that's how it feels.
You can't argue with success or that he doesn't have his finger on the pulse.
Yet I can hear the hissing sound already, of hot air leaking from the tire.
Too soon.
Way too soon. Nothing has been won.
It's the beginning of actual confrontation in a war that previously had only one side in combat. It ain't Appomatox. Didn't you see that femmie-pastor, preaching her feminist LGBTQRXZ religion? They are legion and women still rule over you.
That´s just it. The whole thing seems very staged. Why would Trump even bother to show up.
Hear, hear!! I had no idea exactly how repressive everything was until I woke up this morning feeling…lighter!!! I can’t stop smiling!
Last night when I watched Trump sign the Jan 6 pardon and then stop his aide from moving on to the next doc, and instruct him to get the pardon order moving to the various prisons “now” so they could be released “tonight,” I almost started crying. Tears came to my eyes (even now they return). (I’m a hard-hearted bastard, and the last time I cried was at my sister’s 2005 funeral at Arlington.) The idea of mercy and intense personal concern from the sovereign is always moving.
And the released prisoners now need a tsunami of lawsuits to bankrupt DC and every treasonous snake who was involved in their incarceration.
Start by locking up the feminist warden and the sadistic prison guards. Don't stop incarcerating until you get to Pelosi.
One wonders if she got an unannounced pardon…Probably not, as she went on TV to force his hand on withdrawal.
I can’t even imagine their families right now. I get teary thinking about it!!
I heard Mike Lee was on Glen Beck today and said only 2 were released so far. Don’t know status now but maybe the prison authorities don’t know who their new boss is. 🤷♂️
It felt like when Rocky beat Apollo in Rocky 2.
All this good news this morning! Yeah! And Trump going to western NC first.
I feel like singing.... LOL
This really puts the lie to the pessimism “It doesn’t matter who you vote for.” I’m not sure there’s EVER been such a diametric reversal of policy so fast in history. Not even Reagan after Carter.
I think the keys are that Trump has experience, and his orders are specific, thereby precluding wiggle room by disinclined agency subordinates.
For example, today’s order to prosecute local officials obstructing ICE efforts to round up illegal aliens REQUIRES U.S. Attorneys making a non-prosecution decision to IMMEDIATELY notify the Attorney General DIRECTLY. Outstanding!!
You'd get a 100 million "likes" if every adult in the country saw this.
True!!! I’m sharing it, but sadly I’m no influencer…
Of course you are (although perhaps not on the scale of some). You’ve influenced us.
True. Silence hasn’t worked through these last 8 years. I’m glad we didn’t stay silent. None of us. 👊
It's TRUE.
It's surreal. I almost can't believe it's true.
So well said!
Yes! When the President said it was Liberation Day my husband and I truly felt it!
I think we have had just a taste of what Parisians felt as the Allies marched down the Champs-Élysées…
Chris: Even a presidential pardon isn’t good enough:
https://youtu.be/4m_wUO_jlk8?si=PaMy-uIvoZPmcvX8
This is appalling and infuriating! How is it that these American citizens can be so mistreated, but if illegal aliens were treated in the same way, all hell would break loose? Muriel Bowser should be removed from office!
Reports are coming in that the D.C. prison refused to release more than 2 prisoners the 1st night because “there were too many family members and protesters gathered outside the jail and they will have to leave before the inmates are released.” The next morning, the D.C. police wrote parking tickets to all people waiting for inmates, pursuant to “instructions.”
The medieval French invented a form of execution called the “oubliette” (place of forgetting), which was a tiny stone hole into which the condemned was locked, the outer sound proof door closed, and the inmate forgotten. Essentially being buried alive above ground. I’m thinking the D.C. authorities, principally the Mayor, are ripe for the oubliette. It wouldn’t take more than a few days & a concrete truck to make one. They have forgotten what happened to Robespierre – that what goes around comes around.
(BTW, Poe wrote a short story “The Cask of Amontillado” about a man taking revenge for an insult through analogous means. Compelling reading in my junior high English class.)
Too many people who bring up “Marxism” are dismissed as kooks.
But the source of this hatred of the average American is a combination of “the right of the intellectual aristocracy to rule” and “cultural divisiveness,” both taught indirectly and widely in universities throughout the West since the 1970’s. These are both core tactics of Marxism. The ultimate objective is the collapse of Western civilization and the establishment of a new order with Marxist totalitarians in charge. The vast majority of people subscribing to this claptrap are what the Marxists call “useful idiots,” because either they’re subscribers to the (false) effectiveness of communal ownership and sharing, or they’re social climbers hoping to be one of the eventual rulers.
Most people working for the Federal government at a senior manager level & above are in this latter category. They basically detest the citizenry. They subscribe to the old school parenting adage “Children should be seen and not heard.”
I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that if they could have conducted public executions on the National Mall after 1/6, they would have been happy to do so.
The French have a great saying “Pour encourager les autres.” (For the encouragement of the others). In WWI, the French had a recurring problem with whole units breaking in the meat grinder of trench warfare and running into German machine gun fire. So they developed the periodic practice of selecting several men from the survivors of a broken unit (regardless of innocence) and executing them in front of mass formation of French troops “for the encouragement of the others.”
Any parallel between the French military leadership in WWI and the U.S. DOJ under Biden is purely intentional.
Any organization that doesn't start evicting women like this from leadership positions is going to be increasingly irrelevant. I've had enough of this weakness masquerading as virtue, and have seen enough of where it leads.
That ship has sailed.
Average Sunday Attendance: 780K in 2007 vs 410K today. Every diocese in America has seen at least a 30% decline over that time period.
Baptized members: 2.3M in 2007 vs 1.5M today.
https://generalconvention.org/membership-average-attendance/
The Episcopalian Church is already irrelevant. This woman is the last gasp of a discredited and heretical sect, a modern day Arian.
Amen. Our family left in 2016 when our priest retired and was replaced with a priestess along the lines of the bishop of D.C. Found a solid, Biblically-centered Reformed church that has been a huge blessing, and has grown steadily as the local mainline churches wither.
I really, really, detest these women. I say that as a woman; they make the rest of us, we the sane, look bad.
Vermont Farm Wife: you have company. Her diatribe is demeaning to every legal migrant who has come to this country and abides by its laws. She ought to have been applauding the folks who are here legally and work hard to contribute. They ARE citizens.
As one of those you’re referring to, I couldn’t agree more. I doubt anyone despises illegal immigration’s more than those of us who did it the right/legal way, brought education and other qualities of value to the table, and continue to value the unique attributes of the constitution and why it stands for.
I’ve a dear friend back in CA who immigrated here years ago from Bolivia. She despises the invaders from south of the border.
THIS. We are good friends with a family who went through all the hoops to immigrate from South Sudan, and become naturalized citizens. They do NOT appreciate the flood of illegals, and the contempt for our immigration laws.
The video reenforces my decision to quit the Episcopal church 30 years ago.
I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church - by the bishop of Washington. My mother was on the vestry at St. John's. The church left me a long time ago. Faith unmoored from reason and humility.
You nailed it. I walked away from any idea of joining that church when I taught a year at one of the National Cathedral's schools. It just took one to many Monday morning Cathedral services with my students to see the going-thru-the-motions farce. One too many sanctimonious ivory tower self-centered minds among the leadership at the Cathedral Close grounds like that idiot, un-Christian, virtue-signaling woman who wouldn't recognize a true diplomat if he or she smiled at her. And, if she ever saw a leper, I expect she'd likely shun him or her in loathing and fear.
We need to remember it’s a relationship, not a religion. That’s why need to put on the WHOLE armor of God. Lots of anti-Christs. Follow Christ. Leave a church if your shepherd talks like this.
That was pretty much always Anglicanism's game though. The Anglican church started so Henry could divorce his wife and gain control of all those wealthy monasteries in England. It was created as a vehicle for Earthly power not Heavenly. Thus it retained the forms of Catholicism without those pesky marriage rules. But if the king can wipe away 1 rule, he can wipe away others, thus the great moral hollowing out of the Anglican Convention.
It explains my granddaughter's in-laws.
Nice enough, but they always have had money. No scrabbling like I did and my family has ALWAYS been looked down on
POOR. WHITE. TRASH
I suspect, under Trump, that many female-led institutions will fail, Hemingway-style, gradually then suddenly. One can only hope.
This book regarding the takeover of the church by the alpha-woke crew is eye opening:
https://www.amazon.com/Shepherds-Sale-Evangelical-Leaders-Leftist/dp/0063413442/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1
Well, I am a woman myself, and I completely agree with you. There are male tyrants, too, but the women are particularly egregious.
Bloody moral narcissists. They are everywhere, wrecking everything.
AFUERA! :-D
Amen
It's staggering how little push back there is, this time around, to the Trump presidency. Of course there are law suits, inevitably, but the Left has no weapons against this move in the Culture Wars. No weapons at all. What do they have to promote? Open borders, men in women's sports and in women's prisons, promotion based upon race?
We are all so sick to death of that.
And now we can look forward to our friends around the world receiving the message. Just wait until AfD wins in Germany, and the equivalent wins in France and Italy.
"We are all so sick to death of that."
The idiot bishop told Trump and Vance that TRANSGENDER CHILDREN FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES TODAY, and I yawned so hard I almost passed out.
I still don't get how transgender children is a thing if nobody is doing surgery on kids. The boy running against girls is still a boy, just a boy on drugs. (Or not, depending on the state!!)
If any "transgender child" feared for his/her life... you now know how mentally ill their parents are.
One unexpected positive to the inauguration is that MSNBC is now fun to watch.
Transgender = bearing false witness.
I can pray for transgenders to be touched by the Lord and repent, but to encourage their lie is a sin. Same goes for the sicko adults encouraging this in children.
You yawned ? I was far too incensed to be able to do that. Still shaking my head..
Yes, well, sorry about that - I seldom find anything with which to disagree with you on but it is disturbing to say the very least, to see what is meant to be -stress here on "meant" - a Christian speaking from a pulpit and therefore even if vicariously, speaking out the Word of God and not using said pulpit as a political platform from which to spout a nonsense political agenda. If I were not actually living in such a time as this (to quote Scripture) I would not believe it- would you ? would anyone with even one sole brain cell ?
Has anyone asked them to expand on that purported threat? *How* exactly are their lives in danger? Because I believe statistics show "trans kids" are more likely to die after transitioning? Am I wrong? God bless these people; the irony is completely and utterly lost on them.
I couldn't listen much beyond that point, what with the shaky voice and high drama. Fool us no longer.
"Vegan cat". Same thing.
Even Portland was quiet yesterday. A little protesting during the weekend, but you could tell their hearts weren't in it.
Like the ones on the Mall in DC who had to change the name of the "Women's March" to the "People's March" due to lack of interest on the part of enough women. Their hearts weren't in it either, and the legacy media had to get very creative with camera angles to make it look like there were huge crowds
I think we'll probably get confirmation that some NGO or another was paying for protestors in 2020.
Yeah, I saw some of the lefty slop accounts on substack trying to pretend it was a massive march and it was obvious as soon as you saw the ridiculously tight camera angles of the vids they were posting that they were full of it.
“Women Only” is blatantly prejudiced because it excludes the other 56 sexes!! Oops! Wong comments section. My bad! 😉😜
Don't underestimate the lack of funding for the protests. The Dems just grifted everything that wasn't bolted down during the last 3 months of that last election, there isn't a lot of free cheddar to be spread around to the Profesional Protestor Rats right now.
The crazy, Hamas loving, scarf wearing protestors at the UW in Seattle are not taking any time off.
You left out the daily struggle of “minor-attracted persons” for access to their prey. The Left has that, too
Canada is still in a rear-guard action up here; as Chris said we're in a performative-stasis mode where the panjandrums of the country still think and believe and act like it's 2020. It's stale, old, stupid and pointless, and the more Trump succeeds in what he wants to do, more and more Canadians will silently tell themselves, "I want *that*". I think once Trudeau finally slithers offstage the fever might finally break up here, especially if Poilievre is elected and actually grows a spine.
From your lips to God's ears.
That's the only thing that can possibly save Canada now. Even PP is a sheep in wolf's clothing, I suspect.
The citizens of other countries (Canada, Australia, UK, Europe) looking at what happens in the US may be an irresistible force for change, we hope.
Sanity bats last.
The uber-rich, in L.A. ,are getting a hard dose of reality, and feeling the pain all at the same time...and all at the same place.
There's a reason all the tech moguls immediately kissed the ring. They've essentially built empires reading and anticipating changes in the zeitgeist.
It can only go on for so long when expectations do not comport with reality before people realize they're working against their own interests. Plus these people fear one thing more than anything:
Being the last to know something socially.
Its over. It's ending just how it began; slowly, then all at once.
You'll notice that the gnashing of teeth are coming from people that are no longer relevant and have no lasting influence.
It's a dead position. The movement is dead. And history will record it as parareligion with a cross between the tulip craze, the Salem witch trials, and a cargo cult.
From your lips to God’s ear.
But this firehose of 🐴💩 all stems from Marxism which, being the politics of envy, seemingly will never die.
The politics of victimization is just the latest handout – get something for nothing, with the bonus of being able to oppress the Man.
And you can not have open borders and a welfare state, very long, before it collapses
You absolutely nailed it.
Trump/we squeezed the pus from the wound. Now he is cauterizing it.
Good analogy.
Their next avenue will be attacking bio women for complaining when other “women” piss on the toilet seat.
She is the living embodiment of proof satan has infiltrated the church. No mention of Jesus while embracing other gods,sexual perversion and child sexualization and mutilation. No doubt she believes in a women’s “right to choose “
Yes. Let us turn now to our love of God, and condemn those who would fail to sever the genitals of young children. It's very, very, very strange.
Maybe someone should introduce her to the verse about "tying a millstone around your neck and throwing yourself into the lake". Peace and love!
Source too obscure for her. She hasn't read it.
"Our God". You know, like "The Science".
"Our Democracy".
You forgot the trademark symbol. It’s “The Science ™️” and “Our Democracy™️
A picture of her is all I need to know about what she will say.
I think we should have updated CAPTAS
Click on all of the WOKE people...
And creepy
She is a heretic, not a person of god. And I love how she racially stereotypes Hispanics as maids and vegetable pickers. Hilarious. I live in south Florida, Hispanic and latino population is huge, none of them pick vegetables.lol..these northeast shitlibs live in la la land. The most privileged pack of assholes around. They have zero knowledge of how the average person of any skin color or nationality lives.
The Episcopal Church is a solid supporter of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. That should tell you all you need to know.
Life is short.Always remember to make time to drink good beer with good friends.
Always!
If we'd all done that at the beginning of the plandemic we would've brought it to a swift end, like our forefathers brought the British empire to its knees from the "war rooms" of Taverns.
They knew that and that's why they did everything they could do to isolate us from each other.
Make Taverns Great Again!
Also drink bad beer with bad friends! Just beer and friends!
If I offered a Bud Light to any of my friends, I'd get my headlights punched out.
Lifes too short for shitty beer.
I bought a bunch of my friends Bud Light 6 packs for Xmas in 2023. I thought it was hilarious!
I missed two things from a very long inauguration day yesterday\today, and that would be whatever that person is speaking, and the ball at the very end. Apparently I missed the worst and most indulgent parts of the day, and I am okay with it. I cannot fathom or decipher the fact that there is a dude in the White House who sat behind the Resolute desk: LIVE! From DC! fielding questions from a hostile press *while signing* the absolute destruction of the last four years of leftist hell in America. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen on television. It's that, or I have such a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome that I didn't think it could ever happen. Amazing day yesterday, I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did!
My 76 year old, Trump-phobic mother last night at dinner: "Trump took questions for several hours from reporters in the White House today. He just talked to them. I'd kind of forgotten that Presidents actually did that, but it was refreshing."
Mom has always been my barometer of the average, politically disengaged, Boomer who watches the CBS News. Because that's what she is. And if the Democrats are losing her, they're in deep doo-doo.
That's great!
Edit: "have lost her."
For me it had the sort of delight I always feel when I watch film of Charles deGaulle marching through just liberated Paris, in 1944. I don't think that's an inapt comparison. There are different kinds of tyranny, we all know it, and it always takes courage to oppose it. The right kind of defiance is exhilarating.
For me it's the image of those young, East German border guards with confused looks on their faces as they watched the crowds grow larger and larger. You can tell what they were thinking: no way I'm shooting anybody.
Just one thing to keep in mind about that image of DeGaulle: it was untold thousands of American soldiers who fought, bled & died from Normandy to the edge of Paris, only to be halted so French troops could transit though the lines of Third Army (led by Patton) to form the head of the column and make the just-arrived DeGaulle appear to be the conquerer of the Nazis.
It is worth noting that U.S. forces embarked from England on June 5, 1944.
French forces embarked from England on July 29, 1944.
I share your connection between Trump’s inauguration and the liberation of Paris. I just have considerable indigestion with DeGaulle’s “role” in it.
It's right to be skeptical of just how much The New Deal contributed to mitigating The Great Depression. But Roosevelt's leadership, his indomitability, was essential. He may have been talking bullsh*t for the most part, but it was necessary bullshit.
My admiration of the General's degaulle is endless. It was more complicated than the following, but ultimately, it was that he more or less just showed up at the BBC, said, “I am the leader of the French Resistance,” and they said, “Well, we guess you are.” Who can't love that?
Also, you must remember that DeGaulle was implored not to march. They had good reason to fear snipers. And if you have ever read an account of the assassination attempt against him in 1962, you might have started to giggle at the man's ballsiness. The cops recovered something like 175 shells. When the limo arrived at the airport, DeGaulle's only comment was, “That was close.”
Yes, he had brass balls. But the metallic content of one’s testicles does not make a statesman.
My personal view of DeGaulle was shaped by him giving the finger to NATO’s military arm (Allied Command Operations) in 1966, but retaining the French seat on the “North Atlantic Council,” the top entity in NATO and its policy-setter.
NOTHING was more important to DeGaulle than preserving vestiges of French superiority. Thus he was happy to sit on the “board” of NATO telling everyone else where, when & how they should fight, while refusing to subordinate ANY French troops to the control of any other ally’s officers. He was able to do this because NATO might well need French ports for resupply in an armor battle with the Soviets, and thus he could enjoy American protection (conventional and nuclear) while contributing nothing. He ejected all U.S. forces from French soil, leading Secretary of State Dean Rusk to ask “Does that include the dead Americans in military cemeteries as well?" Apparently it did not. How generous of him.
Oh my Lord, Rusk’s line should be garlanded in The Hall of Great Wit. I hadn't known about it. Yes, DeGaulle had a way about him, didn't he? FDR hated him, an unusual thing, really, because FDR doesn’t seem to have been given to real hatred anymore than Trump is.
You may have heard of the late 1960s Broadway musical, “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” ( a most unwise title, for obvious reasons ). There is some video of Brel performances on YouTube, and I'm almost sorry there is. He was said to be an electrifying performer, but it doesn't come across to me. But then, as you no doubt know, the French thought Jerry Lewis was a comic genius.
But as a songwriter, I can't find off arguments for the man's brilliance. That soundtrack is what The White Album might have been if The Beatles had been from Venus.
I bring Brel up in regard to DeGaulle because at around the time the show opened in 1968, Brel gave an interview in which he whacked America hard for all sorts of things, which many years later prompted a great critic of Broadway musicals to remark that the French never have had much use for us except when they needed us to rescue them from subjugation.
Having read up on Brel and listened to a few videos of him
performing, I join you in having to take the brilliance of his performance capabilities on faith. Then again, it was France in the 60’s and rock’n’roll with indoor fireworks was as yet uncommon. 😂
As to Jerry Lewis & the French, my impression (after working 16 yrs for or with French companies) is that the French are emotionally constipated, and require excessive comedic stimulation to release laughter.
I guess interpretation is in the mind of the beholder. I saw Rusk’s response as acid sarcasm rather that wit. Risk was quick-witted certainly.
I’ll have to look up Brel.
The only thing that would have made it even more amazing was to see a few traitors being perp walked.
Give it time my friend. As the saying goes: Time heals all wounds....and gives you an opportunity to draft indictments.
It's all so hopelessly passe. I'm working on an article about this for tomorrow so I don't want to spoil TOO much, but that idiot Chris Murphy not only tweeted about the "ELON NAZI SAULTE", he brought it up during the Stephanik's confirmation hearing!
I saw. It's just so pathetic.
Maybe they've been coddled for so long they literally have no other options.
Or perhaps they're simply insane. So far removed from our reality that they actually think they inhabit a world in which their twisted beliefs ARE reality. And that words, or even minor disagreements, are violence.
It's POSSIBLE, but as an example, Chris Murphy posted about the 'bipartisan border bill' every day for MONTHS. And every single day he was 'corrected' about what that bill did and the fact the Senate was sitting on HR2. (Also that Congress need not be involved in the first place.)
Every single day he got ratioed into oblivion, but he was right back at it the next day. IMO, that's not stupidity, it's narrative control.
"that's not stupidity, it's narrative control."
True. But I believe, or hope, that we're seeing the beginning of the end of the incessant narrative control efforts from our would be lords and masters.
The stupid component is evidenced by the continued, blatant, persistence shown by creatures like Mr. Murphy, who continued his efforts long after it was apparent that particular horse was, if not dead, at least in need of a cosmetic re-shoeing and new harness.
They're not going to give up. They can't! It is part of the core of what they are. The "struggle" is ALL to the Marxist. We can expect a (very) brief respite, and then - a new onslaught. Perhaps new tools, or new techniques, but the same old message, dressed up with a different hairdo and new clothes.
Totally agree.
Even the ADL, which sees an anti-semite under every bed, put out a statement that NO, that was not a Nazi salute. At the same time X was filled with pictures of Democrat politicians making the same gesture. To continue to push a lie under those circumstances is malicious.
Yep.
No need to panic over the really stupid comments made by Democrats and the media. The Democrat Central Narative Department has taken an extended vacation after the inauguration for a “mental health“ break, so Democrat politicians are being forced use outdated talking points or just wing it. The results have been predictably aweful. Left wing politicians and the media will once again sound like the familiar trained parrots we've all come to love when the staff returns from holiday.
Time to drag out Dr Strange Love and create a meme mocking the Leftards with it!
Idiot is not sufficient to describe Chris Murphy and his tweet about Elon!
Lenin or Stalin, I can't remember which, referred to "Useful Idiots" (I know, I could look it up on the interwebs) I sincerely doubt this is evidence of a "Useful Idiot" I have long suspected that folks like this are "Willful idiots" He justifies the mendacity because of his firm belief in the superiority of his particular religion over what he assumes is my religion. Its like a magic incantation that keeps some who are starting to stray from the holy path, it is a liturgy that solidifies is place as a certified communicant in this derainged religion, and it might just miraculously move someone slightly toward the holy path, however unlikely that is.
Desperation. It's kinda fun to watch. When I saw the pic of the "salute" I thought "SpaceX--Take Off!"
It's funny to me. The ones that are gnashing their teeth the hardest are the ones who are no longer relevant, with dwindling influence, and are unaware they're holding onto a dead position.
Really. Who elects that?
I think this lady, and those like her, really don't know how they look. I think she really thinks she is talking to a bunch of rubes who are desperately in need of her instruction. Leftists generally feel that way and wonder why we, the poor benighted, never seem to get it.
It’s like they forget we know how to read and we know the basics of human psychology better than they do
'narcissistic virtue performance'
Great description.
I’ve been arguing in my head with those crying about J6 pardons for the “violent ones” who fought with cops. Because I keep seeing a cop murder a woman that day and then make a call saying he needed help because shots had been fired. I just can’t reconcile it so I can’t put it behind me. Suggestions??
Note also that the shell of "Joe Biden," in his final hours as "president," commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who murdered two FBI agents -- one with a final gunshot to the head as he was disabled on the ground. So the "how dare you pardon people who attacked cops" screeching we're going to hear for the next four years is going to be...ironic.
Irony is a trait in functioning, thinking individuals. it is lost on those who routinely make same sentence contradictions.
Exchange ironic with moronic!
That shit thug is still lionized up here for some reason.
The Episcopal church has fallen. They're no longer biblical. All the Episcopal churches, where I live, have rainbow flags out front. My last visit to the Episcopal church near me the wiccan, I mean priestess, was "hell" bent on supporting "Palestinians". During her sermon, a dozen people got up and walked out. I too left. Hamas invaded Israel two months later. Sad. Why alienate? This one's a TikTok heroine by now I bet.
May we be entering the golden age of, “Shut up, retard.”
Exactly
So...the '80s then? Awesome. Miss that decade, a *lot*.
I’m not convinced that we never fully left the era of STFU. That Biden became president was the result of a highly.improbable statistical anomaly….or a blatantly rigged election. Your pick. As a result, the bonehead emboldened the freaks of the left and the media backed them, making them appear greater in number than there ever really were.
Saul Alinsky, Rule #1: "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
Winning. It has been so long, I almost forgot how it feels.
bsn
Perfect description of the “bishop”
The best comment I ever heard about Episcopalians, "where four are gathered, there's also a fifth".
For them nothing is true but their feels. Hollow people.
Applies to us Catholics, too. 😂
This is a battle over the kind of people we wish to be, and that battle wages first in the individual; what kind of person do I wish to be? In that sense, it is first a spiritual conflict with wide ranging implication. Trump can fight for us, but he cannot win for us, that we must do for ourselves.
Completely agree.
Do the work that no one sees, become the person whose behavior everyone sees… and respects.
“Pay attention, Orange Man, GOD IS SPEAKING THROUGH ME!”
I think she has Fauci syndrome.
Fauci would have said “I am God.”