Well, here we go – again.
The World Health Organization – which somehow became the boss of the world through a process that had nothing to do with the people of the world agreeing to it – has just declared a “global health emergency” – again. This time, on account of an Ebola outbreak in Africa.
A WHO statement issued the other day says there are “significant uncertainties to the true number of infected persons and geographic spread” and a “limited understanding of the epidemiological links” between victims. It adds that “data all point towards a potentially much larger outbreak than what is currently being detected and reported.”
You can almost hear it, again. The cases! The CASES!
At least 250 “suspected” cases so far – in Africa. According to The New York Post, “Initial testing yielded a staggering positivity rate, with 8 out of 13 samples collected by the Congolese National Institute of Biomedical Research coming back positive.”
And we may soon actually hear it again – here.
Probably when the cost of Trump’s stupid, evil war rises to $6 per gallon – at which point a new distraction (that will also serve the usual goal of wealth extraction) will be needed. Does anyone remember what happened last time? When “COVID” was rolled out and we got hit with The cases! The CASES! erupting from every TeeVee and computer and radio, as if on cue (and using the same wording, as if from a script) it became the pretext for the extraction of billions from the small, independent businesses that were bankrupted by selective application of lockdown rules.
You could not enter the little bistro in your small town but you could shop at Wal-Mart downtown all day long.
Just so long as you “practiced” Sickness Kabuki, by wearing a demoralization halter over your face and pretending everyone in the place was a disease carrying leper, standing six feet apart from them and interacting with them only through a plexiglass shield. It was very effective – in terms of spreading and prolonging fear, which did an effective job of taking people’s minds off the way they were being enserfed for the benefit, as always, of corporations.
Wealth – real wealth, not the mom-and-pop sort but the corporate sort – was redistributed and concentrated in the hands of the big-time players while the rest of us were ordered to stay home and keep the doors of our stores closed. Later on, “stimulus” checks were sent out that caused the cost of everything to increase not just proportionately but disproportionately. The country is still reeling from the effects of all that. Not just economically but also psychologically. Millions still don their demoralization halter, having been so beaten down that they regard their own embarrassing adherence to this silly ritual as a sensible precaution. It is doubtless also the case that they see those sans the demoralization halter as dangerous. For now, they walk among us quietly. Will they remain quiet when the TeeVee erupts with its every-fifteen-minutes updates about the CASES! . . .? 
What will happen in the coming weeks when tens of millions can longer afford to drive to work because they can no longer afford to fill up their vehicles? What will happen when they can no longer afford to buy food? What will happen when both things happen at the same time? Wouldn’t it be convenient to head that eventuality off at the pass by locking everyone down – again – because there’s a deadly virus floating around?
How about two?
This Ebola thing is just the latest thing. The Hantavirus thing is the prior thing. The “experts” decided not to quarantine the plague ship and thereby greatly reduce the risk of an outbreak. Instead, they sent “the cases” all over the world – including to the United States, which means the risk of an “outbreak” has been increased. Instead of a single ship that could – if it became necessary – be left isolated and thereby give the Hantavirus no place to go while the sickness ran its course among a relative handful of people who could not transmit it beyond the ship, it was sent all over the world, giving it multiple opportunities to spread all over the world. And then – now – there’s this Ebola thing.
It could be a double tap.
Or – if you prefer – a tsunami that has more than just one wave.
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Well, shit. Looks like the bad guys win, again. Who says a foreign power can’t buy a U.S. election?
I should have seen this coming. Like I said, Kentucky (where I dwell) is full of easily manipulated dullards and dimwits.
This is depressing.
The Israeli press is looking forward to their ‘blessings’ from the American taxpayer (which doesn’t include the pedophile sodomite puppet traitor Trump)! “Thomas Massie Loses His Seat in a Win for Trump — and AIPAC The race was widely viewed as a referendum on the president. It was also a test of the pro-Israel lobby’s power.
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/19/thomas-massie-loses-election-results-trump-aipac-kentucky/
They try to say the pedophile puppet’s ‘hatred’ was more important — but I believe the election was stolen. It’s incredible that they would spend, and I include the pedophile criminal who should be in jail along with Lutnik and Todd Blanche, $30 million to defeat Massie and not take care of the voting machines and those manning them. Maybe they bought the voters — “blessing them” for voting billions to Israel.
“Haeertz.com “The most consequential primary for Israel is happening in Kentucky.”
What does Kentucky have to do with Israel?”
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/184458
The irony here is as Trump serves Israel he is destroying it.
The ceasefire has allowed Iran to rebuild, recoup, change strategies, radar systems. I bet not so good for air power next time, Iran destroyed 49 USA jets, along with whole F-35 squadrons in Israel.
I bet Iran doesn’t hold back this time.
Hi Jack,
I just published the following about Massie’s loss: https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/05/20/exit-massie/
It’s a sad day in hell, Trump’s win will only encourage him to do more stupid dangerous things that sends the nation to hell. Shame on the Kentucky voters who voted for Israel over national sovereignty.
The one silver lining in all of this as Trump serves Israel, the war is costing Israel dearly. Next attack on Iran could end Israel.
I dwell in Kentucky and I’m ashamed of it.
About the Kentucky election and the huge Evangelical population that occupies that state – which is smack dab near the center of the Bible belt.
“49% of adults in Kentucky identify as Evangelical Protestant,”
That translates politically to support Israel so I can go to heaven. The horror show in Palestine is being driven by fear of death. Humans, being sentient with their big brain, do not want to die and not exist. In Amerika, a land settled with KJV bible, believes mostly in the Christian myth, and Jesus who died for your sins and all the rest.
Only one problem, none of it is true. No such thing as sin separating you from god, (that is only a belief, based on theocratic assertions, of which there is no evidence). No one can die and go to hell (or heaven). In fact you don’t go nowhere, you just die. For you to go somewhere, there would have to be part of you that survives death, and science can find no such thing.
The soul is completely unproven assertion the theist inserted into his narrative of life after death. When you are dead, everyone can see plain as day your dead body. So the clever theist had to invent something to CONvince you there was this thing that goes out of your body to the afterlife. The priest said you have this soul that goes before god for judgment. None of those assertions are provable or supported by one shred of evidence – but the matters not – they are believed and thus those that believe can be manipulated and controlled to support Israel.
That is what is really going down in Kentucky today. Belief vs reality. If the believers win, Kentucky and the USA are damned.
https://www.unz.com/proberts/us-rep-thomas-massies-primary-tomorrow-is-a-test-of-us-sovereignty/
It does and it doesn’t.
Evangelical Christianity is more or less what you make of it, but not in the same way as, say, the Unitarians are.
I forget exactly the reason why (quite possibly because of the Catholics’ position on it?) but historically they were for abortion before they were against it.
They have been very pro-Israel for some time now, but the wind is shifting and I wouldn’t be surprised if they dial it back a bit on that one. They aren’t a weather game, exactly, but they do shift around a bit on a lot of stuff.
They are pretty consistent about not embracing the theory of evolution, however.
Well, Kentucky *is* packed with evangelical Protestants, and, yes, the bulk of them support Israel unconditionally, because of a Bible verse or two that says God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel.
Believing as they do, these are in a difficult position.
The question arises: is the present day state of Israel (only founded in 1948) to be equated with the ancient biblical nation of Israel? Many would dispute that.
Also, by no means are all Christians Zionists. Hardly any Catholic is, and most Protestants are not evangelicals.
As for “all the rest,” either things like God and the soul and an afterlife of some kind (good or bad) exist or they don’t.
You say there is not one shred of evidence. That is a matter of dispute as well.
What counts as evidence? Only things that can be weighed and measured with instruments, or repeatedly cooked up on demand n a test tube in a lab? There may be more things in Heaven and in Earth than can be weighed and measured and tested like that
I dwell in Kentucky. I *was* a Southern Baptist. I think that is usually considered an evangelical denomination, though I myself do not think of myself as any sort of evangelist or missionary.
In my youth I was a strong. supporter of Israel. Things looked a lot different during the Cold War. It was possible to reasonably believe certain things back then that cannot be reasonably believed anymore.
My eyes were opened about the modern nation-state of Israel comparatively recently. I think I see clearly now.
My theological thinking has moved away from Baptist beliefs, and edged closer to a Roman Catholic outlook. But it is very hard to know what to do about that, in practical terms.
I flirted with the idea of converting on two or three occasions, but always cot cold feet and chickened out. They don’t make it too easy. It’s not a matter of just walking and saying, “Okay, I believe. Sign me up.” No, you’ve got to take all these classes.
Anyway, I’m for Massie and would have voted for him if I could, but I can’t because I’m not in his district.
Oh by the way I also believe in some version of evolution, or at least in a process of natural selection. I am not scientifically illiterate. I know the Earth is billions, not thousands of years old.I just don’t think any of that proves there is no God.
I did not say anything about evidence or whether there is or is not a god or what I actually think on the matter. If you read between the lines of what I actually wrote, I think you might be surprised at what was implied. And yes I entertained sone ideas that are heterodox if not outright heretical but what you’re arguing against isn’t even in the same ballpark of what I actually said, or implied.
Although you did illustrate one of my predictions rather nicely while trying to argue against it. If you changed your thinking over time, why wouldn’t others?
I was responding to Yukon Jack, not you.
Sorry my bad
YJ: You cannot prove what you are saying either. You have never died. “Science” means “to know” — none of us including scientists know because none of us have died. Those who followed Jesus attested that He did rise from the dead. You can say you don’t believe them, same as you can not believe OJ Simpson or the 911 Report. It is a decision every man must make for himself. Why when there are 2000 years of people who have been believing the Apostles, at this date of 2026, you expect anyone to believe what you say happens when we die even though you yourself have never died, I don’t know.
You assert here: “No such thing as sin separating you from god, (that is only a belief, based on theocratic assertions, of which there is no evidence). No one can die and go to hell (or heaven). In fact you don’t go nowhere, you just die.”
In your 5/18 @11:20 pm comment you asserted “Since people know they are alive, and have egos” — has science proven we have egos? Sigmund Freud, a Jew, first used the term around 100 years ago. It means “the I.” What’s the difference between believing you have an ego, Id and Superego or believing you have a soul? Why exchange one Jew for another? You can say you don’t believe consciousness survives the body but can you prove it? You say there is no evidence; but more people attend seances, hire witch doctors, read horoscopes and affiliate with religions. You don’t seem to understand, that you did not come up with the arguments you are making and that there’s no more evidence for them than for Christianity.
What was the benefit to you to believe Freud rather than Christ? You don’t have to practice Christianity anymore (glorify God, go to church, honor your parents, don’t steal, don’t kill etc.) AND you don’t have to worry about sinning because there’s nothing when you die. You don’t have to worry about ending up in hell.
I don’t know what you chose that made your family go “ape shit with the choice I made.” Maybe you simply chose Freud and said you no longer believed and weren’t going through the motions anymore. Maybe you chose someone/some sin (a creature/yourself) lifestyle not to be given up for “mere words” in a book.
You said you respected your family’s choice, but by the way you dismissed their belief with some pop Freudian psychology and assumed you know why they believe Christ (vs. reincarnation, everyone goes to “a better place”/Valhalla/Olympus or that they themselves become Gods–does your summation (dismissal) of Christianity really cover it? What about the cross? Suffering? Sacrifice? Love?), you showed you didn’t respect their choice. You then went on to say, “I’ve come to disdain Abrahamic religions altogether. The Holy Bible, in my view, is the most evil book ever written because of what happened to me with my own inner family relationships. That Jew book causes strife and divisions amongst family members, all because of mere words.”
By that “altogether,” I don’t know if you mean you already disdained Christianity even while claiming you respected your family’s choice. But after they shunned you (I guess), you decided to disdain Islam and Judaism also. If you respected your family’s belief then you would understand that they are trying to go to Canada and believe by your choices you are heading to Mexico where you will suffer unspeakable torments for all eternity. God by Christian definition is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent and all good. He made giraffes. He made you. What do you have to offer anyone to compete with that? Also I’m sure it was a great sorrow to your parents just like to the father of the prodigal son and that they were doing the only thing they knew to bring you to your senses (1 Cor 5:13). You annoy people here with so many posts saying the same (I’m sure I do too) so maybe they shunned you because you were insufferable. [I really have no idea about your situation or what happened to you, but usually the fault isn’t always on one side or the other. You weren’t the least little bit “vile” yourself?]
https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-owe-my-parents-everything-thanks-mom.html
Evangelicals don’t have priests. They believe they are going to heaven because they believe–no matter what sin they commit. So your thesis that “That translates politically to support Israel so I can go to heaven” is flat incorrect. They are supporting Israel so that they can be blessed with material goods/benefits in this life/on earth. John Hagee just like Ted Cruz and Lindsay and Paula White and Trump are certainly being showered with millions in this life. But what the Bible says is that you can not serve God and Mammon. “Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony”
The Catholic Church does teach that there are four last things: death, judgment, heaven or hell and that if you contemplate that end every day, “remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return,” and keep busy doing the things you should be doing, you won’t have much problem staying out of mortal sin.
You might think that sin is your friend or that what you’ve done is no sin at all and it’s not your family’s fault or yours, but God who wrote the book. By definition: God is good. The wages of sin is death. Only you can know your heart, but if you think one day there’s .00000000001% chance you might meet Jesus, I would go with that–this life is short. Eternity. Is. Forever.
I disagree that anything happens at death besides you lose consciousness. There are no wages of sin, sin is only a theological construct used to control the rabble. Not going to meet Jesus, for one, he never existed. No god cares if I lived or died. The only judgment is in courts on earth or other people’s prejudice. The hardest thing for anyone to ever accept is their life was just a product of gods creating us with big self aware brains. Note how the gorilla cares nothing of god, afterlife, church, prayer, sin, theology, or going to Mars.
The great big joke is that we think we matter and can beat death. Salvation theology is sustained by wishful thinking, not any evidence or facts. The preachers are selling you hot air, they collect money upfront and never have to deliver the car – meaning when you die and you don’t go to heaven as they promised, how are you going to sue when you are dead. Religion is a total scam sustained by belief, wishful thinking, and fake theology.
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/2047231883142918549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2047231883142918549%7Ctwgr%5E5b27dbf7691ee0a1d6a4bb9cd52562906635c47a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fpro-israel-forces-throw-kitchen-sink-massie-ahead-tuesday-primary
I just came from voting in Kentucky’s GOP primary. I’m not in Massie’s district so he wasn’t on my ballot here.
I didn’t vote for Andy Barry for senator precisely because Trump endorsed him. That’s like the Kiss of Death for me now.
I won’t say who I did vote for against him. I suspect few here would approve.
I voted for James Comer for congressional representative. He’s not as good as Massie, but he’ll do.
I skipped all the county/local races. I didn’t know who any of the candidates were.
There weren’t any referendums.
https://infostormer.com/thomas-massie-is-under-total-assault-by-zog-machine/
Kim Inversion is spot on
A key reason why I do not espouse liberal political views in general, and a key reason why I believe that our nation, and my state, county, and city will, all else being equal, be worse off under liberal administration, is that liberals treat environmental, health, and safety matters not with cool, careful, and calculated scientific analysis of costs and benefits, but with the heated religious fervor of a doomsday cult.
I suspect that the reason why is that liberals have stopped believing in God (if they ever did in the first place).
When you stop believing in God, it does not mean that you believe in nothing—it means that you believe in anything. Environmentalism, “healthism,” and “safetyism” are things that people who stop believing in God believe in instead.
Also, when you stop believing in God, you believe that this life and this world are all there is and that when you die, you’re dead. So, you must preserve and extend life in this world at any cost—even if it means that neither you nor anyone else is truly living life to the fullest.
The panics over hantavirus, COVID, and climate change are cases in point.
The God-shaped hole that gets filled with something.
“God has made us for himself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in God.” -St. Augustine
Hi Bryce,
One observation I’ve made concerns the behavioral patterns that one sees in the class of individuals you refer to as “liberals”. This pattern is a damn near one to one duplicate of Puritanism. In this pattern, an almost trance like devotion to the tenets of the meta religion leads to advocacy of violence and coercion and a remarkable degree of projection on the part of ideologues who practice it. I have had the personal experience with at least one of my sisters who hates whomever the SPLC tells her to hate…..and the sad thing about this mind virus is that it destroys the host…..and it destroys relationships as well with people who should act as support in times of stress….sheesh. BTW, I still have a real issue with calling such individuals liberal in any fashion….a real liberal supports individual freedom, not slavery.
You’re right on point with that. Perhaps a better word choice than “liberal” is “leftist.”
Communist seems to fit them quite nicely anymore…
There are at least two books that treat of this phenomenon explicitly: “From Puritan to Yankee,” by Richard Bushman, and “The Yankee Problem: An American Dilemma” by Dr. Clyde Wilson.
Thanks for the recommend, Seven-eleven!
And: Good to have you with us!
Just listen to the first two minutes – unbelievable!
Thomas Massie In The Battle Of HIS LIFE Against AIPAC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HThaK3_Gbg
When a congress whore, like Ed Gallrein, takes AIPAC money they have to sign a pledge to Israel. Literally treason.
Yeah.
How is it possible that a conservative state/district can be bought/propagandized so easily? What’s in it for them. Are there that many Kentucky people that can be so easily swayed by TV commercials. If that’s the case then America(USSofA) is in deep shit.
Like I said before, I dwell in Kentucky. And I can tell you that, yes, we *do* have more than our share of halfwits and dim bulbs. *Very* easily swayed by TV commercials and every other form of propaganda going all the way to before WW II. Gallrein was a Navy SEAL? Why, that must make him God’s gift!
I take a dim view of Amerika’s future because of the Massie election. How is it possible the Kentucky voters do not understand that the Jews are going to put in their hack and then have their way with us.
By voting for Gallrein, Kentucky voted for:
No Epstein files release
more wars for Israel
more money for Israel
more Palestine genocide
more money to Ukraine
a stacked deck of Zionists who support Trump to do whatever Israel tells him
Voting for Gallrein is equivalent of taking your 12 gauge shotgun and blowing your own head off
Yes, the general public is that stupid. Here in WA the “Climate Commitment Act” has driven energy costs sky high. A group managed to gather enough signatures to get an initiative on the ballot in 2024 to kill this nonsense. Nope, the idiot voters were scared off by the TV ad propaganda (we won’t have money to fight wildfires! was one I remember). Ballot initiative failed by like 60%.
Well, King County WA gas price now north of $6.00
Enjoy!
PS: The spring of 2025, state DNR announces “due to budget cuts wildfire fighting funding may not be adequate for summer/fall”
Of all things that plague society, climate is not one of them. You can spend a trillion trillion dollars fighting the climate and not change a thing – since CO2 is not forcing temperature.
Bill Gates wants to spray the upper atmosphere to stop sunlight – he says we must force CO2 back to 280 ppm – which is near the lowest CO2 concentration in the history of the planet.
I think if he does that the earth will be thrown into a new glaciation which wipes out much of humanity
The only pandemic I see is a pandemic of tyranny and corruption. The only cure is freedom, truth, and justice.
Just wait til they try fear mongering yet again over Measles and people who refuse any Measles or MMR vaccines or perhaps even any experimental mRNA jabs Big Pharma makes for it.
…but what about those of us who have already had the measles, and now have the real thing (aka, real immunity)? Why should I get a jab for something I do not need?
In the words of Nancy Pelosi when someone asked her inconvenient questions about January 6th, 2021: “Shut up!”
Ha ha ha! Only at least in our case, we can stand up straight. How in the hell that woman (or Dianne Feinstein) got elected as many times as she has goes to show either voting really is just a joke, or voters are really that far gone.
Hi Shadow,
Remember when natural immunity was smeared as a “Dangerous conspiracy theory” during COVID hysteria? And then actual studies (Not corrupted by Big Pharma money) came out showing that not only was “natural immunity” gained via recovery from a COVID infection actually a THING, it was SUPERIOR to any immunity one got from the mRNA COVID jabs, as studies also showed that the more COVID booster jabs one got, the MORE likely he or she was to get the dreaded ‘Rona.
As for politicians who’ve been in office for DECADES…..how is it that Lindsey Graham managed to stay a U.S. Senator as long as he has? Or even Ron Wyden, one of the Oregon U.S. Senators who’s been in office for 30 years.
Either the U.S. has voters who are too beholden to their political party to care one way or the other what said politician does, there is voter fraud. Or, as could be the most likely case, we are “allowed” to vote, because it does not matter, anyway. People like Graham, Pelosi, etc. are installed, and we get to “feel good” about voting, even though nothing changes.
Dang! That last photo gave me the Willies. Reminded me of the creepiness of, ‘The Star Wars Christmas Special’ of which I wished I’d never watched the opening of, this year.
…And, here we all are, living a bit of it. ?
One good thing: It’s been months since I’ve seen anyone wearing a face diaper in what little time I spend in town.
Any “outbreak” that occurs or any false flag are directly connected to 1 tribe of demonic assholes. They poisoned the wells in the Middle Ages. Now they poison everything, the air, the water, the food…..injecting kids with toxic shite, the day they are born…..pumping the old Goyim full of pharmaceauticals. How people don’t see the fucking obvious is beyond me.
Happy, are those spreading tanker semi-truck loads of chemicals onto the fields all across America this Spring. The wind – carrying wide – the rain, carrying deep. Inhale & breathe deeply.
Trust, the Scientism.
(I wonder when that word will be in Spellcheck? Scientism)
I catch the Idaho ag report on the radio, the ads for farming chemicals will curl your hair. Now allowed are systemics for potatoes, in addition to the various soil mold/fungus/disease fighters pre-planting.
Out of curiosity, I did a search, Helot, for the definition. Scientism is the belief that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality. Hmm… No room for greys, or pigs flying. How disappointing.
Well now I can’t agree with you, Publius.
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
― C.S. Lewis
I have even heard people (one of whom used to do a radio show and have a university named after him) who didn’t believe a word of Christian doctrine but advocated for Christianity just the same on the purely utilitarian grounds that it produced, or helped to produce, a more “stable society.”
The ancient pagan Romans certainly did not think of early Christianity as in any way “stabilizing.” They thought it was deeply subversive.
For my part, the first thing I want to know about a religion or a religious doctrine is, “Is it *true*?”
If *not* true, I don’t care how socially useful it might be (to someone, presumably the powers that be, who don’t want the boat rocked by the disgruntled masses).
As a matter of fact I do think it is true. Furthermore …
“And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith. 15 In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.
The Order of Resurrection
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.”
“Paul is teaching us the absolute priority of the resurrection. If Christ is not risen from the dead, he says, the gospel message is without any meaning at all.”
“By faith I believe Christ died on the cross (for the sins I committed past present and future) and three days later He rose having victory over death.”
Christianity is WAY more about Easter than it is about Christmas. That is its essence, its core.
It is by no means just a nice set of moral precepts to live by. You could get as much of that as you need from several other religions.
If all Christianity is is a nice set of rules to live by, then it would be what’s called a “thin” religion, as opposed to a “thick” one.
Just as some soups are thin and clear, others are thick and dark.
It’s like the difference between something clear, like water, and something thick and dark, like blood.
Offhand, the only two religions I can think of that are *both* thick *and* thin are Hinduism and Christianity.
Factual and true are very different concepts.
Which is basically the entire point of every work of fiction that has ever been written.
Actually I would go so far as to state that (most) history is factual but not true (it’s a self-serving narrative written by the victors)
And most fiction by definition isn’t strictly factual, but revolves around some kind of deeper truth. Often a truth that cannot be stated openly.
Well, I admit I am asserting that Christianity is true in a factual sense. Even in a coarse, crude sense. Either the thing — Jesus’ resurrection — happened or it did not. I mean literally, bodily, not in some deeper metaphorical or spiritual or poetical sense. But in The coarsest, crudest sense.
If it did *not*, then the whole thing is of no more than antiquarian interest at best (about on a level with the cult of Mithras and other “mystery religions” that competed with early Christianity), and hardly worth bothering about.
If not, then, as Paul wrote in I Corinthians, “our faith is in vain,” and “we are to be pitied more than all men.”
I *think* I get what you mean about fiction being a medium for conveying some “deeper” truth. Steven King once said a novelist was “God’s liar.”
I believe Carl Sagan once described a myth as, not merely a widely held but false belief, “but a metaphor, of some subtlety, for conveying a truth which would be otherwise hard to convey.”
But I don’t think Christianity is that kind of thing. Tolkien described it as “myth become fact.”
‘One of the great difficulties is to keep before the audience’s mind the question of truth. They always think you are recommending Christianity not because it is true but because it is *good*.
And in the discussion they will at every moment try to escape from the issue “true-or false” into stuff about a good society, or morals, or the incomes of bishops, or the Spanish Inquisition, or France, or Poland -or anything whatever.
You have to keep forcing them back, and again back, to the real point.
Only thus will you be able to undermine [their] belief that a certain amount of “religion” is desirable but one mustn’t carry it too far.
One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
— CS Lewis, “God in the Dock And Other Essays: Christian Apologetics”.
‘I was recently reading a series of tributes written by teens for their youth pastors. One girl described all the great things her youth leader was doing and finished the accolade by saying, “He’s a Christian in the truest sense of the word.”
And that gave me pause.
Based on all the admittedly praiseworthy actions of this pastor, the girl judged him to be a Christian of some higher order, apparently more “Christian” than others who don’t do these things.
But can one be “more” Christian or “less” Christian? Isn’t being a Christian kind of like being pregnant: either you are or you aren’t?
This girl’s statement, well-intended though it might be, highlights a disturbing trend I’ve seen among young people — and not-so-young people — in our churches today.
The judgment that one is a Christian is based increasingly on a person’s actions and not on his beliefs.
In fact, I heard another well-meaning woman describe a certain magazine as “secular Christian.”
She meant that it featured clean-cut images and wholesome content, which made it “Christian,” but nothing explicitly religious, which made it secular. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
To be sure, Christians are expected to behave in certain ways, but does behaving in those certain ways make one a Christian?
More important, if a person fails to live up to those certain behaviors, does that somehow make him not a Christian? Or a “lesser” Christian, not a Christian “in the truest sense of the word”?
Unfortunately, the trend is nothing new. In his preface to _Mere Christianity_, C.S. Lewis decried the watering down of the word’s meaning and the tendency to define Christian by certain behavior:
“The word gentleman originally meant something recognizable; one who had a coat of arms and some landed property. When you called someone a ‘gentleman’ you were not paying him a compliment, but merely stating a fact. If you said he was not a ‘gentleman’ you were not insulting him, but giving information.
There was no contradiction in saying that John was a liar and a gentleman. …
But then came people who said-so rightly, charitably, spiritually, sensitively, so anything but usefully-
“Ah, but surely the important thing about a gentleman is not the coat of arms and the land, but the behavior? Surely he is the true gentleman who behaves as a gentleman should?’
… When a word ceases to be a term of description and becomes merely a term of praise, it no longer tells you facts about the object; it only tells you about the speaker’s attitude to that object. … As a result, gentleman is now a useless word.
I’m afraid Christian is also in danger of becoming a useless word-first and foremost among those who claim the name.
Remember, the name Christian was first given at Antioch (Acts 11:26) to ‘the disciples,’ those who accepted the teaching of the apostles.
It said nothing about the way they behaved.
One is a Christian because of a professed belief and trust in Christ’s redeeming work on the Cross.
In this biblical sense of the word, it is no contradiction to say Joe is a Christian and a sinner. Indeed, if anyone would be honest with himself, he would know it true of himself.
The New Testament does not sacrifice behavior for belief.
We are called in Scripture to live godly lives, but first we must believe (John 1:12; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9).
Christ-like living is a fruit of salvation, not the cause. We mix up the two at our peril.” ‘
“It [Acts?] said nothing about the way they behaved.” Acts 3:19 “Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.”
JESUS concludes the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7) thus: “BY THEIR FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so EVERY GOOD TREE BRINGETH FORTH GOOD FRUIT, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore BY THEIR FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM. NOT EVERYONE THAT SAITH TO ME LORD, LORD, SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. EVERY ONE therefore THAT HEARETH THESE MY WORDS, AND DOTH THEM, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.”
“Faith cometh by hearing and hearing from the Word of God.” Romans 10:17
Luther threw the Book of James out of the Bible: “Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls (Faith as in M7; R10). But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was. But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.” James 1:21-25 “But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith. Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?” James 2:18-20
Faith that Christ redeemed your sins and hope in His resurrection does not assure you of salvation. As St. Paul says, Corinthians 13: “if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing…we see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known. And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.”
Jesus: “Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. [38] This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:36-40
Jesus: “And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in: Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee? And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me. And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. 32 And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. 34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in: Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee? And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me etc…And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.” Matthew 25:31-46
______________________Baltimore Catechism
1. Q. Who made the world?
A. God made the world.
2. Q. Who is God?
A. God is the Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things.
3. Q. What is man?
A. Man is a creature composed of body and soul, and made to the image and likeness of God.
6. Q. Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
9. Q. What must we do to save our souls?
A. To save our souls, we must worship God by faith, hope, and charity;that is, we must believe in Him, hope in Him, and love Him with all our heart.
https://pilgrimsofchrist.com/baltimore-catechism-no-1/
Acts (and the rest of the New Testament) certainly has plenty to say about how Christians *ought* to behave. At least a few people who are not Christians or any kind of theists at all behave like a Christian is supposed to.
But to be a Christian one must believe certain things, even if one fails to practice them perfectly every day of their lives.
I see, you think truth is subjective.
It is not.
Nope, I most definitely did not say that.
You believe Christianity is ‘factual” because you want to believe it so. Which is fine, to each his/her own but if you had been raised in a different place and/or time you likely would believe whatever you were raise pd in was “true” and “factual” instead.
But honestly, these kind of long, convoluted screeds trying to justify the “truth” of your beliefs do absolutely nothing to convince those who do not already believe as well.
RE: “these kind of long, convoluted screeds trying to justify the “truth” of your beliefs do absolutely nothing to convince those who do not already believe as well.”
I would say, this is not true.
History is full of examples proving this is so. Boatloads.
Perhaps, the future proves the same?
Will you all also argue about that which is, good?
How, I wonder, does your path not promote Wokeism & the destruction of the family unit?
…
Because I *want* to? Do I indeed? You think I *like* the idea of eternal torment, which I think my chances of escaping are very poor? I would much rather believe in reincarnation. Or even Oblivion. But I don’t.
Are you sure you disbelieve in spite of all your fondest wishes? If it all turned out to be quite true, would that be good or bad news to you?
I do not consider myself to be any kind of evangelist or missionary. It is not at all my role in life to spread the Gospel or convert anyone to anything.
Feel free to believe or disbelieve whatever you please. I have neither the means nor the desire to impose any belief upon you. And I am about as far from being a “theocrat” as anyone can be.
But I *do* get very tired of being told that I only kind of, sort of believe because I am stupid or brainwashed, or because it gives me “comfort,” which in fact it doesn’t.
It is quite one thing to believe in the existence of God. It is quite another to imagine He is on your side or in your corner.
“The notion that everyone would *like* Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.”
— C. S. Lewis
‘In reading Chesterton, as in reading [George] MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — “Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,” as Herbert says, “fine nets and stratagems.” God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.’
— C. S. Lewis
“There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.”
— G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, Jan. 3, 1931
‘But my belief that miracles have happened in human history is not a mystical belief at all; I believe in them upon human evidences as I do in the discovery of America.
Upon this point there is a simple logical fact that only requires to be stated and cleared up. Somehow or other an extraordinary idea has arisen that the disbelievers in miracles consider them coldly and fairly, while believers in miracles accept them only in connection with some dogma.
The fact is quite the other way. The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them.
The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
The open, obvious, democratic thing is to believe an old apple-woman when she bears testimony to a miracle, just as you believe an old apple-woman when she bears testimony to a murder …
If it comes to human testimony there is a choking cataract of human testimony in favour of the supernatural. If you reject it, you can only mean one of two things … you either deny the main principle of democracy, or you affirm the main principle of materialism — the abstract impossibility of miracle.
You have a perfect right to do so; but in that case you are the dogmatist. It is we Christians who accept all actual evidence — it is you rationalists who refuse actual evidence being constrained to do so by your creed.
But I am not constrained by any creed in the matter, and looking impartially into certain miracles of mediaeval and modern times, I have come to the conclusion that they occurred.
All argument against these plain facts is always argument in a circle. If I say, “Mediaeval documents attest certain miracles as much as they attest certain battles,” they answer, “But mediaevals were superstitious”;
if I want to know in what they were superstitious, the only ultimate answer is that they believed in the miracles …
Iceland is impossible because only stupid sailors have seen it; and the sailors are only stupid because they say they have seen Iceland.’
— G.K. Chesterton _Orthodoxy_
MQ, I lost my faith or said I did in HS and I was mouthy about it because I wanted someone to prove to me there was God–I couldn’t believe all these people like my parents, teachers etc. whom I respected could be living something that the rest of the world considered imbecilic (especially all the books/culture I was reading interested in). A nun told me that Faith is a gift and that she would pray for me. She also told me to pray for myself which I did since I like gifts and felt deprived that God wasn’t giving me this gift. I was also confused like it seems many are here: I wanted to prove God existed, because that’s what everyone would say/books I read: you can’t prove it. I didn’t realize: duh. of course, you can’t prove it–that’s what “faith” means (you believe with no proof; you trust in the promises of Christ as you would a friend/spouse). I went for 20 years saying I didn’t believe in God and yet when anything bad would happen including to myself I would always pray. In fact I would say there was never a day when I didn’t pray and yet I was always saying to people when asked that I was raised such and such but didn’t believe because how can you believe something that you can’t prove (is something I actually said). I read a book or heard a talk by Joyce Meyers and she said what the nun had told me, but she said something the nun didn’t say to me: “God gives everyone a measure of faith.” [Romans 12:3 “For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety, and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.”] JM said it’s our job to nurse our faith and make it grow. How I understand the Bible verses is that it is by hearing the Word of God with our hearts that engenders faith– you have to open your heart to the Word of God–read the Bible like you are reading a manual on how to fix your car (like the directions are important). If you close your heart to God, then it can happen, which i think that nun thought had happened to me, that God like he did to the Jews of Jesus’ time or Solomon, you can squander your gift of faith and lose it forever; but I think that like the nun said to me, if you pray, God will help you. What happened to me is that I thought I can’t keep praying to God and then as soon as everything’s all right go back to telling people (and myself) I don’t believe in Him–and now another 20 years later I am haunted that some of those people whom I don’t even remember (like you people re-enforcing each other here) might still be going by what I said to them and so I’ll end up in hell because I put them into hell with my stupidity of not wanting to be thought stupid (a fool for Christ)/not understanding what “faith” means. The other thing that has helped me is to think of God as the creator. When I look at the number of flowers: roses, iris, peonies, tulips, violets, calla lilies, orchids or if you think of the different kinds of sea shells, snow flakes, animals, birds fish (children the first thing they love to learn are the animals) and if you even think of all the different people. I do not think it is random or that something comes from nothing. If you have a shred of doubt/uncertainty about what you are saying, it is better to keep quiet (as an aunt was always telling me to do) than to risk losing heaven and parking yourself in hell for all eternity.
Well, there are people who believe because they think “rightly or wrongly,” as Chesterton said, that they *do* have proof. Or at least evidence.They’re not just taking it all on *blind* faith, just on someone’s completely unsupported say-so.
What counts as evidence? What proof would anyone determined *not* to believe ever accept?
It nearly always turns out they demand something that can be weighed and measured, with instruments, that can be repeatedly cooked up in a test tube in a lab. They can’t conceive of anything being a “one off,” unrepeatable event. So miracles are a priori impossible.
Christianity is based and sustained on hope, of surviving death. Since people know they are alive, and have egos, they do not want to die and not exist. Thus they believe in the resurrection for the simple reason to have hope to survive death.
I was raised in an extreme Catholic household and became an outcast when I stopped with the practices and belief. The reason why they were so vile toward me is because I threatened their belief, and that is catastrophic to their faith and their internal betting odds of making it to eternal life.
Unbelievers are shunned, back in the old days they were burned at the stake. I respected their choice but they went ape shit with the choice I made. I’ve come to disdain Abrahamic religions altogether. The Holy Bible, in my view, is the most evil book ever written because of what happened to me with my own inner family relationships. That Jew book causes strife and divisions amongst family members, all because of mere words.
I am more convinced than ever about how the Holy Bible causing hell on earth with the current wars. These ideas of being chosen or saved create evil on an unprecedented scale. A 100 million Evangelical Christians are fully supporting antichrist Trump and the demon Netanyahu as they slaughter millions of children, women, men.
Maybe.
Or maybe it is a challenge to overcome the fear of death (which tends to make us into cowards) and forge our way ahead towards something like self-actualization.
“Christianity is based and sustained on hope, of surviving death … Thus they believe in the resurrection for the simple reason to have hope to survive death.”
You don’t even consider the possibility that they believe it because it might actually be *true*. You just rule that out a priori.
Either there is some sort of afterlife, better or worse than this one, or there’s not. It would be nice to know for certain either way. But we’ll never know if we refuse to consider the evidence for possibilities we may not like.
It’s like that YouTube cartoon featuring Richard Dawkins versus the Leprechauns. (Dawkins famously said he didn’t need a degree in Leprechaunology to know there are no such things as Leprechauns.)
He keeps telling the twin Leprechauns standing right in front of him that there’s no evidence for God.
The Leprechauns (who keep addressing Dawkins as “Patrick” for some reason) keep telling him “Sure, if you exclude all the evidence beforehand.”
Ah, here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d4FHHf00pY
Quick! Release the ticks! Make everybody allergic to red meat!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2026/05/17/tick-bites-emergency-room-maps-where/89991884007/
David,
What do you know, USA Today just HAD to blame cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change for the growth in the tick population. It couldn’t POSSIBLY be from corrupt government bureaucrats and sociopathic billionaires dropping engineered ticks on the population, could it? Sociopaths who WANT to infect people with Lyme disease or Alpha gal syndrome for the (likely) purpose of poisoning them or making them permanently allergic to red meat.
There’s a Much bigger story there, it seems.
Much.
Quick! Fly ’em all back here, and turn ’em loose!
https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2026/05/18/report-at-least-six-americans-exposed-to-ebola-in-dr-congo/
Hmm, your comment reads like from a person full of Fear and quite accepting of Fed Slop.
…Perhaps, I misunderstood?
‘Welcome Aboard the Hantavirus Cruise’
“In this video I will expose the absurdities of the news coverage, what did not happen, and most importantly: how to keep our focus on true health…”
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/welcome-aboard-the-hantavirus-cruise/
More vaxx side effects?
Demon Face: Terrifying New Medical Condition Causes Human Faces to Look Demonic
“Demon face syndrome, medically known as prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), is an extremely rare neurological disorder. It causes a person to perceive human faces as severely distorted. While inanimate objects and other body parts look normal, individuals with PMO see faces as warped, stretched, swollen, or frighteningly demonic. [1, 2, 3]
How it Manifests
The way the distortions present themselves can vary widely from person to person: [1, 2]
Severity & Shape: Facial features may droop to the chest, stretch out horizontally, or have deep, demonic-looking grooves on the forehead and cheeks.
Affected Areas: Some people experience full-face distortions, while others only see one half of a face distorted (hemi-PMO).”
Joe – “Hey Fred, why do you look like a demon?”
Fred – “My doctor says it is a rare condition and will go away soon”
Joe – “Are you sure it is not a side condition from the Pfizer vaxx?”
Fred – “Absolutely not, in fact I got a booster today!”
A short time later …
Joe – “Hey Fred, your face is red and demon looking, are those horns coming out of your head?”
Fred – “Hisssssssssss”, sticks out his lizard tongue, “Yessssssss, and I have a new favorite book “How to be a Talmudic Demon for Dummies”
Trump’s rhetoric and threats seem to indicate another war is imminent:
“”For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!””
Iran has clearly stated it’s position and demands, and has not changed them. Trump is gaslighting the world with his posts that Iran needs to come to negotiating table and concede to his demands, which will never happen. So what is Trump really doing but bullshitting us while the forces are being prepped for another all out attack – Operation Epstein Hammer.
The big problem for us is that Iran promises to smash the Gulf states oil infrastructure again, which will make high gasoline prices go much higher. IOW the next attack is going to shove the world economy over the edge into the abyss.
Trump, AIPAC, and Miriam Adelson have put everything on the line to defeat Thomas Massie. They are in a real panic to oust him over the Epstein files.
“the Republican primary race for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District has effectively turned into the most expensive U.S. House primary in history, with a massive coalition of forces lining up to unseat the longtime incumbent.”
I would not put it past Trump to wage the sneak attack during the vote tomorrow in a last desperate attempt to throw the election to the AIPAC stooge, who is a veteran.
“Ed Gallrein is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL and Army Ranger and fifth-generation farmer from Shelby County, Kentucky, who served as a combat veteran before returning to manage family agricultural operations. ”
“Voting for the Kentucky Republican primary election featuring Thomas Massie begins on May 19, 2026, with polls open from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time.”
this is obviously a watershed moment in Amerikan history, can a patriot candidate beat the foreign interest which has seized control of our government?
Is Trump completely delusional?
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
“If Iran surrenders, admits their Navy is gone and resting at the bottom of the sea, and their Air Force is no longer with us, and if their entire Military walks out of Tehran, weapons dropped and hands held high, each shouting “I surrender, I surrender” while wildly waving the representative White Flag, and if their entire remaining Leadership signs all necessary “Documents of Surrender,” and admit their defeat to the great power and force of the magnificent U.S.A., The Failing New York Times, The China Street Journal (WSJ!), Corrupt and now Irrelevant CNN, and all other members of the Fake News Media, will headline that Iran had a Masterful and Brilliant Victory over The United States of America, it wasn’t even close. The Dumacrats and Media have totally lost their way. They have gone absolutely CRAZY!!! President DJT”
Trump not only thinks he won the war (so why is he about to go at it again if he already won?) , he thinks he destroyed the Iran navy (when they have put boats out in the straits recently), he thinks the media is irrationally claiming we lost (we have lost control of oil tanker traffic).
Yukon Jack May 18, 2026 At 12:24 pm
Is Trump completely delusional?
In a word, yes!
And his supporters, the ones remaining, are idiots who have so deeply bought into the mythology of Trump’s excellence that they have no hope of intellectual redemption
Iran Expects WAR TO RESUME In 48 Hours
Breaking Points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5phk5oj7zQ
Plenty of folks on here are crediting the U.S. president with agency – this serves the agenda by keeping the shell game going. The same folks are passing the buck for the U.S.’s murderous actions across the globe onto a country the size of New Jersey. How this serves the agenda is self-evident. Flooding the zone is very effective on the majority of people. Then there’s this to-do about some politico named Tom Massie, also doing his part to reinforce the false narrative. Believing that there are honest politicians in the U.S. is exactly equivalent to believing in chaste whores. These guys are either deluded or they are simply being paid to do what they are doing. To show you the company they are keeping:
“He entered a war, got pulled into it by Bibi Netanyahu, let’s be clear about that.” – Kamala Harris, April 20, 2026
Onto the actual subject of the article – Sequels are invariably trash when compared to the original. They only seem more appealing to the younger and more immature. The two common examples of a superior sequel are Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Aliens.
The original terminator pitted a man and a woman against the ultimate killer. They had nothing more than cheesy pipe bombs and a shotgun. In the sequel, mother and son have their own killer robot and access to an almost unlimited arsenal.
Alien was dark and heavy and pitted a non-military crew against one alien. They had a stun gun and a blow torch. The sequel required hundreds of aliens. They had every weapon a modern military could desire.
Applied to the Covid sequel, it will follow the same formula. Lots more viruses, far more deadly, with a response which will make ICE raids look like girl scouts canvassing neighborhoods to sell cookies.
Thomas Massie has introduced a bill into Congress that could deter future politicians actually willing to put America before Israel from suffering his same fate. On May 14th, Massie introduced the Americans Insist on Political Agent Clarity Act (”AIPAC Act”) in an effort to finally force the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (”AIPAC”) to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (”FARA”).
freedom is hanging by a thread, hopefully Massie beats the AIPAC whore by a large margin
The Kentucky primary election will be held on May 19, 2026.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Tom Massie of Kentucky, the worst and most unreliable Republican Congressman in the history of our Country, is an even bigger insult to our Nation than Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who suffered an unprecedented loss tonight by not even being allowed to run in the Republican Primary. This is the first time such a thing has ever happened to a sitting U.S. Senator! That’s what you get by voting to Impeach an innocent man, especially one who made it possible for Cassidy’s Senate win. Very disloyal, but Tom Massie, a major Sleazebag, is even worse! Kentucky, get this LOSER out of politics in Tuesday’s Election. He is nicknamed Rand Paul Jr., another real “beauty,” because of his absolutely terrible voting habits. Vote for Ed Gallrein, a successful Kentucky farmer, and American War Hero, who only ran because he thought that Massie was so disloyal and disrespectful to your President, ME! This is a great man, Central Casting, in fact, who truly deserves to represent the fantastic people of Kentucky, a Commonwealth that I am proud to have won all three times, in record fashion! ED WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
In Trump’s twisted demented mind, MAGA must mean being loyal to him and Israel.
“central casting”? (deep state actors? Trump also said Kevin Warsh Fed pick was from “central casting”)
“That’s what you get by voting to Impeach an innocent man” (trump thinks he is innocent?)
“American War Hero” (fighting in illegal, immoral, unconstitutional wars overseas for israel makes you a war hero? Nope. It makes you are war criminal!)
I asked Ai, how many voters in Kentucky are Evangelicals and pro-Israel?
“There is no official voter registry that tracks religion or specific foreign policy views, but an estimated 1.1 million to 1.4 million of Kentucky’s adult population identify as Evangelical Protestants. Historically, polling shows that the vast majority—often around 70% to 80%—of this demographic strongly supports Israel, largely driven by theological beliefs”
I asked AI and Trump definitely walks around with a halo, and is the country’s savior.
Massie tied in latest polls:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls
The Epstein Jew billionaires have put more than $35 million (“The Most Expensive House Primary Ever”) into defeating Massie: Do you think they haven’t bought the pollsters, not to mention the voting machines and those who run them?
“Adding to the chaos: early voting polling locations across the Fourth District were changed without notice just one week before the election, invalidating the addresses printed on millions of mailed ballots.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-35-million-attempt-to-silence-thomas-massie-and-the-americans-who-said-no/ar-AA23oRxJ
From the same article: “I watched an hour of TV. It had five commercial breaks. On each commercial break, either four or five of the five commercials were anti-Massie ads — most of them with deepfakes that manipulated what he says, that presented a fake Massie lying. And that’s a crime, by the way. In Kentucky, it’s a crime to put out deepfakes about your politicians.””
Ditto: ““According to Massie, it comes almost entirely from three billionaires — hedge fund managers and gambling magnates — who formed a super PAC cynically named “MAGA Kentucky,” despite having no ties to the state and no genuine allegiance to the America First movement. One of those billionaires, John Paulson, appears in Jeffrey Epstein’s phone book and in Epstein’s emails, where he asked Epstein to donate $50,000 to honor Howard Lutnik — a fact Massie has highlighted publicly.
“It’s three billionaires who are upset that I’ve never voted for foreign aid, particularly foreign aid to Israel, and also upset that I vote against the wars,” Massie said plainly…He has voted against every foreign aid package to Israel. He pushed for the release of the Epstein files. He stopped the “Protect American AI Act” that would have granted data centers immunity from lawsuits. He passed the PRIME Act to protect American small farms. And in his most audacious legislative move yet, just days before the primary, Massie introduced the AIPAC Act — legislation that would require the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the same requirement imposed on lobbyists representing foreign governments.
“For some reason, they’re immune right now,” Massie announced. “I think not just the money spent in politics, but the lobbying that happens on Capitol Hill should be reported if it’s a foreign country — whether it’s Great Britain, Australia, Turkey, Qatar, or Israel, it needs to be reported.”
“Commentator Wally Rashid, covering the legislation, noted the historical parallel: the last American political leader to attempt to force AIPAC’s predecessor — the American Zionist Council — to register as a foreign agent was President John F. Kennedy. The Department of Justice under Kennedy ordered the group to register seven times. Each time, they refused. Kennedy was assassinated weeks after the final 72-hour ultimatum. Under Lyndon B. Johnson, the pressure was dropped entirely.”
What are the odds that Big Pharma will be “racing” to develop mRNA jabs for Ebola like they are for HANTAVIRUS, and governments that have signed on the WHO’s “Pandemic treaty” will try to MANDATE such jabs for the masses under guise of “Protecting Public/ Global Health”?
Stay home while gasoline gets more expensive? Good luck with a hot shower, warm house, cooked meal as the infrastructure decays into 3rd world status – no one is coming to save you. S**ts been going south for 13 YEARS in this Seattle ‘hood and the plan is to start fixing in mid 2027. Queen Anne area of Seattle WAS a desirable place to live decades ago.
https://komonews.com/news/local/queen-anne-power-outages-tied-to-aging-cables-seattle-city-light-to-begin-fix-in-2027-electrical-infrastructure-resident-concerns-frustration-electricity-utilities
Yes, and Hyde Park, Chicago was an upscale neighborhood in 1893.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park,_Chicago
It still is.
Stay within a few blocks of the university & it’s very tony.
Back in the 70s it looked like a bomb hit it, per my parents.
20 years ago that was no longer true but if you ventured beyond that it got extremely rough, extremely quickly.
Since then a lot of it has gentrified.
There are still sone places on the south side it’s better not to visit, but the worst areas are current-ish-ly on the west side.
Well not Hyde Park proper, the burned-out areas were just outside that. The university area is quite nice.
>not Hyde Park proper, the burned-out areas were just outside that
Woodlawn?
Back in the early 1970s when I was there, there was a cleared block on the south side of the Midway, which some folks referred to as the “Demilitarized Zone”.
You forgot, mowing the lawn. ?
Guy next to me at the pumps made a comment about it costing $37 to mow the lawn.
I told him, that’s nothing, I bought a diesel riding mower ’cause I thought it’d be cheaper!
Hard-de-har-har-bwahahahaha!
…Ticks love long grass. No wonder there’s more news twits about ticks. Next up:…Snakes,too. ?
Well, no snakes up here in this neck of the woods. The mosquitoes, however, might eat you alive this time of year…
Ron Unz today, in an essay titled President Donald Trump: “Let them eat cake”:
‘[Rising prices were] the context last week when a reporter asked Trump whether the current economic plight of Americans entered into his considerations regarding our continuing war with Iran. His remarkably callous response strongly recalled the words falsely ascribed to Marie Antoinette:
REPORTER: “When you’re negotiating with Iran, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?
TRUMP: “Not even a little bit … I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.”
‘This single tweet has now been viewed some 8.5M times. Some of the most popular memes responding to it seemed particularly devastating.
‘I suspect that this one incautious sentence by Trump may become a staple of the Democratic advertising campaign in the midterm elections this November, which many predict will produce devastating losses for the Republican Party.
‘Trump’s seven simple words may become notorious as the sentence that launched a thousand memes. Perhaps it might even enter our history books as one of Trump’s most defining remarks.’
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Fulminating mental illness cost Trump his winning populist edge. Now he’s just an unhinged, loudmouthed jerk. This is what the
OrangeGolden Golem of Gaffes sees when he regards his loathsome form in the mirror:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIiAlVzXAAAffWh.jpg
At this point Donnie Demented is so far gone that he thinks everyone loves him no matter what he says. I so wish that the next time he calls someone a “stupid person” they would fire back with “I know you are but what am I?” Be worth losing your job as a reporter just to see the look on his face.
Obviously, you haven’t seem his golden calf statue, yet.
You needs you some more, appreciayion,…
Gag.
stopped posting on unz because they did not post my last comment, submitted it twice. no profanity, nothing but calm reason. unz has done this to me many times, just tired of the censorship, and they never give feedback why
No offense, but you are a bit of a broken record. I get it though, it’s hard to stay quiet about things one is passionate about. Best, I think, is to avoid polemicism – state facts (with sources), avoid accusations and outrage. Not always easy to do.
I am one of the most polite posters on Unz. I have never engaged in ad hominen or personal attacks, and I cite everything with evidence.
Why they ban my posts periodically is a mystery, I have searched the site for posting rules and can not find anything.
What I think is some of my posts are so effective or so far out, they refuse to go there. For instance they would not allow stuff on alien origins, but now they do. Every bigfoot referenced in any comment has been banned.
You sometimes strike me as a bit…unhinged.
Yes, yes, pot meet kettle, blah blah blah. But that might have a little bit to do with why.
“You Can’t Handle, THE TRUTH!”
Says the gatekeeper.
Nor, anything else. It’s ALL about narrative control.
A.k.a. it’s All about, Power and Control.
Be polite all you want, and you’d reckon that would be good enough, but go threatening their Power and Control, even a teeny tiny bit, and you go a bridge too far.
This is the exact comment I responded to:
https://www.unz.com/article/chronological-revisionism-revised/#comment-7618237
“Hello Laurent, I think the case for Jesus being fiction is very strong, to the point of being certain beyond a doubt. ”
I continue in a dozen paragraphs arguing my points.
RE: “I continue in a dozen paragraphs arguing my points.”
It could be, that TLDR, might be more of a role of your delete than the content? Idk.
A libertarian who unabashedly practices censorship…..FUCK him. Take Unz and Woods and all of these other phony libertarians and send ’em to Hilary Clinton’s sex chamber…or maybe even Bill’s.
That’s interesting. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any professional historians — even purely secular ones — who deny that some such person as Jesus of Nazareth existed , preached, and got crucified in the early First Century A.D.. They only differ about whether or not He was divine.
It is not true that no non-Christian sources attest to this. In fact even His worst enemies at the time never denied His existence. They just said a lot of bad things about Him — i.e. that He was of illegitimate birth, that he was some kind of sorcerer Who had earned a few tricks in Egypt, etc..
Also, according to them, He is currently in Hell (which I thought they didn’t believe in) being boiled in excrement.
If so…so what?
For the sake of argument let’s suppose the whole thing is fictional.
Still one of the most influential characters of all time.
Interesting, you made me think of the opposite (which, these days, is the real deal)
RE: “For the sake of argument let’s suppose the whole thing is fictional.”
Or, “For the sake of argument let’s suppose the whole thing is was real.”
Imagine, that.
Real or fictional doesn’t matter all that much, the entire rest of the argument remains. Reality left the building about 2000 years ago. It’s the behaviors and the ideas behind those behaviors that matters. People make it real. If everyone on the planet leaves Christianity behind them and believes/practices something else, the whole thing becomes nothing more than a historical curiosity, even if you’ve got 100% definitive documentary proof of everything. If, on the other hand, you can 100% prove none of it ever happened, it doesn’t really matter much either, because a billion or so people continue to believe and act as if it did.
Ideas are intangible but they are very real, and very powerful, sometimes very dangerous, and they have a life that is all their own.
“Off the top of my head I can’t think of any professional historians — even purely secular ones — who deny that some such person as Jesus of Nazareth existed , preached, and got crucified in the early First Century A.D..”
I am well aware that religion is based on ‘faith’ rather than facts, and that nobody will change his/her opinion anyway, but I would still be obliged to say that if you haven’t found any such historians, then maybe you just have not looked very hard.
There have been only two scholarly works on the topic of Jesus’ existence in recent decades that – for whatever it’s worth – have been peer-reviewed and found to be based on accurate data.
Both came to the same conclusion – namely that it is almost certain there never was a Jesus as he is known to present day Christianity.
Of the two authors, Richard Carrier’s ‘On the Historicity of Jesus’ is easier to read, despite being a scholarly tome of some 900 pages, which goes into excruciating details of all the gospels, biblical sources, surviving early Christian myths etc etc.
He outlines convincingly that early Christmas believed Jesus to be a purely celestial, not physical being.
He shows that different Christian sects later claimed his birth to have occurred in differing places and at different time, with some being almost 100 years before the currently accepted orthodoxy.
Carrier has a permanent challenge on his website for anyone who knows of any information that can shed new light on this topic to bring it to his attention.
He responds to questions and debates those that are not outright silly – which, as can be expected, is a minority.
He has never been debunked by any other historian; only smeared by a few.
If you have an open mind, do read that book. It is almost beyond any doubt that there never was a ‘Jesus of Nazareth’.
That does not mean one cannot continue to live a ‘Christian life’, as per the Commandments and so on.
But it does mean that Christianity is not somehow superior to other religions, because of its idol having been a real person.
Well, if there was never any Jesus at all , or if there was, and He didn’t really, literally rise from the dead, then Christianity is completely pointless and not worth bothering about at all. As I have been *trying* to hammer home, Christianity is *not* just some ethical system. It either is what it claims to be, or it is nothing , and not worth a minute of anyone’s time.
While we have the War on Iran going on and the WHO is trying to frighten the masses once again, the sociopaths are trying to FORCE people to stop eating red meat via dropping engineered ticks all over the country that, if they bite humans, would make them allergic to red meat. As is so often the case when these b@st@rds do something sinister like this, they claim it’s to “Stop cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change”. People who STILL belieeeeeeeeeeve the narratives on climate change are probably useful idiots for sociopathic billionaires.
https://rumble.com/v79xfzk-the-us-is-waging-bio-warfare-against-its-own-citizens-w-larry-johnson.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
Climate change means humans changing the climate because of man made CO2 increases. That assumption is patently false, CO2 has never warmed the planet in it’s entire history – every geological chart showing CO2 vs temperature shows no correlation.
Every ice age cooling starts at the highest CO2 levels, and every interglacial ends at the lowest CO2 levels.
CO2 lags temperature going up and going down
http://www.hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/icecore.html
‘What will happen when they can no longer afford to buy food?’ — eric
From the Arab Spring protests of 2011, we know what happens in middle-income countries where staple foods sell at below-market, government-mandated prices. Shortages develop (of course) and mobs loot food warehouses.
Food shortages are a major risk factor for revolutions. Two excellent candidates for overthrow are the decrepit, oppressive Arab dictatorships of Egypt and Jordan. Jimmy Carter put both on the American dole in 1979, paying them to be nice to little Shitrahell. Cumulatively it’s cost us a hundred billion dollahs or more.
Uncle Stupid will continue this obsolete, brain-dead arrangement until pissed-off, hungry people rise up and start burning shit down, including ‘our’ embassies. Burn, baby, burn. 🙂
‘When the cost of Trump’s stupid, evil war rises to $6 a gallon, a new distraction will be needed.’ — eric
Today a New York Times/Siena poll shows that the stupid, evil war has cost stupid, evil Trump dearly. His approval has sunk to new lows. ‘The midterms, the midterms!’ cry the pundits.
Buried within the polling data is a startling partisan divide. While a majority of independents and Democrats (93% of D’s) oppose the war, 70% of Republicans think it was the right decision. Graphic:
https://tinyurl.com/2rctptrr
Ponder on this for a moment. Most of that 70 percent aren’t red MAGA hat folks. They’re your standard suburban, chamber of commerce, civic booster Repugs. Yet a deadly war of aggression, instigated by a foreign prime minister, is just fine with them.
To be fair, if Trump were a Democrat, probably 70% of D’s would support the debacle. After all, they didn’t care about Barky Obama’s ‘surge’ into Afghanistan. Both wings of the morally bankrupt Uniparty are blindly partisan, subscribing to the Führerprinzip more than the defunct Clownstitution.
That’s why America died before its 250th birthday — our culture has curdled. The Founders seem to have been highly principled men, for the most part. Today the president jokes, “We’re like pirates. We’re sort of like pirates, but we are not playing games.”
Piracy is one of three crimes explicitly defined in the constitution. Under Israeli occupation, America has turned feral: non agreement-capable, lashing out at will with casual violence. ‘We’ are a freaking menace — like a wealthy North Korea, out of control and capable of doing anything.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs
The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because
The revolution will not be televised, brother
— Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The revolution will be live.
Welcome to the Truman Show.
The Covid debacle destroyed what little confidence and trust I had in the medical professions. Fool me once, shame on you………..
Doddering old ‘moderate Repugniclown’ Lamar Alexander of Tennessee has scribbled a memoir which doubtless will sell at least several hundred copies. The WSJ published excerpts:
‘The lame-duck session following that election did produce a surprise victory for Mr. Alexander, the chairman of the health committee, with the approval of the 21st Century Cures Act, a bipartisan [sic], multibillion-dollar infusion of federal money for health research.
‘Four years later, that legislation helped provide the means and the money to develop the covid vaccines [sic] under Mr. Trump’s administration, an achievement [sic] that many Republicans have come to disdain. [Booooo!]
“It puzzles me that he would not take satisfaction and credit for such a great accomplishment,” Mr. Alexander said in the interview.’ — WSJ [emailed to me]
Did the Senator not read the dozens of medical papers demonstrating that the covid ‘vaccines’ probably killed around 300,000 Americans? He’s puzzled that the MFOB [Monstrous Fat Orange Bastard] hasn’t taken more credit for his ‘great accomplishment’ [sic, LOL].
‘Alexander’ is sadly typical of know-nothing ‘moderate Repugniclowns’ who inform themselves from TeeVee and the Lügenpresse. I’m not reading his stupid book. Instead I wonder how ‘Alexander’ would look, lined up with 99 more ‘moderate Repugniclowns’ in front of a muddy ditch, about to be dispatched by a firing squad.